I had the same problem as the Czechs, having to carefully smuggle new Beatles LPs past my mother.

Quality content Andrew! Please give us a video on Japanese Pressings!

@fabriciocastro4322

3 жыл бұрын

I would love to see a video of the Japanese,French,Brazilian and Argentinian Pressings!

@moeta486

3 жыл бұрын

I personally would love to see a video on the US pressings, what with their fake-stereo and alternative mixes.

This is one of the best Beatles channels on KZread.

Thanks Andrew - a nice potted history and interesting vintage footage

I adore these videos, excellent work yet again and thank you for all your hard work :)

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Frazer.

Absolutely fascenating. I was wondering what direction you might go with this channel, and you've just opened your scope up to literally the whole world. I will be following closely👍

There was a festival in Bratislava called Bratislavská lýra (Bratislava Lyre), which run from 1966 until 1989 (and then occasionally until 1998) and there were many western artists and groups having live performances, like Sandie Shaw (1967), The Shadows (1968), Tremeloes (1968), Julie Driscoll (1968), The Easybeats (1968), Beach Boys (1969), Cliff Richard (1970, 1971), Boney M (1977), Smokie and Donovan (1983), Amanda Lear (1982), Stevie Wonder and Joan Baez (1989), and many more. Even band Cressida was in Bratislava in 1969, performing on Slovak Beat festival as a special guest. And both Supraphon and Opus have released many western albums as well, including CSN&Y, Fleetwood Mac, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Styx, Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Talking Heads, Bon Jovi, Status Quo, The Who, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Byrds and many many more.

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the information. That would make a great video too.

@BlueNeon81

3 жыл бұрын

@@Parlogram Bratislava Lyre was a big event. There is a TV series about that festival, showing also snippets of performances. I saw a Beach Boys documentary and there was a scene shot in front of Hotel Carlton in Bratislava where they were giving autographs to people.

Btw, Andrew, did you know that czech pressing plant GZ pressed many records for UK budget labels like Sounds Superb, Music For Pleasure, Reddiffusion and many more in 1970's?

Incredible opening footage!

The editing and production value keeps getting better and better with everyone video. Very excellent work!!

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Matthew, glad you like them!

Nice to see Modry Efekt behind you. Great album.

It's a shame you can't play samples of the music without fear of KZread algorithms. Nevertheless, another well-produced and informative video. Thanks, Andrew! 😊

nice!! just love your videos! always learning something new! cheers!

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Steve!

I have no words, great job and love the video!

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Wow,KOZEL beer in the backround.Well done,bro :)

Excellent again Andrew and some great images of Prague

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers again, Ian.

Hi Andrew, Thank you for this amazing episode. I remember suggesting to you this very idea...I'm glad you did it as its a place that's important to me. My parents defected from Czechoslovakia in the 60's when the Russians invaded...so I've heard lots of stories about Czechoslovakia but not about the Beatles and the impact they had. Thanks again and i hope you are doing well. Mark Anthony K Projekt Gemineye

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, Mark. It was a good idea ;)

Wow, this was really interesting!! The only record from this country I’ve already heard of, was the mono abbey road of course. But now, I kind of want to collect all of their releases... haha. Very informative and interesting video! I really love your work. Every time I see one of your videos pop up in my notifications, I always go around thinking what the video may be about etc. And later, in the evening, I sit down and watch it... and loves it! And as always, please cover the Norwegian Beatles records (haha), and please please (me) keep up the absolutely outstanding work!!

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, Olav. I'd love to do something on the Norwegian releases.

@jankolator8137

3 жыл бұрын

@@Parlogram taky tu koncertoval jhony cash vyšla i deska

Thanks Andrew. Great video!

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it, John!

Truly outstanding. So well done I'm at a loss for words. Thank you.

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

By the amzing amount of comments I guess you have hit the target!!!! Great job man! Do a video abbout italian's releases...it's plenty of variations and details. Cheers!

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and for your great suggestion!

I would love to hear the 1960s music in the Prague language and will be great to hear stuff from The Beatles in different languages Another great video that you’ve done Andrew I loved it it is really fantastic and hi also loved how the curtain went down and now that everyone can get a Beatles music it is great I think you should do Sweden and Russian that would be great.

Great video Andrew....nice to see the Beatles history in Eastern Europe. Nice to see the difference from the 1960s to current day and the power and impact of the Beatles and western culture in general. Looking forward to more videos. Keep up the great work!

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks again for watching, Bill. Glad you enjoyed it.

