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With the Beatles is the second studio album by The Beatles. It was released on 22 November 1963, 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, rock and roll, and R&B hits). The album became the first Beatles album released in North America when it was released in Canada on 25 November under the augmented title Beatlemania! With the Beatles. Again it reached the top spot on the UK Albums Chart. 2 songs charted on the Billboard Chart: All My Loving (#45) and Roll Over Beethoven (#68).

IMO, it's not as strong as the debut-album, and the only really good song is All My Loving, and again the best was yet to come. The album was probably rushed out, because how long could The Beatles be at the top? 1 year? 2 years at the most?"All My Loving" is as strong as any McCartney-song. "I Wanna Be Your Man" was written for Rolling Stones, but Lennon and McCartney thought it was too good for Betales not to record it as well, and Ringo got it as "his" song on the album. I prefer the RS-version. What do you think of Beatles second album? The singles around this time counts "From Me To You/Thank You Girl" (11th April 1963), "She Loves You/I'll Get You" (23rd August 1963) and "I Want To Hold You Hand" (29 November 1963)

From this album and on, I will add one or two useless informations regarding a song on the album or the album itself: 1. Allthough All My Loving was exclusively written by McCartney, Cynthia Lennon believed as late as 2005, that John had writtenthe song for her. 2. In the score of the "Superman III"-movie (1983), The Beatles' version of "Roll Over Beethoven" could be heard. One good reason for this was perhaps the fact, that the director was none other than Richard Lester, the director of A Hard Days Night and Help (the movies).


Album Ranking:

1. Please Please Me

2. With The Beatles

Niels' Ultimate Beatles Playlist:

1. I Saw Her Standing

2. Love Me Do

3. Please Please Me

4. She Loves You

5. All My Loving

6. I Want To Hold You Hand

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I definitely agree, the debut is stronger than this one.  This album does have a much cooler album cover though.  I agree, All My Loving is a fine song.  I also like the cover of Please Mister Postman, but that one won't make my playlist.  I'm iffy on Money (That's What I Want).  Otherwise, I can do without this album.  I'll certainly take the three singles that were released between albums that you mentioned and put those on my playlist.  The next album is much better.

Did you know that no singles were released from the album in the UK or the US?  Also, it took 28 hours, spread over six days, to record the album.  All of this album was recorded on a 2-track tape machine, but this album would be the last one that would employ that method.

Running Album Ranking:

1. Please Please Me

2. With The Beatles

RJ's Ultimate Beatles Playlist:

1. I Saw Her Standing There

2. Please Please Me

3. Love Me Do

4. Do You Want To Know A Secret

5. A Taste Of Honey

6. From Me To You

7. She Loves You

8. I Want To Hold Your Hand

9. All My Loving

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