To this day or better yet to this year, the Beatles are still considered the largest, most popular, most famous, rock group in Rock and Roll history. #1 Baby!!
Sam & Phil, this is the concert on August 15, 1965 at Shea Stadium, the home of the New York Mets baseball team (from April 17, 1964-September 28, 2008), located in Flushing, Queens, New York. I was only 6 years old at the time, but I watched the Beatles when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. What a great time to be alive.
The first ever stadium concert by any artists. Again the Beatles were trend setters. From what I understand the audio could not have been very good since it just came out of the stadiums PA system. The Beatles couldn’t even hear themselves playing because of all the screaming.
Ozzy describes them as “going to bed in a black and white world and then waking up in a world full of color” and I think that’s the best way to describe them honestly
That was an unsubstantiated anecdote connecting the two with which Walter Cronkite ended his broadcast one evening. It has never been substantiated as fact. I heard "The Beatles" recordings on a Chicago radio station in October, 1963 -- before the assassination. Those were from "Introducing The Beatles," which had been released in August, 1963. And "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was taking off on another radio station, with escalating requests, on radio during November, 1963.
@@jnagarya519 It's not that no one heard the Beatles until after the assassination. It's that most of us (including me) didn't become familiar with them until they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in Feb 1964. They definitely did help the country's mood at the time.
@@carundle-ds1op If you want to believe that, fine; but there is no SUBSTANTIATION for what was nothing more than an idle comment from Cronkite. Believing it does not make it substantiated or true.
Paul was riding in a limousine to John's house and as they rode along Paul asked the chauffeur how he was doing. The chauffeur replied: “Oh working hard, working eight days a week.” That's how he got the idea for the song.
@@MeMe-mq4zuPaul wrote in his anthology " I remember writing that with John, at his place in Weybridge, from something said by the chauffeur who drove me out there. John had moved out of London. to the suburbs. I usually drove myself there, but the chauffeur drove me out that day and I said, ‘How’ve you been?’ - ‘Oh, working hard,’ he said, ‘working eight days a week.’
This was Shea Stadium in New York, 1965. This was the first ever rock concert in a stadium size building. Acts would usually attract 2- 10 thousand fans. At the time, The Beatles were the only act that could get an attendance big enough to fill a stadium this size...56,000 fans. Also, tickets to see The Beatles were very expensive, around 4 to 5 dollars. True. Lol.😊
I was 18 in 1965 and I saw them live in concert in Cleveland in 1964 and 1966, and those tickets were not "very expensive." My tix were $4.50 in 1964 and $5.50 in 1966. During the summer I worked in Higbee's Dept. Store and the rate for us teens then to work there was $1.15 an hour. SO I only had to work 4 to 5 hours to earn the money for the tickets. NOW to see Paul McCartney would cost me a months' salary!
They were absolutely fainting en mass just at the sight of these guys . Their concerts were just nuts . In those days you didnt assigned seats by purchasing beforehand , you just came to the gate and there was thousands of people in a frenzy to get a close seat
@@bobsblues9944 Oh no, that is TOTALLY incorrect. If you couldn't purchase seats before hand, you had to wait in line at the box office to buy tickets LONG before the concert day. Fans would camp out overnight or DAYS ahead to get the best tickets at the box office of the venue. Here in Cleveland where I saw them, they wouldn't ALLOW camping out. In 1964 we had to send a POSTCARD to the radio station sponsoring the concert, and they would do drawings every day. IF your postcard was picked, youneceived a notification in the mail on how to purchase your ticket. MY postcard and my FRIENDS' postcards were never picked. We only managed to get tickets for the 1964 concert, after overhearing on the bus back from downtown, that the station still had some tickets left over, but you had to go DOWN to the radio station and show them ANY kind of BEATLES' FAN CLUB card (and there were a lot of fan clubs at the time, of which we were members of) , and THEN you could buy whatever ticket/tickets they had left over, right there at the station. Ours were on the floor way in the back in the 72nd row of about 76 rows. The girl in front of my friend who went to the station, bought the last 3 BALCONY seats in the auditorium (we needed 3 tickets). We would have had a much better view in the balcony. To get back to you saying there were no assigned seats. ALL seats WERE ASSIGNED, it's on our ticket stubs, still have mine. At NO place or venue was it just opening the gates and rushing to get a close seat. When they played in more stadiums for baseball , after this first Shea Stadium concert you see in this video (FIRST EVER Rock Group to play in a cavernous stadium like Shea) , NO ONE had a close seat, and NO fans were allowed or SEATED on the field in front of the stage. I was at the 1966 Cleveland concert in our old Municipal Stadium, where the Browns (football) and the Indians (baseball) played. (it was demolished in the early '90s and the current stadium for the Browns was built at the same site.) I was 19 at the time. The stage was always set up on 2nd base of the baseball diamond, and we fans were in the stands of the stadium. We were ALL far away from them at Stadium shows. When those of us in the lower bowl, knocked down the barrier ( flimsy snow fences) and rushed to the stage on second base. The show was stopped, the Beatles were hustled off the stage into the trailer behind the stage where they changed clothes before the concert. Police were getting us back to our seats in the stands, which took about 20 minutes or so to clear the field. If anyone got on the field again, the authorities would shut down the show permanently.
I remember right before Christmas in 1963, my sister came home telling my mom about this new band, she was so excited she could hardly tell my mom the name of the song, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, a few months later they were on the Ed Sullivan show. they will always be my favorite band. I have all their albums, including all their European releases. on my wall is a framed copy of the double cover album that I got for Christmas in 1966. thanks for the lil trip...
Beatlemania happened in Britain also. In many countries. Beatles album sales were 10% of UK GDP in 1964! That's a large part why they were all awarded the Order of the British Empire by the queen.
First stadium concert EVER. This was at the old Shea stadium. They, both the audience and the Beatles, could not hear anything. Notice the small amps. That’s all they had. Beatlemania will never occur again. Phenomenal.
The concert was at Shea Stadium 1965 NYC ,,That would make a great reaction vid ,they killed it and they were the new boss in town at that point in time .Nobody could touch them
When they played Vancouver, the girls broke down the barriers and a mob ran after the band. Apparently, my grandmother and aunt were at the front of the pack.
I was a teenager in the 60s, and couldn't wait for the next Beatles single to be released. And I was never disappointed. And I love this song as I love all the others. One thing that has kept that joy living over the past few years, has been watching The Fab Four play Beatles songs ,including this one, and play them SO well.
As mentioned this was August ‘65, and the first stadium concert EVER. 55,000+ screaming fans. You could argue The Beatles “took over America” the year before on the Ed Sullivan Show in Feb ‘64, the first of 3 appearances on the show. The first one drew an estimated 73 million viewers, a record at that time for any tv event. I was one of them being 7 y/o!
I was a huge Beatles fan from the time they landed in America in 1964... I was 8 years old then but very musically aware and I had their 1st album which was named "Meet the Beatles"... I also had their Beatles 1965 album... I watched the concert at shea stadium when I was 9 years old... Samantha was talking about women passing out and being so obsessed and they absolutely were... The female fans were dropping like flies and I still remember John Lennon's face when he saw this happening... He had a quizzical look on his face like he couldn't understand why it was happening and he actually stopped singing and Paul jumped in and finished his lyrics for him during one song... It was quite a concert... The security guards earned their money big time that day... I hope you finish up your Beatles journey with the song that just came out not too long ago which was their final song that Paul and Congo finished after about 40 years called " Now and Then"... Another good reaction guys...Keep Being Awesome !!!...
