My family was at my uncle’s house with his family, eight of us total. I was youngest, of the kids, at 11, Cousin Ken was the oldest at 14. It was a one-hour drive to get home after the show, we had stayed longer so that we could watch it.
Totally oblivious to it ... didn’t have a TV.
Waiting for Topo Gigio to kiss Ed good night. Wasn’t into music yet.
I watched it, was wondering what all the hype was about.
Flight training in Meridian, Mississippi...
...listening to Elvis.
Watching it live on our trusty black and white TV.
A Letter from Elaina--Casey Kasem (1964)
In England. My dad just transferred to AFS High Wycombe.
My little friends agreed. Wigs. My aunt was outraged at the notion and set me straight, but I didn't believe her.
Watching it live on our trusty black and white TV.
I DO remember that Ed Sullivan show...and also remember being told by a church camp mate later that summer, how I looked just like Paul McCartney...I’m female...I was NOT pleased.
There is a fantastic Beatle tribute album available from a group of Nashville session guys known as the Vinyl Kings.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/4068454-Vinyl-Kings
At the site they have a record called: A Little Trip.
The first song is all about watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and deciding to get a guitar and play.
It’s an amazing record, sounds like the old Beatles but the songs are “different”. Very impressive piece of work, and I highly recommend it. can listen to the songs online by poking around.
I was watching The Ed Sullivan show on TV. That’s where.
Yelling at my sister to stop screaming.
Sitting in a friend’s house because she had a color tv.
I win all the facebook “what was your first concert” posts. My first concert was the Beatles.
Not even a though in the mind of my 17 year old father and 13 year old mother (who was much more focused on dreamy Paul that evening).
Second or third grade. I don’t remember specifically seeing that at the time (I now own the set of all their Ed Sullivan appearances - complete episodes including commercials for Pillsbury and Anacin).
I do have a specific memory of walking into the house and seeing them. Thinking, “They shake their hair and the girls scream.” But in my head it was a warm day so it must have been a later appearance. Or I’m just connecting two different memories in my head.
For fans I highly recommend a DVD entitles “Their First American Visit.” The two brothers were given access and filmed much of what happened that week and into the next week when they were on Live from Miami (or as Ed said, Mi am muh) Beach. I love that it’s fly on the wall. No damn 50 years later commentary about “this meant this, this was historic, blah blah blah. Just them and those around the interacting. Being blown away by their first time in America and the great reception they were getting.
Mississippi...in the Air Force.
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?