My friend and fellow Beatle collector from Huddersfield purchased No. 0000005 from yourself in 2008. He later bought another 0000005 from Paul Wayne at Tracks which was almost identical, being a top loader Garrod UK 1968 sleeve but with a large dot instead of (No.) before the seven numbers. It looks In all respects totally period correct for a UK 1968 album sleeve. The albums sleeves with just two numbers (ie No. 01 or No. 05 etc.) are quite easy to create as you can remove the remaining five numbers just by using WD40 or similar as the numbers are not below the laminate, but there is usually a very feint indentation left where the numbers used to be that can be seen with suitable lighting. With what you were saying about the two UK No. 0000003s there could even be another No. 0000001. Who knows?
@@mahatmacote6478 Yes they were and for a very long time too, up until spring to mid 1973, although by this time EMI-ELECTROLA in Cologne (Germany) had re-listed them with a new EEC catalogue number: 1C 192-04 173/4. (The original german 1968 Apple-Odeon number SMO 2051/52 had been used with the toploader covers until 1973 - very unusual for such an old number - as well as some of the early pressed EEC numbered editions, although by then they had replaced the original black inner sleeves with plain white ones, the early, grey looking B-side apple labels had been replaced by plain white airbrushed centered ones which were missing the originally pictured core and the new EEC catalogue numbers were printed onto the cover spine!) Also from mid 1973 onward, all german White Album copies had now side opened covers.
@@Parlogram I was on holiday with my friend from Huddersfield very recently and we were discussing your video. He told me that he had since bought a number 0000007 a couple of years ago, again a Garrod top opener with the big dot. The interesting thing is they both contained stereo discs (circa 1969) with no "sold in U.K...." and look as though they are from the same batch. l hope this is of some interest.
I can remember being in the 7th grade in the mid seventies and our music class project was to draw an album cover. One genius (and I really mean that) brought in, you guessed it. The White Album, all he had to do was get white construction paper and write The Beatles. No, the teacher wasn't impressed. I was.
The irony is, that it seems more complicated to produce this plain white album than the more involved and artistically creative Sergeant Peppers album.
My Dad has an original 1968 white album in his record collection with no number but all inserts. Sadly he passed away in 2020 so I can't ask him about it. I remember the album being in his collection when I was a kid and I'm now 50!
I’ve finally acquired the White Album I’ve dreaming with for years. As a Brazilian collector, one of my holy-grails was always the first Brazilian mono pressing from early 1969. I had two copies up to that point - a 2012 stereo that sounds too bassy and muddy for my ears, and a late 70’s Brazilian stereo reissue which is my go-to pressing for sound quality. The mono pressing I’ve been desiring for so long isn’t just famous for actually being a fold-down of the stereo mix, as side four has MASSIVE issues with speed consistency, especially in Revolution 1. Legend says there was a power outage in the Odeon pressing plant, when side four was being cut. Thus, the speed rises and falls as if there was someone trying to spin the record with their hands. First pressings, both mono and stereo were numbered here too, and mine is Nº 9098.
Hi I once read a story reguarding the white album many years ago that a window cleaner came to John Lennon,s home and cleaned his windows but when it came to payment lennon had no money to pay him but sitting on a table was the first five or so copies of the white album and lennon gave him number 5 not sure if this true but I do believe it was sold at one of the top London auctions house I think in the late 80s
A pity you did away with the German numbering in a half sentence. The German covers printed at Nicolaus GmbH in Cologne did feature numbering of their own. Not only that, they also supplied their covers (at least the toploader ones) to other countries in Europe: Netherlands, France and Italy, among others (that's why they have SMO 2051/52 cat.no. on the outer cover). There were also different ways those numbers were depicted on those German covers: 0000001-0125000 were printed in small black serifless font, with the leading zero slightly cut off. 0125000-0280000 were printed in slightly larger grey serifless font. 0280000 onwards were blindly debossed in the same serifless font. 1971, the numbering changed to 6-digits (there are still some 7-digit numbers on toploader covers from 1970, having already the 1C 192 EEC cat.no.). However, the Germans did keep numbering their 70s and 80s copies* in blind debossed font, sometimes changing font styles and/or restarting the numbering (for example, in 1987 with the digital DMM version). * The versions from the German BC13 boxes were not numbered, and didn't even have The Beatles logo embossed.
