The Beatles' Second Album [US]

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The Beatles' Second Album [US]
Artist: The Beatles
Released: 1964, 10 April
Labels: Capitol
Average rating: Based on DM and site visitor ratings
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Tracks

Average song rating Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry) - 2:47 Lyrics
Average song rating Thank You Girl (Lennon) - 2:05 Lyrics
Average song rating You Really Got a Hold on Me (Wiliam Robinson) - 3:03 Lyrics
Average song rating Devil in Her Heart (Richard B.Drapkin) - 2:27 Lyrics
Average song rating Money (That's What I Want) (Jenny Bradford, Berry Cordy jr.) - 2:47 Lyrics
Average song rating You Can't Do That (Lennon) - 2:37 Lyrics
Average song rating Long Tall Sally (Enotris Johnson, Richard Penniman, Robert Blackwell) - 2:04 Lyrics
Average song rating I Call Your Name (Lennon) - 2:09 Lyrics
Average song rating Please Mister Postman (Brian Holland, Robert Bateman, Berry Gordy jr.) - 2:37 Lyrics
Average song rating 10  I'll Get You (Lennon, McCartney) - 2:06 Lyrics
Average song rating 11  She Loves You (Lennon, McCartney) - 2:21 Lyrics
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Credits

Engineer: Norman Smith
Cover Photos by: Joe Covello, Black Star

George Harrison: Vocals, Guitar
John Lennon: Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica, Rhythm Guitar, Hammond organ
Paul McCartney: Vocals, Bass Guitar
Ringo Starr: Drums, Vocals, Maracas, Tambourine, Bongos, Cowbells

George Martin: Piano (You Really Got a Hold on Me, Money)

Reviews

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10/10 Bruce Beatlefan (October 29, 2005)
I know now what I didn't know then. This album which was so jampacked with wonderful songs is actually a mishmash of leftover "With the Beatles" material, two B-sides, half an EP, and "She Loves You". I was too young to realize I was being ripped off! Out this American repackaging job came one incredibly serendipitous moment: the pairing of "You Can't Do That" and "Money" at the end of side one. For all my life those two songs were linked together in my mind (rather like Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid") and it's hard for me to get around the fact that it was just an accident. Those songs have incredible power together.

The British invasion brought to us the rock n roll trick of kicking up the key of a song in the latter verses to bring a song to its climax (the Kinks: You Really Got Me, the Who: I Can See For Miles). The Beatles never did this in any of their songs. Not once. Isn't that strange? The reason I bring that up here is because they do something similar in the second guitar break of "Long Tall Sally" but so much more dramatically --that up-the-scale progression is simply one of the most incredible "moments" in the history of rock n roll. Also, comparing this song to the live versions in "Anthology" and "Live at BBC", we understand just how much George Martin's piano added to the fullness of this song (as well as "Slow Down", "Rock and Roll Music", and "Bad Boy", etc.).

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