This isn't a live recording from the Shea Stadium concert of August 1965. Someone did a good job editing video from the concert to synchronize with their album vocals and playing. I think the Beatles complained afterwards that the crowd was so loud they couldn't hear themselves sing or their instruments! 🎸🎸💖
@@sourisvoleur4854 I won't even go to concerts anymore simply because the live sound is so horrible. It simply is not worth the money to pay over $200 for a ticket to be assaulted with sound that is two or three times too loud. It just ruins the entire concert, and it was an Eagles concert in 2018 that was so terrible I have at last said no more.
Paul was being driven out to Johns for a songwriting session. After an uneventful trip Paul, in a bit of small talk, asked the driver if he had been busy. The driver said to Paul, 'Aye, I've been working 8 days a week'. When Paul arrived John asked him if he had a song to work on. Paul said "No, but I know the title, 'Eight Days A Week'. 3 hours later the song was finished. Needing some last-minute tweaking on the intro/outro which they eventually polished off in the studio. John double tracks his vocals during the verses with Paul joining on the Hold Me/Love Me as well as the songs 2 bridges: (Eight days a week, I love you) This song was slated to be the last Beatles single of 1964, only to be replaced by I Feel Fine. RNB
The Beatles had all the genres covered. Straight-up, wicked Rockers: "Long, Tall Sally", "Money", "You Can't Do That", "I Saw Her Standing There", "Helter Skelter", "When I Get Home", "I'm Down", "I Want You (She's so Heavy)", etc. etc. // Ballads: "P.S. I Love You", "This Boy", "And I Love Her", "I'll Follow The Sun", "Yesterday", "Girl", "Michelle", etc, etc. // Top o' the Pops: "She Loves You", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "All My Loving", "Can't Buy Me Love", "Tell Me Why", Eight Days a Week", "I Should Have Known Better", "Every Little Thing", etc., etc. // And songs that are just...The Beatles! (no one had done songs like these): "A Hard Day's Night", "Things We Said Today", "Not a Second Time", "Baby's In Black", "Help!", "Drive My Car", "Taxman", "Tomorrow Never Knows" and everything from the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" and "Magical Mystery Tour" albums!! The Beatles were truly exceptional.
Love the early Beatles! Their music constantly evolved over time. You would have to have lived during that time to understand Beatlemania. Beatlemania was a phenomenon that had never happened before. We went from artists like Chuck Berry and Elvis to the Beatles who were completely different. Everything about them and their music were different from anything any of us had ever experienced. They were not just an iconic rock band, they were a cultural revolution ... seriously! Thanks for this great reaction and choice! ✌💙✌
The Beatles debuted on Ed Sullivan in February 1964. The toured right after that. The were constantly touring the US and the World. This was a year and a half after their debut. They play Shea Stadium again in '66. The crowd was a little thinner, but the girls were still screaming.
The Beatles came to the states in '64. By '66, they quit touring cause they couldn't hear themselves playing. Some other songs. Nowhere Man, The Long and Winding Road, Let It Be, and Eleanor Rigby are some good ones to check out.
@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee " Lennon had hurt his vocal cords and needed to be layered after the first album and it was getting worse, not better." That's absolute nonsense, factually incorrect. For their first album "PLEASE PLEASE ME" (1963) Lennon already had a head cold before the recording session started, and which at the end of the night left him barely able to finish his lead vocal on the last track recorded, "Twist And Shout". He didn't "hurt his vocal cords and needed to layered" - whatever the hell "layered" is supposed to mean - afterwards. He got over his head cold, voice intact and in fine shape as always.
@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee they didn't HAVE stage monitors at all, they weren't a "thing" then, I don't think they even existed. THAT is why they couldn't hear themselves, even if they had monitors I doubt they would be much help at all, but it may have helped a bit to hear themselves over the screaming. All that is on the stage is their amplifiers for their guitars. The sound was fed to the crowd through the PA (Public Address) system in the stadium that was used during the games. For Shea, it was being recorded to be shown on TV later, so they had sound boards set up on the field in front of the stage and the feed was going directly from their microphones to the recording equipment.
and you have EVERY right TO BE PROUD! I love Liverpool and her people. I am an American and married one in 1971 (we were pen-pals from early 1965 through 1968.)
They took over the US in FEB 1964 when they did a couple weeks with Ed Sullivan Show. I watched that at a bowling alley bar on a Sunday night. I had to go with my parents because back in those days bowling leagues were huge and they belonged on one EVERY FREAKIN SUNDAY night. lol. I will NEVER forget that night nor forget seeing them in Detroit at Olympia Stadium. I am going to say this is at Shea Stadium. I paid a whopping $5 for my seat at Olympia. That was a bit in 1965
@@letsgomets002 The filming of them performing (while it may be the studio version that's used...) is still from when the Beatles played at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York on August 15, back in 1965.
Love you guys reaction not only to this song but all the videos that I get to catch you doing I absolutely love it when I see folks hearing music that I have been brought up with I'm the youngest of five boys all my brothers were in bands in New England back in the 60s my brother Michael would bring home every new 45 that he could get his hands on at least two or three a week and we had quite a Beatles collection clearly one of the most influential bands of all time and the British Invasion was an absolute blast keep spreading that music around guys don't be afraid to go back into the 60s to other British Invasion bands you'll fall in love with that era as much as we all did❤🎉keep spreading the music around Godbless ❤️
I was in a Beatles tribute band years ago. I was George. We wore the classic black suits and we sang and played every song like they did. Was a lot of fun. Learned a lot about singing. They're awesome
Sam commented on the girls screaming. As a senior in high school I saw the Beatles in Houston in 1965 (or 66?). I say "saw" because because of all the screaming girls you could barely here the band.
we girls didn't care, we already KNEW the songs and what they sounded like as we had all the records up to that point. We wanted to SEE them, and just SEEING them (and being so FAR AWAY from them) was overwhelming and frustrating (cos we couldn't get CLOSE to them) and it manifested itself with crying, screaming, cheering, etc. I did too, I was 17 in 1964. It was a GREAT and FUN period, that I could live over and over again if it was possible.
Lol, I knew the answer to the pop quiz simply because, like so many other Beatles fans, I literally owned everything they ever put out on vinyl. Including that album of course. In fact it's an iconic album cover. But then so are most of their album covers, lol. I really like everything about the way you guys do your reactions. I've been around for a while and I've watched your channel evolve, but both of you are fascinating and really engage with the music that you listen to. The commentary is always insightful, and I just have to say, there was some point late in this reaction where I had this knee-jerk response like, Damn, Sam is so f*cking smart. And then I realized I'd had that reaction before. I mean both of you are obviously very quick and very insightful, and so articulate - that's one thing I like about this. But I did have that reaction again today, just like a few times before. It was too blurry for me to know for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of that concert footage was from their historic performance at Shea Stadium, I believe on their first tour of the United States in 1964. But they did play a ton of stadiums for the first couple years.
Oh you definitely need to listen to their earlier stuff. Songs like "I Want To Hold Your Hand" were what created Beatlemania - and they are exactly what you're looking for. Their first movie, "A Hard Day's Night", is a time capsule of all that. Also, I highly recommend the documentary, "Eight Days A Week", about their early touring career before they gave all that up to spend time in the studio.
The reason this song was brief and catchy (like all their songs from this era), is that it comes from a time when songs _had_ to be brief and catchy or they wouldn't get played on the radio. 2:55 was the limit; nothing over three minutes had a chance of a play, and thus would not sell. So their songs of this time tended to be two verses and a chorus, repeated twice with a bridge. That'a comfortable setup for the right length. Everyone at the time had to stick to that length; I'm sure you've noticed how the songs from that classic rock 'n' roll era are all more or less 3 minutes long.
Sounds dirt cheap but it wasn’t back then. Adjusted for inflation, $5.00 in 1965 is equivalent to about $50.00 today. The Beatles played a dozen songs and were finished after half an hour.
