First Beatle song you ever heard?
aroundtown
all of the other Brit Invasion bands *all* the time.
Mostly I remember the Please Please Me LP getting a good workout along with
the singles. And the DJ playing Roll Over Beethoven and announcing that it
hadn't been released in the US (yet), only in Britain, but bygod WLS had it!
Chick Anery
aroundtown
"Chick Anery" <whoca...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> The Night Before.
heh
>
Ehtue
Late at night on my Toshiba transitor radio next to my pillow, I could pick
up KOMA in Oklahoma City, the "coolest" station heard by the mid- and
mountain-west. I Want To Hold Your Hand was the first Beatles song I
remember them playing. It blew me away (and millions of others). Thanks,
KOMA.
Later, of course, both the Meet The Beatles and the Introducing the Beatles
LPs got a lot of play. For some reason, I remember Chains got a lot of
local play (on KYSN and KIMN).
-Ehtue
Jazman
time) bought the single, and I remember her taking me to the record store
with her that cold January day when she bought "Meet The Beatles!" I still
remember the salesman asking her, "Stereo", or "Hi-Fi"...She bought the mono
one, it was cheaper, of course. She still has this original LP with the "The
Beatles Are Coming" sticker on the album cover, with a picture of the 4
hairstyles only!
appe...@yahoo.com
first of the next generation in the family and he would send me stuff
every three or four months. Cool military patches my mom would stitch
on my winter jackets and records since my mom and dad were very young
when I was born (19 and 20 respectively) and were still into Elvis,
Buddy Holly etc.
Uncle Paul sent me the Please Please Me LP, which got me snickers from
my grade 6 classmates, that is, until IWHYH was released...
So, the first Beatles song for me was I Saw Her Standing There. 'her
hand in MIEEENN' Woooo."
whosoever
Seems like "long time no read" fella.
Strange, but I read the OP's question a little differently. "Hearing"
is a specific kind of memory, so I had to go all the way back to high
school daze, when am radio was playing this new guy Elvis, and my mom
was in the passenger seat, and when "I Want You I Need You I Love You"
came on, I interrupted the conversation we were having and said
"Listen!" and she was wowed. Sooo romantic!
Next memory (first memory of "seeing" the Beatles was the first Ed
sullivan show, and *that* was at my aunties house in the San Fernando
Valley)... now I have recently been seeing lots of posts about what
they sang and when they sang it, when it was recorded, how it was first
released and on and on and on... but the "new" information has
overwhelmed my original memory, so I don't remember a specific song
from the Sunday afternoon. What I do remember was my auntie poo-pooing
them instantly as a "fad" and their music as "noise" and me seeing this
huge magenta aura around the big old Magnavox TV with the stereo (!)
speakers built in. I blurted it out unconsciously: No, Sylvia... this
is gonna be the biggest thing that ever happened."
The first Beatle song I "heard" (from "White Men Can't Jump" Woody to
Wesley as BBall Hustler #1: "You can listen to Jimi -- but you can't
HEAR Jimi!") was
I Saw Her Standing There.
("well she was just 17
You know what I mean
& the way she looked
Was way beyond compare...)
OmiGOD!
appe...@yahoo.com
> My uncle was a young military man (20) station in the UK. I was the
> first of the next generation in the family and he would send me stuff
> every three or four months. Cool military patches my mom would stitch
> on my winter jackets and records since my mom and dad were very young
> when I was born (19 and 20 respectively) and were still into Elvis,
> Buddy Holly etc.
> Uncle Paul sent me the Please Please Me LP, which got me snickers from
> my grade 6 classmates, that is, until IWHYH was released...
> So, the first Beatles song for me was I Saw Her Standing There. 'her
> hand in MIEEENN' Woooo."
Seems like "long time no read" fella.
==Can you splain what you mean here? And by the way you left out the
"tio" at the end of the last word of the last sentance above - a
trademark of mine - but then again - how would you know?
Strange, but I read the OP's question a little differently. "Hearing"
==Well putting the needle down on the old "record player and having all
the science work when the sound comes out of the speakers would, I
believe, constitute: HEARING.
==Knock Knock - BOO !
marc...@yahoo.com
"She Loves You" from a film clip of The Beatles which appeared on the
Jack Paar Show, 1/3/64.
It is still my favorite Beatles' song.
t...@aerovons.com
Only I saw the clip a few weeks earlier on The CBS Evening News, a
Cronkite report.
I was blown away by the song, and the sight of them.
The song was and is still an amazing piece of music.
