I was five years old. I was outside playing with a neighbor girl, “Hand” came on a radio, I remember the moment so distinctly, the song JUMPED out of the radio. I grabbed that girls hand. It’s 60+ years later, still see the scene in my head. Amazing.
American here. The first time I heard "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (age 11) I was knocked for a loop. I was a big guitar fan - but the guitar guys weren't really having hits anymore - since Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly died, probably. A lot of crooners, a lot of one-hit doo-wop groups, a lot of novelty records - mostly boring. When I heard "Hand" on the radio for the first time, I'd never heard guitars ring out like that on a big hit record on the radio before. It blew me away. You're right about the mix on the single release - it jumps off the turntable. That single sounded hot at the time. And "I Saw Her Standing There" on the b-side (though, my local radio treated it like a double-A side - without any complaints from me) made this the hottest rock and roll single I'd ever heard. I practically wore out the record trying to decipher the guitar parts. The lyrics were kind of whatever Tin-Pan Alley stuff, but the sound of the combined instruments seemed like one voice. The way they wove it all together was amazing to me. You get a good example of Lennon's unique sense of off-rhythm on this one. He has the quirkiest sense of rhythm in rock and roll. Completely unique.
Wow! as a first gen fan from that night in February on the Sullivan show, I want to hold your hand holds a special place unlike really any other Beatles tune. At only 9 years old, I am certainly one of the youngest 1st gen fans, but my love for them just continued to grow through the 60s and on to today. Thank you for carrying the torch for these four guys that changed so many of our lives. Your channel is unlike any other, and this video with its wonderful content and history proves it. Thank you!
I remember my mother calling us to the living room "Those Beatles are on Jack Paar!" My cousin in England had sent us newspaper clippings about them with words like Fab! and Gear! written on them. I was 10 and my life was about to change, music-wise. Especially after February 9th .... P.S. this was in a suburb of Vancouver, Canada.
Thank-you Andrew!! My Beatles experience began in 1964 (6 years old!) when I watched them on Ed Sullivan as a kid singing: "She Loves You . . yeah, yeah, yeah !!!" standing on a basement steamer trunk with badminton racquets with my siblings. I even got a Capitol EP for my birthday called "4 by the Bratles" with Roll Over Beetoven/This Boy, etc. which I still have . . . . .great old memories !! Greetings from Dan, Indiana USA
Or Gerry and The Pacemakers. John said in the fictional movie where Ian Hart (Back Beat, The Hours and Times) who played John Lennon in three movies, made a true statement John made in 1972 "We could have been as great as the Hollies". Its anyone guess if he was sincere?
@@strikerorwell9232 My comment was sarcastic. No one has ever heard of Joey Dee and the Starlighters. Gerry and The Pacemakers' first three singles went to number one, so by that index they were more successful than The Beatles.
I'm actually super fascinated when I hear lukewarm or even negative contemporary reactions of the Beatles. We're so used to always seeing high praise about everything they ever did, but these other views actually humanize them. It adds a much more realistic view of something that became a huge phenomenon
Yes, but l've read a few contemporary reviews by American music critics and many of their remarks are quite vindictive and indicate closed minds when compared to the more enlightened British critics. Perhaps, this was because the Beatles were a foreign act, but the level of personal dislike of the group is striking.
At every turn they brought something to the table that had never been seen, some people get it right away, others don’t. Even Sgt Pepper got mixed reception and you think, how?!
Rock and roll was very young then and thought of as just a fad. It's no surprise that not every adult especially American were pleased with the Fab fours "guitar music"
February 9, 1964, Auntie Lora and Uncle John came to visit us after spending the day in NYC. They said that the crowd in Times Square near the Ed Sullivan Theatre was the craziest thing they had ever seen. They stayed to watch the Sullivan show with us. I was 9 and will never forget that Sunday night.
I spoke with a few Swedish Rock Stars in the 90s who were playing in Hamburg Germany at the Star Club and hung out with the Beatles and got to know them. They were the reason the Beatles came to Sweden first when they went abroad and not only played a couple of gigs but a whole tour in Sweden with their Swedish pals "Jerry Williams and the Violents" as the introducing band.
These videos are always so well done, it’s crazy - they’re each high quality mini-documentaries rather than simple “RUclips videos.” You can really tell how much work goes just to the research, writing, filming and editing… just great work all around! I never miss one!
Once again tremendous work Andrew. I'll never forget my excitement when my older sister played that 45 for the first time. My whole world changed...and obviously for the better...One item that blew me away was the newspaper article which mentioned my Dad Buddy Greco having talked about the Beatles...I wasn't ready for that and a big smile crossed my face. Dad and George ended up having a lifelong friendship...Thank you Andrew! This brightened my day!!
Very cool! I remember your dad’s recording of ‘The Lady Is A Tramp’. I was about 5 or 6 when I first heard that and I thought it was funny and a cool song.😊
I remember Buddy Greco as a kid. He was one of the smooth and sophisticated singers from the US, like Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennet, Bobby Darin ect, that the UK never did too well. Very interesting about the friendship with George. Thank you for posting.
@williamearl1662 Thanks for remembering my Dad who was incredibly talented. So popular in England as well. He toured there every year for decades and I accompanied him in 2009 playing drums all around the UK. He and George were good friends. He's pictured in his book I Me Mine with the Beatles..Awesome piano player too. One of the greatest!
This is the very first song I remember hearing on the radio. I was four in 1964. It had a big impact on me. Almost sixty years later and i still remember the feeling.
The very first Beatles song I can remember. Still a favorite. I recall reading how shocked Brian Wilson was and other US artists too. The Beatles took over. They weren't just stars anymore. They were superstars.
'I want to hold your hand' was amazing , I used to listen to it on a small transistor radio on Radio Luxembourg under the sheets after bedtime and wait for it every hour on the hour
Thanks a million Andrew. You really knocked this one out of the park! I’ve viewed a number of your videos but this one takes the cake. When you spoke of the way that this song makes you FEEL when listening to it, well that’s it, isn’t it! YEAH, YEAH, YEAH! ❤
Great content, Andrew, thanks a lot! Brought me back sweet memories. My mom moved from São Paulo (Brazil) to New York in late January 1964 only to be caught up in the middle of Beatlemania's fuzz. This is one of my favorite stories she used to tell me when I was a kid starting to fall in love with The Beatles: "Imagine being a 20 year old Brazilian girl who had just arrived in the United States of the 1960s who until then barely spoke English, and all you saw around were American teens running frantically after a certain British pop group. All I knew about music was Samba and Bossa Nova." She became a fan the next day, and returned to Brazil three years before bringing in the bag several Beatles records (I still have three of them, all in very poor condition: United Artists stereo "A Hard Day’s Night", Capitol stereo "Beatles ’65", and Capitol stereo "Yesterday… And Today"), and a Shea Stadium ticket stub from August 15, 1965, when that certain British pop group performed there the first rock concert in a stadium. Not many Brazilians had the same opportunity at that time.
