The Beatles LET IT BE - 1st Vinyl Pressings From Around the World
Вставка
- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- In this video, we look at how the 'Let it Be' album looked like on its first release 51 years ago in May 1970. We show you 1st pressings from over 20 countries from Argentina to Venezuela.
Why not join the channel and become a member? You will get early, ad-free access to all our videos and enjoy exclusive content:
www.youtube.co....
Buy rare & audiophile Beatles vinyl for sale on our website: www.parlograma...
Contact/connect with us via:
Our website: www.parlograma....
Facebook: / parlogram
Instagram: / parlogram67
Gear used to film this video:
Camera: Panasonic Lumix GH80/85: amzn.to/2A3Moj...
Lens: Panasoninc Lumix 25mm: amzn.to/307I4d...
Microphone: Rode Video Mic Pro +: amzn.to/2JNrqt...
Godox SL60W light: amzn.to/30kJWh...
I bought mine (a cutout, not a first pressing) from Woolworth's for $1 when I was a kid. They had it in the window with the $1 price tag to lure in shoppers, but didn't actually have any in stock. I demanded they sell me the display copy, and they did!
Why would a popular Beatles album ever end up as a cutout? Sounds like some kind of shenanigans.
@@robgronotte1 Believe it or not, Let It Be had cutout copies sold in the States in the 70s before going out of print for almost a decade.
That's crazy, was it really considered to be that bad or what? I heard the singles from it all the time on the radio when I was growing up in the late 70s and early 80s. Definitely had no trouble finding a new copy when I bought mine in the mid 80s.
Thank you for the sharing
@@robgronotte1 Not sure why, but that's exactly how I got mine too -- from Woolworth's for $3.99 in 1976.
It's always a joy to watch your videos. I'm glad that a Peruvian LP has been shown. Regards from Lima - Perú.
La caja salio en Perú con el disco peruano y el libro ingles
After six years of listening to my big sister's Beatles records (she had attended both Shea Stadium concerts), when she left home for college the "Let it Be" album was the first record I ever bought. At a grocery store, of all places. I thought the "Phil + Ronnie" inner-groove inscription was neat, but at that age I had no idea who Ronnie was.
Thanks Andrew. Someone mentioned once on a music forum that the UK box set was an overstock item at Tower Records in Hollywood in 1972 and they were offering sealed copies at two dollars and 50 cents each! I almost hope that wasn't true 'cause I sure missed the boat on that one.
That's incredible, John. Thanks for the joining the channel. Much appreciated!
It was true in Sacramento. I bought one for $2.99. It was a Canada issue though
hello from New Zealand,
in 1973 leftover boxes of the book were shipped to NZ at no cost apart from freight costs to an auckland record shop. they were sold on to the public for 20 cents each. i know because i went to see a chuck berry show and during the trip i bought several copies for myself and schoolmates.
yes its true they did fall apart very quickly and ..yes its true, he played only 45 minutes .
i loved him and was not disappointed
Hi, Andrew! Greetings from Guatemala. It was a nice surprise to see one of our records in your video. I love The Beatles and I love your videos because, with them, I'm learning so much about Los Beatles and their music. DIDECA was the manufacturer here in Guatemala. And I have a couple of records if you need pictures or information. The Blue Album, Love Songs, Beatles for Sale, 20 Greatest Hits and At The Hollywood Bowl. Thanks for sharing all of your knowledge with us, Beatlemaniacs.
Glad you enjoyed it, Jorge and thanks for the offer!
Phew ! …..glad you mentioned that the green apple sleeve is as valid and authentic as the red apple version on the U.K. version boxset
So many people believe that is only the red apple that’s “original” to the boxset.
Your last video that mentioned the boxset overlooked mentioning the green apple variant and nearly caused an international incident between myself and a septic.
In the end we had to call in Henry Kissinger to mediate.
I had no idea there was a green Apple label UK box set. In the US we had the red Apple.
@@michaelnyny …..what we are talking about here isn’t the colour of the label but the colour of the apple on the back of our U.K. (non-gatefold) sleeve.
