How This Song Made America Fall In Love With The Beatles

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60 years ago this week, The Beatles topped the U.S. chart for the first time with 'I Want To Hold Your Hand'. The song unlocked another level of fame, not just in America but in so many other countries around the world. In this video we look at how this single was made and using contemporary media find out how the British and American public reacted to it. We also discover how The Beatles fared in Paris just before that historic arrival on February 7th 1964.
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@Billthemusicman 8 месяцев назад

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!

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it, Bill!

@stanleyhoward1893 8 месяцев назад

Not the youngest I'm a 1st Gen fan I was 5 in 1964.

@bwpm1467 8 месяцев назад

@@Parlogram When did you publish this (excellent) video, Andrew? Some comments are marked as being from yesterday?!

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

@@bwpm1467 Channel members get to see the video a day early. ru-vid.com/show-UCAIfWsWcFwncQv_ETAOL-Egjoin

@tomcat3360 8 месяцев назад

I, too, was 9 and will never forget seeing them on Ed Sullivan: I still have that 45: one of the first I bought.

@cradio52 8 месяцев назад

These videos are always so well done, it’s crazy - they’re each high quality mini-documentaries rather than simple “RU-vid 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!

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

Glad you like them!

@idaslpdhr 7 месяцев назад

'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

@DarrylRuiz-s1w 8 месяцев назад

Hard to describe the excitement we felt when we first heard this song and Meet the Beatles Music changed forever and thats no exaggeration

@robertfontaine356 7 месяцев назад

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.

@hombre1965 8 месяцев назад

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.

@garyslogan 8 месяцев назад

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!

@deusdedithkojiuchino9349 8 месяцев назад

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.

@KneeAches 8 месяцев назад

Heard it, bought it, my 4th record that I bought. Was in love from there. Listen to the other songs in the top 20. Lots of good songs but nothing like it.

@Joe-bx4wn 8 месяцев назад

Its a Rockin, thumping, banging HIT! Plus they were clean cut, adorable and each had charisma. Impossible NOT TO LIKE THEM.

@simonbnyc 8 месяцев назад

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.

@michaelquinn8618 7 месяцев назад

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

@miquefan 8 месяцев назад

Excellent video! I agree the mono mix is the way to enjoy "I Want To Hold Your Hand" the most. Do you have any information on the 1965 stereo mix from the German compilation Beatles' Greatest?

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

Not at the moment.

@JTKaeloo 8 месяцев назад

Great to finally see the history of this single and cool to see an early Australian singles chat from the 60s

@albertochalico7906 8 месяцев назад

¡Gracias por tanta excelente información!✨

@TigerRogers0660 8 месяцев назад

Excellent video again Andrew!! Gives me a lot more insight into this major song. Well researched!!

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

Cheers Tiger!

@blueriverlore 4 месяца назад

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.

@Parlogram 4 месяца назад

Thanks for watching!

@ArchStanton19966 8 месяцев назад

Canada was the first country outside of Britain to experience Beatlemania NOT the U.S. A shame this fact is never mentioned anywhere. Paul White, a Brit living in Toronto and working for Capitol Canada released Love Me Do on Feb 18 1963 almost a full year ahead of their appearance on Ed Sullivan. When he released She Loves You in September '63, it went nuts. In November he released Beatlemania! With The Beatles, which was musically a direct copy of their second U.K. album. It sold 300,000 copies and made them massive, just like they were back home in England. Meanwhile nothing was happening in the U.S. He was also responsible for having 100,000 singles of each: All My Loving, Roll Over Beethoven and Twist And Shout shipped across the border, which weren't even available in the States yet. Capitol Canada sold 3 million singles and albums before the U.S. caught on. From there, is where this video begins. The appearance on Ed Sullivan was the explosion that brought them to everyone's attention in the U.S. but they were already massive north of the border. It's all fact, just a shame that everyone thinks the U.S. is what broke the Beatles in North America, WRONG! Thanks Canada!

@soldier0n 8 месяцев назад

As far as I can remember, this channel already has a video about that, it's just a matter of searching it

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

We have already done a video about that which you might enjoy: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QkfyPevY42M.htmlsi=xeqsijRl_GbPV4-J

@ArchStanton19966 8 месяцев назад

@@Parlogram Missed it, thank you. So used to it not being mentioned, my mistake, should have looked.