Excellent use of archival material. The consciousness of youth is so fragmented now (with everyone grooving in their own ittle bubble) that it is unimaginable today for a mass phenomenon like the Beatles to happen. We will not see their like again.
Andrew, that was fantastic. I've read that WWDC really one-upped the 2 big Rock stations in the DC area at that time, WPGC and WEAM. WWDC very soon inserted a ' This is a WWDC Exclusive' message during the playing of I Want To Hold Your Hand, to keep the other 2 stations from recording this and playing the song themselves. and WWDC wasn't even fully a Rock station, so this was an epic experience for them.
I remember the 45 for I Want to Hold Your Hand floating around my house not long after I learned how to talk. Like many Americans, they became the soundtrack to my whole childhood and beyond! Whatever house I visited, Meet the Beatles was in their record collection. Mine was among the 73 million homes to tune in to The Beatles first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. Great memories! And as always, another fantastic upload!
Andrew you’ve done it again! I’m sitting here quite choked up and beaming a smile from ear to ear…this episode went by quickly I might add…and enjoyed every second of it. I will never forget when I bought that first single. Our family didn’t even have a record player in the house, but neighbors did. So yeah, this was the enlightenment of a pre-teen brain of things to come. Great episode! Thanks
Thanks for reassessing and putting this record into context. Today, due to overplaying and the tendency to use it as the butt of criticism (literally every online comment: "Look at how the Beatles went from 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' to 'A Day in the Life' in 3 years ... ad nauseum), it is important to capture the revolutionary flavor of the times and the import of this record in comparison to what had come before.
Andrew, more great content! Of course, since I am American, I have never heard or read much of the UK music pubs reactions and interviews regarding this period in Beatles history. It was great to hear! My earliest childhood memory was of sitting on a swing in Spring of '64 singing I Want To Hold Your Hand, at which time I was the ripe old age of 5! Cheers mate, great memories!
I remember those days like it was yesterday. It was such a wonderful and magical time to grow up with the music that had taken over my heart like a tidal wave. I am 74 now, and the Beatles have always been a part of my life, They always will be. Love is eternal, and there is no death. When it is time for me to leave this Earth, I have wonderful memories to take with me.
Wow! This wonderful presentation really brings one back to late 1963 & early 1964, when "I want to Hold Your Hand" first entered the charts in the UK & then the USA and all over the world. I love Marsha Albert's introduction of the song on Carroll James Washington DC radio show.
I'll never forget walking in to David Jones (a department store in Sydney, Australia) record bar on Saturday, December 14, 1963 to buy a copy of "I Want To Hold Your Hand", which had been released 2 days earlier in Australia. The lady behind the counter said "this record is flying off the shelves, we can't keep up with the demand". By Christmas it was #1 and stayed there for 6 weeks.I still have that single. It makes me shiver every time I play it (loud). The Beatles were unstoppable.
Big fan of the Beatles but this was before my time(born 1968). Didnt become a Beatles fan until Spring of 1981. This song influenced the world. As soon as America heard this song(end of '63), game over!! 🎶🎶
Great Special Andrew! It just so happens that Bruce Spizer's book "The Beatles Are Coming!" and this video virtually arrived at the same time. How fortunate for me as they perfectly compliment each other. I was only 8 years old at the time, but my mom let me stay up late that Sunday night to watch the Beatles performance on Ed Sullivan. The next day she bought "Meet The Beatles" for us to play on our "Nail/Record Player." Still one of my favorite albums to this day. Thanks for triggering some fond memories. Cheers!
At seven years old I had only heard She Loves You because my mom bought the picture sleeve for me because it had our last name on it (swan). The Ed Sullivan Show was a Sunday tradition in our house, so I was primed for the experience. I’ll never forget what it felt like seeing The Beatles play live on our little T. V. set. It changed my life forever.
What a terrifically well-researched piece that gives context to their "overnight" success. The timing of things during the ramp-up to the Ed Sullivan Show (certain things about it being accidental and pure kismet) was great to see in this video! Lots of those American kids based overseas who were quoted in the paper saying that the Beatles weren't likely to go over well in the States sure had to eat their hats, haha. Thanks, as always!
Being a second generation fan every time I hear I Want To Hold Your Hand the excitement and hopefulness of that time. And the freshness of the Beatles go through my mind! So glad we have the music and videos to hold on to the memories. Thanks for another great video Andrew.
Even as a child, I was into music and when we first heard the Beatles, their sound was like nothing heard before. I don’t know if it was their odd Liverpool accents juicing up their harmonies or what, but it was fresh and entrancing. In six decades now, nothing new like that has ever happened.
I was 10 when the Beatles broke in America. I remember when I couldn't tell one Beatle's face from the other. They all looked alike to me. They were the soundtrack of my youth and they brought so much joy.
This song still gives me goosebumps!! When I learned how to play the guitar, this was one of the first songs I wanted to learn, but I didn't find it😮 till years later. Still one of my favorite Beatles songs.
Imagine just sitting on a cruise looking out at the ocean, then you hear something so you put your ear to the wall and then Paul sings “ Can’t buy me love”. Imagine it!
I was 17, going to secretarial school in San Francisco. The Beatles were heavily promoted and their songs were always on the radio. The large downtown Woolworth's had a whole counter at the front entrance playing Meet the Beatles constantly. They also handed out a free newspaper about them, misspelling McCartney and mixing him up with George Harrison. My friends and I got caught up in the fun of the whole thing and went to another dimestore and bought ID bracelets with our favorite Beatle's name on them. Since my knowledge was based on the wrong ID from that free newspaper, I ended up with Paul instead of George. By the time of their Ed Sullivan appearance, I was sick of them and watched to see them fall on their faces. Instead, I fell in love and after 60 years, I still am -- and I still have that bracelet.
Fabulous upload with many new nuggets of interesting info that must have taken ages to put together so thank you! One of the Beatles landmark singles and certainly one of the most important of their career in terms of breaking America. I used to work around the corner from Wimpole St and passed it each morning to go to work at a pastry chef in a shop there. Its amazing to think such an important song was written there in that unassuming building. I saw an interview with Peter Asher who says that John and Paul invited him to hear it in the basement and he was in fact the first person to hear it after it was finished. Great work as always Andrew
I was in fourth grade US when The Beatles played on Ed Sullivan. My fifth grade sister was hip to some of the advance buzz about the band, but it hit me like a cannonball. Dad was grousing about their looks and saying that "they laughed all the way to the bank", but for the first time, I had a mission, and I had a radio in my room, and it felt like a door had been thrown open on a new life that was going to save me.
