Ozzy describes them as “going to bed in a black and white world and then waking up in a world full of color” and I think that’s the best way to describe them honestly
To this day or better yet to this year, the Beatles are still considered the largest, most popular, most famous, rock group in Rock and Roll history. #1 Baby!!
Sam & Phil, this is the concert on August 15, 1965 at Shea Stadium, the home of the New York Mets baseball team (from April 17, 1964-September 28, 2008), located in Flushing, Queens, New York. I was only 6 years old at the time, but I watched the Beatles when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. What a great time to be alive.
The first ever stadium concert by any artists. Again the Beatles were trend setters. From what I understand the audio could not have been very good since it just came out of the stadiums PA system. The Beatles couldn’t even hear themselves playing because of all the screaming.
That was an unsubstantiated anecdote connecting the two with which Walter Cronkite ended his broadcast one evening. It has never been substantiated as fact. I heard "The Beatles" recordings on a Chicago radio station in October, 1963 -- before the assassination. Those were from "Introducing The Beatles," which had been released in August, 1963. And "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was taking off on another radio station, with escalating requests, on radio during November, 1963.
@@jnagarya519 It's not that no one heard the Beatles until after the assassination. It's that most of us (including me) didn't become familiar with them until they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in Feb 1964. They definitely did help the country's mood at the time.
@@carundle-ds1op If you want to believe that, fine; but there is no SUBSTANTIATION for what was nothing more than an idle comment from Cronkite. Believing it does not make it substantiated or true.
I was a teenager in the 60s, and couldn't wait for the next Beatles single to be released. And I was never disappointed. And I love this song as I love all the others. One thing that has kept that joy living over the past few years, has been watching The Fab Four play Beatles songs ,including this one, and play them SO well.
The concert was at Shea Stadium 1965 NYC ,,That would make a great reaction vid ,they killed it and they were the new boss in town at that point in time .Nobody could touch them
This was Shea Stadium in New York, 1965. This was the first ever rock concert in a stadium size building. Acts would usually attract 2- 10 thousand fans. At the time, The Beatles were the only act that could get an attendance big enough to fill a stadium this size...56,000 fans. Also, tickets to see The Beatles were very expensive, around 4 to 5 dollars. True. Lol.😊
I was 18 in 1965 and I saw them live in concert in Cleveland in 1964 and 1966, and those tickets were not "very expensive." My tix were $4.50 in 1964 and $5.50 in 1966. During the summer I worked in Higbee's Dept. Store and the rate for us teens then to work there was $1.15 an hour. SO I only had to work 4 to 5 hours to earn the money for the tickets. NOW to see Paul McCartney would cost me a months' salary!
I remember right before Christmas in 1963, my sister came home telling my mom about this new band, she was so excited she could hardly tell my mom the name of the song, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, a few months later they were on the Ed Sullivan show. they will always be my favorite band. I have all their albums, including all their European releases. on my wall is a framed copy of the double cover album that I got for Christmas in 1966. thanks for the lil trip...
First stadium concert EVER. This was at the old Shea stadium. They, both the audience and the Beatles, could not hear anything. Notice the small amps. That’s all they had. Beatlemania will never occur again. Phenomenal.
Love the early Beatles! Their music constantly evolved over time. You would have to have lived during that time to understand Beatlemania. Beatlemania was a phenomenon that had never happened before. We went from artists like Chuck Berry and Elvis to the Beatles who were completely different. Everything about them and their music were different from anything any of us had ever experienced. They were not just an iconic rock band, they were a cultural revolution ... seriously! Thanks for this great reaction and choice! ✌💙✌
I was a huge Beatles fan from the time they landed in America in 1964... I was 8 years old then but very musically aware and I had their 1st album which was named "Meet the Beatles"... I also had their Beatles 1965 album... I watched the concert at shea stadium when I was 9 years old... Samantha was talking about women passing out and being so obsessed and they absolutely were... The female fans were dropping like flies and I still remember John Lennon's face when he saw this happening... He had a quizzical look on his face like he couldn't understand why it was happening and he actually stopped singing and Paul jumped in and finished his lyrics for him during one song... It was quite a concert... The security guards earned their money big time that day... I hope you finish up your Beatles journey with the song that just came out not too long ago which was their final song that Paul and Congo finished after about 40 years called " Now and Then"... Another good reaction guys...Keep Being Awesome !!!...
Beatlemania happened in Britain also. In many countries. Beatles album sales were 10% of UK GDP in 1964! That's a large part why they were all awarded the Order of the British Empire by the queen.
Paul was riding in a limousine to John's house and as they rode along Paul asked the chauffeur how he was doing. The chauffeur replied: “Oh working hard, working eight days a week.” That's how he got the idea for the song.
@@MeMe-mq4zuPaul wrote in his anthology " I remember writing that with John, at his place in Weybridge, from something said by the chauffeur who drove me out there. John had moved out of London. to the suburbs. I usually drove myself there, but the chauffeur drove me out that day and I said, ‘How’ve you been?’ - ‘Oh, working hard,’ he said, ‘working eight days a week.’
I was in a Beatles tribute band years ago. I was George. We wore the classic black suits and we sang and played every song like they did. Was a lot of fun. Learned a lot about singing. They're awesome
The Beatles had all the genres covered. Straight-up, wicked Rockers: "Long, Tall Sally", "Money", "You Can't Do That", "I Saw Her Standing There", "Helter Skelter", "When I Get Home", "I'm Down", "I Want You (She's so Heavy)", etc. etc. // Ballads: "P.S. I Love You", "This Boy", "And I Love Her", "I'll Follow The Sun", "Yesterday", "Girl", "Michelle", etc, etc. // Top o' the Pops: "She Loves You", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "All My Loving", "Can't Buy Me Love", "Tell Me Why", Eight Days a Week", "I Should Have Known Better", "Every Little Thing", etc., etc. // And songs that are just...The Beatles! (no one had done songs like these): "A Hard Day's Night", "Things We Said Today", "Not a Second Time", "Baby's In Black", "Help!", "Drive My Car", "Taxman", "Tomorrow Never Knows" and everything from the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" and "Magical Mystery Tour" albums!! The Beatles were truly exceptional.
