Thanks for explaining the story of this album. I’d grown up seeing this album in my fathers record collection, be bought it the day it hit the stores in San Francisco in 1970, and he still has it. I never understood why it just disappeared from stores. When all of the Beatles albums got re-released on cd it wasn’t included, and we wondered why.
I'm actually an engineer at Sterling Sound, the mastering studio where that US Albums box was done. I worked on that set and I remember I was happy the Hey Jude album was finally coming out on CD. it's a shame though, that you'd have to buy the whole box set. I haven't checked, but maybe it's up on the music streaming services.
@@stevefallone I'm a fan! I was none too happy with the press quality of the US versions of this initially... I have one currently, but bought one some time ago on the maroon capitol logo that blew the earlier ones away. I was selling vinyl on a Facebook group when someone took exception with my asserting that the pressing I had of LedZep II was indeed the hot mix, even though it had the curious initials of Lee Hulko on one side... I explained to them that all of the stampers were one-off creations at that time, but that Lee would have had the notes from Bob Ludwig to guide him and produce as good a copy as Bob's, for whatever reason that he was tasked with that stamper, possibly that a plant had broken one, as it did happen. they all were quite rude, so I wrote Bob and he sent me back a reply which backed up my version of the facts, which I shared and was summarily booted from the group! lol! ah well!
@@Jipwell Not a bad song on it, although a strange choice of songs, but it was already available beforehand, that's the point. The cover would have been perfect for the album after Abbey Road that never was.
I bought this LP early into my discovery of The Beatles. Some of the songs on it I had not heard up till that point such as Rain, Old Brown Shoe and The Ballad of John and Yoko. It may not be 'canon' but it is a very good LP and I love the cover.
Same here - this was maybe my 2nd or 3rd Beatles LP, purchased new in early 1970. I still think the PBW-Rain-LadyM-Revolution sequence is one of the all-time best sequences on any Beatles album.
One of the best Beatle album covers and a great selection of tracks. Old Brown Shoe and Hey Jude. Two two tracks alone are worth the price of admission. Great album.
“Old Brown Shoe” is one of my least favourite Beatles tracks. For any other band it would be a top tune, but not for The Bhoys!! And especially not as Harrison’s only song on the LP. Lots of better choices….
For some of us in the US, this album was our 1st chance to hear some great songs that weren't on the U.S. studio albums. A strange collection, but a great listen.
This album was definitely not 'forgotten' where I'm from. This, and the 'Blue Album' were required listening in High School for Beatles heads. For some reason the 'Red Album' didn't get the same respect. I wonder why? 😏 🗣️💨
It’s a great album. First, I always liked the Cover Portrait. It’s one of their last photos and shows their maturity. Then the album has so many great songs.
Our 6th grade teacher played this album during the 1970-71 year. It really got me interested in The Beatles. And made me a lifelong fan. Thanks Mr. Glynn!🎵🎶
Since I couldn't get these tracks on 45s at my local record store, this was a chance to have them all together. Rain quickly became my favorite Beatles song and remains so to this day. Nobody can complain about the song selection. Almost everything on this LP is a classic.
My older brother bought it when it was first released as The Beatles Again. He played it nonstop. I was 10 years old at the time and LOVED Rain, Old Brown Shoe and Don't Let Me Down. That album is currently displayed in my 90+ framed Beatles album collection in my man cave. Overall I like the LP. A very fair dissertation Andrew, on this rather odd and seemingly untethered Beatles LP release. Cheers, RNB
I've been a Beatles fan and follower of anything Beatles since I was a teenager in the 1980s. I never understood how the Hey Jude album fit into their catalogue. This clears it up. Thanks.
For those of us here in the States ... The Beatles Again / Hey Jude album is an excellent addition to the U.S. catalog. I remember when My close friend purchased it shortly after release in 1970. The photos on the cover and back are superb. It's a really good album. 👍 Note...never understood why Inner Light was omitted.
First album that was my own. It was a Christmas present from my parents, and it must have been in 1970 or 1971. I was about 10, and I was thrilled that my parents thought I was "grown up" enough for a gift like this...
I was a new fan and Hey Jude was my second Beatles album. I received it for Christmas, 1974. Meet the Beatles! was my first, having received it as a birthday gift earlier that month. I asked for it because I recognized many of the songs from my neighbor’s copy of 67-70. I absolutely loved comparing the photos between Hey Jude and Meet the Beatles! Besides the tracks from the Blue album, the rest were all new to me and I loved it. I wish I could go back and experience all those songs again for the first time. What an exciting time it was for me!!! Thank you, Andrew for bringing up the memories. In addition, I am really enjoying the creativity in the intros to your episodes. Looking forward to next week!👍👍
This was the first album I ever purchased. (Export copy) Loved it then and I still do. Some great rock songs and none of the silly ditty songs. The best version of Revolution. I have many Beatle albums which I really enjoy, this one is by far my favourite.
I agree! though the Beatles have some great albums, even their best include some filler -this record's lean but mean, literally all singles, no junk. honestly, for me it even surpasses most of their "best of" collections, for that reason.
Hey Jude was the first Beatles l.p. I bought with my "own money" in August of 1974. So, I have very fond memories of it's random track listing! I still have my "Winchester" pressing of HJ and I took pretty good care of it and it still sounds very good. Rain and Don't Let Me Down are my two favorite Beatles to this day!
As a person who was 9 when the Beatles broke up, this was also one of my first albums a few years later. It seemed like a good overview of the evolution of the band. I spent a good amount of time and $ filling in the gaps between “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “Ballad of John and Yoko.”
The cover photographs made it worth buying. The coolest Beatles pictures ever. Bought it as soon as it came out in 1970 and was always one of my favorites.
I always loved this album. My older brother had it on 8-track, and it was the first place I heard ‘Don’t Let Me Down’. I love the photos too. It holds a special place in my heart.
"Hey Jude" was the first full Beatles' album I ever listened to, I was about 5 years old visiting down at my Aunt's house.....been in love with them ever since. The first Beatles record I owned was a 45 with "Eight Days A Week" & "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party", took the plastic record of my Sesame Street record player and popped the Beatles back in it's place....a pivotal moment in history:) I haven't looked back since!
I've thought this for a while, that Past Masters should have had better cover art. Volume one should have used an alternate from one of the early single sleeve photos and volume two should have used one of the photos from the final Beatles photoshoot as seen on the Hey Jude cover art.
I love the album. It gets played quite a bit. When I was young I always looked at it as one of their studio albums. Even knowing that it's just a compilation I am still very fond of it. Love the cover too.
You’re very correct that after the 1967-1970 compilation was released, there was little that the HEY JUDE album offered anymore. When the HEY JUDE album came out, it was a different story in the US. What I remember from the 1970s to 1980, is that 45 / singles were mostly purchased by fans of just the song, and that you probably weren’t going to buy a whole album from that particular artist. Another trend of this era was that once you had a record player of your own (not your mom and dad’s) that played 33 & 1/3, you didn’t like playing singles that only had one song per side. And switching back and forth between singles and albums could quite possibly scratch up your records. It helps to think of this album as “Yesterday And Today, Volume Two” because that’s exactly what it is. The Beatles had pretty much racked up enough non-album sides to fill up an album, and with the contractual issue that Ron Klein thought up…even better. Another key factor was the song “Hey Jude” being about seven minutes long, the record company could use that to justify there being less songs on the album in the first place (an old record company trick). As a whole, with the exception of “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “I Should Have Known Better” and “Paperback Writer,” the album makes sense and holds together as a (nearly) legitimate Beatles’ album release. And I only list “Paperback Writer” because of the stereo mix which makes the song sound weak, compared to a mono mix. Anyway, the HEY JUDE album found its way in to everyone’s collection between 1970 to 1973. After that, younger fans valued the album for being in a family members group of albums, so either you inherited it, or bought a copy of your own because…it just belonged there…didn’t it? Another factor to figure in was that the 1967-1970 album was priced a few dollars more than the HEY JUDE album, so many times that was the deciding factor to purchase it far through the 1980s. - - Looking forward to #100!!
I own this LP. It was my first Beatles record. I won it as half of the prize for a "spot dance" along with my girlfriend at the time. She chose the other Beatles album that was the other half of the prize, namely Abbey Road. It was 1976; we were 13. I wasn't aware of the Parlourphone releases at the time, only having seen the Capitol releases here in Canada, so I didn't realize that it was a compilation of Beatles singles. All I knew is that it was filled with great songs that I really liked.
I'd been collecting Beatles records since 1964 and remember seeing it in a grocery store LP bin (yes, they had them in those days) and snapping it up. As I hadn't yet got a copy of the US A Hard Day's Night LP, it was my first chance to hear Can't Buy Me Love and I Should Have known Better on an LP. (I don't recall if it had the harmonica dropout when John took a breath in the opening.) I was later surprised to find a friend's copy had the "Hey Jude" title on the spine and disk as it had always been The Beatles Again to me. As to the "Again" title, I always saw it as a sort of follow up to The Beatles (AKA The White Album). I'm happy to still have my ancient, heavily-played copy. 😊 PS, Love your channel!
I have fond memories of this. I got it for Xmas 1977. My mother was broke and couldn't afford the red Beatles 62-66 I asked for, which retailed at full price; this one covered some of the same ground for less than half the price. It filled a gap very well for those of us who weren't around for the original singles releases, and the cover is reminiscent of Abbey Road, which seemed revolutionary when it came out: no band name or other text on the front, just the Fabs at their hairiest. Mine has a purple Capitol label with silver text, pressed in Mississauga Canada. It was all superseded by the Past Masters 2 CD set I bought in 1988. I don't think I've listened to the LP since. Now I'm curious to know if that set contained the same stereo mix of 'Rain.' Time to give it a spin!
Its a great compilation LP with awesome LP cover photos...you got a cool Xmas gift id say that year...my mother bought me the Sargent peppers lp that year for xmas ...good memories
This was my first Beatles album I bought in 1970 at age 6. After buying more Beatles albums, I realized many of the songs on the Hey Jude album were from their earlier material. It threw me for a real mental loop.
I was a kid when I first bought this album. It brings back fond memories. At the time, I must admit, I wasn't sure why Can't Buy Me Love was in the same album as Hey Jude. That said, it still bring back those memories of discovering the Beatles' catalog from the US side of the pond!
This was in my family console record player from the time I was 6 years old. Many people seem to like either the Beatles early stuff or later stuff. I credit this LP with giving me an appreciation for both. I really love all the songs here.
I can only imagine that the reason for buying this album in early 1970 was the images selected to decorate it… It’s interesting to learn here how various miscommunications led to the positioning of the images with The Beatles looking as cool as they did when it appeared in early 1970 Despite not appearing live and actively falling apart, they effortlessly look cooler than any other band at the time In other words, those Tittenhurst images were too good to not use somehow… The music within was an added bonus….
the reason for buying this album in early 1970 was because most of these songs had NEVER been on an LP before, and in stereo. The cover was only a bonus.
I was seven years old when we saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. My siblings and I have loved The Beatles and their music all our lives. We never had a "record player" till 1970, when my oldest brother brought one home from the army. My brother that is one year older than me, and I gathered our pennies and talked our sister to take us to "Globe" a department store that sold records. We looked through all the Beatles records they had, and decided on "Hey Jude". We didn't know it had just come out, we just liked all the songs on it. That was the very first album I ever bought, and still play it to this day. I love that album. Oh, and the very first record I ever bought was the "Let It Be" single, second record was "Instant Karma". Still have those too. Great video!
I bought the Hey Jude album when it was first released in the US. It had "The Beatles Again" printed on the sleeve. To me, it was a nice little collection because those songs were not easy to find anymore. Misery and There's a Place would have been a nice addition because it took me a few years to discover those songs. We did have The Early Beatles, which was a Capital version of the Please Please Me album without those two songs. I was eventually able to get two different versions of Introducing the Beatles, which had those songs. The Hey Jude album was great because it had Can't Buy Me Love and I Should Have Known Better. Those were on the original United Artists version of A Hard Day's Night which was hard to find. We did have Something New but without those songs. Great upload, really enjoyed it!
My brother and I LOVED Hey Jude Album! At the time, it was the only LP Album you could get Revolution - Rain - Hey Jude Paperback Writer - Can't By Me Love - I Should Have Known Better - Brown Shoe - Ballad of John and Yoko - Don't Let Me Down! Amazing! And one of the best album covers!
I still often listen to The Beatles and this album came out when I was 9 when I was just becoming cognizant to the world around me. What I love about this album today is that I find it as a complimentary addition to Let It Be. Side one is a catch all for singles that weren't released on any previous U.S. albums, so now I kind of skip it because I have the songs elsewhere. But side 2, for me, makes a perfect side 3 to Let It Be. So now when I listen to Let It Be, I listen to side 2 of this lp as side 3. And The Ballad Of John And Yoko makes for a great finale. It's just something I do to amuse myself.
I live in the States. Love all your videos. This album is special for me because I distinctly remember seeing a full page advert in our local newspaper and asking my Dad to please go and buy it. I was only 8 years old at the time, but he DID buy it for me that night. I actually thought the group Re-recorded all the earlier songs for this LP…lol. That July my parents divorced so the memory of my Dad buying me the album holds a special place in my heart. And I love the front and back pics, in whatever order they were supposed to be in. Great job on this video.
Great album, on my copy its called The Beatles Again. My mum brought it home when first released in1970.Its the album that made me fall in love with the Beatles. Its still one of my favorites and there's not a weak song on it which is why I rank it among their top 4 albums. At the time it was so fresh and revealed the mature Beatles image and sound very well. It was so current and hip. We got it just after Abbey Road and I considered it in the same class. The 2 albums are forever paired in my memory.
I LOVE THIS ALBUM. Yes, time-wise I thought tit sounded all over the map, even as a grade schooler. But it's got all great songs and it plays very well.
Rain, Revolution, Hey Jude, Don't Let Me Down, and Old Brown Shoe all on one LP made this a favorite Beatles album of mine in 1970. The cover is great, but little did we know at the time that these were pics of the last Beatles photo session. And, yes, I still put it on the turntable for a spin once in a while. Love it.
This was my favorite Beatles album in 1970 when it came out. A collection of great songs that were not previously available on album. Even though the album is no longer available there's nothing stopping anyone who loved it from recreating it by collecting the individual tracks on a playlist.
I liked "Hey Jude" all through the original vinyl years, although I always wished they had been able to fit "The Inner Light" on there. (It was only one of three Beatles songs you needed to hunt down on 45 in the US until "Rarities"). When they first started releasing the CDs in '86, and I had no idea about "Past Masters" - I bought a copy of this and placed it away somewhere, figuring its contents would never see the light of day on a compact disc! (I was wrong).
This album was a pretty staple part of my rotation during my teen years. I didn't really care that compilation albums like this and Lennon's Shaved Fish and Bowie's Changes One weren't "pure." Just enjoyed hearing the songs.
Your choice of topics concerning Beatles records is always right on the money. Whenever I seem to wander about an obscure Beatle topic, , there you go and pop up with the definitive answer ! Brilliant.
I remember buying this album in San Francisco when I was 15 years old. I was alays a Beatle fanatic and had to have everything they released. I then didn't have a copy for many, many years - having left home etc. and was very happy when it was included in the US collection. I do still listen to it and enjoy it very much - probably a nostalgia kind of thing. Though I do think it is strange that "The Inner Light" was not included - it would have made the album more complete.
I built this album into a playlist just to hear how it would sound if I had the LP. I guess it's fine, but it really sounds like I had 10 Beatles songs that played on shuffle. No continuity throughout, and no coherent "theme" that a lot of Beatles albums had. But your explanation of how it came about,, what it's purpose was, and why those particular 10 songs were selected makes it all make sense. Thanks, Andrew, for all your fine reviews of The Beatles.
One of my parent’s 8 tracks that I wore out. Still my favorite Beatles compilation- the artwork, song selection , and new mixes make it a great. Concentrated blast of Beatles music.
I never disliked it, but wasn't knocked out by it, either. When the Beatles CDs were starting to be released in the 80's, I was working at a fairly large record store, and was constantly being asked "When is _Hey Jude_ coming out on CD?". And having to explain that it wasn't because the discs were going to be the UK titles, not the US ones.
Yes, that British release thing really pissed me off as I grew up with the American albums. I didn't buy many of the Beatles releases on CD because of that. The Past Masters compilations just pissed me off more. It was kind of personal too because my friend's Mom,Voni Morrison, had a co write on Act Naturally and I thougjt she really missed out on royalties with the release of Yesterday and Today not coming out. The baby butcher cover could have been big marketing in the 80s. Eventually, they had that specialty CD run in mini cardboard sleeves but that a shorter run of collectibles, not catalog CDs.
@@bradhardisty1652 Well, _Act Naturally_ was on the UK _Help!_ CD so Ms. Morrison probably didn't lose out on any royalties. I guess you were pleased to see the US albums box set eventually released. I liked that more for _The Beatles' Story_ than anything else.
@@mcarp555 I didn't realize that. I didn't even know it was in the film. I did know that was the side that was supposed to be the single but DJs started spinning Yesterday Early advertising, Act Naturally was the topline in adverts.
@@bradhardisty1652 It's not in the film. The UK _Help!_ album has songs from the movie on the "A" side (back when they were on vinyl) and non-film songs on the "B" side. Same thing with _A Hard Day's Night_ the year before.
@@bradhardisty1652 You mean the original Capitol boxes of US albums, 4 discs each? I prefer the lineup if not the mixes, on the US albums - same w/ early Stones, much prefer the US programming, plus you have MORE albums by both groups, in the US.
What a well researched well-edited video Andrew, thank you! I was 9 when my dad bought Hey Jude and still have memories of a very warm pleasing sound, the US pressing is solid. In hindsight this is actually a cool album showing off their range and progression as a band. Future generations will still play it.
Trivia, one of the busts in the doorway appears briefly as John and yoko enter the same residence in the official 1971 promo film for the song imagine. I also loved the album, buying a early pressing when released here in America. The film and photos from their last shoot was always a favorite of mine. Great 👍 video as usual.
@@trusso11783 I don't believe so, as 2 busts were shown on hey Jude cover, yet the doorway had at least 5 busts which were concrete. Plus tittenhursrt house was owned by ringo and is the one shown as sold by ringo. The metal statue on pepper by George's feet was more menacing. But when I have the time will do research as to whom the pepper bust was. Don't forget pepper cover was photographed in spring 67 and the tittenhursrt photos were in August 1969. Good question though
I bought the 8-track at a thrift shop when I was in junior high in the early eighties. It was the first time I heard Rain and Old Brown Shoe. I’ll always have a soft spot for it. Great cover, too.
As a compilation album early in the history of those, it's priceless, especially if you owned it as a child. All the Beatles' US albums before Sgt. Pepper are compilations in comparison to the UK albums - The Beatles' Second Album functions as a great compilation, collecting several covers of Black music hits. I played Hey Jude so much as a kid, I swear you could hold that copy up to the light and see through it.
I got it when it first came out in 1970. It was titled "The Beatles Again" and came with a poster showing the photo session art from the front and back covers and listing the complete Beatles discography up to that point. Never knew the name got changed to, "Hey Jude".
The best thing Allen Klein ever done. It's a great album. I always saw side one aa a compilation of songs from around halfway through their first phase, after they hit the big time. Side two was their later post psychedlic back to basics phase, a bit more bluesy. It holds up very well in my opinion. Better than some albums in the accepted Beatles cannon, easily.
Here in the U.S. I bought it when it came out not only because it was a Beatles album but because it was the only way to get a stereo mix of Hey Jude. The mono 45 RPM single was 7:11 and the stereo mix was 7:06 but again, the stereo mix was the main reason.
I remember when this album came out. I was overwhelmed by the stereo mix of "Hey Jude" having listened to the mono copy of the 45 rpm so many times over. Side one is a solid line-up of songs with the stereo versions of "Can't Buy Me Love" and "I Should Have Known Better." And to hear "Revolution" in stereo was exciting to hear. The photos for the front and back album are pretty cool. The collection of songs all stand on their own and a must-have album back then. It's still a very good album.
@@rick4electric As a 45 rpm in its original format was released in mono. The first stereo 45 rpm by the Beatles was "Get Back" b/w "Don't Let Me Down."
This was first Beatles album I purchased back in the early seventies as a pre-teenager. Hey Jude was my favorite Beatles song, so how could I go wrong with a album titled Hey Jude. Great video, and thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the background. It is an oddly mixed collection, but in the US, this was the only way to get "Hey Jude" (and other essential songs like "Rain" and "Paperback Writer," etc.) on an album -- until the Red and Blue compilations. I didn't buy 45 rpm singles as a kid -- though I made an exception for the single mix of "Let It Be" b/w the hilarious B-side, "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)." My copy of The Album Sometimes Known As "Hey Jude" actually has my favorite Beatles album title on the spine and the label: "The Beatles Again." Always loved their cheeky sense of humor. And I appreciated them going the "White Album" one better and leaving both the title and the name of the band off the cover.
I've always known this album as "The Beatles Again". My sister bought it when it was first released in the USA (we live in Pennsylvania) and that very copy rests comfortably in my collection to this day. The album is a wonderful relic of my childhood, as it was played over & over & over again. The front cover photo is easily in my Top Favorite photos of the band. Great video....!!
I have a sentimental attachment to "Beatles Again". I had just broken my ankle in PE class in high school, and while I was recuperating, my father bought me the album which I played until the grooves flattened out. It had the original label, "The Beatles Again". l stupidly threw the thing out years later. I'd be rich, now, I tell you! Rich!! 😀
@@josephsauris4949 Actually, original copies with "The Beatles Again" label are pretty common and aren't worth all that much. The most valuable US pressing is "Hey Jude" on the Apple label with the Capitol logo in the perimeter print. Clean copies sell for about $75 -$100. A nice copy of "The Beatles Again" usually sells for between $15-$25.
"The Beatles Again/Hey Jude" was my favorite Beatles album. Although for years I didn't know why the name on the album didn't match the name on the cover spine.
Hey Jude was one of the first Beatles albums I owned. Sadly, it was destroyed by the cheap record player I used as a teen. I do remember it with fondness, and was the first time I’d heard Ballad, Old Brown Shoe, and Don’t Let Me Down. And I was fascinated by the cover (especially John’s outfit). I wonder: the version on iTunes as part of the US Albums set… does it use the same mixes as the original album?
I had a US pressing that was quite worn from playing on crappy record players in my pre-teen years. By the late 70s I had progressed to proper stereo equipment, albeit modest -- my first "real" turntable was a Pioneer PL-514. I bought a UK pressing circa 1980 and remember being astounded by the sound quality, especially of "Rain" when I finally played it after upgrading to a Sony PS-X600 turntable (I think I was using an A-T cartridge with their "microline" stylus shape). At some point I just discarded the US pressing as the record wasn't worth playing anymore and even the cover was inferior (recycled cardboard) and worn. Not a user of iTunes, so I can only speculate that it's the same as was included in the U.S. Albums box set, which as stated in the video, uses what we got in 2009.
The US Albums version uses inaccurate versions of Paperback Writer (which originally had the stereo channels reversed) and The Ballad Of John And Yoko (which originally faded out during the final drumbeat rather than it being at full volume)
A friend of mine had the "Hey Jude" album on cassette and we sometimes met in the 70s simply to listen to music together. I remember I brought my "Beatles Greatest" LP, that had a lot of early Beatles hit singles on. We both thought Hey Jude would be an original album to go with the Hey Jude single and I found it obscure that the Beatles used "old songs" like "Can't buy me love" or "Should have know better" to fill up an album with new songs. Still we loved it because "Hey Jude", "Revolution", "Lady Madonna", "Ballad of John & Yoko", "Don't let me down", etc. are great songs.
As someone who was buying one Beatles album a week in the mid-‘70s, this was among the last I bought, but it was definitely a worthwhile purchase simply because it filled in a lot of holes. Though I’d never find time to listen to it now.
Knowing they would release the greatest hits three years later, this album isn't needed. However, in 1971, no one knew they would release the greatest hits in '73 and we wanted these songs on an LP. It made total sense at the time. Today, you don't even need songs on albums, which is too bad.
I bought this LP in 1987 when I was 15. I had just discovered the Beatles and was buying every LP I could find of them, including this one. I was fascinated by the sleeves, their appearance which was so different to how they looked on the other LPs of them that I had (I had not yet bought "Abbey Road"). I don't think I listened very often to this LP as the original albums were more fascinating.
Thanks for the background to this album. I always liked this album, for the mixes and some individual songs. Old Brown Shoe I think is very innovative. The mix on Rain is superb. The Ballad of John and Yoko is just a good damn song.
This really is a forgotten album. I was talking about this LP not long ago with a friend of mine and he wasn't even aware of its existence. The copy we owned was "The Beatles Again." When I was a kid I especially liked it because Hey Jude was my favorite Beatle song.
Thanks for another excellent video! I have to commend you on your historical approach and non-sensational style, which is very refreshing around YT. My story with this album is, as a desperate teenager trying to find every last Beatles track, I bought a late-70's vinyl copy that was still in stock in my local store, relished it, and then found out days later that Past Masters were being released! Oh well. I have since gone and bought a U.S. first pressing. Even though the track listing isn't cohesive, it's a great package overall that has a strong iconic-ness to it.
The cover photo is by Ethan Russell, who captured some of the most recognizable images in rock history. He has a wonderful Instagram page with stories in the captions, and he can be seen in the parts of GET BACK filmed at Savile Row.
Hello again, Andrew!! Another incredible and insightful video!!! Thanks!!! I never did own this LP, but my older brother did, and I enjoyed it immensely, playing his copy, until 1973, when I got both the "Red" and "Blue" compilations on 8-track. Once those excellent compilations came out, "Hey Jude" almost immediately began to be considered an "orphaned" title in the Beatles catalog here in the US. There really wasn't any need for it in the marketplace anymore. In fact, around 2 years after the compilations were released, would I even rarely see it for sale at local record retailers. I think the last sealed copy I saw for sale was on 8-track at a local discount department store. I was in high school at the time, so this had to be around 1976 or 1977. Well, just wanted to throw in my "tupence," in your parley. I can't wait to see more of your really cool videos!!! Cheers my mate!!!!🙂🙂
This album played a huge part when I was discovering the Beatles’ music. This was the first time I heard Rain (which I love), old brown shoe (which I love), and I should have known better (an awesome song).
Andrew, thank you for another great video. I own an Australian copy with the UK export stamper numbers YEEX 150-1/151-1 and the German A3/B3. Both of them are excellent and you can't go wrong with either. I think The Ballad Of John & Yoko and Old Brown Shoe however still sound best on the original UK 1U/1U 45. One thing though that drives me bonkers is a lot of German LP pressings put the stamper numbers so close to the labels they can be difficult to read. Keep the Parlogram video coming!
I was purely a Beatles album buyer after "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and bought "Hey Jude" as I didn't have many of those tracks. Having lived in the USA until late 1970 and In Ireland from 1970 to 1983 I realised what a mixed up wacky world albums were in those days. I doubt such inconsistency exists today across different countries. You video helped confirm a lot I have learned over the years. Thanks!
Great video! In Chile, the cassette tape version was called “Compatible” clearly a mistake likely the result of the LP not having a title other than the sentence mono-stereo Compatible. I used to own a copy.
My dad had (and still has) this album among his Beatles collection. I listened to it a lot as a kid and thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact, I liked it better than some of their other “official” albums.
Having grown up in New York at the time that this album was released, I bought my copy the week it hit the stores. A few weeks after that, the Woolworth department stores were having a blowout sale for one week only advertising this album and pricing it at just 0.69 cents each. I gathered a portion of my lunch money for the week and bought another copy, only to find out that the albums were bootlegs, possibly pressed and printed by the Woolworth department stores themselves. I remember comparing the sound quality to each other and the bootleg was far worse sounding than the copy that I bought on the week of its release. This album, eventually went out of print for a short time and reappeared as a purple label Capitol release with the Apple logo eliminated from the rear of the sleeve. I have one of those purple Capitol pressings and I ended up buying an original US Apple copy for pennies on the dollar in the 1990's in mint condition with the shrink wrap still on the jacket. I cannot remember what happened to my original and the Woolworth bootleg copies.
I'd heard Let It Be (the US gatefold version) was widely available in pirate copies, but didn't know the same was true for Hey Jude, but it stands to reason that if the bootleggers were going to do one, they'd do the other. Something to watch out for when flipping through the racks.
I had no idea Woolworth's was a retail bootlegger, hilarious story! I can see the WTF look on your face as the needle hit that bogus vinyl, oh man. To be ripped off on some vinyl, I've been there--it hurts. And yes that vinyl is probably STILL only worth just 69 cents, what a sad tale all around!
Born in 1964 & 3 older siblings, had this album and all the Beatles albums.Lady Madonna, Hey Jude, Old Brown Shoe was a George tune that I didn't like as a kid but at 58, I really like it now. Love this LP, LOVE the Beatles!🥰
I bought the “Hey Jude” CD single disc at Best Buy a few years back. It was not a part of a box set at the time. Seems like the same year the “Help!” Soundtrack was available.
If you mean 2014, when the US Albums set came out, all the discs could either be sold individually or collectively in the box. Since I read the source material was actually from the 2009 british remasters, I nly picked up the individual CDs for their covers - beatles 65, Hard days Night, and last but certainly far from least, Yesterday & today with the Butcher cover restored and intact (Now, i'd love it if Capitol would release the US albums on vinyl, as EMI did the remasters, so i could finally get a Capitol Records legitimate (re)issue of "Y & T".
Nice to see the venezuelan edition there at 6:35 or so. This records was very popular here, because we cherished quite a lot Beatles compilations and this was not an exception. Superb work, mate.
My father had this on 8 -Track. One of my favorite albums and overs from the Beatles. As a young kid, this album helped introduce me to the Beatles and all of their amazing songs.
Totally loved this album when it came out in my 14th year, and still do. The cover is wonderful, and "Paperback Writer", "Rain", "Old Brown Shoe" and "Ballad of John and Yoko" all in one album is a real treat. The unjustly overshadowed "Hey Bulldog" in addition (opening side 2) would have made it a killer album.
I bought the album when it first came out and remember the cover pictures vividly. I loved Abby Road and was already familiar with most of the songs on Hey Jude but especially enjoyed the remix of Rain.
I love this album. I love the photos of the group on the front AND back cover. It has one of my favorite George Harrison Beatle songs on it: "Old Brown Shoe"!! Such a great AND underrated LP, (IMO). It should have done a lot better on the charts than it did. It SHOULD have been a number 1 album!! Maybe if it had been released after "Bridge Over Troubled Water" had exited the top ten, it would have become a number 1 album afterward. Again...IMO!!!
Sweet memories. This album was on my very first cassette tape I got from my brother, together with the then fresh Hollywood Bowl concert on the other side, plus some additional tracks from the Red Album, to fill the tape. I must have been 9 years old. I was so fascinated by the energy and diversity oft the music. I fell in love instantly. The cassette tape wasn't properly labelled, and it took me ages (then), to find out, what was on the tape. Bought my first Beatles book soon after... And a life long journey and love began ❣
My parents had this album here in the U.S. It was the Beatles, and this album fit in with all their other albums just fine. "Rain" is one of the best songs they ever created.
I first had this album on cassette and really liked it, but as I replaced my tape collection with CDs in the 90’s I kind of forgot about Hey Jude. That being said, I was happy the album was included in the US Albums box set. 😊 🇺🇸
Hi Andrew, Thank you for another great video . I bought my copy in 1976, a regular german pressing A2/B3. I can still remember hearing rain for the first time, it was mind blowing.
It's been up in my attic in a bedding box for 30 years, along with the MMT album. Time to get up there,bring them both down and feel 18 again when I first ordered them in 1974 !
I considered Hey Jude to be a cash grab but I eventually picked it up (unfortunately not a Winchester pressing). I've never been a big fan of the song "Money Can't Buy Me Love", which to me always felt like a cash grab Beatles song that was resolved more successfully with "She's A Woman". George does take a pretty great solo though.
@@thefonzkiss It's how I felt about it at the time it came out because it seemed so disjointed, because I already had a lot of the singles (wish I still did), and because the Hard Day's Night songs had already been available on the United Artists movie soundtrack album which my parents had given me for Christmas. Nothing felt all that new.
I'm Swedish and was born in 1977. My three year older brother received this album as Christmas present in 1983, and it was my introduction to The Beatles. I loved the album. At the age of 6, Revolution was the heaviest song I had ever heard. My number one favourite song by The Beatles is still Don't Let Me Down, and I really love The Ballad of John and Yoko, Old Brown Shoe, Rain and Lady Madonna. I did not know a single word of English, so I had no idea what they were singing about, but the music was amazing to me, and I listened often to this album for many years to come. A few years later, both me and my brother started buying the other albums by The Beatles, but for a few years, the songs on this album was all we knew from The Beatles' catalogue.
This may have been the first album I ever purchased, certainly the first Beatles album, at the age of 10 in 1970. Mine is "The Beatles Again", on the Apple label. I guess I bought it because of "Hey Jude", and probably some of the other songs i remembered from the radio, like "Lady Madonna", and "Can't buy me love", but over the years and many plays, I really grew to like "Old Brown Shoe". Even though I was an inexperienced record buyer, and didn't understand this as a compilation, I did think the song selection was odd and incoherent as an album, especially after I started collecting more of their catalog later. Also the extreme stereo separation kind of blew my mind at the time, especially with headphones! I really appreciate this video... I had occasionally wondered about how this album came about, and why it's no longer available, so you filled a gap for me in my personal music history. Thanks!
I remember a childhood friend getting this album in the 70's. I thought it was the best album they put out not realizing the way they released music. It wasn't until recent did I find out that it was not an official album. I've had a copy since the late 70's. Wanted to get a cd but couldn't find one. Now that I have other Beatles music, this is still my go to.
Thanks for explaining the story of this album. I’d grown up seeing this album in my fathers record collection, be bought it the day it hit the stores in San Francisco in 1970, and he still has it. I never understood why it just disappeared from stores. When all of the Beatles albums got re-released on cd it wasn’t included, and we wondered why.
Thanks for watching, Mike.
I'm actually an engineer at Sterling Sound, the mastering studio where that US Albums box was done. I worked on that set and I remember I was happy the Hey Jude album was finally coming out on CD. it's a shame though, that you'd have to buy the whole box set. I haven't checked, but maybe it's up on the music streaming services.
My mom has this LP and I played it a lot as a kid so I miss it.
@@stevefallone I'm a fan! I was none too happy with the press quality of the US versions of this initially... I have one currently, but bought one some time ago on the maroon capitol logo that blew the earlier ones away. I was selling vinyl on a Facebook group when someone took exception with my asserting that the pressing I had of LedZep II was indeed the hot mix, even though it had the curious initials of Lee Hulko on one side... I explained to them that all of the stampers were one-off creations at that time, but that Lee would have had the notes from Bob Ludwig to guide him and produce as good a copy as Bob's, for whatever reason that he was tasked with that stamper, possibly that a plant had broken one, as it did happen. they all were quite rude, so I wrote Bob and he sent me back a reply which backed up my version of the facts, which I shared and was summarily booted from the group! lol! ah well!
@@Parlogram I still have the vinyl album.
Love it and the cover.
I really like the cover of the Hey Jude album, I think that’s the aesthetic the band would’ve gone for if they continued on into the 1970s.
I think that alone was worth $6 to American fans in 1970.
The only good thing about the album.
@@terrythekittieful It has good songs on it tbf
@@Jipwell Not a bad song on it, although a strange choice of songs, but it was already available beforehand, that's the point. The cover would have been perfect for the album after Abbey Road that never was.
@@terrythekittieful It would've been a great cover for the "Let it Be" album.
This was the first Beatles album I ever bought. Because of Rain, Paperback Writer, Old Brown Shoe and Ballad….it is worthy.
Likewise -- I was 10 yrs old in 1970 and I bought it with my dollar-a-month allowance money I'd saved
I was 10 too. Bought as my Christmas present. Always loved it.