I was surprised and pleased to hear of the Beatles' success on that first trip. I hadn't really expected anything like the US reaction. Great edition, Andrew.
First of all, brilliant as usual Andrew!! It's great that those quotes from George (toward the end of the piece) are so spot on. And proof of that is the quotes and clippings from news stories in the video. Everybody thought they were music critics that had the "final say," especially if they were brand new, evolving, American fans. In the US press back then, "quantity" reigned over "quality."
This song opened the doors for America and start Beatlemania.I Want To Hold Your Hand sale millions of copies and was top of parede there.Great in hear history about group yet.Uchino of Japan.I see you Andrew.
These reviews haven’t aged well, but I doubt anyone could have guessed what the Beatles had up their sleeves, much less the Beatles, themselves. Our opinions would probably have been the same. My dad once confessed to not understanding their accent when he first saw A Hard Day’s Night in the theater, so it’s understandable that some would think that they’d be difficult to understand.
it was that single that actually launched beatlemania globally. i was one of the people who became a huge beatle aficionado in the very early 70s. i had "meet the beatles" and several beatle singles i heard over and over through the 60s but i was too young to really appreciate them. by 1970 i began collecting albums and among them, of course, was beatles' albums. by the mid-70s, although i liked them both at the beginning, "i want to hold your hand" and "sgt pepper" sounded dated and fell out of favor. whenever "i want to hold your hand" came on the radio i'd always change the channel and i'd never listen to it at home. but in the early 80s, after becoming suffeciently inebriated, late at night, the song played on the radio and i decided not to change the channel and i fell in love with the song all over again. it was like hearing it for the first time - AGAIN! IT WAS GREAT. i re-discovered both "i want to hold your hand" and the "sgt pepper" album in the early 80s. and i'm so glad i did. i turned so many people onto the beatles in the 70s and 80s for years many people actually thanked me for it. i think the beatles owe me royalties. thanks for the video.
That was fun, thanks!🎉❤ We watched The Ed Sullivan Show together, my mother and my stepfather. It was amazing! We only lived 25 miles north of New York city, and I wasn't 10 years old yet. I wish I had been a bit older at that time. Most of my entire youth was spent listening to Beatles records.
You are so right about amazing sound of the first mono pressing of "I Want To Hold Your Hand". I remember my parents bringing a brand new copy home in 1963 and playing it on our basic, but loud, family HMV mono record player. The music just exploded from the speaker! It was a big, fat sound that filled the room. I'd listened to "Please Please Me" and "She Loves You" on this same record player plus I'd already heard "I Want To Hold Your Hand" many times on the radio but nothing could compete with the huge, exciting sound of the original mono 45.
One of your best! I actually got a little choked up with the clip of the girl on Washington DC radio introducing the Beatles “for the very first time” on American radio.
Thanks for another great video Andrew! In late January 1964 I was a 10 year old kid. After school a few friends used to hang out at a parents neighborhood clothing store. A radio was playing and on came a song I'd never heard before that immediately struck me. I called out "Who is this" One of the girls answered "Haven't you heard, that's The Beatles!" Of course the song was I Want to Hold Your Hand and the rest is history. 60 years a Beatles fan!
December 10th was a Tuesday. I witnessed the CBS 'Beatles' news story at my Aunt and Uncles house where I was living in Portland Oregon. As a budding guitar player I found interest and that was my first awareness of The Beatles.
I once had a copy of that Capitol 45 RPM record! I don’t know if my copy even exists anymore. I have moved NINE times since that record was originally released, and I haven’t seen it in decades. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I saw that Capitol label during my decades of Radio work, from which I am now officially retired. Thanks, Andrew! I always enjoy your work.
Excellent job, Andrew. I loved this one as it brought back some great memories. I was 10 years old when they hit the US and many of us were never the same again.
Another terrific video, Andrew. Sixty years later and I still love the excitement of I Want to Hold Your Hand. February 9, 1964 is a defining moment in my life. I was 10 years old. Fortunately, my mother always watched Ed Sullivan, so my brother (who was two years older) and I were watching that night. Life changed in a matter of minutes. We became life-long Beatles fans. Those Americans living in the UK at the time certainly got it wrong--60 years later and The Beatles are still at the top. I'm looking forward to your other videos for the year.
Probably my favourite Beatles single having learnt to play it when first starting on guitar. My dad has the original sheet music, written for piano it was only later i found out it was in the wrong key. I still play it that way.
So, I never really dug "I want to hold your hand" until someone gave me a high def video of The Beatles original appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. When they started into the song, the camera is in the crowd, and the guitars sound like a great locomotive coming right at you, and the fans go into an absolute frenzy -- there's the famous girl who looks like she's getting electroshock from her chair (she went on to become a big shot lawyer in New Jersey or something) -- but from that rendition I suddenly got it... this was like something America never heard before and it rocked. Now I love the song
Wonderful video, Andrew. I was 9 and had no interest in music when they first appeared on Sullivan's show. That would all change soon after. Their opening song was All My Lovin with Paul sounding slightly off key. I recall my father commenting "they stink".But to this day I thought he was looking for a reason to dislike them. Been a fan to this day. Cheers.
I seen that February 9th broadcast on Ed Sullivan with The Beatles when I was little....at my Grandma's House on her Console TV round tube Black and White...then Meet The Beatles album....was playing everyday 😊...I kn The Beatles were going to be the band....it turned out I Was Right!!!....they made us all love ❤ Rock and Roll!!!...😊... for the rest of our life!!!!
You can find back issues of the U.S. trade magazines Billboard and Cash Box online, and the January 4, 1964 issues of both contain reviews of the single and two-page ads for "Meet the Beatles," before the album's official release date. Both issues also contain ads from Epic Records, introducing "The Mersey Sound with the Liverpool Beat," promoting "The Hottest Record on the British Charts!": "Glad All Over" by the Dave Clark Five; apparently Epic was so eager to get on the Beatlemania bandwagon that the label didn't take the time to get the facts straight on where their own act came from.
Terrific fun! There's been a lot in US media lately about the anniversary and this is one more very well researched piece that I've seen, including three different magazine specials. On the 50th anniversary, ten years ago, a few friends and I got together to watch the Ed Sullivan Beatles performances. There was actual excitement when they went on, people were squealing and one of the women started sobbing, saying, "They're so cute I can't stand it!" The charisma still works after all these years.
