With The Beatles

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With The Beatles
With The Beatles cover
Studio album by The Beatles
Released 22 November 1963
Recorded Abbey Road
18 July 1963 – 23 October 1963
Genre Rock and roll, beat music
Length 32:24
Label Parlophone
PMC 1206 (mono)
PCS 3045 (stereo)
CDP 7 46436 2 (reissue)
Producer George Martin
Professional reviews
The Beatles UK chronology
Please Please Me
(1963)		 With The Beatles
(1963)		 A Hard Day's Night
(1964)
With The Beatles (side 1) - Parlophone yellow and black label.
With The Beatles (side 1) - Parlophone yellow and black label.

With The Beatles is The Beatles' second UK album, recorded four months after the band's first album and released on 22 November 1963.

The album features eight original compositions (including the first by George Harrison) and six covers, mostly of Motown and R&B hits. Most of the songs from the album were released in the United States as Meet the Beatles! on 20 January 1964, and the remaining that weren't, were released on their next U.S. album, The Beatles' Second Album.

The LP had advance orders of a half million and sold another half million by September 1965 — making it the second album to sell a million copies in the UK (the first being the South Pacific soundtrack). It stayed at the top of the charts for 21 weeks, displacing Please Please Me, so that the Beatles occupied the top spot for 51 consecutive weeks. It even reached number eleven in the "singles charts" (because at the time UK charts counted all records sold, regardless of format).

In 2003, the album was ranked number 420 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[1]

On 26 February 1987, With The Beatles was officially released on CD, as were three other of the Beatles' albums, Please Please Me, A Hard Day's Night, and Beatles for Sale. Having been available only as an import in the US in the past,the album was also issued domestically in the US on LP and cassette on July 21, 1987.


Contents

[edit] Track listing

All tracks credited to John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except where noted.

[edit] Side one

  1. "It Won't Be Long" – 2:13
  2. "All I've Got to Do" – 2:04
  3. "All My Loving" – 2:09
  4. "Don't Bother Me" (George Harrison) – 2:29
  5. "Little Child" – 1:48
  6. "Till There Was You" (Meredith Willson) – 2:16
  7. "Please Mr. Postman" (Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Freddie Gorman, Brian Holland, Robert Bateman) – 2:36

[edit] Side two

  1. "Roll Over Beethoven" (Chuck Berry) – 2:47
  2. "Hold Me Tight" – 2:32
  3. "You Really Got a Hold on Me" (Smokey Robinson) – 3:02
  4. "I Wanna Be Your Man" – 1:59
  5. "Devil in Her Heart" (Richard P. Drapkin) – 2:27
  6. "Not a Second Time" – 2:08
  7. "Money" (Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy) – 2:47

[edit] Credits

According to Mark Lewishon.[2]

[edit] Chart positions

[edit] Singles

Billboard charts (North America)
Year Song Chart Rank
1964 "All My Loving" Billboard Hot 100 45
1964 "Roll Over Beethoven" Billboard Hot 100 68

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2007-11-19.
  2. ^ Lewishon, M. (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Abbey Road Years (1962-1970). New York: Harmony Books. ISBN: 0-517-57066-1.

[edit] External links

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