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When the Beatles hit the US in 1965, they were the first band ever to play in a stadium (Shea stadium in NY) ... but they had not the equipment back then as they have today! Like just two amps on stage or something like this! With 55,000+ screaming (!) people attending it remained the highest concert attendance in the US until 1973. I like the quote: "Been there! Have seen The Beatles, but didn't heard them! But it was epic!" XD There is a very nice video to check out: Billy Joel played in Shea as well and a special guest flew in just in time - delayed! ... when Paul McCartney hits the stage, the crowd went wild! And if I say "wild", I mean wild! There is a video with a bit of talking of Billy and Paul in the beginning ... search for "LAST PLAY AT SHEA Billy Joel × Paul McCartney" if you want to! :)
This performance literally changed the world. I saw it live. Man I am old. Think how innocent this song is. Their hair was very controversial at the time. Yes, the Beatles evolved a lot, but the thing is that their influence made the world change with them.
When they came to Colorado, my dad was a barber and threatened to go out on the tarmac to cut their hair when they landed. I was mortified! (Of course, he didn't even try.)
I remember we all were talking about them in school the next day, I was in the fourth grade and wanted a pair of Beatle boots. It took some talking to my parents, but eventually I got them and thought they were great!
It only took 4 years from this point for the Beatles to radically change their music, their outlooks and their appearances. However, it is often forgotten that the Beatles honed their music and their performances through constantly gigging in Liverpool and Germany prior to their national and international breakouts.
Saw them at a live concert in Dundee Scotland in 1963 when I was a schoolgirl. Never heard a word they sang we girls were screaming so loud. Happy days
@@danmayberry1185 A family friend had just come back from doing National Service in Germany ,say Christmas 1960 and told us seriously to watch out for a British band he had seen there . I remember saying scornfully ,to my utter shame now, "They will never get anywhere with a stupid name like the Silver Beetles". How wrong I was!!
Not only in the U.K. - I saw the band making an appearance on Swedish TV in 1963. I was just 10 years old then, but I realised I saw something completely new in music.
I’m 65 years old and like you, I listen in my car at least a couple of times every week. My brother is the same age as you and because he was 15 in 1964 and I listened to everything he did, I became a huge Beatles fan at 5 years old.
I watched them with my mom and brothers that night. Lost mom last week, thanks so much for those memories. I miss you mom. Peace from Northern Michigan.
My mum gave me her copy of the Hard Days Night album when I was a kid... She went to see the film just like us youngsters did... Happy thoughts there. Thank you Beatles.
Sending my sincere condolences & prayers from Ireland to you and all your family on the sad passing of dear mum... May she rest peacefully in the arms of christ.. God bless her soul
@Paul.in.Ireland Thank you very much for your thoughts and prayers especially from so far away. You must be a wonderful person! Peace be with you. Gary Zink.
Part of what adds to The Beatles story is knowing how they developed in the short time to when they first burst on the scene until they ended. If you ever had the chance to follow it chronologically, it really helps to understand how much they developed, innovated and pushed the envelope while getting better and better the whole time.
The night The Beatles conquered America. The US establishment was so uptight, conservative and stale, then these boys show up and were a breath of fresh air. Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Buddy Holley laid the groundwork and these lads completed the paving project. Plus they were astounding songwriters and fun to watch.
I spent all my teen years during the 60's . What you just watched was really really a big deal in north america. We had their new 45 records but had not seen them perform yet . I remember it like it was yesterday .
I hope you do continue because you did a great job. "She Loves You" is a another great song with lots of energy and another insight into why a generation began to fall in love with their music.
Their first hit was in 1962 ‘Love, Love Me Do’, we then jump to 1963 ‘Please, ‘ Please Me’, ‘From Me to You’, then ‘She Loves You’. which was a mega hit. That was followed by ‘Want To Hold Your Hand’. I think it was released for Christmas time 1963 in the UK.
Thanks, Kids! What I love about the Beatles is that their music is relatively simple, but also super-melodic and easy to engage with ... they were so talented, humorous and charismatic... a long time ago, a friend said that "a good song has three elements... Melody, Beat and Message".. and they had all three.. even if the "message" is as simple as this... appreciate your reaction and look forward to more...
Y'all just don't get it! These guys are the reason people's fashions, tastes in different music genres. They trail blazed everything we do today in the world of the arts. Fact, These 4 guys changed EVERYTHING! imho 🔥🤘✌
I was 13 when this happened. I remember watching them. But I'd heard them on the radio before that. And this song, I Want To Hold Your Hand, was the first song I ever heard by the Beatles on the radio. And then they came to the U.S., and the girls went nuts. I thought the Beatles were absolutely great! Thanks for a great reaction, and God bless you!
This was the first performance in the US. 70 million watched it, about a third of the population at the time, an audience that wasn't bettered until the moon landing in 1969.
Ed Sullivan was in the London airport when the Beatles came back from Hamburg on a tour. The airport was packed and Ed asked who the crowd was there to see......The Beatles of course! He called them and arranged for them to come to New York for his show and the rest was history! Ed Sullivan was THE MAN. I am old enough to see this on our black and white TV. Two things added to this....1) there was a huge Baby Boomer population at the age you see in the audience and 2) TV was getting more sophisticated.
They were a revelation at this point in musical history. No one ever expected to hear music like this. Someone said, until the Beatles came on the scene, music was in black & white & now it’s in full colour. A great analogy & I couldn’t agree more. I was 12 years old in 1964. It was an amazing time back then. You had to be there to fully experience what it was like.
I used to watch Ed Sullivan every week and I remember that performance... I was 8 years old at the time but I was musically aware... Ed Sullivan insisted that anyone who sang on his show sing live and not lip sync... There also was no auto tune at that time so It was what it was... Great reaction guys... Keep being awesome !!!...
Wonderful reaction to the greatest band of all time. No other band or artist comes close to the achievements of the Fab Four. There were 50,000 ticket requests for this performance alone in a venue that had a capacity of 728. The Beatles changed everything in popular music and they split up when they were all in their 20s.
You've made me feel really old now 😀 I first saw the Beatles at the Cavern Club in Liverpool in late 1962, where their story all began. Wonderful memories from a monumental time for British music. I was a Deck Officer Cadet docked at Liverpool prior to sailing to the USA and Australia, I was introduced to the Cavern by a Liverpudlian shipmate.
Wow I’m so jealous. I’m 26 so I missed it all but I was lucky enough to see Sir Paul in concert at age 7 in 2005 and again in 2022. I love The Beatles so much
Oh... the memories.... I was a young teenager in high school, and this was something we'd never experienced before. Each of us felt that they were singing to us as individuals! I had such a wild crush on Paul.... 🥰🤩😊
The Beatles were already huge in England when they came to America in 1964. They said later that they didn’t want to come to America until they had a #1 hit here. I was almost 5 years old then but my brother was 15 so I became a huge Beatles fan from that young age.
The Ed Sullivan show was definitely the spring board for anyone who wanted to showcase their talent in the US. Big promoters watched ES for fresh new talent they could feature and promote! The British Invasion "Many of those that showcased on ES went on to higher heights like concerts, recordings, etc. I watched ES every Sunday because it was the best variety show on TV for years. To the younger ppl today.......for me it was a once in a lifetime experience where we were on the precipice of Rock & Roll, i.e the beginning of it all "very very new" and the influence it has and will have in modern Rock forever started in the 50'-70's. I was the best time to be alive imo.
This was their first #1 in the US. February 9th, 1964, the big day that changed music forever. Their first album was recorded (14 tracks) in one day. All 14 songs were on the top forty ALL AT ONCE and the top 5 were all Beatles songs from the album for many weeks.
this was the appearance that conquered America..a week later they performed their first live concert in America, in Washington DC, and watching that performance is incredible..try watching Please Please Me. . for a British audience a few months earlier, I suggest you watch them perform She Loves You at the ABC Cinema in Manchester UK in 1963.. and I wouldn't say the Beatles changed with the times.... they changed the times... they were the cutting edge of the 1960s... those haircuts were called Beatle haircuts and were revolutionary... guys started growing their hair long, and usually had to have endless arguments with their fathers about hair.. I know I did... I was 9 years old when I saw them on Ed Sullivan... it was on Sunday nights, and the next day at school, Monday morning, the buzz in the school yard was incredible, and pretty much stayed that way for the next 6 years.. the Beatles ruled the world! From this point on, every few weeks they would release a new song or album, and they were always fresh and new... they never repeated themselves but evolved in an incredible direction.
The performance at thee ABC cinema in Manchester ( ua-cam.com/video/x7prHYwxWPY/v-deo.html ) is a much better representation of the energy The Beatles brought to their live performances - and just check out the crazy increase in the crowd reaction when the guys get to the "Ooh"s! I'd love RN to react to this next!
Hello from Northern British Columbia, Canada. I have just recently discovered you guys and I really love your natural and charming presentation which is completely unaffected. I am a diehard Beatles fan. My parents were from Scotland and they liked the Beatles even though they were a bit past the age. I remembered this like it was yesterday. Ed Sullivan show was big in Canada, and the Beatles were big everywhere! Especially for young people because of all the rock 'n' roll talent when they were also really young. My mum and dad called us down to the den to see the Beatles perform in 1964. I was only about eight years old. I could not understand what was happening with those girls, but I knew that it was something big. Whenever I see someone new listening to a Beatles song , which I love, and I love just about all of them, I'm always curious about how younger people react. I've not been disappointed. Anyway, I hope you continue your good work. I love your authenticity, which makes you honourary Canadians (it's a compliment please accept it). Don't worry, you can still be as American as apple pie. I recommend to see the evolution of them the video performance of Hello Goodbye when they were in their Sergeant Pepper's mode. Bonne soiree.
Hi Guys.... You aren't wrong.. This was the first time for AMERICAN audiences to get an idea of what had been going on in the rest of the world. Their first single was released 15 months earlier in October 1962. Believe it or not Capitol records didn;t want to release their firat singles so they had to come out on small labels. But once they were on the Ed Sullivan show that all changed and Capitol played catch up by releasing all sorts of wierd combinations that didn;t follow the UK releases... Just a small thought Jess... they instituted changes rather than following them all the time. Each Beatles album was an event, and they were always ahead of the curve. It's so difficult to explain it people who weren't there. I souldn;t have to say it but I loved your reaction as usual... Keep on Rocking..!!
The biggest change with respect to their appearance and the evolution of their music happened when the song, Strawberry Fields Forever, was released in February 1967. It was at that point in time that their fans were in shock, having witnessed them from being the lovable 'moptops' (a term that they hated) to being grown men. Their promotional film-a precursor to music videos-that accompanied the release of the song was unlike anything anybody had ever expected. Three months later, their Sgt Pepper LP was released, which helped pave the way to the Summer of Love. For me, soon to be 10 yrs old at the time, I will always remember those days fondly.
I remember my older sister with her Brownie Automatic camera taking pictures of the TV screen during this broadcast. Then Beatlemania hit hard! Good memories.
It was a shift in the whole Space/Time Continuum in the Western world when this group appeared. Nobody had ever heard or seen anything like it, the generation that grew up after WW2 finally had something that was theirs and not their parents. Not just music, not just any old performance, this is the stuff of legend.
@martinellis7156 ....."It was a shift in the whole Space/Time Continuum in the Western world when this group appeared.".... YES!! That's the best description I've ever heard for what it was like being there and experiencing the shift in real time! You had to have been born in the early 50's and experienced what the cultural and social mindset was like up until this defining moment to really get just how dramatic a shift it was. Before the Beatles it felt like everything was in black, white and dull grey and then literally over night everything turned to brilliant living color! It helped that the "pump" was already primed by them already having 3-4 songs within the top 10 on the charts before they even arrived in person! I remember just hearing them on our little transistor radio was already causing major seismic cultural shifts! There was nothing else like it! So FRESH and NEW! The feeling was just PURE JOY! But then actually seeing them live for the first time on this very show was a total paradigm shift!!! I felt like the aliens just landed.
@@Emondotcalm I think you are my long-lost twin! I was 10.5 years old when they appeared on Sullivan! The build-up to them coming to the US was HUGE. I might have been more aware of it, because my Dad worked in radio & TV all my life. But by the time the evening of their arrival came, the news coverage was insane! I was personally out of my mind with excitement! I remember sitting on the floor 2 or 3 feet from the small B&W TV, with my Dad and Sister in chairs across the room behind me. Seems like I remember my Mom was cooking supper, and coming in and out from the kitchen to stand and watch. I was crying and screaming at first when they came out! My Dad yelled at me, "If you don't stop that, I'll turn it off!" So, watching without being able to scream was hard. Everything was different from that day forward!!!!❣ 🎸🎼🎶🫀❤🔥🔥
Hello? CCR? Allman Brothers Band? Santana? The Doors? Miles Davis? Chicago (early years)? The UK had great bands no doubt but the US had great ones too!
When I was 12/13 years old, my dad was stationed in Scotland...showing my age here...The Beatles were just hitting it big in the UK and Europe. We returned to the States at the end of 1963 and by the time this show came on, I had already introduced them to all my new friends. It was the only time I felt cool as a teenager. LOL
I was glued to the TV at grandmas house and announced to everybody, "I'm growing my hair out starting right now," and the old msn was standing there saying BullS you are. Had to put the hair thing on hold, I was only 9.
The rock n roll hall of fame is filled with artists who decided to become musicians because of this performance including Glen Frey and Don Henley of The Eagles, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS and Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart. Btw, the time between this Ed Sullivan appearance and the rooftop performance of Don’t Let Me Down was FIVE YEARS Mind blowing
The Beatles started playing together in their teens. By the time they appeared in the USA in the Ed Sullivan Show, they had been playing together for about 5 years (Ringo joining them in '62).
You've seen the start of Beatlemania, and you also saw how it grew to the extent that in the end the only way they could perform outside of the studio was to go to the roof of their building and play.
This wasn't their first live performance, they were already huge by this time. It was just their first live performance on American TV. You need to go back further if you really want to start from the beginning 😊
Can i just add, the Beatles refused to perform in USA theatres where there was segregation. Paul even wrote "Blackbird" about the segregated schools in the southern USA.
Mike & Jess, I am so glad to be reliving the musical past with you. Your journey is just beginning. The 60's and 70's gave birth to an incredible amount of music and talent and the Beatles led the way. Jess, you hit the nail on the head with your explanation about how the teenage girls were looking for ways to just let go being so pent up and proper for so long. I was 16 when I watched the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan along with my parents and 4 brothers and sisters on our black and white TV set!
The reactions from the girls around the world at the time was a hysteria that was known as Beatlemania and continued for years. I was 9 at the time of this performance and remember watching it live that Sunday night and they played twice on the show that evening. They were a global phenomenon for sure. Love the Beatles and rest in peace John and George!
Saw them live in Cardiff at the Capitol cinema in November 1964. The girls there were a pain in the butt. They screamed all the time the Beatles were singing and quite a few were so hysterical that they wet themselves...I kid you not. Me and my mates were well pissed off. I was 16 years old at the time
The Beatles' five residencies in Hamburg during 1960 to 1962 allowed the Liverpool band to develop their performance skills and widen their reputation.
Thanks for a pleasant reaction video, funny too. Yes, the rate of change in the 60s was quite high. And there was an endless stream of new music, you simply did not want to turn off the radio... Regards, Paul (NL)
Three months before this The Beatles played "The Royal Command Performance" in London in front of the Queen Mother, it was on tele! I was 7 years old and they changed my life! It is hard to explain the impact they had without being there at that time, and in the context of the age! I am sure the Ed Sullivan show had a similar impact in those watching in the USA. Just seven years later they recorded their final song (of more than 200), having changed music and culture forever! 60 years later they are still an important part of my life.
Unless you were alive during Beatlemania, there is no way you can explain. People who weren’t, can’t understand as they have no frame of reference. My sister was born during the tail end of Beatlemania so she grew up listening to Beatles songs but because she was too young to grasp the ‘Beatlemania feeling’ to this day she doesn’t understand. Police didn’t like to work during their concerts because fans would go nuts. Also, because of the stench of urine. Girls would urinate themselves and not even be aware. Yes, there were and are, other amazing groups but none that have had that same impact. Imagine peeing yourself and not being aware. Watch a couple of their live performances and you’ll have a better idea
The Beatles were a 60s group. In 1963, the year before this video, the Beatles became super-famous in England. By the time of this show, which was American, enough was known about them to cause curiosity in the US. Instantly after this show, they became world famous. Within a few months, most existing rock acts went out of business. A few months later, new rock acts patterned after the Beatles began to emerge. Men began to wear long hair. They created changes, but when those changes were adopted by the world, the Beatles were then also affected by them. By the way, there's a huge amount of great music in their first 3 albums.
This was their first US TV appearance, Feb 1964 and the last clip you watched of them performing on the roof of their office/studio building in London was just 5 years later in Jan 1969. The 1960's saw rapid an and huge changes in pop/rock music and overall culture and The Beatles' career was intense and fast. A month in the 60's is like a year in the 21st century. They had just under 8 years of recorded music output 1962 to 1970. There is a brand new documentary on their 1st US visit, including this show, coming out the end of this November, streaming on Disney + channel celebrating 60 years as well as the release of their 1st 6 US Capitol Albums on vinyl (The UK had different albums initially).
The girls also did that with Elvis in the mid late 1950's! I saw the Beatles 2nd appearance on Ed Sullivan, when i was in Rochester , NY I was 11 going on 12 years old.
