With the Beatles

With the Beatles
The Beatles' studio album
Publication (s)	November 12, 1963 ( D ) , November 22, 1963 ( UK ) , January 20, 1964 ( US )
Label (s)	Parlophone / EMI / Universal Music Group
Format (s)	LP , CD , MC , download
Genre (s)	Rock 'n' roll , rock , pop , Merseybeat
Title (number)	14th
running time	32 min 24 s
occupation	John Lennon : rhythm guitar , acoustic guitar , tambourine , vocals Paul McCartney : bass , piano , claves , vocals George Harrison : lead guitar , acoustic guitar, vocals Ringo Starr : drums , bongos , maracas , vocals Other musician: George Martin : piano, Hammond organ
production	George Martin
Studio (s)	Abbey Road Studios
chronology Please Please Me (1963) With the Beatles A Hard Day's Night (1964) Germany: The Beatles Beat (1964)

With the Beatles ( English With the Beatles ) is the second studio album by the British group The Beatles , which was released on November 22, 1963 in Great Britain. In Germany the album was released on November 12, 1963, here it was her debut album . In the USA , a modified version of the album was released on January 20, 1964 under the title Meet the Beatles! released. The British version of With the Beatles was released on CD on July 21, 1987 in the USA .

Emergence

On July 1, 1963, the Beatles were back at Abbey Road Studios to record their fourth British single She Loves You and its B-side I'll Get You , which was released in Great Britain on August 23, 1963 and its second number there - one hit and the best-selling single in the UK by 1978.

The Beatles outside the Ritz Cinema , Fisherwick Place, Belfast , November 8th 1963

The Beatles in front of the Birmingham Hippodrome, 1963

In contrast to the previous album, the recording time of the album was no longer limited to one day. The first recordings for the album took place on July 18 and 30, 1963 at Abbey Road Studios in London . Many of the titles later included on the LP were created. Between the two days of recording, the group performed a total of 18 performances, often two per day. On August 3rd, the Beatles had their 300th and final appearance at the Cavern Club . On August 21, 1963, the previous recordings were revised and mixed in mono . A second series of recordings made on 11 and 12 September 1963 whereby not only more tracks for the album, but also promo - Jingles for the now planned Australia were recorded -Tournee. On September 30, 1963, George Martin recorded piano and Hammond organ tracks for the songs Money (That's What I Want) and I Wanna Be Your Man and then made various mixes of the recordings while the Beatles took a break from touring on vacation Greece and the USA were located. On October 17 and 23, after the musicians returned, extensive recordings took place again, with a four-track tape recorder being used for the first time , whereas previously only two-track recorders had been available.

As with Please Please Me , when compiling the titles, they relied on a combination of their own material and cover versions that were tried and tested during live performances . In addition to songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney , Don't Bother Me is George Harrison's first composition on a Beatles album. On October 17, 1963, the Beatles recorded their fifth British single, I Want to Hold Your Hand / This Boy, at Abbey Road Studios . The single was released in Great Britain on November 29, 1963, one week after the release of the album With the Beatles, and became her third number one hit and the second best-selling single in Great Britain until 1978.

The two number one hits She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand were not used for the album With the Beatles , a single from the album did not take place in the UK. In Germany, however, the three singles It Won't Be Long / Money (That's What I Want) , All My Loving / I Wanna Be Your Man and Please Mister Postman / Hold Me Tight were released.

The last recordings were made on October 23, 1963. On October 29 and 30, 1963, while the Beatles were on tour in Sweden , the final stereo mixes of the songs used for the album were finally created in Abbey Road Studios . The mono mixes took place on August 21, September 30 and October 23.

George Martin said of the album: “Back then we didn't think of an album as a single whole. We recorded singles and the songs that didn't come out as singles were put on an LP - that's how the second album With the Beatles came about. "

The song Not a Second Time caught the attention of The Times music critic William Mann, who wrote a musicological treatise on Lennon and McCartney's compositions that was published on December 27, 1963:

“The interest in harmony is also typical of their faster songs, and you get the impression that they think of harmony and melody at the same time. The major seventh and ninth in their melodies as well as the flat submediate note changes are so firm, so natural is the aeolian cadence at the end of Not A Second Time (the chord progression that ends Mahler's Lied von der Erde ). "

In retrospect, John Lennon said: "To this day I don't know what he actually meant by that, but in any case he made us acceptable to intellectuals as well."