They were absolutely fainting en mass just at the sight of these guys . Their concerts were just nuts . In those days you didnt assigned seats by purchasing beforehand , you just came to the gate and there was thousands of people in a frenzy to get a close seat
@@bobsblues9944 Oh no, that is TOTALLY incorrect. If you couldn't purchase seats before hand, you had to wait in line at the box office to buy tickets LONG before the concert day. Fans would camp out overnight or DAYS ahead to get the best tickets at the box office of the venue. Here in Cleveland where I saw them, they wouldn't ALLOW camping out. In 1964 we had to send a POSTCARD to the radio station sponsoring the concert, and they would do drawings every day. IF your postcard was picked, youneceived a notification in the mail on how to purchase your ticket. MY postcard and my FRIENDS' postcards were never picked. We only managed to get tickets for the 1964 concert, after overhearing on the bus back from downtown, that the station still had some tickets left over, but you had to go DOWN to the radio station and show them ANY kind of BEATLES' FAN CLUB card (and there were a lot of fan clubs at the time, of which we were members of) , and THEN you could buy whatever ticket/tickets they had left over, right there at the station. Ours were on the floor way in the back in the 72nd row of about 76 rows. The girl in front of my friend who went to the station, bought the last 3 BALCONY seats in the auditorium (we needed 3 tickets). We would have had a much better view in the balcony. To get back to you saying there were no assigned seats. ALL seats WERE ASSIGNED, it's on our ticket stubs, still have mine. At NO place or venue was it just opening the gates and rushing to get a close seat. When they played in more stadiums for baseball , after this first Shea Stadium concert you see in this video (FIRST EVER Rock Group to play in a cavernous stadium like Shea) , NO ONE had a close seat, and NO fans were allowed or SEATED on the field in front of the stage. I was at the 1966 Cleveland concert in our old Municipal Stadium, where the Browns (football) and the Indians (baseball) played. (it was demolished in the early '90s and the current stadium for the Browns was built at the same site.) I was 19 at the time. The stage was always set up on 2nd base of the baseball diamond, and we fans were in the stands of the stadium. We were ALL far away from them at Stadium shows. When those of us in the lower bowl, knocked down the barrier ( flimsy snow fences) and rushed to the stage on second base. The show was stopped, the Beatles were hustled off the stage into the trailer behind the stage where they changed clothes before the concert. Police were getting us back to our seats in the stands, which took about 20 minutes or so to clear the field. If anyone got on the field again, the authorities would shut down the show permanently.
Paul was being driven out to Johns for a songwriting session. After an uneventful trip Paul, in a bit of small talk, asked the driver if he had been busy. The driver said to Paul, 'Aye, I've been working 8 days a week'. When Paul arrived John asked him if he had a song to work on. Paul said "No, but I know the title, 'Eight Days A Week'. 3 hours later the song was finished. Needing some last-minute tweaking on the intro/outro which they eventually polished off in the studio. John double tracks his vocals during the verses with Paul joining on the Hold Me/Love Me as well as the songs 2 bridges: (Eight days a week, I love you) This song was slated to be the last Beatles single of 1964, only to be replaced by I Feel Fine. RNB
The Beatles debuted on Ed Sullivan in February 1964. The toured right after that. The were constantly touring the US and the World. This was a year and a half after their debut. They play Shea Stadium again in '66. The crowd was a little thinner, but the girls were still screaming.
When they played Vancouver, the girls broke down the barriers and a mob ran after the band. Apparently, my grandmother and aunt were at the front of the pack.
@@letsgomets002 The filming of them performing (while it may be the studio version that's used...) is still from when the Beatles played at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York on August 15, back in 1965.
and you have EVERY right TO BE PROUD! I love Liverpool and her people. I am an American and married one in 1971 (we were pen-pals from early 1965 through 1968.)
They took over the US in FEB 1964 when they did a couple weeks with Ed Sullivan Show. I watched that at a bowling alley bar on a Sunday night. I had to go with my parents because back in those days bowling leagues were huge and they belonged on one EVERY FREAKIN SUNDAY night. lol. I will NEVER forget that night nor forget seeing them in Detroit at Olympia Stadium. I am going to say this is at Shea Stadium. I paid a whopping $5 for my seat at Olympia. That was a bit in 1965
This isn't a live recording from the Shea Stadium concert of August 1965. Someone did a good job editing video from the concert to synchronize with their album vocals and playing. I think the Beatles complained afterwards that the crowd was so loud they couldn't hear themselves sing or their instruments! 🎸🎸💖
@@sourisvoleur4854 I won't even go to concerts anymore simply because the live sound is so horrible. It simply is not worth the money to pay over $200 for a ticket to be assaulted with sound that is two or three times too loud. It just ruins the entire concert, and it was an Eagles concert in 2018 that was so terrible I have at last said no more.
The Beatles came to the states in '64. By '66, they quit touring cause they couldn't hear themselves playing. Some other songs. Nowhere Man, The Long and Winding Road, Let It Be, and Eleanor Rigby are some good ones to check out.
@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee " Lennon had hurt his vocal cords and needed to be layered after the first album and it was getting worse, not better." That's absolute nonsense, factually incorrect. For their first album "PLEASE PLEASE ME" (1963) Lennon already had a head cold before the recording session started, and which at the end of the night left him barely able to finish his lead vocal on the last track recorded, "Twist And Shout". He didn't "hurt his vocal cords and needed to layered" - whatever the hell "layered" is supposed to mean - afterwards. He got over his head cold, voice intact and in fine shape as always.
@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee they didn't HAVE stage monitors at all, they weren't a "thing" then, I don't think they even existed. THAT is why they couldn't hear themselves, even if they had monitors I doubt they would be much help at all, but it may have helped a bit to hear themselves over the screaming. All that is on the stage is their amplifiers for their guitars. The sound was fed to the crowd through the PA (Public Address) system in the stadium that was used during the games. For Shea, it was being recorded to be shown on TV later, so they had sound boards set up on the field in front of the stage and the feed was going directly from their microphones to the recording equipment.
Oh you definitely need to listen to their earlier stuff. Songs like "I Want To Hold Your Hand" were what created Beatlemania - and they are exactly what you're looking for. Their first movie, "A Hard Day's Night", is a time capsule of all that. Also, I highly recommend the documentary, "Eight Days A Week", about their early touring career before they gave all that up to spend time in the studio.
Lol, I knew the answer to the pop quiz simply because, like so many other Beatles fans, I literally owned everything they ever put out on vinyl. Including that album of course. In fact it's an iconic album cover. But then so are most of their album covers, lol. I really like everything about the way you guys do your reactions. I've been around for a while and I've watched your channel evolve, but both of you are fascinating and really engage with the music that you listen to. The commentary is always insightful, and I just have to say, there was some point late in this reaction where I had this knee-jerk response like, Damn, Sam is so f*cking smart. And then I realized I'd had that reaction before. I mean both of you are obviously very quick and very insightful, and so articulate - that's one thing I like about this. But I did have that reaction again today, just like a few times before. It was too blurry for me to know for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of that concert footage was from their historic performance at Shea Stadium, I believe on their first tour of the United States in 1964. But they did play a ton of stadiums for the first couple years.
Always loved this song. I'm glad you picked up on the harmonies because this tune definitely showcased their vocals. John and Paul have the fortunate ability to blend their singing voices perfectly. In this song, they sing almost the entire song in unison, except for the bridge section. I love the results. Sam: you said your favorite song (so far) is, Here Comes The Sun. The funny thing is, I can guarantee you will be updated your 'so far' evaluation frequently. There will be a lot of songs that will claim that distinction as you listen to more of their tunes. I've been enjoying my Beatles journey for over 50 years and I still can't say for certain which is my favorite. That's exactly what's so great about The Beatles. Enjoy the experience.
September 5, 1964 International Amphitheater in Chicago. My mother took myself & three brothers and my baby sister who was five to the Beatles concert. FYI the cost for the Concert tickets was less than $50. I remember when they were introduced & came on stage the audience was so loud the the building shook & vibrated. I was 13, and it was swell!
