Hey old people! Do you remember this day 43 years ago?

[underpants]

because this was the day BEFORE everything changed

February 7

1964
The Beatles arrived in the U.S. for the first time.

http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory/February-7


7 years later Swiss women could vote
1971
Women in Switzerland were finally granted suffrage.


A SHORT 4 months since JFK had been shot Walter Cronkite decided that we, as a nation, needed to have some fun again.

For nearly a month after booking The Beatles, Sullivan probably gave little if any, additional thought to the British act. But that changed on Dec. 10, 1963, when he saw a four-minute story on the "CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite". Shortly after the program ended, Sullivan called Cronkite to ask him what he knew about "those bugs, or whatever they call themselves." His inability to remember the group's name was typical Sullivan. "Those bugs" were still virtually unknown in America, but Sullivan sensed that was about to change. After all, if Cronkite deemed The Beatles newsworthy, America would soon catch on. Three days later, CBS issued a press release announcing that "The Beatles, wildly popular quartet of English recording stars, will make their first trip to the United States Feb. 7 for their American television debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show,' Sunday, Feb. 9 and 16."

In addition to prompting CBS to begin promotion of The Beatles' upcoming appearance on the Sullivan show, Cronkite's decision to broadcast The Beatles story on Dec. 10 set forth a domino effect causing Beatlemania to explode in America nearly three weeks ahead of schedule. That evening, 15-year-old Marsha Albert of Silver Spring, MD, viewed The Beatles performing "She Loves You" on the CBS news and like what she saw and heard. Marsh wrote a letter to her favorite radio station, WWDC, referring to The Beatles' appearance on the news and asking, "Why can't we have this music in America?" DJ Carroll James, who also had seen The Beatles on the news, arranged to have a copy of the group's latest British single, "I Want to Hold Your Hand", delivered to him by the BOAC airline.

http://www.beatlesagain.com/the-beatles-on-ed-sullivan-2.html

[Ptah]

1. I remember their apperance on the Ed Sullivan show

:old guy:

[Tikki]

5. Yeah, my mom said "Go ahead and..

scoot up closer" (to the TV)...then she turned up the
TV's volume at bit. She left the room, though.

I believe parents must have
talked about the upcoming Beatles
appearance at their work.

Some kids I went to school with were not
allowed to watch that show. :shrug:


Tikki

[Ptah]

27. The next schoolday, the cool kids in my seventh grade classes combed their hair forward.

:hippie:

[Radio_Lady]

37. I was working at CBS on Madison Avenue, NYC when they arrived.

I was 24 years old on February 7, 1964, working in some secretarial/production assistant position.

We all rushed to the window to see them arrive in a limousine.

Frankly, I didn't really appreciate the Beatles when they were popular in the 1960s. Now their music is an album of my of my life -- "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm... ummmm 64, 65, 66, 67, 68??"

I recall we went to a party with some record executive who had one of the first albums of Sergeant Pepper. I really HATED those tracks, but have learned to love them. (Well, most of them.) In 1968, I named my daughter Linda Michelle after their song -- "Michelle, ma belle... these are words that go together well, my Michelle."

Really, I've been a classical music and jazz fan since the 1950s. Didn't much care for Elvis, either.

Thanks for the memories.



In peace,

Radio Lady in Oregon

[av8rdave]

2. I remember their Ed Sullivan appearance

My parents actually believed the Beatles were the leading edge of the communist invasion.

[underpants]

3. No

but they were more famous than Jesus

[av8rdave]

14. Absolutely....although weren't Lennon's words that they

were more popular than Jesus? I seem to remember that, though my memory isn't what it used to be.

[GCP]

4. We watched from the UK with fingers crossed

So many British singers and groups had tried to make a splash in the US and had failed miserably. We were just concerned it would also happen to the Fabs.
We know now how it worked out!

[Virginian]

39. I remember some of them

Chad and Jeremy

Once the Beatles came, there was that whole British invasion:
Stones, Mary Ann Faithful, Kinks, Lulu...

And then there was the American response: Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Monkees, John Sebastian...

I was trying to think of others, but now I can't remember which side of the pond they were from.

I was 12, and still reeling from the Kennedy Assasination. That one hit me hard. The music diversion made it better.

[Iggo]

6. Effin long-hairs.

[BOSSHOG]

7. I do, I do

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. Apparently, from what my dad told me...

My aunt (his little sister) would simply SCREAM at the TV when they came on.

[DeeDeeNY]

9. Seems like yesterday to this oldster

Everyone on my school bus the next morning was talking about them. What a different world that was!

[Silver Swan]

10. I actually do remember 02/07/64.

I was a senior in high school and two classmates and I were at Michigan State University where we were to take a scholarship exam the next day. I remember hearing about the Beatles arrival on the radio.

[RebelOne]

11. Yes, I remember.

And please do not call us senior citizens "old people."

[MissMillie]

12. wouldn't that be 44 years ago?

of course, I'll probably be called either a math nazi or a typing nazi for calling it to your attention, but the only reason why I noticed it is because it happened the year I was born.

