The Beatles For Export Only | The Crazy Story of Their EMI Pressed Capitol Albums
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- Опубликовано: 24 июн 2023
- U.S. servicemen and their families stationed in Europe in the 1960's, the U.S. Army and Air Force were kept supplied with Beatles records via on-base stores called the PX or BX. While some were imported from home, three of The Beatles early U.S. albums were pressed by EMI in the UK for export to these military establishments. They are now among the most collectible Beatles albums in the world and this is their story.
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I'm a first generation fan/collector and I have been on the look out for these for years (for a reasonable price!) I finally found one on sale by one of my fav EBAY sellers about 2 years ago. It is "Something New". Overall it is in pretty good shape. It was an auction which I won for $56 ! So thrilled to have scored this.
im happy you found it at such a great price!
Congratulations man!!!
Congrats man. I've been on ebay since 1999, and I've had these export records as saved searches for years. If this was 2021, I'm guessing you are the one who outbid me. Original 60s Beatles LPs on Parlophone have become unaffordable to most people. In recent years, bargains on ebay have become few and far between. If I may, I will share a few stories of buying Beatles on ebay. I have all the original 60s UK LPs, except Let It Be. Most I bought in person years ago. Since I bought most from 1980-2000, I paid next to nothing for them. In 2002, I bought a mint minus stereo original Rubber Soul, from an ebay seller in Australia. It was $15. Fast forward to 2010. I was weeding out a lot of my US pressed Beatles LPs on ebay. Some were going for a lot more than I expected. At the same time, there was a seller in New Zealand, who had two 1960s pressed Beatles LPs from New Zealand I was looking at. One was a first pressing NZ Please Please Me, the closest I will ever get to a UK original. It was unplayed new old store stock, from 1963, with an opening bid of $100. The same seller had M- 1964-65 NZ pressing of With The Beatles, with an opening bid of $30. No one bid on them. I grabbed them both, even though I had a M- 60s UK stereo pressing of With The Beatles I got for cheap a few years earlier at a local antique mall. I never heard anything back from either seller. Forward again to 2013, there was a UK seller on ebay, who had a M- UK mono original Beatles For Sale, with an opening bid in pounds, of a little over $30 US. Again, I was the only bidder. I grabbed it. The seller sent me a message saying he would sell it to me, but the remaining Beatles records he had would be Buy It Now, priced according to price guides. It was about this time I stopped looking for bargains on ebay. Most good records on ebay are Buy It Now, not auction.
Phenomenal job!! After 60 years of collecting this is why it’s good to get information from many different sources!! You are the best in presentation and intelligent information! Thank you sir!!
Thanks Cleve. Glad you enjoyed it!
Beatles VI was also oddly released in New Zealand, though the label incorrectly called it Beatles IV.
Thanks for including my friend, Jeff Uleau’s artwork. We grew up together and became Beatlemaniacs around the same time.
Very interesting! My Father served in the US Army and the PX was the absolute best place to purchase albums. I think the last one I bought at the PX was Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells which a buddy and I had heard on the FM radio while hanging out in his purple room with black lights and posters. We heard Tubular Bells almost a year before The Exorcist came out and bought a copy at the Ft. Knox PX! Funny though, we never thought of the music as scary until seeing /hearing it in the context of The Exorcist.
I enjoy your videos very much - Rock On!!!
Thanks for sharing your story, Donn!
The PX record dept photo is actually from 1968, as it contains the Graduate soundtrack, which released in late January.
The only export I own is the Hey Jude with the misprints including Revolutions. It still has the $2.50 price sticker on the back. As you’ve mentioned before in another video, it sounds absolutely FANTASTIC!! Every song sounds incredible but especially Old Brown Shoe…wow! It has never sounded better than on that pressing IMO.
Geez I never knew about these Andrew.
Always learning new Beatles stuff from you and your channel.
In the US navy we called the the Exchange.
I managed to find a copy of “The Beatles Second Album” in a charity shop in Scotland for £20 a couple of years ago.
