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02 - The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia)



Most can call it from memory: the image of the Beatles disembarking from their plane on a cold February day in New York. Less visible in the old black-and-white film footage, but perhaps more important, is a young girl clutching a copy of the Beatles' just-released second album, Meet the Beatles!, as if the world depended on it. And, to her and millions of other young people, it did. Meet the Beatles! wasn't simply an album; it gave the intangible yearnings of youth a voice and a face (actually, four voices and four faces), and it created a parallel world where escape was only a turntable away. Today, Meet the Beatles! is a collectible in danger of becoming forgotten, if not for the diligence of Beatles fans around the world. Compact discs have replaced vinyl, and the decision to release the original U.K. versions of the Beatles' albums in favor of their U.S. counterparts has rendered albums like Meet the Beatles! and The Beatles' Second Album obsolete. But nothing could make the music on these LPs obsolete. The infectious charm of songs like "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "I Saw Her Standing There," "It Won't Be Long," and "All My Loving" still weave their magic which, if less potent in an age jaded by a generation of musicians who had the benefit of the Beatles' songbook tucked underneath their arms, still carries an aura around it -- just as the first moon landing will never be eclipsed by subsequent forays into space. Meet the Beatles! soon topped the charts, aided by electric appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show that carried the flames of Beatlemania across the ocean, and (together with the single "She Loves You") kicked off a string of number one singles and albums. Most of the songs were holdovers from the U.K. album With the Beatles, released two months earlier. Capitol, who wisely decided that there might be money in releasing the band's work in the U.S., chose original tracks from their second U.K. album and added the contents of a recent U.S. single plus a B-side, John Lennon's ballad "This Boy," to the mix. This created the illusion that the Beatles wrote all their own material (since only Meredith Willson's "Till There Was You" was a non-original), an illusion dispelled by the necessarily cover-heavy The Beatles' Second Album. So, in many ways, Meet the Beatles! distilled what was best about the band: original material from Lennon, Paul McCartney, and even George Harrison (his first, "Don't Bother Me"). Everyone gets a chance to sing, including Ringo Starr ("I Wanna Be Your Man," which Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham had coaxed from the band earlier), and the mix of rockers and ballads proves to be a beautiful blend. Let compact disc companies try their hand at historical revision: they can't steal the memories of Americans who still remember how they first met the Beatles, any more than they could pry that album from that young girl's hands.


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The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 01 - I Saw Her Standing Ther
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 02 - Misery
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 03 - Anna
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 04 - Chains
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 05 - Boys
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 06 - Ask Me Why
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 07 - Please, Please Me
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 08 - Baby Its You
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 09 - Do You Want To Know A S
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 10 - A Taste Of Honey
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 11 - Theres A Place
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 12 - Twist And Shout
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 13 - I Want To Hold Your Hand
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 14 - I Saw Her Standing Ther
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 15 - This Boy
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 16 - It Wont Be Long
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 17 - All Ive Got To Do
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 18 - All My Loving
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 19 - Dont Bother Me
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 20 - Little Child
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 21 - Till There Was You
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 22 - Hold Me Tight
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 23 - I Wanna Be Your Man
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 24 - Not A Second Time
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 25 - Lucille
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 26 - Sure To Fall
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 27 - Thats Allrigh Mama
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 28 - The Honeymoon Song
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 29 - Im Gonna Sit Right Down
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 30 - Lonesome Tears In My Eyes
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 31 - Sow How Come?
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 32 - I Got A Woman
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 33 - Dont Ever Change
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 34 - Cats Walk
The Beatles - Introducing. The Beatles - Meet The Beatles (Russia) - 35 - I Forgot To Remember To


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