Video: 'Meet the Beatles! (Full Album)' (12 clips)

(Saturday, February 15, 1964) — Meet the Beatles! by The Beatles peaked at #1 on Billboard‘s Top LP’s chart for 11 weeks (Feb. 15/22/29, Mar. 7/14/21/28, Apr. 4/11/18/25, 1964).

It was the group’s first of a record (that still stands 60 years later) 19 number one albums on the chart (1964-2000).

Video: 'Meet The Beatles - Capitol Records' Masterstroke Album'

The cover featured Robert Freeman’s iconic portrait of the Beatles used in the United Kingdom for With the Beatles, with a blue tint added to the original stark black-and-white photograph.

Despite the “first album” claim on the Meet the Beatles! cover, ten days prior to its release, Vee-Jay Records of Chicago beat Capitol to the punch with the release on Jan. 10, 1964 of The Beatles’ American debut album Introducing… The Beatles, which had been delayed for release for various reasons since the previous summer.