Thanks for this episode! I was an army brat and spent many hours exploring various PXs during my childhood. I bought vinyl copies of Yellow Submarine and the White Album at our PX in the mid 1970s. I also scored copies London Town on cassette and Nilsson’s Son of Dracula on vinyl at our PX. The photo brought back a lot of memories!
I used to own "Beatles VI" as an export. It's one of the very few Beatles lp's I have sold, because I though it sounded so horrendously bad. Regrets? I've had a few... Great and informative video, Andrew, as always! Thank you so much for sharing your vast knowledge.
But then again, too few to mention...
I never heard of these. These will be nice to have for collective purposes. Love the video❤. I wanted to ask you. Will you ever do a live stream and chat with us in the future?!?
Yeah… I traded my original parlophone albums in for 2012 stereo reissues when I was in my early 20’s because I wanted records that were in “perfect condition” Among these included a 3rd stereo pressing of Please Please Me.
PS I’m in the United States so original/early uk pressings aren’t easy to find. Yeah, I’m an idiot.
Excellent video as always, Andrew. I appreciate that you clarified that the Barbados and Kenya LPs on export labels were not Decca contract pressings. Fighting this misinformation is like plowing the ocean, but hope springs eternal.
Another interesting wrinkle is that the Dutch EMI licensee, Bovema, also pressed Something New using UK-supplied stampers and G&L sleeves.
However (yes, there's always a however) I have two quibbles about the intended destinations of the export copies.
1. The Odeon YS may have been sold in Gibraltar and Malta, but more than 90% of all copies I've seen offered for sale in the past 15+ years surfaced in Portugal. This makes sense because Portugal did not press Beatles LPs domestically until the mid-1970s but was a good market for the Beatles' music (as evidenced by the many EPs and singles pressed there during the 1960s). A significant, possibly the largest, fraction of the export copies of Abbey Road and Let It Be also surface in Portugal.
2. I don't believe the Apple version of Hey Jude was intended primarily for export. First, most of them seem to surface in the UK, and in large numbers. Second, the export versions of the other Apple LPs were pressed on Parlophone (and in the case of YS, Odeon) labels because of Apple trademark issues in some countries. An Apple version of Hey Jude does not address that problem. I believe the Apple version of Hey Jude was a regular domestic pressing, with the CPCS catalog number because it originated with Capitol. I believe the copies intended for export were the insanely hard to find P-CPCS 106 copies on one box Parlophone labels.
You, Sir, seem to know what you’re talking about. Hats off to you and thanks for some interesting bits of info!
Such an enjoyable video. Super fascinating. Geopolitical military history and recording history, two of my favorite subjects at once.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I remember the PX in the US. Travis AFB, Mare Island Naval Base, Hamilton Field, Fort Ord Army Base before and after my father retired after 20 years service in the 1960s. Except Travis, these are no longer military bases, except the Hospital which was built on Fort Ord. I don’t remember any Beatle albums, although I did play Thank You Girl on a Juke Box in one the NCO restaurant for service men.
Every time I think I know quite a bit about the Beatles, you hit me with another video full of fun and obscure info! Thanks for another great one!
Thanks, Andrew! You’re my “go-to” guy for anything Beatles!
My grandpa gave me some records he bought from a PX store when he was stationed in West Germany in the early 70s. The ones i’ve got with the price stickers were UK Island albums (namely Tarkus and Tea for the Tillerman). I also recall him having a Dutch copy of Simon and Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits with the sticker. His collection includes records from America, West Germany, Britain, the Netherlands, etc. Same exact sticker btw.
Iv'e always wondered what Help would have looked like if they went with the original title of Eight Arms To Hold You. I know that has nothing to do with the export albums, just happened to think of it. Great video as always. Thanks.
In Scandinavia, the Parlophone U.S. albums were sold in regular record stores, and also appeared in brochures from E.M.I. which listed the available Beatles albums.
Great video, I learned a lot about the export LPs. In all my 50 years of collecting, I have never seen one of these.
