I Want to Hold Your Hand" & "I Saw Her Standing There" out in US 50 years ago today

[Are_grits_groceries]

@BeschlossDC: "I Want to Hold Your Hand" & "I Saw Her Standing There" out in US 50 years ago today, became 1st Beatles #1 in US"


I had that record.
Gawd I'm old.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

1. those song titles sound kind of rapey

[dipsydoodle]

5. Fortunately I saw the sarcasm smilie in time.

[Sheldon Cooper]

7. You forgot this:

[pintobean]

11. That was pretty much my first thought

including the sarcasm.
A thought that would have never occurred to me anywhere else.

[LanternWaste]

2. And still just as fun to listen to in the here and now as back then.

And still just as fun to listen to in the here and now as back then.

[Auggie]

9. Agree

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I remember it well. I didn't like them then and I don't like them now.

[pipi_k]

4. It was

awesome to be a teen/preteen back then.

Fun music.

I was 11.

Great memories.

[dipsydoodle]

6. They precipitated a change in the music

despite the fact some of it was just copies.

[Brother Buzz]

8. Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette

Cigarettes disapperaed on a Beatles covers.

[Freddie]

10. I had that record too

I was 7, it was the first "45" I ever bought with my allowance $$.
Many years later the entire "45" collection (all 60's) of my brother and myself was stolen from his car kinda like Mom throwing away your baseball cards but worse!

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. You want old?

My son, when he was 8-9 or so, asked me, with all seriousness ( this had to be in '76)
"Mom,were you around before the Beatles"?

I looked at him and told him in a very serious tone.."I was around before Elvis!"

and his eyes became enormous.

[pinboy3niner]

24. LOL!

"and his eyes became enormous."

[louis-t]

13. Still have the album.

It's not worth anything because they sold millions of them. 50 years ago, the girls next door who baby sat us came running over to tell us the Beatles were coming to Olympia Stadium. They were combing our hair down onto our faces. We didn't know who the Beatles were.

[dipsydoodle]

14. I had all the early albums in Mono.

Mailed the whole lot from the UK to the mother of one my daughter's friends in CA years ago for Christmas.

[malaise]

15. Same here

Times sure flies

[Tikki]

16. A girl in my class came back from Christmas '63 vacation and threw a flyer she picked up from...

a Lloyds' Center (Portland, OR) record shop on my desk during 9th grade math class.

I had already heard both songs but didn't know much about the band. This flyer had their biogs
and more about their recordings.


Then she said.."That one, John is married"…and I said. "Says here that George Harrison is 19 years old."



Tikki

[spanone]

17. that makes me....

one. old. fuk.

[rock]

18. Wow, the members of that band certainly had short hair

And were so clean-shaven!

[Whisp]

19. back then I loved those songs...

now?
what a bunch of tripe of nothing.

I Saw Me Can't Standing It Anywhere

[Comrade Grumpy]

20. I bought that 45. Wanted Beatle boots, too. Didn't get 'em.

[Omaha Steve]

21. I had Beatle boots in grade school

By the time the Beatles broke up, I knew they were the best ever rock band.

K&R!

OS

[Boomerproud]

22. CBS is apparently going to have a special in February for the 50th anniverary of the Ed Sullivan

Show appearance. Should be great-but bittersweet considering the passage of time. I remember Beatlemania well.

[Omaha Steve]

23. They were never as good as the Rutles!!!

http://www.rutles.org/

The documentary: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Rutles-Anthology-Blu-ray/85709/#Review

[Shandris]

25. I have to confess...

...I didn't think Tiffany was that old yet. Then I remembered it was a remake from 'before my time'.

[HoneychildMooseMoss]

26. I had that 45!

My sister and I danced to it a lot. Both sides. I still get a kick out of those songs!

[LiberalElite]

27. Just the sight of that 45 sleeve

made me smile. Thanks!

[pinboy3niner]

28. Some of us here saw the Beatles in concert when they toured the U.S. in the '60s

I saw them perform at Dodger Stadium--with Bobby Hebb and the Ronettes opening. My ticket may have set me back as much as a whole six bucks.