WHILE I'M AWAY
I'LL WRITE HOME EVERYDAY
AND I'LL SEND
ALL MY LOVING TO YOU
Meet the Beatles!
is a studio album
by the
English rock band
released as the
second album
in the
United States.
It was the group's
first American album
to be issued by
Capitol Records,
on
January 20th 1964
in both
mono and stereo formats.
It topped the
popular album chart
on
February 15th 1964
and remained at
number one
for eleven weeks
before being replaced by
The Beatles' Second Album.
The cover featured
Robert Freeman's
iconic portrait
of the Beatles
used in
the United Kingdom
for
With the Beatles,
with a blue tint added
to the original
stark black-and-white
photograph.
Compared to
With the Beatles,
Meet the Beatles!
dropped five tracks
"Roll Over Beethoven",
"You Really Got a Hold on Me",
"Devil in Her Heart",
"Money (That's What I Want)"
and
"Please Mr. Postman"
and
added three others
"I Want to Hold Your Hand",
"I Saw Her Standing There"
and
"This Boy"
Background
After EMI's subsidiary
Capitol Records
repeatedly
rejected requests
by both
Brian Epstein
and
George Martin
to release
Beatles records
in the United States,
EMI label head
Sir Joseph Lockwood
sent a deputy
to Los Angeles
in November 1963
ordering Capitol Records
to commence promoting
and releasing
Beatles records
in the United States.
Despite the
"first album"
claim on the
Meet the Beatles! cover,
ten days prior
to its release,
Vee-Jay Records
of Chicago
beat Capitol
to the punch
with the release on
January 10th 1964
of the Beatles'
American debut album
Introducing... The Beatles,
which had been delayed
for release
for various reasons
since the previous summer.
Perhaps as a result of
the Vee-Jay release,
Liberty Music Shops
advertised in
the New York Times of
January 12th 1964
that
Meet the Beatles!
was available
for purchase,
an ad
not authorised by Capitol.
In 2004,
the album was released
for the first time
on compact disc
in both stereo
and mono
as part of
The Capitol Albums,
Volume 1
box set,
containing the original
US stereo and mono mixes.
In 2014,
Meet the Beatles!
was reissued
on CD,
individually
Music
By November 1963,
the Beatles
had already
recorded over
35 songs
for EMI's
UK Parlophone label,
while Capitol Records
in the US
planned to release
an album and a single,
and more
at a later date.
The US rights
to the Beatles'
first 14 tracks
were held by
Vee Jay Records
along with a few others.
"She Loves You"
had been issued in America
on the Swan label
TRACKLIST
(Stereo)
I Want To Hold Your Hand
I Saw Her Standing There
This Boy
It Won't Be Long
All I've Got To Do
All My Loving
Don't Bother Me
Little Child
Till There Was You
Hold Me Tight
I Wanna Be Your Man
Not A Second Time
(Mono)
I Want To Hold Your Hand
I Saw Her Standing There
This Boy
It Won't Be Long
All I've Got To Do
All My Loving
Don't Bother Me
Little Child
Till There Was You
Hold Me Tight
I Wanna Be Your Man
Not A Second Time
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