Around 1964 I remember seeing the Frank Ifield/Beatles album in the local dime store. But naturally I passed on it, because I had no idea who Frank Ifield was and wasn't going to waste full-price money on half a Beatles album.
If that Tollie 45 got shown, then I should've probably shown my Beatles and solo-Beatles 45 DJ copies. Definitely will consider sharing for the next episode.
"and I received an email from someone called Julian, whose father used to be..." Did anybody else expect that sentence to finish "in the Beatles"? Great video - a real revelation about the numbering of white albums. You do realise though that you now have to start an enormous database to catalogue them all, and we all send you photos of our copies for you to collate...
The Rockaway Records bag at 1:45 That was MY record store growing up (the Mesa, AZ location)- it was one of maybe five music stores my family and I went to every weekend. This was in the early 90’s so we were only buying cassettes and cds at this time, but I actually met Peter Criss from Kiss at this store and he signed a Kiss vinyl record for me. Good times.
That shopping bag at 2:15 good thing Sheffield Labs did not get to them hehehhee. But anyway, this is a very refreshing video. Thanks for putting this out Andrew!
Great video andrew! Its so funny that in Colombia in the 60’s the national record companies were subject to capitol recordings, and when they released the beatles records here, they nicknamed them “ the singing brooms”, because of their famous haircut hahaha
I have all 12 studio albums .. plus the Past Masters album .. plus the Magical Mystery Tour album .. plus The Silver Beatles including Pete Best with Tony Sheridan .. plus Beatles Live in Hamburg .. plus the Anthology albums which include the first recordings of ‘In spite of all the danger’ & Buddy Holly’s ‘That’ll be the day’ plus the “new” songs ‘Real Love’ & ‘Free as a bird’ .. the question is do I have every Beatles song on vinyl ? I think so (excluding live albums & compilations having these same songs) but I’d love to hear Andrews take on this..
Was fascinating to see the videos from other collectors of Beatles records and the collection of shop bags! What was really surprising was the revelation about how Garrod and Lofthouse numbered the first White Album covers! Yet another great video from you, Andrew - many thanks!
Great video Andrew! Nice idea having viewers sending in videos, very cool. Looking forward to future videos on the butcher cover and Yellow Submarine film. Thanks again!
I am 76 years old and grew up in Los Angeles California. I want to two Beatle concerts. The Hollywood bowl and Dodger Stadium. Couldn't hear them much for the girls screaming. But a memorable occasion.
I don't have a LOT of Beatles rarities but, there just might be one or two that I've forgotten about since I haven't had easy access to my records in nearly 4 years! I have one of the original Christmas flexis, either number 6 or 7. I bought a copy of "Introducing..." in the late `70's from about $3.00 and found out years later that its worth a few hundred. I have the singles they did on MGM and Atco. I have a Beatles break-in that was made by their fan club in the late `70's. I believe it's just called, "Reunion" on one side the flip has, "Love Of The Loved". Although I don't have a hard copy, a friend of mine that did allowed me to record it for my break-in collection. As far as I know, it's INSANELY rare and only that one copy exists! It's an Australian break-in that was probably made around `65 or `66 and only made it as far as the acetate which, when I saw it and possibly got the very last playing of it ever on tape, because when I played it, the grooves were literally fall off of it!! My friend showed me the list of the various sales it had over the decades and, as far as I can tell, he paid $3000 for it and then sold it a few years ago for, probably, $5000. The flip side has two actual mid `60's Beatles songs on it. The A-side is a very "psychedelic" sounding break-in that uses clips from various Dickie Goodman singles to ask the questions posed to The Beatles and the answers are from culled from Beatles record that were available up to that time. I've only heard it once or twice about 12 years ago when Frank brought it to my house to let me record it so, I haven't had the chance to check which Dickie Goodman records were used to even verify that it WAS from the mid `60's! He'd been making break-ins (80, total) from July 1956 up `til his death (suicide) in `89. Anyway, I'm not sure if the artist or the title was called, "Gases For The Masses". As the recording has nothing to do with gas, from what I recall, I guess that's the artist. As I've said yesterday on a previous video, I've got 4 of their British early albums on open reel, 2-track mono; With, Hard Days Night, Revolver (I think) and Sgt. Pepper's and would like to get the other mono reels to complete the collection. I have 2 Strawberry Fields Forever flexis that I'm pretty sure are either 8" or 10". One is sky blue, the other is either red or black. I have a DVD of The Beatles cartoon series. The entire "Let It Be" recording sessions. Back in the late `80's or early `90's pre-Anthology, Capitol released two collections of Beatles singles on coloured vinyl. Each set has possibly 10 or 12 records and they were pressed for jukeboxes only. I've got both sets. There was another single of that sort pressed before that that was also on coloured vinyl. I have that, too. There was a bootleg single pressed about 20 or 30 years ago using the Capital swirl label from the `60's but the label is listed as being Capitalism (or was it, Capitalist?) and, although it doesn't list an artist on either side, it IS The Beatles and one side has the shortest song from the white album (not including, "Can You Take Me Back"), "Wild Honey Pie" and the longest song on the album, "Revolution 9" on the flip. And, up until about 4 years ago, I had a display "tray" for the second new Beatles Anthology single from the `90's. As I said, there might be a few others I've forgotten about.
This might be my favorite video of yours, I got a huge kick out of seeing these rare records. I’ve never seen a white album that had the same number as another copy. They were so largely mass produced that I wouldn’t expect it to be easy to find 2 matching covers
Starting at least in the `80's when I got my first real stereo, I did the same thing: buy the album, record it to cassette, play the tape and leave the album in NM condition in my racks and MAYBE use it again if I needed something from it for another project I was working on or if the tape needed recorded again. So, of my nearly 4000 albums, pretty much anything post `85 is in M- condition...unless I bought it used. But, even with most of the used ones, which I'd get at Jerry's (R.I.P.!), they, too, were in at least NM condition! I've got at least 6 copies of the white album: my first I bought in Gary, Indiana in `69 while visiting my cousins for the first time. About 8 years later, during the coloured vinyl craze, I picked up 3 more copies ion white vinyl. They were pressed in France, nearest I can tell. I bought one for a friend of mine and I never saw him after buying it so, I still have that copy. Two of those 3 are still in factory condition. About another 8 or 10 years later, I found a top-loader and bought that. I THINK I have a German pressing but, I'd have to get to my records to find out, they''re in storage 2 miles from here. and I bought the 50th anniversary edition last summer with a lot of session outtakes on it. This time, I bought the CD version because my stereo's ion storage, too and who knows when I can get all that stuff up here? I also have one that's probably a bootleg, it's a one record "set" called, "The Off-White Album". It has a few more outtakes. Mostly alternate versions of about half of the songs.
