The Exotic Beatles Series is a collection of the most diverse and bizarre cover versions of Lennon & McCartney tracks ever recorded. From William Shatner's "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" to Akiko Kanazawa's "Yellow Submarine Ondo" the series aims to bring you a listening experience which will be truly unforgettable...

 

THE EXOTIC BEATLES - Part 3. PELE 14CD Released May 1999
24 tracks with an even more bizarre slant than Parts 1 & 2...Eleanor Rigby by Shang Shang Typhoon - Ticket To Ride by soprano Cathy Berberian - Speed Metal Yesterday by Haax - I Want To Hold Your Hand by Mrs Yetta Bronstein - Doodles Weaver - Powerillusi - Fairground Organs - Singing Sheep & Dogs - Indian - Cheesy Hammond - David Peel - Frank Sidebottom -Claus Beyer and more... 
"More exciting than the Beatles Anthology" Mail on Sunday
"A smile-inducing hoot from start to finish" Music Week
"An album of grotesque beauty"  Making Music
"This record really is beyond rational criticism"  Record Collector

 

 

THE EXOTIC BEATLES - Part 2. PELE 7CD  Released October 1994  
30 Tracks including:  Arthur Mullard's cockney Yesterday - The Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da Polka - Japanese a  cappella  
Hard Days Night - A Redneck, Hillbilly version of Let It Be -  Psychedelic Nowhere Man  - A nursery  version of I Am
The Walrus and a 1920's style Hey Jude...the cast list includes Frank Sidebottom -  Maurice Chevalier - Lol Coxhill - 
Mae West - Ron Geesin - Brian Sewell  - The Beatle Barkers - Ena Baga -  The Squirrels - Johnny Prytko and The 
Connecticut Hi-Tones and  Professor Stanley Unwin amongst others.
 
"This has to be the definitive Beatles album"   Melody Maker
"As inexplicably brilliant as it is totally obscure"   Select
"Forget The Beatles...this is the album you should be getting for Christmas"    
    Record Collector
"Sleeve of the year, no contest"    The Independent

 

 

THE EXOTIC BEATLES - Part 1.  PELE 3C/CD  Released May 1993
26 of your all time Beatles favourites performed by the most exotic cast ever assembled 
including...  Eleanor Rigby in Latin by Derek Enright MP - Lucy In The Sky by William Shatner - 
I Am The Walrus by John Otway - She Loves You Flamenco - Japanese Yellow Submarine 
Ondo - Brian Sewell - The Metropolitan Police Choir - Cats and Dogs - The Indian Beatles - 
The Japanese Beatles - The Argentinian Beatles - The Malayan Beatles...
 
"This is the sound of the world going mad"   Record Collector
"Freshness, innocence, exoticism; the three cardinal virtues of pop"    Beatles Unlimited
"A Must for Beatles obsessives and lovers of kitsch"    Rock CD

 




      
If you are aware of a track that could enhance further volumes of this series, 
then please send details/ records/ tapes to:

Exotica Records,
49, Belvoir Road,
London SE22 0QY,
U.K.










      

      

      

      



      
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