TH
marc...@yahoo.com
Ironically, a few months after Beatlemania began, my sister, a devout
Beatlemaniac, told me that she had seen the Cronkite piece (i.e. CBS
report from England) in December, and had never told me about it. I
don't think the CBS piece showed the entire song like the film on
Paar's show.
It was magical. It was like the world was just going along fine, then
all of a sudden this wondrous magical sound permeated the air, and it
was so much better than anything I ever heard before. No subtle
improvement, but a whole new stratum much higher and in-depth than
anything that had gone before.
The Beatles continued to excel and surprise(Sgt. Pepper was a na amzing
musical development for example), but nothing quite like that first
sound of "yeah, yeah, yeah" and the harmony of the verses. It was like
a band of angels had descended upon the earth to herald a new
awakening.
And people ask me why I think the Sixties were so great.
It was because of The Beatles and everything they either initiated or
were catalysts for.
We were spoiled by greatness, but wouldn't have had it any other way.
Jeff Kvdute
in 1962.
Jeff
marc...@yahoo.com
England? Germany? On the radio?
majcm
on tv. So I heard those songs (Can't Buy me Love was fav) then bought the
first greatest hits album, the red one with the four of them looking over a
building rail at the young age then on the back of the album the same setup
but they are in the 70's hippie stage. Cool. The first song I heard on that
album was "Love Me Do" and my Beatles mania was born!!
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Edmon
The Beatles immeditly. I still listen to it all the time it is
timeless. :)
Edmon
marc...@yahoo.com
majcm wrote:
> I was 14 when I discovered them in 1972 when they showed "hard day's night"
> on tv. So I heard those songs (Can't Buy me Love was fav) then bought the
> first greatest hits album, the red one with the four of them looking over a
> building rail at the young age then on the back of the album the same setup
> but they are in the 70's hippie stage. Cool. The first song I heard on that
> album was "Love Me Do" and my Beatles mania was born!!
>
Just out of curiosity. Simple math shows you were born around 1957 or
1958. You would have been around six when The Beatles first came to
the US, and about 12 when they broke up. Were you totally unaware of
them from '64-'70? Did you have older sibling who listened to them? I
would consider you to be born right at the tail end of the Sixties
Generation, and old enough to know who The Beatles were when they were
still a group, so I'm just trying to figure out why you didn't discover
them until the early 70s.
Chick Anery
The Beatles when she got the AHDN gig.
John Lambrechts
Not sure but I'm a fan now, thats all that matters.
Stephen X. Carter
wrote:
>Patti Boyd (whatever her name is nowadays) claims she didn't know about
>The Beatles when she got the AHDN gig.
Frankly, that's unbelievable.
--
steve.hat.stephencarter.not.com.but.net
Nothing is Beatle Proof!!
DanKaye
I believe the first one I heard was either P.S. I Love You, She Loves
You, or Love Me Do. All those early V-J singles and such were being
played...
But the ones that really did me in and made me become a die hard
Beatles fan was "I Saw Her Standing There"/"I Want To Hold Your Hand".
I especially remember hearing them on Feb. 9th, 1964 on the Ed
Sullivan Show and after that I HAD to have a guitar and I got one the
following Christmas.
Secret Agentman
then about the original question? So many ego's on board the Beatles choo
choo train.
<appe...@yahoo.com> wrote in message >
whosoever
Hmm. Mr. S.X.C. is now scrambling his email addy. Oh well.
Stephen, what is unbelievable... this man's "late" coming to believe in
the Greatness of the Fabs? (So what? Memories are a mixed up thing,
music has emotional and psychological effects on our emotions and our
minds - why can't someone who was born at the tail end of the 1st
generation be just as legitimately "hooked" by a song as you are to the
whole friggin "history of The Boys"?)
Or are you now saying you find this out of context quote from Patti
Boyd (model, dollybird, married to George H. when all of us were young
and hopeful) unbelievable?
Alternatively: What do you care whether a First Wife knew "about the
Beatles" before she was cast in A Hard Day's Night? Patti was a top
model. She was a gorgeous specimen of British dollybird status... and
not the only one who was "new" at that time... Jane Asher met Paul on
that set, and she was already a veteran actress who'd been on film and
on stage since she was in grade school!
And of course, if you were fishing for a "diatribe from Frannie or
Schwartz" who observed first hand how Yoko Ono watched in wonder in
Studio B (YES I CALL IT B!) while the four boys stood up in front of
the two of us and played a medley of greatest hits, just for the two
girlfriends? Yoko didn't know about the Beatles because she was a full
time artist in an active community (Fluxus) in NYC and she probably
neither listened to Top 40 radio nor watched TV on Sunday nights.
In retrospect, it seems that Patti and Yoko were "initiated" into
Knowledge of the Fab Four when they first shared meat space with them.