@@humphreygruntwhistle3946 I was 17 - 19 years old during their touring years in the U.S from 1964 through 1966. I worked in the summer at a huge department store downtown, and teen employees were pain $1. 15 an hour. My tickets for the 1964 concert, was $4.40 and for the 1966 concert $5.50. I only had to work 4 to 5 hours to earn the money for those tickets. Plus I earned $5 week allowance from my parents. I also babysat, at 50 cents to $1 an hour (depending on what I had to do.) We were NOT rich at all. My mom was a stay at home mom, as most mothers were then.
I was there, at Shea Stadium in '65! I was not one of the hysterical girls, I really hoped to hear them sing, but you couldn't over all the screams, so finally my friends & I just shrugged and thought, "We might as well scream along!"
Always loved this song. I'm glad you picked up on the harmonies because this tune definitely showcased their vocals. John and Paul have the fortunate ability to blend their singing voices perfectly. In this song, they sing almost the entire song in unison, except for the bridge section. I love the results. Sam: you said your favorite song (so far) is, Here Comes The Sun. The funny thing is, I can guarantee you will be updated your 'so far' evaluation frequently. There will be a lot of songs that will claim that distinction as you listen to more of their tunes. I've been enjoying my Beatles journey for over 50 years and I still can't say for certain which is my favorite. That's exactly what's so great about The Beatles. Enjoy the experience.
I highly recommend you do a reaction on The Beatles roof top concert. It’s the last time they played together as a band and TH-cam will not stop you from showing it. 🕊❤️🎼
Phil and Sam, this is an example of some of the early Beatles stuff that put them on then map and started Beatlemania. The other 2 songs you reacted to previously were at the end of their career together when they were more mature in their sound and had long been established. When this song, "Eight Days A Week" came out I was only about 6 or 7 but I remember during this period of their career, we'd go visit one of my aunt and uncles and their 3 teenaged daughters had these records scattered all over the room, spread out on their beds, on the floor, on the dresser and listening to them over and over. Beatles were all they could talk about. I experienced seeing true Beatlemania in action, lol.. I cant wait to hear you react to more of their early to mid career music.
Hi. I was 14 when the Beatles came to Minneapolis. Our nosebleed tickets were 5.50 dollars each. We didn’t stop to think about why we loved them. The Beatles were very different from the earlier bans. They were new and upbeat. One thing to remember is that President Kennedy - who was well loved - was assasinated the November before the Beatles broke through to popularity in the US. American people were feeling pretty downtrodden at that time. The Beatles were a great big breath of fresh air for the young people. While I didn’t scream at their Minneapolis concert, there were thousands of girls there who did. One final thought…….there were no stadium concerts before they came to the US. The authorities were forced to find places that could handle those big crowds. Mostly, the sports stadiums were the only places that could accommodate those exuberant crowds.
You have to realize that at the peak of Beatle Mania they held the top 5 positions on the US singles chart. This feat will probably never be equalled and at that time Everybody knew them and their songs. When they appeared for the first time on the Ed Sullivan show there was virtually no reported crime across America. A police spokesman said, "Even the criminals were watching the show."
So cool to see you witness Beatlemania. The hype was enormous. They were maybe one of the first "boy bands", but they had talent. Enormous talent that would play out over the next few years.
As mentioned this was recorded at Shea Stadium. The Beatles were the first band to play a stadium which wasn't made to amplify music. The sound consisted of their amps which was piped through the stadium announcing system. Consequently in the original sound track, they can barely be heard above the screaming.
The video was the Beatles Shea Stadium performance which was on their second US tour in 1965. It was literally the first big stadium show by a pop band and adequate sounds systems didn't exist. I remember hearing on the BBC News about how they had to drag all the fainting girls out of the crowd. In 1964 they their first TV appearances and a couple of shows in Washington DC and New York early in the year, followed by a coast to coast tour in the summer. There is a documentary film of the Shea Stadium show that's out there...
I love that you are on a Beatles journey. They are perfect to me and I will watch all your reactions to them. There are so many that I would love for you to react to. The list would be endless. So I thought of one you should definitely hear even if you don’t do a reaction to it on your show. IN MY LIFE. It’s a song John wrote/sings that Paul said “I wish I wrote that “ This song has been played in many weddings. Enjoy. Love your show
This was not exactly in the "first wave" of hits that instantly brought about Beatlemania, but it was soon after. Very quickly in early "64 in America, there were three albums full of much loved hits and this one was a couple of albums later. The Beatles started out raw and doing covers (like Twist and Shout) and became a touch more sophisticated with each album.
love this one, it gets in your head in a good way.... thanks for doing this one guys... 🥰when the Beatles came on the scene the UK was just coming out of the dark days of WW2, so they allowed the people to be happy again... ☺
It's just a tad later than the takeover. In 1963, the Beatles were big in the UK and Germany, but hadn't gained a foothold on this side of the pond. "Please Please Me" and "She Loves You" had been released as singles in the US, but radio stations didn't play them much and therefore they didn't sell. The most credible version of the Takeover scenario that I've seen is: Ed Sullivan was in Europe, saw how popular the Beatles were, and booked them for three consecutive appearances on his variety show in Feb 1964, on the assumption that teens were the same everywhere. Then he got home and found out that they hadn't been discovered here yet. So he started a multifaceted promo campaign to fix that by the time February rolled around. Pushed for airplay of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and of their other already-released singles. And it worked. In any case, by March 1964 or so, the Beatles were selling two out of every three records that were purchased here in a given week. They did several successful concert tours over here in 1964 and '65, and released two movies. And they paved the way for all the other British Invasion groups to come over and expand their fanbases. "Eight Days a Week" was released in Dec 1964.
What has always amused me was that Capitol Records, who were owned by EMI at the time and had first choice of EMI's UK output, didn't want to know. So EMI made one-off deals with Vee-Jay and Swan who just happened to have contracts to have their US stuff released in the UK. Eventually Capitol woke up and released "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" at the end of '63 and (presumably) promoted it. That along with Ed Sullivan's efforts ensured maximum exposure. Add in the fab four's talent and charisma and voila Beatlemania!! Capitol really exploited the US record buying public by releasing tracks in different album combinations and singles which weren't released in the UK, "Eight Days a Week" being an example.
They conquered America even before they first appeared on "Ed Sullivan Show". As example: On December 31, 1963, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was "bubbling under" the Top 20 on a New York radio station. The next day, on January 1, 1964, it was #1 on that radio station.
Next Beatles, maybe Hard Days Night? There has always been a discussion about how they got the first cord of the song. Some great musical minds have their opinions. But, they're all different.
September 5, 1964 International Amphitheater in Chicago. My mother took myself & three brothers and my baby sister who was five to the Beatles concert. FYI the cost for the Concert tickets was less than $50. I remember when they were introduced & came on stage the audience was so loud the the building shook & vibrated. I was 13, and it was swell!
Shea Stadium in Seattle! I’m dying! 😂 it’s in Queens, NYC, former home of the New York Mets! It’s the first concert held in a huge stadium on July 15, 1965. Their first time in the U.S. was February 1964 when they were on the Ed Sullivan Show and did a concerts in Washington, D.C. and Carnegie Hall in NYC. They also did a tour of the U.S. later in 1964
A lot of their early stuff is this kind of feel good vibe , Up until 1966 up until their revolver album from 67 onwards they get psychedelic and a bit less poppy. All my loving has another incredible bassline ;)
The Beatles are one of my favorite groups but if you have Hulu watch the film by Ron Howard called 8 Days a Week the Touring Years, and Paul McCartney said it was a Ringo-ism to say odd things like Eight Days a Week
Eight Days a Week was another Ringo saying, referring, I believe, to how rough and time-crunching their tour schedule was. Another malapropism of his was used for A Hard Day's Night. There was at least one other.... I think it was Tomorrow Never Knows?? - a song sung by John, putting his vocals through a revolving Leslie speaker to make his voice sound like he was preaching from a higher ethereal place
Beatles have such an amazing catalog that it's hard to recommend songs to play next from them, but here are some of my favs that you haven't played yet. "A Hard Day's Night", "We Can Work it Out", "Hey Jude", "Yesterday", "Norwegian Wood", and "Eleanor Rigby".
