Feb 9

Feb 9, 2014
by Act Naturally

Recent Stories Online and On-Air

Audio: Lost John Lennon interview from 1968
- Sunday, February 09, 2014

Tommy Roe, musician who opened for The Beatles, discusses his DC concert experience
- Sunday, February 09, 2014

Flaming Lips and Sean Lennon Visit 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds'
- Saturday, February 08, 2014

Beatles Memories and Sounds Fill New Lincoln Center Exhibit
- Saturday, February 08, 2014

Meet the girl who rescued George Harrison for Ed Sullivan
- Friday, February 07, 2014

Beatles-signed stage wall to make $1m in Dallas auction?
- Friday, February 07, 2014

How Paul McCartney Ended Up In A Nirvana Reunion
- Thursday, February 06, 2014

Author addresses the sociological impact of The Beatles on their fans and the world
- Thursday, February 06, 2014

Chairs From First U.S. Beatles Concert to Be Raffled
- Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Unseen Beatles photos from first U.S. concert on display Feb. 9
- Wednesday, February 05, 2014

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A Son's Tribute to the Beatles
- Tuesday, February 04, 2014

On Thursday, the Morrison Hotel Gallery on Prince Street in SoHo will open a photography show celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Beatles coming to the U.S. What separates this exhibit from other events of its ilk? It was curated by Julian Lennon, the son of John Lennon and Cynthia Powell and a photographer in his own right. (He is also represented by the Morrison Hotel Gallery, who put on his first exhibition in New York.)

The 50th anniversary had come up several times with Mr. Lennon but "it was all seeming too much of a muchness, you know?" he said the other day in a phone conversation from Europe before a several-day trip to Kenya and Ethiopia as part of his White Feather Foundation. "It was not only impossible to figure out who was doing this, that and the other, but I just decided to take a backseat and send my best wishes and love that way." Then Timothy White, a photographer and a partner at the Morrison Hotel Gallery, came to Mr. Lennon with an idea to peruse a few hundred photos of his dad with the Beatles, pick out 25 or maybe 50, because it was the 50th anniversary. Mr. Lennon thought that was a good idea. (Twenty-five shots will be exhibited at the New York space and another 25 at a gallery in Los Angeles, at which Timothy White is a partner.)

Read More at Beatles Radio

John still most Popular Beatle after 50 Years
- Tuesday, February 04, 2014

50 years after the Beatles first came to America John still appears to be the most Popular Beatle, an online survey over the past 3 years of real Beatles Fans at eCommerce site Fan Four Store has the standings as they have been for many decades John, Paul, George, and Ringo in this poll with nearly 9999 votes counted.

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Box Set Featuring Audio Interviews with John Lennon & Yoko Ono Due Out in April
- Monday, February 03, 2014

A new eight-CD box set gathering together five lengthy conversations John Lennon and Yoko Ono had withVillage Voice journalist and New York radio personality Howard Smith will be released on April 14. Smith Tapes: I’m Not The Beatles: John & Yoko Interviews 1969-72 features audio of Lennon and his wife discussing a wide variety of topics, including the couple’s political activism, their interest in primal therapy, the breakup of The Beatles and the band members’ solo work.

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Lost Beatles photographs found
- Monday, February 03, 2014

This piece by Adrienne Aurichio is part of a series of essays to mark the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' first American television appearance on CBS's "The Ed Sullivan Show." It culminates with CBS News, 50 Years Later...The Beatles at The Ed Sullivan Theater: Presented by Motown The Musical, a live, interactive multimedia event at The Ed Sullivan Theater on Feb. 9.

Read More at Beatles Radio

Record of the Week

The Early Beatles

The Beatles: The U.S. Albums

Presented in mono and stereo, except where noted as stereo only
** CD debut

Gets heavy play this week!

The Early Beatles

All Beatles Music & More at Fab Four Store

The Early Beatles Album Fun Facts

peaked at No. 43

The Early Beatles is the Beatles' sixth release on Capitol Records, and their eighth album for the American market.