For With the Beatles were available 270,000 pre-orders, a sign of the amazingly rapid rise of the Beatles to commercially dominant group in the UK . The album entered the UK charts at number one on November 27, 1963, displacing the Beatles album Please Please Me from this position and remained there for 21 weeks. In total, the two albums occupied first place in the British charts for 50 weeks in a row. With the Beatles was the first album by British artists to sell more than a million copies in the UK. In Germany, the album also reached number one on the charts. The British version of With the Beatles was released in the US on July 21, 1987, and in January 1997 the album was awarded gold in the US for 500,000 units sold.

The album was released in a mono and a stereo version.

The mono version of the album contains different mixes of the songs Money (That's What I Want) (different mix of guitar and piano) and Hold Me Tight (partially missing background vocals at the end of the song).

Other - unused - recording versions of the songs Hold Me Tight and Money (That's What I Want) can be found on the album The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963 .

Cover design

The design and photo of the cover are from Robert Freeman . The black and white photo shows the Beatles in penumbra. The recording was made at the Palace Court Hotel in Bournemouth . A text by Tony Barrow, the Beatles' press officer, was printed on the back cover.

In Germany, the album was sold with a modified front cover and a German text was used on the back that describes the genesis of the Beatles.

George Harrison: “The With the Beatles album cover became one of the most copied designs of the decade. Robert Freeman took the photos. We showed him the photos Astrid and Jürgen had taken in Hamburg and asked him if he could do something like that too. With the Beatles was the first album where we tried to do something artistic. "

Track list

page 1

No.	song	author	Lead vocals	Length stereo version	Length mono version
01	It won't be long	Lennon / McCartney	Lennon	2:13	2:16
02	All I've Got to Do	Lennon / McCartney	Lennon	2:03	2:06
03	All my loving	Lennon / McCartney	McCartney	2:08	2:13
04th	Don't bother me	Harrison	Harrison	2:28	2:31
05	Little Child	Lennon / McCartney	Lennon	1:46	1:50
06th	Till There Was You	Meredith Willson	McCartney	2:14	2:19
07th	Please Mister Postman	Garrett / Dobbins / Brian Holland / Gorman / Bateman	Lennon	2:34	2:39

Page 2

No.	song	author	Lead vocals	Length stereo version	Length mono version
08th	Roll over Beethoven	Chuck Berry	Harrison	2:45	2:49
09	Hold me tight	Lennon / McCartney	McCartney	2:32	2:35
10	You Really Got a Hold on Me	Smokey Robinson	Lennon	3:01	3:04
11	I want to be your man	Lennon / McCartney	Rigid	2:00	2:01
12	Devil in Her Heart	Richard P. Drapkin	Harrison	2:26	2:30
13	Not a second time	Lennon / McCartney	Lennon	2:07	2:12
14th	Money (That's What I Want)	Janie Bradford / Berry Gordy	Lennon	2:51	2:49

The lengths of the songs are based on the 2009 CD versions.

Re-releases

• On February 26, 1987 the album With the Beatles was first released on CD in Europe (USA: July 21, 1987), exclusively in a mono mix. The mastering was next George Martin from the sound engineer of the Abbey Road Studios monitored Mike Jarrett. The CD is accompanied by a twelve-page illustrated booklet containing the original cover text by Tony Barrow.
• On September 9, 2009 the album was released remastered in a stereo mix on CD and as part of The Beatles Stereo Box Set . The remastered mono version became available as part of the box The Beatles in mono , also since September 9, 2009. The stereo version of the CD, which was re-released in 2009, was remastered by Sam Okell, Steve Rooke and Guy Massey, the mono version by Paul Hicks, Steve Rooke and Guy Massey. While the cover design of the mono CD was based on the original LP version, the fold-out CD cardboard cover of the stereo version was redesigned by Drew Lorimer. The stereo CD also contains a 20-page booklet that contains photos of the Beatles, the original cover text by Tony Barrow from 1963, information on the album by Kevin Howlett and Mike Heatley and information on the recordings by Allan Rouse and Kevin Howlett contains. The CD contains documentation in QuickTime format, consisting of video clips and modified images from the studio sessions; Accompanied by played music tracks, outtakes or studio conversations from the album.
• The remastered stereo vinyl long-playing record was released in November 2012 with the The Beatles Remastered Vinyl Box Set , the remastered mono-vinyl long-playing record in September 2014 with the box The Beatles In Mono .
• The album was first published in download format on November 16, 2010 on iTunes , and from December 24, 2015, the album was also available from other providers and streaming services.

