Hear The Beatles Tell All ALBUM REVIEW |
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- Matt reviews the Vee Jay interview album Hear The Beatles Tell All! This often overlooked Beatles curio has value in the early U.S. interviews given by the Beatles while on tour in 1964. Though a quick, low production affair, this album has a charm and one of the better John Lennon interviews.
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I remember Beatlemania fondly. In 1964, it was in full swing, and when the film "A Hard Day's Night" appeared in theaters, it super-charged the Beatlemania fever -- anything "Beatles" was red hot! Record albums, of course, but also photos, magazines, Beatles wigs, Beatles dolls, Beatles pins, etc. I remember some hotel was selling pieces of the sheets that the Beatles had slept in (or so they claimed)! Yes, it was a mania, but a good mania. We young people were starting to have an impact on popular culture, which was a relatively new phenomenon. (Of course, many in the the older generation decried it as the beginning of the end of our civilization.) Everything changed in the 60s.
Considering the Beatles freak that I am, I'm truly surprised that I never heard about this record. That's one of the beautiful things about the Beatles' legacy: there was so much media surrounding them, you can still be surprised by some new bit of information, film, audio, etc. that you never knew about.
You'll get a kick outta this one. Thanks Vinnie!
I never saw this album in the stores but do remember seeing - but not buying - Songs, Pictures and Stories. Couldn't help but notice the odd headline on the album cover, "George Talks About The Paddy Boyd". Ah yes, I think old Paddy was Pattie Boyd's Irish grandfather.
Possibly the best info I've heard about this obscure album - Hal on precussion? Now that's worth the price of entry alone !! _Trivia, Frank Ifield here in Australia only passed away a couple of weeks ago, a legend as well_
I hadn't heard about Frank passing. Thanks for that info, Mark.
I'm from Australia and my older brother (who I shared a bedroom with in the late-70s) got obsessed with the Beatles and ended up collecting all the different albums, both Parlophone and Capitol (and, obviously, whatever company reissued this record). I would play them myself when he wasn't around. I remember this one well and enjoyed it a lot, as well at 'The Beatles Story'. A real blast from the past for me. Thanks for this video.
I’ve never seen that one. “A man who walks with his left foot in the gutter” My new retirement plan lol
The percussion sounds by Blaine throughout are highly amusing.
I bought "Introducing The Beatles" in a Swedish record store in the early eighties. I was very puzzled by it since I couldn't find any information about it anywhere. I knew that The Beatles were on the Capitol label in the USA, but I had never heard of "Vee-Jay". In those days, before the internet, it was very hard to solve a mystery like that. Eventually I read about in in some book and the mystery was solved.
It’s great for it’s time because there was no social media back then. Very interesting still today. Great video Matt thanks
Very true. Thanks Mark!
I’m 65. So I was A fan back when they were still a a band. I remember grabbing any newspaper or magazine with there photo on it. Always wanted more information on them. The nightly news would tease a interview with one of them and I’d watch the whole show to watch a 30 second clip At the end. Lol. And was satisfied to see it.
Matt, in the 70s I never bought any of the music magazines and such, so I was blissfully unaware concerning almost anything about the Beatles private lives until the 80s really. FYI, " The Beatles Story" sold around 320k copies through the 70s, I never picked up a copy myself. Cheers!
I picked up my copy at a department store in Racine, Wis. sometime around 1980. Give or take a year. It's still shrink wrapped with the $3.99 price sticker on it. :)
WOW ! To my shame I've never heard of this release
And triple WOW ! I actually rented a flat (apartment) for a year at 53 Wimpole Street in 1977 ! Never realising until now (thanks to Matt) that at one time McCartney and the Asher family had once lived just a few doors down !
Cheers Matt ! Great stuff as always
Wow, neighbors!
Thanks, I didn't know about this album, of course it is on youtube so I gave it a listen, this captures the time perfectly, the ambient noise, the US journalists asking about the differences between US & UK, I even liked the percussion and the Beatles being themselves, giving straight answers and seeming to be enjoying themselves, this would have been a delight at the time and is still so now.
The only album that Capitol couldn’t stop VeeJay from releasing! And, truthfully, I prefer this one to The Beatles’ Story.
Fun program Matt. I bought my copy in '81and still have it. Cheers.
I miss when department stores had big music sections. I never owned this album
That's a cool album,I wish APPLE would pick up all the VEE JAY ALBUMS,AND RELEASE THEM ON APPLE RECORDS IN AMERICA
Never heard of this interview material... Sounds like a fascinating collectible piece.