Historical perspective-The Nation had been in deep mourning for over 2 months since Kennedy's assassination in Nov '63. It was a dark time with no ready answers at hand. So in Feb. 1964 when the Beatles arrived the Nation was primed to burst out of that dark time. The Beatles did that in a way that was not threatened to most people. Good, wholesome, young men, who just happened to be so talented, that any future Gen looking back will have to deal with not only their musical legacy, but also their Social impact.
In America, this song was on the Beatles VI album released in June, 1965, a year and a half after they "exploded" here with I Want to Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, Since I Saw Her Standing There, Twist and Shout, Please Please Me, Can't Buy Me Love, P.S. I Love You, and on and on.
I think it's Ringo that was the guy who liked and encouraged the clapping. He does the same thing on his current video of his cover of a Buddy Holly song, which name escapes me right now.
When I was an 8 year old kid at Key West in 1964 they came to the island and everybody was going crazy trying to get a glimpse of them. I think they even put on some sort of little impromptu show. I was mad that my mom and dad wouldn't let me walk over to where they were staying but of course they didn't think that was a proper crowd for an 8 year old.
The Beatles were probably the most prolific band with absolutely the most hit songs of any band in history, especially noting what they accomplished in a rather short time frame. 13 years.
The Beatls released their first record in the UK in 1962. They had split by 1969, that's seven years and they were all still in their twenties when they split. A truly amazing body of work is such a short time.
This was at Shea stadium in New York..this was also the first ever stadium concert for any music artist…when you really think about it, no music artist/performer in all of human history has ever played in front of as large of an audience as this..they were the very first. Also this song has a fade in at the beginning which is also the first time that was ever done and the reason it sounds so different from Here Comes The Sun as far as the instruments is because this song was recorded in 64 and the other was recorded in 69 so technology was better and they were now using 8 track instead of 4 track recording
Keep in mind that in the 60‘s we had never heard anything like the Beatles. If your going to listen to them, start at the beginning. The music they put out & growth of the songwriting they did is and always be amazing. This old hippie chick will always argue that the Beatles are the GOATS!
The weird part is that 'Beatlemania' was not an overnight thing; it took years to manifest... Paul McCartney started playing w/ John Lennon since they were school kids in 1957 and George Harrison soon joined, despite being very young... he was a talented guitar player. In 1960, the band finally became The Beatles w/ Pete Best (drums) and Stu Sutcliffe (bass) and they performed a club residency in Hamburg, West Germany for the first time and they looked like Elvis clones at the time - leather jackets and greased hair... They would be very entertaining performing covers of 50's rock n' roll songs. By 1961, Sutcliffe left The Beatles to focus on art (Sadly, he died unexpectedly in 1962 from a brain aneurysm)... Paul McCartney took over playing bass so that John Lennon and George Harrison could shine on guitar... The Beatles soon adopted their signature 'mop top' look after Stu Sutcliffe's girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr (who first photographed The Beatles in 1960 in Hamburg) had given him a haircut... They were managed by Brian Epstein, who booked The Beatles' gigs and promoted them relentlessly... Between 1961 and 1962, The Beatles were regulars at Liverpool's Cavern Club and in Hamburg at the Top Ten Club (in 1961), and then the Star Club (1962) ... and the word spread fast in Europe and in the UK that The Beatles were the best rock n' roll band without even having a record out... Young fans would travel long distances to Liverpool and Hamburg to see The Beatles perform live in concert and there would be lines to get into the club ... The Beatles would play multiple sets a day (usually about 30 - 40 minutes each) to keep up w/ demand. Ringo Starr (real name: Richard Starkey, drums) had met The Beatles in Hamburg when he played for Rory Storm & the Hurricanes; Starr was from Liverpool and by 1962, Ringo Starr was getting called by Brian Epstein to fill in for Beatles drummer Pete Best... As the Beatles began recording their first songs, Pete Best was already on thin ice and not showing up for shows... He was fired in '62 when producer George Martin demanded a new drummer in the studio; Ringo Starr was announced as his replacement... Beatles fans did not take the change well initially - Ringo was heckled, pelted and abused by Pete Best fans for a while... In late 1962, the first Beatles single was made available - 'Love me do'... Because of the reputation that The Beatles had built playing live, it went to #1 on the UK charts and the next single 'From me to you' was an even bigger hit... When The Beatles released their first full album 'Please, please me' in early 1963, it went to #1 on the UK charts and the band exploded in popularity. With a hit record, The Beatles were booking shows across the UK in 1963 and weren't making much money... but the fanfare and fervor that the band had experienced in Liverpool and Hamburg was growing nationwide... The Beatles would be sharing the bill w/ other artists and would always elicit the loudest cheers and screams from audiences when they played... Back then, tickets were really cheap; $5 to $6 in the US ... Promoters would hire a band to play and would pay them like employees - The Beatles were no different, no matter how famous they got. Their manager Brian Epstein had to arrange security for The Beatles once it was apparent that they were getting bigger w/ each show... After the UK, The Beatles toured Europe and saw similar hysteria directed at the band during their short concerts. With more Beatles singles charting and sales for their albums shooting through the roof, the band made a decision - a #1 single in the US before they would even consider touring N. America... Hard as they tried in '63, it didn't happen. The #1 single in the US finally came during the 1963 Christmas season - 'I want to hold your hand' ... became their first American #1 hit and The Beatles finally agreed to come to America to tour... Their first US national TV appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in early 1964 generated 73 million viewers that night and launched Beatlemania in the US more than 3 years since their first residency in Hamburg.
A few other British groups had similar fan reactions for a short time - Gerry and the Pacemakers, Hermans Hermits etc - but the Beatles soared out of sight after a while
I really enjoyed both of you chair dancing and Phil’s great facial expressions in this reaction! 😊 You know the old saying, “You had to be there”?, it’s very true of this period in time. We had never seen anything like it, except maybe for the early Elvis era. I was only in kindergarten when they were on Ed Sullivan and can’t tell you what an incredible memory it is to me. For your next Beatles reaction I’d love for you to do “The Long and Winding Road”, it is an incredibly beautiful and meaningful piece with Paul on lead vocals. Keep up the great work, I’m so glad I found your channel!
This is the first Beatles song I remember as a kid , I was 10 years old. It was then that I decided to learn to play. I could sing along and it was fun. Its still fun .
the Baby sweater that John is holding up was for Ringo's first newborn son ZAK that was sent to the stadium by a fan. Tickets for the Beatles concerts in 1964 were $3.50. $4.50 and $5.50 and for the 1966 concert I went to they were $4.50, $5.50 and $6.50. 1966 was the last year they toured.
If you're interested in hearing them live, I highly recommend you watch the film The Beatles: the Touring Years. Produced by Tom Hanks. They were able to lower the volume of the screaming fans, so you can actually hear the band. Amazing how good they were when they couldn't hear themselves playing.
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To this day or better yet to this year, the Beatles are still considered the largest, most popular, most famous, rock group in Rock and Roll history. #1 Baby!!
When Ozzy was asked about the biggest band of all time, he said...
"Hands down, without question, no debate...The Beatles. The Beatles. The Beatles."
They are much more than that. To this day, The Beatles are the biggest selling music artist of all time, regardless of genre.
