Posted on 02/09/2022 6:54:32 AM PST by JonPreston
My sister had one with "My Bonnie" on the flip side. I'd have to research what the "hit" was on the rother side.
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.
Yep, still remember the alternate soundtrack “Turn it down!”
Five years from being able to much of anything. I am told I did watch the moon landing in 1969, though.
Probably depositing a diaper nugget for my folks.
Papa Lurkin obliged us to watch it. Didn’t appeal to me.
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.
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.
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.
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
And that's when my now 55 year Beatle journey began.......
Supposedly 73 million people watched. I was one of them. The Beatles were a game-changer.
Crapping my diapers.
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.
Sitting in my parents bedroom watching Ed Sullivan. They were watching something else. I was in the 3rd grade.
hello muddah hello faddah
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?
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.
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.
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