G'day Andrew...wow...one of your best videos!! Love how you included subscriber content. Was great to see Nate too as I have only ever heard his voice via Vinyl Guide podcast. If you do another, I will let my mate know as he bought the famed Audio 5 SGT Pepper vinyl at the audio show it was pressed exclusively for. This vid seemed to go so fast..like all good things. Thank you for such hard work and great content.
I have an oddity that was made in Turkey. Bought it in Turkey in 1980 maybe early 1981 while stationed there for one year in the Air Force. The cover image is "Yesterday and Today" but the title is Today and Yesterday. Side1 are six 1970s solo recordings and side 2 are seven Beatles recordings. Date created is 1980 because Side 1 dates the songs from 1970-1980. At the bottom of the center label is "her hakkı mahfuzdur" translates as all rights reserved". The record label is Meteor 1096
My most precious Beatle find was a near mint copy of "My Bonnie/The Saints" on the green MGM picture sleeve that you briefly showed in your video. On the back is the record store sticker (74c). I found it at a thrift store inside a kid's personal locker box. Inside the box was a bunch of old 45s from the 60's, all of them in very good condition with their sleeves intact. This was sometime in the early/mid 90's. I paid $1 for each of the singles.
Another great video. I bought the Prince Sign OI The Times 7” box set which were numbered and someone set up a Facebook group to log the numbers. Much more of a mammoth task to do the White Album but someone might have a go!
Another not-to-be-missed video. I’d like the infos on the numbering system of the White Album… May I just point out that the sky blue label copy of Beatles in Italy was the only one to be pressed in Stereo in 1981 and then finally deleted. More interesting, the date printed in the run-out groove of this version was 09-12-1980…..
Ciao Quirico, I’m not really sure. Copies were available in the record stores until late 80’s. However, what it is sure, it was not reprinted and all copies I have checked carried that sad date in the run-out groove…
Hi Andrew! Another great video. So many interesting items in this video. So glad you showed some of Nate's collection...he really has some great items. Looking forward to your next video. Mark Anthony K
Great video, Andrew! My Bonnie story was catchy 😉 Unfortunately I don't own any rarities on vinyl, but if you like some photos of John's books (1st UK printing) in near mint and mint condition I'll send you.
Nice video, Andrew. See you used images I sent to you of some of my bags. Great! I might send you some images of rare stuff from my collection. I'll see. Anyway, looking forward to a "part two" of this video. Cheers, Nelio.
Enjoy all you vids! Thanks! Would like some Info if you could on an old 45rpm from Vee-Jay records. "Please, please me" and flip side "From me to you". Unable to send a pic through UA-cam. Again, thanks for all your Beatle vids!
I have one of those number stamping machines from the 60s it even has the same font, the number automatically advances one place every time you stamp down.
Great vid as usual Andrew - Not sure how rare this is but back in the 80s when I was working for Our Price - we sold loads of Sgt Peppers CDs on release but had one come back as a mispress - weirdly it played Rubber Soul. I bought it of course and reaplced the customers copy. What I never understood is that the Sgt Pepper CD was released on it's own - whereas the Rubber Soul CD was in a group of 3 (if I remember correctly) - so how did a Rubber Soul CD get pressed up as Sgt Pepper? I also have what I think is the first Beatles Bootleg CD - the disc itself says it is by the Carpenters (!) but plays the Cavern Club rehearsals. The dealer told me that it said the Carpenters as this was the only way they could get the disc pressed - if it had said the Beatles no-one would have touched it - bought it in 1986 if I remember correctly.
The Beatles' CDs were released two or three at a time until _Sgt. Pepper_ which came out by itself. So _Rubber Soul_ and _Revolver_ were both released on the same day, but as separate albums, not packaged together.
I worked for Our Price from '85-88 and remember the excitement of The Beatles coming out on CD. Sadly, I never came across a mispressing of Pepper. Happy days!
I have a copy of A Hard Day's Night which plays an Alan Parsons Project album in it's entirety.. I also have a Stanley Jordan CD that plays A Hard Day's Night in it's entirety.. Weird LOL!
The Australian 'Please Please Me' LP had the first lot housed in UK covers which were 500. The early black/gold mono labels had the credit "MADE IN AUSTRALIA FOR THE PARLOPHONE CO. LTD., SYDNEY, NSW" written in a semi-circular rim print at the bottom (but both the ones in the UK made covers and the ones in the early Australian made covers contained this version of the label and were the same pressings). The second black/gold mono label had the credit "MADE IN AUSTRALIA BY E.M.I. (AUST.) LIMITED" written horizontally across the middle (as was also the case with all black/gold mono copies of "With the Beatles"). The first two Beatles albums in Australia both came out only showing the Mono catalogue number on the back of the Aussie printed covers. Then early in 1964 the stereo catalogue numbers were added to the covers. PS: It's important to remember that both of the 'Please Please Me' mono LPs that came out in 1963 contained the exact same LP pressings with labels. It was only the cover that was changed to an Australian made one. Now some people will swap LPs and put them in a UK made cover to fool buyers or collectors. I see a lot of swapping happening on eBay and also at record fairs. So people need to be careful.
Hi I have a number of One off (3 copies were said to be made) Beatles records from the engineer at Mobile Fidelity - obtained in the early 90’s including even UHQR unreleased versions etc etc Rare beyond rare ! I was the importer for many years at the time here in Australia The engineer sold them to me at his house after a long night - his whole collection I purchased
I'll keep that video for later. I don't own any rare items, but i own the 1st French mono pressing of Sgt. Pepper, which was pressed on the black and yellow Parlophone label, strangely... I think it's the only album released in France on Parlophone in the 60's. They very quickly reverted to the usual Odeon label.