Peace
Sam & Phil, this is the concert on August 15, 1965 at Shea Stadium, the home of the New York Mets baseball team (from April 17, 1964-September 28, 2008), located in Flushing, Queens, New York. I was only 6 years old at the time, but I watched the Beatles when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. What a great time to be alive.
The Beatles played the 1st concert at Shea and Paul McCartney played in the last concert there joining Billy Joel and his "Last Play at Shea"!
The first ever stadium concert by any artists. Again the Beatles were trend setters.
From what I understand the audio could not have been very good since it just came out of the stadiums PA system. The Beatles couldn’t even hear themselves playing because of all the screaming.
I was only three or four! I still have a memory of it though, and I have loved them obviously since I was a toddler, laugh.
Thank you Ed Sullivan for bringing us the Beatles
😊 Always makes me happy to hear a Beatles song❣️
what you fail to understand - we had never heard ANYTHING like this before. When they came to us it was a revelation & blew us away.
Ozzy describes them as “going to bed in a black and white world and then waking up in a world full of color” and I think that’s the best way to describe them honestly
60 years ago this week they had the top 5 songs in the country. The Beatles brought us out of the sadness we went through with JFK's assisination.
If memory serves, it took Louis Armstrong to finally break their hold on #1 after that.
@@Kaddywompous louis seemed like a lovely guy.i loved him in high society and hello dolly.
That was an unsubstantiated anecdote connecting the two with which Walter Cronkite ended his broadcast one evening.
It has never been substantiated as fact.
I heard "The Beatles" recordings on a Chicago radio station in October, 1963 -- before the assassination. Those were from "Introducing The Beatles," which had been released in August, 1963.
And "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was taking off on another radio station, with escalating requests, on radio during November, 1963.
@@jnagarya519 It's not that no one heard the Beatles until after the assassination. It's that most of us (including me) didn't become familiar with them until they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in Feb 1964. They definitely did help the country's mood at the time.
@@carundle-ds1op If you want to believe that, fine; but there is no SUBSTANTIATION for what was nothing more than an idle comment from Cronkite.
Believing it does not make it substantiated or true.
Pick any song off of any album by The Beatles and you never get the same sound twice. The greatest Band EVER
This wasn’t “colorized” it was filmed in color!
Yes, at Shea Stadium it looks like. Not their first U.S. tour, but a year or two later.
Ssshhh! Don't tell anyone! Who knows what they'll do if they find out that technology existed before they were born?
@@SpaceCattttt 😂😂
@@johnsilva9139 Aug. 15, 1965, and yes it was FILMED in COLOR.
Paul was riding in a limousine to John's house and as they rode along Paul asked the chauffeur how he was doing. The chauffeur replied: “Oh working hard, working eight days a week.” That's how he got the idea for the song.
Interesting! I had always thought it was a "Ringoism" as in "it's been a hard days night". (though maybe that wasn't him either!)
It was a taxi he got not a limousine
VERY cool!
@@Rob-fs8vq Yes, that WAS him .
@@MeMe-mq4zuPaul wrote in his anthology " I remember writing that with John, at his place in Weybridge, from something said by the chauffeur who drove me out there. John had moved out of London. to the suburbs. I usually drove myself there, but the chauffeur drove me out that day and I said, ‘How’ve you been?’ - ‘Oh, working hard,’ he said, ‘working eight days a week.’
This was Shea Stadium in New York, 1965. This was the first ever rock concert in a stadium size building. Acts would usually attract 2- 10 thousand fans. At the time, The Beatles were the only act that could get an attendance big enough to fill a stadium this size...56,000 fans. Also, tickets to see The Beatles were very expensive, around 4 to 5 dollars. True. Lol.😊
I was 18 in 1965 and I saw them live in concert in Cleveland in 1964 and 1966, and those tickets were not "very expensive." My tix were $4.50 in 1964 and $5.50 in 1966. During the summer I worked in Higbee's Dept. Store and the rate for us teens then to work there was $1.15 an hour. SO I only had to work 4 to 5 hours to earn the money for the tickets. NOW to see Paul McCartney would cost me a months' salary!
i remember watching them on my b&w tv console. i was 10 😊
Yes Grandma was more crazy than you thought!
great grandmas now
They were absolutely fainting en mass just at the sight of these guys . Their concerts were just nuts . In those days you didnt assigned seats by purchasing beforehand , you just came to the gate and there was thousands of people in a frenzy to get a close seat
@@bobsblues9944 It wasn't the fainting the janitorial staff remarked on. More a certain fluid they had to mop up.
@@bobsblues9944 Oh no, that is TOTALLY incorrect. If you couldn't purchase seats before hand, you had to wait in line at the box office to buy tickets LONG before the concert day. Fans would camp out overnight or DAYS ahead to get the best tickets at the box office of the venue. Here in Cleveland where I saw them, they wouldn't ALLOW camping out. In 1964 we had to send a POSTCARD to the radio station sponsoring the concert, and they would do drawings every day. IF your postcard was picked, youneceived a notification in the mail on how to purchase your ticket. MY postcard and my FRIENDS' postcards were never picked. We only managed to get tickets for the 1964 concert, after overhearing on the bus back from downtown, that the station still had some tickets left over, but you had to go DOWN to the radio station and show them ANY kind of BEATLES' FAN CLUB card (and there were a lot of fan clubs at the time, of which we were members of) , and THEN you could buy whatever ticket/tickets they had left over, right there at the station. Ours were on the floor way in the back in the 72nd row of about 76 rows. The girl in front of my friend who went to the station, bought the last 3 BALCONY seats in the auditorium (we needed 3 tickets). We would have had a much better view in the balcony.
To get back to you saying there were no assigned seats. ALL seats WERE ASSIGNED, it's on our ticket stubs, still have mine. At NO place or venue was it just opening the gates and rushing to get a close seat. When they played in more stadiums for baseball , after this first Shea Stadium concert you see in this video (FIRST EVER Rock Group to play in a cavernous stadium like Shea) , NO ONE had a close seat, and NO fans were allowed or SEATED on the field in front of the stage.
I was at the 1966 Cleveland concert in our old Municipal Stadium, where the Browns (football) and the Indians (baseball) played. (it was demolished in the early '90s and the current stadium for the Browns was built at the same site.) I was 19 at the time. The stage was always set up on 2nd base of the baseball diamond, and we fans were in the stands of the stadium. We were ALL far away from them at Stadium shows. When those of us in the lower bowl, knocked down the barrier ( flimsy snow fences) and rushed to the stage on second base. The show was stopped, the Beatles were hustled off the stage into the trailer behind the stage where they changed clothes before the concert. Police were getting us back to our seats in the stands, which took about 20 minutes or so to clear the field. If anyone got on the field again, the authorities would shut down the show permanently.
I remember right before Christmas in 1963, my sister came home telling my mom about this new band, she was so excited she could hardly tell my mom the name of the song, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, a few months later they were on the Ed Sullivan show. they will always be my favorite band. I have all their albums, including all their European releases. on my wall is a framed copy of the double cover album that I got for Christmas in 1966. thanks for the lil trip...
Beatlemania happened in Britain also. In many countries. Beatles album sales were 10% of UK GDP in 1964! That's a large part why they were all awarded the Order of the British Empire by the queen.
Indeed, Beatlemania started in Britian at least a year before it hit the US
@@sourisvoleur4854 Is right. Always funny how the Yanks claim first in everything...
Always makes me happy to hear a Beatles song❣️ 😊
The drums, the bass, the jangly guitars, the harmonies, the handclaps, the entre and outro. What a song!
First stadium concert EVER. This was at the old Shea stadium. They, both the audience and the Beatles, could not hear anything. Notice the small amps. That’s all they had. Beatlemania will never occur again. Phenomenal.