Many people seem to believe that it was only ever released with a red apple on the back sleeve and that if it’s a green apple then it must have been switched at some point.
This is nonsense of course , they had both , either red or green are equally valid.
Nice video, the picture of the French copy/pressing that apprears at 3:20 is an early 70's reissue because of the SACEM logo (a BIEM mark on the label would mean that the record was pressed before 1971 whereas the 'new' SACEM logo would state that the LP was pressed in the year 1971 or after this date).
Thanks a lot My friend for sharing your Nice Let it be albums collection ,really amazing .....Greetings from México !!!!!
Thanks for watching, Alejandro!
Hi Andrew, Very interesting as always , I have an original Australian Let It Be Box Set I bought on its release in 1970 . It has the pasted credits in that very fragile book which I rarely look at these days for fear of it falling to pieces. Looking forward to the next episode.
Being a US citizen, I hadn't been aware of the box set, just the gate fold. I bought the album in 1970, as a child, and I loved all the pictures on the inside. Thank you for sharing this very interesting and informative video!
Thanks for watching!
Very cool to see Peru (my home country) in here, I wasn't expecting that one!
Hi my friend love the video on the Beatles need more please I have the LP let it be and the very rare box set and let it be Naked it which is going up in value main is still sealed keep up the good work you do Andrew.
Thanks Andrew, interesting to watch. Pressed in places I never imagined.
Andrew I just want to say I love your videos! I’m lucky to have my mothers US first pressing of Let it Be.
Thank you for watching!
Former Yugoslavia issued box-set too very rare,but as i found out they imported last three albums from Beatles from U.K.On sleeve is red apple,but label is " Parlophone," written in yellow letters. I bought cassette later. About a year ago got interesting combination Indian sleeve,U.S.record on red apple,180gr. Next week we have record fair,so i' ll be looking for " new," Beatles pressings. Got after 58. years my first copy of "A hard days night," on record,had it on cassette,and CD. Cheers Young Master Andrew!
Another wonderful video! I actually really liked this format (where you go over each country like a list), and it was really cool that you went over more obscure countries! Here, in Norway, we actually made the disc here at home. Covers were imported from the uk, as usual. But, I think we also had the box set in stores here at home! It sold poorly (I believe), so a lot of them were shipped to other countries (I believe a lot was shipped to Hungary, though I could be completely wrong on that one…).
Looking forward to the other let it be videos, and the video on Beatles oldies but goldies!
Thanks for the information, Olav. I'm sorry I didn't have a Norwegian copy to show.
No problem mate! :). One day, you may own it! It’s one of the cheapest Norwegian LPs, so it’s pretty easy to get :)
great sound appel record, greetings from Uruguay 👍🇺🇾
Very informative as always!
This is amazing! I knew of a few but certainly not all you mentioned! How fun! Great job again!!!
Those thin boxes drove me crazy! And the pages from the book...!?! Luckily I had 2.
Glad you mentioned that in the end. I was going to say that Greece released a box set as well, according to Discogs. But never came across one to this day.
I didn't know about the coloured vinyls of Let It Be. Great video once again 😃
(have been on the run for a couple of days, sorry I'm late)
Awesome video! I got my Japan Red Vinyl pressing, I love the Argentina and Brazil apple labels tho you can find some Argentina Apple releases on a plain white apple too
It's worth pointing out that in the US, "Let It Be" was out of print for most of the 1970's, owing to conflicts between ABKCO and Apple.
In November 1976, almost 500,000 overstocked copies were purchased by a cutout record distributor in New Jersey, and after obtaining permission from all four Beatles to sell the albums, these "new old stock" copies were then distributed across the country.
It was finally properly reissued by Capitol in 1979, with a custom innersleeve reproducing the photos from the original gatefold.
Thanks for that information, Robert. Most interesting.
I thought the issue of it being out of print in the US was for the same reason "A Hard Days Night" and "Help!" were for a portion of the 70s - they were all released by United Artisits Records as a deal with the movie distribution, and there was a fight between them and EMI/Capitol until EMI bought UA Records.
