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Meet the Beatles! (Album cover image c/o Wikipedia)

Today, January 20, 2014, marks the 50th Anniversary of Capital Records’ U.S. release of Meet the Beatles: The First Album by England’s Phenomenal Pop Combo!  This album, though, was not actually the Beatles’ first U.S. release.  Introducing…The Beatles was actually released 10 days prior on the Vee-Jay label.

Capital Records essentially repackaged the Beatles’ With the Beatles U.K. release with the addition of the popular single “I Want to Hold Your Hand” as well as the two B-sides “I Saw Her Standing There,” and “This Boy.”  The result was chart topping sales.

Meet the Beatles!, though not the band’s true U.S. debut, would go on to outdo its actual initial offering from the Vee-Jay label along with the Beatles’ third release, The Beatles’ Second Album.

No better time than now to pick up Meet the Beatles! to add to, complete, or even start that Beatles collection your inner musicophile has been craving!

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(Special thanks to SNM Press for the update that brought you this post!)

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