Idk.. love all those.. except Paperback... i find that one annoying.. figures its a Paul song lol
@@toneohm Set it to a swing-jazz beat (think "When I'm 64") and BOOM - it becomes one of "Paul's granny songs"
@@WillCateI was ten also and my dad had it in 1970
I bought this LP early into my discovery of The Beatles. Some of the songs on it I had not heard up till that point such as Rain, Old Brown Shoe and The Ballad of John and Yoko. It may not be 'canon' but it is a very good LP and I love the cover.
Same here - this was maybe my 2nd or 3rd Beatles LP, purchased new in early 1970. I still think the PBW-Rain-LadyM-Revolution sequence is one of the all-time best sequences on any Beatles album.
Same here with Rain. 🎶™️
It is hard for me to wrap my head around never having heard rain etc…
One of the best Beatle album covers and a great selection of tracks.
Old Brown Shoe and Hey Jude.
Two two tracks alone are worth the price of admission.
Great album.
Agree ! For me, 'Old Brown Shoe' is a classic track, it is one of my favourite Beatle tracks !
“Old Brown Shoe” is one of my least favourite Beatles tracks. For any other band it would be a top tune, but not for The Bhoys!!
And especially not as Harrison’s only song on the LP. Lots of better choices….
@@terrypussypower maybe . . . but the guitar solo is brilliant
@Bruce15485 Mine also, along with "Don't Let Me Down," "For You Blue" and "Oh Darling."
For some of us in the US, this album was our 1st chance to hear some great songs that weren't on the U.S. studio albums. A strange collection, but a great listen.
This album was definitely not 'forgotten' where I'm from. This, and the 'Blue Album' were required listening in High School for Beatles heads. For some reason the 'Red Album' didn't get the same respect. I wonder why? 😏 🗣️💨
It’s a great album. First, I always liked the Cover Portrait. It’s one of their last photos and shows their maturity. Then the album has so many great songs.
Our 6th grade teacher played this album during the 1970-71 year. It really got me interested in The Beatles. And made me a lifelong fan. Thanks Mr. Glynn!🎵🎶
Since I couldn't get these tracks on 45s at my local record store, this was a chance to have them all together. Rain quickly became my favorite Beatles song and remains so to this day. Nobody can complain about the song selection. Almost everything on this LP is a classic.
Rain is one of my favourite Beatles tunes also.
This album had great energy. Not a mellow sleeper to be found. Very "up".
Oasis seemed to base their sound and style on 'Rain'
Rain is one of my favorites. It's really Cool!
I think it is a great listen, short and rockin', 64-69. Not a major statement, just a well programmed and great looking album!
Love everything about this album. The songs , the cover. It’s one of my all time favorites.
My older brother bought it when it was first released as The Beatles Again. He played it nonstop. I was 10 years old at the time and LOVED Rain, Old Brown Shoe and Don't Let Me Down. That album is currently displayed in my 90+ framed Beatles album collection in my man cave. Overall I like the LP. A very fair dissertation Andrew, on this rather odd and seemingly untethered Beatles LP release. Cheers, RNB
I've been a Beatles fan and follower of anything Beatles since I was a teenager in the 1980s. I never understood how the Hey Jude album fit into their catalogue. This clears it up. Thanks.
For those of us here in the States ... The Beatles Again / Hey Jude album is an excellent addition to the U.S. catalog. I remember when My close friend purchased it shortly after release in 1970. The photos on the cover and back are superb. It's a really good album. 👍 Note...never understood why Inner Light was omitted.
I also loved the photos. When the Paul Is Dead rumor started the front cover was supposed him in his coffin pose.
Omitted because it sux.
Or "Know My Name (Look Up My Number).
"The Inner Light" sucks! Worst Beatles song right behind "Words of Love".
@@davism5 Words of Love has great harmony and was a cover of a Buddy Holly song. The Inner Light is just shit.
First album that was my own. It was a Christmas present from my parents, and it must have been in 1970 or 1971. I was about 10, and I was thrilled that my parents thought I was "grown up" enough for a gift like this...
A rare album I love it.. 2023 🪲🪲🪲🪲+🍏🍏🍏🍏= Beatles+🍎 = Mal Evans 😄
I was a new fan and Hey Jude was my second Beatles album. I received it for Christmas, 1974. Meet the Beatles! was my first, having received it as a birthday gift earlier that month. I asked for it because I recognized many of the songs from my neighbor’s copy of 67-70. I absolutely loved comparing the photos between Hey Jude and Meet the Beatles! Besides the tracks from the Blue album, the rest were all new to me and I loved it. I wish I could go back and experience all those songs again for the first time. What an exciting time it was for me!!! Thank you, Andrew for bringing up the memories. In addition, I am really enjoying the creativity in the intros to your episodes. Looking forward to next week!👍👍
This was the first album I ever purchased. (Export copy) Loved it then and I still do. Some great rock songs and none of the silly ditty songs. The best version of Revolution. I have many Beatle albums which I really enjoy, this one is by far my favourite.
I agree!
though the Beatles have some great albums, even their best include some filler -this record's lean but mean, literally all singles, no junk.
honestly, for me it even surpasses most of their "best of" collections, for that reason.
Hey Jude was the first Beatles l.p. I bought with my "own money" in August of 1974. So, I have very fond memories of it's random track listing! I still have my "Winchester" pressing of HJ and I took pretty good care of it and it still sounds very good. Rain and Don't Let Me Down are my two favorite Beatles to this day!
That was moms car.
I bought mine a year later!
Shave your beard off.
Rain is a great song, very good song. The others are a bit odd to be included in a later Beatles album,
As a person who was 9 when the Beatles broke up, this was also one of my first albums a few years later. It seemed like a good overview of the evolution of the band. I spent a good amount of time and $ filling in the gaps between “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “Ballad of John and Yoko.”
The cover photographs made it worth buying. The coolest Beatles pictures ever. Bought it as soon as it came out in 1970 and was always one of my favorites.
I always loved this album. My older brother had it on 8-track, and it was the first place I heard ‘Don’t Let Me Down’. I love the photos too. It holds a special place in my heart.
"Hey Jude" was the first full Beatles' album I ever listened to, I was about 5 years old visiting down at my Aunt's house.....been in love with them ever since. The first Beatles record I owned was a 45 with "Eight Days A Week" & "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party", took the plastic record of my Sesame Street record player and popped the Beatles back in it's place....a pivotal moment in history:) I haven't looked back since!
Past Masters should have been a double CD release with the cover art from the 'Hey Jude' album.
I've thought this for a while, that Past Masters should have had better cover art. Volume one should have used an alternate from one of the early single sleeve photos and volume two should have used one of the photos from the final Beatles photoshoot as seen on the Hey Jude cover art.
I love the album. It gets played quite a bit. When I was young I always looked at it as one of their studio albums. Even knowing that it's just a compilation I am still very fond of it. Love the cover too.
You’re very correct that after the 1967-1970 compilation was released, there was little that the HEY JUDE album offered anymore. When the HEY JUDE album came out, it was a different story in the US. What I remember from the 1970s to 1980, is that 45 / singles were mostly purchased by fans of just the song, and that you probably weren’t going to buy a whole album from that particular artist. Another trend of this era was that once you had a record player of your own (not your mom and dad’s) that played 33 & 1/3, you didn’t like playing singles that only had one song per side. And switching back and forth between singles and albums could quite possibly scratch up your records. It helps to think of this album as “Yesterday And Today, Volume Two” because that’s exactly what it is. The Beatles had pretty much racked up enough non-album sides to fill up an album, and with the contractual issue that Ron Klein thought up…even better. Another key factor was the song “Hey Jude” being about seven minutes long, the record company could use that to justify there being less songs on the album in the first place (an old record company trick). As a whole, with the exception of “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “I Should Have Known Better” and “Paperback Writer,” the album makes sense and holds together as a (nearly) legitimate Beatles’ album release. And I only list “Paperback Writer” because of the stereo mix which makes the song sound weak, compared to a mono mix. Anyway, the HEY JUDE album found its way in to everyone’s collection between 1970 to 1973. After that, younger fans valued the album for being in a family members group of albums, so either you inherited it, or bought a copy of your own because…it just belonged there…didn’t it? Another factor to figure in was that the 1967-1970 album was priced a few dollars more than the HEY JUDE album, so many times that was the deciding factor to purchase it far through the 1980s. - - Looking forward to #100!!
I own this LP. It was my first Beatles record. I won it as half of the prize for a "spot dance" along with my girlfriend at the time. She chose the other Beatles album that was the other half of the prize, namely Abbey Road. It was 1976; we were 13. I wasn't aware of the Parlourphone releases at the time, only having seen the Capitol releases here in Canada, so I didn't realize that it was a compilation of Beatles singles. All I knew is that it was filled with great songs that I really liked.
I'd been collecting Beatles records since 1964 and remember seeing it in a grocery store LP bin (yes, they had them in those days) and snapping it up. As I hadn't yet got a copy of the US A Hard Day's Night LP, it was my first chance to hear Can't Buy Me Love and I Should Have known Better on an LP. (I don't recall if it had the harmonica dropout when John took a breath in the opening.) I was later surprised to find a friend's copy had the "Hey Jude" title on the spine and disk as it had always been The Beatles Again to me. As to the "Again" title, I always saw it as a sort of follow up to The Beatles (AKA The White Album). I'm happy to still have my ancient, heavily-played copy. 😊
PS, Love your channel!