Thks for sharing such treasures, i wish we could hear every copy of them one day, plus reel tapes ones and cassetes...
Another great video! Just a tidbit about Philippine Beatles vinyl that I want to share: apparently, some of the early solo albums & singles were for some reason also credited to the Beatles, sometimes with the actual Beatle presented as a featuring artist (as in "Imagine - The Beatles featuring John Lennon"), which I always found amusing lol
Thanks for the info, Gabriel.
You should do a video on how the US version of Let It Be went out of print in the early 1970s & how bootleggers had so many copies in the cut out bins back then
Hi andrew
Excellent as always. Just to remark that in spain we did have a 1970 box set with the english book and the same vinyl with the odeon dark blue label you showed. Cheers from barcelona!!!
Thanks for the info!
That was great Andrew. I have many different Let it Be albums and a Aussie box set so this video was of great interest. You really went over and above with the research and it is greatly appreciated. Cheers .
Thanks Paul. Glad you enjoyed it.
Always, always something new to see in your videos, Andrew, just as I start to believe I've seen nearly everything fab related!
The Greek edition was also released on Parlophone (just like all Apple albums of the group up to that point). The catalogue number on the sleeve read PMCG 19 while on the Record itself PMCGS 19 (Stereo?). The 1975 reissue replaced the one-boxed EMI Parlophone label with the half label brown and orange EMI one!! Aaah, and of course there was no Apple on the back cover!!
Thank you
Fun video as always.
Glad you enjoyed it, Chris.
Great video!!!! 😍
Thank you, Jordi !!
In Argentina the 1st pressing of this LP came with the book and the box imported from the UK.
That must have been a LOT of research for this episode. Very glad you always produce such quality vids. All the best :)
Steve
Thanks very much Steve. Much appreciated.
As usual, the details are interesting and varied.
Thanks.
Nice got a let it be ad
Excellent Andrew, love this videos, Beatles around the world! Thanks!!
My pleasure, Martin!
Hi Andrew, great video. In my country, Colombia, we also had stereo and mono editions. Not an easy find this mono. I got the stereo one.
Thanks for the info, Juan.
Wooow... great to see all these different pressings!!! Thanks for sharing another awesome video, my friend!!! ✌️🎶
Glad you enjoyed it, my friend!
Thoroughly enjoyable world tour of the various pressings and covers for "Let it be"
Another awesome job!! Lived it. .Go Andrew!! Thank you sir
Got the Norwegian edition, in a boxed set (U.K. made) as sold on release. The Norwegian pressings of the "Let It Be" album was sold in U.K. printed covers with Norwegian inner sleeves. The Get Back book later became available also from news agents, I've been told.
Thanks for the info, Roger!
I’ve got the U.K. box set, a stand alone U.K. 2U/2U plus a Danish copy with white flip backs. U.K. 2017 press. As well as LIB (naked) I can’t wait for the LP box set.
Andrew Thank you so much for your invaluable insights and historical knowledge. 👏
Great video! Thanks again for mentioning Brazil. Our plastic wrapping covers are also known as sandwich covers. These were discontinued in the mid 70's.
I have an original Canadian pressing of Let It Be album with the record in near new condition. sounds great.
Cheers from the Philippines, Parlogram Auctions! AFAIK, PARI was formed 1972, so any vinyl made in the Philippines prior to that won't have the PARI seal. The Let It Be copy shown in the video is a repress from the late 70's/early 80's. Great video though!
Thanks for the info, Carlo.
Lovely xx
the Australian pressing with the stereo marked at above ahh the memories
Andrew, Peru has the boxset. The box ad record made in Peru, with the book an import
The gatefold that came out in the United States also came out in Mexico but with the center of the normal apple disk and the red apple on the back cover, just like the boxset with that gatefold
The Mexican version appears to feature the songs 'I Dig A Bony' and 'I've Got A Feelig'.
