Love the songs.
The one thing my sister never forgave me for even 50 years later LOL. She was 5 years older and wanted to watch Ed Sullivan because The Beatles were on that night. I was maybe 7-8 and wanted to watch Bonanza and an argument took place. Mom comes in and turns the TV off end of argument.
Fast forward to 2015 and sis is in a memory care unit with Dementia. Every time I visited here which was several times a week she said "You're a Brat. I wanted to watch Ed Sullivan and The Beatles and you wanted to watch Bonanza. Mom turned the TV off." Bless her heart she couldn't remember hamburgers I had just brought to her and asked me where they were after she ate them but she never forgot that LOL.
“Watched Ed Sullivan with a babysitter when the Beatles 1st made American TV. She didn’t stop screaming. LOL!”
Sullivan and his producers swiftly recognized that The Beatles were something monumental by the end of 1963. He made sure that their first live televised performance in the US would be on his show, and, on February 9th, 1964, the Beatles performed on The Ed Sullivan Show.
We were in Norfolk finishing up my tour of active duty in the Navy. My wife’s mother called her and told her to watch the show. My wife’s music teacher/piano teacher was calling everyone telling them that history was going to be made with that show and not to miss it.
We watched it with a neighbor couple, he was the Security Group Chief on the cruiser that JFK had loved. His wife was a great woman from Ethiopia and sang in Italian. He grew up in Kentucky/Tenn. and was good with a guitar and not a bad singer.
My wife played the piano at weddings and the organ at her church while growing up and has an incredible ear re music.
I thought that she and the Chief were going to pass out watching and listening to the Beatles. He was playing and singing his “Air guitar. My wife was totally blown away.
The Ethiopian gal and I couldn’t believe our spouses..
Later my wife said that the Beatles were beyond just a pop group. They had that magic and used it. She said everyone in that TV audience would probably remember that show forever.