Thanks again, Andrew, for this interesting video. I have never had the patience or money to go for real rarities. When recreating my Beatles vinyl collection I have tried to find curiosities rather than rarities also trying not go buy duplicate copies of the same album. Firstly I've collected both the UK and US catalogue trying to get each album with a different label design. So my Please please me is on the golden Parlophone (the repressing from the 2000's) and Beatles for sale on yellow Parlophone. From Capitol I have the rainbow, green, red, orange and purple labels. Secondly I've tried to get some of the albums with labels they did not originally have, Beatles second album, Revolver and Magical mystery tour with Apple label, Hey Jude with Capitol rainbow and the White album and Abbey road on Parlophone (the 1980's DMM pressings). As an icing on the cake I got some international pressings: Hard Day's Night as the French "4 garcons dans le vent" Odeon pressing and The Beatles Greatest on German Odeon. I am still trying to get a Spanish red Odeon label pressing of the Yellow Submarine. So nothing to rare and expensive, but fun stuff all the same. I am still wondering if I should I get the US Hard Day's Night on the 1970's United Artists label and maybe Let it be on greek orange and red EMI label...
Great episode. I have often wondered what the highest numbers ever found on a white album are. I don't think I have ever seen anything above 6 or 7 digits.
Thank you, Andrew. A wonderful friend, and pastor of mine, once showed me an unused slick of the butcher cover he received from a contact at Capitol Records. He passed away two days ago. In addition to being a pastor, he was also the bass player in the band, Bloodgood.
Great video as always. The only rare Beatles things that i have are a graded/slabbed Beatles Plaks card put out by Topps in ‘64. Believe that it was a test set, meaning it wasn’t as mass produced as the other Beatles trading card sets. Also of note is a white picture slide of the 4 lads on a beach (which has a “copyright apple” indicator stamped on it) as well as 3 undeveloped negatives from their press conference for their performance at the Hollywood Bowl in ‘64. Don’t think it counts but for solo Beatles, i have a presumably unheard interview by Paul in regards to his Paul is Live album housed in a “emi” branded cassette.
I have a half peeled butcher block cover. I did it myself back in the day but never got around to finishing it. Don't know its value. The prices on Ebay are all over the place. I have a Beach Boys "All Summer Long" album with a Meet the Beatles label on one side. In 1964 I bought what I think is a German import Polydor album of the Beatles as the Beat Bros. with all1 the songs they recorded with Bert Kaemfert. My white album number is lm+. Will check the anniversary re-issue. Enjoyed this video.
I have a set of Polaroid color photographs taken by someone from the audience during an interview with the Beatles in Los Angeles in 1966. (It's almost like a fingerprint :) or a voice recording made in an acoustic way.) As well as some original photos of the Beatles. I bought them in Atlanta about 15 years ago at a home sale.
In my files I can consider rares some LPS how:White Album with that number N A 364537,Rubber Soul-Help!-Beatles Again Brazilian Lps,very rares,bootlegs Get Back first edition more The Beatles Decca Tapes ,Let It Be with book in first edition,Reel Music.Here are my small collections as consider rares and have more one Love Me Do in format Lp 12´´ in 45rpm.I found good these Lps.Uchino of Japan.I see you Andrew.
Love it Andrew. I should have sent you some videos on my rare Beatles stuff. I do have videos on my channel. I am bummed I did not participate but I hear that you are doing a video on the Butcher cover. I do have a First State Butcher Cover in my collection if you want pictures. I do have some videos on it which you a freely to use if you want to. (You can do anything to them if it will help you) I have to say thank you because you helped me a looooong time ago trying to get the first copy of Love me do stampers 1/P jr. Thank you for doing these. Peace and love. :) P.S. Thank you for helping Bruce Spizer and Frank Daniels on the Beatles on Parlophone book. Helped me out sooooooo much!!! (Wanted to post this without the links.)
@@bungalowcraigsvinyl6092 Thanks Craig Just some general shots of it, I'll leave it up to you. If you could do it in the next few days, it would be much appreciated.
Rockaway Records is still in Los Angeles. It's a wonderful place to go and see a ton of Beatles memorabilia as well as many other rare items from other groups.
I bought an original copy of Roots, the Lennon rock n roll album on the Adam VIII label. That would make a good video, it’s a fascinating story about that album.
Hi Andrew, hello from Sydney Australia. How about a video of how to collect a complete Beatles.. um.. collection! By this I mean just all the songs on vinyl without double ups (red & blue albums etc) .. no pressure :)
I have all 12 studio albums .. plus the Past Masters album .. plus the Magical Mystery Tour album .. plus The Silver Beatles including Pete Best with Tony Sheridan .. plus Beatles Live in Hamburg .. plus the Anthology albums which include the first recordings of ‘In spite of all the danger’ & Buddy Holly’s ‘That’ll be the day’ plus the “new” songs ‘Real Love’ & ‘Free as a bird’ .. the question is do I have every Beatles song on vinyl ? I think so (excluding live albums & compilations having these same songs) but I’d love to hear Andrews take on this…
I have a copy of Abby road with side 1 label on both sides but the music is side 1 and 2. My step mom bought it new and unfortunately wrote SIDE 2 on it with permanent marker!
Well. I went to check my own careworn preowned black & gold Australian “Please Please Me” LP straight away and - well blow me down! I only had it on the turntable two weeks ago because you thought it was a good pressing. Well this has made my day.
Nice video AGAIN Andrew. I nearly sent pictures of my original 1962 UK red Parlophone love me do/ps I love you. Which both sides have the 1 mother and g stamper for ps I love you and the p stamper for love me do. Sounds great. Is that good enough for these collections? I didn't think it was Andrew so didn't bother. Also have you ever seen a UK black and yellow please please me with little astronaut boots prints on each side over Parlophone letters? They look like little silver metal embossed footprints like Neil Armstrongs on the moon. P.S. Well done for actually getting some real Beatles music in the video finally. Thanks Andrew.
