The Beatles' Second Album

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The Beatles' Second Album
The Beatles' Second Album cover
Studio album by The Beatles
Released 10 April 1964
16 November 2004 (reissue)
Recorded Abbey Road Studios - March 5, 13, July 1, 18, 30, October 17, 1963; February 25, March 1, 1964
Genre Rock and roll
Length 22:13
Label Capitol
T 2080 (mono)
ST 2080 (stereo)
CDP 7243 8 66877 2 2 (reissue)
Producer George Martin
Professional reviews
The Beatles U.S. chronology
Meet the Beatles!
(1964)		 The Beatles' Second Album
(1964)		 A Hard Day's Night
(1964)

The Beatles' Second Album is the The Beatles' second Capitol Records release. It was their third in the United States counting Introducing... The Beatles, released on Vee-Jay Records.

Songs for this album were compiled from four different UK releases. Included were the five remaining tracks from the group's second British LP With the Beatles. Those songs were left off the previous Capitol album Meet the Beatles!. Also included were "Thank You Girl" (the B-side to the British single "From Me to You"), the single "She Loves You" / "I'll Get You", "You Can't Do That" from the A Hard Day's Night soundtrack in the UK, and two new songs, "Long Tall Sally" and "I Call Your Name," both released a month later in the UK on the Long Tall Sally EP.

The Beatles' Second Album went to number one on the album charts in the U.S., knocking off Meet the Beatles!, the first time an artist replaced itself at number one on the album charts.[1]

Unlike the contemporaneous British Beatles albums, The Beatles' Second Album is composed exclusively of uptempo numbers, and for this reason is a favorite of some Beatles aficionados and rock critics. "The Beatles' Second Album stands as probably best pure rock & roll album ever issued of the group's music".[2]

Worth noting is the inclusion of the stereo version of "Thank You Girl," as The Beatles' Second Album features the only "true" stereo version of the song released on any US or UK album (it was included on The Beatles Beat, a German release). Though some echo was added, this version remains a bit of a rarity, being only available in its original mono version on other releases.

In 2004 this album was re-released for the first time on CD as part of The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 box set.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except where noted. See also: Lennon-McCartney.

[edit] Side one

  1. "Roll Over Beethoven" (Chuck Berry)
  2. "Thank You Girl"
  3. "You Really Got a Hold on Me" (Smokey Robinson)
  4. "Devil in Her Heart" (Richard Drapkin)
  5. "Money (That's What I Want)" (Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy, Jr.)
  6. "You Can't Do That"

[edit] Side two

  1. "Long Tall Sally" (Robert Blackwell, Enotris Johnson, Little Richard)
  2. "I Call Your Name"
  3. "Please Mr. Postman" (Robert Bateman, Georgia Dobbins, Garrett, Fred Gorman, Brian Holland)
  4. "I'll Get You"
  5. "She Loves You"

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Cross, Craig (2005). The Beatles: Day-by-Day, Song-by-Song, Record-by-Record. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc., 551-552. ISBN 0-595-34663-4. 
  2. ^ All Music Guide
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Meet the Beatles! by The Beatles		 Billboard 200 number-one album
May 2 - June 5, 1964		 Succeeded by
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