Of course I knew (see above post on first "hearing") who they were...
but I was a copywriter with a swinging career in NYC, I had a movie
idea I wanted to sell to Paul but when I got there he had other
ideas...
Francie
Jeff Kvdute
Chek
"Stephen X. Carter" <steve@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
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Not unbelievable at all really.
'Beat groups' were a part of working class 'weekend'
culture.
A middle class 'actress' like Patti would have been mixing
more with the young middle class
'trad jazz' scene (cf 'That'll be the Day' - starring
Ringo!) I'd guess.
(And I am only guessing).
It was The Beatles who came along, changed everything and
made working class culture fashionable right
throughout society, even well before their 'Revolution'
days.
But at the time of AHDN, all that was yet to happen
Chek.
traa...@aol.com
Beatles and all of the other Brit Invasion bands *all* the time >>
for me it was listening to my aunt's import copy of PPM that turned me
onto them in late 1963. She was big into them, dunno how she'd heard
of them, and where in fuck she got Beatle records form the UK in
Cornfield, Iowa is beyond me. But she was more into the DC5, whom I
also liked from the start...
lugnut
wrote:
>On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:03:38 -0700, "aroundtown"
><aroun...@angelfire.net> wrote:
>
>>Personally I only recall (in 64) and the radio playing non-stop Beatles and
>>all of the other Brit Invasion bands *all* the time.
>>
>>Mostly I remember the Please Please Me LP getting a good workout along with
>>the singles. And the DJ playing Roll Over Beethoven and announcing that it
>>hadn't been released in the US (yet), only in Britain, but bygod WLS had it!
>>
Well, since everybody's added their recollections of catching the
original wave, here's a take from a 27-year-old.
I think the first Beatles tune I would have heard was probably
actually not the Beatles - My grandmother used to pick up those $1
albums and tapes from the cut-out bin and give them to me when I came
over, because I wasn't too picky about what I'd listen to as a kid,
and one of these trips resulting in a cassette of "The Silver
Beetles." Can't remember exactly what songs were on it, but I
remember playing the tape 'til it wore out.
That was probably when I was no older than 5 or 6, and in the years
that followed, I had pretty much heard nothing of the Beatles except
what was on oldies radio - Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, Eight Days a
Week, etc. - and had more or less resigned them to the "oldies" file
in my head: good music, but nothing I was too interested in at the
time - after all, how could they compete with my affections for bands
like Guns n' Roses and Motley Crue at the time? :)
But somewhere around the age of 15, I found a dog-eared, beat-to-death
copy of the White Album at a flea market for 50 cents and grabbed it
on the basis I thought it was "cool." But then I took it home and
listened to it, and through all the skips and pops and scratches,
found a whole new musical world opened. And as it turned out, the
first disc inside the sleeve was an Alice Cooper album, so I only
wound up with album #2, but that was enough. "Helter Skelter" blasted
me out of my impression that the Beatles weren't about anything but
"nice, polite" pop music, "Sexy Sadie" and "Yer Blues" made me finally
realize what all these 'old folks' were raving about when they
mentioned Lennon, "Revolution 9" managed to both freak me out and
fascinate me.
After that, I found Magical Mystery Tour and fell in love with it too,
and within a couple years the "Anthology" series debuted on ABC and I
finally got filled in on much of everything else I was missing - and
Anthology is mainly what I credit for really leading me to discovering
the Beatles and understanding how incredible it must have all seemed
when it was first being released.
It's a shame, though, how many people my age think of the Beatles as
little more than "the N'Sync of the '60s" (a direct quote from one of
my friends) and can't shake that impression no matter how much
evidence and argument is presented to them. I can't decide if it's
just ignorance spawned from having not heard much of anything except
what gets played on oldies radio, or if it has something to do with
the way the "image" of the Beatles has been repackaged for the current
generation - any thoughts on that one?
-lugnut
EDS
"lugnut" <lug...@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
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Good remembrance.
I think the quality of the music eventually wins out most people.
I know in the 60's I hated Elvis (not that I'd heard much of him) because he
was a greaser king and we were trying so hard to emulate the coolness of the
Beatles (long, dry hair). It was hip to diss anything that came before the
Fabs, so I did.
It wasn't until my early 20's that I started really listening to E and of
course it was impossible not to become fan, because the music was so good.
I think eventually for most of your peers they will hear one Beatle song
somewhere and say 'whoa, who was THAT?' and it might be enough moderate
their views, if not have them actively pursue other titles in the same vein.