I had a Danish album called Hottest hits the cover showed the Beatles in the Eskimo outfits . It also had a couple of misprints on it unfortunately I didn't know anything about it and sold it for £10 wish I'd kept it now 😮
Great video. These albums and singles were created in the very recent past. In the modern age. Yet already facts are lost such as the exact method used to number the white album. Your videos are reaching out to people who know all sorts of obscure facts that would otherwise get lost. Now is the time for all this to be recorded because the people who were there are dwindling.
My own rarity Is a chilean White Album Vol. 1 mono pressing (catalogue number Apple 2001) from 1969, purchased in 2001 for just 3 dollars back then, and still in VG condition.
I once slept on the stairs of Record Theatre to get Who tickets back in 1989! I have a couple of Kinks records that still have the Record Theatre price tags on them.
@@BrianR2395 I was in Rochester, New York. Record Theatre was my favorite because they had that little stamp book. I think it was every $10 you spent you got a stamp and once you filled up the book you got money off your next purchase. They had a used record section too and when I was a kid I found a lotta good stuff there.
Really interesting video! Now that's some intriguing information on the WA UK numbers. But if these sleeves were also exported to Scandinavia, they must have shared the UK numbers' pool, mustn't they? I wonder what other countries might be in question. I can only share what my research found out on the numbering of German toploader covers (Nicolaus GmbH). These were also used in several other European countries, like France, Benelux or Italy, and indeed shared the same numbers pool. What did change in the course of time, was the style, and that went by ranges. No. 0000000 to 0125000 were printed in black ink, with slightly cut-off leading zero, in a small serifless font. No. 0125000 to 0280000 were printed in grey ink, in a larger serifless font. No. 0280000 and upwards were not printed at all, but debossed blindly, in the same font as the grey ink ones. Around 1970 the number of digits was reduced from 7 to 6. The debossed numbering remained until at least the late 80s and the digital-sourced DMM version, though numbers were restarted inbetween. Around 1981, the debossed font was changed for the serif font very similar to UK toploader one (still debossed), in 1984 it reverted back to serifless (and remained so).
12:58 seems like 5 NOV to me as well, just with a lower end of another character stamped with it. Makes sense to me that the foreign copies were mastered dubbed right away after finishing the master copy tape.
The strangest Beatles collection I saw was in an antique mall here in Canada. They must've had over a dozen copies of the She Loves You 45 on Swan. I did take a photo when I found about 7 or 8. But kept finding more while digging through maybe 2000 45s. All of them were in rough shape. Finding one is cool. But to keep finding them was just crazy. And just to put it here. They wanted $4 each for them.
I have some which, while rare, I probably wouldn’t call super-rare. These include the original polydor UK My Bonnie single, mono and stereo 3rd state butcher covers, original uk mono Yellow Submarine album and two copies of the black and gold Please Please Me mono album (one with Northern Songs publishing variation). I also have a Beatles for Sale with the side 2 label on both sides, for some reason.
so decca released "my bonnie" april 1962 on this 45 after they turned the band down and before the beatles first single release "love me do" october 1962...wow i wonder if decca knew the beatles were on that 45 with sheriden when they released it?
13:35 it actually startled me to hear Beatles music on your channel.
Great format Andrew! That 21 minutes presentation went by fast.
Glad you liked it!
Brilliant Andrew. Love the fact that collectors from the four corners of the globe are collecting Beatles rarities. Fascinating stuff
Thanks for the inclusion Andrew and for mentioning my channel.
You're welcome, Rob!
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@@quiricomazarin476 petit monde eh
Around 1964 I remember seeing the Frank Ifield/Beatles album in the local dime store. But naturally I passed on it, because I had no idea who Frank Ifield was and wasn't going to waste full-price money on half a Beatles album.
I recall that also. On VJ records. Did not sucker for it. $4 was a lot of $$$ then.
Hi Andrew! I am happy to share my 78rpm with you. And I am honored to serve you.
Thanks for all the fun videos! let me post again someday.
Thank you, again. Let's do it again soon!
If that Tollie 45 got shown, then I should've probably shown my Beatles and solo-Beatles 45 DJ copies. Definitely will consider sharing for the next episode.
"and I received an email from someone called Julian, whose father used to be..."
Did anybody else expect that sentence to finish "in the Beatles"?
Great video - a real revelation about the numbering of white albums. You do realise though that you now have to start an enormous database to catalogue them all, and we all send you photos of our copies for you to collate...
Thanks for showing my 1st Australian Please Please Me Andrew! Great to see all the other Rarities as well!
My pleasure, Nathan! Thanks for sending it in.
Hope this becomes a semi regular thing, some really neat stuff in this one!
That's the plan!
The Rockaway Records bag at 1:45
That was MY record store growing up (the Mesa, AZ location)- it was one of maybe five music stores my family and I went to every weekend. This was in the early 90’s so we were only buying cassettes and cds at this time, but I actually met Peter Criss from Kiss at this store and he signed a Kiss vinyl record for me. Good times.
I’ve been on the vinyl guide a few times. Love Nate and the show!
Is this the first time you've actually had a bit of a Beatles song actually played in the video? If so, congrats!
That shopping bag at 2:15 good thing Sheffield Labs did not get to them hehehhee. But anyway, this is a very refreshing video. Thanks for putting this out Andrew!
Glad you enjoyed, Bryan!
Thank u so much Andrew & guests,for this awesome film!!
Great video andrew!
Its so funny that in Colombia in the 60’s the national record companies were subject to capitol recordings, and when they released the beatles records here, they nicknamed them “ the singing brooms”, because of their famous haircut hahaha
Glad you enjoyed it, Juan. I love the name 'the singing brooms'!
My 2018 deluxe WA doesn't have a number at all!! I feel cheated!! (Good vid again btw!!)
