29-711: Second Album or 2nd Album may refer to: The Beatles' Second Album , a 1964 album by the Beatles Four Tops Second Album , a 1965 album by Four Tops Martin Carthy's Second Album , a 1966 album by Martin Carthy The Second Album (The Spencer Davis Group album) , a 1966 album by the Spencer Davis Group Second Album (Curved Air album) ,
58-457: A 1971 album by Curved Air Second Album , a 1973 album by Roy Buchanan Call Call Call , a 2005 album by U;Nee, also known as 2nd Album The Second Album (Latyrx album) , a 2013 album by Latyrx Second , the second EP by Baroness See also [ edit ] Second album syndrome Second (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
87-557: A follow-up album as soon as possible. For this, a backlog of some 25 songs, issued by EMI in Britain and many other territories across the world from 1962 onwards, had yet to be issued by Capitol. The Beatles' Second Album was the first album of the group's work to be assembled by the company exclusively for the US market, Meet the Beatles! having been a reconfigured and shorter version of
116-463: Is a box set compilation comprising the remastered American albums released by the Beatles between 1964 and 1970. The box set was released on 21 January 2014 in the United States, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles' first trip to the US and first American album from Capitol Records, Meet the Beatles! All 13 unique albums released by Capitol Records are included in
145-707: Is also different between the mono and stereo versions. On "Long Tall Sally", reverb was added to the stereo version. The "dry" mono mix of "Long Tall Sally" is noticeably different from the mono mix with a slight echo that was issued in the UK, and is unique to the Second Album . The mono version of "You Can't Do That" is also different from the version on the UK A Hard Day's Night LP. Because "I'll Get You" and "She Loves You" were never mixed in stereo, Duophonic/fake stereo versions were made for this album. Capitol Records issued The Beatles' Second Album on 10 April 1964 with
174-613: Is the second Capitol Records album by the English rock band the Beatles , and their third album released in the United States including Introducing... The Beatles , which was issued three months earlier by Vee-Jay Records . Following its release in April 1964, The Beatles' Second Album replaced Meet the Beatles! at number 1 on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the US. The album was compiled mostly from leftover tracks from
203-679: The Toronto Sun wrote: "The hodge-podgery begins [here] ... Surprisingly enough, it holds together OK, thanks to a strong string of rockers like Money, Roll Over Beethoven and Long Tall Sally." All songs were written by Lennon–McCartney , except where noted. Composer, track length and lead vocal credits are taken from Beatles scholars Mark Lewisohn , John C. Winn and Ian MacDonald . According to Ian MacDonald , except where noted: The Beatles Production and additional personnel Shipments figures based on certification alone. Bibliography The U.S. Albums The U.S. Albums
232-701: The B-side to the single " From Me to You "; " She Loves You " and its B-side, " I'll Get You "; " You Can't Do That " (the B-side of " Can't Buy Me Love "), from the upcoming A Hard Day's Night UK soundtrack; and two new songs, " Long Tall Sally " and " I Call Your Name ". The latter tracks would be released in June 1964 in the UK on the Long Tall Sally EP. Capitol's engineers, headed by record executive Dave Dexter, Jr. , added considerable echo and reverb to
261-486: The American Magical Mystery Tour running order was chosen as the official version of the release. In nearly every case, the master delivered by EMI to Capitol was used as the source; in some cases, unique mixes were re-created. In cases where Capitol had previously used a folded-down stereo mix (such as for Meet The Beatles , The Early Beatles and Help! ) for the mono version, this set uses
290-467: The Beatles' music. Second Album was a collection of material from various UK releases and recording sessions dating back to March 1963. Included were the five remaining tracks, all cover versions , from With the Beatles : " Roll Over Beethoven ", " You Really Got a Hold on Me ", " Devil in Her Heart ", " Money (That's What I Want) " and " Please Mr. Postman ". Added to these were " Thank You Girl ",
319-560: The Netherlands, as well as the original 2004 CD issue of The Beatles Second Album as included in The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 box set. The Capitol album mix of "Thank You Girl" is also unique in that it contains three additional harmonica riffs by John Lennon – two during the bridge and one at the end. For its US album debut, Capitol took this stereo version and transferred it into a two-to-one stereo-to-mono mixdown for
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#1732802214643348-490: The Seventies (1981). In 2020, Christgau voted for the album in his ballot for Rolling Stone magazine's third edition of the " 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ". According to Bruce Eder of AllMusic , The Beatles' Second Album "stands as probably the best pure rock & roll album ever issued of the group's music" because it "avoid[s] any trace of the pop ballads favored by Paul McCartney that usually slowed down
377-457: The UK album With the Beatles and the forthcoming UK Long Tall Sally EP, which are predominantly rock and roll and R&B covers, and rounded out with several Lennon-McCartney -penned non-album b-sides and the hit single " She Loves You ". Among critics, it is considered the band's purest rock and roll album and praised for its soulful takes on both contemporary black music hits and original material. In 2004 The Beatles' Second Album
406-612: The UK for US release are sourced from the original tapes. Any unique versions prepared for US release were recreated for this set. The tapes used for the 2004 and 2006 Capitol boxed sets drawn from the Capitol tapes were not used in this set, with the exception of The Beatles' Story . The albums Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , Magical Mystery Tour , The Beatles (the "White Album"), Yellow Submarine , Abbey Road and Let It Be are not included in this set as those albums were identical to available UK editions (although
