(VANITY) Where were you on Feb 9, 1964 (Beatles, Ed Sullivan)

Twitter ^ | 2/9/22 | Moi

[Quilla]

Me too! I was 8. The girls screaming and crying in the audience were incredibly memorable.

[Fresh Wind]

I watched it, was wondering what all the hype was about.

[MayflowerMadam]

Absolutely! Also, never saw “Disneyland” even once — aired during Prayer Meeting.

[Michael.SF.]

LOL. Had never heard that song before. Maybe it was suppressed because because it was a crappy song?

Reminds me of the Surfin USA vs. Sweet Little Sixteen kerfuffle.

[Laslo Fripp]

Flight training in Meridian, Mississippi...

...listening to Elvis.

[rightazrain]

Watching it live on our trusty black and white TV.

[Fiji Hill]

In 1964, KRLA--the 50,000-watt rock blaster at 1110 kilocycles, not today's conservative talk station at 870 kcs--proclaimed itself the Official Beatles Station of Southern California. This record by one of its disc jockeys, a rising star in the entertainment world, got a lot of airplay on that station.

A Letter from Elaina--Casey Kasem (1964)

[pfflier]

In England. My dad just transferred to AFS High Wycombe.

[CatHerd]

Little girl in first grade. I was very curious about these Beatles my aunt was so crazy about. I was horrified at their hair and insisted they were wearing wigs because I was certain boys could not grow hair like that. (Age of the buzz haircut for boys.) Like Prince Valiant wore a wig:

My little friends agreed. Wigs. My aunt was outraged at the notion and set me straight, but I didn't believe her.

[rightazrain]

Watching it live on our trusty black and white TV.

[goodnesswins]

I DO remember that Ed Sullivan show...and also remember being told by a church camp mate later that summer, how I looked just like Paul McCartney...I’m female...I was NOT pleased.

[SaxxonWoods]

There is a fantastic Beatle tribute album available from a group of Nashville session guys known as the Vinyl Kings.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/4068454-Vinyl-Kings

At the site they have a record called: A Little Trip.

The first song is all about watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and deciding to get a guitar and play.

It’s an amazing record, sounds like the old Beatles but the songs are “different”. Very impressive piece of work, and I highly recommend it. can listen to the songs online by poking around.

[willgolfforfood]

That was CRAZY long hair on men in the early ‘60’s.

[skeeter]

Yep it was. Especially to a four year old with a flat top.

[jdsteel]

I was watching The Ed Sullivan show on TV. That’s where.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

She charged us a nickel to watch Star Trek and two cents an hour for anything else. I got a discount because I sold her tickets.

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That’s hilarious. Let me guess she became a high level exec at Comcast?

[Huskrrrr]

Yelling at my sister to stop screaming.

[Grammy]

Sitting in a friend’s house because she had a color tv.

I win all the facebook “what was your first concert” posts. My first concert was the Beatles.

[Clemenza]

Not even a though in the mind of my 17 year old father and 13 year old mother (who was much more focused on dreamy Paul that evening).

[John Milner]

Second or third grade. I don’t remember specifically seeing that at the time (I now own the set of all their Ed Sullivan appearances - complete episodes including commercials for Pillsbury and Anacin).

I do have a specific memory of walking into the house and seeing them. Thinking, “They shake their hair and the girls scream.” But in my head it was a warm day so it must have been a later appearance. Or I’m just connecting two different memories in my head.

For fans I highly recommend a DVD entitles “Their First American Visit.” The two brothers were given access and filmed much of what happened that week and into the next week when they were on Live from Miami (or as Ed said, Mi am muh) Beach. I love that it’s fly on the wall. No damn 50 years later commentary about “this meant this, this was historic, blah blah blah. Just them and those around the interacting. Being blown away by their first time in America and the great reception they were getting.