Beatles Albums You Never See | Vinyl Rarities From Around the World

In this video we return to the incredible Beatles Museum and Francis' amazing Beatles vinyl collection. In this episode we look at original, rare and unusual album pressings of Beatles albums from: West and East Germany, The Czech Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Ecuador, Spain, The Netherlands, Italy, Israel and Japan.

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[draff]

It blows me away how wide and deep the Beatles reached so many countries and so many peoples and cultures. Thanks for this video.

[edward]

That Turkish "Today... and Yesterday" has the weirdest tracklisting... Side one ("today"): "My Sweet Lord", "Mull of Kintyre", "Girls' School", "Imagine", "Oh Yoko!", "No. 9 Dream", and side two ("yesterday"): "Dr. Robert", "Hello Goodbye", "Yesterday", "What Goes On", "Day Tripper", "The Ballad of John and Yoko", "Act Naturally". Reminds me of a playlist on shuffle.

[michaelcarpenter]

This was amazing to see all these different albums of the Beatles. The East German pressings and the mono Abbey Road were awe inspiring.Thanks to all involved

[protoolned]

I've known some Beatles collectors who adamantly refuse to allow people to so much as SEE their collections. So this was nice. However, it also brought out the nerd in me as I thought to myself, "Hummm... He's a little rough when he takes out some of those records."

[tenej]

I just found the strangest records yet. Maigcal mystery tour when it launched (the LP), last three songs were in duophonic, in mock stereo. Well, I just purchased a Yugoslav pressing, probably from 1977, where Penny Lane and Baby you're a rich man are in duophonic, YET All you need is love is in stereo. What in the hell.

[vikingbirkman]

The Spanish Polydor pressing w Tony Sheridan shows Ringo on the cover. Wasn't it Pete Best on the drums? Another cover to collect is the Swedish All My Loving EP with Beatles sitting on an old canon, quite rare.

[shavedfish]

Honestly one of the best you tube channels going and the best for Beatles content. Always a treat!! Great work Andrew!!

[yahmom]

8:24 Francis got it wrong; that’s the Australian pressing. Beatles for Sale was pressed identically to the UK issue in New Zealand, complete with the gatefold. What he has is probably a New Zealand-contracted pressing, which explains the NZ labels, but pressed for the Australian markets nonetheless

[mooghead]

It would appear most, if not all his records are in those plastic sleeves we've been warned about?!

[paulreckamp]

South Rhodesia! In my early days that was a beautiful country. Never knew they produced any Beatles vinyl.

Astounding collection.

[bookashkin]

2:17 Meet the Beat? Stroke of luck they didn't name it the other way around :)

[kev]

Groovy stuff. Do my eyes deceive me? Did I see the dreaded PVC sleeves on some of those gems?

[moxievision]

One of the saddest days for a friend of mine who was broke and had to sell off records to pay a tax bill was selling his copy of The Beatles Hottest Hits, certainly one of the coolest non-standard covers out there. Sadly, I couldn't afford what it was worth at the time, so I didn't get to "keep it in the family" as it were.

[moondogaudiojones]

I’ll never tire of looking at all the wonderful versions from the world over! Thanks to Francis as well! I hope he had as much fun sharing as we did gandering at his collection. So many wonderful designs!
Thanks for sharing Andrew, too. Great show!

[philippecolinge]

I remember when Francis got his record signed by Tony Sheridan in Mons in 1991. It was a Beatles Convention I was helping organise at the time.

[carlosrenatodamotabezerra]

That was really a great moment in a beatles fan's life. Great video, Andrew!

[drums]

What an amazing collection ! Thanks to you and the Francis especially,
for showing these.

[briteness]

Thank you for another video featuring Francis! I hope his collection will stay together. It seems like that would increase the chances of long-term preservation of these things. Is there any official, public Beatles archive/museum in the world? Bob Dylan has an archive in Tulsa, OK. The Beatles would obviously merit an institution of their own, if they don't have one already. (Maybe in Liverpool?) Or maybe the collection could be bought by the British Library or something. Of course, Francis surely has a plan and does not need my input. As we get older, it seems we tend to realize more and more that we are merely custodians of the things we collect, holding them for a time, then passing them on to others who will care for and about them after we are gone.

[jtlynn]

Thanks for a return to Francis' collection, Andrew! Lots of fascinating records, for sure. I owned the Netherlands "Beatles Greatest" compilation-- I bought it at a department store here in the midwestern USA in the late 1970s. I believe Capitol/EMI themselves sold imports here of EMI product from around the world, as I seem to recall an "imported to the US by EMI" sticker on the outer plastic wrap. That particular album also has the version of "All My Loving" with the five-count-in at the beginning of the track.

[scottroberts]

Thanks again for an interesting look at some rare lps. I'm proud to say I have a few of those albums - Beatles "World's Best", "And Now : ...", the marching band cover on Amiga, and the Japanese "A Hard Days Night" on red vinyl. Enjoyed this video, as always.