435-521: The US edition of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band does not have the inner groove sound featured on the UK edition). Plus, the White Album was released only in stereo in the US. Originally, the American version of Magical Mystery Tour was also unique, as a Capitol Records compilation of the band's British EP and 1967 singles. When the Beatles catalogue was first issued on compact disc in 1987,
464-601: The US versions of A Hard Day's Night and Revolver were released for the first time on CD in this box set. The Beatles' Story (in stereo only) is the only album from the box set that is not available separately. The masters for the US versions of the albums are partially based on the original 1960s masters delivered by EMI and the 2009 remasters released in The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings) and The Beatles in Mono . Unique stereo and mono mixes prepared in
493-459: The band's second EMI LP, With the Beatles . Despite its title, however, Second Album was in fact the third Beatles LP in the United States, since Vee-Jay Records had released Introducing... The Beatles in January 1964. Vee-Jay had been able to issue the latter LP – which comprised most of the Beatles' EMI debut, Please Please Me – due to Capitol's initial lack of interest in marketing
522-417: The box set (eight of which were previously released in The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 and Volume 2 —which, unlike the U.S. Albums set, were sourced from the Capitol master tapes). The set contains remastered mono and stereo versions of each album, except The Beatles' Story and Hey Jude , which are presented only in stereo. Additionally, the two aforementioned albums, Yesterday and Today , and
551-458: The catalogue number Capitol ST 2080. The tagline in the advertising for the release read: "It's Here! It's on Capitol!! and It's ALL Beatles!!!" In Canada, this record could not be called The Beatles' Second Album , since Beatlemania! With the Beatles and Twist and Shout had preceded it. A slightly different track listing was released for the Canadian market with similar cover art, under
580-407: The following week, replacing Meet the Beatles! , which had held the top spot for eleven weeks (for the last nine of which Vee-Jay's Introducing... had placed at number two). The Beatles' Second Album remained atop the chart for five consecutive weeks and stayed in the top 200 until May 1965. It reached 1,668,435 copies sold by 31 December 1964, and 2,051,486 copies by the end of the decade. It
609-463: The group's other early albums, and the result was the longest uninterrupted body of hard rock & roll and R&B in their entire output." In his 2014 review of the Beatles' Capitol albums, for Guitar World , Jeff Slate commented that "the oomph of the over-compressed Dexter tracks" had since been removed, but the album was arguably their "first great rock and roll record". Referring to the assortment of tracks assembled by Capitol, Darryl Sterdan of
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#1732802214643638-427: The mono LP release, thus creating an alternative mono mix of the song. The stereo version of "Money" also underwent the same two-to-one stereo-to-mono mixdown, creating another alternative mono mix. For the mono version of "I Call Your Name", the cowbell comes in at the very beginning of the song; the stereo version features the cowbell after the beginning of the vocal. George Harrison 's opening 12-string guitar phrase
667-551: The same title and similar cover art but containing different songs from the US release, was issued on the EMI subsidiary label Odeon in 1964 for the Japanese market. The same cover art was used for the album The Beatles' Long Tall Sally issued by Capitol Records of Canada. With the massive popularity of Meet the Beatles! through the early part of 1964 and a desire for additional Beatles product, Capitol Records decided to compile
696-574: The songs in order to give the album the atmosphere of a live performance. The inclusion of "Thank You Girl" marked the only stereo version of the song released on any album in the US or UK for over 40 years, until another stereo version was released on the 2009 remastered edition of the Past Masters compilation. The same stereo mix of "Thank You Girl" on The Beatles' Second Album was included on The Beatles Beat , released in West Germany and
725-602: The title The Beatles' Long Tall Sally . In 1968, The Beatles' Second Album , The Early Beatles and Meet the Beatles! were issued in Canada, although the earlier Canadian LPs remained in print (eventually with stereo mixes) until the late 1980s, when the CD era precipitated their deletion. In the US, the album debuted at number 16 on the Billboard Top LPs for the week ending April 25, 1964. It peaked at number one
754-497: The title Second Album . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Second_Album&oldid=894017657 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Beatles%27 Second Album The Beatles' Second Album
783-498: Was certified Gold by the RIAA on 13 April 1964, and 2× Platinum on 10 January 1997. Second Album was one of the first four rock albums purchased by future music critic Robert Christgau . Writing of the album in 1969, he said it disproves the fallacy among new rock scholars and listeners that the Beatles had not succeeded artistically until the more melodic period of Rubber Soul (1965) and Revolver (1966). Instead, he argued it
812-493: Was issued for the first time on compact disc as part of The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 boxed set . It was issued in a miniature cardboard replica of the original album sleeve containing the US mono and stereo mixes. In 2014, the album was released on CD again, individually and included in the Beatles boxed set The U.S. Albums , which contained the album's running order but with UK mixes as remastered in 2009. An album with
841-552: Was their ebullient performing style, as on the Second Album ' s covers of African-American rock and roll songs, which "were touched with soul (compare their Money to the Beach Boys ' Barbara Ann ) but avoided the sodden seriousness of other white imitators." He included the album in his basic rock "library" of 25 albums for Stereo Review that year, and later in a more comprehensive library of essential 1950s and 1960s recordings for Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of
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