Phil and Sam, this is an example of some of the early Beatles stuff that put them on then map and started Beatlemania. The other 2 songs you reacted to previously were at the end of their career together when they were more mature in their sound and had long been established. When this song, "Eight Days A Week" came out I was only about 6 or 7 but I remember during this period of their career, we'd go visit one of my aunt and uncles and their 3 teenaged daughters had these records scattered all over the room, spread out on their beds, on the floor, on the dresser and listening to them over and over. Beatles were all they could talk about. I experienced seeing true Beatlemania in action, lol.. I cant wait to hear you react to more of their early to mid career music.
As mentioned this was recorded at Shea Stadium. The Beatles were the first band to play a stadium which wasn't made to amplify music. The sound consisted of their amps which was piped through the stadium announcing system. Consequently in the original sound track, they can barely be heard above the screaming.
Sam commented on the girls screaming. As a senior in high school I saw the Beatles in Houston in 1965 (or 66?). I say "saw" because because of all the screaming girls you could barely here the band.
we girls didn't care, we already KNEW the songs and what they sounded like as we had all the records up to that point. We wanted to SEE them, and just SEEING them (and being so FAR AWAY from them) was overwhelming and frustrating (cos we couldn't get CLOSE to them) and it manifested itself with crying, screaming, cheering, etc. I did too, I was 17 in 1964. It was a GREAT and FUN period, that I could live over and over again if it was possible.
As mentioned this was August ‘65, and the first stadium concert EVER. 55,000+ screaming fans. You could argue The Beatles “took over America” the year before on the Ed Sullivan Show in Feb ‘64, the first of 3 appearances on the show. The first one drew an estimated 73 million viewers, a record at that time for any tv event. I was one of them being 7 y/o!
Love you guys reaction not only to this song but all the videos that I get to catch you doing I absolutely love it when I see folks hearing music that I have been brought up with I'm the youngest of five boys all my brothers were in bands in New England back in the 60s my brother Michael would bring home every new 45 that he could get his hands on at least two or three a week and we had quite a Beatles collection clearly one of the most influential bands of all time and the British Invasion was an absolute blast keep spreading that music around guys don't be afraid to go back into the 60s to other British Invasion bands you'll fall in love with that era as much as we all did❤🎉keep spreading the music around Godbless ❤️
Sounds dirt cheap but it wasn’t back then. Adjusted for inflation, $5.00 in 1965 is equivalent to about $50.00 today. The Beatles played a dozen songs and were finished after half an hour.
@@humphreygruntwhistle3946 I was 17 - 19 years old during their touring years in the U.S from 1964 through 1966. I worked in the summer at a huge department store downtown, and teen employees were pain $1. 15 an hour. My tickets for the 1964 concert, was $4.40 and for the 1966 concert $5.50. I only had to work 4 to 5 hours to earn the money for those tickets. Plus I earned $5 week allowance from my parents. I also babysat, at 50 cents to $1 an hour (depending on what I had to do.) We were NOT rich at all. My mom was a stay at home mom, as most mothers were then.
The video was the Beatles Shea Stadium performance which was on their second US tour in 1965. It was literally the first big stadium show by a pop band and adequate sounds systems didn't exist. I remember hearing on the BBC News about how they had to drag all the fainting girls out of the crowd. In 1964 they their first TV appearances and a couple of shows in Washington DC and New York early in the year, followed by a coast to coast tour in the summer. There is a documentary film of the Shea Stadium show that's out there...
The reason this song was brief and catchy (like all their songs from this era), is that it comes from a time when songs _had_ to be brief and catchy or they wouldn't get played on the radio. 2:55 was the limit; nothing over three minutes had a chance of a play, and thus would not sell. So their songs of this time tended to be two verses and a chorus, repeated twice with a bridge. That'a comfortable setup for the right length. Everyone at the time had to stick to that length; I'm sure you've noticed how the songs from that classic rock 'n' roll era are all more or less 3 minutes long.
I was there, at Shea Stadium in '65! I was not one of the hysterical girls, I really hoped to hear them sing, but you couldn't over all the screams, so finally my friends & I just shrugged and thought, "We might as well scream along!"
I love that you are on a Beatles journey. They are perfect to me and I will watch all your reactions to them. There are so many that I would love for you to react to. The list would be endless. So I thought of one you should definitely hear even if you don’t do a reaction to it on your show. IN MY LIFE. It’s a song John wrote/sings that Paul said “I wish I wrote that “ This song has been played in many weddings. Enjoy. Love your show
This is the first Beatles song I remember as a kid , I was 10 years old. It was then that I decided to learn to play. I could sing along and it was fun. Its still fun .
They conquered America even before they first appeared on "Ed Sullivan Show". As example: On December 31, 1963, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was "bubbling under" the Top 20 on a New York radio station. The next day, on January 1, 1964, it was #1 on that radio station.
Hey guys….First of all I want to say how much I enjoy your reactions and analysis of music. Being a person who grew up during the British Invasion, and having seen the Beatles live in Toronto (1966), I think you would have to have been there to fully appreciate the vibe that was going on in those days. Initially I was not into rock n roll or popular music. I loved classical music. So when the Beatles first came over to America in February, I was not too impressed. My school classmates had been talking about the Beatles for several months prior to their arrival, but I had not really heard any of their music. But when they were scheduled to play three successive Sunday nights on the Ed Sullivan show my brother and sister were anxious to see them. Myself, I just wanted to watch a three-part Walt Disney program which conflicted with the Beatle performances. So my parents said, “You can watch Disney two of the three nights, and you can pick which two out of the three you want to see.” At the time I was not impressed, but I said, “ok iif we have to watch the Beatles, make it the first Sunday night so I can at least see the last two episodes of the Disney program.” Well, let me tell you, when I watched that first Ed Sullivan performance, I was totally blown away by the Beatles. It was absolute magic. The sound, the melodies, just the whole vibe was completely captivating. So we ended up watching all three Beatle’s performances (Sorry Disney). From that point on I was the biggest Beatle fan in the family, which is why my mom bought a very hard-to-get Beatle’s concert ticket for me in 66. My brother and sister did not go. The whole event, concert ticket and return bis fare was something like $7.50. The girl sitting beside me at the concert was screaming and literally tearing her hair off her skull! My ears reverberated from the screaming long after the concert had finished. Absolutely amazing! The Beatles had a huge influence on my life, not just musically, but spiritually as well. When the Beatles stopped touring in 1966, and later went to India to study meditation, I remember thinking, “Why would they quit touring when they have the world at their beck and call. They are becoming so wealthy, and they can basically have any girl that they fancy (seen from a 15-year old boy’s perspective)”. But not long after it struck me that they had discovered that wealth and fame are not necessarily the most important things in life. I would not have understood this concept as a teenage boy if it hadn’t been for the Beatles. All the best - Mark P. From Canada
I really enjoyed both of you chair dancing and Phil’s great facial expressions in this reaction! 😊 You know the old saying, “You had to be there”?, it’s very true of this period in time. We had never seen anything like it, except maybe for the early Elvis era. I was only in kindergarten when they were on Ed Sullivan and can’t tell you what an incredible memory it is to me. For your next Beatles reaction I’d love for you to do “The Long and Winding Road”, it is an incredibly beautiful and meaningful piece with Paul on lead vocals. Keep up the great work, I’m so glad I found your channel!
love this one, it gets in your head in a good way.... thanks for doing this one guys... 🥰when the Beatles came on the scene the UK was just coming out of the dark days of WW2, so they allowed the people to be happy again... ☺
I think the Shea Stadium tickets were $3.50 (USD), which amounts to about $35.00 (USD) today, which is comparatively today pretty low. But back then it was a premium ticket -- because concert ticket prices today have inflated far more than inflation has.
