I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER / IF I FELL
Parlophone A8125
Released 20 August 1964
Original recommended retail price: 10/-
A locally conceived film tie-in whose distinctive coupling was released only in Australia and Nigeria.
Matrix Information
Side 1: (mono) 7AXPA760
Side 2: (mono) 7AXPA761

June 1982
Side 1: (stereo) A8125 A AP
Side 2: (stereo) A8125B AP

Overview
Why were Australia, and of all places, Nigeria, the only two countries that thought of this great coupling? EMI (Australia) released this single hoping to capitalise on the local release of the "A Hard Day's Night" film, which premiered in cinemas a week earlier.

The single was released on the same day as the More Requests EP.

Deleted in June 1968, the single would not be reissued until 1982, where in June it was recut (both sides in stereo) at Studios 301 by Allan Parsons for inclusion in The Australian 20th Anniversary Singles Collection. It subsequently went out of print again before returning on 7 December 1987.
Chart Performance

Brisbane

(QLD)

Sydney

(NSW)

Melbourne

(VIC)

Hobart

(TAS)

Adelaide

(SA)

Perth

(WA)

Chart Entry

22-Aug-64

28-Aug-64

22-Aug-64

21-Aug-64

22-Aug-64

28-Aug-64*

Highest Position

1

1

1

1

1

5

Weeks In

16

22

25

11

21

12
Listed as "I Should Have Known Better/If I Fell" except * "I Should Have Known Better"

Chart Re-entry

-

-

-

-

-

21-Aug-64

Highest Position

 

 

 

 

 

1

Weeks In

 

 

 

 

 

12
Listed as "If I Fell"
Silver/Black Style 'A'
AUSP8125SBA.a
Silver/Black Style 'C'
AUSP8125SBC.a

First appeared in October 1982 with the release of The Australian 20th Anniversary Singles Collection

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