THE BEATLES SECOND ALBUM

With the massive popularity of Meet the Beatles! IN the early part of 1964 and THE PUBLICS APPETITE
for additional
Beatles product, Capitol Records deciderD TO ealease a compilation album drawing from

some A ROSTER OF 25 songs, issued by EMI in Britain with tracks from 1962 and onwards that had yet to be issued by Capitol in america.
The Beatles' Second Album was the first album of the group's work to be assembled by capitol records produced exclusively for THE USA RECORD
BUYING PUBLIC AND WAS Released on10 April 1964

THE TITLE WAS NOT EXACTLY CORRECT BECAUSE TECHNICALLY IT WAS their third
album TO BE ISSUED IN THE u s a ...........Introducing... The Beatles, had been issued three months earlier on Vee-Jay Records labEL

The Beatles' Second Album took over Meet the Beatles! for the number 1 spot on the Billboard Top LPs chart in america
Capitol's engineers, on the direction ofrecord executive Dave Dexter, Jr., added considerable echo and reverb to
the songs on this album to give the material the sound of a live perfromance The inclusion of "Thank You Girl would the only stereo version of
the song released on any album in the US or UK for over 40 years until recent remastering and reissues of
the beatles catalogue
for the candian market the album the album was renamed
since Beatlemania! With the Beatles and Twist and Shout had preceded it, and therefore this would not be the second album at all.
A s different track listing was released for the Canadian market with
basically the same cover with the new title of long tall sally under the title The Beatles' Long Tall Sally.