The Story Behind the Beatles Song That Earned Them America's Adoration in 1963

Hindsight makes it seem like The Beatles were a nonstop success in their early days. But it took them a while to make the leap across the pond. Though they had mounting success back home in England, record labels and record shops struggled to settle into the idea of The Fab Four. That is, until one song completely turned their heads. Learn more about the song that made America fall in love with The Beatles below.

Prior to The Beatles’ now-famous entrance into the American rock scene, they were a fledgling English band with a couple of top-selling songs. Both “Please Please Me” and “She Loves You” did well in their home market. But not even a favor called in from George Martin could get those songs on shelves in America.

“I would send them to my friends in America at Capitol Records, and say ‘This group is fantastic, you’ve got to issue them and sell them in the States,’” Martin once said in the notes of The Anthology Collection. “Each time the head of Capitol Records would turn it down and deny it, and say ‘Sorry, we know our market better than you do. We don’t think they’re any good.”’

This put a blockade on the band’s upward trajectory. They may have been greeted with deafening screams in England, but America was untouchable. The band didn’t want to go overseas to a middling reaction. According to Paul McCartney, they wanted to wait until they had traction to avoid the fate of many other English bands before them.

Source: americansongwriter.com//Alex Hopper

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