Thanks for the great content. I’d love to see a documentary about the promotional campaign for the white album. Seems fascinating how they tried to market it without any title or artwork. Could also be great to learn about the design process and the designer himself.
Great as always Andrew, thank you! My best copy is No. 1000. i have about 100 white Albums in my collection, 5 below No. 5000. The white vinyl and the Parlophone black/yellow pressings also have numbers. I also prefer the mono mix. Looking forward to your next video Cheers Mike
i am not aware of the 1978 UK white vinyled copies being numbered ? However the export parlophones date from 1968 so they certainly are. I prefer the stereo because it's longer, on the mono you get cheated out of 20-odd seconds lol. PS i don't have 100 but i reckon i have 30-odd !
There was a story in a bootleg magazine once that John had 0000001 of the white album and traded it with a bootleg collector in 1973 for bootleg records of Beatles music he no longer had copies of.. Whether it's true or not. I'm not sure. I never seen the story of that article repeated more than once. But it explained why John didn't know the difference between Decca and BBC tracks as he thought the Yellow Matter Custard bootleg was Decca tracks.
Ringo mentions in the Anthology book that John had #1UK, and that he gave it to him. RIngo also ended up with #4 US. RIngo sold off the #1UK album at auction in 2015 for $790,000 dollars.
I recall an article in the NME or Melody Maker within a few years of the White Album release stating when the first copies arrived at the Apple offices, John said “I bagsie No1” he was always the leader even then!😎👍
Hi Andrew, thanks for your fantastic new video. I have personally dealt with this topic in the past and I have written a long article together with my fellow collector Luigi in the now defunct but very respectable magazine called Beatlology. I think the story of the numbers in the White Album is still shrouded in mystery. For example Luigi owned a Stereo copy no.0000018 with the wording "STEREO" printed in the upper right hand corner of the back cover. The copy inside was, by the way, a "Racoon" misspelled label. So was this a "proof" copy for the stereo cover ? We never knew the truth. Also, i have seen a copy no.0000007 preceeded by a large dot instead of "No." before the seven numbers. So what about this particular series. Does anybody Know anything? Were this a proof copy? It would be interesting to find out more....
I am very lucky enough to own Australian Copy of the cd that came out in 1988. My numbered CD is number 11. I worked at Myer Music in Melbourne at the time. We got 500 copies of the white album number 11 to 511. We used to have people come in and peak particular numbers, 69 was the 2nd number that went that day. As I was only 21 at the time I wish I had more money in board add more money and board number 12 to 20. I have never seen any low number 1st pressing Cd's ever in Australia. My CD is 🔐 in a safe.
I went to the Rutherford Chang exhibit when it was in California and it was really cool. As a Beatles record collector, it was truly amazing to see so many copies on display together. As you may have seen, as well, copies with interesting surfaces adorned the walls and then there were many tables where visitors could dig through, look at patina and numbers, and even choose copies to play on nearby record players with headphones. I think I listened to the lowest number I could find and then I listened to Chang's multi-layered version, which interestingly goes out of phase- a unique experience! Now I wish I could see it all over again.
Hello. Your statement in 9:58 "There is a better chance of finding a low numbered copy in smaller countries like (for example) Peru" is incorrect. I have had the opportunity to be in contact with sellers from Peru for several years and precisely because it is a smaller country than others, the production of albums was much smaller, especially for a double vinyl (only one peruvian pressing is available in one of the most important pages of record sales on the internet). Additionally, as in other countries of South America or Africa, due to climatic conditions and appreciation of cultural value, it is very difficult to find copies of this album since due to these factors many have disappeared or have been destroyed. So if someone owns a copy in any condition of an album made in Peru, especially from the sixties, they should consider themselves very very lucky. Thank you very much for your video.
My most unique copy of The White Album is I found one at goodwill where the outer cardboard panel was replaced with poster board taped to the original inner panel. It had the lettering redone in pencil where it should be, and traced pencil drawings of the portraits inside (no poster though). It had red label Capitol discs inside. I really wonder what happened to that copy.
I'd be great if the albums were given to the Beatles from eldest to youngest. Ringo would get the 0000001, John 0000002, Paul 0000003, and George 0000004. I don't know if that's how it happened, but it'd be funny.
the first Beatles lp I ever heard. A present from my aunt, a few months after Lennon's death. I started with side 2. I'm still recovering from the impact that Martha My Dear had on my young ears.