The concert was at Shea Stadium 1965 NYC ,,That would make a great reaction vid ,they killed it and they were the new boss in town at that point in time .Nobody could touch them
When they played Vancouver, the girls broke down the barriers and a mob ran after the band. Apparently, my grandmother and aunt were at the front of the pack.
Same here in Australia.
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I was a teenager in the 60s, and couldn't wait for the next Beatles single to be released. And I was never disappointed. And I love this song as I love all the others. One thing that has kept that joy living over the past few years, has been watching The Fab Four play Beatles songs ,including this one, and play them SO well.
This is their best early song to me. It's flawless and John's vocals are superb.
As mentioned this was August ‘65, and the first stadium concert EVER. 55,000+ screaming fans. You could argue The Beatles “took over America” the year before on the Ed Sullivan Show in Feb ‘64, the first of 3 appearances on the show. The first one drew an estimated 73 million viewers, a record at that time for any tv event. I was one of them being 7 y/o!
I was a huge Beatles fan from the time they landed in America in 1964... I was 8 years old then but very musically aware and I had their 1st album which was named "Meet the Beatles"... I also had their Beatles 1965 album... I watched the concert at shea stadium when I was 9 years old... Samantha was talking about women passing out and being so obsessed and they absolutely were... The female fans were dropping like flies and I still remember John Lennon's face when he saw this happening... He had a quizzical look on his face like he couldn't understand why it was happening and he actually stopped singing and Paul jumped in and finished his lyrics for him during one song... It was quite a concert... The security guards earned their money big time that day... I hope you finish up your Beatles journey with the song that just came out not too long ago which was their final song that Paul and Congo finished after about 40 years called " Now and Then"... Another good reaction guys...Keep Being Awesome !!!...
When the Beatles took America by storm and change the world the music forever
This isn't a live recording from the Shea Stadium concert of August 1965. Someone did a good job editing video from the concert to synchronize with their album vocals and playing. I think the Beatles complained afterwards that the crowd was so loud they couldn't hear themselves sing or their instruments! 🎸🎸💖
This was true of every concert, which is why eventually they gave up touring.
@@sourisvoleur4854 I won't even go to concerts anymore simply because the live sound is so horrible. It simply is not worth the money to pay over $200 for a ticket to be assaulted with sound that is two or three times too loud. It just ruins the entire concert, and it was an Eagles concert in 2018 that was so terrible I have at last said no more.
@@ToddSauve I have permanent non-progressive high frequency hearing loss as well as tinnitis, and I'm convinced it's from over-loud concerts.
Paul was being driven out to Johns for a songwriting session. After an uneventful trip Paul, in a bit of small talk, asked the driver if he had been busy. The driver said to Paul, 'Aye, I've been working 8 days a week'. When Paul arrived John asked him if he had a song to work on. Paul said "No, but I know the title, 'Eight Days A Week'. 3 hours later the song was finished. Needing some last-minute tweaking on the intro/outro which they eventually polished off in the studio. John double tracks his vocals during the verses with Paul joining on the Hold Me/Love Me as well as the songs 2 bridges: (Eight days a week, I love you) This song was slated to be the last Beatles single of 1964, only to be replaced by I Feel Fine. RNB
THANKS, YA'LL!!! There will NEVER be another!!
The Beatles had all the genres covered. Straight-up, wicked Rockers: "Long, Tall Sally", "Money", "You Can't Do That", "I Saw Her Standing There", "Helter Skelter", "When I Get Home", "I'm Down", "I Want You (She's so Heavy)", etc. etc. // Ballads: "P.S. I Love You", "This Boy", "And I Love Her", "I'll Follow The Sun", "Yesterday", "Girl", "Michelle", etc, etc. // Top o' the Pops: "She Loves You", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "All My Loving", "Can't Buy Me Love", "Tell Me Why", Eight Days a Week", "I Should Have Known Better", "Every Little Thing", etc., etc. // And songs that are just...The Beatles! (no one had done songs like these): "A Hard Day's Night", "Things We Said Today", "Not a Second Time", "Baby's In Black", "Help!", "Drive My Car", "Taxman", "Tomorrow Never Knows" and everything from the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" and "Magical Mystery Tour" albums!! The Beatles were truly exceptional.
Love the early Beatles! Their music constantly evolved over time. You would have to have lived during that time to understand Beatlemania. Beatlemania was a phenomenon that had never happened before. We went from artists like Chuck Berry and Elvis to the Beatles who were completely different. Everything about them and their music were different from anything any of us had ever experienced. They were not just an iconic rock band, they were a cultural revolution ... seriously! Thanks for this great reaction and choice! ✌💙✌
The Beatles debuted on Ed Sullivan in February 1964. The toured right after that. The were constantly touring the US and the World. This was a year and a half after their debut. They play Shea Stadium again in '66. The crowd was a little thinner, but the girls were still screaming.
The Beatles came to the states in '64. By '66, they quit touring cause they couldn't hear themselves playing. Some other songs. Nowhere Man, The Long and Winding Road, Let It Be, and Eleanor Rigby are some good ones to check out.
@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee " Lennon had hurt his vocal cords and needed to be layered after the first album and it was getting worse, not better."
That's absolute nonsense, factually incorrect.
For their first album "PLEASE PLEASE ME" (1963) Lennon already had a head cold before the recording session started, and which at the end of the night left him barely able to finish his lead vocal on the last track recorded, "Twist And Shout".
He didn't "hurt his vocal cords and needed to layered" - whatever the hell "layered" is supposed to mean - afterwards.
He got over his head cold, voice intact and in fine shape as always.
@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee they didn't HAVE stage monitors at all, they weren't a "thing" then, I don't think they even existed. THAT is why they couldn't hear themselves, even if they had monitors I doubt they would be much help at all, but it may have helped a bit to hear themselves over the screaming. All that is on the stage is their amplifiers for their guitars. The sound was fed to the crowd through the PA (Public Address) system in the stadium that was used during the games. For Shea, it was being recorded to be shown on TV later, so they had sound boards set up on the field in front of the stage and the feed was going directly from their microphones to the recording equipment.
As a Liverpool lass myself, I am so proud of our lads :) ❤❤❤
and you have EVERY right TO BE PROUD! I love Liverpool and her people. I am an American and married one in 1971 (we were pen-pals from early 1965 through 1968.)
They took over the US in FEB 1964 when they did a couple weeks with Ed Sullivan Show. I watched that at a bowling alley bar on a Sunday night. I had to go with my parents because back in those days bowling leagues were huge and they belonged on one EVERY FREAKIN SUNDAY night. lol. I will NEVER forget that night nor forget seeing them in Detroit at Olympia Stadium. I am going to say this is at Shea Stadium. I paid a whopping $5 for my seat at Olympia. That was a bit in 1965
They we're no 1 b4 ed Sullivan
One of my favorite Beatles tracks!!!!
This performance was filmed at Shea Stadium (on August 15, 1965...) in Queens, New York.
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No this is the studio version
@@letsgomets002
The filming of them performing (while it may be the studio version that's used...) is still from when the Beatles played at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York on August 15, back in 1965.
Love you guys reaction not only to this song but all the videos that I get to catch you doing I absolutely love it when I see folks hearing music that I have been brought up with I'm the youngest of five boys all my brothers were in bands in New England back in the 60s my brother Michael would bring home every new 45 that he could get his hands on at least two or three a week and we had quite a Beatles collection clearly one of the most influential bands of all time and the British Invasion was an absolute blast keep spreading that music around guys don't be afraid to go back into the 60s to other British Invasion bands you'll fall in love with that era as much as we all did❤🎉keep spreading the music around Godbless ❤️
I was in a Beatles tribute band years ago. I was George. We wore the classic black suits and we sang and played every song like they did. Was a lot of fun. Learned a lot about singing. They're awesome
I love how their music progressed with the times.