I saw them on their first tour of America. My friends dad was a tv celebrity so we were lucky enough to be at their press conferences. We could have reached out to touch them.We watched the concert from back stage.
So cool to see you witness Beatlemania. The hype was enormous. They were maybe one of the first "boy bands", but they had talent. Enormous talent that would play out over the next few years.
Eight Days a Week was another Ringo saying, referring, I believe, to how rough and time-crunching their tour schedule was. Another malapropism of his was used for A Hard Day's Night. There was at least one other.... I think it was Tomorrow Never Knows?? - a song sung by John, putting his vocals through a revolving Leslie speaker to make his voice sound like he was preaching from a higher ethereal place
You have to realize that at the peak of Beatle Mania they held the top 5 positions on the US singles chart. This feat will probably never be equalled and at that time Everybody knew them and their songs. When they appeared for the first time on the Ed Sullivan show there was virtually no reported crime across America. A police spokesman said, "Even the criminals were watching the show."
My mom was at that concert in Shea Stadium in 1965. She was 25 at the time, and was the only person in her family who would agree to take her 14 year old cousin to the show! Can't imagine many would turn that down now, if we could go back!
This was at Shea stadium in New York..this was also the first ever stadium concert for any music artist…when you really think about it, no music artist/performer in all of human history has ever played in front of as large of an audience as this..they were the very first. Also this song has a fade in at the beginning which is also the first time that was ever done and the reason it sounds so different from Here Comes The Sun as far as the instruments is because this song was recorded in 64 and the other was recorded in 69 so technology was better and they were now using 8 track instead of 4 track recording
I think it's Ringo that was the guy who liked and encouraged the clapping. He does the same thing on his current video of his cover of a Buddy Holly song, which name escapes me right now.
the Baby sweater that John is holding up was for Ringo's first newborn son ZAK that was sent to the stadium by a fan. Tickets for the Beatles concerts in 1964 were $3.50. $4.50 and $5.50 and for the 1966 concert I went to they were $4.50, $5.50 and $6.50. 1966 was the last year they toured.
The Beatles are one of my favorite groups but if you have Hulu watch the film by Ron Howard called 8 Days a Week the Touring Years, and Paul McCartney said it was a Ringo-ism to say odd things like Eight Days a Week
When I was an 8 year old kid at Key West in 1964 they came to the island and everybody was going crazy trying to get a glimpse of them. I think they even put on some sort of little impromptu show. I was mad that my mom and dad wouldn't let me walk over to where they were staying but of course they didn't think that was a proper crowd for an 8 year old.
In Feb., 1964 they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, which started their 'invasion'. This was not from the Documentary THE BEATLES AT SHEA STADIUM (15 Aug 1965) - as this song was not performed then, but from the Ron Howard compilation film THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK, which took footage from an additional concert they did at Shea, 23 Aug 1966, and they're not 'colorized' from B/W, rather filmed in color. In French, when someone says they'll see you next week, it's "En huit jours." or 'in eight days', as they count today as 1. But in English, it just sounds like a very long week, since we start counting with tomorrow as 1.
Hello Phil & Sam, I thought I'd suggest something a bit different, if interested. "P!nk & Nancy Wilson of Heart - Barracuda - Live Tribute Concert!" (by the channel: Randi Norman) --Dave Grohl who was the drummer and founder of the band "Foo Fighters" as well as being the drummer for the band "Nirvana" brings out on stage two legendary ladies Nancy Wilson (sister and guitarist) for the band "Heart" and the talented "Pink" who does an outstanding job performing one of Heart's biggest hit songs, Barracuda. And as always, I enjoyed rocking with you. Thanks for sharing.
In America, this song was on the Beatles VI album released in June, 1965, a year and a half after they "exploded" here with I Want to Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, Since I Saw Her Standing There, Twist and Shout, Please Please Me, Can't Buy Me Love, P.S. I Love You, and on and on.
what you fail to understand - we had never heard ANYTHING like this before. When they came to us it was a revelation & blew us away.
Ozzy describes them as “going to bed in a black and white world and then waking up in a world full of color” and I think that’s the best way to describe them honestly
To this day or better yet to this year, the Beatles are still considered the largest, most popular, most famous, rock group in Rock and Roll history. #1 Baby!!
When Ozzy was asked about the biggest band of all time, he said...
"Hands down, without question, no debate...The Beatles. The Beatles. The Beatles."
They are much more than that. To this day, The Beatles are the biggest selling music artist of all time, regardless of genre.
Peace
Sam & Phil, this is the concert on August 15, 1965 at Shea Stadium, the home of the New York Mets baseball team (from April 17, 1964-September 28, 2008), located in Flushing, Queens, New York. I was only 6 years old at the time, but I watched the Beatles when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. What a great time to be alive.
The Beatles played the 1st concert at Shea and Paul McCartney played in the last concert there joining Billy Joel and his "Last Play at Shea"!
The first ever stadium concert by any artists. Again the Beatles were trend setters.
From what I understand the audio could not have been very good since it just came out of the stadiums PA system. The Beatles couldn’t even hear themselves playing because of all the screaming.
I was only three or four! I still have a memory of it though, and I have loved them obviously since I was a toddler, laugh.
Thank you Ed Sullivan for bringing us the Beatles
😊 Always makes me happy to hear a Beatles song❣️
Pick any song off of any album by The Beatles and you never get the same sound twice. The greatest Band EVER
60 years ago this week they had the top 5 songs in the country. The Beatles brought us out of the sadness we went through with JFK's assisination.
If memory serves, it took Louis Armstrong to finally break their hold on #1 after that.
@@Kaddywompous louis seemed like a lovely guy.i loved him in high society and hello dolly.
That was an unsubstantiated anecdote connecting the two with which Walter Cronkite ended his broadcast one evening.
It has never been substantiated as fact.
I heard "The Beatles" recordings on a Chicago radio station in October, 1963 -- before the assassination. Those were from "Introducing The Beatles," which had been released in August, 1963.
And "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was taking off on another radio station, with escalating requests, on radio during November, 1963.
@@jnagarya519 It's not that no one heard the Beatles until after the assassination. It's that most of us (including me) didn't become familiar with them until they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in Feb 1964. They definitely did help the country's mood at the time.
@@carundle-ds1op If you want to believe that, fine; but there is no SUBSTANTIATION for what was nothing more than an idle comment from Cronkite.
Believing it does not make it substantiated or true.
I was a teenager in the 60s, and couldn't wait for the next Beatles single to be released. And I was never disappointed. And I love this song as I love all the others. One thing that has kept that joy living over the past few years, has been watching The Fab Four play Beatles songs ,including this one, and play them SO well.