When I was a kid, my older brother and I desperately wanted the new White Album, but being two broke kids we couldn't afford it. My oldest brother suggested spray painting our Sgt Pepper white and telling everyone it was the White Album. Except we didn't have any white spray paint, so we painted it blue. Alas. Fooled no one. Still have that blue Sgt Pepper. And I did get the actual White Album in various formats later on, though no interesting numbers.
I have no interesting White Album stories, but I'll mention that pretty much all of the non-brand-new copies of it that I saw back in the day were quite discolored around the edges of the disks, because of the natural wear and tear. So the cover would never really be blank, but rather would have a big gray circle on both the front and back. And to me this seemed kind of part of the concept, although I'm sure it wasn't. It was like breaking in blue jeans, which back in the day always started out dark blue and you had to work them into their faded comfort stage. Until your copy started showing the rings, you hadn't had it long enough to qualify as a true fan. But this was probably just me. When I got my own first copy, in the mid-70's, they had stopped both the numbering and the embossing. I wasn't so much bothered by the missing number, and even the missing embossing wasn't that big of a deal to me. It was more that writing The BEATLES in ink broke the concept of having the cover be completely empty. (Other than the organic rings, of course). I did read a somewhat amusing story in a book by some Beatles hanger-on who had worked at Apple. He said that Capital Records had come up with this marketing plan where they were going to put up all of these billboards that just had the cover art of the new Beatles album, so they sent a request to Apple for a picture of the artwork, and Apple dutifully mailed them back a blank sheet of paper. Capital then figured that Apple had just forgotten to include the picture and repeated the request. I somehow feel like the story was made up.
I love the fact you still have the bag for your first white album! I have four UK numbered originals - not crazy low numbers but all lovely condition with spacers etc. My monos are 9,389 and 82,730. Thanks for the video - I find this a really satisfying album to collect.
The 30th anniversary CD was also numbered. Sadly I can't get to it at the moment as, along with my 1987 CD, it's packed away due to an impending house move 😞 Fascinating subject though
One thing I tried Googling for and never found was some kind of little website that had a nice recreation of the blind embossing in high res with a text entry box for your number on your copy of whatever edition of TB you had, with options for the stylings used for different countries and formats. You’d input your number and a .png would be generated. That way even, say, the copy of my Super Deluxe set I imported into iTunes, can share the number on the digital album art that’s on the phyiscal set itself.
The story I heard (most likely wrong) was that Ringo got #1, George #2, Paul #3, John #4, and The Queen (Elizabeth) got #5. That would be really cool if true, but again, most likely isn't correct.
I saw an interview with George Martin who stated he had sleeve number 7. From that I assumed that Neil Aspinall and Mal Evans had 5 and 6 and the engineers 8, 9 and 10.
Any nerd-ism may look like a nut-case from some perspectives from the outside. In this case of the chase for the low numbers they are not just a hunter & collector thing. The lower the number the better the sound quality, usually, and the more true and vivid the music, the character of voices and instruments are being reproduced. You just get more of what is the fascinating energy about certain audio works. When I was first played a German mono original of an early Beatles album on quite high end equipment (Platine Verdier player, electrostatic speakers, amp I don´t recall) I almost thought the Beatles were standing in the room playing. I would probably have freaked out had it been a low-numbered UK pressing of the White Album, which in means of production, mixing and recording, comparably, is a different league alltogether. But of course the numbering gives the hunting for the best copy a verifying category, whereas usually you can either be lucky to get a great sounding copy or dig deeper into the matter of run-out numbers, esp. stamper codes to increase chances for getting a better copy. Personally I think people should get more out and enjoy live music and meet people than getting over-elaborate about their home-audio, may it be great music we can enjoy in our echo-chamber or not. Saying that I still got deep enough to take my time for specialized videos like this, or writing this comment ;-)
Hi Andrew As always enjoyed watching another one your informative videos. And Enjoyed watching this video too. I have probably 30 White Albums. As here in Australia numbered ones are just as valued as they are globally. The lowest I’ve managed to get is # 00008 👍 it belonged to music reviewer. It has promo red bullet stickers on sides 1 & 3 photos poster inners. I also have # 000059, 000087 & 000091. My highest numbered copy is # 94930. Mono copies here aren’t numbered to a particular group of numbers. Their randomly scattered throughout the numbering system. Some are in the 1000s. I have a copy numbered in the 80,000!! I have managed to get a very low numbered UK stereo 0000397 & a low numbered mono UK 0030388. Look forward to your next instalment Cheers for now
One of the only original variations in the covers that I've found is in some Spanish speaking countries, their albums have LOS BEATLES in raised lettering, with the songs in the track listing being in English as well as Spanish. Most other countries just have your standard THE BEATLES in the front and English writing throughout
Wonderful stuff, and production. Thank you. I haven't looked in a while, but are there any stories of the album cover's original proposal? I seem to recall coming across a story in some long-gone US magazine in the early to mid 1970s that said that John Lennon proposed a cover that was a cross between the original UK "Beggar's Banquet" and "Two Virgins," and that the white cover was actually censorship on behalf of EMI hierarchy. I have never heard the story since, and wonder if anyone else has?
Double albums rarely work as a concept, there's way too much information to enjoy as a whole. If ever there was an argument for a single album made out of a double it is 'The Beatles' The best of the rest should have been made into a 10" in early 1969.
I have an Australian copy No. 65! Forget how many 0's in front. I contacted you and you suggested a price around $1500(ish) Aud. It is all there...top load, pics etc. Cover is average and records scruffy but quite playable and no deep scratches. Interestingly it has some 'sample only' stickers on the label. In other words a demo. I have wondered about this...maybe the first batch (thus lower numbers) were sent out to radio stations etc.??? I am in Australia
The first 50 or so were given away to winners of a Go-Set competition. It's how Molly scored #1 lol. There are copies in the A40000s that have sample stickers. It just depended on how the EMI employee married the two parts together - LIFO and all that, ie it's a misconception that many people have thinking that the seventh record pressed was placed into the number 7 sleeve. Still, A00065 is an extremely desirable number.
And when I bought the Beatles 2012 vinyl box set in the vinyl it does have the Beatles name embossed which is really cool and not only is the album cover really cool with all the posters but the music inside and even the white album deluxe box set which is really good. I love the Beatles White album deluxe box set because you can hear everything and it’s still a good album.
No i dont own a very low number but do own a "special to me" mono No.0610798 given to me by my girlfriend from her fathers collection after he died. And that for me means more than anything about this album as he was a man I very much loved and respected and to be taking care of his copy he obviously loved and played himself is poignant.Thank you Tony. And its nice to know that it is just about in the first original numbered albums in the UK and it still sounds great.
I've mentioned it here a few times but this seems like the perfect video for my low number Mono Top Loader No. 4,444. People have said its like the Fab Four of the white album and it's just nice also to have them all the same number. The condition isn't great but it was my only chance to get a really low one so I'm very happy with it ! - I have another 11,591 which is my next lowest then gradually going up at around 60,005 and so on. Great video !!
@@markh.9822 Sorry, I gave your story a thumbs up. I don’t know what happened but I was replying to someone else when I wrote that. Reason being being they mentioned a circle before the number or something like that. As I’m sure you know that was a Capitol mark in USA . Your 4444 is great !
When my wife and I visited The Beatles Experience in Liverpool I believe in 2012 we saw a blue vinyl copy of the White Album on display. The story was that while the White Album was being re-pressed at a pressing plant this plant was also pressing blue vinyl copies of a Linda Ronstadt album at the same time, and during a lunch break when most employees were out one press was operating for each album. Supposedly an employee was able to grab two blue vinyl ‘biscuits’ without anyone noticing and he put them in and pressed a blue copy of the Beatles album for himself which he smuggled out of the factory. It is a very cool looking album and to this day I’ve never seen another colored vinyl pressing other than white. I don’t remember if there was a cover that went along with it and I don’t remember seeing it. I wonder what that album would sell for. Any thoughts, Andrew?
Very interesting, Richard. Here's a purple vinyl 'White Album' from Australia also made by a creative factory employee: facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=5115912405159383&id=100002220236856
Japan pressed red vinyl copies and South Africa pressed a clear vinyl copy on the Parlophone label. I have a green vinyl copy on the German DMM Parlophone label but I am pretty certain it's unofficial, even though it came with very authentic looking poster and photos and stamped serial number. The Australian copy I have is a sort of pearly see through, but like you say most official coloured vinyls are white.
