Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping (1974)

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping - Released Year 1974


Tracklist front / back album covers

Side one

1. "Sweet Home Alabama"    4:43
2. "I Need You"   6:55
3. "Don't Ask Me No Questions"    3:29
4. "Workin' for MCA"    4:49

Side two

1. "The Ballad of Curtis Loew"  4:51
2. "Swamp Music" 3:31
3. "The Needle and the Spoon"  3:53

4. "Call Me the Breeze"   5:09

Second Helping is the second studio album by Lynyrd Skynyrd, released April 15, 1974. It featured the band's biggest hit single, "Sweet Home Alabama," an answer song to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man". The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974. This L.P. was the last to feature Bob Burns on drums.

The album reached #12 on the Billboard album charts. The RIAA certified it Gold on September 20, 1974, and Platinum and 2x Platinum on July 21, 1987.