WAS THIS WHEN THEY TOOK OVER AMERICA?! First Time Reaction To The Beatles - Eight Days A Week! 

If memory serves, it took Louis Armstrong to finally break their hold on #1 after that.

@@Kaddywompous louis seemed like a lovely guy.i loved him in high society and hello dolly.

That was an unsubstantiated anecdote connecting the two with which Walter Cronkite ended his broadcast one evening. It has never been substantiated as fact. I heard "The Beatles" recordings on a Chicago radio station in October, 1963 -- before the assassination. Those were from "Introducing The Beatles," which had been released in August, 1963. And "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was taking off on another radio station, with escalating requests, on radio during November, 1963.

@@jnagarya519 It's not that no one heard the Beatles until after the assassination. It's that most of us (including me) didn't become familiar with them until they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in Feb 1964. They definitely did help the country's mood at the time.

@@carundle-ds1op If you want to believe that, fine; but there is no SUBSTANTIATION for what was nothing more than an idle comment from Cronkite. Believing it does not make it substantiated or true.

When Ozzy was asked about the biggest band of all time, he said... "Hands down, without question, no debate...The Beatles. The Beatles. The Beatles."

They are much more than that. To this day, The Beatles are the biggest selling music artist of all time, regardless of genre. Peace

The Beatles played the 1st concert at Shea and Paul McCartney played in the last concert there joining Billy Joel and his "Last Play at Shea"!

The first ever stadium concert by any artists. Again the Beatles were trend setters. From what I understand the audio could not have been very good since it just came out of the stadiums PA system. The Beatles couldn’t even hear themselves playing because of all the screaming.

I was only three or four! I still have a memory of it though, and I have loved them obviously since I was a toddler, laugh.

Thank you Ed Sullivan for bringing us the Beatles

😊 Always makes me happy to hear a Beatles song❣️

Ozzy describes them as “going to bed in a black and white world and then waking up in a world full of color” and I think that’s the best way to describe them honestly

Interesting! I had always thought it was a "Ringoism" as in "it's been a hard days night". (though maybe that wasn't him either!)

It was a taxi he got not a limousine

VERY cool!

@@Rob-fs8vq Yes, that WAS him .

@@MeMe-mq4zuPaul wrote in his anthology " I remember writing that with John, at his place in Weybridge, from something said by the chauffeur who drove me out there. John had moved out of London. to the suburbs. I usually drove myself there, but the chauffeur drove me out that day and I said, ‘How’ve you been?’ - ‘Oh, working hard,’ he said, ‘working eight days a week.’

Yes, at Shea Stadium it looks like. Not their first U.S. tour, but a year or two later.

Ssshhh! Don't tell anyone! Who knows what they'll do if they find out that technology existed before they were born?

@@SpaceCattttt 😂😂

@@johnsilva9139 Aug. 15, 1965, and yes it was FILMED in COLOR.

I was 18 in 1965 and I saw them live in concert in Cleveland in 1964 and 1966, and those tickets were not "very expensive." My tix were $4.50 in 1964 and $5.50 in 1966. During the summer I worked in Higbee's Dept. Store and the rate for us teens then to work there was $1.15 an hour. SO I only had to work 4 to 5 hours to earn the money for the tickets. NOW to see Paul McCartney would cost me a months' salary!

i remember watching them on my b&w tv console. i was 10 😊

Same here in Australia.

Indeed, Beatlemania started in Britian at least a year before it hit the US

@@sourisvoleur4854 Is right. Always funny how the Yanks claim first in everything...

great grandmas now

They were absolutely fainting en mass just at the sight of these guys . Their concerts were just nuts . In those days you didnt assigned seats by purchasing beforehand , you just came to the gate and there was thousands of people in a frenzy to get a close seat

@@bobsblues9944 It wasn't the fainting the janitorial staff remarked on. More a certain fluid they had to mop up.

@@bobsblues9944 Oh no, that is TOTALLY incorrect. If you couldn't purchase seats before hand, you had to wait in line at the box office to buy tickets LONG before the concert day. Fans would camp out overnight or DAYS ahead to get the best tickets at the box office of the venue. Here in Cleveland where I saw them, they wouldn't ALLOW camping out. In 1964 we had to send a POSTCARD to the radio station sponsoring the concert, and they would do drawings every day. IF your postcard was picked, youneceived a notification in the mail on how to purchase your ticket. MY postcard and my FRIENDS' postcards were never picked. We only managed to get tickets for the 1964 concert, after overhearing on the bus back from downtown, that the station still had some tickets left over, but you had to go DOWN to the radio station and show them ANY kind of BEATLES' FAN CLUB card (and there were a lot of fan clubs at the time, of which we were members of) , and THEN you could buy whatever ticket/tickets they had left over, right there at the station. Ours were on the floor way in the back in the 72nd row of about 76 rows. The girl in front of my friend who went to the station, bought the last 3 BALCONY seats in the auditorium (we needed 3 tickets). We would have had a much better view in the balcony. To get back to you saying there were no assigned seats. ALL seats WERE ASSIGNED, it's on our ticket stubs, still have mine. At NO place or venue was it just opening the gates and rushing to get a close seat. When they played in more stadiums for baseball , after this first Shea Stadium concert you see in this video (FIRST EVER Rock Group to play in a cavernous stadium like Shea) , NO ONE had a close seat, and NO fans were allowed or SEATED on the field in front of the stage. I was at the 1966 Cleveland concert in our old Municipal Stadium, where the Browns (football) and the Indians (baseball) played. (it was demolished in the early '90s and the current stadium for the Browns was built at the same site.) I was 19 at the time. The stage was always set up on 2nd base of the baseball diamond, and we fans were in the stands of the stadium. We were ALL far away from them at Stadium shows. When those of us in the lower bowl, knocked down the barrier ( flimsy snow fences) and rushed to the stage on second base. The show was stopped, the Beatles were hustled off the stage into the trailer behind the stage where they changed clothes before the concert. Police were getting us back to our seats in the stands, which took about 20 minutes or so to clear the field. If anyone got on the field again, the authorities would shut down the show permanently.