Hi Andrew 👋
Thanks for another excellent video! Great topic 👏
In Australia, we also had our share of imports for a short run. On April 14 1975, 'The Beatles Story' (US Album), was available on import for a limited time on the Apple label, C284 STBO 2222, then in June 1975, 'Something New', C476 1C 062-04 600, on the Odeon label imported from Germany, as was 'The Beatles Beat', on 25 July 1975, C745 1C 062-04 363, again on Odeon. Out of interest, we also had the re-issue of the US version of 'A Hard Day's Night ' in 1981 on the Orange Parlophone label. We weren't greedy, we not only released everything the UK did, we released every other country too! 😅😂
Till next time 👍 Jase
Thanks Jase. Glad you enjoyed it!
The export pressings have always been a mystery to me as I have never been sure how many of the US Capitol lps were actually pressed as export copies by EMI.The Details about the Decca simular pressing designs were are real eye opener.I once a long time ago saw a Black/Yellow copy of A Hard Day's Night with a simular label believing it was a Decca Press,now I know otherwise.Thank you Andrew for continuing to make such insightful videos
Great video Andrew. You now have me wondering what the Vee Jay "Introducing The Beatles" LP would have looked like as an export album. LOL. I also found it humorous that "The Early Beatles" mock-up LP having the eye-catching "Now On Capitol" text on the front, then right underneath it are the Parlophone and EMI logos...LOL And to be really silly, Jeff could replicate The Early Beatles Capitol cover and replace the copy to read "Now On Vee Jay"...LOL. Very enjoyable watch. Thanks again. :- )
Excellent as usually, everything stops on a Sunday when the phone “pings” to eagerly devour the post.
A fascinating, excellent video, Andrew! I learned a lot about the export albums here. I also loved seeing Jeff Uleau's recreation artwork for the other Capitol albums if they had undergone Parlophone-isation! I would be very interested to see more of Jeff's work as well as a video on Parlophone's export singles, Andrew!
Glad you enjoyed it, Nick!
Hello Andrew, Another interesting video. My father was in the RAF from the mid '50s to the mid '70s and early in the very early '70s was stationed in Goose Bay Canada. Where the UK and US had sovereign territory bases. The RAF base did not amount to much - basically a hanger, but across the runway the USAF had a mini-city and a large BX and RAF staff and families were allowed to use it. My overriding memory is, that LPs cost about the same as a single back in Blighty at the time. Not only were they discounted the Fex was very much in the £s favour at the time and my pocket money went a very a long way. I was able to amass a reasonable sized LP collection at a young age and exposed to music many would have not been able to do until later years. I was quite the envy of my school pals when I returned to Blighty as in general all they were only able to afford with their pocket money, was those anonymous Top of the Pops cover albums or singles.
As well as US pressing there was a small selection of UK pressed LPs, not specific export copies like you mention in your video but standard LPs. Which I now assume in retrospect were gap filling LPs that were were for some reason not available in the US. I still have my copy of "Dance to the Beat of the Looney Tune" double album sampler which at the time had three exclusive/un-released Kinks songs as well as couple of Pretty Things tracks, as well as my UK pressed copy of EJs "Tumbleweed Connection".
I have never been heavily into the Beatles, so therefore I have no recall of any Beatle titles, but I can't believe for a second there were not any there.
Keep up the good work.
Glad you enjoyed it, Russell. Thanks for posting!
I used to have Beatles 6 on the yellow and black label. I picked it up in a record shop in the 1980's. I got a decent offer, so it went with the rest of my vinyl. I have no regrets!
I remember the PX/BX stores from 1967-1970 in Japan where my Dad bought my Beatles records. They were the standard US pressings but you didn't know if you were going to get a rainbow or lime green target label.
Hi Andrew. Another very interesting vid, especially the mock-ups of the albums that might have been. I have a copy of each of the three albums you featured, but they are so expensive that i haven't got any of the variations. I do, however, have a very nice copy (virtually mint) of Yellow Submarine on the Odeon label, which I got from someone in Portugal! Looking forward to the export singles video. Keep up the good work!