Recording dates

The recordings for the album took place between July 18 and October 23, 1963 exclusively in Abbey Road Studios (Studio 2) under the production direction of George Martin . The sound engineer for the recordings was Norman Smith , his assistant was Richard Langham. George Martin played the piano on You Really Got a Hold on Me , Money (That's What I Want) and Not a Second Time , and played the Hammond organ on I Wanna Be Your Man .

No.	song	Recording dates	Cast / guest musician
01	You Really Got a Hold on Me	July 18, 1963, Oct. 17, 1963	John Lennon : rhythm guitar , vocals Paul McCartney : bass , backing vocals George Harrison : lead guitar , vocals Ringo Starr : drums George Martin : piano
02	Money (That's What I Want)	July 18 + 30, 1963	John Lennon: rhythm guitar, vocals Paul McCartney: bass, backing vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums George Martin: piano
03	Devil in Her Heart	July 18, 1963	John Lennon: rhythm guitar, backing vocals Paul McCartney: bass, backing vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, vocals Ringo Starr: drums, maracas
04th	Till There Was You	July 18 + 30, 1963	John Lennon: rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar Paul McCartney: bass, vocals George Harrison: acoustic guitar, vocals Ringo Starr: Bongos
05	Please Mr. Postman	July 30, 1963	John Lennon: rhythm guitar, vocals Paul McCartney: bass, backing vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums
06th	It won't be long	July 30, 1963	John Lennon: rhythm guitar, vocals Paul McCartney: bass, backing vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums
07th	Roll over Beethoven	July 30, 1963	John Lennon: rhythm guitar Paul McCartney: Bass George Harrison: lead guitar, vocals Ringo Starr: drums
08th	All my loving	July 30, 1963	John Lennon: rhythm guitar, backing vocals Paul McCartney: bass, vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums
09	I want to be your man	Sep 11, 12 + 30 1963, Oct. 23, 1963	John Lennon: rhythm guitar, backing vocals Paul McCartney: bass, backing vocals George Harrison: lead guitar Ringo Starr: drums, maracas, vocals George Martin: Hammond organ
10	Little Child	Sep 11 + 12 1963, 0Oct. 3, 1963	John Lennon: rhythm guitar, vocals Paul McCartney: bass, piano, vocals George Harrison: lead guitar Ringo Starr: drums
11	All I've Got to Do	Sep 11 1963	John Lennon: rhythm guitar, vocals Paul McCartney: bass, backing vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums
12	Not a second time	Sep 11 1963	John Lennon: rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals Paul McCartney: Bass George Harrison: acoustic guitar Ringo Starr: drums George Martin: piano
13	Don't bother me	Sep 11 + 12 1963	John Lennon: rhythm guitar, tambourine Paul McCartney: Bass, Claves George Harrison: lead guitar, vocals Ringo Starr: drums, bongos
14th	Hold me tight ( The song was first recorded during the sessions for the album Please Please Me . )	Sep 12 1963	John Lennon: rhythm guitar, backing vocals Paul McCartney: bass, vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums

More songs:

The recordings took place in Abbey Road Studios (Studio 2) under the production direction of George Martin. The sound engineer for the recordings was Norman Smith.

I Want to Hold Your Hand , the Beatles' fifth single in the UK

No.	song	Recording dates	occupation	Phonograms (European first release)
01	She loves you	0July 1, 1963	John Lennon : rhythm guitar , vocals Paul McCartney : bass , vocals George Harrison : lead guitar , backing vocals Ringo Starr : drums	Single A-side
02	I'll get you	0July 1, 1963	John Lennon: rhythm guitar, harmonica, vocals Paul McCartney: bass, vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums	Single B side
03	I want to hold your hand	Oct 17, 1963	John Lennon: rhythm guitar, vocals Paul McCartney: bass, vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums	Single A-side
04th	This boy	Oct 17, 1963	John Lennon: acoustic guitar, vocals Paul McCartney: bass, vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, vocals Ringo Starr: drums	Single B side
05	The Beatles Christmas Record	Oct 17, 1963	John Lennon: Language Paul McCartney: Language George Harrison: Language Ringo Starr: Language	Flexi-Disk for the members of the Beatles fan club

