THE BEATLES: MEET THE BEATLES (MINT APPLE PRESSING!)

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Be sure to add us to your favorites list ! Check out our other items ! _____________________________________ THE BEATLES: MEET THE BEATLES Capitol ST-2047 1971 US Apple issue 12-track stereo LP with 'Mfd by Apple Records, Inc' label credit & 'Produced by George Martin' credit on the back of the sleeve, pasted cover Back Cover RIAA# 12 CONDITION: Cover: VG+ (slight ringwear back , general slight wear)Record: M- THE BEATLES: MEET THE BEATLES Meet The Beatles! is the second Beatles' album released in the United States , despite the "first album" claim on its cover. Released on 20 January 1964, it was the first Capitol Records Beatles album. Capitol is a sister company to Parlophone, the Beatles British label, and both are subsidiaries of EMI. The album was recorded at Abbey Road on February 11, 25, July 18, 30, August 21, September 11, 12, 30, October 3, 17, 21, 23, 29, 1963. Just ten days earlier Chicago 's Vee-Jay Records released Introducing... The Beatles, which had been delayed for release from the previous summer; perhaps as a result of the Vee-Jay release, Liberty Music Shops advertised in the New York Times of 12 January 1964, that Meet The Beatles was available for purchase on that date, an ad not authorised by Capitol. The album opens with the December 1963 Capitol single "I Want to Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing T", 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, "You Really Got A Hold On Me", "Devil in Her Heart", "Money (That's What I Want)", "Please Mister Postman" and "Roll Over Beethoven", were omitted from Meet the Beatles and released on the next Capitol album, The Beatles' Second Album. The latter two tracks were also released on the EP Four By The Beatles. In 2003, the album was ranked number 59 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The track "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was originally released as a UK (and U.S. ) single A-side and "This Boy" was originally released on the "I Want to Hold Your Hand" B-side in the UK . "I Saw Her Standing T" was from Please Please Me, and the remaining tracks were from With The Beatles. The song "I Want to Hold Your Hand" also is in duophonic [fake] stereo, due to the lack of a proper stereo mix that was supposed to be given to Capitol. It is interesting to note that the song "I Saw Her Standing T", which was first released in the U.K. on the album "Please Please Me", appeared in the U.S. on both the Capitol album as well as Vee-Jay's "Introducing...The Beatles!" LP. These two albums were initially issued almost simultaneously, marking the only time that 2 different Beatles albums, each from a different record label, were released at around the same time with one song appearing on both albums Tracks: All tracks written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except w noted. Side one 1. I Want to Hold Your Hand 2. I Saw Her Standing T 3. This Boy 4. It Won't Be Long 5. All I've Got to Do 6. All My Loving Side two 1. Don't Bother Me (George Harrison) 2. Little Child 3. Till T Was You (Meredith Willson) 4. Hold Me Tight 5. I Wanna Be Your Man 6. Not a Second Time Check out our other items ! SHIPPING COSTS ARE PER EBAY ESTIMATES – PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DISCUSS OTHER OPTIONS. INSURANCE IS ALWAYS OPTIONAL – HOWEVER WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ITEMS SHIPPED WITHOUT IT. WORLDWIDE PURCHASES ARE MOST WELCOMED! THANKS AND GOOD LUCK! read more

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