Of course Mike Love would go on a rant about the regime 🤣🤣

@ralphgarcia913

2 жыл бұрын

Mike Love faced danger twice with cult leader Charles Manson and then the KGB which had serial criminal and war criminal Vladimir Putin.

What a cracking video this is. I love you telling the history of the country as well as what people could get their hands on western music. Prague is a most interesting city after visiting there around three years ago. Well done Andrew

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

A really nice video, Andrew. In my collection are those two unique comps plus A Hard Day's Night and Abbey Road (the second pressing, on the orange Supraphon label). Looking forward to your next video. Cheers, Nelio.

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Nelio. Good to hear you have a few of these pressings.

Great stuff Andrew!

Hi Andrew, Another great video! I enjoy all your videos. And I have purchased 2 German box sets and MMT album from you, all amazing. Thank you for helping me and other Beatle fans discover great vinyl collectibles.

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Would love to see a video on Peruvian LPs, since my parents and ancestors were born in Peru. Incredible video, Andrew. Your content NEVER ceases to amaze me.

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alex. Peru is a fascinating country which I'd love to cover in a future video.

Wonderful presentation! Thank you, Andrew. If there is anything unique in Norwegian/Swedish releases, I would love to see them.

@johnp5333

3 жыл бұрын

Being from Sweden, i second that. :)

Brilliant and historically accurate! (Hello from a fan from Prague.)

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ondrej. Feel free to share it - I did Czech subtitles especially.

Great video Andrew. 👍

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Seamus 👍

You could try to tackle French pressings with their unique covers, also French EPs with their coloured sleeves!

Very nice! Thank you!

Fascinating Andrew 👍

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Steve!

Thanks for the amazing video! I would love an video about The Netherlands and France.

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and the idea!

Loved watching this ❤🧡💛💚

Awesome video! I've always loved Supraphon records. I don't have any of their Beatles LPs, but I've several other awesome records - Bessie Smith "The Empress of Blues" original 20s recordings, a Jimmy Smith compilation, a blues compilation featuring Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon etc, and a boogie woogie LP with original recordings from the 30s and 40s. The most interesting record, however, is by American jazz clarinetist Albert Nicholas. According to the sleeve notes he visited Prague in 1972 and recorded a full album there, "Albert's Blues", backed by a Czech jazz band. That record is awesome! Not only is the music amazing, but the sound quality is enviably good.

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Supraphon had an interesting catalogue which were well pressed.

@martinfenton1275

2 жыл бұрын

Supraphon managed to keep up technically too, at least by the 1970s. I have a Supraphon LP of Bohuslav Martinu's orchestral pieces, and it's in Quad. Whether the hardware was available in Czechoslovakia is another matter.

@BlueNeon81

Жыл бұрын

@@martinfenton1275 State operated company Tesla made quad decoder AZQ 100 and Supraphon was releasing new quad albums (mostly for export) until 1982 and GZ made represses of quad records until 1991.

Excellent! Sorry to be late to watch, but never disappointed to say the least. Very informative! Between the Czechs and Hong Kong (and early Russian Flexi discs), I was always hoping the people got to hear The Beatles music. Great job in handling a subject where there was not a lot of western music around. 👍👍

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

There’s the John Lennon Pub next to the wall in Prague? Visited it and breaks your heart that John is not alive to witness it! Loved your connection with the country, visited many times and got to know the people and see how the country changed over the years! I remember when I was in Argentina when the Beatles released Anthology 1, there were posters everywhere and was surprised how important the Beatles and other English bands are loved in the country!

Another brilliant video. Would love to see a similar video releases in Greece.

@Parlogram

2 жыл бұрын

Noted!

I too have visited the Czech Republic many times since the early 90s. It’s a marvellous country with many curio shops that have ‘rare’ & bootleg Beatles CDs, albums & singles. I hadn’t really realised on my first visit how much the music of The Beatles had meant to the ‘Prague Spring’ generation. On subsequent visits and through chats with locals I became more aware of the freedom The Beatles represented to Czechs. The John Lennon wall is a must visit when in Prague. Czech artist Karl Gott covered many Beatles and other artists songs in Czech and German language versions. I was told that like in the Soviet Union Beatles singles were often illegally pressed on X-ray slides and were highly prized. Might be something that you could look into Andrew. Great channel for all Beatles fans. Keep up the great work.

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers, Andy. Those x-ray discs are definitely worth a video.

I'm currently writing an MA dissertation on the subversive politics of Jazz and I never thought this channel would give me so much perspective! Thanks Andrew!