[CreekDog]

17. I was going to say the same thing about 44...oh well

by the way, the OP told me that you should "get off his lawn"

:rofl:

[underpants]

18. I was just testing you old people to see if your old people brains could still do the math

No not really I just goofed

[CreekDog]

20. oh yeah?

(i love this)

[KitchenWitch]

34. I was born in 64 too.

[sarge43]

13. Hey youngin', I do remember

Watched the Fab Four both nights. That's right about the need for some fun and they did bring it.

[mitchum]

15. I was only 3 at the time, but I distinctly remember it...

I also named a pet rabbit "George" because he was my favorite (probably because he favored my dad with his lean face and dark hair)
And George still remains my favorite Beatle

[book lady]

16. Yes, I do remember...

And on Sept. 4, 1964, I saw them at the Milwaukee Arena. The price of my ticket was $4.50 :)

[kwassa]

19. I heard a zillion girls scream on the Ed Sullivan show

My 12-year-old self was quite appalled. Such behavior was way beneath my sophisticated sense of the world.

I avoided the Beatles until "Rubber Soul" was given to me as a gift. It is still a superb album.

[trackfan]

21. I do remember it - I was 4, but my sisters were 9 and 13

so I got a big dose of the Beatles. I remember, around the same time, shopping at Zody's department store, and my older sister asked my brother (who was then 18, and had taken the other kids to the store) if he would by her an album because it was supposed to be pretty good - that was Meet the Beatles.

[texanwitch]

22. I was 10 years old at the time.

I remember the Beatles but I didn't watch the Ed Sullivan show.

I was busy playing outside.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. My dear underpants!

I sure as hell remember this day, baby!

I was a junior in college, at the tender age of 20, and I was living in a private dorm...

We jammed ourselves into our lounge and screamed ourselves hoarse!

It was electrifying!

:bounce: :bounce:

[underpants]

26. Awwww

that's cute. You had TV's

:bounce:

[Zoigal]

24. Sure do

Remember watching them on the "Ed Sullivan Show", too. z

[Bake]

25. I was 9 and damn right I remember it!

You young whippersnapper!

Bake

[nutsnberries]

28. i've heard i was plopped in front of the tv

~i was there watching with my older siblings but i had just turned 2.

i don't remember a thing about that night. :P

those oldies are etched in my brain though.
i remember the radio always being on in my childhood...

[Bluestar]

29. I was 14 and on vacation in Florida with my parents

The radio played Beatles music the entire week before the Ed Sullivan appearance. I would sit in my parents' car while they were in the motel room and listen to the music. I couldn't see the Ed Sullivan show because we always had to go to church on Sunday night. My best friend faked being sick so she could stay home and watch--she was smarter than I was!

My husband and I were talking about this last week. Thanks for reminding me.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

30. Hell yeah!!!

Watched it with my big sister and we were both mesmerized. Totally gaga like all the other girls in America. I was 9. I'd never seen a band with three guitar gods/sexgods before. If you wanted to be different, you liked Ringo. I liked George, Paul and John all equally.

The grownups were baffled that the girls went crazy for these guys, because they weren't big and macho. They were scrawny and had long hair like girls. The hatred of boys with long hair was pretty intense. I remember my mom and grandparents griping every time they saw a man on the TV with long hair or facial hair and my dad confronting them about it every time.

And I would ask questions like, "Well, if it's good for girls to have pretty, long, shiny hair, why is it BAD for boys to have long, pretty, shiny hair?".

Never got an answer.

[Shine]

31. It was actually 44 yrs ago and the reason I know that is b/c I was born in March of '64

I'll be 44 next month. :D

:hi:

[murielm99]

32. I sure do!

My parents always watched Ed Sullivan. My mother was as curious about the Beatles as I was. She sort of liked them, and was always bemused by them.

I remember seeing Elvis on Sullivan, too, when I was much younger. My parents let me stay up to see it.

It was nice that my parents were curious and open-minded about popular music.

[KitchenWitch]

33. Um 44 years ago.

[WCGreen]

35. I remeber the first show was in NYC and the second was from Miami...

[Bennyboy]

36. I remember!

i was 9. I do remember the day I first heard them like yesterday though.

Me, my friend Miles and my dorky brother were driving with my babysitter, Rachel Self, down Walerga road and we were listening to the radio, KXOA. When the DJ announced the next band was the Beatles, she turned the music way up. By the time the song was over, she had to pull the car to the side of the road, it affected her so.

Later she was babysitting again and they came on Ed Sullivan. She had a bunch of her little G/F's over to watch. They were apoplectic. The first time I ever experienced sexuality in that way. Those girls panties were soaking.

In our house the Beatles were forbidden totally. my dad hated them and forbid everything about rock and roll. So we had to sneak it. Put our Beatle boots on after we left the house, sneak to the movies to see Help and Hard Day's Night (got caught)and listen to them at friends houses. They were the enemy of the way things were.

[Skittles]

38. I remember them before that!!!

I lived in England as a child and remember the Beatles becoming famous - yes INDEED :D