Meet the Beatles!

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Meet the Beatles! was The Beatles first "official" album in America, released on January 20 1964 by Capitol Records, the sister company within EMI to their British label, Parlophone. Just ten days earlier Chicago's Vee-Jay Records released Introducing... The Beatles, which had been delayed for release from the previous summer.¹ In 2004 this album was released for the first time on CD as part of The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 box set.

The album opens with the December 1963 Capitol single "I Want To Hold Your Hand" / "I Saw Her Standing There", and the b-side "This Boy" from the original November 1963 Parlophone version of "I Want To Hold Your Hand." It contains many of the tracks from With the Beatles and shares the same cover photograph. However, the track listing deletes "You Really Got A Hold On Me", "Devil In Her Heart", "Money", "Please Mister Postman" and "Roll Over Beethoven", which would all see release on the next Capitol album The Beatles' Second Album.² The latter two tracks would also see release on the EP Four By The Beatles.³

Contents

1 Track listing

1.1 Side one
1.2 Side two

2 Personnel
3 External links
4 See also
5 Notes

Track listing

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

Side one

Side two

Personnel

John Lennon - guitar; harmonica; guitar (Rhythm); organ (Hammond); vocals
Paul McCartney - piano; guitar (Bass); vocals
George Harrison - guitar; vocals
Ringo Starr - drums; maracas; vocals
George Martin - piano; producer

External links

Notes

Note 1: Spizer, Bruce (2000). The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records, Part Two: The Albums, p. 4. New Orleans, Louisiana: 498 Productions. ISBN 0-9662649-2-4
Note 2: Spizer, Bruce (2000). The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records, Part Two: The Albums, p. 5. New Orleans, Louisiana: 498 Productions. ISBN 0-9662649-2-4
Note 3: Spizer, Bruce (2000). The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records, Part One: Beatlemania and the Singles, p. 41-2. New Orleans, Louisiana: 498 Productions. ISBN 0-9662649-1-6

The Beatles
John Lennon \| Paul McCartney \| George Harrison \| Ringo Starr Pete Best \| Stuart Sutcliffe
Management
Brian Epstein \| Allen Klein \| Apple Records
Production
George Martin \| Geoff Emerick \| Norman Smith \| Phil Spector \| Abbey Road Studios
Official studio albums
Please Please Me (1963) \| With the Beatles (1963) \| A Hard Day's Night (1964) \| Beatles for Sale (1964) \| Help! (1965) \| Rubber Soul (1965) \| Revolver (1966) \| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) \| Magical Mystery Tour (1967) \| The Beatles (1968) \| Yellow Submarine (1969) \| Abbey Road (1969) \| Let It Be (1970)

A Hard Day's Night (1964) \| Help! (1965) \| Magical Mystery Tour (1967) \| Yellow Submarine (1968) \| Let it Be (1970)

History \| Lennon-McCartney \| Bootlegs \| Discography \| Anthology \| Influence \| The Quarrymen \| London \| Beatlemania \| Beatlesque \| Fifth Beatle \| Paul Is Dead \| British Invasion \| Apple Corps \| Northern Songs \| Harrisongs \| Startling Music
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