Hi Tone, though very much a Yorkshire Beatle fan i did get the red label Usa gatefold version. My copy does have the bellsound logo and the s/f on the dead wax but no triangle
Hi David, I think the triangle isn't on all of the genuine copies. The Bellsound and SF are important and if your Phil & Ronnie looks the same as in the video then you've got a real one. Thanks for your comment
I still have my Red Apple Gatefold Beatles “Let It Be” LP that I purchased as a boy around 1970-71…so I’m certain it’s the real thing. Still one of my favorite records to this day.
Great video, the only thing is the "I AM" in the triangle only signifies that it was pressed at the Scranton plant. My copy is legit and it has a 0 stamped in the dead wax which indicates that it came from the Jacksonville plant. Each Capitol pressing plant had it's own code. Discogs lists all the dead wax variants for the original legit pressings of Let It Be. I've got the Bell Sound and the SF and all the other indicators that it's a legit copy.
I checked my red apple Let it be.I passed the test.Thanks so much for the info.I learn something new everyday.I too started collecting Beatles records in 1976.
I think that is a real one then. The Bell Sound stamp seems the constant feature of the real ones . Some real ones had the IAM and some didnt. As long as you have the bell sound stamp that looks like the pic in the video rather than an effort to try and draw the stamps it's real. Thanks for your comment
My copy that I purchased soon after it was released back 50+ years ago has everything but the “IAM” in the triangle. I’m sure my Beatles LP is the real Red Apple Label version because of when it was purchased by me personally…no doubt about it. Unfortunately, as a young boy, I wasn’t very careful when playing my records so they were scratched badly but I played them constantly back when they were new and enjoyed them for many years. Now it’s CD’s or MP3’s of those old LP’s that I play mostly.
@@BuddyClontz Definitely a real one . As I mentioned in the video, not all the real ones had the IAM stamp with the Bell Sound stamp . So great news. I think we all have the problem of not looking after records very well as kids and playing them on poor record players didn’t help either . You’re not alone . Thanks for your coming comment Buddy.
@@stephenbarrow3352 That sounds like its a genuine copy. I dont think all the genuine copies had the IAM but they did all have the Bellsound stamp. Thanks for your comment.
I have them both. One other clue is that the label on side two is offset and you can actually see that someone took a photo of an original. The red label is actually a green label with red tint. The reason for the red label was that United Artist owned the rights to the soundtrack and they could not release it on the green Apple label. So, instead of following the Capitol records numbering scheme that was used on all of the US Beatles Apple records, United Artist decided to us the "AR" prefix. The red Apple label is all we knew of here in the states. I was actually surprised when I entered a used record store in the late 70's and saw a copy of Let it be on the Green apple label. I never knew that they existed in the Green Apple label. Let it be was eventually re-issued on the Capitol label and gone was the gatefold sleeve. Instead, a poster was included inside the record jacket with a photo of what was originally inside the gatefold sleeve. The same thing happened with the Hey Jude album. That album was deleted and the counterfeit copies started to show up. Eventually, Capitol re-issued that one as well. Hope this helps.
I have a red apple gatefold let it be, looks like a counterfit, I bought it in Bournemouth UK in about 1978, also the spine does not line up with the spine text so "The Beatles Let It Be" and the catalogue number are on the left hand side of the front cover.
I got the red vinyl now and then 12 inch and was hoping for the Red apple 🍎 label to go with the Red parlophone please please me label for the B-side. Would have been a nice touch instead of apple 🍏
I bought mine when it was released at Sears, I was 11 at the time. Everything except the triangle and mine has a plain white sleeve with a hole revealing the red apple. Thanks for the vid!
Love you fun beginning :). I sure do look forward to all of the LIB stuff coming out !!! WOW I sure do look forward to your Wing video that is for sure !!!!! I do have the UK one but it is wild that you have the US one as well . And yes I do have this a s well but for me the UK one is so much better sound !!!! You know the US one the vinyl dose look like it is in great shape . It is getting a pit harder to find this one here but I do think you did well mate !!!! I did enjoy watching this one and you sure did well on all of Research on this !!! You know for fun lol I just might try and find a fake one :). Great video you did on this one . Take care and cheers !!!!!