Sam commented on the girls screaming. As a senior in high school I saw the Beatles in Houston in 1965 (or 66?). I say "saw" because because of all the screaming girls you could barely here the band.
we girls didn't care, we already KNEW the songs and what they sounded like as we had all the records up to that point. We wanted to SEE them, and just SEEING them (and being so FAR AWAY from them) was overwhelming and frustrating (cos we couldn't get CLOSE to them) and it manifested itself with crying, screaming, cheering, etc. I did too, I was 17 in 1964. It was a GREAT and FUN period, that I could live over and over again if it was possible.
Lol, I knew the answer to the pop quiz simply because, like so many other Beatles fans, I literally owned everything they ever put out on vinyl. Including that album of course. In fact it's an iconic album cover. But then so are most of their album covers, lol.
I really like everything about the way you guys do your reactions. I've been around for a while and I've watched your channel evolve, but both of you are fascinating and really engage with the music that you listen to.
The commentary is always insightful, and I just have to say, there was some point late in this reaction where I had this knee-jerk response like, Damn, Sam is so f*cking smart. And then I realized I'd had that reaction before. I mean both of you are obviously very quick and very insightful, and so articulate - that's one thing I like about this. But I did have that reaction again today, just like a few times before.
It was too blurry for me to know for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of that concert footage was from their historic performance at Shea Stadium, I believe on their first tour of the United States in 1964. But they did play a ton of stadiums for the first couple years.
Oh you definitely need to listen to their earlier stuff. Songs like "I Want To Hold Your Hand" were what created Beatlemania - and they are exactly what you're looking for. Their first movie, "A Hard Day's Night", is a time capsule of all that. Also, I highly recommend the documentary, "Eight Days A Week", about their early touring career before they gave all that up to spend time in the studio.
Man I love rediscovering these songs with you two. I get to hear them for the first time again through you.
Clapping in rock n roll songs!! AWEsome....
If you really want to hear them rock out check out Helter Skelter -Get Back and I Want You (She's So Heavy) just to name a few
The reason this song was brief and catchy (like all their songs from this era), is that it comes from a time when songs _had_ to be brief and catchy or they wouldn't get played on the radio. 2:55 was the limit; nothing over three minutes had a chance of a play, and thus would not sell. So their songs of this time tended to be two verses and a chorus, repeated twice with a bridge. That'a comfortable setup for the right length. Everyone at the time had to stick to that length; I'm sure you've noticed how the songs from that classic rock 'n' roll era are all more or less 3 minutes long.
Ticket prices for The Beatles at Shea Stadium in 1965 from what I heard was $4.00, $4.50 & $5.00
Sounds dirt cheap but it wasn’t back then. Adjusted for inflation, $5.00 in 1965 is equivalent to about $50.00 today. The Beatles played a dozen songs and were finished after half an hour.
@@humphreygruntwhistle3946 I was 17 - 19 years old during their touring years in the U.S from 1964 through 1966. I worked in the summer at a huge department store downtown, and teen employees were pain $1. 15 an hour. My tickets for the 1964 concert, was $4.40 and for the 1966 concert $5.50. I only had to work 4 to 5 hours to earn the money for those tickets. Plus I earned $5 week allowance from my parents. I also babysat, at 50 cents to $1 an hour (depending on what I had to do.) We were NOT rich at all. My mom was a stay at home mom, as most mothers were then.
I was there, at Shea Stadium in '65! I was not one of the hysterical girls, I really hoped to hear them sing, but you couldn't over all the screams, so finally my friends & I just shrugged and thought, "We might as well scream along!"
This was a massive hit for them. Huge huge huge at the time.
Always loved this song. I'm glad you picked up on the harmonies because this tune definitely showcased their vocals. John and Paul have the fortunate ability to blend their singing voices perfectly. In this song, they sing almost the entire song in unison, except for the bridge section. I love the results.
Sam: you said your favorite song (so far) is, Here Comes The Sun. The funny thing is, I can guarantee you will be updated your 'so far' evaluation frequently. There will be a lot of songs that will claim that distinction as you listen to more of their tunes. I've been enjoying my Beatles journey for over 50 years and I still can't say for certain which is my favorite. That's exactly what's so great about The Beatles. Enjoy the experience.
I highly recommend you do a reaction on The Beatles roof top concert. It’s the last time they played together as a band and TH-cam will not stop you from showing it. 🕊❤️🎼
Phil and Sam, this is an example of some of the early Beatles stuff that put them on then map and started Beatlemania. The other 2 songs you reacted to previously were at the end of their career together when they were more mature in their sound and had long been established. When this song, "Eight Days A Week" came out I was only about 6 or 7 but I remember during this period of their career, we'd go visit one of my aunt and uncles and their 3 teenaged daughters had these records scattered all over the room, spread out on their beds, on the floor, on the dresser and listening to them over and over. Beatles were all they could talk about. I experienced seeing true Beatlemania in action, lol.. I cant wait to hear you react to more of their early to mid career music.
This took me right back to my childhood. Another incredible group to come out of England in the 60s & they dominated the music scene.
It was on BEATLES FOR SALE
Hi. I was 14 when the Beatles came to Minneapolis. Our nosebleed tickets were 5.50 dollars each. We didn’t stop to think about why we loved them. The Beatles were very different from the earlier bans. They were new and upbeat. One thing to remember is that President Kennedy - who was well loved - was assasinated the November before the Beatles broke through to popularity in the US. American people were feeling pretty downtrodden at that time. The Beatles were a great big breath of fresh air for the young people.
While I didn’t scream at their Minneapolis concert, there were thousands of girls there who did.
One final thought…….there were no stadium concerts before they came to the US. The authorities were forced to find places that could handle those big crowds. Mostly, the sports stadiums were the only places that could accommodate those exuberant crowds.
You have to realize that at the peak of Beatle Mania they held the top 5 positions on the US singles chart. This feat will probably never be equalled and at that time Everybody knew them and their songs. When they appeared for the first time on the Ed Sullivan show there was virtually no reported crime across America. A police spokesman said, "Even the criminals were watching the show."
IIRC, the first global live broadcast via satellite was ... the Beatles.
It was a program called Our World, and the Beatles showed up at the end of it. But they weren't the only people on it!
That was their performance of All You Need is Love, which strangely I've never seen in a reaction video.
@@StuartBiliack I think I have. But not in the last year or two.
Being a drummer I feel I must point out the often called windshield wiper hihat cymbal pattern of Ringo. Great reaction and response
So cool to see you witness Beatlemania. The hype was enormous. They were maybe one of the first "boy bands", but they had talent. Enormous talent that would play out over the next few years.
As mentioned this was recorded at Shea Stadium. The Beatles were the first band to play a stadium which wasn't made to amplify music. The sound consisted of their amps which was piped through the stadium announcing system. Consequently in the original sound track, they can barely be heard above the screaming.
The video was the Beatles Shea Stadium performance which was on their second US tour in 1965. It was literally the first big stadium show by a pop band and adequate sounds systems didn't exist. I remember hearing on the BBC News about how they had to drag all the fainting girls out of the crowd. In 1964 they their first TV appearances and a couple of shows in Washington DC and New York early in the year, followed by a coast to coast tour in the summer. There is a documentary film of the Shea Stadium show that's out there...
I love that you are on a Beatles journey. They are perfect to me and I will watch all your reactions to them. There are so many that I would love for you to react to. The list would be endless. So I thought of one you should definitely hear even if you don’t do a reaction to it on your show. IN MY LIFE. It’s a song John wrote/sings that Paul said “I wish I wrote that “ This song has been played in many weddings. Enjoy. Love your show
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The original title of their second film was "Help!"
