On this day in Beatles History...March 4, 1966

50 years ago today on March 4, 1966, The Beatles released the Yesterday EP in the UK.  The EP contained the four songs Yesterday, Act Naturally, You Like Me To Much, and It's Only Love.  All four of these songs were previously released on the UK version of Help!  However, none of them were on the US version of Help!

Each of The Beatles sang lead vocals on one song.  Paul sang his phenomenally successful song Yesterday.   Ringo provided the lead vocals on their version of the Johnny Russell and Voni Morrison song Act Naturally.  George sang his song You Like Me Too Much.  John sang a song he co-wrote with Paul called It's Only Love which had originally been titled That's A Nice Hat.

On March 26, 1966, The Yesterday EP hit #1 and spent 6 weeks at the top of the UK charts.  It was around this time that John Lennon made his famous comment that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus.