"Throw a crowbar to a woman" .... I spat my coffee out laughing when you said this lol !!! I love how the subversive music was packaged with covers showing trees. Thank you Andrew for this thoroughly entertaining and informative video. The intro was also superb 👌 Cheers, Steve
Hello from ex-USSR citizen!:) It was not "Anfon Records" but "Antrop Records" founded by producer Anton Tropilo. Kolia Vasin (Коля Васин) was known as "The biggest fan" of The Beatles in USSR:) He has founded the biggest museum of The Beatles in USSR/Russia.
@@markrobert9915 you won't believe but people were more happy than now. Yes, there were some problems to buy car or some other stuff, but generally life was good. I have a real big nostalgy about those times.
@@markrobert9915 oh, it was just great. you know, as in "staying in lines for hours to buy some food or basic goods" marvelous. or "you'll be locked up in prison for telling a joke" marvelous.
I have quite a few Beatles albums from The Soviet Union, but my prized possessions are four Russian 45's dating from around 1974-1975. The sound quality of these is quite good, although the editing and track choices are a bit odd. I also love the the nondescript picture sleeves that they were issued with containing no references to The Beatles or the songs contained within. All releases from other countries fascinate me, but I think the Russian ones are truly special and unique. Thank you so much for bringing us this terrific episode. Take care...
It’s worth mentioning that in 1980s the legal releases of western music in Soviet Union usually missed at least one track which surely reduced the royalties. In case of A Hard Day’s Night it was When I Get Home. Having heard this album in this castrated version for years when I was a kid still makes me feel uneasy when I don’t hear the opening licks of You Can’t Do That right after Things We Said Today 😂
Apparently from what I've seen elsewhere on the internet, 'When I Get Home' was "censored" - and so removed from the album release......perhaps they mis-translated the lyrics of "Gonna love you till the cows come home", and got it horribly wrong..!! 😂 Shame, it's a pretty decent sounding record! 😏
@@stevesstuff1450 Yeah, and they did the same with McCartney's "Band on the Run" - with "band" in Russian being more associated with "gang". The album was renamed just to "Paul McCartney" and the title track was replaced by "Silly Love Songs".
Thanks Andrew! These vids usually pop up in Tokyo at 10pm on a Sunday night when I’m about to go to bed but I always end up staying up like an extra hour just to watch! 😂
"Throw a crowbar to a woman" - means "f**k the woman" in Russian jargon. Such dirty title could not be on the sleeve, it was a joke. In the USSR (70s) we listened to the "voice of america" and "BBC" on short waves. They broadcast concerts of popular music. And they often included Beatles songs. For example, the first song I heard around 1973 was "Come Together" (by the way the word "come" sounds close to russian "konj" (horse)). And after that I became a Beatleman, like many in Russia. I infected my father with their music, he had previously listened to mostly Russian folk songs. And until his death, he adored the Beatles and especially John Lennon.
Oh yes, Битлс! My father brought A hard day's night from Russia in eighties and I, as a kid, loved this album, thinking that Beatles were Russian group!
Девушка,by people' s quartet Beatles,simple. And it' s not all true,Yugoslavia was communist country,but it had it own vinyl pressings of Beatles records.And there you could here all radio stations from west,even VOA. Cheers Young Master Andrew,and on "Sgt.Peppers," on other side is " Revolver," album with " changed," work of Klaus Voorman. And for what i know,Beatles had a concert in USSSR.
Andrew, thanks for another awesome and perfectly-made presentation! thought these additions could be of interest: * those funny sentences aren't translations - just Russian soundalikes which have found their way into local Beatles folklore (thankfully not onto the sleeves): Love Me Do - Лоб в Меду - Lob V Medu, Can't Buy Me Love - Кинь Бабе Лом - Kin Babby Lom, Come Together - Конь Тугеза - Kon Tugeza; * the changes in Antrop's cover designs were dictated by the country's laws of the time, wherein pictures were protected by copyright, but you could bypass protection for audio recordings by stating "Recorded from a broadcast" on the label - just the way it was done on AnTrop's releases. that lasted from 1991 to 1993. * Kolya Vasin was indeed The Beatles' biggest and one of longest-standing (from 1963) fans in Russia. the only one in the USSR who technically had correspondence with John Lennon - John even sent him the LP Live Peace in Toronto. Kolya dreamed of building a John Lennon's Temple of Love and Peace in St. Petersburg, had it all designed (he had an architect's education) and for many years sought permission for building it from the city's authorities - but it was never given. On Aug 29 2018 he jumped off a shopping centre's second floor. In his suicide note he wrote he couldn't live in a country where no one supports the cause of building a John Lennon's Temple. But the Temple's office is still there. I've been there three times and will return whenever I can. There's a vaaast collection of Beatles music and literature, of course. But even more interestingly, Kolya made Beatle-books by hand in the 60-70's, when no Beatle books were available in the USSR. Gathering cut-outs from Socialist-Block magazines of the time, machine-typed interviews, Kolya's own comments and drawings, all beautifully arranged, the gigantic books weighing 5 to 13 kilograms - it's a staggering work of art and a tribute of love to The Beatles. By no means a most factually informative, but the very spirit they carry is what I can only compare to listening to Revolver and Sgt. Pepper for the first time. No other Beatle books have ever given me such powerful feelings. "Do something for the Temple every day - and the Temple will be" read a reminder on Kolya's table (a right choker, given the context). But I'd say the Temple already is - right there in the Office. Would love to see a full version one day though; * there's an AnTrop's vinyl pressing of Help! where you can hear a CD skipping for half a minute (on You're Gonna Lose That Girl).
дружок, про гирлуху правильно написал, но ты конечно не в курсе, что битлов кридов и прочих роллингов в ссср в начале 70-х годов можно было купить вполне официально. в москве на улице горького 4 в пяти минутах ходьбы от кремля была студия звукозаписи где нарезали типа звуковых писем - одна песня на 75 оборотов с фото битлов за рубль. это делали прямо при тебе в студии. можно было оставить заявку на запись на магнитофонную пленку - минута 7 копеек. то есть диск раббер соул мне записали за два рубля 10 копеек, а сержанта - за 2-80.
The name of the St. Petersburg label is actually not Anfon, but "AnTrop" (by the initials of Andrei Tropillo). In fact, they operated under then-legal practice in the USSR, which only signed the international copyright convention in 1974, and by which all works prior to signing were public domain. The AnTrop discs were sourced from CDs, and pressed at the Leningrad Melodiya plant. As a matter of fact, shortage of cardboard led to some curious covers some of which contained old nautical maps on the inside. And: there is nothing wrong with the translation of the song titles. ;) As for official Melodiya records: they were both mastered on DMM (at least, the Moscow experimental plant and the Aprelevka plant used those. Other plants in the USSR also got non-DMM metal parts. One can easily recognize the DMM-mastered records, as they have "DMM" in the runouts. Oh, and the USSR "A Hard Day's Night" also omitted one song, "When I Get Home". For sexual content.