Hi Brad, Great to see you here again. Thanks very much glad you liked the video and especially the silly intro. Yeah Im very pleased with my find as 40 odd years of label envy of my mates copy have finally ended. Like you say I should probably compare it against my original Uk LIB as i havent played that for a while as i tend to reach for the 2009 remastered copy if Im playing the album - that's why it made me laugh when I saw my teenage writing on the inner sleeve - I'd completely forgotten that I'd done that :-). So did your red apple tick all the 'clue' boxes as being a real one? If you wanna get a fake one just for the hell of it, there are plenty on eBay quite cheap and most of the sellers are in the US so you wont have to pay anywhere near what I had to pay for P&P. I have a nice story to tell about the Wings '79 tour so hope you'll tune in for that one. Thanks as usual for your great comment.
Hi. I’m a bit confused. My copy have all the characteristics of the original except the triangle with the I A M. Is Could it be an original? Thank you for a very informative video.
Dion't worry it sounds like yours is a genuine copy and not a counterfeit. I think I said in the video that some real ones have all the things that I mention, but some real ones don't have the IAM triangle. if you have everything else , yours is real. Glad you found the video useful
Whoever sent you the album from America gave you a cool older capitol records inner sleeve. The Parlogram guy knows which albums and pressing plants in the srates would have supplied that inner sleeve. My copy also has a plain white sleeve with cut label sized hole. No triangle but has everything else and a tiny star designed only with droplets where the 5 points of the star would be,l
Sounds like you have a real one. Yes I didnt the inner was original but glad to have this one as they are quite hard to get at a decent price here in the UK
I was at an antique store and though to myself “wouldn’t it be nice to have a red apple let it be?” So for 20$ i snapped one up. After careful evaluation i determined it it real!! So thank you for this vid it helped me identfy my pressing.
United Artists had the rights to distribute the Let It Be LP in the USA until 1975. Since Capitol had nothing to do with the release at the time, this gave counterfeiters a chance to cash in after. Another distinguishable factor on all US counterfeits is they all have either a cut corner or a drilled hole. This is how they were able to get into shops as fake un-returnable counterfeits. Most shops just did not know. There were multiple counterfeiters and all counterfeit copies sound terrible; blurry, flat ironed and no dynamic range. Some copies I've heard sound like an AM transistor radio. When Capitol acquired United Artists in the late 70's, they then had the rights to press and distribute.The counterfeits which had been floating around in abundance at bargain prices for about four years, did not take long to disappear forever.
I always wondered why so many copies have the cut-aways. Im still not sure I understand why they had this cut out corner, did the original batch of real copies have this that the counterfeiters were trying to copy? Thanks very much for all the info you've provided in your posts on this, all very useful stuff to know.
You have a 1965 inner sleeve, making it incorrect for this album. It probably got switched with another US Capitol Beatles album (possibly the Beatles VI or Help! album) when the original owner was playing their records.
I have had my copy since the 1980's and I'm glad to say it is real! I did not realize that this album was counterfeited. I recently bought the deluxe vinyl edition and am looking forward to listening to it. The book that comes with it is great. Thanks for the video!
Great news and glad you've got a real one. I didnt know about the counterfeiting either until I looked into trying to get a US copy for myself. They went very common here in the UK. Enjoy the new box set, it really is fantastic. If you havent seen the videos yet, Ive done a full review of the main album comparing it to the 1970 Phil Spector mix and a separate video reviewingr the bonus material. Maybe check them out when you've had a chance to digest the box set. Thanks for your comment Bill.
Why did you get bored listening to the Beatles? Anyway, I have both “Blast from your Past” and “Let it Be” (with the gatefold cover) on the red Apple 🍎 label.
@@beatleytonesbeatleschannel As you said Let it Be went out of print for a while in the U.S. in the 70s. When it suddenly reappeared around 1980 or 81 it had the purple Capitol label. From then until the end of LPs in the early 90s I believe it saw the same Capitol label variations as other Beatles albums.
Hey, Thanks for the great video. Thanks to your video I know I have a fake copy but to my eyes it’s a very good fake and I went back and forth over whether it was real. Cover looks real and it’s supposed to be a Winchester pressing which never had bell sound even on real copies so you can’t use that method. I was only able to figure it out based on the terrible sound quality, abnormally heavy disc (190 grams), and the fact that the sf and Phil and Ronnie looked similar, but not the same to the real thing.
Thanks very much for this really nice comment. I hope this hasn't ruined it for you and sorry that yours is ant a real one. That is really heavy vinyl for the period. Any idea what year yours was pressed? There were so many fake ones about apparently
@@beatleytonesbeatleschannel Hey, Thanks for the reply. This is my 4th copy of Let It Be (1970 UK, 2012, Remix) so I wasn’t terribly disappointed and it at the very least makes the other three look leagues better. I don’t know when it was made because I bought it for cheap second hand, discogs does have an “unofficial release” with 190 grams that they say came out in 1970 but other than that I haven’t a clue.
@@williamdyemyhair No problem re the reply. Ok I just wondered if you knew. Yes all the others are great sounding records particularly the new remix. Its given the album new else of life I think
Have you opened it? Would be amazed if an original from 1970 was still sealed but if it is a real one, probably worth a lot of money now. Thanks for your comment Daniel.
Hi, yes very true, I didn't include this as a cast iron clue, because it's pretty easy to mix up inner sleeves over the years, especially if the original owner wasn't a hardcore Beatles collector, that has to keep everything in its rightful place. I think that is probably the case with my one. Thanks for this comment
That's useful information! I didn't know the Let It Be album got counterfeited. I've seen US copies that Maggie Mae was credited P.D. Lennon; McCartney; Harrison; Starkey (or Starr). On Dig It was credited to all four Beatles but I seen some copies where Starkey came after McCartney with Harrison at the ending credit. My legit copy on Dig It has Lennon; McCartney; Harrison; Starr. And Maggie Mae has just the P.D. credit.
Yes mine has the same credits too. We both have a legit first US pressing. later pressings of the US LIB had Maggie Mae as PD: arr lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starkey. The first copy of the album i owned was the UK pressing but probably not first pressing as a bought it in 1976 when I first discovered The Beatles. The credit for Maggie on that says Trad: arr Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starkey, which is also what's on my LP box set LIB album. Thanks very much for your comment
I bought mine in 70s foldout cover red apple bell record scratch. I believe mine is original too. Great video. Great memories. I believe I have Ringo too. 👍
Yes not quite as bad on my UK copy. For once, i wasnt too worried about the sleeve, this purchase was purely about watching a red apple going round and round on my turntable :-) There seems no reason to even play side 2 :-)
When you think it had advance orders of over 3.7 Million, it was surprising a second pressing didn’t happen. The counterfeits were always about in the U.K., especially at the conventions, but for a fake it was a good one.
Hi Dave, great to see you on here. Yes, aesthetically they're decent. What I unintentionally didn't mention in my video was that, from what Ive read, the counterfeit copies sound awful. I haven't heard one but that's how the story goes. Thanks very much for your comment.
@@beatleytonesbeatleschannel I had one years ago which I got for £1, and it did sound lousy! I gave it away anyway, but I’ve got an original sealed USA one which is 100% genuine!
@@beatledavesbeatleschannel Of course you have. I never doubted that for single second. :-) Your collection is amazing. I havent quite finished your Two Virgins vid, but I'll come back to it.
Hi Tone, though very much a Yorkshire Beatle fan i did get the red label Usa gatefold version. My copy does have the bellsound logo and the s/f on the dead wax but no triangle
Hi David, I think the triangle isn't on all of the genuine copies. The Bellsound and SF are important and if your Phil & Ronnie looks the same as in the video then you've got a real one. Thanks for your comment
Mine is just like yours. Everything but the triangle. And I bought mine from a very reputable record store here in the US.
I still have my Red Apple Gatefold Beatles “Let It Be” LP that I purchased as a boy around 1970-71…so I’m certain it’s the real thing. Still one of my favorite records to this day.
Great video, the only thing is the "I AM" in the triangle only signifies that it was pressed at the Scranton plant. My copy is legit and it has a 0 stamped in the dead wax which indicates that it came from the Jacksonville plant. Each Capitol pressing plant had it's own code. Discogs lists all the dead wax variants for the original legit pressings of Let It Be. I've got the Bell Sound and the SF and all the other indicators that it's a legit copy.
Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for the extra info John.
Great info. Mine also has the 0 stamped instead of the triangle. Everything else described in the video is there.
@@andysandoval928 great stuff. Glad you found the video useful
@@andysandoval928 Thanks , glad you found the video useful
Thanks for the info. Was very helpful.
Thanks very much Andy. glad you enjoyed the video
I checked my red apple Let it be.I passed the test.Thanks so much for the info.I learn something new everyday.I too started collecting Beatles records in 1976.
ahh that's great to know that you have a real one . 1976 was obviously a good year for discovering the Beatles
I seem to have one with the Bell Sound but without the I AM!
I think that is a real one then. The Bell Sound stamp seems the constant feature of the real ones . Some real ones had the IAM and some didnt. As long as you have the bell sound stamp that looks like the pic in the video rather than an effort to try and draw the stamps it's real. Thanks for your comment
My copy that I purchased soon after it was released back 50+ years ago has everything but the “IAM” in the triangle. I’m sure my Beatles LP is the real Red Apple Label version because of when it was purchased by me personally…no doubt about it. Unfortunately, as a young boy, I wasn’t very careful when playing my records so they were scratched badly but I played them constantly back when they were new and enjoyed them for many years. Now it’s CD’s or MP3’s of those old LP’s that I play mostly.
@@BuddyClontz Definitely a real one . As I mentioned in the video, not all the real ones had the IAM stamp with the Bell Sound stamp . So great news. I think we all have the problem of not looking after records very well as kids and playing them on poor record players didn’t help either . You’re not alone . Thanks for your coming comment Buddy.
Great Video! I seem to have an original copy from the uS. I was disappointed that they used the green apple on the box set
Thanks very much Michael, glad you enjoyed the video. Yes I agree, would have been great to have a red apple on at least one of the LPs
On my copy it has everything including the BellSouth stamp but it hasn't got the IAM triangle on either side. Thanks for the video
Bellsound even
@@stephenbarrow3352 That sounds like its a genuine copy. I dont think all the genuine copies had the IAM but they did all have the Bellsound stamp. Thanks for your comment.
I have them both. One other clue is that the label on side two is offset and you can actually see that someone took a photo of an original. The red label is actually a green label with red tint. The reason for the red label was that United Artist owned the rights to the soundtrack and they could not release it on the green Apple label. So, instead of following the Capitol records numbering scheme that was used on all of the US Beatles Apple records, United Artist decided to us the "AR" prefix. The red Apple label is all we knew of here in the states. I was actually surprised when I entered a used record store in the late 70's and saw a copy of Let it be on the Green apple label. I never knew that they existed in the Green Apple label. Let it be was eventually re-issued on the Capitol label and gone was the gatefold sleeve. Instead, a poster was included inside the record jacket with a photo of what was originally inside the gatefold sleeve. The same thing happened with the Hey Jude album. That album was deleted and the counterfeit copies started to show up. Eventually, Capitol re-issued that one as well. Hope this helps.
Thanks for the info and yes very much appreciate this comment. I didnt know about the capitol issue with the poster. Great stuff cheers
I have a red apple gatefold let it be, looks like a counterfit, I bought it in Bournemouth UK in about 1978, also the spine does not line up with the spine text so "The Beatles Let It Be" and the catalogue number are on the left hand side of the front cover.
