Second Helping

Second Helping
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 15, 1974
RecordedJune 1973 (track 1)
January 1974
StudioStudio One, Doraville, Georgia (track 1)
Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre
Length37:15
Label
  • Sounds of the South
  • MCA
ProducerAl Kooper
Lynyrd Skynyrd chronology
(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)
(1973)
Second Helping
(1974)
Nuthin' Fancy
(1975)
Singles from Second Helping
  1. "Don't Ask Me No Questions"
    Released: April 1974
  2. "Sweet Home Alabama"
    Released: June 24, 1974

Second Helping is the second studio album by Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on April 15, 1974. It features the band's biggest hit single, "Sweet Home Alabama", an answer song to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man",[2] which reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974.

Second Helping reached #12 on the Billboard album charts. The RIAA certified it Gold on September 20, 1974, and Double Platinum on July 21, 1987.[3]

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