@@stevekirk7066 That’s really cool! I’ll be on the lookout for the red or white one to add to my collection. But that blue one, man, was that awesome. I wonder if it’s the only one in the world, being that the employee at the pressing plant had one shot at making it. He had loaned it to the Beatles Experience for display.
Great show! I always wondered how numbering was handled “here, there and everywhere”! Amazing! Were the original CDs handled the same way? As always, informative and fun. Great job!!
@@jmad627 Wasn’t too interested in if they were of value (yet), but wondered if they used the same principle behind the system of numbering. Man that must’ve been quite a task!
My copy is numbered No. 0154800. The 1998 CD feels like a genuine attempt at recreating a first edition with a number, black sleeves, top opening gatefold, nice cardstock and glossy goodies. Meanwhile, the expression "If it ain't broke" comes to mind looking at the 2009 remaster with a quadfold(?) design that scratches the CDs because they only fit in the middle two pouches. Brilliant.
Hello, I love your videos and have watched this on many times trying to figure out my white albums if that's even possible. I have a us one that is .2025664 and A1623107 this has the 7 errors and a uk one no.0079311. This has no ? After "why don't we....." Discogs is a mess with this album. What pressings do you think these are?
Subject video: Parlogram Auction should fulfill George Martin’s wish and make the White Album into a single album. Which songs do you put on the album. And which ones are lost forever till Anthology and why. 😝
My copy is no. 0143987. I found a South African pressing a few years ago that I then gifted to a mate which was something like 12,007. Silver and black boxed parlophone label on that one. Also had a UK export for South East Asia (pressed or exported there can’t recall) which was also silver and black boxed labels numbered around the 600,000 mark I think.
Hey, Have you encountered coloured Beatles albums? I have the White Album in a colored combination of cream/clear and the sound was reducing blatantly on certain tracks. I googled: Does coloured/Picture disk's affect the sound Quality? and got some interesting yes answers. Just wondering what your thoughts are? Martin
Great video. I'm lucky enough to have 3 copies of the white album. My first bought as part of the gold foil boxed set (only sold in Australia) which still has the 4 photos and the poster (which is unfortunately not in great condition, having been hung on my wall, what was I thinking?!). The second is a white vinyl version (bought at Kmart for $19.74 according to the price on the outside wrapper) which has just the pictures, no poster, although I can't recall if it did have one originally? The third is an original Australian pressing, gloss finish, top opening, numbered A 53632. It is in poor condition, the spine having split, no photos or poster and no paper inner sleeves, but I love it. I discovered the Beatles as a teenager in the 80s, still for me, the best band ever!
I've always wondered about the credits given on the back of the poster that came with the album. After listing some names it says "and all at number 9". So what does that refer to? It's not Apple. I bought mine (US) in the fall of 1974 and it has no number. It did though have TWO Paul portraits. Which made me wonder if someone might be alluding to you know what.
I have something of a U.S. oddity in the white vinyl version that Capitol issued in 1978. The words "The Beatles" are not embossed but printed in grey on the front cover, and there is no numbering on any of them. Miraculously, I find it to be one of the best sounding stereo versions of the White Album I've ever heard. The pressing is dead quiet and a flawless master must've been used for this release. Easily on par with the Mo-Fi version. While on the subject of Beatle numbering, Capitol also released a single of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" and "Julia" in 1976, the white picture sleeves of which are actually individually numbered in the style of the White Album LP. This single was apparently only available in the North American market.
My first copy as a teenager was an 80s Canadian Capitol pressing with grey print instead of the embossing. It took me years before I realized that the text was supposed to be embossed... let alone that they were supposed to be individually numbered!! To this day my only embossed copy is in the mono CD box set.
Another great video!! I have Mono No. 0006910. That’s about as low as I could hope to get these days. I do know the owner of No. 0000092. I believe you know him too Andrew! In the USA in 1976 they also released a 7” single of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da / Julia which came in a similar white sleeve and was individually numbered. The lowest numbered sleeves actually contained promo discs which had Ob-La-Di on both sides…one in Stereo and one in (foldown) Mono.