Good spot!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks Andrew, Looking forward to your next video. Regarding the box set. It is often said that the Get Back book was not sold separately. However in Australia I picked up a copy for $1 from our local Myer department store where remaindered copies were sold in I think December 1970. I bought the Australian LP for $5.75 after convincing my brother and sister to contribute $1 each and I think the box set was about $10 - $12. I looked at the box set and the old gentleman who ran the Rosebud (Victoria)record shop held on to it very tightly as he showed me but as I have stated I didn't have the cash as a 13 yr old to buy it. I also have a bootleg US copy of the gatefold Let It Be - It has wider white margins around the photos than the genuine copy.
Very interesting, Peter. Thanks for the info.
fab quality, as ever! thanks
Thanks for watching, Andy.
"Let it be" came out the year I was born! But oddly enough, I don't have a copy!
Andrew, thank you for another informative video. Interesting Mexico and the US are the only albums (that I noticed) listing “I Dig a Pony” as the title of the song instead of “Dig a Pony”.
Back in the early 80s (before CD) I recorded all of the Beatles songs in alphabetical order on cassette tapes from my US albums. It took quite some time.😃 I later burned all their songs from CD in alphabetical order (a lot easier this time). This time, however, I listed “Dig a Pony” in the “D” section instead of the “I” section.👍
Indeed I've always known the song as "I Dig A Pony", because that's how it's called on the US tape release.
Thanks for the video Andrew! I just purchased a first pressing US Let It Be with the gatefold and red apple label. The credit on Maggie Mae is listed as PD for Public Domain. My original copy from the 1980s was a non gatefold cover but it had a picture sleeve from the original gatefold photos. I did manage to get the book from the box set but unfortunately it’s poorly laminated and the pages are close to coming apart. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to your next video!
Many thanks, Bill.
Fantastic as always. Your visit videos and knowledge are exceptional 🙏 thank you
Glad you enjoyed it, Mark.
@@Parlogram I don't know where the word "visit" came from 😱 anyway, thank you 🙏
The US version of LIB was NOT distributed by Capitol, it was distributed by United Artists Records. That is why is has the distinct catalog number of AR 34001. Capitol did not acquire the rights to this album until 1978 when it was reissued on the purple Capitol label. Also as part of the United Artists Records acquisition by Capitol was A Hard Day's Night.
Noted.
Wow...That is very interesting- I always wondered why the LP did not have a Capitol catalog number. But then, the Let It Be/ Get Back album had the longest and most complicated history of any album, ever. At one point, the whole project was cancelled, and Abbey Road recorded, so the band could end on a "good note" (pun Intended) So many different editions, both bootleg and legit. Countless editions!
I just picked up the Parlophone Israeli pressing for $15usd today! It actually sounds really good and blows any US copy I have out of the water.
Great score!
As always, fascinating. Some surprises, too. Venezuela?? Thanks, Andrew!
Sorry Andrew, the gatefold was never issued in Canada. After the discontinued box set, it came in a single sleeve.
Noted.
I've got a Greek copy of Let it be: it has a red Apple label and the info in the back is both in English and Greek (song titles included).
pleaaaaase do a feature on korean beatles releases someday! they've always seemed so fascinating
Pretty cool video! Glad to see Peru in the mix, I never see much of Peruvian Beatles content. I own a BC-13, but I do really enjoy the gatefold of the US cover. Lets you see some photos without ripping those pages off the book!
This seems to be the most common album that people own who have 1 Beatles album that's not the greatest hits, generally described as the one with all their pictures on the front of it.
Good stuff
The background music 🤣...
Anyway, I own the Canada box set. Never saw one my whole life til a few years ago when I walked into a record shop in St Catherines and immediately saw it...mine!
I don't dare open the book as I know it will come apart. There are no creases in the cover. It has never been opened.
As for the new this and that reissue, I'm just getting the 2 cd version.
I can't afford all these LP reissues of everything.
Another enjoyable video. Well done.