Nov 1963 when "I wanna hold your hand" entered the charts, Number 1 was "You'll never walk alone" that you reacted to the Liverpool football fans singing in Australia the other day 🙂
The Beatles landed in the U.S. on Feb 7, 1964. They played on Ed Sullivan on Feb 9, 1964, the first time anyone here had seen them. And the rest is history. The Beatles were still all in their 20's when they broke up. Amazing ride.
I watched the Ed Sullivan Show performances. I was a little kid but understood something was happening. Listen to 'In My Life', a deep and profound song. John Lennon was 24. Listen to 'Yesterday'. The most covered song in history. Paul McCartney was 23. It is nothing less than astonishing how Lennon and McCartney did what they did in the 60's. Every album was different from the one before. But as soon as the music started playing, you knew it was The Beatles. I was a young boy then. I remember thinking 'Where have they come from?'
It's hard to imagine today quite what an impact The Beatles had on popular culture. I can only speak for the UK, but here we had 1 main pop music radio channel, plus a couple of Pirate Radio shows, and 2 TV channels, and they were all over them. I was only 9 when this came out, and here, you either liked The Beatles or The Rolling Stones. The Ed Sullivan Show was their first US appearance, and I think they had the top five singles in the US charts, and this was when singles were a big thing. Always enjoy your reactions, and especially your use of the large screen backdrop...sets you apart from other reactors here. Best wishes from England.
My mum must have been about 15 or 16 when they came to Scotland and I remember her telling me that she was screaming and totally hysterical. She was so quiet and prudish I'd never have believed it. Her favourite was George Harrison which I couldn't understand either lol As I grew up I could see how talented he was 😊
The night that performance was on TV our TV was not working. Yes, most homes only had one television! A neighbor invited my parents and me over to watch. And yes, I still have my very first 45 record of that song.
I still find the Beatles' success in the US mind-blowing. A group of working class lads with a penchant for skiffle and rock and roll and musicals (and really everything American that the UK was exposed to up to that point) could have hit records in Britain and appear at the Royal Variety Performance, but North America is where British rock and roll, to that point, had gone to die. So it is still startling that this was a No.1 single out there. Even more startling when those hits continued (to the point where they briefly owned the top 5 places in the Billboard chart). I think it goes to show that, try as we might, we will never be able to second-guess what works out there!
They brought back guitar bands, they lengthened everyone's hair, they made albums ESSENTIAL to pop music, and they experienced unprecedented success (4 singles in the top 10 in the same week) which gave them the freedom all artists dream of.
@@tomheim9516 You are correct SIR! 1964 April 4, The Beatles occupied the top five slots on the Billboard Hot 100 chart simultaneously with “Can’t Buy Me Love“ at No. 1, “Twist and Shout” at No. 2, “She Loves You” at No. 3, “I Want to Hold Your Hand” at No. 4, and “Please Please Me” at No. 5 (“I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You” had already hit No. 1 in earlier weeks).
This was their first time in the USA and this song their first number one there. The crowds were in hysterics from the moment they touched down at the airport. You should check out the interviews with the American journalists - they were charmed by these 4 cheeky and witty Liverpudlians.
This was their first hit in the US but 4th in the UK. Ron Howard's "Eight Days A Week" is a great documentary on the boys. All the bands wore identical suits back then. The Rolling Stones changed that.
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Anything in black and white good. In colour not..just like Elvis.
When the Beatles hit the US in 1965, they were the first band ever to play in a stadium (Shea stadium in NY) ... but they had not the equipment back then as they have today! Like just two amps on stage or something like this! With 55,000+ screaming (!) people attending it remained the highest concert attendance in the US until 1973. I like the quote: "Been there! Have seen The Beatles, but didn't heard them! But it was epic!" XD
There is a very nice video to check out: Billy Joel played in Shea as well and a special guest flew in just in time - delayed! ... when Paul McCartney hits the stage, the crowd went wild! And if I say "wild", I mean wild! There is a video with a bit of talking of Billy and Paul in the beginning ... search for "LAST PLAY AT SHEA Billy Joel × Paul McCartney" if you want to! :)
Loved your reaction especially Jess , she does understand emotions.
Remember what Micky Flanagan said about Women!! I love it when you see the Audience reactions to the Beatles when they were singing.🧸🧸
There is a Beatles Movie called 'John and Yoko. A Love Story'.
They didn't change with the times, they MADE the times.
That was what I was going to say!
They were already huge by the time of this performance, it's just that America was just waking up to them!
This performance literally changed the world. I saw it live. Man I am old. Think how innocent this song is. Their hair was very controversial at the time. Yes, the Beatles evolved a lot, but the thing is that their influence made the world change with them.
That's awesome that you were there!!! I remember watching my mom screaming "PAUL!!!" at the TV!
Yes, and I was screaming for George!!❤
No. It changed America. The rest of the world was already hooked in.
When they came to Colorado, my dad was a barber and threatened to go out on the tarmac to cut their hair when they landed. I was mortified! (Of course, he didn't even try.)
I remember we all were talking about them in school the next day, I was in the fourth grade and wanted a pair of Beatle boots. It took some talking to my parents, but eventually I got them and thought they were great!
Yes, remember sitting on the living room floor, watching this performance. This was the first time America got to see the Beatles!❤
I will NEVER forget this Beatles performance (even though I was 8 years old) The Beatles changed my life. ❤️✌🏻🎶
It only took 4 years from this point for the Beatles to radically change their music, their outlooks and their appearances. However, it is often forgotten that the Beatles honed their music and their performances through constantly gigging in Liverpool and Germany prior to their national and international breakouts.
Saw them at a live concert in Dundee Scotland in 1963 when I was a schoolgirl. Never heard a word they sang we girls were screaming so loud. Happy days
Might have been their first appearance in the US but they were already huge in the UK
And Germany ('60-'62).
@@danmayberry1185 A family friend had just come back from doing National Service in Germany ,say Christmas 1960 and told us seriously to watch out for a British band he had seen there .
I remember saying scornfully ,to my utter shame now, "They will never get anywhere with a stupid name like the Silver Beetles".
How wrong I was!!
Also huge in Australia. America, wàs behind the times.