My dad, having been 10 in 1968, only had seen and heard friends copies of the White Album. He got his Australian copy in 1981 and has kept it ever since. I picked up my own copy a few months ago, a 1991 Russian (USSR) pressing because It was cheaper than most others and I thought it would be a more intersting copy to own. Turns out, it is, because the cover is a thinner, matt finish, the potraits in the gatefold look more like hand drawn artwork, all the text is in Russian (for obvious reasons) and the apple label is also hand drawn (not exactly like the original).
Indeed, having had one of those Russian copies slip thru my hands, I did manage to keep the trippy poster that came with it though; It's printed on a fairly thick card like paper & is kept housed in a frame now.
Thank you for great video I found this very useful, I was in my local record shop today and found a early side opener the number being very very close to the one you showed my number is 0108480 it came in fantastic condition I don’t think the records had ever been played until this evening I’m now not sure if I should ever play them as they are in such a fantastic condition, the photos and poster too are present again in superb condition , the cover is I’m very good condition apart from a small amount of yellowing and the last digit of number has a scuff , thanks again
It almost wouldn't surprise me if low-number duplicates are floating around. Wouldn't the printer have had to do a test run to confirm that the embossing and stamping (including the trigger to switch to the next digit) were being done correctly? Presumably that would've led to a run of at least a few dozen test copies. Maybe there would've been instructions that the test copies had to be destroyed. But the temptation would've been great to "accidentally forget".
Oddly enough, I never even really noticed the numbers before - and I certainly didn't realize that they were part of the artistic choice for the album cover! I checked my CD copies and was surprised to find that my 30th Anniversary CD has a serial number (mine is sadly over 100,000), but the new 2009 remastered edition lacks the number! I'll have to dig out my secondhand vinyl copy someday to see if that one has a number or not. Thanks for the great video! :)
Currently on Discogs there's around 7 or 6 copies left of the German 1985 DMM white-colour vinyl - - it's sourced from an analogue tape and is the most phenomenal white album I've ever heard. Michael Fremer, for what it's worth, remains convinced that this 1985 German copy is even more dynamic and punchy than the '78 UK white vinyl version, which is really saying something. It does NOT sound like a '68 original, either, just a totally new experience. One of the best albums in my entire collection, if not the best, period.
You can also get a cheaper black vinyl version from 1985, having the -2/-3/-2/-2 matrix. Same cut as the white vinyl version but considerably cheaper. (It is indeed questionable if the white vinyl version is actually from 1985 or actually from the end of 1984...).
Hi Andrew! Love the videos - particularly this one. Have you ever thought of doing one on the cancelled Sessions album from the 1980s? Great backstory and it got as far as test pressings before being widely booted.
@@Parlogram Still not sure if my copy is a test pressing or a bootleg of the test pressing (the latter I sadly suspect). Still, the very first Beatles bootleg I ever saw and ever bought. All I'd ever read about Beatles bootlegs was that they were poor quality concert recordings or scratchy Let It Be era acetates. I took a punt and paid a small fortune (to me back then) and took this home and put it on the record player! Absolute heaven!
Great video as always. This album has almost reached mythical proportions because of all the different pressing over the years and types of media it's been recorded on. My first copy is A1863718 I bought in 1972, and is still in very good condition. Still very white and glossy. It has stereo on the back cover and it came with white inner sleeves. The albums are scratch free with a few scuffs, still have that gloss shine, and is still my favorite copy. The poster and pictures are long gone, as they were hung on my wall in my bedroom. Good luck to all who find that low number, but I wouldn't take $50,000 for mine. Keep up the good and fun work Laddie!
I have just picked up an odd sleeve. It is a orig UK top loader with an early number 0003947. It has mono discs but has “stereo” printed in the corner on the inside (not the rear) gatefold above the track listing. Possibly a printing error.
Hi Andrew, Really enjoyed the video. I have a copy of the album which has the second type of printed number from 1970-71. It is number 107721. It is a side opening stereo copy. When I looked carefully at the number, underneath it I saw the imprint of an original style number. That number is quite hard to decipher but from what I can make out it is number 0000029. Any thoughts?
Regrettably, I no longer have my "original" American copy (actually purchased in 1970, so it would have been a very high number). What I have today is the 1985 German direct metal mastered white vinyl version (which is a superb sounding pressing). On this version, the number is not inked, but embossed. My copy is No. 194021. The appearance is slightly marred by the presence of a small, black "Pressung WEISS" sticker in the upper left corner.
