Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping (1974) Part 1 (Full Album)

Track List: 1-4

1. Sweet Home Alabama (0:00)
2. I Need You (4:47)
3. Don't Ask Me No Questions (11:40)
4. Workin' For MCA (15:04)

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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", 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.

Personnel:
Ronnie Van Zant – lead vocals
Gary Rossington – guitar
Allen Collins – guitar
Ed King – guitar, backing vocals, bass on "I Need You" and "Don't Ask Me No Questions"
Leon Wilkeson – bass (all tracks except "I Need You" and "Don't Ask Me No Questions"), backing vocals
Bob Burns – drums, except "I Need You"
Billy Powell – keyboards

Additional personnel:
Mike Porter – drums on "I Need You"
Merry Clayton, Clydie King, Sherlie Matthews – background vocals on "Sweet Home Alabama"
Bobby Keys, Trevor Lawrence and Steve Madaio – horns on "Don't Ask Me No Questions" and "Call Me the Breeze"
Al Kooper – backing vocals, piano on "Don't Ask Me No Questions" and "The Ballad of Curtis Loew"