Not only in the U.K. - I saw the band making an appearance on Swedish TV in 1963. I was just 10 years old then, but I realised I saw something completely new in music.
@@lindaferguson630we were listening to The Beatles before they came to America.
I am 75 now and still listen to them in the car 😊
I do too and so do my parents. I'm 56 and they're 86 and 87 😊
I’m 65 years old and like you, I listen in my car at least a couple of times every week. My brother is the same age as you and because he was 15 in 1964 and I listened to everything he did, I became a huge Beatles fan at 5 years old.
And the living room, and the bedroom, and the backyard, and …
@@jeffreymcelroy Here, There And Everywhere! 😄
I'm 21 and listen to them on the way to work everyday :D
The greatest band there was, is or ever will be. Nothing comes close to them. Nothing !
In your opinion.
Certainly in terms of influence on popular music, yes: absolutely no doubt about it. Ask any famous musician, and I've known a few!
@@davidburton5335Yes, that was his opinion. And many other people’s too. Did we need you to point it out ? No, not really, in my opinion.
@@davidburton5335In most people's opinion. They are the Best!!! Unless there secretly jealous or are clueless.
@@davidburton5335 It's the opinion of anyone who understands music.
I watched them with my mom and brothers that night. Lost mom last week, thanks so much for those memories. I miss you mom. Peace from Northern Michigan.
SO sorry for your loss! It sounds like you have some beautiful memories of your mum. Peace and Blessings to you and yours!
My mum gave me her copy of the Hard Days Night album when I was a kid... She went to see the film just like us youngsters did... Happy thoughts there. Thank you Beatles.
Sending my sincere condolences & prayers from Ireland to you and all your family on the sad passing of dear mum... May she rest peacefully in the arms of christ.. God bless her soul
@Paul.in.Ireland
Thank you very much for your thoughts and prayers especially from so far away. You must be a wonderful person! Peace be with you. Gary Zink.
Part of what adds to The Beatles story is knowing how they developed in the short time to when they first burst on the scene until they ended. If you ever had the chance to follow it chronologically, it really helps to understand how much they developed, innovated and pushed the envelope while getting better and better the whole time.
The night The Beatles conquered America. The US establishment was so uptight, conservative and stale, then these boys show up and were a breath of fresh air. Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Buddy Holley laid the groundwork and these lads completed the paving project. Plus they were astounding songwriters and fun to watch.
I spent all my teen years during the 60's . What you just watched was really really a big deal in north america. We had their new 45 records but had not seen them perform yet . I remember it like it was yesterday .
I hope you do continue because you did a great job. "She Loves You" is a another great song with lots of energy and another insight into why a generation began to fall in love with their music.
Their first hit was in 1962 ‘Love, Love Me Do’, we then jump to 1963 ‘Please, ‘ Please Me’, ‘From Me to You’, then ‘She Loves You’. which was a mega hit. That was followed by ‘Want To Hold Your Hand’. I think it was released for Christmas time 1963 in the UK.
Thanks, Kids! What I love about the Beatles is that their music is relatively simple, but also super-melodic and easy to engage with ... they were so talented, humorous and charismatic... a long time ago, a friend said that "a good song has three elements... Melody, Beat and Message".. and they had all three.. even if the "message" is as simple as this... appreciate your reaction and look forward to more...
Feb 9, 1964. I watched this on the Ed sullivan Show. Over 71 Million people watched this show. This started Beatlemania.
In the U.S.
Y'all just don't get it! These guys are the reason people's fashions, tastes in different music genres. They trail blazed everything we do today in the world of the arts. Fact, These 4 guys changed EVERYTHING! imho 🔥🤘✌
I'm with u my friend they changed the world ,the one of rock& roll for a start and yeah they were trailblazers
“Four lads who shook the world”👍
I was 13 when this happened. I remember watching them. But I'd heard them on the radio before that. And this song, I Want To Hold Your Hand, was the first song I ever heard by the Beatles on the radio. And then they came to the U.S., and the girls went nuts. I thought the Beatles were absolutely great! Thanks for a great reaction, and God bless you!
So many rock bands cite this performance as the inspiration for them wanting to start bands... Iconic
This was the first performance in the US. 70 million watched it, about a third of the population at the time, an audience that wasn't bettered until the moon landing in 1969.
The atmosphere in the theatre was electric!!!🎉
Ed Sullivan was in the London airport when the Beatles came back from Hamburg on a tour. The airport was packed and Ed asked who the crowd was there to see......The Beatles of course! He called them and arranged for them to come to New York for his show and the rest was history! Ed Sullivan was THE MAN. I am old enough to see this on our black and white TV. Two things added to this....1) there was a huge Baby Boomer population at the age you see in the audience and 2) TV was getting more sophisticated.
They were a revelation at this point in musical history. No one ever expected to hear music like this. Someone said, until the Beatles came on the scene, music was in black & white & now it’s in full colour. A great analogy & I couldn’t agree more. I was 12 years old in 1964. It was an amazing time back then. You had to be there to fully experience what it was like.
I used to watch Ed Sullivan every week and I remember that performance... I was 8 years old at the time but I was musically aware... Ed Sullivan insisted that anyone who sang on his show sing live and not lip sync... There also was no auto tune at that time so It was what it was... Great reaction guys... Keep being awesome !!!...
I think you will find they had a life before an American tv show
But a very much smaller audience.
@@brianfallon2607 but still famous before America had woken up to them
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Not that much smaller.
The USA is almost as big as all of Europe and nearly everyone had a tv.
Wonderful reaction to the greatest band of all time. No other band or artist comes close to the achievements of the Fab Four. There were 50,000 ticket requests for this performance alone in a venue that had a capacity of 728. The Beatles changed everything in popular music and they split up when they were all in their 20s.
You've made me feel really old now 😀 I first saw the Beatles at the Cavern Club in Liverpool in late 1962, where their story all began. Wonderful memories from a monumental time for British music. I was a Deck Officer Cadet docked at Liverpool prior to sailing to the USA and Australia, I was introduced to the Cavern by a Liverpudlian shipmate.