The concert was at Shea Stadium 1965 NYC ,,That would make a great reaction vid ,they killed it and they were the new boss in town at that point in time .Nobody could touch them
This was Shea Stadium in New York, 1965. This was the first ever rock concert in a stadium size building. Acts would usually attract 2- 10 thousand fans. At the time, The Beatles were the only act that could get an attendance big enough to fill a stadium this size...56,000 fans. Also, tickets to see The Beatles were very expensive, around 4 to 5 dollars. True. Lol.😊
I was 18 in 1965 and I saw them live in concert in Cleveland in 1964 and 1966, and those tickets were not "very expensive." My tix were $4.50 in 1964 and $5.50 in 1966. During the summer I worked in Higbee's Dept. Store and the rate for us teens then to work there was $1.15 an hour. SO I only had to work 4 to 5 hours to earn the money for the tickets. NOW to see Paul McCartney would cost me a months' salary!
i remember watching them on my b&w tv console. i was 10 😊
When the Beatles took America by storm and change the world the music forever
I remember right before Christmas in 1963, my sister came home telling my mom about this new band, she was so excited she could hardly tell my mom the name of the song, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, a few months later they were on the Ed Sullivan show. they will always be my favorite band. I have all their albums, including all their European releases. on my wall is a framed copy of the double cover album that I got for Christmas in 1966. thanks for the lil trip...
First stadium concert EVER. This was at the old Shea stadium. They, both the audience and the Beatles, could not hear anything. Notice the small amps. That’s all they had. Beatlemania will never occur again. Phenomenal.
Love the early Beatles! Their music constantly evolved over time. You would have to have lived during that time to understand Beatlemania. Beatlemania was a phenomenon that had never happened before. We went from artists like Chuck Berry and Elvis to the Beatles who were completely different. Everything about them and their music were different from anything any of us had ever experienced. They were not just an iconic rock band, they were a cultural revolution ... seriously! Thanks for this great reaction and choice! ✌💙✌
I was a huge Beatles fan from the time they landed in America in 1964... I was 8 years old then but very musically aware and I had their 1st album which was named "Meet the Beatles"... I also had their Beatles 1965 album... I watched the concert at shea stadium when I was 9 years old... Samantha was talking about women passing out and being so obsessed and they absolutely were... The female fans were dropping like flies and I still remember John Lennon's face when he saw this happening... He had a quizzical look on his face like he couldn't understand why it was happening and he actually stopped singing and Paul jumped in and finished his lyrics for him during one song... It was quite a concert... The security guards earned their money big time that day... I hope you finish up your Beatles journey with the song that just came out not too long ago which was their final song that Paul and Congo finished after about 40 years called " Now and Then"... Another good reaction guys...Keep Being Awesome !!!...
Beatlemania happened in Britain also. In many countries. Beatles album sales were 10% of UK GDP in 1964! That's a large part why they were all awarded the Order of the British Empire by the queen.
Indeed, Beatlemania started in Britian at least a year before it hit the US
@@sourisvoleur4854 Is right. Always funny how the Yanks claim first in everything...
Paul was riding in a limousine to John's house and as they rode along Paul asked the chauffeur how he was doing. The chauffeur replied: “Oh working hard, working eight days a week.” That's how he got the idea for the song.
Interesting! I had always thought it was a "Ringoism" as in "it's been a hard days night". (though maybe that wasn't him either!)
It was a taxi he got not a limousine
VERY cool!
@@Rob-fs8vq Yes, that WAS him .
@@MeMe-mq4zuPaul wrote in his anthology " I remember writing that with John, at his place in Weybridge, from something said by the chauffeur who drove me out there. John had moved out of London. to the suburbs. I usually drove myself there, but the chauffeur drove me out that day and I said, ‘How’ve you been?’ - ‘Oh, working hard,’ he said, ‘working eight days a week.’
I was in a Beatles tribute band years ago. I was George. We wore the classic black suits and we sang and played every song like they did. Was a lot of fun. Learned a lot about singing. They're awesome
The Beatles had all the genres covered. Straight-up, wicked Rockers: "Long, Tall Sally", "Money", "You Can't Do That", "I Saw Her Standing There", "Helter Skelter", "When I Get Home", "I'm Down", "I Want You (She's so Heavy)", etc. etc. // Ballads: "P.S. I Love You", "This Boy", "And I Love Her", "I'll Follow The Sun", "Yesterday", "Girl", "Michelle", etc, etc. // Top o' the Pops: "She Loves You", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "All My Loving", "Can't Buy Me Love", "Tell Me Why", Eight Days a Week", "I Should Have Known Better", "Every Little Thing", etc., etc. // And songs that are just...The Beatles! (no one had done songs like these): "A Hard Day's Night", "Things We Said Today", "Not a Second Time", "Baby's In Black", "Help!", "Drive My Car", "Taxman", "Tomorrow Never Knows" and everything from the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" and "Magical Mystery Tour" albums!! The Beatles were truly exceptional.
Yes Grandma was more crazy than you thought!
great grandmas now
They were absolutely fainting en mass just at the sight of these guys . Their concerts were just nuts . In those days you didnt assigned seats by purchasing beforehand , you just came to the gate and there was thousands of people in a frenzy to get a close seat
@@bobsblues9944 It wasn't the fainting the janitorial staff remarked on. More a certain fluid they had to mop up.
@@bobsblues9944 Oh no, that is TOTALLY incorrect. If you couldn't purchase seats before hand, you had to wait in line at the box office to buy tickets LONG before the concert day. Fans would camp out overnight or DAYS ahead to get the best tickets at the box office of the venue. Here in Cleveland where I saw them, they wouldn't ALLOW camping out. In 1964 we had to send a POSTCARD to the radio station sponsoring the concert, and they would do drawings every day. IF your postcard was picked, youneceived a notification in the mail on how to purchase your ticket. MY postcard and my FRIENDS' postcards were never picked. We only managed to get tickets for the 1964 concert, after overhearing on the bus back from downtown, that the station still had some tickets left over, but you had to go DOWN to the radio station and show them ANY kind of BEATLES' FAN CLUB card (and there were a lot of fan clubs at the time, of which we were members of) , and THEN you could buy whatever ticket/tickets they had left over, right there at the station. Ours were on the floor way in the back in the 72nd row of about 76 rows. The girl in front of my friend who went to the station, bought the last 3 BALCONY seats in the auditorium (we needed 3 tickets). We would have had a much better view in the balcony.
To get back to you saying there were no assigned seats. ALL seats WERE ASSIGNED, it's on our ticket stubs, still have mine. At NO place or venue was it just opening the gates and rushing to get a close seat. When they played in more stadiums for baseball , after this first Shea Stadium concert you see in this video (FIRST EVER Rock Group to play in a cavernous stadium like Shea) , NO ONE had a close seat, and NO fans were allowed or SEATED on the field in front of the stage.
I was at the 1966 Cleveland concert in our old Municipal Stadium, where the Browns (football) and the Indians (baseball) played. (it was demolished in the early '90s and the current stadium for the Browns was built at the same site.) I was 19 at the time. The stage was always set up on 2nd base of the baseball diamond, and we fans were in the stands of the stadium. We were ALL far away from them at Stadium shows. When those of us in the lower bowl, knocked down the barrier ( flimsy snow fences) and rushed to the stage on second base. The show was stopped, the Beatles were hustled off the stage into the trailer behind the stage where they changed clothes before the concert. Police were getting us back to our seats in the stands, which took about 20 minutes or so to clear the field. If anyone got on the field again, the authorities would shut down the show permanently.
