This topic is a glorious rabbit hole. Thanks Andrew. I’m in the process of securing a 1st NZ pressing of A Hard Day’s Night - there are multiple printing errors but the main one is on the spine - A Hard Night’s Day. Almost hard to believe it made it through however it’s the third one I’ve seen. If you haven’t come across before I’m happy to email an image once I have it in my hands.
LOL 🤣This reminds me of the Hendrix documentary where they'd misspelled Electric Ladyland as "Electric Landlady" on the label. Apparently, Jimi didn't think it was funny though...
I’ve got a copy of this one. On the back they tried to fix a catalog number error by simply printing a black rectangular box to cover the error! It also has the gold mono sticker placed over the stereo PCSM catalog number.
Maybe you could go the Uk singles next? I have the ‘All you Need is Love’ without the ‘taken from the Our World TV transmission’ line or whatever it says - and I also have Hey Jude but the B side label says it’s Mary Hopkin - it’s not though!
Something I learned quite early on in my working career, was that if you are given things to type or typeset, and the copy you're given is clearly wrong, you mustn't try and correct it, you have to put exactly what is given and wait for the client to spot the mistake so a new job can be submitted. Crazy but true, and I'm sure the various companies EMI used to print their labels were no different. It's strange that I SHOULD HAVE KNOW BETTER has a space where the N should be, as if it WAS typeset but someone thought "I Know Better" and got out his scalpel and chipped off the N block from the stamper thinking he was being clever. The white Apple label in 87 is a strange one because clearly there had been competing instructions being given at the time as to how to brand the digital reissues. Whether to brand Beatles records as Parlophone, Apple, both or neither was a wrangle that had been going on between Apple and EMI since 1970.
I have a Beatles White album pressed on white virgin vinyl. The 2nd album has the correct label but is really the first album. Is that worth a lot? It is in perfect condition.
The closest to a Help error I could offer is that my 2014 mono box's Sgt Pepper has the Help label on side two, which was kind of alarming when I unboxed it.
When John Lennon died I was 10 years old. My older brother at that time was watching TV on which there was a report about this event and tells me that John Lennon has died! I asked him who is this? He said that the musician of the Beatles! I did not attach any importance to this since I was very small and had no idea what the Beatles were, and even more so John Lennon! My acquaintance with the Beatles happened quite by accident, my classmate asked me to buy the Beatles album A hard days night in the Melodiya music store, which was released for the first time in our country of the USSR by the Melodiya company, since I live not far from this store, I bought this disc and gave it to a classmate! I began to ask him what kind of group? to which he answered me English group The Beatles and said that its founder was John Lennon! I began to remember that six years ago I had already heard the name John Lennon and remembered the reportage about the death of John Lennon 1980. I immediately decided to go to the Melodiya store and buy myself a vinyl disc A hard days night for familiarization! It happened in 1986! And from that time to the present, I have been a lover and connoisseur of the incredible phenomenon The Beatles. At the moment I have the entire collection and discography of the Beatles. Some of their songs I enjoy singing and performing on the guitar! Thanks to my classmate that in 1986 he asked me to buy him the disc A hard days night from which my fateful acquaintance with this great band took place!
Love this video. I'm always overjoyed to find a misprint lp. One I have is a U.S. copy of Abbey Road that has a side 2 cut apple with no printing whatsoever. When I found it, I bought it on the spot. I've never seen another one like it.
Never had a desire to collect label misprints. It would have expanded the collection exponentially. However, I do have a UK Mono White album where the cover rim reads Mono only (no stereo) and side 4 is in full stereo. Label is Mono, but the deadwax starts with YEX. So I kept that one.
My other half has a bunch of Chilean Beatles and Solo LPs and they all just say "Mono-Stereo Compatible" rather than being specific and some are stereo even with XEX matrix numbers.
Me neither, although I do find them a curiosity especially as one of my other interests is the history of printing methods. It is just one way the haphazard nature of the production chain often was and is gets manifested. Another way is this: I have a copy of the White Album bought in 1988 where Sides 1 and 3 are DMM digitally mastered (with traditional Apple labels) and Sides 2 and 4 are non-DMM (with the new re-typeset Apple labels).
Great video Andrew and very interesting. I have a 2012 issue of Help that has got side one pressed on both sides. The labels are for side one and two but it plays the same on both sides. I'm guessing it's not that valuable (yet) but I wonder how many are out there?
Early Italian copies of Please Please Me (issued here simply as "The Beatles") have "There's a PLANCE" on the back cover, whilst the label for the "Hey Jude" album from the same country of issue has "PEPERBACK Writer" amongst the tracks.
EMI trademark juxtapositions were amazingly common from the late 60s onwards, and it's clear to me that as far back as 1967 they were wanting to get rid of having so many brands in operation. The main manifestation of this was the introduction of the red and brown EMI label in 1973 but lest anyone forget, EMI had tried to drop individual labels in mid-1967 in favour of just putting EMI on the sleeve front. The labels still appeared on the sleeve rears and the records themselves, but it seems they were trying to phase them out. But at the start of 1968 this policy was reversed. Probably because of the pending launch of Harvest after having a heads up about Philips' plans for Vertigo and Decca already having their Deram label for "prog" artists. Anyway, the cachet that Parlophone and Columbia had was well on the wane and by the end of The Beatles' original catalogue was, I think, already seen as an anachronism by the bright young hopefuls now working for EMI. Parlophone wasn't even going to get a one box EMI label redesign until the Beatles mono reissues in late 69. Columbia and HMV had already received theirs at the start of the year which is why you can find Columbia LPs with a one box label that still state "SOLD IN U.K...." albeit in the rim text. Anyway, from that point on it seems there was a general lack of care; a cassette of Hollies Greatest I have from its original run in 1969 has a Stateside logo instead of Parlophone, and a Shadows Greatest cassette having Parlophone instead of Columbia (and I'm not talking about a latter day Warner reissue where that would actually now be correct). Wings Wild Life, when issued as part of the Fame catalogue in 1985, came with two box EMI Parlophone labels but with a Fame catalogue number, rather than the Fame label design or even the original photo labels the album had at the time of original release.