"From Me To You" actually charted for the Beatles under Vee-Jay Records in the Midwest (not much on the two Coasts of course) so that didn't really matter. But I saw a copy of Billboard once that showed the Beatles were around #34 or so in 1963. Ironically, Jan and Dean had a recording of the song "Linda" out at the same time and it was up in the 20s (I don't remember the exact position) on the same list. For those that don't know "Linda" was written about the baby Linda Eastman (later Linda McCartney).
What a flashback. I was born in November of 1953 and was almost ready to hit the double digits birthdate when The Beatles set foot in America. This was right about the time that JFK was assassinated so it was a time of mourning BUT The Beatles helped us get through it. What a decade they gave us! Thanks for the memories, Andrew.
Excellent video as usual Andrew ! Thank You. I have always been curious why it was, that up here in Canada (Vancouver to be exact), we had already fell in love with the Beatles before "I Want To Hold Your Hand". Looking at Vancouver Top 40 station C-FUN charts, "She Loves You" hit #1 December 21, 1963, "Please Mr Postman" #1 January 18, 1964 and on January 25, 1964 " I Want To Hold Your Hand" was #1 and The Beatles had the top 3 singles on the chart. "Roll Over Beethoven" also charted in late 1963. I know that the Beatlemania LP was released by Capitol of Canada in '63 but did not include "She Loves You", so how did it come to be that Vancouver was slightly ahead of the Beatles curve ? There is no mention of the Beatles on Seattle USA singles charts until late Jan '64. Always wondered about this.
Andrew, Thanks again for a stupendous video. I'm about 10 years or so older than you, and have been a Beatles' fan since I was a little boy in the 60s (largely because my cousins who were older introduced me to them). I myself know a great deal of Beatles' facts, having read and heard about them for over 55 years, but you always bring us interesting pictures, facts and stories that need to be retold and NOT forgotten. I look forward to watching your videos more than the News or anything else on TV or the Internet!!! Thanks again for all you do. Best wishes, George B. in Boston, MA USA
Great work as always Andrew. I still get a tingle when the opening chords rip out for this song. A great record still and I never tire of hearing it.I think because this has a slightly harder edge to it than the previous She Loves You. I was just approaching my 4th Birthday when this was released meaning a lot of my Beatles upbringing was done slightly after the fact so I always love hearing the back stories to these releases of the time. Thanks muchly
Great documentary of the initial spark for a cultural phenomenon. To this day, still my favorite song of all time. I was four when my parents took me to Sam Goody's and we plucked the single from an entire wall of 45s.
Great video as always Andrew! There's a video on you tube that plays bits of all the number one hits of the sixties. It sounds 'ok' but pretty tame until January 1964 comes along and then BOOM! Nothing is ever the same again!
I agree that the original UK & US 45’s sound far and away the best way these songs should be heard. I have copies I play on a 1965 Ferguson Portable Record player. They are just so loud and dynamic and so exciting!!
@Parlogram You really did a great job on the 60th Anniversary of the Beatles conquering America with their hit single "I Want To Hold Your Hand" piece. I hope you can in future videos do more recollections on other Beatles songs.
“I Want to Hold Your Hand” was also MY first introduction to the Beatles… but it was in 1974 on a 10th anniversary CBS TV special about the original Ed Sullivan appearance. (I think)
Another fab video, Andrew! Early 1964, prior to their vist to America, was a busy yet exciting time for the Beatles with the concerts in France and recording the German language versions of She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand. I've always wondered why the original twin track session tape of She Loves You was destroyed!
Wonderful wonderful video, Andrew! This song remains one of my favorite songs of all-time and still excites me like it did the first time I heard it as a pre-schooler. The energy could power a city! 😂
I Want to Hold Your Hand and She Loves You are masterpieces...beautiful and soaring, jet powered actually...a style of music no one ever really replicated, even the Beatles...they stand as monuments to the genius inspiration of the Early Beatles...I'm a songwriter and as a game, I often just try to write a song like She Loves You and it's close to impossible as an exercise...but it's fun to try! Fantastic video as usual!
I still think “it won’t be long” should’ve been a single. It is one of my favorite Beatles songs from the early time.
Album tracks can’t be on a single
@@federalisticnewyorkians4470 in the UK. But in the United States and elsewhere, that was not the case.
@@federalisticnewyorkians4470 Where on God's green earth did you ever get that idea?
True. @@michaelrochester48
just a preference, also the Beatles disagreed with that ( although they didn't stick fully to it)@@jms1963
I was five years old. I was outside playing with a neighbor girl, “Hand” came on a radio, I remember the moment so distinctly, the song JUMPED out of the radio. I grabbed that girls hand. It’s 60+ years later, still see the scene in my head. Amazing.
American here. The first time I heard "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (age 11) I was knocked for a loop. I was a big guitar fan - but the guitar guys weren't really having hits anymore - since Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly died, probably. A lot of crooners, a lot of one-hit doo-wop groups, a lot of novelty records - mostly boring. When I heard "Hand" on the radio for the first time, I'd never heard guitars ring out like that on a big hit record on the radio before. It blew me away. You're right about the mix on the single release - it jumps off the turntable. That single sounded hot at the time. And "I Saw Her Standing There" on the b-side (though, my local radio treated it like a double-A side - without any complaints from me) made this the hottest rock and roll single I'd ever heard. I practically wore out the record trying to decipher the guitar parts. The lyrics were kind of whatever Tin-Pan Alley stuff, but the sound of the combined instruments seemed like one voice. The way they wove it all together was amazing to me. You get a good example of Lennon's unique sense of off-rhythm on this one. He has the quirkiest sense of rhythm in rock and roll. Completely unique.
Wow! as a first gen fan from that night in February on the Sullivan show, I want to hold your hand holds a special place unlike really any other Beatles tune. At only 9 years old, I am certainly one of the youngest 1st gen fans, but my love for them just continued to grow through the 60s and on to today. Thank you for carrying the torch for these four guys that changed so many of our lives. Your channel is unlike any other, and this video with its wonderful content and history proves it. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it, Bill!
Not the youngest I'm a 1st Gen fan I was 5 in 1964.
@@Parlogram When did you publish this (excellent) video, Andrew? Some comments are marked as being from yesterday?!
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I, too, was 9 and will never forget seeing them on Ed Sullivan: I still have that 45: one of the first I bought.