I have seen number 112, and 100 here in Stockholm. 112 sold for approximately £3000, which is pretty reasonable imo. Still, i was aversed to paying so much for a printed number!
I own two copies of the White album. One without any numbering at all. In fact the title "THE BEATLES" is printed in gray instead of embossed. The other copy has a very high number that was badly pressed. No ink was used and most of the numbers are intelligible. Both albums were purchased around the early '80s. One in USA and the other in EUROPE. No luck for me, again....
I got extremely anxious watching this video the entire process of making the covers and packaging them. Along with all the different numbering systems and multiple early numbers, makes me not want to bother with collecting all the early. I’m a big collector(at least compared to anymore that knows me in real life), I have 17 copies of The White Album myself, but If I start to get anxious about something when collecting, I don’t bother with it. Collecting is suppose to be fun, this is why I haven’t really bothered with trying to seek out very 1st pressings of any Beatles album, I let them come to me. All the matrix numbers alone make me nervous. All that aside, I have about 408 Beatles LPs in my collection. Various countries, pressings, and bootlegs, and that’s just releases of ‘The Beatles’, not solo. And when I say LP, I’m just meaning the copy of an album itself, not each individual disc. For The White Album I prefer the Stereo, it has a longer version of Helter Skelter and most of the songs sound more properly mixed. The only benefit of the Mono version to me is the louder backing vocals on I’m So Tired.
My Glaswegian engineer grandfather queued up to buy this for my parents - in Oxford street with a load of London hippies, which I would love to have seen. No.0000057
I bought my copy second hand in 1984 but it has no trace of a number on it, it's on the Parlophone label with Parlophone written in silver on the records. It also has STEREO printed on the back cover in green, not stamped. What gives ? LOL.
on the contrary, i'm led to believe I've got a very high-numbered US copy, sitting at A 3,105,122. it's in pretty good shape, but sadly has none of it's extra bits. got it from my grandma recently, can't wait to spin it!
So I have this LP but the numbers series don’t found it.Giles Martin remake the album but no have numbers serials it.The sound leave the wish and only cd give a sound clean and with high fidelity. I have poster and photos only inside of Lp,but without numbers.But are discs officially ok.Uchino of Japan.I see you Andrew.
What about No. 0000009 ? I have a Canadian Capitol white vinyl 10th anniversary reissue purchased new, and a 1987 Parlophone CD release in two separate jewel cases, one of which bears No. 174174 Andrew, yours is my top channel on RU-vid!
How much would a HIGH number be worth? I’m assuming not much, but I am fairly curious. I have a US copy just slightly over the 3mil mark, so right near the end of pressing
My uncle just passed and we’re going through his things, we found a stereo copy with the number A 0476568. Has the photos and the vinyl is white. Any clue on what I have?
Hi I have a white album with photos with a big fold out sheet inside. Open gate with black inner folds. It’s number is A58062 and has stereo printed on back right hand corner and The Beatles embossed on the front. I’m curious Is it worth anything Thanks
Unfortunately I don't have a low numbered copy. The one I got is a danish print numbered 0079049. But on the other hand it is in very fine condition. And it IS with opening at the top and black inner sleeve. So even though not being a low number, it is still the pearl in my "White Album" collection. Besides that I got several later and not numbered editions (with side opening and ordinary inner sleeve). Guess there could be a rare one or two among them. But don't know for sure.
i have an album with the printing: No. A145522... can anybody tell me what the A means, and how rare that would be? its a pretty high number so im not expecting it to be very rare, but i would like to know. i do know it was printed in japan, so maybe that has something to do with it?
Hello, just watching your video on the different numbers that are on the White album, and I am interested in finding out why there is an A in the beginning of my numbers and I was wondering if you could tell me if mine is valuable or not, the number is a 03834. Thank you
Picked up a white album top loader black inner sleeves on the Odeon label Peru version No :.2977 no poster or postcards don’t know if it ever had them but still not bad for a pound!
I need to check my collection all my collection I bought when I lived in the UK back in the mid 70’s now I live in Australia and while I was here I noticed album covers were not quite the same as the ones in the UK.
