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Tracklist front / back album covers
Side one
"Love Me Do" – 2:23
"Twist and Shout" (Phil Medley and Bert Russell) – 2:33
"Anna (Go to Him)" (Arthur Alexander) – 3:00
"Chains" (Gerry Goffin and Carole King) – 2:27
"Boys" (Luther Dixon and Wes Farrell) – 2:25
"Ask Me Why" – 2:28
Side two
"Please Please Me" – 2:00
"P.S. I Love You" – 2:05
"Baby It's You" (Burt Bacharach, Mack David, and Luther Dixon, credited as Barney Williams) – 2:38
"A Taste of Honey" (Ric Marlow and Bobby Scott) – 2:04
"Do You Want to Know a Secret" – 1:59
The Early Beatles is the Beatles' 6th album released on Capitol Records, and their eighth album overall for the American market. All of the tracks on this album had previously been issued on the early 1964 Vee-Jay Records release Introducing... The Beatles. 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).
