Video: 'The Beatles’ Second Album' (Clips 2-12 constitute original album)

(Friday, April 10, 1964) — The Beatles’ Second Album, the second Capitol Records album by the English rock band The Beatles, and their third album released in the United States including Introducing… The Beatles, was released today in the U.S.

Following its release, The Beatles’ Second Album replaced Meet the Beatles! at number 1 on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the U.S.

The album was compiled mostly from leftover tracks from the UK album With the Beatles and Long Tall Sally EP, which are predominantly rock and roll and R&B covers, and rounded out with several Lennon-McCartney-penned non-album b-sides and the hit single “She Loves You.”

It included the very first releases of two Beatles tracks: “Long Tall Sally” and “I Call Your Name.”

Among critics, it is considered the band’s purest rock and roll album and praised for its soulful takes on both contemporary black music hits and original material.