I have fond memories of this. I got it for Xmas 1977. My mother was broke and couldn't afford the red Beatles 62-66 I asked for, which retailed at full price; this one covered some of the same ground for less than half the price. It filled a gap very well for those of us who weren't around for the original singles releases, and the cover is reminiscent of Abbey Road, which seemed revolutionary when it came out: no band name or other text on the front, just the Fabs at their hairiest.
Mine has a purple Capitol label with silver text, pressed in Mississauga Canada.
It was all superseded by the Past Masters 2 CD set I bought in 1988. I don't think I've listened to the LP since. Now I'm curious to know if that set contained the same stereo mix of 'Rain.' Time to give it a spin!
Very goog
Its a great compilation LP with awesome LP cover photos...you got a cool Xmas gift id say that year...my mother bought me the Sargent peppers lp that year for xmas ...good memories
This was my first Beatles album I bought in 1970 at age 6. After buying more Beatles albums, I realized many of the songs on the Hey Jude album were from their earlier material. It threw me for a real mental loop.
I was a kid when I first bought this album. It brings back fond memories. At the time, I must admit, I wasn't sure why Can't Buy Me Love was in the same album as Hey Jude. That said, it still bring back those memories of discovering the Beatles' catalog from the US side of the pond!
This was in my family console record player from the time I was 6 years old. Many people seem to like either the Beatles early stuff or later stuff. I credit this LP with giving me an appreciation for both. I really love all the songs here.
I can only imagine that the reason
for buying this album in early 1970
was the images selected to decorate it…
It’s interesting to learn here
how various miscommunications
led to the positioning of the images
with The Beatles looking as cool
as they did when it appeared
in early 1970
Despite not appearing live
and actively falling apart,
they effortlessly look cooler
than any other band at the time
In other words,
those Tittenhurst images were
too good to not use somehow…
The music within
was an added bonus….
the reason for buying this album in early 1970 was because most of these songs had NEVER been on an LP before, and in stereo. The cover was only a bonus.
I was seven years old when we saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. My siblings and I have loved The Beatles and their music all our lives. We never had a "record player" till 1970, when my oldest brother brought one home from the army. My brother that is one year older than me, and I gathered our pennies and talked our sister to take us to "Globe" a department store that sold records. We looked through all the Beatles records they had, and decided on "Hey Jude". We didn't know it had just come out, we just liked all the songs on it. That was the very first album I ever bought, and still play it to this day. I love that album. Oh, and the very first record I ever bought was the "Let It Be" single, second record was "Instant Karma". Still have those too. Great video!
I bought the Hey Jude album when it was first released in the US. It had "The Beatles Again" printed on the sleeve. To me, it was a nice little collection because those songs were not easy to find anymore. Misery and There's a Place would have been a nice addition because it took me a few years to discover those songs. We did have The Early Beatles, which was a Capital version of the Please Please Me album without those two songs. I was eventually able to get two different versions of Introducing the Beatles, which had those songs. The Hey Jude album was great because it had Can't Buy Me Love and I Should Have Known Better. Those were on the original United Artists version of A Hard Day's Night which was hard to find. We did have Something New but without those songs. Great upload, really enjoyed it!
My favorite and possibly a formative song, Paperback Writer.
My brother and I LOVED Hey Jude Album! At the time, it was the only LP Album you could get Revolution - Rain - Hey Jude Paperback Writer - Can't By Me Love - I Should Have Known Better - Brown Shoe - Ballad of John and Yoko - Don't Let Me Down! Amazing!
And one of the best album covers!
I still often listen to The Beatles and this album came out when I was 9 when I was just becoming cognizant to the world around me.
What I love about this album today is that I find it as a complimentary addition to Let It Be. Side one is a catch all for singles that weren't released on any previous U.S. albums, so now I kind of skip it because I have the songs elsewhere. But side 2, for me, makes a perfect side 3 to Let It Be. So now when I listen to Let It Be, I listen to side 2 of this lp as side 3. And The Ballad Of John And Yoko makes for a great finale.
It's just something I do to amuse myself.
I live in the States. Love all your videos. This album is special for me because I distinctly remember seeing a full page advert in our local newspaper and asking my Dad to please go and buy it. I was only 8 years old at the time, but he DID buy it for me that night. I actually thought the group Re-recorded all the earlier songs for this LP…lol. That July my parents divorced so the memory of my Dad buying me the album holds a special place in my heart. And I love the front and back pics, in whatever order they were supposed to be in. Great job on this video.
Thanks for watching, Mitchell.
Great album, on my copy its called The Beatles Again. My mum brought it home when first released in1970.Its the album that made me fall in love with the Beatles. Its still one of my favorites and there's not a weak song on it which is why I rank it among their top 4 albums. At the time it was so fresh and revealed the mature Beatles image and sound very well. It was so current and hip. We got it just after Abbey Road and I considered it in the same class. The 2 albums are forever paired in my memory.
I LOVE THIS ALBUM. Yes, time-wise I thought tit sounded all over the map, even as a grade schooler. But it's got all great songs and it plays very well.
Rain, Revolution, Hey Jude, Don't Let Me Down, and Old Brown Shoe all on one LP made this a favorite Beatles album of mine in 1970. The cover is great, but little did we know at the time that these were pics of the last Beatles photo session. And, yes, I still put it on the turntable for a spin once in a while. Love it.
This was my favorite Beatles album in 1970 when it came out. A collection of great songs that were not previously available on album. Even though the album is no longer available there's nothing stopping anyone who loved it from recreating it by collecting the individual tracks on a playlist.
I liked "Hey Jude" all through the original vinyl years, although I always wished they had been able to fit "The Inner Light" on there. (It was only one of three Beatles songs you needed to hunt down on 45 in the US until "Rarities"). When they first started releasing the CDs in '86, and I had no idea about "Past Masters" - I bought a copy of this and placed it away somewhere, figuring its contents would never see the light of day on a compact disc! (I was wrong).
Great work!!! It's not everyday that i learn something new about the Beatles catalog
This album was a pretty staple part of my rotation during my teen years. I didn't really care that compilation albums like this and Lennon's Shaved Fish and Bowie's Changes One weren't "pure." Just enjoyed hearing the songs.
Same. Shaved Fish was amazing. Hot Rocks great.
Your choice of topics concerning Beatles records is always right on the money. Whenever I seem to wander about an obscure Beatle topic, , there you go and pop up with the definitive answer ! Brilliant.
I remember buying this album in San Francisco when I was 15 years old. I was alays a Beatle fanatic and had to have everything they released. I then didn't have a copy for many, many years - having left home etc. and was very happy when it was included in the US collection. I do still listen to it and enjoy it very much - probably a nostalgia kind of thing. Though I do think it is strange that "The Inner Light" was not included - it would have made the album more complete.
I built this album into a playlist just to hear how it would sound if I had the LP. I guess it's fine, but it really sounds like I had 10 Beatles songs that played on shuffle. No continuity throughout, and no coherent "theme" that a lot of Beatles albums had. But your explanation of how it came about,, what it's purpose was, and why those particular 10 songs were selected makes it all make sense. Thanks, Andrew, for all your fine reviews of The Beatles.
Thanks for watching, William!
One of my parent’s 8 tracks that I wore out. Still my favorite Beatles compilation- the artwork, song selection , and new mixes make it a great. Concentrated blast of Beatles music.
"no longer considered a part of The Beatles' core catalog"
It still has some very famous songs that weren't on previous albums.
been replaced by Past Masters
I never disliked it, but wasn't knocked out by it, either. When the Beatles CDs were starting to be released in the 80's, I was working at a fairly large record store, and was constantly being asked "When is _Hey Jude_ coming out on CD?". And having to explain that it wasn't because the discs were going to be the UK titles, not the US ones.
Yes, that British release thing really pissed me off as I grew up with the American albums. I didn't buy many of the Beatles releases on CD because of that. The Past Masters compilations just pissed me off more. It was kind of personal too because my friend's Mom,Voni Morrison, had a co write on Act Naturally and I thougjt she really missed out on royalties with the release of Yesterday and Today not coming out. The baby butcher cover could have been big marketing in the 80s. Eventually, they had that specialty CD run in mini cardboard sleeves but that a shorter run of collectibles, not catalog CDs.
@@bradhardisty1652 Well, _Act Naturally_ was on the UK _Help!_ CD so Ms. Morrison probably didn't lose out on any royalties. I guess you were pleased to see the US albums box set eventually released. I liked that more for _The Beatles' Story_ than anything else.
@@mcarp555 I didn't realize that. I didn't even know it was in the film. I did know that was the side that was supposed to be the single but DJs started spinning Yesterday
Early advertising, Act Naturally was the topline in adverts.
@@bradhardisty1652 It's not in the film. The UK _Help!_ album has songs from the movie on the "A" side (back when they were on vinyl) and non-film songs on the "B" side. Same thing with _A Hard Day's Night_ the year before.
@@bradhardisty1652 You mean the original Capitol boxes of US albums, 4 discs each? I prefer the lineup if not the mixes, on the US albums - same w/ early Stones, much prefer the US programming, plus you have MORE albums by both groups, in the US.