Release date: March 22, 1965

1. Love Me Do (mono mix)

2. Twist And Shout (mono mix)

3. Anna (Go To Him) (mono mix)

4. Chains (mono mix)

5. Boys (mono mix)

6. Ask Me Why (mono mix)

7. Please Please Me (mono mix)

8. P.S. I Love You (mono mix)

9. Baby It's You (mono mix)

10. A Taste Of Honey (mono mix)

11. Do You Want To Know A Secret (mono mix)

12. Love Me Do (mono mix)

13. Twist And Shout (stereo mix)

14. Anna (Go To Him) (stereo mix)

15. Chains (stereo mix)

16. Boys (stereo mix)

17. Ask Me Why (stereo mix)

18. Please Please Me (stereo mix)

19. P.S. I Love You (mono mix)

20. Baby It's You (stereo mix)

21. A Taste Of Honey (stereo mix)

22. Do You Want To Know A Secret (stereo mix)

Beatles Record World Wide Charts

American

On April 4, 1964, the Beatles occupied the first 5 positions in the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, the top 2 in the Billboard albums chart, the no. 1 position in the British singles chart, the first two positions in the British albums chart and the no. 1 position in the British EP chart, making this the most complete ever domination of the British and American charts in history.
Most no. 1 singles in the Cash Box Top 100 charts (22 no.1s).
Most no. 1 albums in the Cash Box albums charts (15 no.1 albums).
Most weeks at no. 1 in the Cash Box albums chart (127 weeks at no. 1).
Group with most weeks in the Cash Box albums chart (722 weeks up to 1974).
Group with most weeks in the Cash Box singles chart (601 weeks up to 1986).
Group with most weeks in the Record World albums chart (849 weeks up to 1982).
Group with most weeks in the Record World singles chart (520 weeks up to 1980).
Most no. 1 singles in the Record World Top 100 charts (23 no.1s).
Most no. 1 albums in the Record World albums charts (17 no.1 albums).
Most weeks at no. 1 in the Record World albums chart (123 weeks at no. 1).

The Beatles Song Quote of the week

All these places have their moments with lovers and friends, I still can recall. Some are dead and some are living in my life, I've loved them all

- The Beatles, In My Life

The Beatles 50 Years Ago Today :

The Beatles 50 Years Ago Today : Sunday, February 9, 1964

Studio 50, New York City, USA

In the morning there was another Studio 50 rehearsal for The Ed Sullivan Show. George was unwell and did not participate, in his stead, the cameras rehearsed their positioning with a stand-in, the Beatle's assistant Neil Aspinall.

During the afternoon, before their celebrated live Sullivan debut that evening, the Beatles - with George - taped the appearance, ostensibly their third, that would be screened after their departure from America, on Sunday, February 23rd (8:00-9:00 pm EST). For this, before a different audience from that which would attend the evening performance, they played three numbers: first "Twist And Shout" and "Please Please Me" and then, in a different setting for inclusion later in the program, "I Want To Hold Your Hand". Before any of this happened, though, Sullivan claimed the spotlight and delivered one of his haughty pronouncements that summed up a US reaction to this first Beatle visit: "All of us on the show are so darned sorry, and sincerely sorry, that this is the third and thus our last current show with the Beatles, because these youngsters from Liverpool, England, and their conduct over here, not only as fine professional singers but as a group of fine youngsters, will leave an imprint of everyone over here who's met them".....

Along with the Beatles, this edition featured Cab Calloway and Gordon and Sheila MacRae, and the program was repeated on Sunday, August 23, 1964.

The first and most famous of the Beatle's two live Sullivan transmissions was performed in front of a Studio 50 audience of 728, and an estimated 73 million people in 23,240,000 homes across the United States, tuning in from 8:00 to 9:00 pm, EST. It was easily the highest US TV audience figure amassed to that time.

The Beatles performed five songs, three at the beginning of the show, "All My Loving", "Till There Was You" and "She Loves You", and two in the second half in a different setting. "I Saw Her Standing There" and "I Want To Hold Your Hand". It was a daunting yet remarkably confident performance, marred only slightly by an awkward sound balance. During "Till There Was You", each of the Beatles came in for individual camera attention, at which point his christian name appeared on screen. When it came to John, an additional caption read, "Sorry Girls, He's Married".

As it transpired, this edition of the "Ed Sullivan Show" had a pronounced British slant, for apart from the Beatles it also featured singer/banjoist Tessie O'Shea and the New York cast of Lionel Bart's London musical, Oliver, starring Georgia Brown and -as the artful Dodger - Davy Jones, the future member of the Monkees. (Another guest act was the American impressionist Frank Gorshin, later to appear as The Riddler in the Batman TV Series.)