@@Parlogram One instance is still there, during Tropillo's portrait on the Pepper cover. And yes, that logo intermixing mixing Cyrillic and Latin letters is really stupid.
4M were a vocal doo woop quartet from Zagreb (ex Yugoslavia, today Croatia) that performed throughout Europe. According to the story of their leader Ivica Krajač, they listened to the Beatles live in Hamburg and were delighted with their music and energy. In 1964, they released covers of "She loves you" and "It won't be long" for "Jugoton", accompanied by "Bijele strijele", which released a single with 4 covers of Beatles songs the same year. The song "Bebel" is about the legendary French actor Jean Paul Belmondo and was a big hit in Yugoslavia in 1967.
I visited Zagreb for the first time in the summer of 1977. I met some really friendly people, one of whom was Miso Hrnjak, who played the guitar and lived in the suburb of Zabrude. When I returned in 1982, they told me that Miso had become the bass guitarist in Azra, the most popular band in Yugoslavia at that time. I went on holiday to the coast, in 1986 and, when people saw that I had Miso's address in my address book, then everyone wanted to know me.
Barry Aldis was my model for what a DJ could do. The background music on that promo was the Route 66 theme. I've got the UK pressing of that on UK Capitol
A very nice and informative video indeed. My knowledge about The Beatles is more or less 'limited' to what I know from books, and I've read a lot about them, and documentaries on television of course. I also have the Anthology DVD set and book. Also very informative. Details about what was released on vinyl, CD's, 8-tracks and musiccassettes are for me limited mostly to what was issued in the UK & US, so learning what was released in the rest of the world is for me very interesting. The closest I ever got was when I bought a Kinks compilation album from the East German Amiga label. Looking forward to see what was released in Australia. That's the next video I'm going to watch. Kind regards from The Netherlands!
I was born in October 1974, in Moscow. Lived there for 18 years, then 10 years in Israel, and then somehow came back to live in Moscow. Beatlesfan from my childhood. So, besides the 60's "bone records" all the other Soviet formats are very close to my memory and heart. Thank you, Andrew! Btw, there were also Soviet Band On The Run - with BOTR replaced with Silly Love Songs - (plus 4 songs EP from it) and Imagine (plus 4 songs EP from it) released in 1977
Great presentation! Almost like an ad for City Tours -- not to mention the kaleidoscope. Beautiful! The Antrop (not Anfon) records were sourced from CDs and are noteworthy for their inventive covers only. The White Album, for lack of original copy, had pencil drawings in lieu of the four Beatles portraits inside the gatefold, very well executed. The one that's probably worth owning is Hey Jude which in my view is a better and consistent compilation than the original Klein version. (It replaces the two HDN tracks with Day Tripper/WCWIO and adds Get Back and The Inner Light.) As far as the official records are concerned, there are two variants of the Hard day's Night album. one marked as DMM and the other not, and one version has the pictures on the back mirror inverted. The 1986 Taste of Honey album, if it's not DMM (it seems to me to be a DMM cut, but I'll listen again), is still remarkable for its sound quality. P.S. I Love You is wonderfully transparent and a real joy to listen to. The album is said to have been repressed in 1988, so there may be two different cuts.
Very interesting! I have a copy of the Russian vinyl: A Hard Day’s Night. It says DMM on the sleeve ant it’s also stamped DMM next to the album number. My record doesn’t have any pre-echoes and sound very bright and detailed. Anyway i guess there is not too many copies in Canadian homes so it make a good conversation subject for me! 😂
Thanks for this, fascinating stuff! I particularly liked the tampering with the original artwork, including the subtle Sgt Pepper alterations. Incidentally, re the Beatles For Sale edition. One site I use mentions a nineties pressing of this LP, on Antrop, П92 00191. One owner mentions a really thin sleeve, but massively heavy vinyl, which apparently beats Parlophone originals and repressings. Knowing your access to multiple editions, and your helpful comparison films, have you played this one? Apologies if I've missed it at some point. Cheers.
The Melodiya albums pressed in the late 1980s and early 1990s were done at dairy processing plants. The un-trimmed edges of a 12" vinyl LP was just slightly larger than 14" - the same size as a wheel of cheddar cheese. The factory would manufacture cheese during the day shift and transition to manufacturing the vinyl on the same presses overnight. Two Canadian artists were the first Western acts ever signed to Melodiya direct - The Powder Blues Band and The Dave Rave Group. Rave's 'Valentino's Pirates' debuted in Russia first - with the band being invited to tour the Soviet Union for 2 weeks. RUclips viewers can watch footage the band smuggled out of the Soviet Union on their song "Weight Of The World."
Which one? There were numerous pressing plants all over Soviet Union. They were all ordinary vinyl pressing plants not some cheese factories. These Canadians just did not understand anything and wrote total crap.
Eastern block countries weren't all the same in this regard. In East Germany the Beatles were officially celebrated at least in the era I remember somwhat, which is the 1970s and 80s. There was a regular "weekly Beatles song" in one popular radio programme which lasted over many years, and there were a few Beatles LPs releases, for example the Blue Album (the East German edition is only one LP and omits some titles). In the 1960s western music was officially frowned upon, but not to the extent that it was completely banned.
I have a Roumanian pop compilation album I found in Germany, that has "Oh, Darling" on it in a strange mono fold-down mix, in which the guitar is missing completely. I also have one of those 7" Melodya EPs from the early 1980s, but it's one of the ones sold here in the U.S., packaged in a white sleeve with a rather crude looking picture of the Beatles on the front, and the Kremlin on the back. (It has four tracks from Pepper.)
Hi Andrew. When A Hard Day's Night and A Taste Of Honey were released, not all pressing plants had DMM cutting lathe installed. So few releases were cut on DMM, but the rest were lacquer cuts. Btw, AnTrop (not Anfon) releases were not officially licensed, but sourced from 1987/1988 CDs. One particular pressing of Help! has a mastering error on You're Gonna Lose That Girl, when CD player was skipping through that song, lasting only 1 minute and 12 seconds. But otherwise, official soviet records have excellent sound and I really like how 1977 Melodiya Imagine album sounds.
I have that soviet pressing of A Hard Days Night and a russian Antrop pressing of Let it Be. Both sound amazing. Band on the Run was also officially issued in the USSR without the main track (the reason, pretty obvious).
