Introducing The Beatles is the title of the first Beatles album released in the United States on this date in 1964. This album was released on the Vee-Jay records label just a few days before Capitol Records' first U.S. Beatles release entitled Meet The Beatles.
It's highly collectible not so much for it's content but for it's many tracking and packaging variations due to multiple pressings that resulted over legal disputes between Capitol/EMI and Vee-Jay.
This album has never been officially released on CD (and probably won't be) but here's a look at the track listing of songs that premiered the Fab Four to U.S. teenagers of the mid-60s:
It's highly collectible not so much for it's content but for it's many tracking and packaging variations due to multiple pressings that resulted over legal disputes between Capitol/EMI and Vee-Jay.
This album has never been officially released on CD (and probably won't be) but here's a look at the track listing of songs that premiered the Fab Four to U.S. teenagers of the mid-60s:
Side 1
1. I Saw Her Standing There (commences w/ 4!; omitting 1-2-3)
2. Misery
3. Anna (Go to Him)
4. Chains
5. Boys
6. Love Me Do <Ask Me Why on version two>
Side 2
1. P.S. I Love You <Please Please Me on version two>
2. Baby It's You
3. Do You Want to Know a Secret
4. A Taste of Honey
5. There's a Place
6. Twist and Shout
Soundtrack For Today: 1 by the Beatles
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