​@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee " Lennon had hurt his vocal cords and needed to be layered after the first album and it was getting worse, not better." That's absolute nonsense, factually incorrect. For their first album "PLEASE PLEASE ME" (1963) Lennon already had a head cold before the recording session started, and which at the end of the night left him barely able to finish his lead vocal on the last track recorded, "Twist And Shout". He didn't "hurt his vocal cords and needed to layered" - whatever the hell "layered" is supposed to mean - afterwards. He got over his head cold, voice intact and in fine shape as always.

@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee they didn't HAVE stage monitors at all, they weren't a "thing" then, I don't think they even existed. THAT is why they couldn't hear themselves, even if they had monitors I doubt they would be much help at all, but it may have helped a bit to hear themselves over the screaming. All that is on the stage is their amplifiers for their guitars. The sound was fed to the crowd through the PA (Public Address) system in the stadium that was used during the games. For Shea, it was being recorded to be shown on TV later, so they had sound boards set up on the field in front of the stage and the feed was going directly from their microphones to the recording equipment.

They we're no 1 b4 ed Sullivan

This was true of every concert, which is why eventually they gave up touring.

@@sourisvoleur4854 I won't even go to concerts anymore simply because the live sound is so horrible. It simply is not worth the money to pay over $200 for a ticket to be assaulted with sound that is two or three times too loud. It just ruins the entire concert, and it was an Eagles concert in 2018 that was so terrible I have at last said no more.

@@ToddSauve I have permanent non-progressive high frequency hearing loss as well as tinnitis, and I'm convinced it's from over-loud concerts.

No this is the studio version

@@letsgomets002 The filming of them performing (while it may be the studio version that's used...) is still from when the Beatles played at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York on August 15, back in 1965.

It was a program called Our World, and the Beatles showed up at the end of it. But they weren't the only people on it!

That was their performance of All You Need is Love, which strangely I've never seen in a reaction video.

@@user-pf7jm9go6o I think I have. But not in the last year or two.

Sounds dirt cheap but it wasn’t back then. Adjusted for inflation, $5.00 in 1965 is equivalent to about $50.00 today. The Beatles played a dozen songs and were finished after half an hour.

@@humphreygruntwhistle3946 I was 17 - 19 years old during their touring years in the U.S from 1964 through 1966. I worked in the summer at a huge department store downtown, and teen employees were pain $1. 15 an hour. My tickets for the 1964 concert, was $4.40 and for the 1966 concert $5.50. I only had to work 4 to 5 hours to earn the money for those tickets. Plus I earned $5 week allowance from my parents. I also babysat, at 50 cents to $1 an hour (depending on what I had to do.) We were NOT rich at all. My mom was a stay at home mom, as most mothers were then.

we girls didn't care, we already KNEW the songs and what they sounded like as we had all the records up to that point. We wanted to SEE them, and just SEEING them (and being so FAR AWAY from them) was overwhelming and frustrating (cos we couldn't get CLOSE to them) and it manifested itself with crying, screaming, cheering, etc. I did too, I was 17 in 1964. It was a GREAT and FUN period, that I could live over and over again if it was possible.

and you have EVERY right TO BE PROUD! I love Liverpool and her people. I am an American and married one in 1971 (we were pen-pals from early 1965 through 1968.)

What has always amused me was that Capitol Records, who were owned by EMI at the time and had first choice of EMI's UK output, didn't want to know. So EMI made one-off deals with Vee-Jay and Swan who just happened to have contracts to have their US stuff released in the UK. Eventually Capitol woke up and released "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" at the end of '63 and (presumably) promoted it. That along with Ed Sullivan's efforts ensured maximum exposure. Add in the fab four's talent and charisma and voila Beatlemania!! Capitol really exploited the US record buying public by releasing tracks in different album combinations and singles which weren't released in the UK, "Eight Days a Week" being an example.

Well, whatever it is, it's some kind of G-chord. My guess is it's a GRRRAAAANNGG!!

Ringo came up with A Hard Day’s Night.

The Beatls released their first record in the UK in 1962. They had split by 1969, that's seven years and they were all still in their twenties when they split. A truly amazing body of work is such a short time.

I live here in KC--where was the concert? Old Municipal Stadium?

@@kckelly7889 , yes it was at Municipal Stadium.

the concert is from 1965

Oooops! I meant the original title of "Help!" was "Eight Arms to Hold You."