This celebrated edition of The Ed Sullivan Show was repeated on Sunday, July 12, 1964 (8:00 to 9:00 pm, EST) while highlights from the Beatles' sequences went into The Ed Sullivan Show: The Swinging Soulful Sixties, a retrospective of musical moments from Sullivan's shows throughout the decade, broadcast by CBS on Sunday, December 21, 1969.

More Listener Birthdays on the Birthday Page

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Monday Feb 10

Jose	Mancilla	from	Guatemala
Darren	Burley	from	Otter River
MARCOS	MINATOGAWA	from	AMERICANA
John	Marshall	from	Wareham
Nestor	Spain	from	tehuacan
Luis	Lopea	from	Toa Baja
Will	Logan	from	Abingdon
Gino	Razionale	from	Bryn Mawr
Natasha	Devins	from	Kenora
Claudia	Vieira	from	são paulo
steve	allen	from	davis
Michael	Fresco	from	Toronto

Tuesday Feb 11

Leesa	Brown	from	Asheville
Danny	Scud jerk	from	Piscataway
Kristy	Kelvington	from	Draper
Luiz	Santos	from	São Paulo
Kaz	Chidachi	from	Los Angeles
Beatriz	Afonso	from	Faro
bradley	slater	from	norco
shimonaga	tatsuya	from	tokyo
Steve	Cocks	from	Maidstone
William	taylor	from	Drexel Hill
shimrit	weinberg	from	Tel-Aviv
Gail	Whitegull	from	Black River Falls
Benny	Belgica	from	San Jose, CA
nataly	velasquez	from	bogota

Wednesday Feb 12

mj	wolf	from	Phila
Paul	Millward	from	Halesowen
Dan	CHe	from	Sao paulo
Mauricio	Bonilla	from	Cuautitlan Izcalli
Cheri	Fillmore	from	Live Oak
Fredy	Walser	from	Cadro
Nora	DeFelice	from	Larose
Joe	Cullen	from	Boston
Jose	Casanova	from	fajardo
Luke	Radford	from	Saint Paul
Ron	Vincelli	from	Montreal
steve	miller	from	Ramsey

Thursday Feb 13

Glen	Ocampo	from	Berkeley, ca
martin	bennett	from	bristol
Kevin	Kenny	from	Reading
Deborah	Soroky	from	Tarzana
Frank	Marafiote	from	Bath
Ronald	Drain	from	Jacksonville, Florida
Clotario	Tapia	from	Brisbane
RUI	RIBEIRO	from	SÃO PAULO
Paul	Clanfield	from	South Elgin
Parker	Chambers	from	Plano
Amy	Davis	from	Danville

Friday Feb 14

Bryan	Zerfas	from	Lakeland, FL
Luis	Serrano	from	Fontana
Carl	Gold	from	mar del plata
Cody	Bateman	from	Dallas
Alison	Ellison	from	Victorville
Tim	Rogers	from	Ashland
jim	yockey	from	toledo
michael	blackie	from	jacksonville
Ron	Rios	from	Hacienda Heights
Michelle	Bicego	from	Stow
Krisztian	Vertan	from	Budapest
Jamie	Hay	from	Epping

Saturday Feb 15

Michael	Schack	from	Yarpturk
gary	chardavoyne	from	Cary
Pouwel	Veenstra	from	Florence
Pierre	Nedelec	from	Cholet
robert	jones	from	st. helier
Keiron	Curtis	from	Swansea
Laura	Beneicke	from	san jose
Alexander	Geigenberger	from	Nürnberg
Doug	Brahm	from	Vallejo
Paul	Regan	from	London
William	Tomaselli	from	Newark
Mathew	Roybal	from	Greeley

Sunday Feb 16

dan	nordberg	from	rancho santa margarita
Oswaldo	Miguel Lacerda	from	Marilia - Sao Paulo
Robert	Isom	from	Tooele
ju	so	from	paris
Wayne	Markle	from	Middletown
Carla	Riley	from	Toronto
Tom	Philp	from	Peterborough
Charlotte	Taylor	from	Bournemouth
Vic	Pearl	from	New Hartford
Sofia	Lopez	from	Bancroft
Danny	Echols	from	Marietta
Jorge	Pineda	from	Zapopan