@48musicfan 8 месяцев назад

Very interesting and informative, Andrew! - Roger

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

Glad you liked it, Roger!

@EmeraldWoodArchives 8 месяцев назад

13:18 I've never seen George playing that Rick before. I wonder if he ever used it in the studio, or maybe Mal forgot to bring his Gretsch? Also, God bless Marcia Albert; unsung American hero.

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

He bought it in the U.S. in 1963. See our video here for the full story: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IPJiZZE9aDI.htmlsi=Qd1qyweStILk4lEK&t=728

@maxbrinck8562 8 месяцев назад

Fantastic Andrew! You've really captured the zeitgeist of that exciting era in this post! Cheers!

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

Thans Max. Glad you enjoyed it!

@adammaugeri3068 8 месяцев назад

Hey Mr Parlogram, do you think you would ever cover the 1973 Australian Beatles Greatest Double LP anniversary release? It seems like something worthy of a video as there are many different variants released throughout the country. Its an album I never hear anyone talk about.

@egoncorneliscallery9535 8 месяцев назад

The biggest event in (my) history was not that the Beatles landed in the USA on february 7, 1964 but...

@monaural2.988 8 месяцев назад

It’s sad that the Beatles lost this enthusiasm, humor and disposition over the rest of the 60s. You look at the overall “Let it Be” project, where they almost couldn’t wait to get away from each other. They should have had at least a year off somewhere, certainly by ‘68. There could have been a different outcome. We can only wonder……

@franciscomoreiramartinsfra7435 8 месяцев назад

Muito bom Andrew, eu nasci em 1960, aqui no Brasil, e está música fez muito sucesso. Eu não lembro na época, ouvíamos as versões feitas por Bandas locais. Parabéns!

@brdobie 8 месяцев назад

Oh boy, how wrong those American teens and Airmen were. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@FiveLiver 8 месяцев назад

I't a pity that The Beatles never attained the levels of success and fame as Joey Dee and the Starlighters.

@timrose9175 8 месяцев назад

LOL!!

@curtandoscar 7 месяцев назад

It is! Just a terrible pity!

@strikerorwell9232 7 месяцев назад

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?

@FiveLiver 7 месяцев назад

@@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.

@The8347135 3 месяца назад

Seems harsh to compare them to JD&TSL, they never really stood a chance to compete against those titans of the industry

@michaelrochester48 8 месяцев назад

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.

@federalisticnewyorkians4470 8 месяцев назад

Album tracks can’t be on a single

@michaelrochester48 8 месяцев назад

@@federalisticnewyorkians4470 in the UK. But in the United States and elsewhere, that was not the case.

@jms1963 8 месяцев назад

@@federalisticnewyorkians4470 Where on God's green earth did you ever get that idea?

@federalisticnewyorkians4470 8 месяцев назад

True. @@michaelrochester48

@federalisticnewyorkians4470 8 месяцев назад

just a preference, also the Beatles disagreed with that ( although they didn't stick fully to it)@@jms1963

@neiltheblaze 8 месяцев назад

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.

@prettyshinyspaghetti8332 8 месяцев назад

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

@billythedog-309 8 месяцев назад

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.

@keithbertschin1213 8 месяцев назад

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?!

@Nina5144 8 месяцев назад

It was the old fogies who gave negative comments -

@rocknroll_jezus9233 3 месяца назад

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"

@BaileyGrott 8 месяцев назад

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

@buddygreco2348 8 месяцев назад

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!!

@gns423 8 месяцев назад

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.😊

@buddygreco2348 8 месяцев назад

@gns423 Thank you so much. Yes Dad had the number 1 with that song. Sorry Frank 😄

@williamearl1662 8 месяцев назад

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.

@buddygreco2348 8 месяцев назад

@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!

@Stumptonian1 8 месяцев назад

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.

@richardleclear 8 месяцев назад

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!

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

Glad it bought back some good memories, Richard!

@moondogaudiojones1146 8 месяцев назад

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

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

Thanks Brian. Glad it bought back some good memories.

@misternewoutlook5437 8 месяцев назад

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.