Of course, some people are simply hopeless. All you can do is smile, pat
them on the head as you would a senile ancient relative and let them cling
to whatever music (if any) they find important in their life. :)
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BillyShears
> Personally I only recall (in 64) and the radio playing non-stop Beatles
and
> all of the other Brit Invasion bands *all* the time.
>
> Mostly I remember the Please Please Me LP getting a good workout along
with
> the singles. And the DJ playing Roll Over Beethoven and announcing that
it
> hadn't been released in the US (yet), only in Britain, but bygod WLS had
it!
It's apparently not possible for me to recall the very first F4 song
that found my gentle eardrums, but the earliest F4(or any band's,
really) song that I consciously thought- "Hey, I LOVE that!" starts:
[accidental feedback! urgent riffs!]
Baby's good to me, you know,
She's happy as can be, you know,
/SHE SAID SO/!
I'm in love with her and I feel fine.
Oh man what I would give for a shot of that effervescent energy I
felt at the time! {:0)
Bå©ears
marc...@yahoo.com
Are you sure about the year...1962 would be a wee bit early, even in
England, not to mention Kansas.
asbb
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> Personally I only recall (in 64) and the radio playing non-stop Beatles
> and all of the other Brit Invasion bands *all* the time.
In My Life is the first one I recall hearing in the early 1980's. It was my
dad's favorite song and he encouraged me to listen to it after I found his
Rubber Soul album.
Jeff Kvdute
Sorry I was wrong. Just checked with my parents. It was Mid to late
"63." Probably the Latter.
Jeff
Stephen X. Carter
<che...@boosinternet.com> wrote:
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>"Stephen X. Carter" <steve@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
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>> On 24 Jul 2005 21:30:13 -0700, "Chick Anery"
>> <whoca...@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Patti Boyd (whatever her name is nowadays) claims she
>>>didn't know about
>>>The Beatles when she got the AHDN gig.
>>
>> Frankly, that's unbelievable.
>>
>
>Not unbelievable at all really.
>'Beat groups' were a part of working class 'weekend' >culture.
>A middle class 'actress' like Patti would have been mixing
>more with the young middle class
>'trad jazz' scene (cf 'That'll be the Day' - starring Ringo!) I'd guess.
>(And I am only guessing).
>It was The Beatles who came along, changed everything and
>made working class culture fashionable right
>throughout society, even well before their 'Revolution'
>days.
>But at the time of AHDN, all that was yet to happen
Anyone who actually lived in the UK through those time will find her
assertion more than hard to believe.
From some time in the spring/summer of 1963 (not a typo, as it was when
"She Loves You" was released and when they had their own programme on
the BBC 'Pop Goes The Beatles' - an extraordinary and unusual event in
itself), through to the massive (make that MASSIVE) fuss surrounding
their appearance at the Royal Command Performance, the media (press and
TV) coverage of the Beatles was a growing phenomenon.
They were regularly front page news - initially in the tabloids, but
eventually in the broadsheets.
They were regularly featured on the TV and Radio news - initially as a
'curio' item, and then as a genuine news item.
There were peaks when they were on the (famous) "Sunday Night at the
London Palladium", the Royal Command Performance, and then the return
from the first visit to the USA.
It was H U G E
All of these things preceded the filming of AHDN, and Patti meeting
George.
OK, there are no (auto)biographies of Patti out there (now there would
be an interesting book!), so I confess that I do not know much about her
personal background, but she'd have had to have been brought up in a
closed nunnery to have been her age, and not to have been aware of the
Beatles.
Sorry. Having lived through it, I stand by my assertion. :-))
Chek
"Stephen X. Carter" <steve@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
I freely admit I have no facts whatever to contribute to the
real situation with Patti.
But I still think it's possible that what she says is true.
I think I was 9 when Love Me Do was released (as they used
to say), and can remember each new
Beatle's record being better than the last, and miles better
than anything else around at the time,
the Royal Variety Show, the Saturday morning radio
appearances etc. I grew up with it too.
But, the world was a different place then. 'Massive' media
coverage had far less reach than today.
TV ownership was far sparser, The Fabs certainly weren't on
all radio stations, and two
windscreen wipers and a heater were optional extras on
'motor cars'.
And there were many middle class households who wouldn't
allow the more 'common' newspapers
-the tabloids-of-the-day, or even a television into the
house.
The 'wireless' tuner would be welded to 'The BBC Home
Service'.
And 'pop' music - particularly 'guitar' music was a passing
fad, daddio.
I'm not saying Patti had that type of background, but I
wouldn't be surprised.
And yes, possibly convent educated too.
Someone's gonna say this is all wrong soon, aren't they?
Luckily, I don't mind learning the hard way.
Chek