I still have many of my Beatles albums from when I was a youngster. I have 45s and 33s. I recently walked into my local record shop and happened to see a box filled with Beatles albums and 45s. Many from UK and imports. Many American. They were all in pristine condition and the lady who owned them just dropped them off to the store for payment. I wanted every one. I asked if they would hold them for me as being a Disabled American Veteran payday is once a month. They were awesome and I got them all. I have a huge Beatles collection. Sweet! I really scored on that day. Keep up the faith, the albums are out there, getting your hands on them is exciting.
Had my first experience of viewing a Stereo 'Black and Gold' first pressing of Please Please Me back in around 1986 at a North West Record Fair.....and baulked at the £1,000 asking price!
Nice showing. It is hard to find a clean copy for these over 50 yr old albums. As you say they were well played. Many at home, at friends houses, school, and parties! That gold Please Please Me is not just a record but a historical artifact.
Must have been an adult (as opposed to a teen) that bought that gold label PPM in 1963 and just filed it under 'Might be worth $$ one day'!. Cant see a younger person purchasing a Beatles album and never play it.
Wow, what a haul! I really enjoyed that. Especially the please please me gold label! That was marvellous. And I thought that no copys without spindle marks existed… Boy was I wrong! Outstanding!
I remember when I got my first stimulus check I remember I couldn’t wait to open up the big packages of the Beatles LPs that I got the singles set and the Beatles stereo box that on the vinyl it was fantastic. I love the fact of opening each album from its shrinkwrap which is great. I love these unboxing videos those are great to see and to hear.
What a dream it would be to hold a Stereo copy of Please Please Me, let alone one that looks just as new as one that’s being sold at a retailer. Great unboxing, I myself had a bit of fun watching this and guessing which pressings the albums were! I got 3/4ths of them right haha
Very nice indeed! As always, thanks again for sharing! You sounded like you were having a hard time containing your excit/rement over that Please Please Me stereo first pressing.
The "seam splits" could've been cause by shipping the records inside the outter sleeves! Usually you ship records outside the outter sleeves (inside the inner sleeves of course)!
It's Christmas again at Parlogram! That black & gold Please Please Me is impressive. Either someone bought it and never played it, anticipating its value (which would be quite a feat since, if I recall correctly, it came out prior to The Beatles taking the US)... or someone has secretly invented time travel. I imagine it's days like these, Andrew, when you smile and say, "I love my job." 😀 Thanks for sharing your Christmas with us!
There you have it guys! That's a very serious reason for a Time machine to be invented unless you want to spend a small fortune! God if I ever came across one black and gold Stereo of Please Please Me, I'd probably drop it because of tremble LOL! How can you be so calm? :P
Great video. I would love to have many of those. I'm sure the PPM will easily go for over £500 or around 700 dollars US. The mono version beats out the stereo IMO but both have that great sounding energy! The White mono, even with that scratch or pressing defect, won't be cheap either.
What a finale! I hadn’t seen those 70’s inner sleeves before. Very cool! Well done again! The many different pressings astounds me...and cover differences whether mono or stereo. Again, brilliant job!
I would interested to know which Beatle album is your favourite?. Mine has to be the white album.So many fantastic tracks ranging from beautiful ballads to pulsating rockers Absolute classic and very underrated
Brilliant video again Andrew & as a true Beatles fan would you consider doing a ranking video on their albums & say a top 25 singles ranking as well ? I don't know whether that's your thing but it would be great to see.... Cheers
@@Parlogram I actually thought as much but as a true Fabs fan it would have been great to hear your take on their best & (least best!) Thanks anyway & keep the videos coming.
Like the person underneath said you do have the best job EVER. Just to go through lovely lovely records and identify them and sell them on your popular website. But I suspect there is a LOT more work that goes on away from the videos. Am I right? But Andrew have you much experience with the Direct Metal Masters? Would you do a video about the Beatles Direct Metal Masters? Because they do sound different. Think I told you via a comment here that since my girlfriends Father died and she got all his records (minus whatever the scroungers went through and took that was worth anything before she got them, don't ask. You know what happens when people who are straight as a die and worked all their life and earned a lot of money (he was a prominent aerospace engineer) and collected records die.All the extended family come out the woodwork who you ain't seen or spoken to for years, and things were taken before she got them and I DREAD to think what was pilfered as what was left was still good but we know he had so much more and he had been collecting since 1968 and had many mint copies of the White album and abbey road and let it be 1970 box. And what was left was his player copies that were in worse condition, and all his mint unopened copies had gone. Yes that's right mint unopened first press copies of the White album, abbey road and the let it be box. He was one of the rare foresighted people who had the money at the time and bought extra copies of everything to keep mint unopened. And what was left was still first press copies of all that but they were played and the covers were scruffy because like I said they were his player copies. I genuinely dead to think what else was taken before we got them) But anyway I've gone on but a record dealer took my rubber soul and Revolver DMM copies that were very very rare (I've never seen them anywhere they actually had the DMM sign on the vinyl label and the Parlophone label I have never seen and can't find. They aren't the general DMM that they did in 1988-1995 that are common out there) because they were kept sperate from what he could take but close by and I wasn't there. My girlfriend dealt with him. And since then I'm collecting DMM and wanted to know how different the sounds are compared to others using your very clever graphs. Thank you
I was wondering, does the original Help! album from UK have the James Bond instrumental intro like the US copies of the time do? When the Beatles catalog was more recently remastered, it was missing.
Nice haul but some of the vinyl looked beat up a bit. How did they come out after cleaning? Magic eraser with wet cleaner works well on ringwear dirt especially glossy and some other cover surfaces too. But be careful.! Nice gold label stereo too.
I think that the Beatles albums are probably worth a lot of money I can’t wait to get my hands on the movie medley which is only about a 45 Do you have the 45 of the German version of my bunny in your store which has Tony Sheridan singing in German that in English that was released interestingly enough in 1962 and do you also have the movie medley on 45?
So your collection is be very large my guess.How many copies of same Lp you have in your hands now?Seen no have a finally my guess.Good music for you,with all these records ok.Uchino of Japan.Thank you Andrew. I see you in next time.
One EMI box Help Mono is indeed the rarest out there, and i have it. I am looking for this Help on Mono with yellow parlophone only one i do not have from this video, and PPM gold as well. Thanks
I had all three one mark mono albums, and like a fool I sold them for peanuts about ten years ago. They only pressed one mark mono on PPM,Help,and Sgt. Pepper. Very rare as all had first matrices etc.
I would love to know what you paid for that NM stereo Please Please Me . The only thing I don’t understand about that is the black inner sleeve isn’t original, it should have an Emitex inner sleeve . Still that’s going to go for a FORTUNE !
Some of those records look in bad shape. I hope you didn't have to pay much for them. I would never accept Beatles LPS unless they are excellent to mint condition as you know there are millions of copies in circulation out there.
