| The Early Beatles | ||||
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| Released | 22 March 1965 | |||
| Recorded | 4 September 1962 – 20 February 1963 | |||
| Studio | EMI, London | |||
| Genre | Rock and roll | |||
| Length | 26:26 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Producer | George Martin | |||
| Compiler | Dave Dexter Jr. | |||
| The Beatles North American chronology | ||||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
| The Rolling Stone Record Guide | [3] |
The Early Beatles is the Beatles' sixth album released on Capitol Records, and their eighth album overall for the American market. All of the tracks on this album had previously been available on the Vee-Jay Records release Introducing... The Beatles, issued in January, 1964. The front cover photo for this album features the same back cover photo for the British LP Beatles for Sale.
The album is included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).[4]
- ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r1511
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- ^ Marsh, Dave; Swenson, John (Editors). The Rolling Stone Record Guide, 1st edition, Random House/Rolling Stone Press, 1979, p. 26.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "A Basic Record Library: The Fifties and Sixties". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 0899190251. Retrieved 16 March 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.