With The Beatles
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| Studio album by The Beatles | ||||
| Released | 22 November 1963 | |||
| Recorded | 18 July – 23 October 1963, EMI Studios, London |
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| Genre | Rock, rock and roll | |||
| Length | 32:24 | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Producer | George Martin | |||
| The Beatles chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |  [1] |
| Blender |  [2] |
| NME |   [3] |
| Pitchfork Media | (8.8/10) [4] |
| Q | [5] |
| Rolling Stone | [6] |
With The Beatles is the second studio album by the English rock group The Beatles. It was released on 22 November 1963 on Parlophone, and was recorded four months after the band's debut Please Please Me. The album features eight original compositions (seven by Lennon–McCartney and "Don't Bother Me", George Harrison's first recorded solo composition and his first released on a Beatles album) and six covers (mostly of Motown and R&B hits). Most of the songs from the album were released in the United States by Capitol Records as the Meet The Beatles! LP on 20 January 1964, and the remaining that were not, featured on their next US album, The Beatles' Second Album.
The album was also released in November 1963 by Capitol Records in Canada, with a slight change to the title Beatlemania! With The Beatles. This release has the distinction of being the first LP of Beatles material released in North America, pre-dating the Capitol US Meet The Beatles! and the Vee Jay Records Introducing... The Beatles LPs by two months.
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, after the soundtrack to the 1958 film South Pacific.[7] With The Beatles 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 11 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 staff that they were not pleased with the substitution.[8]
On 26 February 1987, With The Beatles was officially released on compact disc (in mono only, catalogue number CDP 7 46436 2). 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.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 420 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[9]
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
All songs written and composed by Lennon–McCartney, except where noted.
| Side one | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Lead vocals | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "It Won't Be Long" | John Lennon | 2:13 | ||||||
| 2. | "All I've Got to Do" | Lennon | 2:03 | ||||||
| 3. | "All My Loving" | Paul McCartney | 2:08 | ||||||
| 4. | "Don't Bother Me" (Harrison) | George Harrison | 2:28 | ||||||
| 5. | "Little Child" | Lennon with McCartney | 1:46 | ||||||
| 6. | "Till There Was You" (Meredith Willson) | McCartney | 2:14 | ||||||
| 7. | "Please Mister Postman" (Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Freddie Gorman, Brian Holland, Robert Bateman) | Lennon | 2:34 | ||||||
| Side two | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Lead vocals | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Roll Over Beethoven" (Chuck Berry) | Harrison | 2:45 | ||||||
| 2. | "Hold Me Tight" | McCartney | 2:32 | ||||||
| 3. | "You Really Got a Hold on Me" (Smokey Robinson) | Lennon with Harrison | 3:01 | ||||||
| 4. | "I Wanna Be Your Man" | Ringo Starr | 2:00 | ||||||
| 5. | "Devil in Her Heart" (Richard Drapkin) | Harrison | 2:26 | ||||||
| 6. | "Not a Second Time" | Lennon | 2:07 | ||||||
| 7. | "Money (That's What I Want)" (Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy) | Lennon | 2:50 | ||||||
[edit] Personnel
According to Mark Lewisohn:[10]
- The Beatles
- John Lennon – lead, harmony and backing 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 backing vocals; bass guitar and handclaps; piano on "Little Child" and claves on "Don't Bother Me"
- George Harrison – lead, harmony and backing 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 "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", "Not a Second Time" and "Money (That's What I Want)"
- Norman Smith – engineer and mixer
[edit] Chart performance
- Album
| Chart | Year | Peak position |
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| UK Albums Chart[11] | 1963 | 1 |
| 1964 |
- Album cuts
| Year | Song | Chart | Rank |
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| 1964 | "All My Loving" | Billboard Hot 100 | 45 |
| 1964 | "Roll Over Beethoven" | Billboard Hot 100 | 68 |
[edit] References
- ^ With The Beatles at Allmusic
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ http://www.nme.com/reviews/artistKeyname/461
- ^ "Album Reviews: The Beatles: With the Beatles". Pitchfork. 2009-09-08. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13421-with-the-beatles. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ^ "Q Magazine | Music news & reviews, music videos, band pictures & interviews". Q4music.com. http://www.q4music.com/nav?page=q4music.artist.review&fixture_review=117562&fixture_artist=144975. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ^ "Internet Archive Wayback Machine". Web.archive.org. 2008-05-07. http://web.archive.org/web/20080507151836/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thebeatles/albums/album/314324/review/5940443/with_the_beatles. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ^ "Wide Screen Movies Magazine". Widescreenmovies.org. http://widescreenmovies.org/WSM11/spos.htm. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ^ Baker & Dilernia 1985.
- ^ Rolling Stone 2007.
- ^ Lewisohn 1988.
- ^ "Chart Stats - The Beatles - With The Beatles". chartstats.com. http://www.chartstats.com/albuminfo.php?id=1846. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
- ^ Whitburn 2007.
- 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.
[edit] External links
| 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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