Nice one, Steve!
I consider myself a die hard fan, and yet you make me learn new things every Sunday. Thanks for your awesome videos!
Thanks for watching, Andres.
I was able to snag an export ‘Hey Jude!’ a few months back. Overall great condition, but with some groove wear on the title track. Found it at an estate auction here in Toronto for $22 before taxes and auction fees.
Andrew, I always enjoy your UK and European Beatles content. Thank you.
Hi Andrew!
Indeed, this was a very interesting entry in the ever-growing list of your Beatles videos. I find it amazing how you seem to read the minds of your audience well in advance - such as the question of the sound quality of these EMI-pressed “Capitol” albums. It’s yet another remarkably well done video!
Many thanks, Ed!
I remember back around 1968 when I worked for the MOD we used to go to the USAF base in Ruislip quite often, beer & cigarettes at cheap American prices,,, happy days ...
I think The Beatles Hey Jude export was released in a couple South American countries, unless they are counterfiet. I had one from Brazil that was closer looking to the US pressing on the cover although it had Parlophone on the back and all of course, but I saw at least two other ones with back cover variations already where the words were in blue type instead of white.
On 10 May 1965 the Beatles did a recording session especially for Capitol. The two tracks recorded were Dizzy Miss Lizzy and Bad Boy and these were intended for Beatles VI. The crossed out matrix number on side two (ST2-2451) does not correspond to any Capitol Beatles LP, US originals has the matrix ST2-2358-A1. The CPCS records are the first British pressed LPs to include stereo mixes of many tracks, like Thank You Girl (with all the harmonica parts), the Long Tall Sally EP tracks, Rain, Lady Madonna, Hey Jude and Don't Let Me Down. But on them you will also find horrible duophonic versions of You Can't Do That and Yes It Is.
Hi, Andrew! Well, I do have the Beatles VI UK export album. Got that in a trade in the 80's. I also have the export Hey Jude LP (CPCS 106). Cheers, Nelio.
My dad was in the US Air Force, and we lived in Wiesbaden, West Germany from 1967-71. I was only a small kid, but my two older sisters were huge Beatles fans, so of course I became one by extension. It's interesting to see how my sisters put together their collections. We lived in Ohio in 1964-66, and during those years, they bought all the US albums available in those days at the local record stores. Sadly, my Mom wouldn't let them go to the Cincinnati concert in August 1966, partly because there was no one to take them since my Dad was in Vietnam at the time. But when we moved to Germany, it was sometimes easier to shop in the BX (well done on getting the terminology right, noting the difference between PX and BX!), and my parents preferred that because things were cheaper ad tax-free. So some of the singles my sisters bought (notably Paperback Writer/Rain, Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane, and Lady Madonna/Inner Light) came from there, and are in their original picture sleeves. Not sure where those are today. I'm sure some of the later albums were bought there too, but not all of them. Since we lived in the city and not on the base (unusual for USAF families), the German record store (actually more of a department store like Hertie or Horten) was more convenient for a kid riding a bike or walking--no need to get mom or dad involved. And so that's how we ended up with the German version of the Help album on the Horzu label, with the note about the film "Hi-Hi-Hilfe"... And of course, we listened to the AFN (Armed Forces Network) for the Top 40 and radio in general, but also the BBC and Radio Luxembourg and German radio too. That meant we were getting a pretty wide spread of music, adn to this day I still enjoy people like Ivan Rebroff and Nana Mouskouri, European singers almost no one in the USA knows, but were huge in my house growing up. And yes, I remain a gigantic Beatles fan... Your videos are outstanding by the way, well-researched, informative, professional, and just plain fun! Thank you! - John Rickenbach
Great times, John. Thanks for sharing your memories!
Oh man, that guy was touching the grooves before they even got pressed!!!! 😳. I love how I can pause your videos and literally see the individual groovys. I think I see that bloke's fingerprints also!
Superb info and care. Thank you!
I cant wait for the next vídeo! Amazing job Andrew, one of your bests!
Thank you, Bruno!
Highly informative!