Danny
I have all 12 studio albums .. plus the Past Masters album .. plus the Magical Mystery Tour album .. plus The Silver Beatles including Pete Best with Tony Sheridan .. plus Beatles Live in Hamburg .. plus the Anthology albums which include the first recordings of ‘In spite of all the danger’ & Buddy Holly’s ‘That’ll be the day’ plus the “new” songs ‘Real Love’ & ‘Free as a bird’ .. the question is do I have every Beatles song on vinyl ? I think so (excluding live albums & compilations having these same songs) but I’d love to hear Andrews take on this..
That was great. I’ll work on a short submission for your next one.
That was absolutely fascinating. Brilliant stuff! Looking forward to another episode in the future
Wow o wow
One of the best!
What a enjoyable video!
Was fascinating to see the videos from other collectors of Beatles records and the collection of shop bags! What was really surprising was the revelation about how Garrod and Lofthouse numbered the first White Album covers! Yet another great video from you, Andrew - many thanks!
I really enjoyed this video, i hope you do another
Brilliant episode!! Just as always (and thanks to your cohorts) it was well thought out.
I will try to be a part of the next one!
Thanks again Andrew!
Wonderful Vid Andrew!!! Thank U!! Truly adored seeing the record shop bags from around the world!
Great video Andrew! Nice idea having viewers sending in videos, very cool. Looking forward to future videos on the butcher cover and Yellow Submarine film. Thanks again!
Cheers Bill!
I am 76 years old and grew up in Los Angeles California. I want to two Beatle concerts. The Hollywood bowl and Dodger Stadium. Couldn't hear them much for the girls screaming. But a memorable occasion.
2:18 - Shopping da Gávea. I used to live not far from it. Great video! After seeing those items I don't know if I have something rare enough.
OMG, you have an actual music clip of "Help!"! Feels good to hear it here, especially on one of the 78s
What a quite interesting and awesome video, my dear friend!!! Thank you once again. Really enjoyed it!!! ✌️🎶
Thank you, my friend. Glad you enjoyed it!!
I don't have a LOT of Beatles rarities but, there just might be one or two that I've forgotten about since I haven't had easy access to my records in nearly 4 years!
I have one of the original Christmas flexis, either number 6 or 7.
I bought a copy of "Introducing..." in the late `70's from about $3.00 and found out years later that its worth a few hundred.
I have the singles they did on MGM and Atco.
I have a Beatles break-in that was made by their fan club in the late `70's. I believe it's just called, "Reunion" on one side the flip has, "Love Of The Loved".
Although I don't have a hard copy, a friend of mine that did allowed me to record it for my break-in collection. As far as I know, it's INSANELY rare and only that one copy exists! It's an Australian break-in that was probably made around `65 or `66 and only made it as far as the acetate which, when I saw it and possibly got the very last playing of it ever on tape, because when I played it, the grooves were literally fall off of it!! My friend showed me the list of the various sales it had over the decades and, as far as I can tell, he paid $3000 for it and then sold it a few years ago for, probably, $5000. The flip side has two actual mid `60's Beatles songs on it. The A-side is a very "psychedelic" sounding break-in that uses clips from various Dickie Goodman singles to ask the questions posed to The Beatles and the answers are from culled from Beatles record that were available up to that time. I've only heard it once or twice about 12 years ago when Frank brought it to my house to let me record it so, I haven't had the chance to check which Dickie Goodman records were used to even verify that it WAS from the mid `60's! He'd been making break-ins (80, total) from July 1956 up `til his death (suicide) in `89. Anyway, I'm not sure if the artist or the title was called, "Gases For The Masses". As the recording has nothing to do with gas, from what I recall, I guess that's the artist.
As I've said yesterday on a previous video, I've got 4 of their British early albums on open reel, 2-track mono; With, Hard Days Night, Revolver (I think) and Sgt. Pepper's and would like to get the other mono reels to complete the collection.
I have 2 Strawberry Fields Forever flexis that I'm pretty sure are either 8" or 10". One is sky blue, the other is either red or black.
I have a DVD of The Beatles cartoon series.
The entire "Let It Be" recording sessions.
Back in the late `80's or early `90's pre-Anthology, Capitol released two collections of Beatles singles on coloured vinyl. Each set has possibly 10 or 12 records and they were pressed for jukeboxes only. I've got both sets. There was another single of that sort pressed before that that was also on coloured vinyl. I have that, too.
There was a bootleg single pressed about 20 or 30 years ago using the Capital swirl label from the `60's but the label is listed as being Capitalism (or was it, Capitalist?) and, although it doesn't list an artist on either side, it IS The Beatles and one side has the shortest song from the white album (not including, "Can You Take Me Back"), "Wild Honey Pie" and the longest song on the album, "Revolution 9" on the flip.
And, up until about 4 years ago, I had a display "tray" for the second new Beatles Anthology single from the `90's.
As I said, there might be a few others I've forgotten about.
Brilliant video Andrew, always love seeing anything new pop up in my notification feed :)
This might be my favorite video of yours, I got a huge kick out of seeing these rare records. I’ve never seen a white album that had the same number as another copy. They were so largely mass produced that I wouldn’t expect it to be easy to find 2 matching covers
Starting at least in the `80's when I got my first real stereo, I did the same thing: buy the album, record it to cassette, play the tape and leave the album in NM condition in my racks and MAYBE use it again if I needed something from it for another project I was working on or if the tape needed recorded again. So, of my nearly 4000 albums, pretty much anything post `85 is in M- condition...unless I bought it used. But, even with most of the used ones, which I'd get at Jerry's (R.I.P.!), they, too, were in at least NM condition!
I've got at least 6 copies of the white album: my first I bought in Gary, Indiana in `69 while visiting my cousins for the first time. About 8 years later, during the coloured vinyl craze, I picked up 3 more copies ion white vinyl. They were pressed in France, nearest I can tell. I bought one for a friend of mine and I never saw him after buying it so, I still have that copy. Two of those 3 are still in factory condition. About another 8 or 10 years later, I found a top-loader and bought that. I THINK I have a German pressing but, I'd have to get to my records to find out, they''re in storage 2 miles from here. and I bought the 50th anniversary edition last summer with a lot of session outtakes on it. This time, I bought the CD version because my stereo's ion storage, too and who knows when I can get all that stuff up here? I also have one that's probably a bootleg, it's a one record "set" called, "The Off-White Album". It has a few more outtakes. Mostly alternate versions of about half of the songs.