Just came across a "Beatles Again" 1970 french pressing (made in italy) with Paperback Writer mispelled "Peperback Writer", no idea how much it's worth!!
I have 3 misspellings on US album pressings: "You Really Gotta Hold On Me", "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and "You're Gonna Lose That Girl". Should I quit my day job?
Hi Andrew, I have what I now know is a rare first UK pressing of Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967, Mono with the Album Misprint on the cover for the song With a little help from my friends, as A little help from my friends with incorrect lyrics, it’s also in Mint condition PMC 7027 XEX637/638. I’m keen to find out what it could be worth. It was my mothers album, I think never played and she was friends with Ringo Star when young as her best friend dated him. Ironically she was forbidden to date him by her father as he said he is a no hoper musician who will be poor always. Boy did he get it wrong. So this album may have even been given to her by Ringo. I also had the honour of meeting George Harrison at a gig I sang in for the Grand Prix drivers in Adelaide. So there are many reasons why this album is so special. ❤
I had a sgt peppers album which was a misprint the centre picture was like purple shades i guess they can only be just one like this in the whole world
Hey Andrew,! Should you decide to write a book that addresses all the pressing and printing errors of U.S. Capitol Beatles' albums, you will undoubtedly qualify for entry into the Guinness Book Of World Records for the longest book ever written. You had better start very soon; life is short.
On one of my vinyl's 'With the Beatles' It says "You really gotta hold on me" on the sleeve, Meanwhile on the record label it says "You really got a hold on me" is this rare?
Have some 80s stereo pressings misprints - Beatles For Sale with a date of 1984 and the songwriting credit for Tomorrow Never Knows missing from Revolver.
I can’t remember where the switch was, but it was either that the back cover got it wrong or the label on the LP was wrong: A U.S. copy of the RINGO album, which I bought in 1974, shortly after it was released, listed Randy Newman’s “Have You Seen My Baby?” as “Hold On.” That is, the label on the disc differed from what the back cover called it. The mistake made sense, because both the phrase “Hold on” and the phrase “Have You Seen My Baby?” are sung several times in the song. It’s beyond a printer’s error. Someone who knew the words to the song made the mistake.
When I was six years old, I got the Capitol release of Revolver that had a misprint with, I Want to Tell You, mistakenly written by Lennon/McCartney, or sung by Lennon, I believe. It's in my storage unit.
My mono Rubber soul has strange label variations. On one side a sans-serif label. Flip the album over and its different plain serif font. Look like labels 2 years apart
Yeah! I've got a UK stereo copy of SPLHCB with the "." misprint in "SOLD IN.U.K." Woohoo, I was hoping to see it here! I agree, it's super esoteric, but it's fun.
I have an abbey road Mexican pressing that has a misprinted apple on side 2, and a white album with a spelling error on side 4, goodnight instead of good night
Great video Andrew! It seems Capitol Records here in the US have a difficult time with the spelling of 'Raccoon'. I have an LA 2nd pressing on Apple and an '86 pressing on Capitol of The White Album - both are misspelled 'Racoon' on the label.
Not a mispressing per se, but the Japanese mini LP SHM-CD edition of 'Abbey Road' has the misplaced Apple logo on the back of the sleeve. It was done on purpose; in most cases, Japanese mini LPs reproduce even the tiniest details of the first pressing of LPs, with the exception of some information such as 'Made in Japan'. Something similar happened to the mono LPs from 2014: Apple couldn't reproduce the labels 100 % accurately due to copyright issues.
There have been recent moves to allow cover reproductions to include the original credits but with a disclaimer on an obi-strip type sash that points out the copyright information has changed since then and current copyright details can be found on the record label. I liked the way Pink Floyd were able to retain the Columbia logo on their re-issues but simply change the text that stated who owned the trademark; i.e. Sony instead of The Gramophone Co. Ltd.
@@markboulton954 Thanks for the info. I've got almost 300 Japanese mini LPs... I wish they'd done that before. I stopped collecting CDs and LPs so I don't have the 2017 Japanese mini LPs. I've got the 2000-2001 collection; everything from 1967 through 1979 minus 'Obscured by Clouds'. I've read that the 2017 mini LPs are better, but I'm disappointed that they're standard CDs instead of SHM-CDs or Platinum SHM-CDs. Still I'd grab all the 1967-1979 ones if I had the money.
On the errored label of “Please Please me” the fourth track title “do you want to know a secet” the “a secret” line is even placed in between the reversed track 6 and 5
On the original Vee-Jay 45 of “Please Please Me”, the band’s name was misspelled as the “Beattles”, and it was one of the very first release by the band in 1963 in the US before they came to states the following year with “I Want To Hold Your Hand” as their first US #1 hit.
On my German pressing of " Revolver," song from George Harrison " I want to tell you," is mispressed " I want to love you." But someone told me they pressed many of those. And have U.K.export of " Abbey Road," with mispressed sides. Side one is on side two,and opposite. Yesterday i listened to my German press and it' was cracking on " Oh,Darling.." 😎 Cheers Young Master Andrew good video. And you go to the Beatles convention in Liverpool,there' s one in August.🇧🇲
Great video. I always harp on it but it’s always a part of your work I don’t see others point out and it’s worth doing so: your attention to detail when editing (adding the stock footage, looks like you added some foley sound to them as well, clever/humorous/insightful cutaways, and a great format of video which each of your “chapters” being easily defined chunks of the video. This, of course, is the cherry on top to the ice cream sundae of Beatles knowledge you throw our way each week. Your work is not in vein and I hope the channel continues to grow. Keep up the stellar work!