One tiny mistake, though.
The photo from the record shop section in the BX in Maryland shows a copy "The Graduate" soundtrack, which only came out in January 1968. Thus the picture cannot be from 1967.
I wish all of these clips could be compiled into a DVD set. I am certainly every Beatles fan would buy it. These clips could easily be shown on cable TV, maybe 2 of them, in each 30 minute program with time for commercials. These little episodes are crammed with delicious and accurate information. I love seeing them for free on RUclips, but they are getting better and better. I am really wishing I could purchase them on DVD or BluRay, to own forever. Beatles fans insist on physical media...
That is fascinating! A little tidbit of Beatles history I didn’t know! Love it, this channel is great for my Fab Four education!
Glad you enjoyed it
Love the Yellow Submarine EP artwork and the export recreations (though the Beatles Story was a double album and couldn't do the flipback sleeve :))
I don't have any export copy albums but, considering your information about the sound quality, I'm not sure I want any. I think an interesting complimentary review would be for the French contract pressings made for the UK when the Hayes plant was being refurbished. I have a few of them and am quite impressed with the quality.
Another interesting subject, Andrew. Well done!
Thanks again, Anthony!
Very interesting! Love these videos. I'll definitely keep an eye for these in the wild.
I'd still like the get that Hey Jude CPCS import pressing (reported to sound the best), but it's been tough finding a clean copy at a great price. I settled on a mid 70's German apple pressing for the time being, which sounds fantastic. 🍻
Got a CPCS Hey Jude in the UK in great shape for 40£ this March. ;)
@@TheHutt hell yeah, that's what I'm talkin' about! 👍👍 Great price. 😎
Yeah, pretty happy with the price. :) Plus I got another CPCS (a NZ pressing with flipbacks, also in good shape) for 30£ on the same trip. So bargains are still to be found. ;)
Once again, when I wonder what fascinating Sunday afternoon viewing pleasure that you can possibly come up with next! I shudder thinking that you will run out of ideas one day. Today was tough as we had to put our beloved dog Jadey down.....this installment helped immensely today. Your positive spirit can bring anyone out of any doldrum. Thanks as always. You really are a gem, mate.
Thanks for watching Tommy. I'm glad it helped you through a difficult day.
Those mock up export albums were spot on!! If I didn’t know any better you could have seriously convinced me those were real.
Well, I was classified 4-F back in the day - had I not slipped by I would have spent lots of time in the PX spending my pay. Somehow I knew you were going to say they sounded awful. Thanks for another great video.
Thanks for posting. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Very interesting, Andrew! It seems strange to me Parlophone didn’t issue the other Capitol albums for export. I wonder what was behind their reasoning? With the second and third Capitol albums being exported, you would think Meet the Beatles! would have been a no brainer.
I'm not trying to muddy the waters here or start an argument, but I went on Steve Hoffman's music forums to look into this more. (Steve Hoffman is a popular mastering engineer, for those who don't know). Anyway, according to one person, the export versions of Second Album, Something New, and Beatles VI "were NOT made for sale at military bases". Rather, just like the export version of Hey Jude, they were primarily for export to Scandinavia; according to aforesaid person, Odeon releases, as part of the Odeon ZTOX series, were for sale on foreign military bases in Germany . [Note: could this person be wrong? Absolutely. Even some members on that same forum think so]. Now, as to why only those particular titles, members of the forum could only speculate, noting that the titles had no clear U.K equivalent. For example, With the Beatles is pretty much equivalent to Meet the Beatles, so there wouldn't be much foreign demand for MTB. Meanwhile, the Second Album, Something New, and Beatles VI had noticeably different track line-ups, with tracks previously unavailable on LP, such as Bad Boy, She Loves You, I'll Get You, Long Tall Sally, Matchbox, etc., which would make them attractive to buyers overseas. But why no Yesterday and Today? No answer to that.
For Yesterday and Today,the 3 tracks sent to Capitol were sent in mono,so the stereo lps had those tracks in fake stereo.The other 3 lps had nearly all tracks in true stereo.