Excellent!
Andrew, please more like this.
Thanks Vince. More to come.
G'day Andrew...wow...one of your best videos!! Love how you included subscriber content. Was great to see Nate too as I have only ever heard his voice via Vinyl Guide podcast. If you do another, I will let my mate know as he bought the famed Audio 5 SGT Pepper vinyl at the audio show it was pressed exclusively for. This vid seemed to go so fast..like all good things. Thank you for such hard work and great content.
Glad you enjoyed it, Steve. More to come.
I have an oddity that was made in Turkey. Bought it in Turkey in 1980 maybe early 1981 while stationed there for one year in the Air Force. The cover image is "Yesterday and Today" but the title is Today and Yesterday. Side1 are six 1970s solo recordings and side 2 are seven Beatles recordings. Date created is 1980 because Side 1 dates the songs from 1970-1980. At the bottom of the center label is "her hakkı mahfuzdur" translates as all rights reserved". The record label is Meteor 1096
I mentioned that same album in last week's video here: ua-cam.com/video/1KzTMf4ssH0/v-deo.html
My most precious Beatle find was a near mint copy of "My Bonnie/The Saints" on the green MGM picture sleeve that you briefly showed in your video. On the back is the record store sticker (74c). I found it at a thrift store inside a kid's personal locker box. Inside the box was a bunch of old 45s from the 60's, all of them in very good condition with their sleeves intact. This was sometime in the early/mid 90's. I paid $1 for each of the singles.
I really enjoyed this.
Another great video. I bought the Prince Sign OI The Times 7” box set which were numbered and someone set up a Facebook group to log the numbers. Much more of a mammoth task to do the White Album but someone might have a go!
Another not-to-be-missed video. I’d like the infos on the numbering system of the White Album… May
I just point out that the sky blue label copy of Beatles in Italy was the only one to be pressed in Stereo in 1981 and then finally deleted. More interesting, the date printed in the run-out groove of this version was 09-12-1980…..
Ciao Quirico, I’m not really sure. Copies were available in the record stores until late 80’s. However, what it is sure, it was not reprinted and all copies I have checked carried that sad date in the run-out groove…
Hi Andrew!
Another great video. So many interesting items in this video. So glad you showed some of Nate's collection...he really has some great items.
Looking forward to your next video.
Mark Anthony K
Glad you enjoyed it, Mark.
Great video, Andrew! My Bonnie story was catchy 😉
Unfortunately I don't own any rarities on vinyl, but if you like some photos of John's books (1st UK printing) in near mint and mint condition I'll send you.
Good show. 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it
Top notch! Pretty good investment/profit on that My Bonnie piece, I’d say 😂
did anyone check on Joe Pope after he had accomplished this ? I hope he was alright ! this was a fun collection of rarities. thank you, Andrerw.
Nice video, Andrew. See you used images I sent to you of some of my bags. Great! I might send you some images of rare stuff from my collection. I'll see. Anyway, looking forward to a "part two" of this video. Cheers, Nelio.
Thanks again, Nelio!
AWESOME VIDEO ON SOME VERY RARE BEATLES VINYL . TAKE CARE.
Thanks Bobby, you too!
The shop by me has a bunch of Tollie singles that were just given to them
Damn I would of sent a few pics, I have an original help vinyl which has a stamp from the original shop in Liverpool back in 1965
Your videos are so professional. Thank you for creating this content.
Glad you like them, Tavish.
Enjoy all you vids! Thanks! Would like some Info if you could on an old 45rpm from Vee-Jay records. "Please, please me" and flip side "From me to you". Unable to send a pic through UA-cam. Again, thanks for all your Beatle vids!
I have one of those number stamping machines from the 60s it even has the same font, the number automatically advances one place every time you stamp down.
Great vid as usual Andrew - Not sure how rare this is but back in the 80s when I was working for Our Price - we sold loads of Sgt Peppers CDs on release but had one come back as a mispress - weirdly it played Rubber Soul. I bought it of course and reaplced the customers copy. What I never understood is that the Sgt Pepper CD was released on it's own - whereas the Rubber Soul CD was in a group of 3 (if I remember correctly) - so how did a Rubber Soul CD get pressed up as Sgt Pepper? I also have what I think is the first Beatles Bootleg CD - the disc itself says it is by the Carpenters (!) but plays the Cavern Club rehearsals. The dealer told me that it said the Carpenters as this was the only way they could get the disc pressed - if it had said the Beatles no-one would have touched it - bought it in 1986 if I remember correctly.
The Beatles' CDs were released two or three at a time until _Sgt. Pepper_ which came out by itself. So _Rubber Soul_ and _Revolver_ were both released on the same day, but as separate albums, not packaged together.
I worked for Our Price from '85-88 and remember the excitement of The Beatles coming out on CD. Sadly, I never came across a mispressing of Pepper. Happy days!
I have a copy of A Hard Day's Night which plays an Alan Parsons Project album in it's entirety.. I also have a Stanley Jordan CD that plays A Hard Day's Night in it's entirety.. Weird LOL!
Please do another one of these - I have a few very rare Beatles rarities myself!
The Australian 'Please Please Me' LP had the first lot housed in UK covers which were 500. The early black/gold mono labels had the credit "MADE IN AUSTRALIA FOR THE PARLOPHONE CO. LTD., SYDNEY, NSW" written in a semi-circular rim print at the bottom (but both the ones in the UK made covers and the ones in the early Australian made covers contained this version of the label and were the same pressings). The second black/gold mono label had the credit "MADE IN AUSTRALIA BY E.M.I. (AUST.) LIMITED" written horizontally across the middle (as was also the case with all black/gold mono copies of "With the Beatles"). The first two Beatles albums in Australia both came out only showing the Mono catalogue number on the back of the Aussie printed covers. Then early in 1964 the stereo catalogue numbers were added to the covers.
PS: It's important to remember that both of the 'Please Please Me' mono LPs that came out in 1963 contained the exact same LP pressings with labels. It was only the cover that was changed to an Australian made one. Now some people will swap LPs and put them in a UK made cover to fool buyers or collectors. I see a lot of swapping happening on eBay and also at record fairs. So people need to be careful.