👍👍👍
I find it interesting that he glossed over the fact that the US 1st pressing is the only one to have a Red Apple on the disc and not just the back cover
I have the firts edition, the boxset, I bough in Barcelona fewwwww years ago, the US EDITION, and the 2 boxset cds and vinyls
The "Let It Be" from Argentina you show it is from 1971 is the secound reissue, the first edition from 1970 the Apple was dark green almost brown . 🍏👍
That reissue on Portrait is a mindblower...I wonder if you can bring together enough examples of non-Capitol/Parlophone/Odeon releases for a video? In 1 or 2 countries Beatles 45s were issued on....His Master's Voice!!! Who knows what else is out there; we're all so used to the labels/companies from our own countries, to me getting into collecting as a kid/tween it was "what the heck is Parlophone??" then of course we learned more...Absolutely nuts, might be an interesting dive into the pre-globalization regionality of the record biz, viz Beatles....Great job as always on this!
Thank you, Chris.
And in Argentina exist a Mono mix from :
"Abbey Road" , "Hey Jude", "Let It Be" , "McCartney", "Sentimental Journey", "Beacopus of Blues" and "All Things Must Pass" 🍏👍
Greetings from Malaysia
Hi Andrew. Thanks so much for featuring the Philippine pressing. Though I have to point out something. But first, no doubt Let It Be was also released here in 1970. But all records in our country in any size (7", 12") were only stamped with the PARI logo by at the earliest 1977, during the time Saturday Night Fever was a sensation. I am not very sure though if Dyna pressed Beatles records that year (on the side, DYNA at the time is our local distributor for EMI, PolyGram and they also have WEA Philippines which is distributing Warner/Elektra/Atlantic and all its subsidiaries). But I am pretty sure when the first boxed set - the Blue one - was released here in our country in 1979, I would like to believe they also pressed copies separately. So I am pretty confident the copy you have is at the very earliest 1979.
Thanks for the info, Bryan.
The Russian pressing was made from a CD, so there you can find "Maggie Mae" unexpectedly opening the Side 2 of the record.
I have three original US pressings. One of them with the different song title credit for "Maggie Mae".
I like seeing a lot of these translated titles - "Me Gusta Un Pony," for one.
I thought it was interesting that the US one was one the only issues worldwide to sport the red apple label.I think India had copies on the red one,at least some,if I'm correct.
Great stuff. I love that Mexican one. Not sure if you know this but the second Japanese obi - the gold one - points out that the album won a Grammy award. Cheers!
Cheers for the info!
The initial US version was not pressed by Capitol, but by United Artists. For a while in the 70's it was a frequently counterfeited album after the original had gone out of print. It never appeared on any Capitol-related release until EMI swallowed up the U.A. family of labels, and only then did a Capitol issue happen (purple label, non gatefold sleeve)
Hi Andrew, interesting stuff! So my set (which I thought was a Frankenstein set) consists of a UK red apple cover (with small P on record label) and a UK book, but a box that says made in Germany on the back. It sounds like this could actually be a Swedish copy! Cheers
Great stuff! FYI, the original US release of 'Let It Be' was not released by Capitol but by United Artist records as part of the deal with UA releasing the film. It was deleted after a few years, along with 'A Hard Day's Night' soundtrack, and both were not available for a long time. Counterfeit copies were made and sold in heavy numbers. Capitol then re-issued both albums on the Capitol label in 1980.
I have a minty Canadian box if photos are needed - wife's uncle bought new and I purchased his collection. The book is even fully intact.
Hi Joel, I'd be very grateful if you could send me some photos of your box for the next video. You can email them to me here: andrew@parlogramauctions.com Thank you!
I regret to inform you that the disc of the edition issued in Spain corresponds to the 2nd edition made in 1971.
the first edition is dated 1970, without the EMI-Odeon logo appearing on the cover.
4:54 Just one Obi Strip?
Sounds like a Star Wars character: Obi One Let-it-be
Hi Andrew, thank you again for this very great and informative video.
Will you also show the original german issue and record of the Box-Set in future videos as well?