This is their best early song to me. It's flawless and John's vocals are superb.
Paul was being driven out to Johns for a songwriting session. After an uneventful trip Paul, in a bit of small talk, asked the driver if he had been busy. The driver said to Paul, 'Aye, I've been working 8 days a week'. When Paul arrived John asked him if he had a song to work on. Paul said "No, but I know the title, 'Eight Days A Week'. 3 hours later the song was finished. Needing some last-minute tweaking on the intro/outro which they eventually polished off in the studio. John double tracks his vocals during the verses with Paul joining on the Hold Me/Love Me as well as the songs 2 bridges: (Eight days a week, I love you) This song was slated to be the last Beatles single of 1964, only to be replaced by I Feel Fine. RNB
THANKS, YA'LL!!! There will NEVER be another!!
The Beatles debuted on Ed Sullivan in February 1964. The toured right after that. The were constantly touring the US and the World. This was a year and a half after their debut. They play Shea Stadium again in '66. The crowd was a little thinner, but the girls were still screaming.
The drums, the bass, the jangly guitars, the harmonies, the handclaps, the entre and outro. What a song!
When they played Vancouver, the girls broke down the barriers and a mob ran after the band. Apparently, my grandmother and aunt were at the front of the pack.
Same here in Australia.
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One of my favorite Beatles tracks!!!!
This performance was filmed at Shea Stadium (on August 15, 1965...) in Queens, New York.
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No this is the studio version
@@letsgomets002
The filming of them performing (while it may be the studio version that's used...) is still from when the Beatles played at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York on August 15, back in 1965.
As a Liverpool lass myself, I am so proud of our lads :) ❤❤❤
and you have EVERY right TO BE PROUD! I love Liverpool and her people. I am an American and married one in 1971 (we were pen-pals from early 1965 through 1968.)
They took over the US in FEB 1964 when they did a couple weeks with Ed Sullivan Show. I watched that at a bowling alley bar on a Sunday night. I had to go with my parents because back in those days bowling leagues were huge and they belonged on one EVERY FREAKIN SUNDAY night. lol. I will NEVER forget that night nor forget seeing them in Detroit at Olympia Stadium. I am going to say this is at Shea Stadium. I paid a whopping $5 for my seat at Olympia. That was a bit in 1965
They we're no 1 b4 ed Sullivan
This wasn’t “colorized” it was filmed in color!
Yes, at Shea Stadium it looks like. Not their first U.S. tour, but a year or two later.
Ssshhh! Don't tell anyone! Who knows what they'll do if they find out that technology existed before they were born?
@@SpaceCattttt 😂😂
@@johnsilva9139 Aug. 15, 1965, and yes it was FILMED in COLOR.
This isn't a live recording from the Shea Stadium concert of August 1965. Someone did a good job editing video from the concert to synchronize with their album vocals and playing. I think the Beatles complained afterwards that the crowd was so loud they couldn't hear themselves sing or their instruments! 🎸🎸💖
This was true of every concert, which is why eventually they gave up touring.
@@sourisvoleur4854 I won't even go to concerts anymore simply because the live sound is so horrible. It simply is not worth the money to pay over $200 for a ticket to be assaulted with sound that is two or three times too loud. It just ruins the entire concert, and it was an Eagles concert in 2018 that was so terrible I have at last said no more.
@@ToddSauve I have permanent non-progressive high frequency hearing loss as well as tinnitis, and I'm convinced it's from over-loud concerts.
This took me right back to my childhood. Another incredible group to come out of England in the 60s & they dominated the music scene.
The Beatles came to the states in '64. By '66, they quit touring cause they couldn't hear themselves playing. Some other songs. Nowhere Man, The Long and Winding Road, Let It Be, and Eleanor Rigby are some good ones to check out.
@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee " Lennon had hurt his vocal cords and needed to be layered after the first album and it was getting worse, not better."
That's absolute nonsense, factually incorrect.
For their first album "PLEASE PLEASE ME" (1963) Lennon already had a head cold before the recording session started, and which at the end of the night left him barely able to finish his lead vocal on the last track recorded, "Twist And Shout".
He didn't "hurt his vocal cords and needed to layered" - whatever the hell "layered" is supposed to mean - afterwards.
He got over his head cold, voice intact and in fine shape as always.
@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee they didn't HAVE stage monitors at all, they weren't a "thing" then, I don't think they even existed. THAT is why they couldn't hear themselves, even if they had monitors I doubt they would be much help at all, but it may have helped a bit to hear themselves over the screaming. All that is on the stage is their amplifiers for their guitars. The sound was fed to the crowd through the PA (Public Address) system in the stadium that was used during the games. For Shea, it was being recorded to be shown on TV later, so they had sound boards set up on the field in front of the stage and the feed was going directly from their microphones to the recording equipment.
I cried thinking of George and John being gone.😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤
Oh you definitely need to listen to their earlier stuff. Songs like "I Want To Hold Your Hand" were what created Beatlemania - and they are exactly what you're looking for. Their first movie, "A Hard Day's Night", is a time capsule of all that. Also, I highly recommend the documentary, "Eight Days A Week", about their early touring career before they gave all that up to spend time in the studio.
Lol, I knew the answer to the pop quiz simply because, like so many other Beatles fans, I literally owned everything they ever put out on vinyl. Including that album of course. In fact it's an iconic album cover. But then so are most of their album covers, lol.
I really like everything about the way you guys do your reactions. I've been around for a while and I've watched your channel evolve, but both of you are fascinating and really engage with the music that you listen to.
The commentary is always insightful, and I just have to say, there was some point late in this reaction where I had this knee-jerk response like, Damn, Sam is so f*cking smart. And then I realized I'd had that reaction before. I mean both of you are obviously very quick and very insightful, and so articulate - that's one thing I like about this. But I did have that reaction again today, just like a few times before.
It was too blurry for me to know for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of that concert footage was from their historic performance at Shea Stadium, I believe on their first tour of the United States in 1964. But they did play a ton of stadiums for the first couple years.
Always loved this song. I'm glad you picked up on the harmonies because this tune definitely showcased their vocals. John and Paul have the fortunate ability to blend their singing voices perfectly. In this song, they sing almost the entire song in unison, except for the bridge section. I love the results.
Sam: you said your favorite song (so far) is, Here Comes The Sun. The funny thing is, I can guarantee you will be updated your 'so far' evaluation frequently. There will be a lot of songs that will claim that distinction as you listen to more of their tunes. I've been enjoying my Beatles journey for over 50 years and I still can't say for certain which is my favorite. That's exactly what's so great about The Beatles. Enjoy the experience.
I love how their music progressed with the times.
September 5, 1964 International Amphitheater in Chicago. My mother took myself & three brothers and my baby sister who was five to the Beatles concert. FYI the cost for the Concert tickets was less than $50. I remember when they were introduced & came on stage the audience was so loud the the building shook & vibrated. I was 13, and it was swell!