@rodrigosilvamartins4983 8 месяцев назад

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.

@OuterGalaxyLounge 8 месяцев назад

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.

@denniswood1437 8 месяцев назад

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.

@magneto7930 8 месяцев назад

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!

@Musicradio77Network 7 месяцев назад

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.

@jimc8186 8 месяцев назад

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!

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

Great memories! Glad you enjoyed the video!

@StephiSensei26 7 месяцев назад

ZAP! Terrific show! Especially enjoyed the George Harrison article upon their arrival in the U.S.. FAB!

@JoJoJoker 8 месяцев назад

It Won’t Be Long is such a rocker. It’s a shame we never saw a live version of it.

@Edux17 8 месяцев назад

A magistral and well documented way to dispel a Beatles' myth! Well done, Andrew! Regards!

@WanderfulHealingTedP 8 месяцев назад

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.

@danjones4326 8 месяцев назад

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.

@timfisher5925 8 месяцев назад

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

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

Thanks Tim. Glad you enjoyed it.

@thehighllama8101 8 месяцев назад

I know who probably wasn't too thrilled about the Beatles coming to America: those Capitol pressing plant workers who had their Christmas leave cancelled. I hope Capitol gave them all a free copy of I Want to Hold Your Hand for the inconvenience.

@beatmet2355 7 месяцев назад

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.

@PrankZabba 8 месяцев назад

It's crazy how much crow everyone had to eat after they exploded on the scene. Talk about not seeing that coming, eh?!?

@bradpreston7779 8 месяцев назад

My dad was 10 years old. He always says that The Beatles coming to America helped the country heal from the Kennedy assassination.

@HarryBalz-mx3ss 7 месяцев назад

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! ❤

@Parlogram 7 месяцев назад

Thanks Harry. Glad you enjoyed it!

@pieeyedproductions 8 месяцев назад

Great research and video! I believe 'It Won't Be Long' was dropped as the next single partly because Brian Epstein didn't want them to rely on 'yeah yeah' as a gimmick. It would have been interesting to see how 'It Won't Be Long' performed as a follow-up to 'She Loves You'.

@thehighllama8101 8 месяцев назад

I swear there was a 60s episode of the Flintstones, where Fred and Barney are driving in Fred's car. Then Fred says something like, 'Let's see what's new on the radio'. And when Fred turns on the radio, "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah", sung repeatedly, no other lyrics, comes blaring out of the radio. Fred and Barney are just like, "What the...?"

@kalebaldwin5398 8 месяцев назад

If “It Won’t Be Long” had been chosen to be the single, would “I Want to Hold Your Hand” have been the opening track on With The Beatles? And likewise, would “It Won’t Be Long” have kicked off Meet The Beatles!? Wild, wild stuff to think about. Personally, I think “It Won’t Be Long” is the better song, but “I Want to Hold Your Hand” was the perfect single for that moment. It just packs so much wallop (in mono, that is). And lyrically, it’s simple. I think “It Won’t Be Long” was almost too complex (by 1963 Merseybeat standards) to be issued as a single.

@peterhogan9537 8 месяцев назад

the first time I heard the Beatles was Dec 27th 1963 on 1050 CHUM Toronto, I thought it was Neil Sadaka. the song was SHE LOVES YOU.

@thomaspick4123 8 месяцев назад

Epstein should have dumped Capitol. Why not go to Columbia Records, or RCA Records? I like the VeeJay and Swan stuff. With Capitol, we got the worst Revolver album in the States. I Want to Hold You Hand was wonderful. A sufficient interval had to pass after the JFK conspiracy assassination of November 1963. So, by February 1964, America was ready for the Beatles, to take our mind off our national sorrow for JFK.

@orbyfan 8 месяцев назад

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.

@FlamingoKicker 8 месяцев назад

"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).

@strikerorwell9232 7 месяцев назад

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.

@dmitrysobolin5158 8 месяцев назад

Awesome story. Loved a lot. Thank you very much, Andrew

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it, Dmitry!

@davidm7840 7 месяцев назад

1964 was such a landmark year. I’m glad you are doing these reviews, they are outstanding.

@adrianmorris2628 8 месяцев назад

Always love it when one of these films drop. Looking forward to seeing it....right now!