I've never heard of this album. Thanks for sharing your thoughts about it. Incidentally, Frank Ifield, who was very popular in England and Australia, passed away a couple of weeks ago. I believe he did do some tours of the UK with the Beatles in the early days.
I have that tell all album. I dont remember where i got it, but i was so excited to have found it. I recently organized all my old albums and it was a very sentimental journey . Also have a Jane Fonda workout album 😊
I have the Fonda album too.
I need to find that Interview album for my collection!
I really enjoy your videos and unfortunately I watch so many of these who review music I enjoy, I wish I could interact more with great folks like yourself. I feel it’s time to weed out some I don’t watch as often so I can comment more on places like yours.
Great Beatles topic Matt! I never saw or heard of the Vee -Jay interview album you mentioned in my 60 years as an obsessed Beatles fan and I don't know why. I grew up only 20 miles from NYC, so I would think it would have been around in the record stores I visited,... many thanks , always fun to discover new Beatles information!! I do own the Beatles Story Capital release that I am eager to see your review on - I also have most of those interviews memorized.
I have the Vee-Jay version of Introducing the Beatles labeled "Songs , Pictures , and Stories of the fabulous...." This was the version related to their Forest Hills Stadium , NY visit . ...Tom
Thanks for the comment, Tom. Look for the Beatles Story review tomorrow!
Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful day Matt 3have a wonderful weekend ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊
In the mid '70's, I was all in on getting anything and everything with the word Beatles written on it. Which meant I had Introducing The Beatles and Hear The Beatles Tell All. The Introducing The Beatles album I owned had Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You pn the album. I'm sure the album was a reprint, but at the time I didn't know anything about VJ records or what was going on with publishing rights of Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You. Same with The Beatles Story. I knew Capitol had released the U.S. albums, so I got that one as well.
Interesting video Matt about this Beatle album I never knew or heard about until now, Always great to hear John Lennon interviewed, even if people agreed or not with what he said He's was always fascinating.
I have that vinyl album. Well, not "that" vinyl album, as that would mean I stole it from you, but another pressing of it. I remember the consistant drumming throughout.
I personally don't have this album but I totally understand your nostalgia for it. I loved your story about going to the local department store Kohls. Here in New Jersey back in the 70s we had a place called Korvetts which had a nice selection of records & also the US 1 Flea Market was great. We have similar Beatles memories from different states. I guess that's why I relate to you so much. Keep up the fantastic videos, especially The Beatles ones! Looking forward to The Beatles Story. Peace
Kenny from Jersey
Thank you, Kenny!
The percussion was by Hal Blaine? It was so random I was wondering if someone was doing construction work in the room.
Don't remember seeing The Beatles Tell All album, on the Vee Jay label, being for sale in any record departments in stores. Do remember the other Vee Jay Beatles albums being sold, particularly the Introducing The Beatles album, which I picked up a copy of. Now, the most interesting thing about the album to me is the color photo of the group used on the front cover. My guess is that it's a 1963 publicity photo taken of the group. I haven't seen the photo used on anything else Beatles related. I got a decent used copy of the Beatles & Frank Ifield On Stage album, at a flea market of all places. After playing it, thought it was a rip off by Vee Jay, since all the tracks were studio tracks, with neither the Beatles nor Ifield performing the songs live together. The album I had was the one with the cover of a drawing of a Victorian era British man with lamb chop sideburns and granny glasses, which you showed. Now can see how an album of the Beatles just talking and answering questions would be interesting to listen to, but when the albums were available in stores, I was more interested in the Beatles music/songs, than hearing them answer questions. Will watch what you have to say about the Beatles Story record album!
12:52 12:52 I've never seen or even heard of this! But just from the excerpts, it sounds a lot more worthwhile than that awful cash-grab "The Beatles Story." I always avoided that, even at the age of about 13. I finally heard it at a friends house in the 70's and it confirmed my suspicions. Thanks for educating me about this tho. 😎 😻✌ P.S. Paul DID live with the Ashers in an upstairs loft/attic.
I bought a copy of this back in the late 70s or early 80s and only remember one thing......DRUMS. 😊
I have this album. It was my old Boss's. I LOVE the 60s Graphics
great post matt! i bought this album in the 80s as well - JC Pennys, i still have it sealed. but always wondered what it sounded like - now, i know! thank you! it sounded better than i thought
Hey Toni! Good ol' J.C. Pennys! It's a fun listen.
