With The Beatles
(Parlophone Records 1963 PMC1206 MONO)
Matrix No’s: XEX447-7N GO 2 / XEX448-5N RD 3
Yellow/Black Parlophone label
Triple Flipback Sleeve – MONO
With “The Parlophone Co. Ltd” & “Recording First Published” label text
& “Dominion Belinda” publishing credit for Money
Large MONO on front cover
“You Really Gotta Hold On Me” on sleeve
“You Really Got A Hold On Me” on label
KT tax code on side 1 label
EJ Day Triple Flipback Sleeve in Very Good+ condition
– front has a small tear in bottom right corner – back cover has discolouring
Original Emitex Inner Sleeve with no splits
Vinyl in Excellent condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl which do give some light pops/crackles but sound quality is excellent overall – Side 2 has a few clicks)
The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
With the Beatles is the second studio album by the English rock group the Beatles. It was released on 22 November 1963, on Parlophone, and was recorded four months after the band’s debut Please Please Me.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Lennon–McCartney, except where noted.
| Side one | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Lead vocals | Length | |||||||
| 1. | “It Won’t Be Long” | Lennon | 2:13 | |||||||
| 2. | “All I’ve Got to Do” | Lennon | 2:03 | |||||||
| 3. | “All My Loving” | McCartney | 2:08 | |||||||
| 4. | “Don’t Bother Me” (Harrison) | George Harrison | 2:28 | |||||||
| 5. | “Little Child” | Lennon with McCartney | 1:46 | |||||||
| 6. | “Till There Was You” (Meredith Willson) | McCartney | 2:14 | |||||||
| 7. | “Please Mister Postman” (Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Freddie Gorman, Brian Holland, Robert Bateman) | Lennon | 2:34 | |||||||
| Side two | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Lead vocals | Length | |||||||
| 1. | “Roll Over Beethoven” (Chuck Berry) | Harrison | 2:45 | |||||||
| 2. | “Hold Me Tight” | McCartney | 2:32 | |||||||
| 3. | “You Really Got a Hold on Me” (Smokey Robinson) | Lennon with Harrison | 3:01 | |||||||
| 4. | “I Wanna Be Your Man” | Ringo Starr | 2:00 | |||||||
| 5. | “Devil in Her Heart” (Richard Drapkin) | Harrison | 2:26 | |||||||
| 6. | “Not a Second Time” | Lennon | 2:07 | |||||||
| 7. | “Money (That’s What I Want)” (Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy) | Lennon | 2:50 | |||||||
Personnel
- The Beatles
- George Harrison – lead, harmony and backing vocals; lead and acoustic guitars; handclaps; nylon-string acoustic guitar on “Till There Was You”
- John Lennon – lead, harmony and backing vocals; rhythm and acoustic guitars; harmonica and handclaps; nylon-string acoustic guitar on “Till There Was You”; Hammond organ on “I Wanna Be Your Man” and tambourine on “Don’t Bother Me”
- Paul McCartney – lead, harmony and backing vocals; bass guitar and handclaps; piano on “Little Child” and claves on “Don’t Bother Me”
- Ringo Starr – drums, tambourine, maracas, handclaps; lead vocals on “I Wanna Be Your Man” and Arabian loose-skin bongo on “Till There Was You” and “Don’t Bother Me”
- Production
- Robert Freeman – cover photograph
- George Martin – arrangement, production and mixing; piano on “You Really Got a Hold on Me”, “Not a Second Time” and “Money (That’s What I Want)”
- Norman Smith – engineering and mixing
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