I remember my mother calling us to the living room "Those Beatles are on Jack Paar!" My cousin in England had sent us newspaper clippings about them with words like Fab! and Gear! written on them. I was 10 and my life was about to change, music-wise. Especially after February 9th .... P.S. this was in a suburb of Vancouver, Canada.
Thank-you Andrew!!
My Beatles experience began in 1964 (6 years old!) when I watched them on Ed Sullivan as a kid singing: "She Loves You . . yeah, yeah, yeah !!!" standing on a basement steamer trunk with badminton racquets with my siblings.
I even got a Capitol EP for my birthday called "4 by the Bratles" with Roll Over Beetoven/This Boy, etc. which I still have . . . . .great old memories !! Greetings from Dan, Indiana USA
I't a pity that The Beatles never attained the levels of success and fame as Joey Dee and the Starlighters.
LOL!!
It is! Just a terrible pity!
Or Gerry and The Pacemakers. John said in the fictional movie where Ian Hart (Back Beat, The Hours and Times) who played John Lennon in three movies, made a true statement John made in 1972 "We could have been as great as the Hollies". Its anyone guess if he was sincere?
@@strikerorwell9232 My comment was sarcastic. No one has ever heard of Joey Dee and the Starlighters.
Gerry and The Pacemakers' first three singles went to number one, so by that index they were more successful than The Beatles.
Seems harsh to compare them to JD&TSL, they never really stood a chance to compete against those titans of the industry
I'm actually super fascinated when I hear lukewarm or even negative contemporary reactions of the Beatles. We're so used to always seeing high praise about everything they ever did, but these other views actually humanize them. It adds a much more realistic view of something that became a huge phenomenon
Yes, but l've read a few contemporary reviews by American music critics and many of their remarks are quite vindictive and indicate closed minds when compared to the more enlightened British critics. Perhaps, this was because the Beatles were a foreign act, but the level of personal dislike of the group is striking.
At every turn they brought something to the table that had never been seen, some people get it right away, others don’t.
Even Sgt Pepper got mixed reception and you think, how?!
It was the old fogies who gave negative comments -
Rock and roll was very young then and thought of as just a fad. It's no surprise that not every adult especially American were pleased with the Fab fours "guitar music"
February 9, 1964, Auntie Lora and Uncle John came to visit us after spending the day in NYC. They said that the crowd in Times Square near the Ed Sullivan Theatre was the craziest thing they had ever seen. They stayed to watch the Sullivan show with us. I was 9 and will never forget that Sunday night.
I spoke with a few Swedish Rock Stars in the 90s who were playing in Hamburg Germany at the Star Club and hung out with the Beatles and got to know them. They were the reason the Beatles came to Sweden first when they went abroad and not only played a couple of gigs but a whole tour in Sweden with their Swedish pals "Jerry Williams and the Violents" as the introducing band.
ZAP! Terrific show! Especially enjoyed the George Harrison article upon their arrival in the U.S.. FAB!
These videos are always so well done, it’s crazy - they’re each high quality mini-documentaries rather than simple “RUclips videos.” You can really tell how much work goes just to the research, writing, filming and editing… just great work all around! I never miss one!
Glad you like them!
Once again tremendous work Andrew. I'll never forget my excitement when my older sister played that 45 for the first time. My whole world changed...and obviously for the better...One item that blew me away was the newspaper article which mentioned my Dad Buddy Greco having talked about the Beatles...I wasn't ready for that and a big smile crossed my face. Dad and George ended up having a lifelong friendship...Thank you Andrew! This brightened my day!!
Very cool! I remember your dad’s recording of ‘The Lady Is A Tramp’. I was about 5 or 6 when I first heard that and I thought it was funny and a cool song.😊
@gns423 Thank you so much. Yes Dad had the number 1 with that song. Sorry Frank 😄
I remember Buddy Greco as a kid. He was one of the smooth and sophisticated singers from the US, like Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennet, Bobby Darin ect, that the UK never did too well. Very interesting about the friendship with George. Thank you for posting.
@williamearl1662 Thanks for remembering my Dad who was incredibly talented. So popular in England as well. He toured there every year for decades and I accompanied him in 2009 playing drums all around the UK. He and George were good friends. He's pictured in his book I Me Mine with the Beatles..Awesome piano player too. One of the greatest!
This is the very first song I remember hearing on the radio. I was four in 1964. It had a big impact on me. Almost sixty years later and i still remember the feeling.
The very first Beatles song I can remember. Still a favorite. I recall reading how shocked Brian Wilson was and other US artists too. The Beatles took over. They weren't just stars anymore. They were superstars.
'I want to hold your hand' was amazing , I used to listen to it on a small transistor radio on Radio Luxembourg under the sheets after bedtime and wait for it every hour on the hour
Thanks a million Andrew. You really knocked this one out of the park! I’ve viewed a number of your videos but this one takes the cake. When you spoke of the way that this song makes you FEEL when listening to it, well that’s it, isn’t it! YEAH, YEAH, YEAH! ❤
Thanks Harry. Glad you enjoyed it!
1964 was such a landmark year. I’m glad you are doing these reviews, they are outstanding.
Great content, Andrew, thanks a lot! Brought me back sweet memories. My mom moved from São Paulo (Brazil) to New York in late January 1964 only to be caught up in the middle of Beatlemania's fuzz. This is one of my favorite stories she used to tell me when I was a kid starting to fall in love with The Beatles: "Imagine being a 20 year old Brazilian girl who had just arrived in the United States of the 1960s who until then barely spoke English, and all you saw around were American teens running frantically after a certain British pop group. All I knew about music was Samba and Bossa Nova." She became a fan the next day, and returned to Brazil three years before bringing in the bag several Beatles records (I still have three of them, all in very poor condition: United Artists stereo "A Hard Day’s Night", Capitol stereo "Beatles ’65", and Capitol stereo "Yesterday… And Today"), and a Shea Stadium ticket stub from August 15, 1965, when that certain British pop group performed there the first rock concert in a stadium. Not many Brazilians had the same opportunity at that time.
Excellent use of archival material. The consciousness of youth is so fragmented now (with everyone grooving in their own ittle bubble) that it is unimaginable today for a mass phenomenon like the Beatles to happen. We will not see their like again.
Andrew, that was fantastic. I've read that WWDC really one-upped the 2 big Rock stations in the DC area at that time, WPGC and WEAM. WWDC very soon inserted a ' This is a WWDC Exclusive' message during the playing of I Want To Hold Your Hand, to keep the other 2 stations from recording this and playing the song themselves. and WWDC wasn't even fully a Rock station, so this was an epic experience for them.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the info!
