From left, Lefty Weekling (Glen Burtnik), Rocky Weekling (John Merjave), Zeek Weekling (Bob Burger) and Smokestack Weekling (Joe Bellia) of The Weeklings.
The Weeklings, who have sold out their 8 p.m. April 3 concert at The Vogel at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, have added a 4 p.m. show. And the 4 p.m. show will include The Beatles’ Meet The Beatles! album in entirety, as well as “Weeklings originals, 60’s nuggets and Beatles material spanning the band’s legendary career,” according to the venue’s website.
Tickets go on sale Feb. 19 at 10 a.m., with pre-sales beginning Feb. 17 at 10 a.m. Visit ticketmaster.com.
Meet The Beatles!, on Capitol Records, was one of two Beatles albums released almost simultaneously in the United States in early 1964. (The other, Introducing … The Beatles, came out on the Vee-Jay label.) And with Beatlemania sweeping the country, Meet The Beatles! spent 11 weeks in the No. 1 position of Billboard magazine’s albums chart.
It includes the following songs:
“I Want to Hold Your Hand”
“I Saw Her Standing There”
“This Boy”
“It Won’t Be Long”
“All I’ve Got to Do”
“All My Loving”
“Don’t Bother Me”
“Little Child”
“Till There Was You”
“Hold Me Tight””
“I Wanna Be Your Man”
“Not a Second Time”
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