It was common practice in the 60’s for picture postcards to have a souvenir ‘record’ pressed into a layer of laminate on the picture side - I have a Hungarian one that still plays. Whilst living in Paris I came across two musical postcards depicting classical paintings from The Hermitage gallery in Leningrad, which turned out to be, instead of the usual folk music, tracks by Elvis Presley- Suspicion was one of them. The other may have been Good Luck Charm. You can tell I didn’t buy them - they were around 100€ each. I wonder if any Beatles records snuck out in a similar way?
@@TheHutt There are also those blue flexis from Russia which came in magazine type covers. You always hope they’ll have something good on them.. and it’s always Engelbert.
You know, 'Girl' was decent choice if you were trying to trick someone into thinking its just a traditional folk song. I can almost imagine cossacks squatting to that little acoustic solo at the end lol
I guess that's why that song was chosen. I can imagine the Party bosses saying, "Oh, how sweet, they added the little Cossack flair at the end; let's include this song in the album." 🤣🤣
Hi Andrew were the 1980's releases remastered locally using the original EMI tapes, or did they use the original EMI masters, on Discogs they are referred to as repress but not remasters.
I have a Melodyia EP with tracks from _Abbey Road._ My wife had a copy of the _Taste Of Honey_ album, which was the first Beatles album she ever owned.
My Russian copy of Rubber Soul had a sleeve that was printed on an old Russian map. The inside “mouth” of the sleeve clearly showed the map which a pilot mate of mine took the coordinates and we discovered it was an old Russian map of a Japanese harbour region
Yeah, in USSR of late 80s shortage of all kinds was omnipresent. Cardboard, too. So Antrop repurposed old navigational maps they sourced from somewhere (Leningrad being a port town, after all).
a few words from a russian viewer - the records u show are the ones that appeared later. What was the situation earlier? There was a sea of as I think illegal improvised EPs usually with 3 or 4 tracks on it - usual vynil, colored as well and flexible. One could collect the whole discography of the bands like Beatles, RS, Deep Purple, Middle of th road sold all o'r the shops n in kiosks without knowing outa which albums it was taken. I mean I still have a huge collection of such EPs with f.e. Come together on side A n Across the universe + I me mine on side B etc
I remember when Paul's Russian album came out and the crazy prices they were being sold for. Then one day I received a letter from Paul's official fun club advising fans not to pay such high prices as they were trying to arrange it so that club members could buy a copy at a reasonable price. Just a few weeks later without any notice, a copy suddenly turned up in the post for every club member! A fantastic gesture from Paul.
Delightful episode. In my childhood I had a few editions from Antrop and Melodiya. They are really brightened my days then. Thank you very much for remind these memories to me, Andrew. It was a real pleasure to watch
Great video. I'd sure love to find one of these albums. An X-Ray album would be very cool! I do have a rock and roll album recorded by a Russian group in the U.S.S.R. in the 1980's. Before the wall came down. It's in Russian so I don't know the name of the band. Quite dark music.
Very interesting video! Loved it! I’ve always been pretty fascinated/interested in music from this time in these types of areas. Like the postcards containing music from for example Poland! I find these Russian pressings quite cool and interesting, and would love to have at least a few someday! Edited for the next video (as always)! :)
A fascinating insight to another country and their relationship with the greatest band ever (in my opinion). Not only the usual interesting well researched things by Andrew, but really interesting and educational comments by viewers. (Not sure I’d fancy a bone record on my LP12 though!). Thank you everyone for expanding my education.
Oh yeah. The "Antrop" Abbey Road had a very subtle change to the cover. Paul wore black shoes on that one, and John was barefoot. I think this might be the rarest Antrop record, actually. I own a copy. :)
"Throw A Crowbar To A Woman"...🤣🤣🤣 Yeah, an old buddy of mine sent me an Antrop pressing of Stooges 'Funhouse'. Paper thin jacket with Cyrillic text. The record itself is reasonably thick and it sounds excellent!
Thanks Andrew, another very polished production - how you got through those song title translations while keeping a straight face is nothing short of miraculous!
As a Beatles fan an collector and also a history student - who wants to specialise in Russian and Soviet history - I loved this. Maybe one day this video will be on the references in one of my articles
I have that Revolver/Sgt. Pepper’s, along with John’s Imagine and Paul’s Russian album. I thought I had more but I’ll have to look sometime. The album covers were changed with any artist, from Led Zeppelin to The Stooges, and beyond
Thank you, very interesting video as always. There were also some "official" 7" 33 1/3 rpm Melodiya issues with Beatles material issued in the 1970s. I think they were issued with colourful company sleeves. I have in my collection two issues (according to discogs from 1978), both with material from "Abbey Road".
It is not "Anfon" label, but "AnTrop". "An" for Andrey and "Trop" for Tropillo. The flexis were released in picture sleeves mostly, but only in Tbilisi it was unigue beatles picture sleeves, which makes it only one factory to issues those. Happy to have them all.
Both "Вечер трудного дня" (A Hard Day's Night) and "Вкус мёда" (A Taste Of Honey) were released by Melodya simultaneously in the beginning of 1986. "Снова в СССР" by Paul McCartney was released much later, in October 1988. As a soviet citizen, I was buying all those records in time of their release, but I don't think I treated them with much care. All of my AnTrop records are in bad condition now, as I replaced them with the original UK vinyls in time. Besides, there's lots of them now and you can easily find those AnTrop records for a small price, if you want it (I don't). As for The Beatles AnTrop LPs, they were recorded right from the 1987-1988 CDs, so the sound is not analogue on them. For example, you can clearly hear 1987 echoed stereo mix of "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" at the end of "Помоги!" (Help!) AnTrop LP.
symbolic to release this on January 16, which in Russia is promoted as the World Beatles Day - but at least Wikipedia thinks otherwise) on the other hand, every day is Beatles Day, so why not)
I' love to hear an inside perspective on why the USSR did this. It feels like such a bad strategy to equate western artists with the west. Surely they would want to embrace counter-cultural figures like John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, etc. All I can imagine is that because this was the pre-internet age, and the Soviet bureaucrats didn't have a very good understanding of the internal dynamics of rock'n'roll music.
@@VirreFriberg Right but it tended to be left-leaning/anti-American politics. You'd think the Soviet Union would want to take advantage of that, not censor it.
I have an amazing story to tell - I met a man who was in a Beatles cover band behind the iron curtain! He sang to me, it was very moving to hear his story. They learnt the songs of tapes. I have a bunch of these records, including the hard days night and a cyrilic white album. I love these so much! x spacibo bolshoy za krasivay video!
Andrew, I just want to give kudos for the vast improvement of the production of the videos. They are almost "mini movies" - for a lack of a good description. GREAT JOB, MAN!
Thank you for this. With me being a Beatles nerd, it’s always great learn new things about my favorite band. Bring ‘em on! Another outstanding presentation.