Another excellent video Andrew. I've been waiting for this one for a long time. Thanks very much. I have most of the errors but some I didn't know about. Thanks again.
Andrew, if you were to, and you may just, USA misprint type errors you’d need to do a two or three parter, lol!! As always love your videos, as I’m always learning something new. Oh…have the UK original mono XEX pressing of "Revolver". Cost me a little over $300 US.
If my memory serves me correctly, my copy of “The Beatles Greatest” from Germany has some songs credited Lennon-McCartney and some songs credited McCartney-Lennon on the album cover. I believe the first name credited was the lead singer (and primary writer of the track). Was this ever done elsewhere? I will have to dig into my collection to see if this was also done on the label.
@@michaelmarz9341 Their earliest compositions are credited to McCartney-Lennon. From mid 1963, She Loves You and onwards, they are credited to Lennon-McCartney
Not so long ago I found the Rubber Soul mono -4 -4 but the labels were reversed I sold it, I couldn’t stand the cracking that this copy , the only factory error that I have now in my collection is a copy of Revolver 2012 EU pressing of Revolver label in both sides but plays Rubber Soul.
Fascinating and informative. I purchased Sgt Pepper in Hong Kong in 67. My first Beatle album. First pressing and manufactured in Singapore. The error is the back cover. The images of John,Paul,George and Ringo are in double vision. The lyrics and credits all normal. Still have it. I came across a Revolver with the Apple logo some years back in NZ (a NZ pressing too) A Help Capital label single back in the UK purchased from a Bargain bin. All fine except for the words in brackets (From the fourthcoming film Eight Arms To Hold You) which of course was the original working title for Help. Evidently Capital at the time were too impatient for 100% confirmation. Album cover errors would be another fantastic topic to cover. Really impressed with your depth of knowledge.😎👌
Not sure how common this is but my copy of the XDR remastered white album cassette from 1987 lists Savoy Truffle as "Savory Truffle" on the back insert.
Great in-depth look into these records! I only own two, being the missing hyphen on the Abbey Road label and the misprints on Hey Jude. Just to note, there are 2 different variations of the first pressings of Hey Jude, and both have spelling errors. Of course, there is the 1st pressing that has the “Paper Back” and “Revolutions” errors, but I also have a second variation that has Revolutions corrected to “Revolution,” but still contained the “Paper Back Writer” error. It wasn’t until the 3rd pressing from 1973 was when it was corrected, and the label was now a pale green apple.
Reverse problem with them adding an I to GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE was the removal of the I from WANT TO TELL YOU on cassette. Again, there was a space there where the I should have been, so again Mr. Scalpel was trying to be clever trying to reverse what was a mistake before but was correct that time. But then later cassette issues did the same, presumably because they used the earlier inlay as copy for the new inlays.
hey andrew, another amazing video as always. i actually purchased a nowhere man EP about a year ago which has nowhere man twice on the b-side which is meant to feature michelle/you won’t see me. have you seen similar situations for any other uk beatles EPs?
I noticed "Love You To" is spelled "Love You Too" on those side one labels. Was this a printing error, or did it always get spelled this way on the label?
Hey Andrew, Ruben from Argentina here. There's a very rare and unique misprint in my country. Very early pressings of Day Tripper single were translated and labeled as "Equivocación de un día" rather than the later corrected "Vacación de un día". Funny thing is that the word "Equivocación" means "mistake" so it's kind of a confesion. It was out just one week and then retrieved to the label for correction, very hard to find and ultra rare and collectible nowadays. I have one for sale if you are interested. Cheers
Hi Andrew, Another brilliant video. I was lucky enough to be a member of the official fan club in 1970 and was sent a copy of "From Then To You". Although not a misprint my copy has the labels transposed Side 1 label is on Side 2 and vice versa Considering the album was allegedly compiled using Bettina Roses' personal flexi-discs I think it warrants a CD release for completeness.
I think I've seen an US edition of the White Album with "Racoon", as well as shortening the title of "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" (may have been separate copies).
I have a copy of the Blue Album from the 70's or early 80's. All the labeling is correct. However, Side 3 has the music from Side 3 from the Red Album.
Ask me why song was pressed on a B side of a HAWKWIND single in the 80s. It was a rerelease of the copy of a picture disk of Silver Machine. EMI/ UNITED ARTIST. Seven by Seven wasn’t pressed.
Hello from Japan. I bought "The Beatles UK STEREO LP 1st issue" from europe. It's good price and disc was clean...but there was a problem on side 4. It has mono label....(sound is stereo) How do you think the value of this case? Do I have to sell this?
I believe it isn’t that rare, but I have seen copies of the US United Artists “A Hard Day’s Night,” with “Tell Me Who,” instead of the correct, “Tell Me Why.” Once again Track 2!
Dear Andrew, Roger Vincent here, I recently picked up a new sealed copy of The Anniversary Edition of The Beatles, Abbey Road LP #B0030719-01. When I opened it up, I was surprised to find that the side (A) inner label is actually for "The White Album" LP side (A) #B0023811-0. The back cover lists the correct songs for the Abbey Road LP. I'm just curious to know if you or anyone else found / reported this error. Thanks
I’m not really interested in collecting miss-prints, that’s a huge financial rabbit hole I just don’t want to venture down. But I do have a 1960s mono pressing of Beatles for Sale with the Side 2 label on both sides. Clearly a factory error rather than a miss-print, but I suppose it’s a bit unusual.