I remember the 45 for I Want to Hold Your Hand floating around my house not long after I learned how to talk. Like many Americans, they became the soundtrack to my whole childhood and beyond! Whatever house I visited, Meet the Beatles was in their record collection. Mine was among the 73 million homes to tune in to The Beatles first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. Great memories! And as always, another fantastic upload!
I do have the original 45 of “I Want To Hold Your Hand” in my collection. It was their first big #1 hit in the US.
Andrew you’ve done it again! I’m sitting here quite choked up and beaming a smile from ear to ear…this episode went by quickly I might add…and enjoyed every second of it.
I will never forget when I bought that first single. Our family didn’t even have a record player in the house, but neighbors did. So yeah, this was the enlightenment of a pre-teen brain of things to come.
Great episode! Thanks
Thanks Brian. Glad it bought back some good memories.
Thanks for reassessing and putting this record into context. Today, due to overplaying and the tendency to use it as the butt of criticism (literally every online comment: "Look at how the Beatles went from 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' to 'A Day in the Life' in 3 years ... ad nauseum), it is important to capture the revolutionary flavor of the times and the import of this record in comparison to what had come before.
Andrew, more great content! Of course, since I am American, I have never heard or read much of the UK music pubs reactions and interviews regarding this period in Beatles history. It was great to hear! My earliest childhood memory was of sitting on a swing in Spring of '64 singing I Want To Hold Your Hand, at which time I was the ripe old age of 5! Cheers mate, great memories!
Glad it bought back some good memories, Richard!
I remember those days like it was yesterday. It was such a wonderful and magical time to grow up with the music that had taken over my heart like a tidal wave. I am 74 now, and the Beatles have always been a part of my life, They always will be. Love is eternal, and there is no death. When it is time for me to leave this Earth, I have wonderful memories to take with me.
Wow! This wonderful presentation really brings one back to late 1963 & early 1964, when "I want to Hold Your Hand" first entered the charts in the UK & then the USA and all over the world. I love Marsha Albert's introduction of the song on Carroll James Washington DC radio show.
I'll never forget walking in to David Jones (a department store in Sydney, Australia) record bar on Saturday, December 14, 1963 to buy a copy of "I Want To Hold Your Hand", which had been released 2 days earlier in Australia. The lady behind the counter said "this record is flying off the shelves, we can't keep up with the demand". By Christmas it was #1 and stayed there for 6 weeks.I still have that single. It makes me shiver every time I play it (loud). The Beatles were unstoppable.
Great memories!
I love hearing the studio outtakes. They could put out an LP of them and it would hit #1 on the charts!
Big fan of the Beatles but this was before my time(born 1968). Didnt become a Beatles fan until Spring of 1981. This song influenced the world. As soon as America heard this song(end of '63), game over!! 🎶🎶
Great Special Andrew!
It just so happens that Bruce Spizer's book "The Beatles Are Coming!" and this video virtually arrived at the same time. How fortunate for me as they perfectly compliment each other. I was only 8 years old at the time, but my mom let me stay up late that Sunday night to watch the Beatles performance on Ed Sullivan. The next day she bought "Meet The Beatles" for us to play on our "Nail/Record Player." Still one of my favorite albums to this day. Thanks for triggering some fond memories. Cheers!
Great memories! Glad you enjoyed the video!
It Won’t Be Long is such a rocker. It’s a shame we never saw a live version of it.
A magistral and well documented way to dispel a Beatles' myth! Well done, Andrew! Regards!
At seven years old I had only heard She Loves You because my mom bought the picture sleeve for me because it had our last name on it (swan). The Ed Sullivan Show was a Sunday tradition in our house, so I was primed for the experience. I’ll never forget what it felt like seeing The Beatles play live on our little T. V. set. It changed my life forever.
I remember getting that album and my mother actually loved it especially till there was you
What a terrifically well-researched piece that gives context to their "overnight" success. The timing of things during the ramp-up to the Ed Sullivan Show (certain things about it being accidental and pure kismet) was great to see in this video! Lots of those American kids based overseas who were quoted in the paper saying that the Beatles weren't likely to go over well in the States sure had to eat their hats, haha. Thanks, as always!
Being a second generation fan every time I hear I Want To Hold Your Hand the excitement and hopefulness of that time. And the freshness of the Beatles go through my mind! So glad we have the music and videos to hold on to the memories. Thanks for another great video Andrew.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Even as a child, I was into music and when we first heard the Beatles, their sound was like nothing heard before. I don’t know if it was their odd Liverpool accents juicing up their harmonies or what, but it was fresh and entrancing. In six decades now, nothing new like that has ever happened.
I was 10 when the Beatles broke in America. I remember when I couldn't tell one Beatle's face from the other. They all looked alike to me. They were the soundtrack of my youth and they brought so much joy.
This song still gives me goosebumps!! When I learned how to play the guitar, this was one of the first songs I wanted to learn, but I didn't find it😮 till years later. Still one of my favorite Beatles songs.
Hard to describe the excitement we felt when we first heard this song and Meet the Beatles Music changed forever and thats no exaggeration
Imagine just sitting on a cruise looking out at the ocean, then you hear something so you put your ear to the wall and then Paul sings “ Can’t buy me love”. Imagine it!
I was 17, going to secretarial school in San Francisco. The Beatles were heavily promoted and their songs were always on the radio. The large downtown Woolworth's had a whole counter at the front entrance playing Meet the Beatles constantly. They also handed out a free newspaper about them, misspelling McCartney and mixing him up with George Harrison. My friends and I got caught up in the fun of the whole thing and went to another dimestore and bought ID bracelets with our favorite Beatle's name on them. Since my knowledge was based on the wrong ID from that free newspaper, I ended up with Paul instead of George. By the time of their Ed Sullivan appearance, I was sick of them and watched to see them fall on their faces. Instead, I fell in love and after 60 years, I still am -- and I still have that bracelet.
Great memories! Thanks for sharing them!
Fabulous upload with many new nuggets of interesting info that must have taken ages to put together so thank you! One of the Beatles landmark singles and certainly one of the most important of their career in terms of breaking America. I used to work around the corner from Wimpole St and passed it each morning to go to work at a pastry chef in a shop there. Its amazing to think such an important song was written there in that unassuming building. I saw an interview with Peter Asher who says that John and Paul invited him to hear it in the basement and he was in fact the first person to hear it after it was finished. Great work as always Andrew
Thanks Tim. Glad you enjoyed it.
Its a Rockin, thumping, banging HIT! Plus they were clean cut, adorable and each had charisma. Impossible NOT TO LIKE THEM.
