Looking Back: Beatles Take US by Storm

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10 жыл бұрын

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' first appearances in the United States, and the beginning of the U.S. version of "Beatlemania." When the Beatles touched down in New York on February 7, 1964 few knew that American music and culture would change forever. The Beatles arrived in a country still mourning the loss of President John F. Kennedy, assassinated just months before. Americans were ready for something that would lighten the somber mood. The Beatles delivered some levity and joy.
The Beatles had come to America to perform on the Ed Sullivan TV show, and more than 70 million people tuned in. It was then the largest TV audience ever for an entertainment show. Laurel Bowman takes a look back.

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@kentshelton3451 Жыл бұрын

The Beatles are part of our culture. Their music will never die.

@kentduryea7109 9 ай бұрын

Part of their music died beginning with Apple.

@jerryditrolio8064 2 жыл бұрын

The Beatles Are A Amazing Phenomenal !!!,The Likes You Will Never See Again !!!!

@pamelaabulencia582 3 жыл бұрын

Their music and the Beatles themselves are timeless..

@mrfester42 2 жыл бұрын

I saw them on Ed Sullivan as a 5 year old and remember it distinctly. It was the dawn of my consciousness. NOW, I'm 62 and I'm still amazed that when I see stories like this I feel myself getting choked up. It just happens with no thought involved. It's automatic. It's mysterious and wonderful and a personal treasure that no one can take away.

@----I...have...no...clue.... 2 жыл бұрын

I found out my 12 year old great nephew is a Beatle fan. Warmed my heart

@cherylbean521 3 жыл бұрын

Talent never gets old.

@mikewa2 4 жыл бұрын

A rare event where the performers were actually much better than all the media hype and expectation

@stevencoffman34 3 жыл бұрын

That day changed my life

@27NianaJose 4 жыл бұрын

This will never happen again 💔

@dorrittakach970 2 жыл бұрын

I saw the Beatles in Baltimore,Maryland,'64. I saw Paul,George, and Ringo separately. Now looking forward to seeing McCartney this May! BEATLES FOREVER!!!

@allendelatorre5474 5 жыл бұрын

thier music remains forever

@explorer1968 4 жыл бұрын

Even in Latin America, The Beatles smashed through the language barrier, there was no way to stop Beatlemania. What really shocked their rivals is that the Fab Four were constantly evolving, shaking off all attempts to imitate them!!

@musicadesiempre5003 6 жыл бұрын

Totally agree with the coments of the video, all subsequent generations know them, they are eternal!

@jameslevitt6433 4 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Levitt

@philiplaventure7805 4 жыл бұрын

And that's a fact I'm not a. Fanatic with groups till now this will.never b accomplished again

@russellcampbell9198 4 жыл бұрын

The cultural event of last century - no doubt.

@stevewalton4771 Жыл бұрын

Beatlemaniac since before that 1st Ed Sullivan show.... I was 9. And my children listened to The Beatles all of thier lives and consider themselves Beatlemaniacs... and thier children dig the too.... The Beatles, God's of Rock n Roll!!!

@TheReubenKincaid Жыл бұрын

They were the perfect storm. The sum of all parts for sure. Billy Joel is often quoted as saying they were just like him and his friends (but older) they were 4 Ordinary looking guys not Hollywood Glamour boys. They have spanned generations. I was 13 going on 14 in late 1980 and my parents split up and I was living in a new town.The Beatles were my friends….when I didn’t have any. So awesome

@philippedevine5124 2 жыл бұрын

Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven, and the Beatles

@keithleeuwen877 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic !

@julianaylor4351 Жыл бұрын

My third birthday and I was already a fan. I'm British. ❤️

@frannydarko2698 4 жыл бұрын

I met MACA on PENNY LANE in LIVERPOOL were I live he was doing CARPOOL SERIES for the LATE LATE SHOW I got his autobiograph but he didn't stay for long though but I've met him twice before that and he's a really down to earth cool kat..

@Beatlearl 4 ай бұрын

God’s BAND 4EVER 🎸🥁🎤🎧🎹🎼

@geekay1349 4 жыл бұрын

Paul: Thanks for the memories (circa Bob Hope). You gave us the Sullivan show. We all wanted mo'. T'was a Magical Mystery Tour for sure And it never was a bore. Thank you so much. 😂😍👌

@williambilly3269 3 жыл бұрын

I was born in the sixties and I'm so proud they were scousers

@ktcarl 2 жыл бұрын

My parents were scouses too!

@williamoverly1617 4 жыл бұрын

But it was in post war Germany that they honed their professionalism. The German art community recognized and embraced this British group which played long late sessions six, seven nights a week at rough Hamburg nightclubs. When they returned to England, no one could match their experience. And then there was Brian Epstein, the gay, Jewish inexperienced businessman who dared manage them to huge success with assistance from music arranger George Martin.

@crmay72 2 жыл бұрын

Great points!

@MrDaiseymay 8 ай бұрын

Many of the US big names of that era, held back releasing their latest recordings because the Beatles Dominated the whole Charts for many months.