I have a U.S. copy of Abbey Road that has a blank side two Apple label. Also, a U.S. White album with multiple spelling errors inside the gatefold cover. I know this video was for U.K. albums but just saying.
Hello! Can you tell me please, the Beatles never performed live songs MICHELLE AND THE GIRL live??? The whole internet has turned upside down and my searches are ZERO no result!
@@disneyfamily5158 Another question? I have never heard Paul McCartney perform a GIRL song at his concerts! Michel heard but the girl didn't! In general, Paul sings it at concerts or I just didn't find his video???
I own three misprints of Beatles records. A dutch pressing of "Beatles' Greatest" which has "Long To Sally" instead of "Long Tall Sally" printed on the label. A german pressing of "Beatles For Sale" that mispells the "Leiber & Stoller" writer's credits on "Kansas City" as "Lieber & Stoller". And last but not least I have a german pressing of the "Get Back" 45. All the german "Get Back" 7"s credit incorrectly "McCartney" solely as the writer (it's his song but "Lennon-McCartney would be right) while I own a variation where even the B side "Don't Let Me Down" names McCartney as the only composer (which is totally incorrect).
Again very fun video. There are so many errors through out the years and the various pressing. I have a copy of The Beatles Red Album from I believe 1977 with the blue labels on Capitial. It's still in the shrink with the hype sticker. I got it for $9.00, and it's in mint condition. it was a lucky find. Again thanks, Laddy.
I had a copy of magical mystery tour probably in 1977... All my records were stolen including this one… But I'm just curious if you ever saw magical mystery tour with the same label on both sides… I wish I still had that!
Sgt. Paper's Lonely Hurt Club Band! and that's a batsh-t tracklist in the first place. i want to know everything about those early korean beatles records!
I apologize! I really want to ask you! And what is that amazing guitar solo you have at the beginning of each of your videos??? What is this tune? From what song? Or is it just your professional musical trick before opening each of your videos? Very reminiscent of a day tripper!!!
Hi, I have a copy of Help, it’s a first pressing (Variant A) and the labels are swapped around! Side 2 label on side 1 and side 1 label on side 2. Very strange indeed!
Amazing video as always! I've got an anthology 3 vinyl where side 4 is actually side 2 of anthology 1. Im not sure how rare this is, if anyone could help me thay would be appreciated!
There are some errors that were never fixed in the United States. On the Hard Day's Night album look for the track, I cry instead. And on the Let It Be album, look for the track I dig a Pony. These were never changed over the years, but it's funny to still see them in general.
This isn't really a label error but I got a 1962/66 1978 German copy on blue vynal when it should be red and it plays 1962/66 and someone in the factory put red labels over the blue labels so 1962/66 red tracks pressed on blue vynal with the red sleeves it might be a prototype cos it just came with plain white inner sleeves great video by the way
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This topic is a glorious rabbit hole. Thanks Andrew. I’m in the process of securing a 1st NZ pressing of A Hard Day’s Night - there are multiple printing errors but the main one is on the spine - A Hard Night’s Day. Almost hard to believe it made it through however it’s the third one I’ve seen. If you haven’t come across before I’m happy to email an image once I have it in my hands.
LOL 🤣This reminds me of the Hendrix documentary where they'd misspelled Electric Ladyland as "Electric Landlady" on the label. Apparently, Jimi didn't think it was funny though...
@@mondegreen9709 Wow! That’s some error. Thanks for sharing : )
I’ve got a copy of this one. On the back they tried to fix a catalog number error by simply printing a black rectangular box to cover the error! It also has the gold mono sticker placed over the stereo PCSM catalog number.
Maybe you could go the Uk singles next?
I have the ‘All you Need is Love’ without the ‘taken from the Our World TV transmission’ line or whatever it says - and I also have Hey Jude but the B side label says it’s Mary Hopkin - it’s not though!
Loved this episode!!!
Something I learned quite early on in my working career, was that if you are given things to type or typeset, and the copy you're given is clearly wrong, you mustn't try and correct it, you have to put exactly what is given and wait for the client to spot the mistake so a new job can be submitted. Crazy but true, and I'm sure the various companies EMI used to print their labels were no different. It's strange that I SHOULD HAVE KNOW BETTER has a space where the N should be, as if it WAS typeset but someone thought "I Know Better" and got out his scalpel and chipped off the N block from the stamper thinking he was being clever.
The white Apple label in 87 is a strange one because clearly there had been competing instructions being given at the time as to how to brand the digital reissues. Whether to brand Beatles records as Parlophone, Apple, both or neither was a wrangle that had been going on between Apple and EMI since 1970.
I have a Abbey Toad cover and label that all the songs are listed as the same
When you play it it's John's Mind Game
I have a Beatles White album pressed on white virgin vinyl. The 2nd album has the correct label but is really the first album. Is that worth a lot? It is in perfect condition.
In 1968 i bought the Hey Jude single on Apple played it and Revolution was on both sides
The closest to a Help error I could offer is that my 2014 mono box's Sgt Pepper has the Help label on side two, which was kind of alarming when I unboxed it.
I imagine if it had been the side one label it would have been not "kind of", but REALLY concerning for a moment.
Nice to see my Retro Assets packs being put to good use.
They are truly wonderful, Jamie. I’ve been using them in nearly every video on the channel. Thank you for creating them.
I gotta say, i dig the typography of ReVOLUTION 9, would have been a more fitting way to write it consdering the chaotic nature of the song.
Wouldn't "ReVoLuTiOn 9" be more fitting perhaps? Or "rEvOlUtIoN 9"? Just a thought.
Especially when you play backwards, you can hear the words “Turn Me On, Dead Man” as a reference to the “Paul Is Dead” rumor.