Wow I’m so jealous. I’m 26 so I missed it all but I was lucky enough to see Sir Paul in concert at age 7 in 2005 and again in 2022. I love The Beatles so much
@@ZoeyPaigeLunaPhD Thanks for your reply, they are wonderful memories for me, though I wish I was 26 again 😀👍
Fantastic, you are just scratching the surface, keep going. Beatlemania will never happen again on such a scale. It was world wide.
Literally everyone in the country was home watching Ed Sullivan on Sunday nights!
Oh... the memories.... I was a young teenager in high school, and this was something we'd never experienced before. Each of us felt that they were singing to us as individuals! I had such a wild crush on Paul.... 🥰🤩😊
The Beatles were already huge in England when they came to America in 1964. They said later that they didn’t want to come to America until they had a #1 hit here. I was almost 5 years old then but my brother was 15 so I became a huge Beatles fan from that young age.
The Ed Sullivan show was definitely the spring board for anyone who wanted to showcase their talent in the US. Big promoters watched ES for fresh new talent they could feature and promote! The British Invasion "Many of those that showcased on ES went on to higher heights like concerts, recordings, etc. I watched ES every Sunday because it was the best variety show on TV for years.
To the younger ppl today.......for me it was a once in a lifetime experience where we were on the precipice of Rock & Roll, i.e the beginning of it all "very very new" and the influence it has and will have in modern Rock forever started in the 50'-70's. I was the best time to be alive imo.
This was their first #1 in the US. February 9th, 1964, the big day that changed music forever. Their first album was recorded (14 tracks) in one day. All 14 songs were on the top forty ALL AT ONCE and the top 5 were all Beatles songs from the album for many weeks.
The Beatles ran ahead of fashion,culture and music…and dared the world to catch up…
this was the appearance that conquered America..a week later they performed their first live concert in America, in Washington DC, and watching that performance is incredible..try watching Please Please Me. . for a British audience a few months earlier, I suggest you watch them perform She Loves You at the ABC Cinema in Manchester UK in 1963.. and I wouldn't say the Beatles changed with the times.... they changed the times... they were the cutting edge of the 1960s... those haircuts were called Beatle haircuts and were revolutionary... guys started growing their hair long, and usually had to have endless arguments with their fathers about hair.. I know I did... I was 9 years old when I saw them on Ed Sullivan... it was on Sunday nights, and the next day at school, Monday morning, the buzz in the school yard was incredible, and pretty much stayed that way for the next 6 years.. the Beatles ruled the world! From this point on, every few weeks they would release a new song or album, and they were always fresh and new... they never repeated themselves but evolved in an incredible direction.
The performance at thee ABC cinema in Manchester ( ua-cam.com/video/x7prHYwxWPY/v-deo.html ) is a much better representation of the energy The Beatles brought to their live performances - and just check out the crazy increase in the crowd reaction when the guys get to the "Ooh"s! I'd love RN to react to this next!
Beatlemania began a year before in England -1963 😊 Also Beatles got together as school kids in the late 50s
Quarry Bank School, they were called The Quarrymen before they became The Beatles.
The Beatles were recording together for 7 years, in that time their appearance changed constantly, as did their music.
Hello from Northern British Columbia, Canada. I have just recently discovered you guys and I really love your natural and charming presentation which is completely unaffected. I am a diehard Beatles fan. My parents were from Scotland and they liked the Beatles even though they were a bit past the age. I remembered this like it was yesterday. Ed Sullivan show was big in Canada, and the Beatles were big everywhere! Especially for young people because of all the rock 'n' roll talent when they were also really young. My mum and dad called us down to the den to see the Beatles perform in 1964. I was only about eight years old. I could not understand what was happening with those girls, but I knew that it was something big. Whenever I see someone new listening to a Beatles song , which I love, and I love just about all of them, I'm always curious about how younger people react. I've not been disappointed. Anyway, I hope you continue your good work. I love your authenticity, which makes you honourary Canadians (it's a compliment please accept it). Don't worry, you can still be as American as apple pie. I recommend to see the evolution of them the video performance of Hello Goodbye when they were in their Sergeant Pepper's mode. Bonne soiree.
Hi Guys.... You aren't wrong.. This was the first time for AMERICAN audiences to get an idea of what had been going on in the rest of the world. Their first single was released 15 months earlier in October 1962. Believe it or not Capitol records didn;t want to release their firat singles so they had to come out on small labels. But once they were on the Ed Sullivan show that all changed and Capitol played catch up by releasing all sorts of wierd combinations that didn;t follow the UK releases...
Just a small thought Jess... they instituted changes rather than following them all the time. Each Beatles album was an event, and they were always ahead of the curve.
It's so difficult to explain it people who weren't there.
I souldn;t have to say it but I loved your reaction as usual... Keep on Rocking..!!
I was 2 when they came to the USA. Through the years, I got to love them.
The biggest change with respect to their appearance and the evolution of their music happened when the song, Strawberry Fields Forever, was released in February 1967. It was at that point in time that their fans were in shock, having witnessed them from being the lovable 'moptops' (a term that they hated) to being grown men. Their promotional film-a precursor to music videos-that accompanied the release of the song was unlike anything anybody had ever expected. Three months later, their Sgt Pepper LP was released, which helped pave the way to the Summer of Love. For me, soon to be 10 yrs old at the time, I will always remember those days fondly.
I remember my older sister with her Brownie Automatic camera taking pictures of the TV screen during this broadcast. Then Beatlemania hit hard! Good memories.
It was a shift in the whole Space/Time Continuum in the Western world when this group appeared. Nobody had ever heard or seen anything like it, the generation that grew up after WW2 finally had something that was theirs and not their parents. Not just music, not just any old performance, this is the stuff of legend.