Hi I have a number of One off (3 copies were said to be made) Beatles records from the engineer at Mobile Fidelity - obtained in the early 90’s including even UHQR unreleased versions etc etc Rare beyond rare ! I was the importer for many years at the time here in Australia The engineer sold them to me at his house after a long night - his whole collection I purchased
Good video Andrew, starting to loosen up a little, not so stiff 😀
this was great. would definitely enjoy a sequel!
I'll keep that video for later. I don't own any rare items, but i own the 1st French mono pressing of Sgt. Pepper, which was pressed on the black and yellow Parlophone label, strangely... I think it's the only album released in France on Parlophone in the 60's. They very quickly reverted to the usual Odeon label.
Great video Andrew! I plan to send you an email later today or tomorrow of some of my rarities.
Please do!
Thanks again, Andrew, for this interesting video. I have never had the patience or money to go for real rarities. When recreating my Beatles vinyl collection I have tried to find curiosities rather than rarities also trying not go buy duplicate copies of the same album. Firstly I've collected both the UK and US catalogue trying to get each album with a different label design. So my Please please me is on the golden Parlophone (the repressing from the 2000's) and Beatles for sale on yellow Parlophone. From Capitol I have the rainbow, green, red, orange and purple labels. Secondly I've tried to get some of the albums with labels they did not originally have, Beatles second album, Revolver and Magical mystery tour with Apple label, Hey Jude with Capitol rainbow and the White album and Abbey road on Parlophone (the 1980's DMM pressings). As an icing on the cake I got some international pressings: Hard Day's Night as the French "4 garcons dans le vent" Odeon pressing and The Beatles Greatest on German Odeon. I am still trying to get a Spanish red Odeon label pressing of the Yellow Submarine. So nothing to rare and expensive, but fun stuff all the same. I am still wondering if I should I get the US Hard Day's Night on the 1970's United Artists label and maybe Let it be on greek orange and red EMI label...
Great episode. I have often wondered what the highest numbers ever found on a white album are. I don't think I have ever seen anything above 6 or 7 digits.
Thank you, Andrew. A wonderful friend, and pastor of mine, once showed me an unused slick of the butcher cover he received from a contact at Capitol Records. He passed away two days ago. In addition to being a pastor, he was also the bass player in the band, Bloodgood.
Sorry for the your loss of your friend, Roger. He sounded like an interesting guy.
@@Parlogram Thank you, Andrew.
Great video as always. The only rare Beatles things that i have are a graded/slabbed Beatles Plaks card put out by Topps in ‘64. Believe that it was a test set, meaning it wasn’t as mass produced as the other Beatles trading card sets.
Also of note is a white picture slide of the 4 lads on a beach (which has a “copyright apple” indicator stamped on it) as well as 3 undeveloped negatives from their press conference for their performance at the Hollywood Bowl in ‘64.
Don’t think it counts but for solo Beatles, i have a presumably unheard interview by Paul in regards to his Paul is Live album housed in a “emi” branded cassette.
Superb :)
Great video! The one super rare Beatles record I want is the nimbus cut of Sgt Pepper
I have a half peeled butcher block cover. I did it myself back in the day but never got around to finishing it. Don't know its value. The prices on Ebay are all over the place. I have a Beach Boys "All Summer Long" album with a Meet the Beatles label on one side. In 1964 I bought what I think is a German import Polydor album of the Beatles as the Beat Bros. with all1 the songs they recorded with Bert Kaemfert. My white album number is lm+. Will check the anniversary re-issue. Enjoyed this video.
Really interesting video and I love everyone's stories!
I have a set of Polaroid color photographs taken by someone from the audience during an interview with the Beatles in Los Angeles in 1966. (It's almost like a fingerprint :) or a voice recording made in an acoustic way.) As well as some original photos of the Beatles. I bought them in Atlanta about 15 years ago at a home sale.
In my files I can consider rares some LPS how:White Album with that number N A 364537,Rubber Soul-Help!-Beatles Again Brazilian Lps,very rares,bootlegs Get Back first edition more The Beatles Decca Tapes ,Let It Be with book in first edition,Reel Music.Here are my small collections as consider rares and have more one Love Me Do in format Lp 12´´ in 45rpm.I found good these Lps.Uchino of Japan.I see you Andrew.
Love it Andrew. I should have sent you some videos on my rare Beatles stuff. I do have videos on my channel. I am bummed I did not participate but I hear that you are doing a video on the Butcher cover. I do have a First State Butcher Cover in my collection if you want pictures. I do have some videos on it which you a freely to use if you want to. (You can do anything to them if it will help you) I have to say thank you because you helped me a looooong time ago trying to get the first copy of Love me do stampers 1/P jr. Thank you for doing these. Peace and love. :) P.S. Thank you for helping Bruce Spizer and Frank Daniels on the Beatles on Parlophone book. Helped me out sooooooo much!!! (Wanted to post this without the links.)
Thanks for the offer, Craig - I’d be very grateful for some video of your 1st state butcher and would of course credit you in the video.
@@Parlogram Absolutely! Do you want a new video or will the old videos on my channel work?
@@bungalowcraigsvinyl6092 I Iike your old video about it but I'd love to include some new video of it, if you don't mind .
@@Parlogram Sure I can get some more. What were you looking for? And when do you need it by?
@@bungalowcraigsvinyl6092 Thanks Craig Just some general shots of it, I'll leave it up to you. If you could do it in the next few days, it would be much appreciated.
GOOD VIDEO AS ALWAYS.
Great video....fascinating as ever!
Glad you enjoyed it, Stephen!
Rockaway Records is still in Los Angeles. It's a wonderful place to go and see a ton of Beatles memorabilia as well as many other rare items from other groups.
I bought an original copy of Roots, the Lennon rock n roll album on the Adam VIII label. That would make a good video, it’s a fascinating story about that album.
Hi Andrew, hello from Sydney Australia. How about a video of how to collect a complete Beatles.. um.. collection!