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Sol!

This sure was a great video and I sure did enjoy it a lot :). I have 2 for there !!! . Thanks for this video cheers !!!

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Brad. I knew you'd have a couple of them!

@beatlebrad5339

3 жыл бұрын

:).

@beatlebrad5339

3 жыл бұрын

I did enjoy this video my friend :).

I've been in Prague myself in 2019 and enjoyed it very much. I was able to buy a Beatles band T-Shirt there with the front cover photo of With The Beatles in a very nice music shop. Unthinkable in the 60s I guess. Something similar was going on in Hungaria at the time. I've read stories from members of The Nashville Teens and Spencer Davis Group who witnessed people getting hit with sticks by the police during a gig when they got up from their chairs and tried to dance. Maybe a topic for a future contribution?

I would love to get a video on Dutch Pressings of Beatles albums!

@noavanbaar9242

3 жыл бұрын

yes me too!

Fantastic information Andrew.. I went to Prague on a Stagg do. As you say it's a beautiful city. Unfortunately I was to worse for wear to go looking for Beatles Vinyl.

Really interesting, thank you. I really enjoy collecting vinyl from the 1950s and 1960s. It is interesting to find out finding out details of how record companies outside the US and the UK produced local variations of famous singles and LPs. In my hunt for records I occasionally find records pressed in the far east. It would be interesting to find out about the quality of pressings from countries like Taiwan and the Philippines.

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, Anthony. I'd like to investigate Far East records too.

Like the piece on the Beatles 78s in India and elsewhere, a fascinating look at how the Beatles were experienced in other countries. Would love to see more like this on other areas like South America. I'll put in my vote for something on the unique Canadian Beatles releases, it wouldn't have to be a long one, but we were ahead of the U.S. in appreciating the Beatles and have a few unique items to our credit. Plus, the little-known story of the Canadian Butcher Covers, which apart from a handful of copies, never escaped the Capitol office or pressing plant.

I’m glad you mentioned the Blue Effect

Great job as usual, Andrew! Although I have been living in the United States for a long time, I was born in Argentina, and it is a country that is still hugely into The Beatles (Los Beatles there). EMI Argentina was, and I believe still is, a huge label and I imagine the Argentine Beatles releases would make an interesting video as well. I would be happy to translate and give you cultural background should you wish to tackle it.

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Great idea, Gustavo and thank you for your offer. I might be in touch with you about it soon.

@78zappaf

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I had the Revolver and Abbey Road albums from there, grew up with the Argentine LPs but was shocked that Come Together fades out earlier than the UK/US release.

I have some 33 1/3 rpm 7" records with the Beatles from probably sometime in the 70s, on the Melodiya label. It would be fun to know more about the Soviet Union releases of the Beatles.

Yugoslavia! Zagreb had its own Beatles Fan Club and even released the Christmas singles :)

I never thought I would ever find a video about my favourite band and my favourite city. I’ll be in Prague again in a few months on the hunt for old Czech vinyls. Last time I was there I only bothered to buy Egypt Station lol

Bravo!! Now I understand how the dicography of Beatles are make in others countries,with Andrew comment.Best Regards.I see you again in new video.Uchino of Japan.Thank you.

Great intro to the video.. but I'm quite shocked and disturbed on that billboard with that lady with the gun in her mouth. Different times. Despite that, excellent video! Will there be any other videos on other bands or even the solo works of the Beatles vinyl variations? It's great to see The Beatles variations throughout the world (Canadian pressing even puts a weird edit or outtake of "Don't Bother Me") but I'm still weirded out on the many.. many mixes or outtakes released throughout the world on The Who.

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

The billboard was advertising an exhibition by a well-known Czech photographer called Jan Saudek.

@78zappaf

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I've been checking out Saudeks work and it's really good. Starting to be a fan!

I have some Czech and Slovak ancestry in my mixed Slavic ancestry. My late, maternal great grandmother was born in Prague. Her husband was from Slovakia. This mini documentary shows how we take music for granted. Now, we can get music at our fingertips. In certain countries, long ago, they had to try hard to get music that people in places like Canada, America and the UK could get. I saw Paul McCartney live in 2012. I saw Ringo Starr And His All Star Band, live in 2015. Thanks for sharing this. Cheers! ✌️

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Dwayne and for sharing some of your family history.

A video on the Beatles and their influence on Brazil’s Tropicalia movement would definitely be interesting

Fab Episode! The Foreign Stuff; Very Good Material. Peace

Hello it's juan from New York. I would like to know when you are going to do a video dedicated to the usa long playing or American records

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

I'm working on it, Juan.

