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Meet The Beatles!
Studio album by The Beatles
Released	20 January 1964 16 November 2004 (reissue)
Recorded	Abbey Road Studios, 11 February 1963 – 29 October 1963
Genre	Rock and roll
Length	26:43
Label	Capitol T 2047 (mono) ST 2047 (stereo) CDP 7243 8 66875 2 4 (reissue)
Producer	George Martin
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
The Beatles U.S. chronology
Introducing... The Beatles (1964) Meet the Beatles! (1964) The Beatles' Second Album (1964)

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.^[1]

The album opens with the December 1963 Capitol single "I Want to Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing There", 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.^[2] The latter two tracks were also released on the EP Four By The Beatles.^[3]

In 2003, the album was ranked number 59 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Side one 1.2 Side two 2 Personnel 3 Re-releases 4 Cultural references 5 Notes 6 External links

All tracks written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except where noted. See also: Lennon-McCartney.

1. "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
2. "I Saw Her Standing There"
3. "This Boy"
4. "It Won't Be Long"
5. "All I've Got to Do"
6. "All My Loving"

1. "Don't Bother Me" (George Harrison)
2. "Little Child"
3. "Till There Was You" (Meredith Willson)
4. "Hold Me Tight"
5. "I Wanna Be Your Man"
6. "Not a Second 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 There" was from Please Please Me, and the remaining tracks were from With The Beatles.

• John Lennon – rhythm guitar, harmonica, vocals
• Paul McCartney – bass guitar, vocals
• George Harrison – lead guitar, vocals
• Ringo Starr – drums, vocals, maracas, tambourine
• George Martin – piano, producer

In 2004, Meet The Beatles! was released for the first time on CD as part of The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 box set.

• Meet the Smithereens!, a tribute album by The Smithereens.
• Meet the Residents
• Kurt Cobain cited this as one of his favorite albums in his Journals. He stated that "About a Girl" was his attempt of writing a Beatles song after having spent the day listening to the album.
• Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls has a whole episode called "Meat the Beat-Alls" in which four villains team up to destroy the girls. There are many references to the Beatles in this episode, including using lyrics as dialogue.

• The Beatles Discography 1962-1970: Meet the Beatles page
• Bruce Spizer's The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records, Part One: Beatlemania and the Singles website
• Bruce Spizer's The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records, Part Two: The Albums website
• WhatGoesOn.com - Beatles Capitol Albums Vol. 1 now two weeks away article

v • d • e The Beatles
John Lennon · Paul McCartney · George Harrison · Ringo Starr
Management	Allan Williams · Brian Epstein · Allen Klein · Lee Eastman · Neil Aspinall · Peter Brown · Mal Evans · Alistair Taylor · Apple Records
Production	George Martin · Geoff Emerick · Norman Smith · Ken Scott · Phil Spector · Jeff Lynne · Abbey Road Studios
Studio albums	Please Please Me (1963) · With The Beatles (1963) · A Hard Day's Night (1964) · Beatles for Sale (1964) · Help! (1965) · Rubber Soul (1965) · Revolver (1966) · Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) · Magical Mystery Tour (1967) · The Beatles (The White Album) (1968) · Yellow Submarine (1969) · Abbey Road (1969) · Let It Be (1970)
Post-breakup albums	Live at the BBC (1994) · Anthology 1 (1995) · Anthology 2 (1996) · Anthology 3 (1996) · Yellow Submarine Songtrack (1999) · Let It Be… Naked (2003)
Compilations	Hey Jude (1970) · 1962–1966 (1973) · 1967–1970 (1973) · Past Masters, Volume One (1988) · Past Masters, Volume Two (1988) · 1 (2000) · Love (2006)
Filmography	A Hard Day's Night (1964) · Help! (1965) · Magical Mystery Tour (U.K., 1967 / U.S., 1976) · Yellow Submarine (1968) · Let It Be (1970)
Videography	The Compleat Beatles (1984)  · The Beatles Anthology (2003) · The First U.S. Visit (2003)
Discography	Bootlegs · Discography · Outtakes
Related people	Pete Best · Stuart Sutcliffe  · Klaus Voormann  · Harry Nilsson  · Derek Taylor · Yoko Ono · Linda McCartney · Cynthia Lennon · Billy Preston · Tony Sheridan · Chas Newby · Andy White · Jimmy Nicol · Astrid Kirchherr
See also	Line-ups · Love (Cirque du Soleil) · Lennon/McCartney · Influence · Beatle boots · The Quarrymen · The Beatles' breakup · London · Beatlemania · Fifth Beatle · Paul is dead · The Beatles (TV series) · British Invasion · Apple Corps · Northern Songs · The Beatles Anthology · The Rutles