Introducing... The Beatles
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| Introducing... The Beatles | ||
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| Studio album by The Beatles | ||
| Released | January 10, 1964 (one) February 10, 1964 (two) |
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| Recorded | Abbey Road 1963 | |
| Genre | Rock and roll | |
| Length | ??:?? | |
| Label | Vee-Jay VJLP 1062 (mono) VJSR 1062 (stereo) |
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| Producer(s) | George Martin | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| The Beatles chronology | ||
| Introducing... The Beatles (1964) |
Meet the Beatles! (1964) |
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Introducing... The Beatles was the first Beatles album released in America after Capitol Records passed on Please Please Me. It was first released by Vee-Jay Records on January 10, 1964. Essentially, this album was Please Please Me minus two tracks. Original pressings of Introducing...The Beatles did not include "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why". However, as Capitol Records, through its subsidiary, Beechwood Music, controlled the publishing rights to "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You," Capitol threatened legal action against Vee Jay if Vee Jay did not cease distributing the album. Vee Jay responded by replacing the two tracks in question with "Ask Me Why" and "Please Please Me" on subsequent pressings, though the tracklistings remained the same. Introducing...The Beatles peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard charts, spending nine straight weeks in that position, not quite able to knock Meet the Beatles! out of first place.
By the fall of 1964, with little other Beatles material to offer, Vee Jay attempted maintain its sales by issuing other variations of the album. On October 1, 1964, Vee Jay released The Beatles vs. The Four Seasons (Vee Jay VJDX-30), a two-record boxed set containing both Introducing...The Beatles and Golden Hits of the Four Seasons, a greatest hits album by Vee Jay's other major artist. On October 12, Vee Jay reissued Introducing...The Beatles under the title, Songs, Pictures and Stories of the Fabulous Beatles (Vee Jay VJLP 1092). Although the re-titled album featured a newly-designed record jacket, the actual record label still bore the original title of the album. Oddly, Introducing...The Beatles was still available under its original title when Songs, Pictures and Stories was released, and Billboard charted both titles simultaneously, even though the contents were identical.
By early 1965, Vee Jay's rights to the album had expired, and, on March 22, 1965, Capitol issued The Early Beatles, which contained eleven tracks that had previously been issued on Introducing...The Beatles.
Contents |
[edit] Version one
- All tracks written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney except where noted. See also: Lennon-McCartney
[edit] Side one
- "I Saw Her Standing There"
- "Misery"
- "Anna (Go to Him)" (Alexander)
- "Chains" (Goffin-King)
- "Boys" (Dixon-Farrell)
- "Love Me Do"
[edit] Side two
- "P.S. I Love You"
- "Baby It's You" (Bacharach-David-Williams)
- "Do You Want to Know a Secret"
- "A Taste Of Honey" (Marlow-Scott)
- "There's a Place"
- "Twist and Shout" (Medley-Russell)
[edit] Version two
- All tracks written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney except where noted. See also: Lennon-McCartney
[edit] Side one
- "I Saw Her Standing There"
- "Misery"
- "Anna (Go to Him)" (Alexander)
- "Chains" (Goffin-King)
- "Boys" (Dixon-Farrell)
- "Ask Me Why"
[edit] Side two
- "Please Please Me"
- "Baby It's You" (Bacharach-David-Williams)
- "Do You Want to Know a Secret"
- "A Taste of Honey" (Marlow-Scott)
- "There's A Place"
- "Twist and Shout" (Medley-Russell)
[edit] Personnel
- John Lennon - guitar; vocals
- Paul McCartney - bass; vocals
- George Harrison - guitar; vocals
- Ringo Starr - drums; vocals
- George Martin - producer
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Bruce Spizer's Songs, Pictures and Stories of the Fabulous Beatles Records on Vee-Jay website
- The Beatles on Vee-Jay Records