A fascinating video, Andrew! All of the information you gave here was new to me and I had to chuckle at the surrealistic translation of some of the song titles! Also interesting was the fact that some of the 1960s bootleg records were pressed on old x rays! Many thanks once again for a wonderful presentation!
I think those surrealistic titles are just Andrew's inventions. Edit: turns out, they aren't. However, they are not official titles that were printed on back covers (even the Antrop ones). They were just "casual speaking"-titles made of Russian words sounding similar to the English ones.
I don't understand how the titles of the songs were ''translated phonetically''. You can pronounce English words phonetically with some amusing results, but ''translate phonetically'' just doesn't make sense to me. Any ideas anybody ?
That's great insight. The only Russian Beatles album I have is "A Taste of Honey" I found here in the US. I saw on you tube that someone had A Russian Revolver and Sgt Pepper made albums using both covers as a gatefold if I remember correctly and as a double album.
04:00 78 RPM Bone record. Didn't have lead-in and lead-out tracks, only record. along the bank of the disc on the left: a hole from frequent playback. The inscription on the apple: "Blue Eyes", most likely, performed by Pyotr Leshchenko - he was an immigrant from the Soviet Russia, his songs was not published officially. The song: ruclips.net/video/tbpKGq2Y_sQ/видео.html About quality of bone records: it is quite tolerable, even slightly better than 78 rpm shellac recordings, if such a disc is pasted evenly on a flat surface. But if you play it, "as is", artifacts will really appear: before getting under the needle, the disk bends upwards. I didn't meet Beatles records specifically on the "ribs", but I had a 33⅓ single-sided postcard letter with a background from some kind of holiday home. On record was "Mrs Vandebilt". By modern standards, the quality of recording was terrible but, however, all the edges went out of use when tape recorders appeared en masse, especially cassette recorders - it became a little easier: they began to rewrite material more often and more massively, exchange points appeared - Gorbushka (a Humpback market) near Bagrationovskaya metro station, and others. The police chased people out of there, of course, someone was even put in jail for exchanging-selling imported music.
I snagged that "Hard Days" and "Taste of Honey"- got a great price on them on Discogs and they are in good shape! THanks for giving me some context on them.
Another great video, Andrew!! Some of those later, legit pressings can sometimes be found in record shops in New York City. I first saw them in the late 1990s in shops like Second Coming Records, Revolver Records and Subterranean Records (all long gone). The latter shop was where I purchased the West German Apple label LP of Revolver in 1998.
You know the actress that playd Dr melfi in the sopranos was a french language DJ on Luxembourg back in the day ....... true story She also appeared in a few french films aswell
Can you do a video about the Beatles' American singles? I know they have some very strange couplings! Plus, they sound a lot different than the American ALBUMS! A few I know of are: I Want To Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There Slow Down/Matchbox The Long And Winding Road/For You Blue A Hard Day's Night/I Should Have Known Better Yesterday/Act Naturally Eight Days A Week/I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
Thank you for this one, started my Beatles gourney from these crapy eps and flexy discs and those soviet and bootleg records, still some in my collection as a reminder of these days )
Nice comprehensive video. I wanted to mention that the Russian DMM of A Hard Day's Night is missing one song, When I Get Home. Not sure why they dropped that particular song.
I have this pressing and never noticed that, but I'd say it had something to do with censorship issues. Oddly enough, Eduard Khil's most famous song is called I am Very Glad Because I'm Finally Returning Back Home and had the lyrics censored. Band On The Run was also officially released in the USSR, and guess which track is missing? (and replaced with "Silly Love Songs").
I think as Lps of Russia no have a good sound,but are best as Brazilian records.I achieve hear with high performance the sound of Lp. I don’t understand why that song When I Get Home was cut of this Lp?Because have some problems there with this song.I don’t know.Uchino of Japan.I see you Andrew.
"Throw a crowbar to a woman" .... I spat my coffee out laughing when you said this lol !!! I love how the subversive music was packaged with covers showing trees.
Thank you Andrew for this thoroughly entertaining and informative video. The intro was also superb 👌
Cheers,
Steve
Glad you enjoyed it, Steve.
I had to pause it for 5 mins while I recovered from laughing. LOL.
Hello from ex-USSR citizen!:) It was not "Anfon Records" but "Antrop Records" founded by producer Anton Tropilo. Kolia Vasin (Коля Васин) was known as "The biggest fan" of The Beatles in USSR:) He has founded the biggest museum of The Beatles in USSR/Russia.
How was life like in the former Soviet Union?
@@markrobert9915 you won't believe but people were more happy than now. Yes, there were some problems to buy car or some other stuff, but generally life was good. I have a real big nostalgy about those times.
Not Anton Tropilo but Andrei Tropillo, recording engineer and producer of 80's independent russian rock groups.
@@alexeivas1979 sorry! My mistake!:)
@@markrobert9915 oh, it was just great. you know, as in "staying in lines for hours to buy some food or basic goods" marvelous. or "you'll be locked up in prison for telling a joke" marvelous.
The Russian versions of Beatles song titles has to be the high light of your video. It cheered me up for sure! Thank you.
You're very welcome. Thanks for watching!
I have quite a few Beatles albums from The Soviet Union, but my prized possessions are four Russian 45's dating from around 1974-1975. The sound quality of these is quite good, although the editing and track choices are a bit odd. I also love the the nondescript picture sleeves that they were issued with containing no references to The Beatles or the songs contained within. All releases from other countries fascinate me, but I think the Russian ones are truly special and unique. Thank you so much for bringing us this terrific episode. Take care...
It’s worth mentioning that in 1980s the legal releases of western music in Soviet Union usually missed at least one track which surely reduced the royalties. In case of A Hard Day’s Night it was When I Get Home. Having heard this album in this castrated version for years when I was a kid still makes me feel uneasy when I don’t hear the opening licks of You Can’t Do That right after Things We Said Today 😂
Apparently from what I've seen elsewhere on the internet, 'When I Get Home' was "censored" - and so removed from the album release......perhaps they mis-translated the lyrics of "Gonna love you till the cows come home", and got it horribly wrong..!! 😂
Shame, it's a pretty decent sounding record! 😏
@@stevesstuff1450 Yeah, and they did the same with McCartney's "Band on the Run" - with "band" in Russian being more associated with "gang". The album was renamed just to "Paul McCartney" and the title track was replaced by "Silly Love Songs".
Thanks Andrew! These vids usually pop up in Tokyo at 10pm on a Sunday night when I’m about to go to bed but I always end up staying up like an extra hour just to watch! 😂
'Throw a crowbar to a woman' was one of The Beatles best songs :D
"Throw a crowbar to a woman" - means "f**k the woman" in Russian jargon. Such dirty title could not be on the sleeve, it was a joke.