Thanks again

I spent 5 years living in Morava 1998-2003 and most of that time I was hunting for records. Not only were Beatles albums available during the 60's but MANY Czech artists covered them. The Moody Blues and The Stones were in Prague in the 60's. There's film footage of all the Western artists that were there and many of these clips are in the series "Big Beat" that ran in the mid 1990's.

I traveled to Prague for the first time in Jan, 1991 as an American. It was a whole different world then. Great insight you have.

@Parlogram

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Lothar. Great times back then.

The correct pronounciation of the artist mentioned at 4:20 is “Fausto Leh-AH-lee”. His first proper hit was an Italian version of “Hurt” by Timi Yuro and he still performs to this day.

Same in Singapore. Many post 1966 Revolver songs banned from 1960s until the 1990s.

This is great! Can you do a video about the Yugoslavian Beatles LPs? It would be very enjoyable 😉. I too go to the antiquaries to buy me some LPs and there are billions of things and a lot of Beatles thingies!

Great video Andrew! What's the outro song?

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Just stock/library music.

Very interesting history! I'd love you to make a Greek history. Especially during the coup of army forces period (1967-1973). But even prior to that, during the 60s teenagers faced very strict standards and were often beaten up by policemen because of their appearence, style, political ideas, and of course music choices.

You should definitely make a video about the Brazilian albuns. We got some different albums around here and not all of the main UK ones

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Good idea, Rodrigo!

I can imagine the prohibition. I had relatives in Cuba who loved the Beatles and couldnt buy or listen to them in the 1960s, 70s even 80s. The shortwave radio was Jammed even owning an album or playing them got you time in jail or worse. Many of my relatives suffered because they loved the Beatles. I also had relatives who were with the system and worked with the system as secret police who repressed those who loved the Beatles. I had letters from both sides of the so called fight. I finally met one of my relatives during their trip to Miami(1990s) who did the repressing (still defending what she did), I gave her a piece of my mind by playing CDS of Beatles and Rolling Stones when we were in my car

Do Mexico!! The history of Beatles' pressings in Mexico is very rich!

Mono version of Abbey Road with lavish lyric booklet??! Oh my. That sounds tasty!

I got Czech edition of hard day's night. Bought it in 1986 somewhere in Czechoslovakia! It deformed on car rear window but it plays well undulating on my turntable! 🙂

Dec 1968 The Nice and 1969 The Colosseum performed in Prague btw.

Looking a little closer at Discogs it seems that the LPs I remember seeing were in fact after the 60's. Abbey Road, 1972 and Hard Days Night in 1986.

11:33 is that weird mix of 'I'll Get You' available anywhere else?

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Not that I know of.

I actually just recently listened to an unofficial Mono mix of Abbey Road by Mirror Spock, it was rather weird at first but it was really punchy and I could tell it was not a simple fold down. I would be really interested in listening to a needle drop/rip of that Czech pressing to hear the comparrison.

@stephencooke4569

3 жыл бұрын

So there were mono (fold-down) releases of Abbey Road in Czechoslovakia, Brazil and Argentina, any other countries?

@BrytonBand

3 жыл бұрын

@@stephencooke4569 I think you nailed it. I didn't know there was one in Argentina, though.

@stephencooke4569

3 жыл бұрын

@@BrytonBand Argentina was the first one I'd heard of years back (and a friend gave me a ripped copy), and didn't know about the Czech one until Parlogram mentioned it in this video. Out of curiosity, I went to Discogs, and it showed a mono release for Brazil as well. Argentina is definitely a fold-down, not sure about the Brazil.

@BlueNeon81

Жыл бұрын

@@stephencooke4569 all mono Abbey Road releases are fold-downs. There is no true official mono mix of that album.

Interesting.

Great video! I didn't know any western albums made their way legally behind the iron curtain. Have you made a video on the late Soviet-early Russian AnTrop pressings?

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Not yet!

Do you have the hungarian pressings of Please Please Me, A Hard Day's Night and the Yellow Submarine?

@Parlogram

2 жыл бұрын

I do and they all sound great!

pls do a video about the beatles in philippines and their philippine pressed records

Thanks..

thank you for this video. i am from czech republic. i might buy some supraphon pressings thank to you :D

@Parlogram

2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome, David.