Phil and Sam, this is an example of some of the early Beatles stuff that put them on then map and started Beatlemania. The other 2 songs you reacted to previously were at the end of their career together when they were more mature in their sound and had long been established. When this song, "Eight Days A Week" came out I was only about 6 or 7 but I remember during this period of their career, we'd go visit one of my aunt and uncles and their 3 teenaged daughters had these records scattered all over the room, spread out on their beds, on the floor, on the dresser and listening to them over and over. Beatles were all they could talk about. I experienced seeing true Beatlemania in action, lol.. I cant wait to hear you react to more of their early to mid career music.
Always makes me happy to hear a Beatles song❣️ 😊
Clapping in rock n roll songs!! AWEsome....
If you really want to hear them rock out check out Helter Skelter -Get Back and I Want You (She's So Heavy) just to name a few
As mentioned this was recorded at Shea Stadium. The Beatles were the first band to play a stadium which wasn't made to amplify music. The sound consisted of their amps which was piped through the stadium announcing system. Consequently in the original sound track, they can barely be heard above the screaming.
Sam commented on the girls screaming. As a senior in high school I saw the Beatles in Houston in 1965 (or 66?). I say "saw" because because of all the screaming girls you could barely here the band.
we girls didn't care, we already KNEW the songs and what they sounded like as we had all the records up to that point. We wanted to SEE them, and just SEEING them (and being so FAR AWAY from them) was overwhelming and frustrating (cos we couldn't get CLOSE to them) and it manifested itself with crying, screaming, cheering, etc. I did too, I was 17 in 1964. It was a GREAT and FUN period, that I could live over and over again if it was possible.
As mentioned this was August ‘65, and the first stadium concert EVER. 55,000+ screaming fans. You could argue The Beatles “took over America” the year before on the Ed Sullivan Show in Feb ‘64, the first of 3 appearances on the show. The first one drew an estimated 73 million viewers, a record at that time for any tv event. I was one of them being 7 y/o!
Love you guys reaction not only to this song but all the videos that I get to catch you doing I absolutely love it when I see folks hearing music that I have been brought up with I'm the youngest of five boys all my brothers were in bands in New England back in the 60s my brother Michael would bring home every new 45 that he could get his hands on at least two or three a week and we had quite a Beatles collection clearly one of the most influential bands of all time and the British Invasion was an absolute blast keep spreading that music around guys don't be afraid to go back into the 60s to other British Invasion bands you'll fall in love with that era as much as we all did❤🎉keep spreading the music around Godbless ❤️
Ticket prices for The Beatles at Shea Stadium in 1965 from what I heard was $4.00, $4.50 & $5.00
Sounds dirt cheap but it wasn’t back then. Adjusted for inflation, $5.00 in 1965 is equivalent to about $50.00 today. The Beatles played a dozen songs and were finished after half an hour.
@@humphreygruntwhistle3946 I was 17 - 19 years old during their touring years in the U.S from 1964 through 1966. I worked in the summer at a huge department store downtown, and teen employees were pain $1. 15 an hour. My tickets for the 1964 concert, was $4.40 and for the 1966 concert $5.50. I only had to work 4 to 5 hours to earn the money for those tickets. Plus I earned $5 week allowance from my parents. I also babysat, at 50 cents to $1 an hour (depending on what I had to do.) We were NOT rich at all. My mom was a stay at home mom, as most mothers were then.
Beatlemania, THERE IS NO CURE ❤❤❤❤😊
The video was the Beatles Shea Stadium performance which was on their second US tour in 1965. It was literally the first big stadium show by a pop band and adequate sounds systems didn't exist. I remember hearing on the BBC News about how they had to drag all the fainting girls out of the crowd. In 1964 they their first TV appearances and a couple of shows in Washington DC and New York early in the year, followed by a coast to coast tour in the summer. There is a documentary film of the Shea Stadium show that's out there...
Being a drummer I feel I must point out the often called windshield wiper hihat cymbal pattern of Ringo. Great reaction and response
The reason this song was brief and catchy (like all their songs from this era), is that it comes from a time when songs _had_ to be brief and catchy or they wouldn't get played on the radio. 2:55 was the limit; nothing over three minutes had a chance of a play, and thus would not sell. So their songs of this time tended to be two verses and a chorus, repeated twice with a bridge. That'a comfortable setup for the right length. Everyone at the time had to stick to that length; I'm sure you've noticed how the songs from that classic rock 'n' roll era are all more or less 3 minutes long.
I was there, at Shea Stadium in '65! I was not one of the hysterical girls, I really hoped to hear them sing, but you couldn't over all the screams, so finally my friends & I just shrugged and thought, "We might as well scream along!"
I grew up a few blocks away from Shea in Corona, Queens and heard the concert from my house.
I love that you are on a Beatles journey. They are perfect to me and I will watch all your reactions to them. There are so many that I would love for you to react to. The list would be endless. So I thought of one you should definitely hear even if you don’t do a reaction to it on your show. IN MY LIFE. It’s a song John wrote/sings that Paul said “I wish I wrote that “ This song has been played in many weddings. Enjoy. Love your show
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This was a massive hit for them. Huge huge huge at the time.
Iconic songs. Unique sound. Never to be repeated.
The greatest band ever.
This is the first Beatles song I remember as a kid , I was 10 years old. It was then that
I decided to learn to play. I could sing along and it was fun. Its still fun .
It was on BEATLES FOR SALE
First always The Beatles..... Then all the others....!!!!! 🎸🎸🥁🥁🎹🎹🎺🎺
The Beatles Are The Best 💯, Period
As stated in other comments, this was Shea Stadium, the first stadium concert.
They conquered America even before they first appeared on "Ed Sullivan Show". As example:
On December 31, 1963, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was "bubbling under" the Top 20 on a New York radio station.
The next day, on January 1, 1964, it was #1 on that radio station.
Hey guys….First of all I want to say how much I enjoy your reactions and analysis of music.
Being a person who grew up during the British Invasion, and having seen the Beatles live in Toronto (1966), I think you would have to have been there to fully appreciate the vibe that was going on in those days. Initially I was not into rock n roll or popular music. I loved classical music. So when the Beatles first came over to America in February, I was not too impressed. My school classmates had been talking about the Beatles for several months prior to their arrival, but I had not really heard any of their music. But when they were scheduled to play three successive Sunday nights on the Ed Sullivan show my brother and sister were anxious to see them. Myself, I just wanted to watch a three-part Walt Disney program which conflicted with the Beatle performances. So my parents said, “You can watch Disney two of the three nights, and you can pick which two out of the three you want to see.” At the time I was not impressed, but I said, “ok iif we have to watch the Beatles, make it the first Sunday night so I can at least see the last two episodes of the Disney program.” Well, let me tell you, when I watched that first Ed Sullivan performance, I was totally blown away by the Beatles. It was absolute magic. The sound, the melodies, just the whole vibe was completely captivating. So we ended up watching all three Beatle’s performances (Sorry Disney). From that point on I was the biggest Beatle fan in the family, which is why my mom bought a very hard-to-get Beatle’s concert ticket for me in 66. My brother and sister did not go. The whole event, concert ticket and return bis fare was something like $7.50. The girl sitting beside me at the concert was screaming and literally tearing her hair off her skull! My ears reverberated from the screaming long after the concert had finished. Absolutely amazing! The Beatles had a huge influence on my life, not just musically, but spiritually as well. When the Beatles stopped touring in 1966, and later went to India to study meditation, I remember thinking, “Why would they quit touring when they have the world at their beck and call. They are becoming so wealthy, and they can basically have any girl that they fancy (seen from a 15-year old boy’s perspective)”. But not long after it struck me that they had discovered that wealth and fame are not necessarily the most important things in life. I would not have understood this concept as a teenage boy if it hadn’t been for the Beatles.