In the USSR (70s) we listened to the "voice of america" and "BBC" on short waves. They broadcast concerts of popular music. And they often included Beatles songs. For example, the first song I heard around 1973 was "Come Together" (by the way the word "come" sounds close to russian "konj" (horse)). And after that I became a Beatleman, like many in Russia.
I infected my father with their music, he had previously listened to mostly Russian folk songs. And until his death, he adored the Beatles and especially John Lennon.
Oh yes, Битлс! My father brought A hard day's night from Russia in eighties and I, as a kid, loved this album, thinking that Beatles were Russian group!
Девушка,by people' s quartet Beatles,simple. And it' s not all true,Yugoslavia was communist country,but it had it own vinyl pressings of Beatles records.And there you could here all radio stations from west,even VOA. Cheers Young Master Andrew,and on "Sgt.Peppers," on other side is " Revolver," album with " changed," work of Klaus Voorman. And for what i know,Beatles had a concert in USSSR.
Andrew, thanks for another awesome and perfectly-made presentation! thought these additions could be of interest:
* those funny sentences aren't translations - just Russian soundalikes which have found their way into local Beatles folklore (thankfully not onto the sleeves): Love Me Do - Лоб в Меду - Lob V Medu, Can't Buy Me Love - Кинь Бабе Лом - Kin Babby Lom, Come Together - Конь Тугеза - Kon Tugeza;
* the changes in Antrop's cover designs were dictated by the country's laws of the time, wherein pictures were protected by copyright, but you could bypass protection for audio recordings by stating "Recorded from a broadcast" on the label - just the way it was done on AnTrop's releases. that lasted from 1991 to 1993.
* Kolya Vasin was indeed The Beatles' biggest and one of longest-standing (from 1963) fans in Russia. the only one in the USSR who technically had correspondence with John Lennon - John even sent him the LP Live Peace in Toronto. Kolya dreamed of building a John Lennon's Temple of Love and Peace in St. Petersburg, had it all designed (he had an architect's education) and for many years sought permission for building it from the city's authorities - but it was never given. On Aug 29 2018 he jumped off a shopping centre's second floor. In his suicide note he wrote he couldn't live in a country where no one supports the cause of building a John Lennon's Temple.
But the Temple's office is still there. I've been there three times and will return whenever I can. There's a vaaast collection of Beatles music and literature, of course. But even more interestingly, Kolya made Beatle-books by hand in the 60-70's, when no Beatle books were available in the USSR. Gathering cut-outs from Socialist-Block magazines of the time, machine-typed interviews, Kolya's own comments and drawings, all beautifully arranged, the gigantic books weighing 5 to 13 kilograms - it's a staggering work of art and a tribute of love to The Beatles. By no means a most factually informative, but the very spirit they carry is what I can only compare to listening to Revolver and Sgt. Pepper for the first time. No other Beatle books have ever given me such powerful feelings. "Do something for the Temple every day - and the Temple will be" read a reminder on Kolya's table (a right choker, given the context). But I'd say the Temple already is - right there in the Office. Would love to see a full version one day though;
* there's an AnTrop's vinyl pressing of Help! where you can hear a CD skipping for half a minute (on You're Gonna Lose That Girl).
Thanks for the information, Vladimir.
@@Parlogram And of course these sound-alike titles weren't on the album covers.
дружок, про гирлуху правильно написал, но ты конечно не в курсе, что битлов кридов и прочих роллингов в ссср в начале 70-х годов можно было купить вполне официально. в москве на улице горького 4 в пяти минутах ходьбы от кремля была студия звукозаписи где нарезали типа звуковых писем - одна песня на 75 оборотов с фото битлов за рубль. это делали прямо при тебе в студии. можно было оставить заявку на запись на магнитофонную пленку - минута 7 копеек. то есть диск раббер соул мне записали за два рубля 10 копеек, а сержанта - за 2-80.
The name of the St. Petersburg label is actually not Anfon, but "AnTrop" (by the initials of Andrei Tropillo). In fact, they operated under then-legal practice in the USSR, which only signed the international copyright convention in 1974, and by which all works prior to signing were public domain. The AnTrop discs were sourced from CDs, and pressed at the Leningrad Melodiya plant. As a matter of fact, shortage of cardboard led to some curious covers some of which contained old nautical maps on the inside. And: there is nothing wrong with the translation of the song titles. ;)
As for official Melodiya records: they were both mastered on DMM (at least, the Moscow experimental plant and the Aprelevka plant used those. Other plants in the USSR also got non-DMM metal parts. One can easily recognize the DMM-mastered records, as they have "DMM" in the runouts.
Oh, and the USSR "A Hard Day's Night" also omitted one song, "When I Get Home". For sexual content.
Noted and fixed...sort of.
@@Parlogram One instance is still there, during Tropillo's portrait on the Pepper cover.
And yes, that logo intermixing mixing Cyrillic and Latin letters is really stupid.
4M were a vocal doo woop quartet from Zagreb (ex Yugoslavia, today Croatia) that performed throughout Europe. According to the story of their leader Ivica Krajač, they listened to the Beatles live in Hamburg and were delighted with their music and energy. In 1964, they released covers of "She loves you" and "It won't be long" for "Jugoton", accompanied by "Bijele strijele", which released a single with 4 covers of Beatles songs the same year. The song "Bebel" is about the legendary French actor Jean Paul Belmondo and was a big hit in Yugoslavia in 1967.
Thanks for the information, Denis.
I visited Zagreb for the first time in the summer of 1977. I met some really friendly people, one of whom was Miso Hrnjak, who played the guitar and lived in the suburb of Zabrude. When I returned in 1982, they told me that Miso had become the bass guitarist in Azra, the most popular band in Yugoslavia at that time. I went on holiday to the coast, in 1986 and, when people saw that I had Miso's address in my address book, then everyone wanted to know me.
Barry Aldis was my model for what a DJ could do. The background music on that promo was the Route 66 theme. I've got the UK pressing of that on UK Capitol
A very nice and informative video indeed. My knowledge about The Beatles is more or less 'limited' to what I know from books, and I've read a lot about them, and documentaries on television of course. I also have the Anthology DVD set and book. Also very informative.
Details about what was released on vinyl, CD's, 8-tracks and musiccassettes are for me limited mostly to what was issued in the UK & US, so learning what was released in the rest of the world is for me very interesting. The closest I ever got was when I bought a Kinks compilation album from the East German Amiga label.
Looking forward to see what was released in Australia. That's the next video I'm going to watch. Kind regards from The Netherlands!
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it. Hope you liked the Australian video too.
@@Parlogram Hello Andrew, thanks for your reply. I did enjoy the Australian video and gave it a thumbs up.