It would be great to mention Yugoslavian Beatles releases. First record released by Yugoton (Yugoslavian record company) was same as in Czechoslovakia Collection of Oldies but it was much earlier -1967. Yugoslavia was some kind of bridge between East and West at the time. Such a shame that due to shortsighted politicians this country broke up on many pieces and survived a series of military conflicts.

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Yugoslavia is a very interesting country which I hope to cover in a future video.

@mondegreen9709

3 жыл бұрын

Well, compared to the actual Eastern Bloc states, Yugoslavia was in fact relatively liberal. I would always call it a dictatorship on a long leash - but a dictatorship nonetheless. There were a handful of record labels, most of which had licence agreements with all the major Western companies for distribution on the Yugoslav market, and all major Western artists and releases were widely available there. For instance, PGP RTB, the associated label of Belgrade Radio and Television, were distributing releases of the Phonogram group - including A&M, Island, Philips, Vertigo or Mercury, which means if you were buying a Police, U2, Tears for Fears, Dire Straits or - God forbid - a Bon Jovi record, it was coming from Serbia. Diskoton from Sarajevo had the rights to the Motown catalogue, while Suzy from Zagreb were distributing the CBS releases (at least until about 1990, right before the very end of Yugoslavia, when ZKP RTVL, the label of the Slovenian state broadcaster, acquired the rights to the CBS catalogue). Incidentally, RTVL also put out Rough Trade releases, which I remember because my brother still has a Smiths record, "The World Won't Listen" with an RTVL imprint. But the biggest label of them all, not just for domestic but also for international releases, was indeed Jugoton from Zagreb (now called "Croatia Records", just in case you might forget the name of the country you were now living in). They had the rights not just for EMI/Capitol, but also for the Warner group (or WEA, Warner/Elektra/Atlantic) and Virgin Records. Hence everything Beatles related was to be found on Jugoton. I remember buying a whole bunch of Beatles on vinyl on our family visits to Bosnia during the summer holidays (plus a cassette copy of McCartney's "All the Best"), because they were rather cheap - unfortunately so was the quality of the pressings and cover sleeves. Rubbish card stock, just like the Czech ones. One thing that was notable though was that even the first four albums were released in their stereo versions, while elsewhere they were only available in mono until 2009, when the remasters came out.

Amazing episode! Got a lot of Russian Beatles Albums. How about these?

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Good idea!

@ Parlogram Auctions - Can you make a video about Beatles in Yugoslavia? They had a fan club there and pressed Beatles' albums. Thanx!

I enjoyed all of this. It was a good primer for a more in depth awareness of Czechoslovakia/The Czech Republic. Though at 5.35 you say 'the company line' was what Western performers had to conform to when touring. Surely it was 'The [Communist] Party line'? I liked the story about The Beach Boys playing live, they must have got a few releases behind the Iron Curtain to be able to play there.

I can't refrain myself from correcting Leali pronounced as Lily in a world with Google translator! :D Other than that... great videos!

I have multiple Russian, USSR albums and would enjoy your analysis

@Parlogram

3 ай бұрын

Hi, We did a video on Soviet/Russian releases some time ago: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oqtn09KFd8W-qNY.htmlsi=ngCzLAJRBqgsuess

Beatles records from Mexico. Would it be possible?

Ahoj & dobrý den. I've been living in the Czech Republic for the last 15 years, albeit out in the sticks away from the capital, I'm English. I bought my Czech wife a CD mix of the top songs from her birth year (1978) all songs were in czech language, but all were covers of western songs from that era. I found it interesting but couldn't understand how it could be allowed?

@Parlogram

3 жыл бұрын

Ahoj! Country & Western music was one of the few Western music genres tolerated by the regime in the '70's. Thanks for watching!

great video, thanks a lot! I'd like to watch the USSR and other communist countries, did Cuba release Beatles records?

Any interest in covering the USSR? The Melodiya singles without naming the band's name, the two officially licensed albums and a plethora of Antrop bootlegs in the early 90s... :)

A Jhony Cash ten koncertoval v Praze a vyšel živak lp

Woah

Im from Slovakia ❤️✌️

the gentleman is right here-experienced it all-i am a year 1959-almost nothing was allowed-but everything was done -including long hair -wearing jeans-buying LP board on the black stock exchange -and the associated problems with the police and the offices-BUT THEY DID NOT OUR-Jerry from the Czech Republic -Prague

The Brazilian releases are some curious stuff

13:56 anywhere in east asia please!

"I first visited the Czech capital Prague back in 1993 and was captivated by its beauty..." ...while zooming in on a woman in a Baywatch swimsuit on a billboard ad... 😉