If you do, please make sure you'll show the right backside of the red Apple 1C 062 - 04 433 Y catalogue numbered, fully laminated cover that had the printing credit "Printed and made in Germany by Heinrich Nicolaus GmbH" on the rear, as well as the same credit printed on original german made, fully laminated german outer covers, in the same space as "Printed and made in Great Britain by Garrod & Lofthouse Limited (Patents Pending), substituting the british text in its original place. In your video you show the backside of the later german album only version, made from 1977 onwards and with catalogue number 1C 072 -04 433. These album covers were not laminated at all and had the printing credit on the rear changed to "All rights reserved. Printed in Germany by4P NICOLAUS GmbH, Köln" instead. Also first german editions of the album were distibuted with rough black paper inner sleeves, like almost all early german LP releases from Apple up and until 1971. These first album pressings also had a dark green looking apple on the a-side and a kind of "greyish" looking apple on their b-side, displaying a clearly visible core area like its british cousin. Another interesting fact: In Germany, the "LET IT BE" album was still listed in the complete EMI-ELECTROLA LP-catalogue as "1 LP mit Tasche und Buch" ("1 LP with bag and book") by early 1973! So it looks like, the german Box-Set was still available in Germany by then.
Do you know anything about the time of availability of the box from other countrys?
One last thing: Parts of the german Box-Set (knowingly, the german printed Heinrich Nicolaus GmbH outer covers and inner trays) were used together with french pressed LP's from PATHÉ - MARCONI FRANCE and "GET BACK" books from the U.K. for the french edition of the box-set.
Also in France, complete original U.K. box sets were imported and sold over there at the time as well.
5:28 Did anyone else notice that “Feeling” is misspelled as “Feelig” on the Mexican label?
Small correction - Let It Be was never released in Canada as a gatefold. We did have US imports come in with a gatefold and red apple label, but these were not Canadian manufactured. Also, the paste over credits in the book were also printed on the page in many copies. In other copies the inside of the cover was also black instead of the usual white. It should also be noted that the Russian version had a slightly different track listing, with "Maggie Mae" appearing as the first track on side two.
Already noted about the gatefold, but thanks for the extra info.
@@Parlogram Wasn't the Canadian Get Back book from the boxed set slimmer with fewer pages than the U.K. book?
Hi Andrew, the first time I heard the album was a copy belonging to the older brother of a school chum. It was the Canadian box set. By the time I could afford a copy, the only thing available new was the non-gatefold Capitol pressing of the late '70s. Not very good. Later I picked up a clean used red Apple gatefold, a U.S. pressing. Better, mostly I think because the vinyl in the early 70s was higher quality.
Just ordered the Super Deluxe Vinyl edition, mostly for the extra bits and bobs, out-takes and (finally!) the fabled Glyn Johns mix on its own LP.
It will be interesting to compare the Giles Martin, Glyn Johns and (via my 1972 gatefold) Phil Spector mixes, along with the 2003 "Let It Be ... NAKED" mixes by Paul Hicks and Allan Rouse. Whew! That's a lotta Let It Be. I'm sure once I'm done, I won't need to listen to the album again for at least a couple of months.😃
I’ve never seen the U.S gatefold sleeve. I would have snapped that up if I’d seen it during the 70’s & 80’s.
Interesting! One thing worth noting on the Mexican issue is that the cover features paintings of the band, not the usual photographs, and there's at least one typo- on the label it names a track as "I've got a feelig".
I now need a copy of this in my life....
The paintings are actually from the movie poster.
The Yugoslavian pressing even had a box and a book imported from UK, if I am not mistaken. Weird it wasn't featured here
@@BigSky1 I found them in 30 seconds. It was also issued on Parlophone, on a yellow label which makes it even more interesting to see
Hi Andrew,Great video again.I wonder if the film was released in these countries at roughly the same time as their albums release like the U.K?
The Beatles on Portrait? Interesting!
Actually in Soviet Union several songs appeared on 7 inch 33rpm EPs 1970 -- 1973
5:53
Philippine release (Manufactured by Dyna Products, Inc.)
I thought that the USA Version was distributed by United Artists and they didn't want to do the box set. That is also the reason that its was OUT OF PRINT in the USA until around 1980 or so.
This might be one case where I prefer the US packaging… at least for the standalone album (even if the UK pressing sounds better). I also like the red apple label too, which is a nice change from the green apple. 🍎
When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Discogs comes to me