What a well researched well-edited video Andrew, thank you! I was 9 when my dad bought Hey Jude and still have memories of a very warm pleasing sound, the US pressing is solid. In hindsight this is actually a cool album showing off their range and progression as a band. Future generations will still play it.
Glad you enjoyed it, Fred.
Trivia, one of the busts in the doorway appears briefly as John and yoko enter the same residence in the official 1971 promo film for the song imagine. I also loved the album, buying a early pressing when released here in America. The film and photos from their last shoot was always a favorite of mine. Great 👍 video as usual.
Wasn’t one of the busts also on the SGT Pepper cover too?
@@trusso11783 I don't believe so, as 2 busts were shown on hey Jude cover, yet the doorway had at least 5 busts which were concrete. Plus tittenhursrt house was owned by ringo and is the one shown as sold by ringo. The metal statue on pepper by George's feet was more menacing. But when I have the time will do research as to whom the pepper bust was. Don't forget pepper cover was photographed in spring 67 and the tittenhursrt photos were in August 1969. Good question though
I bought the 8-track at a thrift shop when I was in junior high in the early eighties. It was the first time I heard Rain and Old Brown Shoe. I’ll always have a soft spot for it. Great cover, too.
The production quality of your most recent videos are absolutely brilliant
Wow, thank you!
Best Beatles compilation ever ❤
As a compilation album early in the history of those, it's priceless, especially if you owned it as a child. All the Beatles' US albums before Sgt. Pepper are compilations in comparison to the UK albums - The Beatles' Second Album functions as a great compilation, collecting several covers of Black music hits. I played Hey Jude so much as a kid, I swear you could hold that copy up to the light and see through it.
I got it when it first came out in 1970. It was titled "The Beatles Again" and came with a poster showing the photo session art from the front and back covers and listing the complete Beatles discography up to that point. Never knew the name got changed to, "Hey Jude".
The best thing Allen Klein ever done. It's a great album. I always saw side one aa a compilation of songs from around halfway through their first phase, after they hit the big time.
Side two was their later post psychedlic back to basics phase, a bit more bluesy.
It holds up very well in my opinion. Better than some albums in the accepted Beatles cannon, easily.
Here in the U.S. I bought it when it came out not only because it was a Beatles album but because it was the only way to get a stereo mix of Hey Jude. The mono 45 RPM single was 7:11 and the stereo mix was 7:06 but again, the stereo mix was the main reason.
I remember when this album came out. I was overwhelmed by the stereo mix of "Hey Jude" having listened to the mono copy of the 45 rpm so many times over. Side one is a solid line-up of songs with the stereo versions of "Can't Buy Me Love" and "I Should Have Known Better." And to hear "Revolution" in stereo was exciting to hear. The photos for the front and back album are pretty cool. The collection of songs all stand on their own and a must-have album back then. It's still a very good album.
@@rick4electric As a 45 rpm in its original format was released in mono. The first stereo 45 rpm by the Beatles was "Get Back" b/w "Don't Let Me Down."
This was first Beatles album I purchased back in the early seventies as a pre-teenager. Hey Jude was my favorite Beatles song, so how could I go wrong with a album titled Hey Jude. Great video, and thanks for sharing.
Love this album as a kid. At the time I did not know it was not an official release but a compilation. Only found out years later.
Thanks for the background. It is an oddly mixed collection, but in the US, this was the only way to get "Hey Jude" (and other essential songs like "Rain" and "Paperback Writer," etc.) on an album -- until the Red and Blue compilations. I didn't buy 45 rpm singles as a kid -- though I made an exception for the single mix of "Let It Be" b/w the hilarious B-side, "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)." My copy of The Album Sometimes Known As "Hey Jude" actually has my favorite Beatles album title on the spine and the label: "The Beatles Again." Always loved their cheeky sense of humor. And I appreciated them going the "White Album" one better and leaving both the title and the name of the band off the cover.
I've always known this album as "The Beatles Again". My sister bought it when it was first released in the USA (we live in Pennsylvania) and that very copy rests comfortably in my collection to this day. The album is a wonderful relic of my childhood, as it was played over & over & over again. The front cover photo is easily in my Top Favorite photos of the band. Great video....!!
I have a sentimental attachment to "Beatles Again". I had just broken my ankle in PE class in high school, and while I was recuperating, my father bought me the album which I played until the grooves flattened out. It had the original label, "The Beatles Again". l stupidly threw the thing out years later. I'd be rich, now, I tell you! Rich!! 😀
@@josephsauris4949 Actually, original copies with "The Beatles Again" label are pretty common and aren't worth all that much. The most valuable US pressing is "Hey Jude" on the Apple label with the Capitol logo in the perimeter print. Clean copies sell for about $75 -$100. A nice copy of "The Beatles Again" usually sells for between $15-$25.
@@eblackadder3 Oh, good. I can ditch my neurotic regret.
"The Beatles Again/Hey Jude" was my favorite Beatles album.
Although for years I didn't know why the name on the album didn't match the name on the cover spine.
Hey Jude was one of the first Beatles albums I owned. Sadly, it was destroyed by the cheap record player I used as a teen. I do remember it with fondness, and was the first time I’d heard Ballad, Old Brown Shoe, and Don’t Let Me Down. And I was fascinated by the cover (especially John’s outfit). I wonder: the version on iTunes as part of the US Albums set… does it use the same mixes as the original album?
I had a US pressing that was quite worn from playing on crappy record players in my pre-teen years. By the late 70s I had progressed to proper stereo equipment, albeit modest -- my first "real" turntable was a Pioneer PL-514. I bought a UK pressing circa 1980 and remember being astounded by the sound quality, especially of "Rain" when I finally played it after upgrading to a Sony PS-X600 turntable (I think I was using an A-T cartridge with their "microline" stylus shape). At some point I just discarded the US pressing as the record wasn't worth playing anymore and even the cover was inferior (recycled cardboard) and worn.
Not a user of iTunes, so I can only speculate that it's the same as was included in the U.S. Albums box set, which as stated in the video, uses what we got in 2009.
The US Albums version uses inaccurate versions of Paperback Writer (which originally had the stereo channels reversed) and The Ballad Of John And Yoko (which originally faded out during the final drumbeat rather than it being at full volume)
A friend of mine had the "Hey Jude" album on cassette and we sometimes met in the 70s simply to listen to music together. I remember I brought my "Beatles Greatest" LP, that had a lot of early Beatles hit singles on. We both thought Hey Jude would be an original album to go with the Hey Jude single and I found it obscure that the Beatles used "old songs" like "Can't buy me love" or "Should have know better" to fill up an album with new songs. Still we loved it because "Hey Jude", "Revolution", "Lady Madonna", "Ballad of John & Yoko", "Don't let me down", etc. are great songs.
As someone who was buying one Beatles album a week in the mid-‘70s, this was among the last I bought, but it was definitely a worthwhile purchase simply because it filled in a lot of holes. Though I’d never find time to listen to it now.
Knowing they would release the greatest hits three years later, this album isn't needed. However, in 1971, no one knew they would release the greatest hits in '73 and we wanted these songs on an LP. It made total sense at the time. Today, you don't even need songs on albums, which is too bad.
I bought this LP in 1987 when I was 15. I had just discovered the Beatles and was buying every LP I could find of them, including this one. I was fascinated by the sleeves, their appearance which was so different to how they looked on the other LPs of them that I had (I had not yet bought "Abbey Road"). I don't think I listened very often to this LP as the original albums were more fascinating.
Thanks for the background to this album. I always liked this album, for the mixes and some individual songs. Old Brown Shoe I think is very innovative. The mix on Rain is superb. The Ballad of John and Yoko is just a good damn song.
This really is a forgotten album. I was talking about this LP not long ago with a friend of mine and he wasn't even aware of its existence. The copy we owned was "The Beatles Again." When I was a kid I especially liked it because Hey Jude was my favorite Beatle song.
I was surprised to learn that this album was forgotten - by some at least.
Thanks for another excellent video! I have to commend you on your historical approach and non-sensational style, which is very refreshing around YT. My story with this album is, as a desperate teenager trying to find every last Beatles track, I bought a late-70's vinyl copy that was still in stock in my local store, relished it, and then found out days later that Past Masters were being released! Oh well. I have since gone and bought a U.S. first pressing. Even though the track listing isn't cohesive, it's a great package overall that has a strong iconic-ness to it.
The cover photo is by Ethan Russell, who captured some of the most recognizable images in rock history. He has a wonderful Instagram page with stories in the captions, and he can be seen in the parts of GET BACK filmed at Savile Row.
Hey Jude has been recently released on CD.What's missing is The Inner Light, Get Back and other b sides.Hey Jude is a Canadian pressing.