Matt, IDK if it is true or not, but I always heard that the counterfeit VJ Beatles albums that were all over discount stores and "rack jobber" racks in like gas stations, drugstores etc. in the 1980s were actually pressed by the East Coast mob. It was almost 100% profit since obviously they did not pay any royalties to EMI nor to the Beatles. And with VJ long out of business by then, they had the "excuse" that it was new old stock, like someone bought out an old VJ warehouse or whatever.
I never believed the rumor that an old VJ employee was pressing these using an old authentic VJ stamper, as the sound quality of the counterfeit Introducing the Beatles copies I've heard is abysmal. Some of these dogs sound like a fast food drive-up intercom buried in 6 inches of mus. LOL.
Great video as always.
I appreciate that back story, Scott - much thanks!
This was a fun and interesting video. You make me want to hear that album (which I never did). Later, I'll look for it on UA-cam (they have Capitol's "The Beatles' Story").
Still waiting for George to talk about the Paddy Boyd.
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Was that an Irish band?
I got mine between '76/'78....
Years later I found out that it and my " Introducing The Beatles " were counterfeits.
I bought mine at a record chain called " Peaches".
It wasn't until I read Bruce Spizer book " The Beatles on Vee Jay " .
Supposedly there were tons of these.
It has something to do with the label to find if you have an actual vee jay copy.
Great video.
I can't wait to hear " The Beatles Story " !!!
Thanks Timothy. Next video will be out tomorrow!
Paddy Boyd was George's favorite Irish prize fighter
I remember seeing this in the record shops back in the ‘70s. Although I was a bit intrigued, I never bought it or The Ed Rudy Interview album. Thanks for this overview. It’s Nice to find out what was on it! I did buy The Beatles Story by Capital Records. I played it maybe twice, mostly to hear the snippet of ‘Shout’. Capital also always listed The Beatles songs Played By The Hollyridge Strings in the album innerdust sleeve. I’m guessing those were pretty boring??
The only Beatles album I never had. But I do have the similar Dave Clark Five album called Interview with Ed Rudy.
Great show Matt.I remember when Capitol release "The Early Beatles" in 1965 it didn't sell well because Vee Jay have the early recordings from their album and the fans are not going to buy something already that came out.I do have a copy of the Vee Jay album.
Yeah I hated that Early Beatles Capital album.
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Capitol was striking while the iron was hot.
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Interesting album
I did not know about it
Good video Matt
Thanks....I actually never played the album! Nice bits to hear
I had never heard of this album. Really cool Matt! I do remember Beatles vs Four Seasons and although I did like them, their was no really no comparison at the time. It seemed like a silly scam.
You are very fortunate to have gotten this album at the time. It was not sold in the area I grew up in and would have loved to pick it up. The best I could do was The Beatles' Story on Capitol. and I still have that LP.
Most of the copies of this are counterfeits released in the late 70's and early 80's. Picked one up for $1.99 then.
Hi Matt! Remember how I said last time that Capitol's Something New album was a blatant, unapologetic cash grab? Vee Jay's Hear the Beatles Tell All makes SN look like Abbey Road. Ok, I'm exaggerating, but you know what I mean. But.....like all Beatles albums......there's always some magic. And HTBTAL does have value.....inasmuch as it shows the Fabs behind the curtain.....or at least outside of the yet-to-be-renamed EMI Studios. Great video once again!
Thank you, John!
For you it was Kohl's. For me it was Woolworth's. They were selling what I thought were bootlegs of the VJ albums and therefore I picked up "Introducing The Beatles" for a couple of bucks (all black VJ label). I passed on the interview album. There's a video discussing how to identify VJ bootlegs. I'd be curious if you have watched that and determined what you purchased at Kohl's.
A fascinating review of an album I've never heard of.
You've rekindled my childhood memory of record shopping at department stores. My best local store was H.C. Prange or Prange Way. Best record selection in the area. I was even able to custom order records they didn't stock though it could take months to receive as it did for The Kinks Village Green Preservation album which I still claim to be the only one in the State of Wisconsin to own! That album was impossible to find though admittedly it might have been available in a bigger city market.
I am one of two owners of that album in the sovereign state of Wisconsin!
@@popgoesthe60s52 Welcome to the club!