@martinellis7156 ....."It was a shift in the whole Space/Time Continuum in the Western world when this group appeared.".... YES!! That's the best description I've ever heard for what it was like being there and experiencing the shift in real time! You had to have been born in the early 50's and experienced what the cultural and social mindset was like up until this defining moment to really get just how dramatic a shift it was. Before the Beatles it felt like everything was in black, white and dull grey and then literally over night everything turned to brilliant living color! It helped that the "pump" was already primed by them already having 3-4 songs within the top 10 on the charts before they even arrived in person! I remember just hearing them on our little transistor radio was already causing major seismic cultural shifts! There was nothing else like it! So FRESH and NEW! The feeling was just PURE JOY! But then actually seeing them live for the first time on this very show was a total paradigm shift!!! I felt like the aliens just landed.
@@Emondotcalm I think you are my long-lost twin! I was 10.5 years old when they appeared on Sullivan! The build-up to them coming to the US was HUGE. I might have been more aware of it, because my Dad worked in radio & TV all my life. But by the time the evening of their arrival came, the news coverage was insane! I was personally out of my mind with excitement! I remember sitting on the floor 2 or 3 feet from the small B&W TV, with my Dad and Sister in chairs across the room behind me. Seems like I remember my Mom was cooking supper, and coming in and out from the kitchen to stand and watch. I was crying and screaming at first when they came out! My Dad yelled at me, "If you don't stop that, I'll turn it off!" So, watching without being able to scream was hard.
Everything was different from that day forward!!!!❣
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I got to see them in person in Philly, August 1966. It was amazing to have seen them performing in person.
When it comes to bands know one had greater bands than the U.K. 🇬🇧
Hello? CCR? Allman Brothers Band? Santana? The Doors? Miles Davis? Chicago (early years)? The UK had great bands no doubt but the US had great ones too!
When I was 12/13 years old, my dad was stationed in Scotland...showing my age here...The Beatles were just hitting it big in the UK and Europe. We returned to the States at the end of 1963 and by the time this show came on, I had already introduced them to all my new friends. It was the only time I felt cool as a teenager. LOL
Every loving relationship starts the same - just holding hands. The world fell in love with them right here.
Guys loved them too.
Gr8 fun to see things from the near beginnings. They travelled & met so many people which i believe influenced them massively. ❤🎉
One of the best roller skating songs ever!
I was 4 and I was in front of the TV when the Beatles played Ed Sullivan. Everyone watched Ed Sullivan on Sunday nights.😊
The Beatles best band ever.
I was glued to the TV at grandmas house and announced to everybody, "I'm growing my hair out starting right now," and the old msn was standing there saying BullS you are. Had to put the hair thing on hold, I was only 9.
They went from 'Yeah, Yeah, Yeah' to 'I Am a Walrus' within 4 years!
The rock n roll hall of fame is filled with artists who decided to become musicians because of this performance including Glen Frey and Don Henley of The Eagles, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS and Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart.
Btw, the time between this Ed Sullivan appearance and the rooftop performance of Don’t Let Me Down was FIVE YEARS
Mind blowing
You have to understand that when the Beatles hit the USA we had never seen or heard anything like them. They were a phenomenon!
The Beatles started playing together in their teens. By the time they appeared in the USA in the Ed Sullivan Show, they had been playing together for about 5 years (Ringo joining them in '62).
You've seen the start of Beatlemania, and you also saw how it grew to the extent that in the end the only way they could perform outside of the studio was to go to the roof of their building and play.
This wasn't their first live performance, they were already huge by this time. It was just their first live performance on American TV. You need to go back further if you really want to start from the beginning 😊
Can i just add, the Beatles refused to perform in USA theatres where there was segregation. Paul even wrote "Blackbird" about the segregated schools in the southern USA.
The times changed with THEM!
Mike & Jess, I am so glad to be reliving the musical past with you. Your journey is just beginning. The 60's and 70's gave birth to an incredible amount of music and talent and the Beatles led the way. Jess, you hit the nail on the head with your explanation about how the teenage girls were looking for ways to just let go being so pent up and proper for so long. I was 16 when I watched the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan along with my parents and 4 brothers and sisters on our black and white TV set!
The reactions from the girls around the world at the time was a hysteria that was known as Beatlemania and continued for years.
I was 9 at the time of this performance and remember watching it live that Sunday night and they played twice on the show that evening. They were a global phenomenon for sure.
Love the Beatles and rest in peace John and George!
Saw them live in Cardiff at the Capitol cinema in November 1964. The girls there were a pain in the butt. They screamed all the time the Beatles were singing and quite a few were so hysterical that they wet themselves...I kid you not. Me and my mates were well pissed off.
I was 16 years old at the time
Ha ha, my 14th birthday - 9 Feb 1964. Best times EVER 🇬🇧
The Beatles' five residencies in Hamburg during 1960 to 1962 allowed the Liverpool band to develop their performance skills and widen their reputation.
Thanks for a pleasant reaction video, funny too. Yes, the rate of change in the 60s was quite high. And there was an endless stream of new music, you simply did not want to turn off the radio...
Regards,
Paul (NL)
Three months before this The Beatles played "The Royal Command Performance" in London in front of the Queen Mother, it was on tele! I was 7 years old and they changed my life! It is hard to explain the impact they had without being there at that time, and in the context of the age! I am sure the Ed Sullivan show had a similar impact in those watching in the USA. Just seven years later they recorded their final song (of more than 200), having changed music and culture forever! 60 years later they are still an important part of my life.
Unless you were alive during Beatlemania, there is no way you can explain. People who weren’t, can’t understand as they have no frame of reference. My sister was born during the tail end of Beatlemania so she grew up listening to Beatles songs but because she was too young to grasp the ‘Beatlemania feeling’ to this day she doesn’t understand.
Police didn’t like to work during their concerts because fans would go nuts. Also, because of the stench of urine. Girls would urinate themselves and not even be aware. Yes, there were and are, other amazing groups but none that have had that same impact. Imagine peeing yourself and not being aware.
Watch a couple of their live performances and you’ll have a better idea
@@LoveCats9220 I’m getting to an age where peeing myself without knowing is very likely 😂
@@MrJohnnyMel 🤣🤣
The Beatles were a 60s group.