@stonesorbeatles6902 4 жыл бұрын

@1:16 haha Sir John Lennon visited Santa Monica on Mother's Day while separated from Yoko and went to a club (not sure which), and put a tampon on his forehead and said 'Happy Mother's Day'!!! Yes he taught us to laugh at ourselves for sure, quite the comedian, R.I.P. John Lennon, thank you for being you, yeah yeah yeah!!!

@JanetCoop 3 жыл бұрын

It was a TamPAX, mot a tampon - guys wouldn't know...A tampon is tiny & comes in a little cardboard tube... What you mean is a Tampax, which are long and flat and more like a Maxi-Pad, with sticky on the back to adhere to your panties...John had put a Tampax, stuck by the adhesive, to his forehead....That was in the late 70's, not during the 60's...

@380_pound_black_womans_sto3 3 жыл бұрын

@@JanetCoop A Tampax is a tampon you jerkoff. It was a Kotex.

@user-se7wf9dv6r 2 жыл бұрын

This was during his lost year with May Pang...

@axlking-hp2vh 4 жыл бұрын

Líberpool the homeland of beatlemania

@btuesday 6 жыл бұрын

They were likable. Very unusual for boys so successful

@PlanetRockJesus Жыл бұрын

Yes. They were the best.

@rggast 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this! Source?

@philipcochran1972 5 жыл бұрын

Schooled in how to behave. Really?! That was just typical common Liverpool wit And it's still like that in Liverpool today

@georgemarsilio5122 5 жыл бұрын

The beatles were different!!!! No one was that best!!

@dnice4335 5 жыл бұрын

TODAY IS FEB 7, 2019................... anyone here watching

@Mr.56Goldtop Жыл бұрын

The Rutles were every bit as big of a force!

@henrybyrd5402 5 жыл бұрын

"Posh London" (0.55)? As a n East end Cockney who was around at the time, I never thought I would ever be referred to as "Posh." Who wrote this stuff?

@MrDaiseymay 3 жыл бұрын

I'd just take it as a compliment---she was probably comparing Cock er -ney with the Bowery.

@user-bf8ud9vt5b 3 жыл бұрын

A seppo.

@MichaelJirochVisualArtist 3 жыл бұрын

These people have over-analyzed it. Their music was really good. That simple.

@owensclock 5 жыл бұрын

We'll never know if the Beatles would have been as big in America in 1964 as they turned out to be if JFK hadn't been killed just a few months earlier. They certainly came along at the right time. They were new and exciting and their music was beyond awesome!

@ipsurvivor 5 жыл бұрын

owensclock - There is no data that suggests JFK had any impact on Beatlemania... His death may have actually kept it from happening sooner. Impossible to know as you said but there is no testimony from that time that JFK made Beatlemania happen or made it bigger. To me it’s kind of a back handed insult to say that the Beatles that they needed a tragedy for their success.

@timslater566 4 жыл бұрын

owensclock, sorry but I don’t see any correlation between these two events!

@yemred5854 4 жыл бұрын

owensclock They were special, they were much more important then just being a band . Incredible moment of modern history of four young men who captured the hearts of the world .

@markallen2984 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's nonsense. That's the sort of thing that is only believed by Kennedy/"Camelot" obsessives

@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын

@@ipsurvivor The Beatles had enjoyed fame and success on unprecedented levels, where ever they went, for at least a year, before the American explosion. Why ? because they , as a nation, were in deep depression, and emotionally occupied. The beatle Build up and arrival was slow, then a explosion of emotions, a Freeing up of the need to 'live again', and boy did they take it.

@yemred5854 4 жыл бұрын

That academic is talking bull. The Beatles were not schooled . They were just themselves, natural Liverpudlian wit , great sense of humour, intelligent with an incredible talent . We are so proud that they are one of Britain’s greatest exports from Liverpool a city of wonderful talents in entertainment and sports .

@ktcarl 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think you comprehended what he was saying about being "schooled". For a year they put up with the British press which was a lot tougher than America's. They were more than ready to handle the American press when they arrived. Plus you can consider their time in Hamburg as being a type of schooling. They became professionals there.

@howie9751 Жыл бұрын

They were experienced and prepared by then.

@liner011f7 3 жыл бұрын

A little bar band, that made it big.......really frikken big.

@lilajagears8317 Жыл бұрын

Parents tolerated the Beatles but HATED the Rolling Stones.

@albertochoa7331 2 жыл бұрын

Beatles: There nothing new under the sun. Here comes the sun. By the Beatles. George Harrison Tune.

@paperbackwriter100 7 жыл бұрын

3:10 to 3:28 and the rest is history.........................

@amycrunch3812 3 жыл бұрын

Her voice didn't change.