When John Lennon died I was 10 years old. My older brother at that time was watching TV on which there was a report about this event and tells me that John Lennon has died! I asked him who is this? He said that the musician of the Beatles! I did not attach any importance to this since I was very small and had no idea what the Beatles were, and even more so John Lennon! My acquaintance with the Beatles happened quite by accident, my classmate asked me to buy the Beatles album A hard days night in the Melodiya music store, which was released for the first time in our country of the USSR by the Melodiya company, since I live not far from this store, I bought this disc and gave it to a classmate! I began to ask him what kind of group? to which he answered me English group The Beatles and said that its founder was John Lennon! I began to remember that six years ago I had already heard the name John Lennon and remembered the reportage about the death of John Lennon 1980. I immediately decided to go to the Melodiya store and buy myself a vinyl disc A hard days night for familiarization! It happened in 1986! And from that time to the present, I have been a lover and connoisseur of the incredible phenomenon The Beatles. At the moment I have the entire collection and discography of the Beatles. Some of their songs I enjoy singing and performing on the guitar! Thanks to my classmate that in 1986 he asked me to buy him the disc A hard days night from which my fateful acquaintance with this great band took place!
Love this video. I'm always overjoyed to find a misprint lp. One I have is a U.S. copy of Abbey Road that has a side 2 cut apple with no printing whatsoever. When I found it, I bought it on the spot. I've never seen another one like it.
Never had a desire to collect label misprints. It would have expanded the collection exponentially.
However, I do have a UK Mono White album where the cover rim reads Mono only (no stereo) and side 4 is in full stereo. Label is Mono, but the deadwax starts with YEX. So I kept that one.
My other half has a bunch of Chilean Beatles and Solo LPs and they all just say "Mono-Stereo Compatible" rather than being specific and some are stereo even with XEX matrix numbers.
Me neither, although I do find them a curiosity especially as one of my other interests is the history of printing methods. It is just one way the haphazard nature of the production chain often was and is gets manifested. Another way is this: I have a copy of the White Album bought in 1988 where Sides 1 and 3 are DMM digitally mastered (with traditional Apple labels) and Sides 2 and 4 are non-DMM (with the new re-typeset Apple labels).
3:49 There's A Place A Secret. That sounds like an interesting song.
Great video Andrew and very interesting. I have a 2012 issue of Help that has got side one pressed on both sides. The labels are for side one and two but it plays the same on both sides. I'm guessing it's not that valuable (yet) but I wonder how many are out there?
Early Italian copies of Please Please Me (issued here simply as "The Beatles") have "There's a PLANCE" on the back cover, whilst the label for the "Hey Jude" album from the same country of issue has "PEPERBACK Writer" amongst the tracks.
EMI trademark juxtapositions were amazingly common from the late 60s onwards, and it's clear to me that as far back as 1967 they were wanting to get rid of having so many brands in operation. The main manifestation of this was the introduction of the red and brown EMI label in 1973 but lest anyone forget, EMI had tried to drop individual labels in mid-1967 in favour of just putting EMI on the sleeve front. The labels still appeared on the sleeve rears and the records themselves, but it seems they were trying to phase them out. But at the start of 1968 this policy was reversed. Probably because of the pending launch of Harvest after having a heads up about Philips' plans for Vertigo and Decca already having their Deram label for "prog" artists.
Anyway, the cachet that Parlophone and Columbia had was well on the wane and by the end of The Beatles' original catalogue was, I think, already seen as an anachronism by the bright young hopefuls now working for EMI. Parlophone wasn't even going to get a one box EMI label redesign until the Beatles mono reissues in late 69. Columbia and HMV had already received theirs at the start of the year which is why you can find Columbia LPs with a one box label that still state "SOLD IN U.K...." albeit in the rim text.
Anyway, from that point on it seems there was a general lack of care; a cassette of Hollies Greatest I have from its original run in 1969 has a Stateside logo instead of Parlophone, and a Shadows Greatest cassette having Parlophone instead of Columbia (and I'm not talking about a latter day Warner reissue where that would actually now be correct).
Wings Wild Life, when issued as part of the Fame catalogue in 1985, came with two box EMI Parlophone labels but with a Fame catalogue number, rather than the Fame label design or even the original photo labels the album had at the time of original release.
Thanks Mark, great information as always.
Just came across a "Beatles Again" 1970 french pressing (made in italy) with Paperback Writer mispelled "Peperback Writer", no idea how much it's worth!!
12:33 That Korean label is hilarious 😂 "Back in Us?", "Sgt. Paper's Lonely Hurt Club Band"?
I have 3 misspellings on US album pressings: "You Really Gotta Hold On Me", "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and "You're Gonna Lose That Girl". Should I quit my day job?
I also noticed that on the Beatles For Sale "I'm a Losser" label, Jerry Leiber's name is misspelled "Lieber".
Good spot!
Hi Andrew, I have what I now know is a rare first UK pressing of Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967, Mono with the Album Misprint on the cover for the song With a little help from my friends, as A little help from my friends with incorrect lyrics, it’s also in Mint condition PMC 7027 XEX637/638. I’m keen to find out what it could be worth. It was my mothers album, I think never played and she was friends with Ringo Star when young as her best friend dated him. Ironically she was forbidden to date him by her father as he said he is a no hoper musician who will be poor always. Boy did he get it wrong. So this album may have even been given to her by Ringo. I also had the honour of meeting George Harrison at a gig I sang in for the Grand Prix drivers in Adelaide. So there are many reasons why this album is so special. ❤
I had a sgt peppers album which was a misprint the centre picture was like purple shades i guess they can only be just one like this in the whole world
A bit out of scope for this video but there was also Paul's 1984 single briefly labelled as No More LONLEY Nights.