@beatlemaniacwaltdisneyfan4753 8 месяцев назад

Sorry but listening to the get back session and then to this demo studio tape i just can't believe some people still think of this "replacement" "double" Rubbish

@gooddognigel9992 8 месяцев назад

The Beatles nailed the sound as well as the feelings one experiences when holding a woman’s hand for the first time. Personally, when participating in the dating game, the sensation of holding a woman’s hand for the first time is intoxicating.

@josephcooter5763 8 месяцев назад

WMCA. I just googled them. They now do religous programing.

@goodiesguy 8 месяцев назад

13:41 any story behind why that Juke Box Jury is in a theater and not the usual TV studio?

@michaelquinn8618 7 месяцев назад

I remember getting that album and my mother actually loved it especially till there was you

@denpea-mm8zr 8 месяцев назад

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.

@denpea-mm8zr 8 месяцев назад

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".

@Nina5144 8 месяцев назад

A little jealousy from the French press methinks

@MrRETEROROB 8 месяцев назад

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.

@Parlogram 7 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the info!

@elwin38 8 месяцев назад

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!! 🎶🎶

@that_thing_I_do 8 месяцев назад

I love all the nay sayer comments....I'd change my name.

@kirahastings9900 8 месяцев назад

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.

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

Great memories! Thanks for sharing them!

@morrisonAV 8 месяцев назад

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.

@markjamesmeli2520 8 месяцев назад

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."

@porflepopnecker4376 8 месяцев назад

"She Loves You" (Swan Label) got me first, and then this single sealed the deal. I was five or six years old.

@jamescpotter 8 месяцев назад

Now this 45 rpm story is interesting. Back in November 1963, I was living in Salt Lake City, Utah. One afternoon my 14 year old brother and I (11 as my 12th birthday was December 2) were listening to with KMUR or KNAK, both local top 40 stations. That afternoon in November that was in proximity to Kennedy's assassination, we heard I Want To Hold Your Hand on one of these stations. This was weeks before Capitol released the 45rpm in the states. So how did the DJ's acquire a copy of this 45? Did someone copy an EMI/Parlophone onto a reel-to-reel and it became bootlegged across the country? I have heard others tell me they too heard this single before the January capitol release. After my 12th birthday, this single became more popular on the two local radio stations. By the end of December 1963, we had acquired the Vee Jay LP Introducing The Beatles.

@nvm9040 8 месяцев назад

I hope apple can bring something out like a compilation or maybe a anniversary edition album bc it’s a historic even but I doubt it

@markstevenson6635 8 месяцев назад

They did release compilations very recently

@georgeharrison5362 8 месяцев назад

Andrew...we need to showcase the songs of others around these Beatle releases ...to show how revolutionary they sounded.

@alienskinmusic 21 день назад

agree

@bobcash4617 8 месяцев назад

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.

@SoulSonder26 3 месяца назад

George always was the smart one

@danswan1047 8 месяцев назад

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.

@FinarfinNoldorin 8 месяцев назад

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.

@matthall5336 8 месяцев назад

It was funny, your pronunciation of Maryland (USA). But, seriously... I grew up in the 80s and I knew The Beatles by 3 songs: I Want to Hold Your Hand, Twist and Shout (thanks Ferris Buehler), and Let It Be. They were probably the most frequent Beatles songs played on the radio station my mom listened to. A few years later, I found my mom's 45 of IWTHYH and played it endlessly on my fisher price record player. I didn't care much for I Saw Her Standing There until years later (now perhaps my favorite beatles song). I now own 3 copies of the Capital 45, and 2 of them have picture sleeves. Great story behind the song!

@Nina5144 8 месяцев назад

How else is Maryland pronounced

@conorfurlong 8 месяцев назад

That George newspaper article - would that actually have been written by Brian? (I’m guessing, by the way.)

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

Probably aided by their press officer, Tony Barrow.

@conorfurlong 8 месяцев назад

@@Parlogram yeah, definitely has the feel of that. Great video, as ever. Love them. Keep it up.

@kevmichael2064 8 месяцев назад

My all time favorite album is The White Album....and Meet The Beatles...both are in my #1 spot.....bands #1 The Beatles...#2 CCR...#3 The Beach Boys....#4 The Who...#5 Santana....