I was in fourth grade US when The Beatles played on Ed Sullivan. My fifth grade sister was hip to some of the advance buzz about the band, but it hit me like a cannonball. Dad was grousing about their looks and saying that "they laughed all the way to the bank", but for the first time, I had a mission, and I had a radio in my room, and it felt like a door had been thrown open on a new life that was going to save me.
I am a pround second generation Beatles fan. I just love The Beatles & This is such an amazing and beautiful song. ☮️💟
I was surprised and pleased to hear of the Beatles' success on that first trip. I hadn't really expected anything like the US reaction. Great edition, Andrew.
I was 9 when i first heard I wanna hold your hand, long time fan ever since. Im 68 now.
First of all, brilliant as usual Andrew!!
It's great that those quotes from George (toward the end of the piece) are so spot on. And proof of that is the quotes and clippings from news stories in the video. Everybody thought they were music critics that had the "final say," especially if they were brand new, evolving, American fans. In the US press back then, "quantity" reigned over "quality."
This song opened the doors for America and start Beatlemania.I Want To Hold Your Hand sale millions of copies and was top of parede there.Great in hear history about group yet.Uchino of Japan.I see you Andrew.
Awesome story. Loved a lot. Thank you very much, Andrew
Glad you enjoyed it, Dmitry!
These reviews haven’t aged well, but I doubt anyone could have guessed what the Beatles had up their sleeves, much less the Beatles, themselves. Our opinions would probably have been the same.
My dad once confessed to not understanding their accent when he first saw A Hard Day’s Night in the theater, so it’s understandable that some would think that they’d be difficult to understand.
Andrew...we need to showcase the songs of others around these Beatle releases ...to show how revolutionary they sounded.
agree
it was that single that actually launched beatlemania globally. i was one of the people who became a huge beatle aficionado in the very early 70s. i had "meet the beatles" and several beatle singles i heard over and over through the 60s but i was too young to really appreciate them. by 1970 i began collecting albums and among them, of course, was beatles' albums. by the mid-70s, although i liked them both at the beginning, "i want to hold your hand" and "sgt pepper" sounded dated and fell out of favor.
whenever "i want to hold your hand" came on the radio i'd always change the channel and i'd never listen to it at home. but in the early 80s, after becoming suffeciently inebriated, late at night, the song played on the radio and i decided not to change the channel and i fell in love with the song all over again. it was like hearing it for the first time - AGAIN! IT WAS GREAT.
i re-discovered both "i want to hold your hand" and the "sgt pepper" album in the early 80s. and i'm so glad i did. i turned so many people onto the beatles in the 70s and 80s for years many people actually thanked me for it. i think the beatles owe me royalties. thanks for the video.
Thanks for watching!
That was fun, thanks!🎉❤ We watched The Ed Sullivan Show together, my mother and my stepfather. It was amazing! We only lived 25 miles north of New York city, and I wasn't 10 years old yet. I wish I had been a bit older at that time. Most of my entire youth was spent listening to Beatles records.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You are so right about amazing sound of the first mono pressing of "I Want To Hold Your Hand". I remember my parents bringing a brand new copy home in 1963 and playing it on our basic, but loud, family HMV mono record player. The music just exploded from the speaker! It was a big, fat sound that filled the room. I'd listened to "Please Please Me" and "She Loves You" on this same record player plus I'd already heard "I Want To Hold Your Hand" many times on the radio but nothing could compete with the huge, exciting sound of the original mono 45.
The world changed with this record.
13:41 any story behind why that Juke Box Jury is in a theater and not the usual TV studio?
Only by listening to the America's #1 hits of 1963 can you really appreciate how different the Beatles sound was to anything else in 1964.
Thank you again, Andrew !
My pleasure, Scott!
The one song they should have put out as a single was All My Loving I think it would have outdone I want to hold your hand
One of your best! I actually got a little choked up with the clip of the girl on Washington DC radio introducing the Beatles “for the very first time” on American radio.
Thanks for another great video Andrew! In late January 1964 I was a 10 year old kid. After school a few friends used to hang out at a parents neighborhood clothing store. A radio was playing and on came a song I'd never heard before that immediately struck me. I called out "Who is this" One of the girls answered "Haven't you heard, that's The Beatles!" Of course the song was I Want to Hold Your Hand and the rest is history. 60 years a Beatles fan!
As a newcomer in collecting Beatles, i thank you, Andrew, for being my master. I learned a lot in last 2022 and all of 2023! 2024 had perfectly begun!
December 10th was a Tuesday. I witnessed the CBS 'Beatles' news story at my Aunt and Uncles house where I was living in Portland Oregon. As a budding guitar player I found interest and that was my first awareness of The Beatles.
I once had a copy of that Capitol 45 RPM record! I don’t know if my copy even exists anymore. I have moved NINE times since that record was originally released, and I haven’t seen it in decades. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I saw that Capitol label during my decades of Radio work, from which I am now officially retired. Thanks, Andrew! I always enjoy your work.
Much appreciated, Ed!
Seeing the 45 brings back so many memories and emotions. Playing it on mum’s radiogram
Excellent job, Andrew. I loved this one as it brought back some great memories. I was 10 years old when they hit the US and many of us were never the same again.
Another terrific video, Andrew. Sixty years later and I still love the excitement of I Want to Hold Your Hand. February 9, 1964 is a defining moment in my life. I was 10 years old. Fortunately, my mother always watched Ed Sullivan, so my brother (who was two years older) and I were watching that night. Life changed in a matter of minutes. We became life-long Beatles fans. Those Americans living in the UK at the time certainly got it wrong--60 years later and The Beatles are still at the top. I'm looking forward to your other videos for the year.
I Wanna Hold Your Hand is one of my favourite early Beatles singles, that intro always reminds me of an engine revving up.
Probably my favourite Beatles single having learnt to play it when first starting on guitar. My dad has the original sheet music, written for piano it was only later i found out it was in the wrong key. I still play it that way.
So, I never really dug "I want to hold your hand" until someone gave me a high def video of The Beatles original appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. When they started into the song, the camera is in the crowd, and the guitars sound like a great locomotive coming right at you, and the fans go into an absolute frenzy -- there's the famous girl who looks like she's getting electroshock from her chair (she went on to become a big shot lawyer in New Jersey or something) -- but from that rendition I suddenly got it... this was like something America never heard before and it rocked. Now I love the song
Wonderful video, Andrew. I was 9 and had no interest in music when they first appeared on Sullivan's show. That would all change soon after. Their opening song was All My Lovin with Paul sounding slightly off key. I recall my father commenting "they stink".But to this day I thought he was looking for a reason to dislike them. Been a fan to this day. Cheers.