Hello again, Andrew!! Another incredible and insightful video!!! Thanks!!! I never did own this LP, but my older brother did, and I enjoyed it immensely, playing his copy, until 1973, when I got both the "Red" and "Blue" compilations on 8-track. Once those excellent compilations came out, "Hey Jude" almost immediately began to be considered an "orphaned" title in the Beatles catalog here in the US. There really wasn't any need for it in the marketplace anymore. In fact, around 2 years after the compilations were released, would I even rarely see it for sale at local record retailers. I think the last sealed copy I saw for sale was on 8-track at a local discount department store. I was in high school at the time, so this had to be around 1976 or 1977. Well, just wanted to throw in my "tupence," in your parley. I can't wait to see more of your really cool videos!!! Cheers my mate!!!!🙂🙂
Cheers Steven! Glad you enjoyed it! 😊
I always wondered if the cover photos were for another album project they had in mind.
This album played a huge part when I was discovering the Beatles’ music. This was the first time I heard Rain (which I love), old brown shoe (which I love), and I should have known better (an awesome song).
Andrew, thank you for another great video. I own an Australian copy with the UK export stamper numbers YEEX 150-1/151-1 and the German A3/B3. Both of them are excellent and you can't go wrong with either. I think The Ballad Of John & Yoko and Old Brown Shoe however still sound best on the original UK 1U/1U 45. One thing though that drives me bonkers is a lot of German LP pressings put the stamper numbers so close to the labels they can be difficult to read. Keep the Parlogram video coming!
Thanks John and I agree with you!
I have the German A3/B3 and as well as being really close to the label the stamper numbers are much smaller than on my UK pressings.
I was purely a Beatles album buyer after "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and bought "Hey Jude" as I didn't have many of those tracks. Having lived in the USA until late 1970 and In Ireland from 1970 to 1983 I realised what a mixed up wacky world albums were in those days. I doubt such inconsistency exists today across different countries. You video helped confirm a lot I have learned over the years. Thanks!
Great video! In Chile, the cassette tape version was called “Compatible” clearly a mistake likely the result of the LP not having a title other than the sentence mono-stereo Compatible. I used to own a copy.
My dad had (and still has) this album among his Beatles collection. I listened to it a lot as a kid and thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact, I liked it better than some of their other “official” albums.
Having grown up in New York at the time that this album was released, I bought my copy the week it hit the stores. A few weeks after that, the Woolworth department stores were having a blowout sale for one week only advertising this album and pricing it at just 0.69 cents each. I gathered a portion of my lunch money for the week and bought another copy, only to find out that the albums were bootlegs, possibly pressed and printed by the Woolworth department stores themselves. I remember comparing the sound quality to each other and the bootleg was far worse sounding than the copy that I bought on the week of its release. This album, eventually went out of print for a short time and reappeared as a purple label Capitol release with the Apple logo eliminated from the rear of the sleeve. I have one of those purple Capitol pressings and I ended up buying an original US Apple copy for pennies on the dollar in the 1990's in mint condition with the shrink wrap still on the jacket. I cannot remember what happened to my original and the Woolworth bootleg copies.
I'd heard Let It Be (the US gatefold version) was widely available in pirate copies, but didn't know the same was true for Hey Jude, but it stands to reason that if the bootleggers were going to do one, they'd do the other. Something to watch out for when flipping through the racks.
I had no idea Woolworth's was a retail bootlegger, hilarious story! I can see the WTF look on your face as the needle hit that bogus vinyl, oh man. To be ripped off on some vinyl, I've been there--it hurts. And yes that vinyl is probably STILL only worth just 69 cents, what a sad tale all around!
Born in 1964 & 3 older siblings, had this album and all the Beatles albums.Lady Madonna, Hey Jude, Old Brown Shoe was a George tune that I didn't like as a kid but at 58, I really like it now. Love this LP, LOVE the Beatles!🥰
I bought the “Hey Jude” CD single disc at Best Buy a few years back. It was not a part of a box set at the time. Seems like the same year the “Help!” Soundtrack was available.
If you mean 2014, when the US Albums set came out, all the discs could either be sold individually or collectively in the box. Since I read the source material was actually from the 2009 british remasters, I nly picked up the individual CDs for their covers - beatles 65, Hard days Night, and last but certainly far from least, Yesterday & today with the Butcher cover restored and intact (Now, i'd love it if Capitol would release the US albums on vinyl, as EMI did the remasters, so i could finally get a Capitol Records legitimate (re)issue of "Y & T".
I have it on CD and vinyl...great pics on it
Very informative video as always, Andrew, although not an album I have ever owned. Btw Gibraltar is NOT an island (7:28)
Nice to see the venezuelan edition there at 6:35 or so. This records was very popular here, because we cherished quite a lot Beatles compilations and this was not an exception. Superb work, mate.
Thank you, Alejandro!
My father had this on 8 -Track. One of my favorite albums and overs from the Beatles. As a young kid, this album helped introduce me to the Beatles and all of their amazing songs.
Totally loved this album when it came out in my 14th year, and still do. The cover is wonderful, and "Paperback Writer", "Rain", "Old Brown Shoe" and "Ballad of John and Yoko" all in one album is a real treat. The unjustly overshadowed "Hey Bulldog" in addition (opening side 2) would have made it a killer album.
I bought the album when it first came out and remember the cover pictures vividly. I loved Abby Road and was already familiar with most of the songs on Hey Jude but especially enjoyed the remix of Rain.
I love this album. I love the photos of the group on the front AND back cover. It has one of my favorite George Harrison Beatle songs on it: "Old Brown Shoe"!! Such a great AND underrated LP, (IMO). It should have done a lot better on the charts than it did. It SHOULD have been a number 1 album!! Maybe if it had been released after "Bridge Over Troubled Water" had exited the top ten, it would have become a number 1 album afterward. Again...IMO!!!
Sweet memories. This album was on my very first cassette tape I got from my brother, together with the then fresh Hollywood Bowl concert on the other side, plus some additional tracks from the Red Album, to fill the tape.
I must have been 9 years old.
I was so fascinated by the energy and diversity oft the music. I fell in love instantly.
The cassette tape wasn't properly labelled, and it took me ages (then), to find out, what was on the tape.
Bought my first Beatles book soon after...
And a life long journey and love began ❣
The only Beatles album my parents owned and my introduction to the group. Will always look large as an actual Beatles album.
My parents had this album here in the U.S. It was the Beatles, and this album fit in with all their other albums just fine. "Rain" is one of the best songs they ever created.
I first had this album on cassette and really liked it, but as I replaced my tape collection with CDs in the 90’s I kind of forgot about Hey Jude. That being said, I was happy the album was included in the US Albums box set. 😊 🇺🇸
Watching this video has motivated me to give this album a listen today.
Go for it, Mike!
The cassette had side 1 and side 2 reversed so the album started with Hey Jude and ended with Revolution.
@@ChpTrk77 yes sir, you are exactly right.
The track listing on the cassette has is as it appears on the cassette too.
Hi Andrew, Thank you for another great video . I bought my copy in 1976, a regular german pressing A2/B3. I can still remember hearing rain for the first time, it was mind blowing.
First Beatles album our family owned because my dad really liked Hey Jude. A really solid album despite it being made purely for economic reasons.
It's been up in my attic in a bedding box for 30 years, along with the MMT album. Time to get up there,bring them both down and feel 18 again when I first ordered them in 1974 !
My Dad has this. I remember him blasting this from his stereo in the 70's. My first exposure to the Beatles is this album.
I considered Hey Jude to be a cash grab but I eventually picked it up (unfortunately not a Winchester pressing). I've never been a big fan of the song "Money Can't Buy Me Love", which to me always felt like a cash grab Beatles song that was resolved more successfully with "She's A Woman". George does take a pretty great solo though.
@@thefonzkiss It's how I felt about it at the time it came out because it seemed so disjointed, because I already had a lot of the singles (wish I still did), and because the Hard Day's Night songs had already been available on the United Artists movie soundtrack album which my parents had given me for Christmas. Nothing felt all that new.
I'm Swedish and was born in 1977. My three year older brother received this album as Christmas present in 1983, and it was my introduction to The Beatles.
I loved the album. At the age of 6, Revolution was the heaviest song I had ever heard. My number one favourite song by The Beatles is still Don't Let Me Down, and I really love The Ballad of John and Yoko, Old Brown Shoe, Rain and Lady Madonna.
I did not know a single word of English, so I had no idea what they were singing about, but the music was amazing to me, and I listened often to this album for many years to come.
A few years later, both me and my brother started buying the other albums by The Beatles, but for a few years, the songs on this album was all we knew from The Beatles' catalogue.
This may have been the first album I ever purchased, certainly the first Beatles album, at the age of 10 in 1970. Mine is "The Beatles Again", on the Apple label. I guess I bought it because of "Hey Jude", and probably some of the other songs i remembered from the radio, like "Lady Madonna", and "Can't buy me love", but over the years and many plays, I really grew to like "Old Brown Shoe". Even though I was an inexperienced record buyer, and didn't understand this as a compilation, I did think the song selection was odd and incoherent as an album, especially after I started collecting more of their catalog later. Also the extreme stereo separation kind of blew my mind at the time, especially with headphones! I really appreciate this video... I had occasionally wondered about how this album came about, and why it's no longer available, so you filled a gap for me in my personal music history. Thanks!
I remember a childhood friend getting this album in the 70's. I thought it was the best album they put out not realizing the way they released music. It wasn't until recent did I find out that it was not an official album. I've had a copy since the late 70's. Wanted to get a cd but couldn't find one. Now that I have other Beatles music, this is still my go to.