Something new was also released as a dutch pressing with the CPCS 101 catalognumber and came with uk sleeve. Picked that one up a few years agon in a second hand store in Arnhem for about 20 euro. No idea if this is as rare as the UK ones.
@@janjanse9502 I would definitely think so.Ivehad a couple of the Parlis,but not the Dutch one.
Great video! I just realized because of this video, my Rubber Soul copy has a PX price sticker on it! Thank you!
Ooh this is a video that I’ve actually wanted to see for a while! I always wanted to know about those exports because they look really cool. I wish all those capitol albums were pressed by Parlophone, but using EMI tapes! Jeff’s artwork is phenomenal, I thought help! Looked the best
I was close on owning a beat up copy of Something New but I ultimately failed. One day!!
I do at least own 2 export pressings of Hey Jude! And a Decca Mono pressing of the US Out of Our Heads, which is-in my opinion- superior to the UK track listing.
I always learn from your videos and really appreciate the lengths you go to educate us on everything! You’re the man!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
The last pressings of CPCS 103 (2 EMI boxes label) can also be found in Garrod & Lofthouse covers with flipbacks only at top and bottom or with no flipbacks at all (laminate over spine and about 1 cm into back cover).
Well as usual, i learned Something New (pun intended) by watching your video today. Nicely done!
OMG! I was a little tyke when we went to the Andrews AFB BX. I was a fresh import from the UK myself at the time. Of course I fondly remember the BX at RAF Bentwaters when I was a grown-up Air Force NCO. Bought the blue set of Beatles albums there. Nostalgia...in spadefuls...
I have a lot of these records, not Beatles, But I do have Ray Charles on His Masters Voice instead of ABC, Johnny Rivers on Liberty instead of Reprise.(they both have sold in UK!) I have tons more, and it's cool to know where these came from! Most of the British albums you will find in America are Exports. P.S. I have a record that is an export, and instead of having a sticker, it has a purple ink stamp stating "$ 1.30"!
They just sound like the standard UK pressings though that have found their way to the US. The Beatles export lps in this vid have been specifically pressed in the UK for an overseas market but have used the US artwork/tracklists etc rather than just the standard UK pressings being exported to the US.
@@nigelcampag1290 Thanks, good to know. But my copies have the sticker shown in the video, does that change anything?
@@Ricecooker64 I can't claim to be an expert to be fair. I would assume that they're just standard UK pressings that were perhaps sold on the military bases and have found their way back to the US when service people returned.
@@nigelcampag1290 I understand, that makes sense now! Thanks
I have a german pressing of Something New, which has the extended version of And I Love Her found on US Rarities. I believe it's a lot different than the UK export pressing because it also sounds nothing like the US albums. As usual, awesome video!
Wow. What a head trip to see US albums with flip backs. Beatles 65’ was super awesome looking. As well as the yellow submarine ep.
The only PX story I have comes from the mid-1990s. A friend of mine was dating a Marine at the time, and was out visiting me. I lived close to the base at Quantico, and she wanted to get something “really Marine” for him, so off we go to the PX, despite my warnings of “you’re not in the military!”
She starts going crazy over the prices and quickly fills a cart, with me repeating “you can’t buy that… you can’t buy that…” We get to the register and of course the first thing the cashier asks for is military ID. My friend is just SHOCKED and this and starts protesting that nobody told her she had to be military!
Duh… what have I been telling you for the last hour? (sigh)
That's classic! So was the PX store in town or did you actually have to sneak onto the base?!
Wonderful and please feature more of Jeff or Geoff's album artwork.
I've seen pirate copies of the German pressing of uk albums with different artwork and in the case of PPM retitled 'Die Beatles' on Hor Zu and Odeon.
As an aside, i was told the inner ring on Decca pressings is because they converted 78 rpm stampers to 33rpm vinyl.