The song still sounds fresh after six decades! Another tremendous job Andrew!
I seen that February 9th broadcast on Ed Sullivan with The Beatles when I was little....at my Grandma's House on her Console TV round tube Black and White...then Meet The Beatles album....was playing everyday 😊...I kn The Beatles were going to be the band....it turned out I Was Right!!!....they made us all love ❤ Rock and Roll!!!...😊... for the rest of our life!!!!
You can find back issues of the U.S. trade magazines Billboard and Cash Box online, and the January 4, 1964 issues of both contain reviews of the single and two-page ads for "Meet the Beatles," before the album's official release date. Both issues also contain ads from Epic Records, introducing "The Mersey Sound with the Liverpool Beat," promoting "The Hottest Record on the British Charts!": "Glad All Over" by the Dave Clark Five; apparently Epic was so eager to get on the Beatlemania bandwagon that the label didn't take the time to get the facts straight on where their own act came from.
And another good one, amazing research.
As you may be aware there is also an Oriole pressing of the single as well as the Decca one.
Terrific fun! There's been a lot in US media lately about the anniversary and this is one more very well researched piece that I've seen, including three different magazine specials. On the 50th anniversary, ten years ago, a few friends and I got together to watch the Ed Sullivan Beatles performances. There was actual excitement when they went on, people were squealing and one of the women started sobbing, saying, "They're so cute I can't stand it!" The charisma still works after all these years.
Glad you enjoyed it!
"From Me To You" actually charted for the Beatles under Vee-Jay Records in the Midwest (not much on the two Coasts of course) so that didn't really matter. But I saw a copy of Billboard once that showed the Beatles were around #34 or so in 1963. Ironically, Jan and Dean had a recording of the song "Linda" out at the same time and it was up in the 20s (I don't remember the exact position) on the same list. For those that don't know "Linda" was written about the baby Linda Eastman (later Linda McCartney).
Love the background story. Thanks for another fab video! - Anthony
My pleasure, Anthony!
My sister recorded their first Sullivan show on a RB-5 reel to reel tape. You can hear her yelling "that's him Mom......that's Paul!"
What a flashback. I was born in November of 1953 and was almost ready to hit the double digits birthdate when The Beatles set foot in America. This was right about the time that JFK was assassinated so it was a time of mourning BUT The Beatles helped us get through it. What a decade they gave us! Thanks for the memories, Andrew.
Thanks for watching!
Excellent video as usual Andrew ! Thank You. I have always been curious why it was, that up here in Canada (Vancouver to be exact), we had already fell in love with the Beatles before "I Want To Hold Your Hand". Looking at Vancouver Top 40 station C-FUN charts, "She Loves You" hit #1 December 21, 1963, "Please Mr Postman" #1 January 18, 1964 and on January 25, 1964 " I Want To Hold Your Hand" was #1 and The Beatles had the top 3 singles on the chart. "Roll Over Beethoven" also charted in late 1963. I know that the Beatlemania LP was released by Capitol of Canada in '63 but did not include "She Loves You", so how did it come to be that Vancouver was slightly ahead of the Beatles curve ? There is no mention of the Beatles on Seattle USA singles charts until late Jan '64. Always wondered about this.
I spoke too soon. I just discovered your video from a couple years back, "How Canada Beat The U.S. To Beatlemania - The Capitol Canada Story 1963".
Andrew, Thanks again for a stupendous video. I'm about 10 years or so older than you, and have been a Beatles' fan since I was a little boy in the 60s (largely because my cousins who were older introduced me to them). I myself know a great deal of Beatles' facts, having read and heard about them for over 55 years, but you always bring us interesting pictures, facts and stories that need to be retold and NOT forgotten. I look forward to watching your videos more than the News or anything else on TV or the Internet!!! Thanks again for all you do. Best wishes, George B. in Boston, MA USA
Thank you, George. Glad you enjoyed it!
I remember standing in line to get the 45 Getlins record store in philly . I wish now I had bought 5 of them.
Great work as always Andrew. I still get a tingle when the opening chords rip out for this song. A great record still and I never tire of hearing it.I think because this has a slightly harder edge to it than the previous She Loves You. I was just approaching my 4th Birthday when this was released meaning a lot of my Beatles upbringing was done slightly after the fact so I always love hearing the back stories to these releases of the time. Thanks muchly
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great documentary of the initial spark for a cultural phenomenon. To this day, still my favorite song of all time. I was four when my parents took me to Sam Goody's and we plucked the single from an entire wall of 45s.
Great video as always Andrew! There's a video on you tube that plays bits of all the number one hits of the sixties. It sounds 'ok' but pretty tame until January 1964 comes along and then BOOM! Nothing is ever the same again!
Definitely enjoyed it as always. Loved seeing those pictures, famous to us Beatles fans, in their proper context in the greater story of the band.
I agree that the original UK & US 45’s sound far and away the best way these songs should be heard.
I have copies I play on a 1965 Ferguson Portable Record player. They are just so loud and dynamic and so exciting!!
@Parlogram You really did a great job on the 60th Anniversary of the Beatles conquering America with their hit single "I Want To Hold Your Hand" piece. I hope you can in future videos do more recollections on other Beatles songs.
Looking forward for the next video, this is such an amazing story, that changed millions of lives, mine included, love the Beatles!
My dad was 10 years old. He always says that The Beatles coming to America helped the country heal from the Kennedy assassination.
Another wonderful job as usual! Love your shirt by the way
Thanks Michael!
“I Want to Hold Your Hand” was also MY first introduction to the Beatles… but it was in 1974 on a 10th anniversary CBS TV special about the original Ed Sullivan appearance. (I think)
Another fab video, Andrew! Early 1964, prior to their vist to America, was a busy yet exciting time for the Beatles with the concerts in France and recording the German language versions of She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand. I've always wondered why the original twin track session tape of She Loves You was destroyed!
Wonderful wonderful video, Andrew! This song remains one of my favorite songs of all-time and still excites me like it did the first time I heard it as a pre-schooler. The energy could power a city! 😂
Glad you enjoyed it!
I Want to Hold Your Hand and She Loves You are masterpieces...beautiful and soaring, jet powered actually...a style of music no one ever really replicated, even the Beatles...they stand as monuments to the genius inspiration of the Early Beatles...I'm a songwriter and as a game, I often just try to write a song like She Loves You and it's close to impossible as an exercise...but it's fun to try! Fantastic video as usual!
Well said, Sir!
Great to finally see the history of this single and cool to see an early Australian singles chat from the 60s