The Song Made America Fall In Love With The Beatles

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  @michaelrochester48 · 2 years ago

  I still think “it won’t be long” should’ve been a single. It is one of my favorite Beatles songs from the early time.

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  @RustyBuzzard-pv2ce · 3 months ago

  History has proven that "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is THE most significant, important song in rock history. It opened the door to America for The Beatles, and thus, the world. With all that followed. Listen to the songs of 1963, and you'll immediately notice the difference. I know, I lived it.

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  @Billthemusicman · 2 years ago

  Wow! as a first gen fan from that night in February on the Sullivan show, I want to hold your hand holds a special place unlike really any other Beatles tune. At only 9 years old, I am certainly one of the youngest 1st gen fans, but my love for them just continued to grow through the 60s and on to today. Thank you for carrying the torch for these four guys that changed so many of our lives. Your channel is unlike any other, and this video with its wonderful content and history proves it. Thank you!

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  @neiltheblaze · 2 years ago

  American here. The first time I heard "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (age 11) I was knocked for a loop. I was a big guitar fan - but the guitar guys weren't really having hits anymore - since Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly died, probably. A lot of crooners, a lot of one-hit doo-wop groups, a lot of novelty records - mostly boring. When I heard "Hand" on the radio for the first time, I'd never heard guitars ring out like that on a big hit record on the radio before. It blew me away. You're right about the mix on the single release - it jumps off the turntable. That single sounded hot at the time. And "I Saw Her Standing There" on the b-side (though, my local radio treated it like a double-A side - without any complaints from me) made this the hottest rock and roll single I'd ever heard. I practically wore out the record trying to decipher the guitar parts. The lyrics were kind of whatever Tin-Pan Alley stuff, but the sound of the combined instruments seemed like one voice. The way they wove it all together was amazing to me. You get a good example of Lennon's unique sense of off-rhythm on this one. He has the quirkiest sense of rhythm in rock and roll. Completely unique.

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• FI

  @FiveLiver · 2 years ago

  I't a pity that The Beatles never attained the levels of success and fame as Joey Dee and the Starlighters.

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  @Stumptonian1 · 2 years ago

  I remember my mother calling us to the living room "Those Beatles are on Jack Paar!"  My cousin in England had sent us newspaper clippings about them with words like Fab! and Gear! written on them. I was 10 and my life was about to change, music-wise. Especially after February 9th .... P.S. this was in a suburb of Vancouver, Canada.

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  @strikerorwell9232 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I spoke with a few Swedish Rock Stars in the 90s who were playing in Hamburg Germany at the Star Club and hung out with the Beatles and got to know them. They were the reason the Beatles came to Sweden first when they went abroad and not only played a couple of gigs but a whole tour in Sweden with their Swedish pals "Jerry Williams and the Violents" as the introducing band.

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• DA

  @danjones4326 · 2 years ago

  This is the very first song I remember hearing on the radio. I was four in 1964. It had a big impact on me. Almost sixty years later and i still remember the feeling.

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  @idaslpdhr · 2 years ago

  'I want to hold your hand' was amazing , I used to listen to it on a small transistor radio on Radio Luxembourg under the sheets after bedtime and wait for it every hour on the hour

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  @JoJoJoker · 2 years ago

  It Won’t Be Long is such a rocker. It’s a shame we never saw a live version of it.

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• MI

  @michaelquinn8618 · 2 years ago

  I remember getting that album and my mother actually loved it especially till there was you

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  @BaileyGrott · 2 years ago

  Thank-you Andrew!!<br><br>My Beatles experience began in 1964 &nbsp;(6 years old!) when I watched them on Ed Sullivan as a kid singing: &quot;She Loves You . . yeah, yeah, yeah !!!&quot; standing on a basement steamer trunk with badminton racquets with my siblings.<br><br>I even got a Capitol EP for my birthday called &quot;4 by the Bratles&quot; with Roll Over Beetoven/This Boy, etc. which I still have . . . . .great old memories !! Greetings from Dan, Indiana USA

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