In 1963, the year before this video, the Beatles became super-famous in England. By the time of this show, which was American, enough was known about them to cause curiosity in the US. Instantly after this show, they became world famous. Within a few months, most existing rock acts went out of business. A few months later, new rock acts patterned after the Beatles began to emerge. Men began to wear long hair. They created changes, but when those changes were adopted by the world, the Beatles were then also affected by them.
By the way, there's a huge amount of great music in their first 3 albums.
This was their first US TV appearance, Feb 1964 and the last clip you watched of them performing on the roof of their office/studio building in London was just 5 years later in Jan 1969. The 1960's saw rapid an and huge changes in pop/rock music and overall culture and The Beatles' career was intense and fast. A month in the 60's is like a year in the 21st century. They had just under 8 years of recorded music output 1962 to 1970. There is a brand new documentary on their 1st US visit, including this show, coming out the end of this November, streaming on Disney + channel celebrating 60 years as well as the release of their 1st 6 US Capitol Albums on vinyl (The UK had different albums initially).
The rooftop concert is just not quite 5 years later.
Let that sink in.
The girls also did that with Elvis in the mid late 1950's! I saw the Beatles 2nd appearance on Ed Sullivan, when i was in Rochester , NY I was 11 going on 12 years old.
Nov 1963 when "I wanna hold your hand" entered the charts, Number 1 was "You'll never walk alone" that you reacted to the Liverpool football fans singing in Australia the other day 🙂
This was their first appearance in America I saw it on TV. I was 12 years old.😊
This was their first hit single in America, they had already had four in Great Britain.
Thanks guy's. Brought back some memories. I saw them live in Jersey UK in 1963. Could hardly hear them over the screaming girls.
The Beatles landed in the U.S. on Feb 7, 1964. They played on Ed Sullivan on Feb 9, 1964, the first time anyone here had seen them. And the rest is history. The Beatles were still all in their 20's when they broke up. Amazing ride.
I watched the Ed Sullivan Show performances. I was a little kid but understood something was happening.
Listen to 'In My Life', a deep and profound song. John Lennon was 24.
Listen to 'Yesterday'. The most covered song in history. Paul McCartney was 23.
It is nothing less than astonishing how Lennon and McCartney did what they did in the 60's. Every album was different from the one before. But as soon as the music started playing, you knew it was The Beatles.
I was a young boy then. I remember thinking 'Where have they come from?'
My Dad worked on this show for CBS. He did tell me later that The Beatles were the only group that actually performed live rather than lip singing.
It's hard to imagine today quite what an impact The Beatles had on popular culture. I can only speak for the UK, but here we had 1 main pop music radio channel, plus a couple of Pirate Radio shows, and 2 TV channels, and they were all over them. I was only 9 when this came out, and here, you either liked The Beatles or The Rolling Stones. The Ed Sullivan Show was their first US appearance, and I think they had the top five singles in the US charts, and this was when singles were a big thing. Always enjoy your reactions, and especially your use of the large screen backdrop...sets you apart from other reactors here. Best wishes from England.
The Beatles were already big since 1962 in the UK and Europe. This performance is when they first came to America.
My mum must have been about 15 or 16 when they came to Scotland and I remember her telling me that she was screaming and totally hysterical. She was so quiet and prudish I'd never have believed it.
Her favourite was George Harrison which I couldn't understand either lol As I grew up I could see how talented he was 😊
The night that performance was on TV our TV was not working. Yes, most homes only had one television! A neighbor invited my parents and me over to watch. And yes, I still have my very first 45 record of that song.
A Day In The Life which came at the end will blow your mind.....
And this is what makes a Scouser proud knowing the Beatles came Liverpool my home town !
Y.N.W.A.
She Loves You &
I Saw Her Standing There. Both early bangers!
I still find the Beatles' success in the US mind-blowing. A group of working class lads with a penchant for skiffle and rock and roll and musicals (and really everything American that the UK was exposed to up to that point) could have hit records in Britain and appear at the Royal Variety Performance, but North America is where British rock and roll, to that point, had gone to die. So it is still startling that this was a No.1 single out there. Even more startling when those hits continued (to the point where they briefly owned the top 5 places in the Billboard chart). I think it goes to show that, try as we might, we will never be able to second-guess what works out there!
They brought back guitar bands, they lengthened everyone's hair, they made albums ESSENTIAL to pop music, and they experienced unprecedented success (4 singles in the top 10 in the same week) which gave them the freedom all artists dream of.
I believe it was five.
@@tomheim9516 You are correct SIR! 1964 April 4, The Beatles occupied the top five slots on the Billboard Hot 100 chart simultaneously with “Can’t Buy Me Love“ at No. 1, “Twist and Shout” at No. 2, “She Loves You” at No. 3, “I Want to Hold Your Hand” at No. 4, and “Please Please Me” at No. 5 (“I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “She Loves You” had already hit No. 1 in earlier weeks).
And they began the trend for writing their own lyrics and music .
Until then ,much British stuff was cover versions of American songs
@@Sirala6 Amazing, really it was.
My favourite Beatles live song is Paul McCartney singing 'Yesterday' for the first time. I do hope you will watch it.
This was their first time in the USA and this song their first number one there. The crowds were in hysterics from the moment they touched down at the airport. You should check out the interviews with the American journalists - they were charmed by these 4 cheeky and witty Liverpudlians.
It was just five years from Ed Sullivan to the rooftop--1964-1969
I always like to point out that George was dealing with a 104° fever during this performance, and you'd never know it just watching him.
Didn’t know that
This was their first hit in the US but 4th in the UK. Ron Howard's "Eight Days A Week" is a great documentary on the boys. All the bands wore identical suits back then. The Rolling Stones changed that.
I had the single 45 record of this song when it came out.
Crewcuts ruled the day in America.....this hair style a revelation.
This event was just over a month after I was born but I am aware and resonated my whole life
Hair style is called the mop top.. 👌