All the best - Mark P. From Canada
The concert footage was at Shea Stadium
I really enjoyed both of you chair dancing and Phil’s great facial expressions in this reaction! 😊 You know the old saying, “You had to be there”?, it’s very true of this period in time. We had never seen anything like it, except maybe for the early Elvis era. I was only in kindergarten when they were on Ed Sullivan and can’t tell you what an incredible memory it is to me. For your next Beatles reaction I’d love for you to do “The Long and Winding Road”, it is an incredibly beautiful and meaningful piece with Paul on lead vocals. Keep up the great work, I’m so glad I found your channel!
love this one, it gets in your head in a good way.... thanks for doing this one guys... 🥰when the Beatles came on the scene the UK was just coming out of the dark days of WW2, so they allowed the people to be happy again... ☺
I think the Shea Stadium tickets were $3.50 (USD), which amounts to about $35.00 (USD) today, which is comparatively today pretty low. But back then it was a premium ticket -- because concert ticket prices today have inflated far more than inflation has.
Discovering the Beatles? You two have a L O N G way to go. 😎
I saw them on their first tour of America. My friends dad was a tv celebrity so we were lucky enough to be at their press conferences. We could have reached out to touch them.We watched the concert from back stage.
Man I love rediscovering these songs with you two. I get to hear them for the first time again through you.
It is not colourised - it was originally filmed in colour at Shea Stadium.
Another interesting feature about this song is the intro with the guitar, and that the song ends in the way it began.
This was at Shea Stadium in NY. I was so lucky to grow up with this music. Actually this was one of their last live shows. The tickets were $3.00😂🌸💐✌️
All these great bands are great because of how they performed live. A lot of their hits were developed performing live 1st, and recording came after.
just love those handclaps
Great band, great song, good job as always guys.
They were not a band - they were a miracle....................
Y'all should check out Hey Jude by the Beatles
So cool to see you witness Beatlemania. The hype was enormous. They were maybe one of the first "boy bands", but they had talent. Enormous talent that would play out over the next few years.
Eight Days a Week was another Ringo saying, referring, I believe, to how rough and time-crunching their tour schedule was. Another malapropism of his was used for A Hard Day's Night. There was at least one other.... I think it was Tomorrow Never Knows?? - a song sung by John, putting his vocals through a revolving Leslie speaker to make his voice sound like he was preaching from a higher ethereal place
IIRC, the first global live broadcast via satellite was ... the Beatles.
It was a program called Our World, and the Beatles showed up at the end of it. But they weren't the only people on it!
That was their performance of All You Need is Love, which strangely I've never seen in a reaction video.
@@stuBdoc I think I have. But not in the last year or two.
You have to realize that at the peak of Beatle Mania they held the top 5 positions on the US singles chart. This feat will probably never be equalled and at that time Everybody knew them and their songs. When they appeared for the first time on the Ed Sullivan show there was virtually no reported crime across America. A police spokesman said, "Even the criminals were watching the show."
John's rhythm guitar taking you on a rollercoaster
The original title of their second film was "Help!"
On their single "Eight Days a Week" it says "from the movie "Eight Arms to Hold You."😊
Oooops! I meant the original title of "Help!" was "Eight Arms to Hold You."
Calling the Shea Stadium concert Seattle cringed me into a new dimension I think.
My mom was at that concert in Shea Stadium in 1965. She was 25 at the time, and was the only person in her family who would agree to take her 14 year old cousin to the show! Can't imagine many would turn that down now, if we could go back!
I remember when they came to Shea stadium 🎉 ❤2024❤.
I sang here comes the sun in chorus class in Jr High School (Called Middle School now).
My wife saw them in concert in Birmingham, uk and cried all the way through. 😅
This was at Shea stadium in New York..this was also the first ever stadium concert for any music artist…when you really think about it, no music artist/performer in all of human history has ever played in front of as large of an audience as this..they were the very first. Also this song has a fade in at the beginning which is also the first time that was ever done and the reason it sounds so different from Here Comes The Sun as far as the instruments is because this song was recorded in 64 and the other was recorded in 69 so technology was better and they were now using 8 track instead of 4 track recording
I think it's Ringo that was the guy who liked and encouraged the clapping. He does the same thing on his current video of his cover of a Buddy Holly song, which name escapes me right now.
the Baby sweater that John is holding up was for Ringo's first newborn son ZAK that was sent to the stadium by a fan. Tickets for the Beatles concerts in 1964 were $3.50. $4.50 and $5.50 and for the 1966 concert I went to they were $4.50, $5.50 and $6.50. 1966 was the last year they toured.
Another good video is the song In My Life
The Beatles are one of my favorite groups but if you have Hulu watch the film by Ron Howard called 8 Days a Week the Touring Years, and Paul McCartney said it was a Ringo-ism to say odd things like Eight Days a Week
Ringo came up with A Hard Day’s Night.
Saw them in '65 at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio. I was 12 years old. Ticket price $12.00. Too Cool😎👍
When I was an 8 year old kid at Key West in 1964 they came to the island and everybody was going crazy trying to get a glimpse of them. I think they even put on some sort of little impromptu show.
I was mad that my mom and dad wouldn't let me walk over to where they were staying but of course they didn't think that was a proper crowd for an 8 year old.
In Feb., 1964 they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, which started their 'invasion'. This was not from the Documentary THE BEATLES AT SHEA STADIUM (15 Aug 1965) - as this song was not performed then, but from the Ron Howard compilation film THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK, which took footage from an additional concert they did at Shea, 23 Aug 1966, and they're not 'colorized' from B/W, rather filmed in color. In French, when someone says they'll see you next week, it's "En huit jours." or 'in eight days', as they count today as 1. But in English, it just sounds like a very long week, since we start counting with tomorrow as 1.
Hello Phil & Sam, I thought I'd suggest something a bit different, if interested. "P!nk & Nancy Wilson of Heart - Barracuda - Live Tribute Concert!" (by the channel: Randi Norman) --Dave Grohl who was the drummer and founder of the band "Foo Fighters" as well as being the drummer for the band "Nirvana" brings out on stage two legendary ladies Nancy Wilson (sister and guitarist) for the band "Heart" and the talented "Pink" who does an outstanding job performing one of Heart's biggest hit songs, Barracuda. And as always, I enjoyed rocking with you. Thanks for sharing.
The Beatles are my all time fav band. but it the Beatles 7 weeks to sell out Shea Stadium ,it took GRAND FUNK RAILROAD 2 1/2 days...Wow..
In America, this song was on the Beatles VI album released in June, 1965, a year and a half after they "exploded" here with I Want to Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, Since I Saw Her Standing There, Twist and Shout, Please Please Me, Can't Buy Me Love, P.S. I Love You, and on and on.