My Friend , these Beatles fan club materials are hard to find, but I always keep an eye out, Thank You for this fantastic video Beatles Forever, Friend, Steve
Excellent find. Thanks for letting us see the artwork and all the other fan club detail. Fingers crossed they are genuine signatures but I do know that they did have people do that for the band. Cheers!
My sister was a member of the fan club and has the complete set of flexi-discs....and in the 70's I went to a market, where they had a rack of vinyl album records and I found an LP with the entire set of Christmas records is much better high quality sound, called "The Beatles Christmas Album" [ On the Apple label ] and of course I still have it. Side one is 1963 - 1966 & side two is 1967 - 1969. Excellent album with lots of fun especially with John Lennon's dry humour and various character voices ie; Podgy the bear & Jasper. There is Paul chatting on one saying "Where would we be if it wasn't for you fans" and John in the background goes "In the Army" Every year is a gem of hearing all of them messing about. Hearing the opening of track "Helter Skelter" at a much faster speed cracked me up. I've never seen the album anywhere ever, since I bought it....tho it does say "Not For Sale - S8C 100" in the bottom left hand corner. I hope you get to find the rest of the set. Well worth hearing......Paul begging fans not to send any more "Jelly Babies" because he once mentioned they love Jelly Babies, is hysterical. Great find to get the two you have. Enjoy playing.
As a fan club letter almost certainly signed by good old Freda or one of her admin girls. Can you imagine them signing over 100,000 postcards with each Xmas record? But it will have some value. But great find as those flexies are rare and worth a bit.
Victor Spinetti was an actor, and appeared in A Hard Days Night, Help! and Magical Mystery Tour. Malcolm Evans, also known as Mal Evans, was the Beatles road manager. The 'Lyn' on the label is Lyntone, the record label. As for the autographs, if they are real signatures, they are more than likely been done by the fanclub secretary.
The original mailing envelopes were strong card, not with a flimsy paper front like this one, and with a flap at the top that is glued down at the back. Similar ones are still sold today.
I have all of these in my collection as I was an and still am a Beatles fan .the “producer was Kenny Everett a radio one and ex pirate radio back in the day .
They're real first name examples of their signatures, but they are facsimile signatures produced by an auto pen. The Beatles fan club used auto pens from 1963 and it was quite common for the fan club members to receive these and Manny mistakingly believed that they were real autographs due to the indentation but the indentation was produced by the auto pen machine
Those flexi dis s eere iszued to fans exclusively,as a Happy Christmas message.For a long time you couldn't vet them, ut they have been issued on a compilationreducing their potential price.
My Friend , these Beatles fan club materials are hard to find, but I always keep an eye out, Thank You for this fantastic video Beatles Forever, Friend, Steve
Hi Steve, again thanks for the kind words and good hunting!
Excellent find. Thanks for letting us see the artwork and all the other fan club detail. Fingers crossed they are genuine signatures but I do know that they did have people do that for the band. Cheers!
Thanks for taking the time to leave a nice comment. Thank you!
My sister was a member of the fan club and has the complete set of flexi-discs....and in the 70's I went to a market, where they had a rack of vinyl album records and I found an LP with the entire set of Christmas records is much better high quality sound, called "The Beatles Christmas Album" [ On the Apple label ] and of course I still have it. Side one is 1963 - 1966 & side two is 1967 - 1969. Excellent album with lots of fun especially with John Lennon's dry humour and various character voices ie; Podgy the bear & Jasper. There is Paul chatting on one saying "Where would we be if it wasn't for you fans" and John in the background goes "In the Army" Every year is a gem of hearing all of them messing about. Hearing the opening of track "Helter Skelter" at a much faster speed cracked me up. I've never seen the album anywhere ever, since I bought it....tho it does say "Not For Sale - S8C 100" in the bottom left hand corner. I hope you get to find the rest of the set. Well worth hearing......Paul begging fans not to send any more "Jelly Babies" because he once mentioned they love Jelly Babies, is hysterical. Great find to get the two you have. Enjoy playing.
@jimled50jl49 Thank you for a very comprehensive and informative message. It sounds like you night have found a rare LP. All the best!
As a fan club letter almost certainly signed by good old Freda or one of her admin girls. Can you imagine them signing over 100,000 postcards with each Xmas record? But it will have some value. But great find as those flexies are rare and worth a bit.
she wasn't a admin Girl. She organised the Fan Club and gave up work to Run it. Employing two other girls to help out.
Looks more like a rubber stamp signature
@jeffthevideoguy23 It does seem to have dented the paper.
Spectacular find
Luck find. Thanks for stopping by.
Victor Spinetti was an actor, and appeared in A Hard Days Night, Help! and Magical Mystery Tour. Malcolm Evans, also known as Mal Evans, was the Beatles road manager.
The 'Lyn' on the label is Lyntone, the record label.
As for the autographs, if they are real signatures, they are more than likely been done by the fanclub secretary.
Thanks for sharing this insight. It is very much appreciated.
The original mailing envelopes were strong card, not with a flimsy paper front like this one, and with a flap at the top that is glued down at the back. Similar ones are still sold today.
Thanks for letting me know. I appreciate getting that extra info. All the best.
I have all of these in my collection as I was an and still am a Beatles fan .the “producer was Kenny Everett a radio one and ex pirate radio back in the day
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Thanks for taking the time to comment and letting us know about Kenny Everett.
Wow, that's amazing my friend, yes I would be interested in that if you ever want to sell it, keep up the great work, cheers, Dave
Thanks Dave, Still toying with the idea as I don't think I will ever see it again. You will be first to know.
If You don't know who Freda Kelli is, there is a good documentary on TH-cam called "Good Ol' Freda".
Yes, many thanks I will give it a watch. All the best.
These are on sale on eBay, not as rare as you think, still worth a few hundred each though.
Thanks, I guess a fair few were made then.
They're real first name examples of their signatures, but they are facsimile signatures produced by an auto pen. The Beatles fan club used auto pens from 1963 and it was quite common for the fan club members to receive these and Manny mistakingly believed that they were real autographs due to the indentation but the indentation was produced by the auto pen machine
Wow that sounds very interesting I will research the Autopen thing. Thank you!
They made a great documentary about Freda Kelly called "Good Ol' Freda" back in 2013. Check it out! She was very cool. This is a great find!
Thanks, I will check it out.
The last two disc were produced by the Capitol Radio DJ KENNY EVERETT. He was a friend of John & Paul
Thanks, I never knew that. Learning every day.
Those flexi dis s eere iszued to fans exclusively,as a Happy Christmas message.For a long time you couldn't vet them, ut they have been issued on a compilationreducing their potential price.
Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment.
Good grief! You can put anyone watching this video into a coma. Borrrrrring! 😴
😂it’s a recurring theme on the channel
Will it ever stop, who knows.
Probably secretarial signed.
Yes, you may be correct.
I know everything about those Beatles Christmas records not you they should be mine. 😆
Fair comment!
"I'm not a Beatles fan particularly"... Lost me there & I stopped watching.
Ok no problem, maybe something for you next time.
If You don't know who Freda Kelly is, there is a good documentary on TH-cam called "Good Ol' Freda".
Thank you!