Meet the Beatles! was the Beatles first album on Capitol Records, the sister company within EMI to their British label, Parlophone. Just ten days prior to this first "official" release by the Beatles in America, Vee-Jay Records, based in Chicago, released their own Beatles' album: Introducing... The Beatles, which had been delayed for release from the previous summer and resembled Please Please Me.¹

Essentially, this album was more or less the counterpart to With the Beatles, but deleted "You Really Got A Hold On Me", "Devil In Her Heart", "Money", "Please Mister Postman" and "Roll Over Beethoven", which would all see release on the next Capitol album The Beatles' Second Album.² The latter two tracks would also see release on the EP Four By The Beatles.³ Also featured on this album was the single "I Want To Hold Your Hand" / "I Saw Her Standing There", and the b-side "This Boy" from the original Parlophone version of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" in November 1963.

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

Track listing

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

Side one

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"

Side two

1. "Don't Bother Me" (Harrison)
2. "Little Child"
3. "Till There Was You" (Willson)
4. "Hold Me Tight"
5. "I Wanna Be Your Man"
6. "Not a Second Time"

External links

• The Beatles Discography 1962-1970: Meet the Beatles page (http://www.thebeatlesongs.com/meet_the_beatles.htm)
• Bruce Spizer's The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records, Part One: Beatlemania and the Singles website (http://www.beatle.net/beatlesoncapitol1.htm)
• Bruce Spizer's The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records, Part Two: The Albums website (http://www.beatle.net/beatlesoncapitol2.htm)
• WhatGoesOn.com - Beatles Capitol Albums Vol. 1 now two weeks away article (http://www.whatgoeson.com/story.20041101.html)

See also

• With the Beatles
• Introducing... The Beatles
• Four By The Beatles EP
• The Beatles' Second Album

Notes

Note 1: Spizer, Bruce (2000). The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records, Part Two: The Albums, p. 4. New Orleans, Lousiana: 498 Productions. Page 4. ISBN 0-9662649-2-4
Note 2: Spizer, Bruce (2000). The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records, Part Two: The Albums, p. 5. New Orleans, Lousiana: 498 Productions. Page 5. ISBN 0-9662649-2-4
Note 3: Spizer, Bruce (2000). The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records, Part One: Beatlemania and the Singles, p.41-2. New Orleans, Lousiana: 498 Productions. ISBN 0-9662649-1-6