Hey Andrew,! Should you decide to write a book that addresses all the pressing and printing errors of U.S. Capitol Beatles' albums, you will undoubtedly qualify for entry into the Guinness Book Of World Records for the longest book ever written. You had better start very soon; life is short.
On one of my vinyl's 'With the Beatles' It says "You really gotta hold on me" on the sleeve, Meanwhile on the record label it says "You really got a hold on me" is this rare?
Have some 80s stereo pressings misprints - Beatles For Sale with a date of 1984 and the songwriting credit for Tomorrow Never Knows missing from Revolver.
On the Columbia Revolver label shown in your video, does it list 'Love You To' as 'Love You Too" or am I seeing things?
Great video!
I can’t remember where the switch was, but it was either that the back cover got it wrong or the label on the LP was wrong: A U.S. copy of the RINGO album, which I bought in 1974, shortly after it was released, listed Randy Newman’s “Have You Seen My Baby?” as “Hold On.” That is, the label on the disc differed from what the back cover called it. The mistake made sense, because both the phrase “Hold on” and the phrase “Have You Seen My Baby?” are sung several times in the song. It’s beyond a printer’s error. Someone who knew the words to the song made the mistake.
When I was six years old, I got the Capitol release of Revolver that had a misprint with, I Want to Tell You, mistakenly written by Lennon/McCartney, or sung by Lennon, I believe. It's in my storage unit.
My mono Rubber soul has strange label variations. On one side a sans-serif label. Flip the album over and its different plain serif font. Look like labels 2 years apart
Yeah! I've got a UK stereo copy of SPLHCB with the "." misprint in "SOLD IN.U.K." Woohoo, I was hoping to see it here! I agree, it's super esoteric, but it's fun.
I have an abbey road Mexican pressing that has a misprinted apple on side 2, and a white album with a spelling error on side 4, goodnight instead of good night
Great video Andrew! It seems Capitol Records here in the US have a difficult time with the spelling of 'Raccoon'. I have an LA 2nd pressing on Apple and an '86 pressing on Capitol of The White Album - both are misspelled 'Racoon' on the label.
Regarding the Hey Jude album, was the exclamation point on the album's title supposed to be on the label?
I noticed that too!
My copy of Hey Jude bears the name The Beatles Again (A title I actually prefer over Hey Jude)
@@jasonpp1973 I don't know, it makes it seem like the album is a delayed Sides 5 and 6 of The White Album.😉
6:53 "Love You To" is misspelled as "Love You Too"
Not a mispressing per se, but the Japanese mini LP SHM-CD edition of 'Abbey Road' has the misplaced Apple logo on the back of the sleeve. It was done on purpose; in most cases, Japanese mini LPs reproduce even the tiniest details of the first pressing of LPs, with the exception of some information such as 'Made in Japan'. Something similar happened to the mono LPs from 2014: Apple couldn't reproduce the labels 100 % accurately due to copyright issues.
There have been recent moves to allow cover reproductions to include the original credits but with a disclaimer on an obi-strip type sash that points out the copyright information has changed since then and current copyright details can be found on the record label.
I liked the way Pink Floyd were able to retain the Columbia logo on their re-issues but simply change the text that stated who owned the trademark; i.e. Sony instead of The Gramophone Co. Ltd.
@@markboulton954 Thanks for the info. I've got almost 300 Japanese mini LPs... I wish they'd done that before.
I stopped collecting CDs and LPs so I don't have the 2017 Japanese mini LPs. I've got the 2000-2001 collection; everything from 1967 through 1979 minus 'Obscured by Clouds'. I've read that the 2017 mini LPs are better, but I'm disappointed that they're standard CDs instead of SHM-CDs or Platinum SHM-CDs. Still I'd grab all the 1967-1979 ones if I had the money.
I never met a Dutch copy of WA where Glass Onion wasn't spelled as Glass Union. :)
On the errored label of “Please Please me” the fourth track title “do you want to know a secet” the “a secret” line is even placed in between the reversed track 6 and 5
On the original Vee-Jay 45 of “Please Please Me”, the band’s name was misspelled as the “Beattles”, and it was one of the very first release by the band in 1963 in the US before they came to states the following year with “I Want To Hold Your Hand” as their first US #1 hit.
Yeah, it's more of a typesetting error than anything: the entire lines were swapped.
Vee-Jay didn't do too well with that...they also spelled Frank Ifield's name as "Farnk" on "I'll Remember You" b/w "I Listen to My Heart"!
On my German pressing of " Revolver," song from George Harrison " I want to tell you," is mispressed " I want to love you." But someone told me they pressed many of those. And have U.K.export of " Abbey Road," with mispressed sides. Side one is on side two,and opposite. Yesterday i listened to my German press and it' was cracking on " Oh,Darling.." 😎 Cheers Young Master Andrew good video. And you go to the Beatles convention in Liverpool,there' s one in August.🇧🇲
Great video. I always harp on it but it’s always a part of your work I don’t see others point out and it’s worth doing so: your attention to detail when editing (adding the stock footage, looks like you added some foley sound to them as well, clever/humorous/insightful cutaways, and a great format of video which each of your “chapters” being easily defined chunks of the video. This, of course, is the cherry on top to the ice cream sundae of Beatles knowledge you throw our way each week. Your work is not in vein and I hope the channel continues to grow. Keep up the stellar work!
Thank you, Luke - much appreciated!
That’s my Australian With The Beatles!
(Right, Andrew?)
I’ve made it to the big time!
That's right, Mike - I've credited you in the description. Many thanks!
:Does the Target Misspelling on the Target Exclusive Revolver Lp count?
