The Beatles Second Album

The Beatles' Second Album is the The Beatles' second Capitol Records release. It was their third in the United States counting Introducing... The Beatles, released on Vee-Jay Records.

Songs for this album were compiled from four different UK releases. Side one has five of the six remaining tracks from the group's second British LP With the Beatles. Those songs were left off of the previous Capitol album Meet the Beatles!. Also included were "Thank You Girl" (the B-side to the British single "From Me to You"), the single "She Loves You" / "I'll Get You", "You Can't Do That" from the A Hard Day's Night soundtrack in the UK, and two new songs, "Long Tall Sally" and "I Call Your Name," both released a month later in the UK on the Long Tall Sally EP.

The Beatles' Second Album went to number one on the album charts in the U.S., knocking off Meet the Beatles!, the first time an artist replaced itself at number one on the album charts.1

Unlike the contemporaneous British Beatles albums, The Beatles' Second Album is composed exclusively of uptempo numbers, and for this reason is a favorite of some Beatles aficionados and rock critics. "The Beatles' Second Album stands as probably best pure rock & roll album ever issued of the group's music".[2]

 Side 1

Roll Over Beethoven
Thank You Girl
You've Really Got a Hold on Me
Devil in Her Heart
Money (That's What I Want)
You Can't Do That

Side 2

Long Tall Sally
I Call Your Name
Please Mr. Postman
I'll Get You
She Loves You

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