With The Beatles

Infobox Album
Name = With The Beatles
Type = studio
Artist = 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
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Af83gtq3ztu4a link]
* Piero Scaruffi rating-10|3 [http://www.scaruffi.com/vol1/beatles.html link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thebeatles/albums/album/314324/review/5940443/with_the_beatles link]
*"Q" Rating|5|5 [http://www.q4music.com/nav?page=q4music.artist.review&fixture_review=117562&fixture_artist=144975 link]
Chronology = The Beatles UK
Last album = "Please Please Me"
(1963)
This album = "With The Beatles"
(1963)
Next album = "A Hard Day's Night"
(1964)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternative cover
Type = studio


Lower caption = Cover of the original 1963 Australian LP. The album was released in Australia with this cover until the album was released on compact disc in 1988.

"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).

RS500|420cite web | url=http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6626801/420_with_the_beatles |title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|accessdate=2007-11-19 |publisher=Rolling Stone]

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.

Track listing

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

ide one

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

ide two

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

Credits

According to Mark Lewisohn: [Lewisohn, M. (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. The Official Abbey Road Years (1962-1970). New York: Harmony Books. ISBN 0-517-57066-1. ]

*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 and handclaps; piano on "Little Child" and claves on "Don't Bother Me".
*George Harrison: lead, harmony and background vocals; lead and acoustic guitars; handclaps; nylon-string acoustic guitar on "Till There Was You".
*Ringo Starr: drums, tambourine, maracas, handclaps; lead vocals on "I Wanna Be Your Man" and Arabian loose-skin bongo on "Don't Bother Me".
*George Martin: additional 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.
*Robert Freeman: cover photograph.

Chart positions

ingles

Notes

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/~beatleboy1/dba02with.html Beatles comments on each song]
* [http://www.norwegianwood.org/beatles/disko/uklp/with.htm Recording data and notes on mono/stereo mixes and remixes]

succession box
before = "Please Please Me" by The Beatles
title = "UK Albums Chart" number-one album
years = December 7 1963 - April 24 1964
after = "The Rolling Stones" by The Rolling Stones