Love your work Andrew
My Monday mornings always start with your videos
Thank you, Nicholas.
One of my favourite videos so far! Nice to see the 'no text labels' being featured!
Another excellent video Andrew. I've been waiting for this one for a long time. Thanks very much. I have most of the errors but some I didn't know about. Thanks again.
Cheers Steve. Glad you liked it.
Wasn’t there an error on one of them with McArtney ??
That's on the 'Love Me Do' demo.
Andrew, if you were to, and you may just, USA misprint type errors you’d need to do a two or three parter, lol!!
As always love your videos, as I’m always learning something new.
Oh…have the UK original mono XEX pressing of "Revolver". Cost me a little over $300 US.
Fab vid thanks indeedy.
Danny
The UK export LP The Beatles' Second Album (Y/B label) has Thank You Girl written by McCarthy-Lennon.
That was the one I was thinking of in my comment!
If my memory serves me correctly, my copy of “The Beatles Greatest” from Germany has some songs credited Lennon-McCartney and some songs credited McCartney-Lennon on the album cover. I believe the first name credited was the lead singer (and primary writer of the track). Was this ever done elsewhere? I will have to dig into my collection to see if this was also done on the label.
@@michaelmarz9341 Their earliest compositions are credited to McCartney-Lennon. From mid 1963, She Loves You and onwards, they are credited to Lennon-McCartney
Not so long ago I found the Rubber Soul mono -4 -4 but the labels were reversed I sold it, I couldn’t stand the cracking that this copy , the only factory error that I have now in my collection is a copy of Revolver 2012 EU pressing of Revolver label in both sides but plays Rubber Soul.
Fascinating and informative. I purchased Sgt Pepper in Hong Kong in 67. My first Beatle album. First pressing and manufactured in Singapore. The error is the back cover. The images of John,Paul,George and Ringo are in double vision. The lyrics and credits all normal. Still have it.
I came across a Revolver with the Apple logo some years back in NZ (a NZ pressing too)
A Help Capital label single back in the UK purchased from a Bargain bin. All fine except for the words in brackets (From the fourthcoming film Eight Arms To Hold You) which of course was the original working title for Help. Evidently Capital at the time were too impatient for 100% confirmation.
Album cover errors would be another fantastic topic to cover. Really impressed with your depth of knowledge.😎👌
Not sure how common this is but my copy of the XDR remastered white album cassette from 1987 lists Savoy Truffle as "Savory Truffle" on the back insert.
Great spot, Anthony!
Nom nom!
Great in-depth look into these records! I only own two, being the missing hyphen on the Abbey Road label and the misprints on Hey Jude. Just to note, there are 2 different variations of the first pressings of Hey Jude, and both have spelling errors. Of course, there is the 1st pressing that has the “Paper Back” and “Revolutions” errors, but I also have a second variation that has Revolutions corrected to “Revolution,” but still contained the “Paper Back Writer” error. It wasn’t until the 3rd pressing from 1973 was when it was corrected, and the label was now a pale green apple.
Reverse problem with them adding an I to GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE was the removal of the I from WANT TO TELL YOU on cassette. Again, there was a space there where the I should have been, so again Mr. Scalpel was trying to be clever trying to reverse what was a mistake before but was correct that time. But then later cassette issues did the same, presumably because they used the earlier inlay as copy for the new inlays.
Another example being 'Savoy Truffle' which became 'Savory Truffle' on the '87 XDR cassette.
@@Parlogram Makes it sound rather more palatable though!
hey andrew, another amazing video as always. i actually purchased a nowhere man EP about a year ago which has nowhere man twice on the b-side which is meant to feature michelle/you won’t see me. have you seen similar situations for any other uk beatles EPs?
I noticed "Love You To" is spelled "Love You Too" on those side one labels. Was this a printing error, or did it always get spelled this way on the label?
Hey Andrew, Ruben from Argentina here. There's a very rare and unique misprint in my country. Very early pressings of Day Tripper single were translated and labeled as "Equivocación de un día" rather than the later corrected "Vacación de un día". Funny thing is that the word "Equivocación" means "mistake" so it's kind of a confesion. It was out just one week and then retrieved to the label for correction, very hard to find and ultra rare and collectible nowadays. I have one for sale if you are interested.
Cheers
I have the White Album A3012854 with Raccoon spelled as Racoon. Nice to have that copy.
01:18 That "Mispressing" caption... Is that a repurposed BBC VIDEO ident I detect?!? 😉
„Forthcoming box set“ …….???!!! 😱🤩 Is there actually gonna be one for Revolver?? Don’t tease now!
Beatles For Sale. Side One. Kansas City. "Lieber" should read "Leiber".
I have a copy of Abbey Road that has a full printed (Apple) label from another Bestlevalbum
Hi Andrew, Another brilliant video. I was lucky enough to be a member of the official fan club in 1970 and was sent a copy of "From Then To You". Although not a misprint my copy has the labels transposed Side 1 label is on Side 2 and vice versa Considering the album was allegedly compiled using Bettina Roses' personal flexi-discs I think it warrants a CD release for completeness.
I think I've seen an US edition of the White Album with "Racoon", as well as shortening the title of "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" (may have been separate copies).
My partners help album doesnt have brackets on the matrix numbering either side
I have a copy of the Blue Album from the 70's or early 80's. All the labeling is correct. However, Side 3 has the music from Side 3 from the Red Album.
Ask me why song was pressed on a B side of a HAWKWIND single in the 80s. It was a rerelease of the copy of a picture disk of Silver Machine. EMI/ UNITED ARTIST. Seven by Seven wasn’t pressed.
Hello from Japan. I bought "The Beatles UK STEREO LP 1st issue" from europe.
It's good price and disc was clean...but there was a problem on side 4.