I was born in October 1974, in Moscow. Lived there for 18 years, then 10 years in Israel, and then somehow came back to live in Moscow. Beatlesfan from my childhood. So, besides the 60's "bone records" all the other Soviet formats are very close to my memory and heart. Thank you, Andrew!
Btw, there were also Soviet Band On The Run - with BOTR replaced with Silly Love Songs - (plus 4 songs EP from it) and Imagine (plus 4 songs EP from it) released in 1977
Great presentation! Almost like an ad for City Tours -- not to mention the kaleidoscope. Beautiful! The Antrop (not Anfon) records were sourced from CDs and are noteworthy for their inventive covers only. The White Album, for lack of original copy, had pencil drawings in lieu of the four Beatles portraits inside the gatefold, very well executed. The one that's probably worth owning is Hey Jude which in my view is a better and consistent compilation than the original Klein version. (It replaces the two HDN tracks with Day Tripper/WCWIO and adds Get Back and The Inner Light.) As far as the official records are concerned, there are two variants of the Hard day's Night album. one marked as DMM and the other not, and one version has the pictures on the back mirror inverted. The 1986 Taste of Honey album, if it's not DMM (it seems to me to be a DMM cut, but I'll listen again), is still remarkable for its sound quality. P.S. I Love You is wonderfully transparent and a real joy to listen to. The album is said to have been repressed in 1988, so there may be two different cuts.
9:01 "Throw A Crowbar To a Woman" rolls off the tongue much better than "Can't Buy Me Love"
Very interesting! I have a copy of the Russian vinyl: A Hard Day’s Night. It says DMM on the sleeve ant it’s also stamped DMM next to the album number. My record doesn’t have any pre-echoes and sound very bright and detailed. Anyway i guess there is not too many copies in Canadian homes so it make a good conversation subject for me! 😂
Thanks for this, fascinating stuff! I particularly liked the tampering with the original artwork, including the subtle Sgt Pepper alterations. Incidentally, re the Beatles For Sale edition. One site I use mentions a nineties pressing of this LP, on Antrop, П92 00191. One owner mentions a really thin sleeve, but massively heavy vinyl, which apparently beats Parlophone originals and repressings. Knowing your access to multiple editions, and your helpful comparison films, have you played this one? Apologies if I've missed it at some point. Cheers.
The irony is that nowadays these Russian Beatles records are literally EVERYWHERE.
Thank you for another insightful and well-made presentation!
The print runs went into millions.
Fascinating video Andrew. I really enjoyed it.
The Melodiya albums pressed in the late 1980s and early 1990s were done at dairy processing plants. The un-trimmed edges of a 12" vinyl LP was just slightly larger than 14" - the same size as a wheel of cheddar cheese. The factory would manufacture cheese during the day shift and transition to manufacturing the vinyl on the same presses overnight. Two Canadian artists were the first Western acts ever signed to Melodiya direct - The Powder Blues Band and The Dave Rave Group. Rave's 'Valentino's Pirates' debuted in Russia first - with the band being invited to tour the Soviet Union for 2 weeks. RUclips viewers can watch footage the band smuggled out of the Soviet Union on their song "Weight Of The World."
bullshit
Which one? There were numerous pressing plants all over Soviet Union. They were all ordinary vinyl pressing plants not some cheese factories. These Canadians just did not understand anything and wrote total crap.
Eastern block countries weren't all the same in this regard. In East Germany the Beatles were officially celebrated at least in the era I remember somwhat, which is the 1970s and 80s. There was a regular "weekly Beatles song" in one popular radio programme which lasted over many years, and there were a few Beatles LPs releases, for example the Blue Album (the East German edition is only one LP and omits some titles). In the 1960s western music was officially frowned upon, but not to the extent that it was completely banned.
I have a Roumanian pop compilation album I found in Germany, that has "Oh, Darling" on it in a strange mono fold-down mix, in which the guitar is missing completely.
I also have one of those 7" Melodya EPs from the early 1980s, but it's one of the ones sold here in the U.S., packaged in a white sleeve with a rather crude looking picture of the Beatles on the front, and the Kremlin on the back. (It has four tracks from Pepper.)
Hi Andrew. When A Hard Day's Night and A Taste Of Honey were released, not all pressing plants had DMM cutting lathe installed. So few releases were cut on DMM, but the rest were lacquer cuts. Btw, AnTrop (not Anfon) releases were not officially licensed, but sourced from 1987/1988 CDs. One particular pressing of Help! has a mastering error on You're Gonna Lose That Girl, when CD player was skipping through that song, lasting only 1 minute and 12 seconds. But otherwise, official soviet records have excellent sound and I really like how 1977 Melodiya Imagine album sounds.
I have to agree - the Melodiya albums I have sound excellent. I was pleasantly surprised when I played them for the first time.
Amazing and fascinating as ever! I had no idea about X Ray Records!
I have that soviet pressing of A Hard Days Night and a russian Antrop pressing of Let it Be. Both sound amazing. Band on the Run was also officially issued in the USSR without the main track (the reason, pretty obvious).
It was common practice in the 60’s for picture postcards to have a souvenir ‘record’ pressed into a layer of laminate on the picture side - I have a Hungarian one that still plays. Whilst living in Paris I came across two musical postcards depicting classical paintings from The Hermitage gallery in Leningrad, which turned out to be, instead of the usual folk music, tracks by Elvis Presley- Suspicion was one of them. The other may have been Good Luck Charm. You can tell I didn’t buy them - they were around 100€ each. I wonder if any Beatles records snuck out in a similar way?
Flexidisc postcards existed in the west as well. I have a British one about the Charles/Diana wedding lying around.
I have a postcard with Bad Boy cut like that
I have a flexi from some German youth magazine from the 60s, containing an interview with The Beatles by some German journalist.
@@xaverlustig3581 oh, yes. You are quite right. The first one I ever saw was a 50s card, The Happy Birthday Skiffle. Sadly, the laminate was broken.
@@TheHutt There are also those blue flexis from Russia which came in magazine type covers. You always hope they’ll have something good on them.. and it’s always Engelbert.
You know, 'Girl' was decent choice if you were trying to trick someone into thinking its just a traditional folk song. I can almost imagine cossacks squatting to that little acoustic solo at the end lol
I guess that's why that song was chosen. I can imagine the Party bosses saying, "Oh, how sweet, they added the little Cossack flair at the end; let's include this song in the album." 🤣🤣
I might be a few days late…🥴…but this is why I love ya man! Great info, great pics and great candor! Can’t wait til next vignette!
Just Brilliant!
tbilisi was an capital of soviet era rock. First rock festival in ussr was in tbilisi in 1980
It's not true. The real capital of Soviet rock was Leningrad (St. Petersburg), no doubt.
9:17 Gotta give credit, they took time to remake that cover. Hope we get to see this in its full glory in the Revolver remix book.