@MrDaiseymay 3 жыл бұрын

SHORT--BUT EXCELLENT. AT LAST, SOMEONE HAS RECOGNISED THE HUGE CONTRIBUTION ,TO THEIR MASSIVE RELEASE OF EMOTIONS. I'VE ALWAYS SAID, THAT THE THEN ,RECENT, NATIONAL TRAUMA, AND GRIEF, OF LOOSING THEIR YOUNG PRESIDENT, THROUGH MURDER. CONTRIBUTED TO THE BEATLE MANIA OUT-POURING IN AMERICA. THE BEATLES OPENED THE DAM OF PENT UP EMOTIONS. WHICH TAKES NOTHING AWAY, FROM THEIR BEATLE ADORATION. IT JUST EXPLAINS THE GREATEST REACTION, EVER.

@jnagarya519 3 жыл бұрын

There is no evidence for that theory. It was a news reporters summing up, without any actual facts to support it.

@MrDaiseymay Жыл бұрын

@@jnagarya519 And what kind of evidence, do YOU HAVE, to support that silly remark. Explain the totally unprecedented emotional reactions, that even Elvis Presley did not evoke. It's a conclusion, made by many over the last sixty years.

@jnagarya519 Жыл бұрын

@@MrDaiseymay I was born in 1948: do the math. We had music from my earliest memories. I grew up with all that. And was and am a huge "Beatles" fan. But I'll say it AGAIN: The comment was made by Walter Cronkite; it was EDITORIALIZING, an OPINION, NOT A FACT. It was adopted as Gospel by those who viewed Cronkite as some sort of elder statesman, a sage. But there was then and is not still any EVIDENCE to support the OPINION. I heard "The Beatles" BEFORE the assassination. My interest in them wasn't affected by the assassination, though I was certainly impacted by the assassination. In the real world there was no connection between the two.

@jnagarya519 Жыл бұрын

@@MrDaiseymay What EVIDENCE do I have that there is no EVIDENCE to support Cronkite's OPINION? It is the LACK of evidence for his opinion that is the reality. "The Beatles" achievement can stand on its own; it doesn't need the artificial support or boost of Cronkite's opinion -- which, if you look at it, takes credit AWAY from "The Beatles," as it suggests that the assassination is the reason they caught on.

@fuzzlewit9 Жыл бұрын

@@MrDaiseymay Beatles made it massive first in UK then nearly every other country, and it had nothing to do with JFK in all those countries. I'm sure Americans were ready for a release and something to lighten their lives, but if that's the reason for Beatlemania (a term coined in the UK before JFK's death) then what's the reason kids were screaming in every other country?

@idanwillenchik3050 5 жыл бұрын

The people at the end shouldn't sing in public.

@aaronbarlow4376 5 жыл бұрын

Now we have Cardi B. WTF happened??!!

@Inivican 5 жыл бұрын

The future is now, old man.

@eightinches6094 5 жыл бұрын

@@Inivican ....yeah and it doesn't look very good does it?

@prezakid9 4 жыл бұрын

eight inches 😂

@markprange238 4 жыл бұрын

A lowering of standards happened.

@chrisnewman7281 4 жыл бұрын

Shit hsppens

@tinapatton7346 4 жыл бұрын

Beat-alls 'Love & Peace' in today's 'GREED is GOD' U$A? Get outta hear-ya!!!!

@richardlawson4317 5 жыл бұрын

Amazed that the Fox correspondent doesn't think that they were communists.

@lylecampbell9036 5 жыл бұрын

Amazed you're this stupid

@timslater566 4 жыл бұрын

Richard Lawson , I know......right! Surprised that anyone from Fox would approve of something that was “Fun”!

@2340Vegas 3 жыл бұрын

The 60's, as we now know it, began with the arrival of The Beatles. OK, but it may have begun in earnest when LBJ landed the first American troops in Vietnam in March '65 and Dylan's 'Like A Rolling Stone' hit the top forty airways that summer. Nothing was the same after that.

@bigdeal39 3 жыл бұрын

Who's The Beatles ?

@timslater566 4 жыл бұрын

What s ridiculous comment to say The Beatles had to be ‘tutored’ in how to speak to Americans. What horse-s_it!

@russellcampbell9198 4 жыл бұрын

If anything, they tutored the Americans in how to not take themselves so seriously.

@jnagarya519 3 жыл бұрын

You didn't listen: They were thoroughly skilled in dealing with media, whereas the US news reporters at that first press conference went there to burst the bubble -- but instead were charmed. The press had no idea who they were, or their history, and certainly didn't know that they were pros at dealing with media, despite their being "only kids".

@saptono 3 жыл бұрын

What did FBI do then? Did they became fans along with their daughters?😃

@marvinc999 5 жыл бұрын

Fans of the 'Faul' theory (God bless 'em) will notice that Paul - in real life, a midget back then - is here standing on an orange box, in order to make himself look as tall as his substitute does today. Sheer genius !!

@lauravallandingham5640 5 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry.. an Orange Box???? Paul was not a midget then he's not a midget now I laugh at these comments 🤣😂😃

@amycrunch3812 3 жыл бұрын

Give us footage, spare us your politically correct rubbish.