Great video Andrew, very informative. I'd love to own them along with the likes of Having A Rave Up With The Yardbirds and even Herman's Hermits Blaze that look damn sexy with laminated sleeves and blue/black Columbia labels. Cheers Nigel
It’s kind of weird that EMI went out of their way to change the logos on the covers for those pressings but Apple kept the Capitol logos on their covers when the labels of the pre 1968 US albums switched to Apple in the early 70s.
Very interesting. Like finding a Mario game for Sega Genesis back in the day. Manythnx as always!
Always interesting and enjoyable Andrew. I must say that your utterance of the word “fantastic” after the make believe album covers was your best Alan Freeman impersonation. Not arf!
Very interesting and I'm surprised that,in 1965 and 1966, there were no mono pressings of these export albums, even from Capitol's mixes.
Great video as always Andrew! I just have a question. How and where do you do your research for these videos? Like what sites do you use/trust the most and how much if any of it comes from your first-hand knowledge or physical media.
Yes , I have The Beatles VI . Got at a thrift store . $ 1 . Love it ❤❤
i got my white album from the BX at the Presidio in Monterey, California... a day i'll never forget... (thanks, Mom)...
I recently picked up a copy of The Early Beatles on CD, I had never even seen it before. The tracklist is nearly identical to Please Please Me excluding I Saw Her Standing There, Misery and There's A Place. I doubt the cd is as rare as a vinyl but I thought it was cool enough to add to the collection! They had a sealed copy of Beatles VI as well, I may have to go back soon and pick that one up to.
...not only were records bought on base half-price, but I'm nearly certain they were sales tax-free, also!
I will also add that original pressings of all of the Beatles through Let It Be, were issued on Odeon in Spain, and some Latin American countries, and on unique boxed Parlophone labels in South Africa, and Southern Rhodesia.
Andrew, I have the Something New export LP and I was hoping you’d explain why anyone in the UK would go to that much trouble when they could have simply delivered UK or German or French or whatever pressings to the US bases. But not only did they make special records and packages, they took the American tapes, all redone by our favorite Capitol employee who added reverb and bass while cutting off the high end, and they seemed to simply re-equalized the tapes to the European standard, meaning that the bass was cut back and the mid and highs were re-emphasized, but all of Dexter’s echo remained. They’re strange, but they sound much better to me then the Capitol versions.
Hi Andrew - Awesome vid!! I like the normalisation of the U.S covers :) - Can we get US version of UK covers next please ! In NZ we got Beatles VI export in the 60s too with NZ teal blue Parlophone label serial no. PCSM 6042 but with same stampers YEEX 112-A15/YEEX 113-A15 ( ST 2 2451 crossed out too) this got repressed with Apple label and again with Parlophone Single box in the 70s - Oh forgot to add all version of record labels have errors Beatles IV instead of Beatles VI :)
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the info!
Thanks Andrew. Why EMI only chose to do three Capitol albums is weird to say the least. I think they left money on the table not doing some of the others you mentioned.
Hopefully someday you will do an episode on the Indian pressings of Beatles' albums.
Something new was also released as a dutch pressing with the CPCS 101 catalognumber and came with uk sleeve. Picked that one up a few years agon in a second hand store in Arnhem for about 20 euro. No idea if this is as rare as the UK ones.
I remember advertisements for albums being sold through the PX. I believe the adverts I saw were in early issues of Rolling Stone magazine? Does that sound right? Great show Andrew. Didn’t know a whole lot about these. Thanks again!
That's interesting, Brian. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Hi Andrew.
Great video as always.
I have 2 copies of Beatles VI, one of them is on the yellow & black Parlophone label, the other is on Apple label from NZ, with parlophone sleeve. Do you have any information on those?
Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Andrew
I don't have any Beatle PX copies. But I do have a SEALED Wings 'Wild Life' PX copy which I I believe is a OG.
I would love to get my hands on These....I have Meet The Beatles on album...I need the CD.......I Just ordered Past Masters.... can't wait to get it in my hands
Only ever saw these LP in Beanos in East Croydon in the 80s and then they were £400!...I do have an interesting story about Let it Be (Export single)...when I was a little boy, way back home in Liverpool....I used to frequent a record shop literally just round the corner from Mathew Street called Backtrax..in this shop around 1979 they qwere selling Let it Be export for 60 quid a single...the bloke said a box of fifty had just been found in Morocco and had made their way back to Liverpool...£60 for a single in 1979 was waaay out of my league.
