With the Beatles (Enhanced, Limited Edition, Original Recording Remastered)
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The Beatles
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studio album
First released:
Nov 22 1963

Overview Edit

With The Beatles is the second studio album by the English rock band The Beatles. It was released in 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, as well as George Harrison's first composition) 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, featured on their next US album, The Beatles' Second Album.

With The Beatles 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 Beatles LP released in North America, pre-dating the Capitol U.S. Meet The Beatles! and the Vee Jay Records Introducing... The Beatles LPs by 2 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. 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 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.

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.

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Version description:
Enhanced, Limited Edition, Original Recording Remastered
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Catalog number:
unknown
Release dates:
  • Sep 9 2009

Genres

British Invasion, Classic Rock,
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5 stars Beatlemania Grips the U.S.A.
This is the album that launched Beatlemania in the U.S. Well, sort of. The cover is the same, but this is the U.K. version of the Beatles' second album, which was released only eight months after their debut in March of 1963. The U.S. version (entitled Meet the Beatles) included only nine of these songs and added "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and its b-side "I Saw Her Standing There" along with "This Boy."

But even though this is not the version that millions of baby boomers (like myself) grew up w…
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Written by Steve Vrana
3 stars The mono mix is still superior
If you enjoy the stereo effect of "music on the left, vocals on the right"...then this is right up your alley...

As was true with the first album ...This recording lacks the drive The Beatles were known for.

I did what many of you did back on Sept 9th....purchased the entire STEREO catalogue of remasters...and then proceeded to listen to them....only to be very disappointed with many of the stereo mixes

My solution was to go ahead and purchase the MONO REMASTER BOX....it contains the first 10…
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Written by Lee J. Davito

Track listing Edit

  • CD 1

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    number:
    title:
    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    It Won't Be Long
    ?:??
    2
    All I've Got To Do
    ?:??
    3
    All My Loving
    ?:??
    4
    Don't Bother Me
    ?:??
    5
    Little Child
    ?:??
    6
    Till There Was You
    ?:??
    7
    Please Mister Postman
    ?:??
    8
    Roll Over Beethoven
    ?:??
    9
    Hold Me Tight
    ?:??
    10
    You Really Got A Hold On Me
    ?:??
    11
    I Wanna Be Your Man
    ?:??
    12
    Devil In Her Heart
    ?:??
    13
    Not A Second Time
    ?:??
    14
    Money (That's What I Want)
    ?:??
    15
    With The Beatles Documentary
    ?:??

Credits Edit

  1. composer

    2. Brianbert [7]
    8. Paul McCartney [1,2,3,5,9,11,13]

  2. design

    1. Robert Freeman [photography]

  3. engineer

  4. performer

    1. George Martin [piano and hammond organ]

  1. producer

  2. writer

    1. Berry Gordy ["Money (That's What I Want)]
    2. Brianbert [7]
    8. John Lennon [1,2,3,5,9,11,13]

Other versions Edit

With the Beatles 14 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Parlophone
catalog number: CDP 7 46436 2
release dates: Dec 2 1963 in Canada, Jul 21 1987 in United States
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With the Beatles 14 tracks format: 1 x vinyl
catalog number: 46436
release dates: Oct 25 1990
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With the Beatles 14 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Toshiba EMI Japan
release dates: Mar 18 1998
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With the Beatles 14 tracks format: 1 x CD
release dates: Jul 25 2006
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With the Beatles 14 tracks format: 1 x CD
release dates: Oct 17 1990
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