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- Release Date: November 22, 1963
- Total Time: 32:24
- Type: Enhanced CD-ROM
- Genre: Rock
With The Beatles
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| Studio album by The Beatles | ||||
| Released | 22 November 1963 | |||
| Recorded | 18 July–23 October 1963, Abbey Road Studios, London |
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| Genre | Rock and roll, pop, beat music | |||
| Length | 32:24 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Producer | George Martin | |||
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With The Beatles is The Beatles' second UK album, recorded four months after the band's first album and released on 22 November 1963 on Parlophone.
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 were not, were released on their next US 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).[citation needed] 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).
EMI Australia did not receive the cover art, and used a caricature of the band in a similar style to the black and white photograph on other releases. The Beatles were unaware of this until fans showed them the cover during their only Australian tour, and informed the EMI publicity people they were not pleased with the substitution.[1]
In 2003, the album was ranked number 420 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[2]
On 26 February 1987, With The Beatles was officially released on compact disc (in mono only, catalogue number CDP 7 46436 2), 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 21 July 1987.
Along with the rest of the Beatles' "canon", it was re-released on CD in newly re-mastered stereo and mono versions on 9 September 2009.
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Track listing
All songs written and composed by Lennon/McCartney, except where noted.
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| # | Title | Lead vocals | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "It Won't Be Long" | Lennon | 2:13 | ||||||
| 2. | "All I've Got to Do" | Lennon | 2:04 | ||||||
| 3. | "All My Loving" | McCartney | 2:09 | ||||||
| 4. | "Don't Bother Me" (George Harrison) | Harrison | 2:29 | ||||||
| 5. | "Little Child" | Lennon and McCartney | 1:48 | ||||||
| 6. | "Till There Was You" (Meredith Willson) | McCartney | 2:16 | ||||||
| 7. | "Please Mister Postman" (Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Freddie Gorman, Brian Holland, Robert Bateman) | Lennon | 2:36 | ||||||
| Side two | |||||||||
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| # | Title | Lead vocals | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Roll Over Beethoven" (Chuck Berry) | Harrison | 2:47 | ||||||
| 2. | "Hold Me Tight" | McCartney | 2:32 | ||||||
| 3. | "You Really Got a Hold on Me" (Smokey Robinson) | Lennon with Harrison | 3:02 | ||||||
| 4. | "I Wanna Be Your Man" | Starr | 1:59 | ||||||
| 5. | "Devil in Her Heart" (Richard Drapkin) | Harrison | 2:27 | ||||||
| 6. | "Not a Second Time" | Lennon | 2:08 | ||||||
| 7. | "Money" (Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy) | Lennon | 2:47 | ||||||
Personnel
According to Mark Lewisohn:[3]
- The Beatles
- George Harrison – lead, harmony and background vocals; lead and acoustic guitars; handclaps; nylon-string acoustic guitar on "Till There Was You"
- John Lennon – lead, harmony and background vocals; rhythm and acoustic guitars; harmonica and handclaps; nylon-string acoustic guitar on "Till There Was You"; Hammond organ on "I Wanna Be Your Man" and tambourine on "Don't Bother Me"
- Paul McCartney – lead, harmony and background vocals; bass guitar and handclaps; piano on "Little Child" and claves on "Don't Bother Me"
- Ringo Starr – drums, tambourine, maracas, handclaps; lead vocals on "I Wanna Be Your Man" and Arabian loose-skin bongo on "Till There Was You" and "Don't Bother Me"
- Production
- Robert Freeman – cover photograph
- George Martin – arrangements, producer and mixer; piano on "You Really Got a Hold on Me", "Money (That´s What I Want)" and "Not A Second Time"
- Norman Smith: engineer and mixer
Chart performance
- Singles
| Year | Song | Chart | Rank |
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| 1964 | "All My Loving" | Billboard Hot 100 | 45 |
| 1964 | "Roll Over Beethoven" | Billboard Hot 100 | 68 |
Notes
References
- Baker, Glenn A.; Dilernia, Roger (1985). The Beatles Down Under :The 1964 Australia & New Zealand Tour. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Pierian Press. ISBN 0876501862.
- Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books. ISBN 0-517-57066-1.
- "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. 2007. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6626801/420_with_the_beatles. Retrieved 19 November 2007.
- Whitburn, Joel (2007). Billboard Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc.. ISBN 0-89820-172-1.
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| Preceded by Please Please Me by The Beatles |
UK Albums Chart number-one album 7 December 1963 – 24 April 1964 |
Succeeded by The Rolling Stones by The Rolling Stones |
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