Chart positions of the album

album		Release Date			Best placement in the charts			Label catalog no.
Type	title	GB	US	DE	GB	US	DE	GB	US	DE
Studio album	With the Beatles	Nov 22, 1963	-	Nov 12, 1963	1	nv	1	Parlophone PMC 1206 (mono) PCS 3045 (stereo)	-	Odeon O 83658 (mono) STO 83658 (stereo)
Studio album CD first release	With the Beatles	Feb. 26, 1987	July 21, 1987	Feb 1987	40	-	-	Parlophone CDP 7 46436 2	Capitol CDP 7 46436 2	EMI CDP 7 46436 2
Studio album remastered CD re-release	With the Beatles	0Sep 9 2009	0Sep 9 2009	0Sep 9 2009	51	179	-	Apple / EMI 3824202	Apple / Capitol 3824202	Apple / EMI 3824202

Different publications in other countries

• In France , the album was released under the title Les Beatles with a different cover design in November 1963 in mono.
• In Canada the album was released under the title Beatlemania! With the Beatles with a different cover design, published in Mono on Capitol Records in December 1963 .
• In Italy , the album was released under the title I Favolosi Beatles with its own cover design in February 1964 in mono.
• In Australia , the album with its own cover design was released in March 1964 in mono and stereo.
• In Uruguay , the album was released under the title Con Los Beatles with its own cover design in May 1964 in Mono.
• In Japan , the album With the Beatles was only released in May 1966 with its own cover design in stereo. The record was also pressed on red vinyl.

Outcouplings

Singles

single	Release Date			Best placement in the charts			Label catalog no.
A side / B side	GB	US	DE	GB	US	DE	GB	US	DE
I Want to Hold Your Hand / Roll Over Beethoven	-	-	Nov 29, 1963	nv	nv	01 /31	-	-	Odeon O 22 623
It Won't Be Long / Money (That's What I Want)	-	-	Dec 11, 1963	nv	nv	- / -	-	-	Odeon O 22 638
All My Loving / I Wanna Be Your Man	-	-	Feb 20, 1964	nv	nv	32 / -	-	-	Odeon O 22 681
Please Mr. Postman / Hold Me Tight	-	-	May 26, 1964	nv	nv	47 / -	-	-	Odeon O 22 741

Extended Plays (EPs)

EP		Release Date			Best placement in the charts			Label catalog no.
title	Songs A-Side / B-Side	GB	US	DE	GB	US	DE	GB	US	DE
All my loving	All My Loving; Ask Me Why / Money (That's What I Want); PS I love you	0Feb. 7, 1964	-	-	13	nv	nv	Parlophone GEP8891	-	-
The Beatles' sound	Roll Over Beethoven; I'll Get You / It Won't Be Long; I want to hold your hand	-	-	Feb 23, 1964	nv	nv	-	-	-	Odeon 41627

literature

• The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 .
• Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years . ISBN 0-600-61207-4 .
• Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Chronicle . ISBN 0-600-61001-2 .
• Neville Stannard: The Long & Winding Road . ISBN 0-907-08096-0 .
• Ian MacDonald: Revolution in the Head . ISBN 978-0-099-52679-7 .
• Christoph Maus: The Beatles Worldwide . ISBN 978-3-9809137-1-3 .
• Christoph Maus: The Beatles Worldwide II . ISBN 3-9809137-2-4 .
• Moers, Meier, et al. : The Beatles - History and Chronology . Hamburg 2000.

Web links

• About With the Beatles (UK)
• Information about With the Beatles (official site)
• Image of the album cover
• Lyrics in LyricWiki

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]
2. ^ The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 107.
3. ↑ About the song Not a Second Time
4. ^ The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 96.
5. ↑ Gold award
6. ↑ Differences in the mixes of Beatles songs
7. ↑ Cover of the album With the Beatles ( Memento from August 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
8. ^ Back cover of the album With the Beatles
9. ^ German cover of the album With the Beatles
10. ↑ German back cover of the album With the Beatles
11. ^ The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 107
12. ↑ Download the Beatles songs
13. ↑ Streaming the Beatles songs
14. ^ French album version: Les Beatles
15. ↑ Canadian album version: Beatlemania! With the Beatles
16. ^ Italian album version: I Favolosi Beatles
17. ^ Australian album version: With the Beatles
18. ↑ Uruguay album version: Con Los Beatles
19. ↑ Japanese album version: With the Beatles