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(VANITY) Where were you on Feb 9, 1964 (Beatles, Ed Sullivan)
Twitter ^ | 2/9/22 | Moi

Posted on 02/09/2022 6:54:32 AM PST by JonPreston



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To: rktman
I had a copy of a Beatles 45 single which had “Love Me Do” on one side and “Please Please Me” on the flip side. Was it the first Beatles record to come into the U.S.? Guess we’ll never know.

My sister had one with "My Bonnie" on the flip side. I'd have to research what the "hit" was on the rother side.

21 posted on 02/09/2022 7:06:45 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: JonPreston

I was hiding behind a chair in the living room watching because it was past my bedtime. My dad caught me and sent me to my room. I made such a fuss they let me watch the rest. I was 6 and it’s one of the most vivid memories of my childhood.


22 posted on 02/09/2022 7:07:53 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: 1Old Pro

Yep, still remember the alternate soundtrack “Turn it down!”


23 posted on 02/09/2022 7:08:18 AM PST by bigbob
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To: JonPreston

Five years from being able to much of anything. I am told I did watch the moon landing in 1969, though.


24 posted on 02/09/2022 7:09:24 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: JonPreston

Probably depositing a diaper nugget for my folks.


25 posted on 02/09/2022 7:10:10 AM PST by Hazwaste (Socialists are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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To: JonPreston

Papa Lurkin obliged us to watch it. Didn’t appeal to me.


26 posted on 02/09/2022 7:10:17 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: JonPreston

4 y/o staying with relatives because my dad was in Vietnam for the 1st of 2 tours.

Still remember it though, also remember my 2 early teen girl cousins were acting accordingly.


27 posted on 02/09/2022 7:10:29 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: JonPreston
What were the earlier names for the Beatles?

The Silver Beetles was one of the earlier band names before The Beatles. John Lennon wanted a name that sounded English. He wanted The Crickets, but Paul McCartney, laughing, said, "I think that's already taken."It was Stuart Sutcliffe who suggested they call themselves The Beetles.

They later used the word BEAT (as in rhythm) in the name, calling themselves The Beatles.

28 posted on 02/09/2022 7:10:49 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: JonPreston
My Dad didn't have a television in the house most of the time we were growing up. He would buy a second hand one on occasion and when it conked, they were generally more expensive to fix than buying a new second hand one.

I do remember watching the Cuban missile crisis and the JFK funeral, but the first time we had a regular TV is when my big sis bought one with her baby sitting money, a 12" black and white. 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.

Partly as a result of very little television exposure, exactly none of my five other siblings grew up to be bed wetting liberals. Two were merit scholars and, between us, we earned 12 undergraduate and graduate degrees.

29 posted on 02/09/2022 7:12:14 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: JonPreston

I was a sophomore in college at the time. I did watch this show and had heard the Beatles before. The performance on Ed Sullivan was overwhelmed by the screaming of the young girls in the audience.

For me the early Beatles songs were a poor version of earlier Rock and Roll by Elvis, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. However, as time passed I did become a fan especially with the Sergeant Pepper’s album


30 posted on 02/09/2022 7:12:20 AM PST by DeFault User
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To: JonPreston
I was in second grade, it was a Sunday night. Black and white TV. The next day on the bus we were all excited about what we saw that night.

And that's when my now 55 year Beatle journey began.......

31 posted on 02/09/2022 7:13:04 AM PST by China Clipper ( Animals? I love animals. See? There's one there, right next to the potatoes!)
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To: JonPreston

Supposedly 73 million people watched. I was one of them. The Beatles were a game-changer.


32 posted on 02/09/2022 7:13:11 AM PST by plain talk
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To: JonPreston

Crapping my diapers.


33 posted on 02/09/2022 7:13:47 AM PST by fwdude (If a fraudulent election falls in the woods and no judge is around to hear it, did it fall?)
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To: JonPreston

Pop Hates The Beatles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj-2Tcuzy0I


34 posted on 02/09/2022 7:14:52 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: JonPreston

I’m probably in the silence, significant minority of people who never “got” the Beatles. Some of their songs were kind of nice, but they were British-ugly, not very good voices, and marginal on musicality. And after a few years, their radical leftism became apparent.


35 posted on 02/09/2022 7:16:42 AM PST by fwdude (If a fraudulent election falls in the woods and no judge is around to hear it, did it fall?)
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To: 1Old Pro

Sitting in my parents bedroom watching Ed Sullivan. They were watching something else. I was in the 3rd grade.


36 posted on 02/09/2022 7:16:57 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: dfwgator

hello muddah hello faddah


37 posted on 02/09/2022 7:17:32 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: JonPreston

Sitting on the living room floor in our pj’s with my siblings. Electrifying!! I wonder how many guitars were purchased in the ensuing weeks?


38 posted on 02/09/2022 7:17:39 AM PST by BigJimSportCamper
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To: JonPreston

Watched it at my grandparents house. I was eight, my sister was ten. Grampa was totally disgusted with their long hair. My grandma thought Paul was very good looking. That angered grandpa even more, which my sister and I thought was very funny.


39 posted on 02/09/2022 7:17:52 AM PST by nicksaunt
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To: plain talk

I watched it with my two sisters and parents on the small B&W TV in my parents’ bedroom. I remember my sisters screaming in delight and my mother laughing at the whole spectacle. I can’t remember Dad’s reaction but it probably wasn’t good.


40 posted on 02/09/2022 7:18:12 AM PST by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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