Hi Andrew were the 1980's releases remastered locally using the original EMI tapes, or did they use the original EMI masters, on Discogs they are referred to as repress but not remasters.
Hi Gary, They were cut from tapes supplied by EMI.
I have a Melodyia EP with tracks from _Abbey Road._ My wife had a copy of the _Taste Of Honey_ album, which was the first Beatles album she ever owned.
My Russian copy of Rubber Soul had a sleeve that was printed on an old Russian map. The inside “mouth” of the sleeve clearly showed the map which a pilot mate of mine took the coordinates and we discovered it was an old Russian map of a Japanese harbour region
I also had AnTrop's Led Zeppelin "I" album printed like that
AnTrop used all kinds of dodgy stock for their jackets, usually flimsy as heck.
Yeah, in USSR of late 80s shortage of all kinds was omnipresent. Cardboard, too. So Antrop repurposed old navigational maps they sourced from somewhere (Leningrad being a port town, after all).
Were they maps like these ones? Sounds like a link another interesting artifact of Soviet history. ruclips.net/video/_bqzwsM6eoQ/видео.html
4M was a Yugoslav pop group, massive in the 60s and enjoyed success in the USSR as well.
a few words from a russian viewer - the records u show are the ones that appeared later. What was the situation earlier? There was a sea of as I think illegal improvised EPs usually with 3 or 4 tracks on it - usual vynil, colored as well and flexible. One could collect the whole discography of the bands like Beatles, RS, Deep Purple, Middle of th road sold all o'r the shops n in kiosks without knowing outa which albums it was taken. I mean I still have a huge collection of such EPs with f.e. Come together on side A n Across the universe + I me mine on side B etc
I remember when Paul's Russian album came out and the crazy prices they were being sold for. Then one day I received a letter from Paul's official fun club advising fans not to pay such high prices as they were trying to arrange it so that club members could buy a copy at a reasonable price. Just a few weeks later without any notice, a copy suddenly turned up in the post for every club member! A fantastic gesture from Paul.
Nowadays these Снова в СССР albums are sure bargain bin candidates. Except for the (rarer) 11-track ones with the yellow back cover.
Delightful episode. In my childhood I had a few editions from Antrop and Melodiya. They are really brightened my days then. Thank you very much for remind these memories to me, Andrew. It was a real pleasure to watch
Great video. I'd sure love to find one of these albums. An X-Ray album would be very cool! I do have a rock and roll album recorded by a Russian group in the U.S.S.R. in the 1980's. Before the wall came down. It's in Russian so I don't know the name of the band. Quite dark music.
As these appear at midnight, you are quite literally the first thing I see on Monday morning.
Good job, Andrew. Can't wait for more.
Very interesting video! Loved it! I’ve always been pretty fascinated/interested in music from this time in these types of areas. Like the postcards containing music from for example Poland! I find these Russian pressings quite cool and interesting, and would love to have at least a few someday!
Edited for the next video (as always)! :)
The Help album cover is so odd and hilarious I can’t stop looking at it
A fascinating insight to another country and their relationship with the greatest band ever (in my opinion). Not only the usual interesting well researched things by Andrew, but really interesting and educational comments by viewers. (Not sure I’d fancy a bone record on my LP12 though!).
Thank you everyone for expanding my education.
Oh yeah. The "Antrop" Abbey Road had a very subtle change to the cover. Paul wore black shoes on that one, and John was barefoot.
I think this might be the rarest Antrop record, actually. I own a copy. :)
Quite simply the best channel on YT bar none-very professional well researched and informative-keep up the good work!
Thanks, will do!
"Throw A Crowbar To A Woman"...🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, an old buddy of mine sent me an Antrop pressing of Stooges 'Funhouse'. Paper thin jacket with Cyrillic text. The record itself is reasonably thick and it sounds excellent!
9:20 Is this cover "frankly disturbing"?
Thanks Andrew, another very polished production - how you got through those song title translations while keeping a straight face is nothing short of miraculous!
As a Beatles fan an collector and also a history student - who wants to specialise in Russian and Soviet history - I loved this. Maybe one day this video will be on the references in one of my articles
I just have to say that communism is not as gray as the pictures make it look. Not a great system, but people were mostly happy.
Those cover edits alone are worth collecting!
So true , many collecters from europe looking for them here )
I have that Revolver/Sgt. Pepper’s, along with John’s Imagine and Paul’s Russian album.
I thought I had more but I’ll have to look sometime.
The album covers were changed with any artist, from Led Zeppelin to The Stooges, and beyond
Great job! One short correction: The name of the (beloved by me) singer from Israel is Esther Ofarim. Not Orafim.
Fascinating clip. I have a Russian Travelling Wilburys LP and that's a bit weird too.
Thank you, very interesting video as always. There were also some "official" 7" 33 1/3 rpm Melodiya issues with Beatles material issued in the 1970s. I think they were issued with colourful company sleeves. I have in my collection two issues (according to discogs from 1978), both with material from "Abbey Road".
I think Andrew mentioned them (7:35 onwards). EPs with three or four songs, issued simultaneously as flexis in several Soviet republics.
@@aureliande2659 Yes I missed that bit, only heard him mention the flexis.
Thanks Andrew! I feel like I'm back in college listening to a wonderful subject!
Fascinating. I often had trouble receiving Radio Luxembourg in Surrey!
It is not "Anfon" label, but "AnTrop". "An" for Andrey and "Trop" for Tropillo. The flexis were released in picture sleeves mostly, but only in Tbilisi it was unigue beatles picture sleeves, which makes it only one factory to issues those. Happy to have them all.
very interesting.
Both "Вечер трудного дня" (A Hard Day's Night) and "Вкус мёда" (A Taste Of Honey) were released by Melodya simultaneously in the beginning of 1986. "Снова в СССР" by Paul McCartney was released much later, in October 1988.
As a soviet citizen, I was buying all those records in time of their release, but I don't think I treated them with much care. All of my AnTrop records are in bad condition now, as I replaced them with the original UK vinyls in time. Besides, there's lots of them now and you can easily find those AnTrop records for a small price, if you want it (I don't). As for The Beatles AnTrop LPs, they were recorded right from the 1987-1988 CDs, so the sound is not analogue on them. For example, you can clearly hear 1987 echoed stereo mix of "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" at the end of "Помоги!" (Help!) AnTrop LP.
symbolic to release this on January 16, which in Russia is promoted as the World Beatles Day - but at least Wikipedia thinks otherwise) on the other hand, every day is Beatles Day, so why not)
Oh man i wish that was longer Andrew.Very Nice
I watched the video till the very end and got a big kick out of the TV screen dot closing out the video. Fun and interesting video.
Very insightful video Andrew! The translation of the song titles was very funny! Thanks!
