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 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.
Watching on a very snowy B&W TV from a station 225 miles away
I was two… likely sleeping
My Dad hated The Beatles when I was growing up. "Bunch of long-haired sissies with out-of-tune guitars" was basically his description of them. There was a real generational divide back then with regard to music. Today, you have grandmothers rocking out to Van Halen.
February 9 is also the day I was discharged from active duty from the Marine Corps back in 1985. I remember flying from San Diego to Boston that day with my whole life still ahead of me. I wish I could go back to 1985 knowing what I know now!
In 1st grade.
I was allowed to stay up to watch it - but didn’t understand what all the hoopla was about.
They looked like such strange creatures to me.
Today - die-hard Beatles fan forever!
First grade at a Baptist church in San Clemente praying against the debils music.
Working like hell to complete my engineering decree, graduate and get married
Incidentally, my favorite song by the Beatles is The Girl I Love (1966)
In front of the Dumont B&W with four siblings in the living room in Northern NJ. I was in second grade, that whole Sunday was anticipating the Ed Sullivan Show.
Give Me a Kiss--The Hornets (1964)