There were a lot of them about unfortunately
I got the red vinyl now and then 12 inch and was hoping for the Red apple 🍎 label to go with the Red parlophone please please me label for the B-side. Would have been a nice touch instead of apple 🍏
I agree
I was so relived to have a real copy! Great Video!
Really glad to hear that you got real one Emily and glad you liked the video too. Thanks very much for your comment
I bought mine when it was released at Sears, I was 11 at the time. Everything except the triangle and mine has a plain white sleeve with a hole revealing the red apple. Thanks for the vid!
You're welcome. Sounds like yours is a real one. Not all the real ones had the triangle with the IAM on them. Thanks for your comment
Depending on the pressing plant, some genuine US Let It Be LP's have red glossy labels, and some are less vibrant matte finish.
ahh so some genuine copies also had the less vibrant red apples and not just faded over time. Thanks again for providing great input
Love you fun beginning :). I sure do look forward to all of the LIB stuff coming out !!! WOW I sure do look forward to your Wing video that is for sure !!!!! I do have the UK one but it is wild that you have the US one as well . And yes I do have this a s well but for me the UK one is so much better sound !!!! You know the US one the vinyl dose look like it is in great shape . It is getting a pit harder to find this one here but I do think you did well mate !!!! I did enjoy watching this one and you sure did well on all of Research on this !!! You know for fun lol I just might try and find a fake one :). Great video you did on this one . Take care and cheers !!!!!
Hi Brad, Great to see you here again. Thanks very much glad you liked the video and especially the silly intro. Yeah Im very pleased with my find as 40 odd years of label envy of my mates copy have finally ended. Like you say I should probably compare it against my original Uk LIB as i havent played that for a while as i tend to reach for the 2009 remastered copy if Im playing the album - that's why it made me laugh when I saw my teenage writing on the inner sleeve - I'd completely forgotten that I'd done that :-). So did your red apple tick all the 'clue' boxes as being a real one? If you wanna get a fake one just for the hell of it, there are plenty on eBay quite cheap and most of the sellers are in the US so you wont have to pay anywhere near what I had to pay for P&P.
I have a nice story to tell about the Wings '79 tour so hope you'll tune in for that one. Thanks as usual for your great comment.
Will give you and your channel shout out on my next video mate
Well done you on your video !!! And you know I just might get a fake one just for fun :"). All the best to you mate !!!
O wow thank you so much for that . Win I do get cot up on videos I sure will be heading your way !!!! Cheers :).
@@beatlebrad5339 no problem. Thanks for your input again mate
Hi. I’m a bit confused. My copy have all the characteristics of the original except the triangle with the I A M. Is Could it be an original? Thank you for a very informative video.
Dion't worry it sounds like yours is a genuine copy and not a counterfeit. I think I said in the video that some real ones have all the things that I mention, but some real ones don't have the IAM triangle. if you have everything else , yours is real. Glad you found the video useful
Whoever sent you the album from America gave you a cool older capitol records inner sleeve. The Parlogram guy knows which albums and pressing plants in the srates would have supplied that inner sleeve. My copy also has a plain white sleeve with cut label sized hole. No triangle but has everything else and a tiny star designed only with droplets where the 5 points of the star would be,l
Sounds like you have a real one. Yes I didnt the inner was original but glad to have this one as they are quite hard to get at a decent price here in the UK
I was at an antique store and though to myself “wouldn’t it be nice to have a red apple let it be?” So for 20$ i snapped one up. After careful evaluation i determined it it real!! So thank you for this vid it helped me identfy my pressing.
You're welcome and you really did pick up a bargain. Very glad you hear that you managed to bag yourself a real one at a great price to boot.