WHERE'S "How do you find America?" "Turn left at Greenland." OR "Will you get a haircut?" "I had one yesterday."
This was fun to hear. Now the part about rumors and Paul talking, at 3:19 in, I coudn't help but think: Weren't the rumors actually true essentially? In some shape or form, at some point (panned out eventually?)? Paul had moved into the Ashers room by the end of 1964, no? And George were Patty going together in 1964 (even living together at some point?)?
Yeah, he fibbed on that one!
Certainly wouldn't want the fans to start showing up there.
Peaches Records and Tapes in Columbus, Ohio (before the entire chain went belly-up in 1981) was selling "Introducing The Beatles" counterfeits openly in the bins in The Beatles section back in the 1970's. I purchased TWO! different counterfeit variations from them, one with the ugly brown background added by the counterfeiters, and one that made a half-hearted attempt to look like the 1964 reprint original (not the very rare 1963 original). I bought the counterfeit "Here The Beatles Tell All" from Peaches as well. Just who is this mysterious wholesale distributor that were selling these to Peaches, and apparently the store your used in Wisconsin? This could be an interesting back story in itself. Maybe the guys behind Trade Mark of Quality and Contraband and The Amazing Kornyphone Label had side gigs when their mimeograph machines broke down during a run of "Renaissance Minstrels Volume 2" ? 🙂
Read Bruce Spitzer= Beatles on VJ book- its the bible of the VJ story
I got this album around the mid eighties, and I found it a fun and enjoyable album. I admire The Beatles first and foremost for their incredible music, but these guy's had a fantastic sense of humour, which is evident on here, esp Lennon. I also picked up at the same time an album called The Beatle Interviews which is the recordings of the interviews conducted in Chicago in Aug of '66 in relation to John's Jesus comments in Datebook magazine. Less humour in this one, but you get a sense of the closeness of this band as both George and Paul also respond to questions in defense of John, and there's also talk about the new album "Revolver" a fascinating listen if you can get hold of it..
I do have that '66 interview you mentioned. A very good one!
Mid-'80's? Was Veejay still a concern? Or was there just a lot of old stock of this? Were there unauthorised pressings as with Introducing The Beatles? I got Introducing in the late '70's but later learned it was a boot.
@@jonvought700 I believe the counterfeiting of this album was certainly going on in the 1970s if not earlier.
You really are so awfully good at this!
That's very kind of you, William! This was a fun one!
I checked this one out cause people said it was better and shorter than Capitol's The Beatles Story. I have to agree. Your intro cracked me up. To paraphrase a bit from Tenacious D's old HBO show "We're sick and I hope we never get well!"
God I could only imagine if Lennon had another kid in the 1960s
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I wish Lennon would have become an author, maybe if he lived, he would have peeled off from music and embraced writing, wouldn't mind reading a novel by him, or an autobiography, something detached from his comedy
Nice informative video. Dont think I've ever heard this album.
Wikipedia states that Hal Blaine plays the drums. Bought my copy at Rose Records, Chicago. Like you, bought because it was so cheap.
Vee-Jay was still an entity of sorts in the 1970s and 80s. I wonder if these were actually put out by Vee-Jay or if someone else was making the money.
I bought it sometime in 1965. Got rid of it sometime in the early 70s.
Funny that Ringo would say that. I think they spent most of 1966 and 1967 in Disneyland.
Wasn`t The Paddy Boyd George`s favourite Irish pub?
An inspired chioce Matt. Entertaining.
How desperate for cash was Vee-Jay to release this hyper-fluff? Wow.
Now we can get celebrity crap like this for free online.
That`s real progress.
Thanks (again) for another solid video.
Have you explored the dodgy world of Beatle bootlegs?
I used to collect bootlegs but I quit in the early 90s.
Kohl's ruled!
😎😎😎😎yeah yeah yeah
There was a album with Beatles interviews done by a guy named Ed Rudy that made the US top 20 and it was supposedly the best selling album of all time
Ed Rudy actually did three albums of "As It Happened" interviews with the Beatles. Damn, the things that stick in my head...
Was it necessary to release the album in stereo? Maybe for that Hal Blaine percussion--definitely one of his most unusual credits. Did the album sell well?
I don't have any sales figures on this album. Perhaps Bruce Spizer's book?
The LPs you have there are probably counterfeit copies of the 1964 albums.
westerners were obsessed with celebrity gossip. Things haven’t changed if anything they’ve gotten worse.
Lol😂