It has mono label....(sound is stereo)
How do you think the value of this case?
Do I have to sell this?
There’s also a misspelling of „LOVE YOU TO“ on the record covered between 6:55 and 7:09…
BTW, anybody know why the song‘s title is so peculiar?
I believe it isn’t that rare, but I have seen copies of the US United Artists “A Hard Day’s Night,” with “Tell Me Who,” instead of the correct, “Tell Me Why.” Once again Track 2!
the 1988 brazilian albums the beatles white album, yellow submarine and abbey road have the apple swapped
At around 6:55 I believe 'Love You Too' should read 'Love You To'.
I have The Beatles 1962 - 1966 (The Red Album) .
The b&w photo on the inside gatefold is printed upside down. 🙃
Dear Andrew,
Roger Vincent here,
I recently picked up a new sealed copy of The Anniversary Edition of The Beatles, Abbey Road LP #B0030719-01.
When I opened it up, I was surprised to find that the side (A) inner label is actually for "The White Album" LP side (A) #B0023811-0. The back cover lists the correct songs for the Abbey Road LP.
I'm just curious to know if you or anyone else found / reported this error.
Thanks
I’m not really interested in collecting miss-prints, that’s a huge financial rabbit hole I just don’t want to venture down. But I do have a 1960s mono pressing of Beatles for Sale with the Side 2 label on both sides. Clearly a factory error rather than a miss-print, but I suppose it’s a bit unusual.
Does that make it collectible and worth more $$?
I’ve got no idea. I guess I’d only find out if I put it on eBay.
RE: Revolver 8:36 - "forthcoming box set"?
The Rocky Racoon error is on the first US pressing of the White Album
I have a U.S. copy of Abbey Road that has a blank side two Apple label. Also, a U.S. White album with multiple spelling errors inside the gatefold cover. I know this video was for U.K. albums but just saying.
The HEY JUDE album shown here has an exclamation mark to make it HEY JUDE! - which seems to have happened in a lot of markets.
Om my UK copy of Love Songs the track This Boy states that it was produced in 1973. Yet another track 2 but on side 4.
I have a 2014 mono copy of HELP! and it has the labels for Revolver anyone else have this misprint
Hello! Can you tell me please, the Beatles never performed live songs MICHELLE AND THE GIRL live??? The whole internet has turned upside down and my searches are ZERO no result!
Correct, they never played either of those live.
@@disneyfamily5158 Another question? I have never heard Paul McCartney perform a GIRL song at his concerts! Michel heard but the girl didn't! In general, Paul sings it at concerts or I just didn't find his video???
@@robertvoralberg1834 "Girl", from Rubber Soul, is John's song so no, Paul hasn't and most likely wouldn't perform it live.
I own three misprints of Beatles records. A dutch pressing of "Beatles' Greatest" which has "Long To Sally" instead of "Long Tall Sally" printed on the label. A german pressing of "Beatles For Sale" that mispells the "Leiber & Stoller" writer's credits on "Kansas City" as "Lieber & Stoller". And last but not least I have a german pressing of the "Get Back" 45. All the german "Get Back" 7"s credit incorrectly "McCartney" solely as the writer (it's his song but "Lennon-McCartney would be right) while I own a variation where even the B side "Don't Let Me Down" names McCartney as the only composer (which is totally incorrect).
8:36 What do you mean by "the fourth coming box set"???
I'm confused, curios and exited all at once.
Again very fun video. There are so many errors through out the years and the various pressing. I have a copy of The Beatles Red Album from I believe 1977 with the blue labels on Capitial. It's still in the shrink with the hype sticker. I got it for $9.00, and it's in mint condition. it was a lucky find. Again thanks, Laddy.
I have Mexican first Stereo copy of Rubber Soul with original Loose thread on Lennon's jacket and multiple errors on label.
I had a copy of magical mystery tour probably in 1977... All my records were stolen including this one… But I'm just curious if you ever saw magical mystery tour with the same label on both sides… I wish I still had that!
Sgt. Paper's Lonely Hurt Club Band! and that's a batsh-t tracklist in the first place. i want to know everything about those early korean beatles records!
I apologize! I really want to ask you! And what is that amazing guitar solo you have at the beginning of each of your videos??? What is this tune? From what song? Or is it just your professional musical trick before opening each of your videos? Very reminiscent of a day tripper!!!
This is an interesting issue. So, please, keep 'em coming. Bye for now, Nelio.
I have the Columbia orange label With the Beatles pressing.
Hi, I have a copy of Help, it’s a first pressing (Variant A) and the labels are swapped around! Side 2 label on side 1 and side 1 label on side 2. Very strange indeed!
Amazing video as always! I've got an anthology 3 vinyl where side 4 is actually side 2 of anthology 1. Im not sure how rare this is, if anyone could help me thay would be appreciated!
My us white albums has “rocky racoon” and “revolution no 1 and revolution no 9”
Am I wrong or on the Revolver Columbia Label Love you to is misspelled as Love You Too? Maybe someone has already spotted it...
There are some errors that were never fixed in the United States. On the Hard Day's Night album look for the track, I cry instead. And on the Let It Be album, look for the track I dig a Pony. These were never changed over the years, but it's funny to still see them in general.
Korean Label always cracks me up cause the “Back in the Us?”
This isn't really a label error but I got a 1962/66 1978 German copy on blue vynal when it should be red and it plays 1962/66 and someone in the factory put red labels over the blue labels so 1962/66 red tracks pressed on blue vynal with the red sleeves it might be a prototype cos it just came with plain white inner sleeves great video by the way
I have a 7” single of Elenor Rigby/Yellow submarine with the labels on the wrong side, I’ve wondered if it was of any interest?.