By this I mean just all the songs on vinyl without double ups (red & blue albums etc) .. no pressure :)
Get all the albums, and _Past Masters_ which includes all the songs not on the regular albums.
I have all 12 studio albums .. plus the Past Masters album .. plus the Magical Mystery Tour album .. plus The Silver Beatles including Pete Best with Tony Sheridan .. plus Beatles Live in Hamburg .. plus the Anthology albums which include the first recordings of ‘In spite of all the danger’ & Buddy Holly’s ‘That’ll be the day’ plus the “new” songs ‘Real Love’ & ‘Free as a bird’ .. the question is do I have every Beatles song on vinyl ? I think so (excluding live albums & compilations having these same songs) but I’d love to hear Andrews take on this…
The songs rereleased to keep 62 or 63 to keep copyright were sold on Apple Music. Plus I have a cd of same
Phenomenal job!!! Thanks for the music
Thanks Grover!
I have a copy of Abby road with side 1 label on both sides but the music is side 1 and 2.
My step mom bought it new and unfortunately wrote SIDE 2 on it with permanent marker!
Well. I went to check my own careworn preowned black & gold Australian “Please Please Me” LP straight away and - well blow me down! I only had it on the turntable two weeks ago because you thought it was a good pressing. Well this has made my day.
Nice video AGAIN Andrew. I nearly sent pictures of my original 1962 UK red Parlophone love me do/ps I love you. Which both sides have the 1 mother and g stamper for ps I love you and the p stamper for love me do. Sounds great. Is that good enough for these collections? I didn't think it was Andrew so didn't bother.
Also have you ever seen a UK black and yellow please please me with little astronaut boots prints on each side over Parlophone letters? They look like little silver metal embossed footprints like Neil Armstrongs on the moon.
P.S. Well done for actually getting some real Beatles music in the video finally. Thanks Andrew.
Cheers Craig. I'll be doing it again soon.
I had a Danish album called Hottest hits the cover showed the Beatles in the Eskimo outfits .
It also had a couple of misprints on it unfortunately I didn't know anything about it and sold it for £10 wish I'd kept it now 😮
I LOVE THE BEATLES! MY FAVORITE BAND!
I have the early 80s mono white album. Side 4 is in stereo
I have a 1982 UK pressing of the Yellow Submarine LP with side one in mono and side two in stereo in a stereo cover.
barbados had a pressing plant? that's awesome
Love this. Cheers Andrew 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it, Bob.
I have number 100 of the white album but the cover has been drawn on by my mum when she was a baby
Wow! I'd love to see a pictures of that. Would you mind sending one to me at: andrew@parlogramauctions.com
@@Parlogram I’m currently on holiday but when I get home I will certainly send a picture
Great video. These albums and singles were created in the very recent past. In the modern age. Yet already facts are lost such as the exact method used to number the white album. Your videos are reaching out to people who know all sorts of obscure facts that would otherwise get lost. Now is the time for all this to be recorded because the people who were there are dwindling.
That was magic, thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
My own rarity Is a chilean White Album Vol. 1 mono pressing (catalogue number Apple 2001) from 1969, purchased in 2001 for just 3 dollars back then, and still in VG condition.
Beatles with Frank Ifield had 2 different covers have sample shown, want the other one
I once slept on the stairs of Record Theatre to get Who tickets back in 1989! I have a couple of Kinks records that still have the Record Theatre price tags on them.
@@BrianR2395 I was in Rochester, New York. Record Theatre was my favorite because they had that little stamp book. I think it was every $10 you spent you got a stamp and once you filled up the book you got money off your next purchase. They had a used record section too and when I was a kid I found a lotta good stuff there.
Really interesting video! Now that's some intriguing information on the WA UK numbers. But if these sleeves were also exported to Scandinavia, they must have shared the UK numbers' pool, mustn't they? I wonder what other countries might be in question.
I can only share what my research found out on the numbering of German toploader covers (Nicolaus GmbH). These were also used in several other European countries, like France, Benelux or Italy, and indeed shared the same numbers pool.
What did change in the course of time, was the style, and that went by ranges.
No. 0000000 to 0125000 were printed in black ink, with slightly cut-off leading zero, in a small serifless font.
No. 0125000 to 0280000 were printed in grey ink, in a larger serifless font.
No. 0280000 and upwards were not printed at all, but debossed blindly, in the same font as the grey ink ones.
Around 1970 the number of digits was reduced from 7 to 6. The debossed numbering remained until at least the late 80s and the digital-sourced DMM version, though numbers were restarted inbetween. Around 1981, the debossed font was changed for the serif font very similar to UK toploader one (still debossed), in 1984 it reverted back to serifless (and remained so).
12:58 seems like 5 NOV to me as well, just with a lower end of another character stamped with it. Makes sense to me that the foreign copies were mastered dubbed right away after finishing the master copy tape.
Yes, it's 100% "-5 NOV 1964". The tape for Australia was created the same day as the UK compil and EQ
The strangest Beatles collection I saw was in an antique mall here in Canada. They must've had over a dozen copies of the She Loves You 45 on Swan. I did take a photo when I found about 7 or 8. But kept finding more while digging through maybe 2000 45s. All of them were in rough shape. Finding one is cool. But to keep finding them was just crazy. And just to put it here. They wanted $4 each for them.
Record Theatre was in Rochester New York in Midtown Plaza. I knew that bag anywhere
Ooh I have them at Sydney Aust !
I have some which, while rare, I probably wouldn’t call super-rare. These include the original polydor UK My Bonnie single, mono and stereo 3rd state butcher covers, original uk mono Yellow Submarine album and two copies of the black and gold Please Please Me mono album (one with Northern Songs publishing variation). I also have a Beatles for Sale with the side 2 label on both sides, for some reason.
so decca released "my bonnie" april 1962 on this 45 after they turned the band down and before the beatles first single release "love me do" october 1962...wow i wonder if decca knew the beatles were on that 45 with sheriden when they released it?
Great show Andrew do you Have any of the Beatle plates that came out back in the90s and what do think of them?
Thanks Thomas. I’m afraid I don’t have any of those plates.