I was listening to the song on Spotify and noticed something sounded off. I don't listen to the Beatles that often; is this how the song was intended? I tried listening to other songs and made sure my headphone jack was plugged all the way in, so it shouldn't be a headphone issue
You might not be familiar with vinyl records in the 60's and 70's. Some of this early Beatles was mono. I don't think stereo wasn't invented yet at the time.
Later, bands would do stereo records. For a while they'd be into this hard pan on either side. You'd get whatever instruments in totally either left or right. I don't think people even had headphones in those days. You'd listen to music with just two speakers in the room. It'd sound like they were singing over there and other instruments were coming from the other speaker. Probably trying to be like how it was live. I don't know. It separates it more so you can hear more what's going on with just the drums not being mixed with the guitars and bass.
I was looking into this Twist and shout.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Please_Please_Me
That picture looks like it was a "stereo" record.
Looked for a vid.. saw this one:
The Beatles - Twist And Shout (2009 Stereo Remaster)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwgTrog5kn8
These guys could be fiddling with the pan compared to the original. I think with remasters they'd take these old albums which were mono and would now put things in whatever ear they'd like. Not so sure about that.
Took a listen, yeah, that's coming out of the right ear. That'd be annoying on headphones. I used to ride the bus in the 90's and would listen to cassette tapes on a walkman. Was listening to some old stuff where the pan was irritating, burning one ear. I got a little connector jack that'd mono it up and plug the headphones into that. Now it kills it with mono.
You would need some type of pan control gizmo. Something where you could take the left and right and move it more towards the middle. But not all the way so there's still some stereo.
A few summers ago I noticed people were putting out solo vocal tracks of old songs you grew up with. I was there.. where they getting that from. Looked into it.. was these .mogg multi-track files. Whatever source would always be incomplete. I looked up various locations and got to the bottom of it. Did get pretty good getting whatever's out there in mogg.
I played around with those for a month and wound up with 3800 files. I think, 6 versions of each song. Normal, solo vocals, solo drums, mute drums and vocals, mute vocals, mute drums. Put that together for this drummer buddy out in the country. He'd jam to CD's. Well this would now have songs with no drums. Could play the solo version to figure out more what's going on. So there was about 600 of these known songs, the original material you grew up with.
Some of these mogg files, stereo tracks would be two mono. No pan information. You'd have to figure that out. ok that one goes in the left the other right. Like, Bohemian Rhapsody has a lot going on. All mono though. Some stuff, no stereo tracks. I'd have to figure out how to set the pan left and right.
Had a lot of Beatles stuff. Probably most of their hits. I think there would have been this Twist and shout. Some early stuff though, you'd get bleed of other instruments in other tracks. Probably be just one mic for the drums, who knows. Normally drums would have a few tracks, like kick, snare, crashes.
With these mogg files, you could actually play around with the original songs. You could take this Twist and shout and put only the damn vocals more in the middle or something. hahaha.
I don't have those files any more though.. taking up too much disk space so it all got deleted.