Posted on 02/09/2022 6:54:32 AM PST by JonPreston
Mississippi...in the Air Force.
“It was epic. Nothing like it.”
Elvis on Ed Sullivan in 1956...60 million viewers was the first “epic”! The British Invasion matched and raised.
February 9, 1964: Starting my new life in my mother’s womb.
Well Johnny was a schoolboy
When he heard his first Beatles song
‘Love Me Do’ I think it was
From then it didn’t take him long
Got himself a guitar
Used to play every night
Now he’s in a rock ‘n’ roll outfit
And everything’s alright
Don’t you know? Don’t you know?
Sunday nights for my family were for watching Wonderful World of Disney and Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.
6th grade.
On Feb 8th, I was playing folk songs on my guitar.
On Feb 10th, it was ROCK.
Eleven grades behind you. I don’t remember watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan; in fact, don’t recall us watching the program very much. Some of the acts were great, but Ed was the biggest stiff in the history of the medium, already beyond the point of self-parody.
At our house, we normally watched Disney on Sunday nights (I think it aired on NBC in those days). And Bonanza was appointment television later in the evening.
From what I remember, if I wasn’t watching TV, I was probably picking at my younger brother and annoying my parents. Typical six-year-old kid...
Probably out having a “few” beers with my friends because we were waiting for our “Greetings” in the mail. Mine came about a month later.
I watched on TV. My first real memory of the group was of their film playing at the local theater. The sounds of girls screaming could be heard from the street. That was something I never heard before, but was repeated when watching video of crowds of girls going nuts. It was the beginning of the long national insanity slide.
Imagine today, that instead of 12-18 year old girls screaming, fainting and wetting their panties. This happened today, would the majority of the fawning be of that age group? Would they be majority female? I think it would be repeated with 10-50 year old people, equally split between THE Sexes.
Question, are males who act like that, actually men and boys anymore?
My sister who was 13 at them time, rolled her eyes at these idiotic girls.
Question, What seperates those who intentionally or unintentionally gave their minds over to this hysteria?
Question, Is the word hysteria sexist now? It is a true thing, women lose their heads as a group over things in a manner apart from the way men do so.
My first thought also, their hair looked like Shite.
Wow Scarlett, I did exactly the same. I even faked illness several times. My mom took me to the Doctors office. His pronouncement, I was healthy as a horse.
I was very bright but socially clumsy, and still am to this day. I hated school and still hate the memories of it. It is a measure of the control my parents had on me that I graduated. Home schooling would have been a dream come true.
We are the exact same age. :)
I/we had gotten out of active duty with the Navy, and we were living in a nice apartment in Fairfax, Va..
A new friend, a chief in my new reserve unit delivered a new color tv set, we had just purchased it from his store, the Friday before. He told us to watch Ed Sullivan the next Sunday night for this great group from London.
My wife, a talented musician, told some neighbors. One was a Stew with TWA. She got excited and asked some of her neighbors over. So many knew about the Beatles and wanted to watch, I had to say no more guests.
My wife called the chief and told him he needed to open his store for the upcoming tv show. He told my wife to send the overflow to his store. Due to the Blue laws, he couldn’t sell anything nor take orders. His store was packed, and even some young cops came into the store to watch and listen. They were called in see if the store was being robbed.
During the show with the Beatles, my wife and most of the women were dancing and shrieking/singing. They were not teens. They were in their mid 20’s to 30’s.
My wife had earned money for playing piano music for concerts in her home area.
She was in awe and said that this group would be famous world wide in a couple of weeks. She underestimated how fast they were famous, then not weeks later.
Jr High. The Beatles were already a huge hit on radio, I don’t remember if I watched the Sullivan show.
We had the Kennedy assassination, the British Invasion, Gulf of Tonkin and Vietnam, all happen within one year.
And the ranking officer at the Gulf of Tonkin was Jim Morrison’s father!
I was in high school. Watched that first performance on Ed Sullivan. Saw them live in Dodger stadium in ‘66. Of course, you couldn’t hear anything over the screams, but I was there.
I was 7 years old…watching Ed Sullivan with my parents.
You can add Clarence "Bon Ton" Garlow's Route 90 (1954) to that kerfluffle.
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