Really impressing. Great video 🐈⬛🎶
Thank you very much!
Proper stuff, спасибо!
I had an Album with Radio London it was good 😌
Thanks, Andrew! What about the videos on other parts of Anthology? Are they coming soon?
Yes, coming soon.
Fantastic as always Andrew. I've learned so much, but also been greatly entertained. Keep up the good work!
I' love to hear an inside perspective on why the USSR did this. It feels like such a bad strategy to equate western artists with the west. Surely they would want to embrace counter-cultural figures like John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, etc. All I can imagine is that because this was the pre-internet age, and the Soviet bureaucrats didn't have a very good understanding of the internal dynamics of rock'n'roll music.
I think it's primarily due to the fact that political lyrics started getting more popular within rock music during the 1960s
@@VirreFriberg Right but it tended to be left-leaning/anti-American politics. You'd think the Soviet Union would want to take advantage of that, not censor it.
I have an amazing story to tell - I met a man who was in a Beatles cover band behind the iron curtain! He sang to me, it was very moving to hear his story. They learnt the songs of tapes. I have a bunch of these records, including the hard days night and a cyrilic white album. I love these so much! x spacibo bolshoy za krasivay video!
Andrew, I just want to give kudos for the vast improvement of the production of the videos. They are almost "mini movies" - for a lack of a good description. GREAT JOB, MAN!
Thank you, Bryan.
Best Sounding black Sabbath albums
SNC released BS and they sounded pretty good
Thank you for this. With me being a Beatles nerd, it’s always great learn new things about my favorite band. Bring ‘em on! Another outstanding presentation.
Thanks, Roger.
Excellent video - really interesting and informative
Glad you enjoyed it, Steve.
A fascinating video, Andrew! All of the information you gave here was new to me and I had to chuckle at the surrealistic translation of some of the song titles! Also interesting was the fact that some of the 1960s bootleg records were pressed on old x rays! Many thanks once again for a wonderful presentation!
I think those surrealistic titles are just Andrew's inventions.
Edit: turns out, they aren't. However, they are not official titles that were printed on back covers (even the Antrop ones).
They were just "casual speaking"-titles made of Russian words sounding similar to the English ones.
Cool!
I don't understand how the titles of the songs were ''translated phonetically''. You can pronounce English words phonetically with some amusing results, but ''translate phonetically'' just doesn't make sense to me. Any ideas anybody ?
That's great insight. The only Russian Beatles album I have is "A Taste of Honey" I found here in the US. I saw on you tube that someone had A Russian Revolver and Sgt Pepper made albums using both covers as a gatefold if I remember correctly and as a double album.
Yes, correct , they been released as a single albums and in gatefold , still lots can be found here
I have that Revolver/Sgt. Pepper’s.
Both covers are very interesting to look at
04:00 78 RPM Bone record. Didn't have lead-in and lead-out tracks, only record.
along the bank of the disc on the left: a hole from frequent playback.
The inscription on the apple: "Blue Eyes", most likely, performed by Pyotr Leshchenko - he was an immigrant from the Soviet Russia, his songs was not published officially. The song: ruclips.net/video/tbpKGq2Y_sQ/видео.html
About quality of bone records: it is quite tolerable, even slightly better than 78 rpm shellac recordings, if such a disc is pasted evenly on a flat surface.
But if you play it, "as is", artifacts will really appear: before getting under the needle, the disk bends upwards.
I didn't meet Beatles records specifically on the "ribs", but I had a 33⅓ single-sided postcard letter with a background from some kind of holiday home. On record was "Mrs Vandebilt". By modern standards, the quality of recording was terrible
but, however, all the edges went out of use when tape recorders appeared en masse, especially cassette recorders - it became a little easier: they began to rewrite material more often and more massively, exchange points appeared - Gorbushka (a Humpback market) near Bagrationovskaya metro station, and others. The police chased people out of there, of course, someone was even put in jail for exchanging-selling imported music.
Jesus Andrew. That intro got me! For a moment I thought you'd put the USSR anthem 🤣
Great video once again 😊
Thanks a lot ❤️
Thanks Michael 😃
Radio Luxembourg Was Medium Wave at night in California but Weak.... BBC on 603khz And 5975khz on Shortwave too but Weak too
Esther was a nice singer. She covered Prince en Avignon also done by Mary Hopkin on her Postcard album.
I snagged that "Hard Days" and "Taste of Honey"- got a great price on them on Discogs and they are in good shape! THanks for giving me some context on them.
How about a segment on the Beatles in Italy LP release?
It's on my list.
Brilliantly researched as always, thoroughly interesting. Keep them coming!
Thanks George, will do!
Another great video, Andrew!! Some of those later, legit pressings can sometimes be found in record shops in New York City. I first saw them in the late 1990s in shops like Second Coming Records, Revolver Records and Subterranean Records (all long gone). The latter shop was where I purchased the West German Apple label LP of Revolver in 1998.
You know the actress that playd Dr melfi in the sopranos was a french language DJ on Luxembourg back in the day ....... true story
She also appeared in a few french films aswell
Awesome video! Some South American Beatles cover variations are cool too. like UK Rarities album in a US Rarities cover.
Can you do a video about the Beatles' American singles? I know they have some very strange couplings! Plus, they sound a lot different than the American ALBUMS!
A few I know of are:
I Want To Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There
Slow Down/Matchbox
The Long And Winding Road/For You Blue
A Hard Day's Night/I Should Have Known Better
Yesterday/Act Naturally
Eight Days A Week/I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
Thank you for this one, started my Beatles gourney from these crapy eps and flexy discs and those soviet and bootleg records, still some in my collection as a reminder of these days )
Andrew, you never disappoint. Great video and insight. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it, Chris.
Great video, Andrew! See you in the next one. Nelio.
Super interessant.
Und das rote Telefon hatten wir in orange...thanks..lg Ellen. 😊
Throw a crowbar to a woman. Omg I can’t stop laughing.
Nice comprehensive video. I wanted to mention that the Russian DMM of A Hard Day's Night is missing one song, When I Get Home. Not sure why they dropped that particular song.
This way it is ranked as a compilation and not as an original album - hence less royalties to pay. So I was explained, back then.
I have this pressing and never noticed that, but I'd say it had something to do with censorship issues. Oddly enough, Eduard Khil's most famous song is called I am Very Glad Because I'm Finally Returning Back Home and had the lyrics censored. Band On The Run was also officially released in the USSR, and guess which track is missing? (and replaced with "Silly Love Songs").
I think as Lps of Russia no have a good sound,but are best as Brazilian records.I achieve hear with high performance the sound of Lp. I don’t understand why that song When I Get Home was cut of this Lp?Because have some problems there with this song.I don’t know.Uchino of Japan.I see you Andrew.