@@beatleytonesbeatleschannel i had no idea about rarity of these things, i only found out when i got home and this popped up lol
United Artists had the rights to distribute the Let It Be LP in the USA until 1975. Since Capitol had nothing to do with the release at the time, this gave counterfeiters a chance to cash in after. Another distinguishable factor on all US counterfeits is they all have either a cut corner or a drilled hole. This is how they were able to get into shops as fake un-returnable counterfeits. Most shops just did not know. There were multiple counterfeiters and all counterfeit copies sound terrible; blurry, flat ironed and no dynamic range. Some copies I've heard sound like an AM transistor radio. When Capitol acquired United Artists in the late 70's, they then had the rights to press and distribute.The counterfeits which had been floating around in abundance at bargain prices for about four years, did not take long to disappear forever.
I always wondered why so many copies have the cut-aways. Im still not sure I understand why they had this cut out corner, did the original batch of real copies have this that the counterfeiters were trying to copy? Thanks very much for all the info you've provided in your posts on this, all very useful stuff to know.
That is extremely useful information Hootenhtn !
There are a lot of copies of the Mona Lisa too!
You probably don't have it. It's in the Louve!
Is the Louve the fake version of the Louvre?
You have a 1965 inner sleeve, making it incorrect for this album. It probably got switched with another US Capitol Beatles album (possibly the Beatles VI or Help! album) when the original owner was playing their records.
quite possibly yes
Mine passes all the tests except there is no IAM in a triangle. neat or poorly hand drawn.
I would say if passes all the others then it's probably a real one. My info said that not all the real ones had the IAM
Have U.K export for the former Yugoslavia on the yellow " Parlophone," label with " Red Apple," on the back and it' s 100% original. Pressed 1970. 😎
Wow! never heard of such a thing but sounds fantastic
I have had my copy since the 1980's and I'm glad to say it is real! I did not realize that this album was counterfeited. I recently bought the deluxe vinyl edition and am looking forward to listening to it. The book that comes with it is great. Thanks for the video!
Great news and glad you've got a real one. I didnt know about the counterfeiting either until I looked into trying to get a US copy for myself. They went very common here in the UK. Enjoy the new box set, it really is fantastic. If you havent seen the videos yet, Ive done a full review of the main album comparing it to the 1970 Phil Spector mix and a separate video reviewingr the bonus material. Maybe check them out when you've had a chance to digest the box set. Thanks for your comment Bill.
Why did you get bored listening to the Beatles? Anyway, I have both “Blast from your Past” and “Let it Be” (with the gatefold cover) on the red Apple 🍎 label.
I didn't get bored listening the Beatles, I got bored writing the song titles on the inner sleeve :-)
That inner sleeve came from an earlier U.S. Capitol LP, not "Let it Be" which had a plain white sleeve.
Yes I know but thanks for the info
I had a real U.S. copy, BUT not an original pressing. Mine was purchased around 1981 on the standard purple Capitol label with a non gatefold sleeve.
Being from the UK, I wasnt aware there was a US pressing that didnt have the red apple label. Thanks for your comment.
@@beatleytonesbeatleschannel As you said Let it Be went out of print for a while in the U.S. in the 70s. When it suddenly reappeared around 1980 or 81 it had the purple Capitol label. From then until the end of LPs in the early 90s I believe it saw the same Capitol label variations as other Beatles albums.
@@moonbeamskies3346 cheers . thanks for info
Hey,
Thanks for the great video. Thanks to your video I know I have a fake copy but to my eyes it’s a very good fake and I went back and forth over whether it was real. Cover looks real and it’s supposed to be a Winchester pressing which never had bell sound even on real copies so you can’t use that method. I was only able to figure it out based on the terrible sound quality, abnormally heavy disc (190 grams), and the fact that the sf and Phil and Ronnie looked similar, but not the same to the real thing.
