High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! With the Beatles is the second studio album by the English rock group the Beatles. It was released on 22 November 1963, on Parlophone, and was recorded four months after the band`s debut Please Please Me. The album features eight original compositions (seven by Lennon–McCartney and "Don`t Bother Me", George Harrison`s first recorded solo composition and his first released on a Beatles album) and six covers (mostly of Motown and R&B hits). Most of the songs from the album were released in the United States by Capitol Records as the Meet the Beatles! LP on 20 January 1964, and the remaining that were not, featured on their next US album, The Beatles` Second Album.