I have a Let It Be export copy, with parlophone on back of the jacket. Though on the record itself it has the Apple label, not the parlophone label. If I recall correctly, you once said that those were not technically export copies? Just regular British copies that used overstock of the export sleeves?
It's not all bad though, because I got this copy signed by Kosh, the album designer!
It's true the UK made export albums, but did you know Japan made some as well? Certain Taiwanese pressings of Beatles albums contain vinyl pressed in Japan. My Taiwanese stereo copy of A Hard Day's Night, for example, has the made in Japan logo from the 60s in the dead wax. It also has the number YEX-126 in the dead wax under the new number for the Taiwanese pressing. It's also pressed on red vinyl and contains a lyrics sheet that has each songs title in Japanese under its English title. The other proof I have is a Taiwanese Stereo copy of Beatles For Sale. It also has the made in Japan logo in the dead wax and the number YEX-142. This album, however, is pressed on orange vinyl, and its lyrics sheet doesn't have any Japanese on it. It's just something I found interesting that I thought I'd share here. Though it's just the vinyl that is pressed in Japan, the covers are the flimsy and fragile Taiwanese covers. Both Lps sound amazing as well, unlike most Taiwanese bootlegs. I'm not sure if all Taiwanese pressings are like this. I'm curious to know if you knew about these Japanese export albums?
Hey Andrew. I came across an Odeon white and red label of The Beatles Second Album on a Something New cover. Very strange. It was sold only at West German US military bases in 63 for a short time according to the internet. Very little info out there. I think it must be extremely rare. If you can shed any light on this I would be grateful. Thanks
I had collected Beatles LPs for around 30 years and I've only ever heard of the export versions. As for the sound quality, is it possible that Parlophone used (or re-used) Capitol's metal mother's or stampers? I may be a tad ignorant here. Great video!
Thanks! EMI/Parlophone created ther own metalwork from Capitol's tapes.
I have a the Beatles Second Album on Vinyl a year ago around the same I also got a 1978 reissue of the White Album.
Were these EMI export pressings also supplied to US base PX and BX stores in Vietnam, Japan, Korea and the Philippines, or were these limited to the US European bases?
Wonderful as usual. How do you come up with this stuff????
Cheers Michael!
I am curious about the EMI factory footage. Is this from a documentary or something I can find?
I do have the first three export lps so I could relate with this very cool episode Andrew.
The only thing I'd take some bias against though is that issue with sound quality. The UK pressings always were on superior vinyl, and although EMI kept the reverb on the tracks - the differences make them more interesting not just for the covers and lables. For instance 'Kansas City' seems much better for the reverb mix, and of course things sound a bit closer to 'rock n roll' like the 50s Gene Vincent records!
For me they're a must have for collectable British albums.
What did the British think of Dave Dexter's formula on Thank You Girl on the American Beatle's Second Album? I never cared too much for it. The Japanese edition has Thank You Girl in mono. But that album also has Misery and There's A Place on it. Have the Japanese versions of Meet The Beatles and The Beatles' Second Album ever been sold in England in vinyl? The copies I have were imports to Canada. I bought them on the same day. Never saw any others.
Brilliant video ❤
Thank you 😁
i bought my Bewatles VI for ten dollars at a record show about ten years ago!!!!!
I own a Dutch or German Odeon pressing Beatles '65, I am wondering if those were also for the US army market, those seem very common. And they don't sound bad at all...
So weird to see the US albums with Parlophone/EMI logos.
That shirt is really cool tho
As a designer, I can tell Jeff's adaptations of US covers to Parlophone layouts are pretty good. However, how could he use Arial on the tracklist of the fake Yellow Submarine EP? That font wasn't designed until the 80s, so it's entirely wrong on a Beatles record. ;)