Thanks very much for this really nice comment. I hope this hasn't ruined it for you and sorry that yours is ant a real one. That is really heavy vinyl for the period. Any idea what year yours was pressed? There were so many fake ones about apparently
@@beatleytonesbeatleschannel
Hey,
Thanks for the reply. This is my 4th copy of Let It Be (1970 UK, 2012, Remix) so I wasn’t terribly disappointed and it at the very least makes the other three look leagues better. I don’t know when it was made because I bought it for cheap second hand, discogs does have an “unofficial release” with 190 grams that they say came out in 1970 but other than that I haven’t a clue.
@@williamdyemyhair No problem re the reply. Ok I just wondered if you knew. Yes all the others are great sounding records particularly the new remix. Its given the album new else of life I think
My Let it be is made by Oasis records and doesn't have the song " Dig It". Never knew till just now.
And I never knew there was such a thing until now so thanks very much for letting me know and getting involved
Checked the copy that my father got in Chicago, 1971 and it seems to be the real deal
Great stuff
CRANK LOL
yeah LOL
I got a sealed red apple Let it Be.... but I think its fake!
Have you opened it? Would be amazed if an original from 1970 was still sealed but if it is a real one, probably worth a lot of money now. Thanks for your comment Daniel.
Not the original USA inner sleeve. Let It Be was distributed by United Artists in USA, not Capitol.
Hi, yes very true, I didn't include this as a cast iron clue, because it's pretty easy to mix up inner sleeves over the years, especially if the original owner wasn't a hardcore Beatles collector, that has to keep everything in its rightful place. I think that is probably the case with my one. Thanks for this comment
1st UK sounds better than red apple. But that was the same with all Beatle records.
yes i think so too
I know. The cover looks fake, photo copied. They are easy to spot. I have 3 copies of it. One of them is sealed. Originals!!!!
So you have no idea if your sealed one is real then
That's useful information! I didn't know the Let It Be album got counterfeited. I've seen US copies that Maggie Mae was credited P.D. Lennon; McCartney; Harrison; Starkey (or Starr). On Dig It was credited to all four Beatles but I seen some copies where Starkey came after McCartney with Harrison at the ending credit. My legit copy on Dig It has Lennon; McCartney; Harrison; Starr. And Maggie Mae has just the P.D. credit.
Yes mine has the same credits too. We both have a legit first US pressing. later pressings of the US LIB had Maggie Mae as PD: arr lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starkey. The first copy of the album i owned was the UK pressing but probably not first pressing as a bought it in 1976 when I first discovered The Beatles. The credit for Maggie on that says Trad: arr Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starkey, which is also what's on my LP box set LIB album. Thanks very much for your comment
I bought mine in 70s foldout cover red apple bell record scratch. I believe mine is original too. Great video. Great memories. I believe I have Ringo too. 👍
P.D. = "public domain".
This LP cover always suffered bad with Ring wear, black doesn’t help either!
Yes not quite as bad on my UK copy. For once, i wasnt too worried about the sleeve, this purchase was purely about watching a red apple going round and round on my turntable :-) There seems no reason to even play side 2 :-)
@@beatleytonesbeatleschannel I definitely hear yer there!
When you think it had advance orders of over 3.7 Million, it was surprising a second pressing didn’t happen.
The counterfeits were always about in the U.K., especially at the conventions, but for a fake it was a good one.
Hi Dave, great to see you on here. Yes, aesthetically they're decent. What I unintentionally didn't mention in my video was that, from what Ive read, the counterfeit copies sound awful. I haven't heard one but that's how the story goes. Thanks very much for your comment.
@@beatleytonesbeatleschannel I had one years ago which I got for £1, and it did sound lousy!
I gave it away anyway, but I’ve got an original sealed USA one which is 100% genuine!
@@beatledavesbeatleschannel Of course you have. I never doubted that for single second. :-) Your collection is amazing. I havent quite finished your Two Virgins vid, but I'll come back to it.
@@beatleytonesbeatleschannel cheers Buddy!
I’ve done you a shout out and mentioned your channel on my video on 24/10.
@@beatledavesbeatleschannel Thanks very much Dave. I really appreciate that - very nice of you. I will reciprocate on my next video.