@michaelhiatt7377 8 месяцев назад

Another wonderful job as usual! Love your shirt by the way

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

Thanks Michael!

@colinduff2922 8 месяцев назад

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.

@Parlogram 8 месяцев назад

Great memories!

@PimpinBassie2 8 месяцев назад

Revolution 9?

@beyondobscure 8 месяцев назад

Video idea: Odeon Everclean records. Not just for the Beatles. They wear out pretty quickly, apparently, and buying them is pretty hit or miss. Source: Currently trying to return a truly awful copy of A Collection Of Oldies

@0010Kev 8 месяцев назад

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!

@MaxGretinski 8 месяцев назад

Oriole also pressed copies of the UK Parlophone single, due (as you said) to high demand. The Beatles second French LP (No. 1) had only come out about a week before they arrived in Paris. The first pressings have a blue label. The cover that you show, front and back, is the cover to the later (1966+) red-label pressing. Their first French album had come out in December, corresponding to With the Beatles in the UK. "She Loves You" had been a hit -- being the highlight and lead track from their hit EP (Odeon SOE 3741). The first pressing of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in Brazil had a yellow label with "ALTA FIDELIDADE" (high fidelity) at the bottom. You may have known all of this, but getting photos of first pressings wasn't as important as compiling a knock-out video. The story of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is, as you suggest, one of worldwide success. Whatever countries had resisted charting "She Loves You," they found themselves unable to resist the new songs -- so much so that 1964 became the Year of the Beatle in every country where rock and roll was legal. Kudos for another fab filmlet, Andrew.

@BaccarWozat 8 месяцев назад

17:57: Fake composite photo makes George look like a hunchback. The classic method of cutting out the outlines from something else inexpertly with scissors. Probably the work of Billy Shears.

@JustineLaLoba 8 месяцев назад

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!"

@bradparker9664 8 месяцев назад

Andrew: Did you ever notice that Ultra Rare Trax source The Swinging Pig had a logo that said, "The Swinging Pig: Trademark of Quality"? I submit the same is true with "Andrew of Parlogram.". Your research, an area I'm pretty well versed in myself...but yours is unparalleled.

@ronmartin4212 8 месяцев назад

Hey,Andrew-great video!!!Been there with it from the Sullivan shows on.We had most of the records then and Im working on building my 10th recollection since the late '70's when I could finally drive!!My eats perkedupwhen Ifinally got the Parli original-cant ever come up with that small EP font copy that Hayes pressed,just those Decca farmouts.A lot more punchy than the Capitol one. I have dupes on both now,again.

@7bestthings 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for a great video! I really enjoy the amazing "Scrapbook Archive," so much interesting information.

@SQDLVR 8 месяцев назад

Wow! My Beatles experience didn't happen until 1968, when my Dad started buying their albums. Though they had the 45 of I Want To Hold Your Hand. As always very informative video Handsome. Keep them coming! On a side note, do you know when Beatlemania first happened in the Philippines? Was it in 1963/64 with everyone else or much later?

@amb2745 8 месяцев назад

I had come across a couple of articles from years ago, about how Ed Sullivan contemplated not having The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show after Jack Paar showed a clip of The Beatles in January, 1964. Negotiations between Brian Epstein and Ed Sullivan were to have Ed get exclusive rights to breaking The Beatles to America on the Ed Sullivan Show. Even Beatles manager Brian Epstein was furious over Jack Paar scooping Ed Sullivan, thinking that would undermine the exclusive contract Brian had with Ed Sullivan. However, that ended up not happening.

@jorgeb555 8 месяцев назад

So fascinating to hear their thoughts on conquering America or not. They were uncertain. That’s why I believe their Washington, DC concert is probably the most fun they ever had on stage. Furthermore, when they played, “This Boy” with John, Paul, and George all at the same microphone, I think that was the, “We made it, boys.” moment. And finally, when they finished with “Long, Tall Sally” they just cut loose like never before or since. The lyrics “Were gonna have some fun tonight” were never so a propos. I’m sure you will do a video on that show, but had to get that off my chest. It’s going to be a fun 60th anniversary year of 2024 on Parlogram. 😎