I remember Beatlemania fondly.  In 1964, it was in full swing, and when the film "A Hard Day's Night" appeared in theaters, it  super-charged the Beatlemania fever -- anything "Beatles" was red hot!  Record albums, of course, but also photos, magazines, Beatles wigs, Beatles dolls, Beatles pins, etc.  I remember some hotel was selling pieces of the sheets that the Beatles had slept in (or so they claimed)!  Yes, it was a mania, but a good mania.  We young people were starting to have an impact on popular culture, which was a relatively new phenomenon.  (Of course, many in the the older generation decried it as the beginning of the end of our civilization.)  Everything changed in the 60s.

I never saw this album in the stores but do remember seeing  - but not buying - Songs, Pictures and Stories. Couldn't help but notice the odd headline on the album cover, "George Talks About The Paddy Boyd". Ah yes, I think old Paddy was Pattie Boyd's Irish grandfather.

I’ve never seen that one. “A man who walks with his left foot in the gutter” My new retirement plan lol

Considering the Beatles freak that I am, I'm truly surprised that I never heard about this record. That's one of the beautiful things about the Beatles' legacy: there was so much media surrounding them, you can still be surprised by some new bit of information, film, audio, etc. that you never knew about.

The only album that Capitol couldn’t stop VeeJay from releasing! And, truthfully, I prefer this one to The Beatles’ Story.

I bought "Introducing The Beatles" in a Swedish record store in the early eighties. I was very puzzled by it since I couldn't find any information about it anywhere. I knew that The Beatles were on the Capitol label in the USA, but I had never heard of "Vee-Jay". In those days, before the internet, it was very hard to solve a mystery like that. Eventually I read about in in some book and the mystery was solved.

I miss when department stores had big music sections. I never owned this album

That's a cool album,I wish APPLE would pick up all the VEE JAY ALBUMS,AND RELEASE THEM ON APPLE RECORDS IN AMERICA

The percussion was by Hal Blaine? It was so random I was wondering if someone was doing construction work in the room.

Possibly the best info I've heard about this obscure album - Hal on precussion? Now that's worth the price of entry alone !!  Trivia, Frank Ifield here in Australia only passed away a couple of weeks ago, a legend as well

I'm from Australia and my older brother (who I shared a bedroom with in the late-70s) got obsessed with the Beatles and ended up collecting all the different albums, both Parlophone and Capitol (and, obviously, whatever company reissued this record). I would play them myself when he wasn't around. I remember this one well and enjoyed it a lot, as well at 'The Beatles Story'. A real blast from the past for me. Thanks for this video.

I picked up my copy at a department store in Racine, Wis. sometime around 1980. Give or take a year. It's still shrink wrapped with the $3.99 price sticker on it. :)

Matt, in the 70s I never bought any of the music magazines and such, so I was blissfully unaware concerning almost anything about the Beatles private lives until the 80s really. FYI, " The Beatles Story" sold around 320k copies through the 70s, I never picked up a copy myself. Cheers!

Paddy Boyd was George's favorite Irish prize fighter

I have that vinyl album. Well, not "that" vinyl album, as that would mean I stole it from you, but another pressing of it. I remember the consistant drumming throughout.

It’s great for it’s time because there was no social media back then. Very interesting still today. Great video Matt thanks

One point of interest is " from me to you" makes it's USA LP debut on Frank ifield album.....as well as 45 version of "thank you girl"

WOW ! To my shame I've never heard of this release :eyes-purple-crying:
And triple WOW !  I actually rented a flat (apartment) for a year at 53 Wimpole Street in 1977 ! Never realising until now (thanks to Matt) that at one time McCartney and the Asher family had once lived just a few doors down !
Cheers Matt ! Great stuff as always:goodvibes:

Thanks, I didn't know about this album, of course it is on youtube so I gave it a listen, this captures the time perfectly, the ambient noise, the US journalists asking about the differences between US & UK, I even liked the percussion and the Beatles being themselves, giving straight answers and seeming to be enjoying themselves, this would have been a delight at the time and is still so now.

In the mid '70's, I was all in on getting anything and everything with the word Beatles written on it. Which meant I had Introducing The Beatles and Hear The Beatles Tell All. The Introducing The Beatles album I owned had Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You pn the album. I'm sure the album was a reprint, but at the time I didn't know anything about VJ records or what was going on with publishing rights of Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You. Same with The Beatles Story. I knew Capitol had released the U.S. albums, so I got that one as well.