On their single "Eight Days a Week" it says "from the movie "Eight Arms to Hold You."😊
Oooops! I meant the original title of "Help!" was "Eight Arms to Hold You."
I cried thinking of George and John being gone.😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤
This was not exactly in the "first wave" of hits that instantly brought about Beatlemania, but it was soon after. Very quickly in early "64 in America, there were three albums full of much loved hits and this one was a couple of albums later. The Beatles started out raw and doing covers (like Twist and Shout) and became a touch more sophisticated with each album.
love this one, it gets in your head in a good way.... thanks for doing this one guys... 🥰when the Beatles came on the scene the UK was just coming out of the dark days of WW2, so they allowed the people to be happy again... ☺
It's just a tad later than the takeover.
In 1963, the Beatles were big in the UK and Germany, but hadn't gained a foothold on this side of the pond. "Please Please Me" and "She Loves You" had been released as singles in the US, but radio stations didn't play them much and therefore they didn't sell.
The most credible version of the Takeover scenario that I've seen is: Ed Sullivan was in Europe, saw how popular the Beatles were, and booked them for three consecutive appearances on his variety show in Feb 1964, on the assumption that teens were the same everywhere. Then he got home and found out that they hadn't been discovered here yet. So he started a multifaceted promo campaign to fix that by the time February rolled around. Pushed for airplay of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and of their other already-released singles. And it worked.
In any case, by March 1964 or so, the Beatles were selling two out of every three records that were purchased here in a given week. They did several successful concert tours over here in 1964 and '65, and released two movies. And they paved the way for all the other British Invasion groups to come over and expand their fanbases.
"Eight Days a Week" was released in Dec 1964.
What has always amused me was that Capitol Records, who were owned by EMI at the time and had first choice of EMI's UK output, didn't want to know. So EMI made one-off deals with Vee-Jay and Swan who just happened to have contracts to have their US stuff released in the UK. Eventually Capitol woke up and released "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" at the end of '63 and (presumably) promoted it. That along with Ed Sullivan's efforts ensured maximum exposure. Add in the fab four's talent and charisma and voila Beatlemania!!
Capitol really exploited the US record buying public by releasing tracks in different album combinations and singles which weren't released in the UK, "Eight Days a Week" being an example.
The Beatles Are The Best 💯, Period
Y'all should check out Hey Jude by the Beatles
They conquered America even before they first appeared on "Ed Sullivan Show". As example:
On December 31, 1963, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was "bubbling under" the Top 20 on a New York radio station.
The next day, on January 1, 1964, it was #1 on that radio station.
Next Beatles, maybe Hard Days Night? There has always been a discussion about how they got the first cord of the song. Some great musical minds have their opinions. But, they're all different.
Well, whatever it is, it's some kind of G-chord. My guess is it's a GRRRAAAANNGG!!
September 5, 1964 International Amphitheater in Chicago. My mother took myself & three brothers and my baby sister who was five to the Beatles concert. FYI the cost for the Concert tickets was less than $50. I remember when they were introduced & came on stage the audience was so loud the the building shook & vibrated. I was 13, and it was swell!
It is not colourised - it was originally filmed in colour at Shea Stadium.
I grew up a few blocks away from Shea in Corona, Queens and heard the concert from my house.
Discovering the Beatles? You two have a L O N G way to go. 😎
Shea Stadium in Seattle! I’m dying! 😂 it’s in Queens, NYC, former home of the New York Mets! It’s the first concert held in a huge stadium on July 15, 1965. Their first time in the U.S. was February 1964 when they were on the Ed Sullivan Show and did a concerts in Washington, D.C. and Carnegie Hall in NYC. They also did a tour of the U.S. later in 1964
Iconic songs. Unique sound. Never to be repeated.
They were not a band - they were a miracle....................
A lot of their early stuff is this kind of feel good vibe , Up until 1966 up until their revolver album from 67 onwards they get psychedelic and a bit less poppy. All my loving has another incredible bassline ;)
The Beatles are one of my favorite groups but if you have Hulu watch the film by Ron Howard called 8 Days a Week the Touring Years, and Paul McCartney said it was a Ringo-ism to say odd things like Eight Days a Week
Ringo came up with A Hard Day’s Night.
This was at Shea Stadium in NY. I was so lucky to grow up with this music. Actually this was one of their last live shows. The tickets were $3.00😂🌸💐✌️
Beatlemania, THERE IS NO CURE ❤❤❤❤😊
Eight Days a Week was another Ringo saying, referring, I believe, to how rough and time-crunching their tour schedule was. Another malapropism of his was used for A Hard Day's Night. There was at least one other.... I think it was Tomorrow Never Knows?? - a song sung by John, putting his vocals through a revolving Leslie speaker to make his voice sound like he was preaching from a higher ethereal place
Beatles have such an amazing catalog that it's hard to recommend songs to play next from them, but here are some of my favs that you haven't played yet. "A Hard Day's Night", "We Can Work it Out", "Hey Jude", "Yesterday", "Norwegian Wood", and "Eleanor Rigby".
Another interesting feature about this song is the intro with the guitar, and that the song ends in the way it began.
Historical perspective-The Nation had been in deep mourning for over 2 months since Kennedy's assassination in Nov '63. It was a dark time with no ready answers at hand. So in Feb. 1964 when the Beatles arrived the Nation was primed to burst out of that dark time. The Beatles did that in a way that was not threatened to most people. Good, wholesome, young men, who just happened to be so talented, that any future Gen looking back will have to deal with not only their musical legacy, but also their Social impact.
In America, this song was on the Beatles VI album released in June, 1965, a year and a half after they "exploded" here with I Want to Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, Since I Saw Her Standing There, Twist and Shout, Please Please Me, Can't Buy Me Love, P.S. I Love You, and on and on.
I think it's Ringo that was the guy who liked and encouraged the clapping. He does the same thing on his current video of his cover of a Buddy Holly song, which name escapes me right now.
When I was an 8 year old kid at Key West in 1964 they came to the island and everybody was going crazy trying to get a glimpse of them. I think they even put on some sort of little impromptu show.
I was mad that my mom and dad wouldn't let me walk over to where they were staying but of course they didn't think that was a proper crowd for an 8 year old.
Great band, great song, good job as always guys.
The Beatles were probably the most prolific band with absolutely the most hit songs of any band in history, especially noting what they accomplished in a rather short time frame. 13 years.
The Beatls released their first record in the UK in 1962. They had split by 1969, that's seven years and they were all still in their twenties when they split. A truly amazing body of work is such a short time.
This was at Shea stadium in New York..this was also the first ever stadium concert for any music artist…when you really think about it, no music artist/performer in all of human history has ever played in front of as large of an audience as this..they were the very first. Also this song has a fade in at the beginning which is also the first time that was ever done and the reason it sounds so different from Here Comes The Sun as far as the instruments is because this song was recorded in 64 and the other was recorded in 69 so technology was better and they were now using 8 track instead of 4 track recording
Keep in mind that in the 60‘s we had never heard anything like the Beatles. If your going to listen to them, start at the beginning. The music they put out & growth of the songwriting they did is and always be amazing. This old hippie chick will always argue that the Beatles are the GOATS!
just love those handclaps
As stated in other comments, this was Shea Stadium, the first stadium concert.
The weird part is that 'Beatlemania' was not an overnight thing; it took years to manifest... Paul McCartney started playing w/ John Lennon since they were school kids in 1957 and George Harrison soon joined, despite being very young... he was a talented guitar player.
In 1960, the band finally became The Beatles w/ Pete Best (drums) and Stu Sutcliffe (bass) and they performed a club residency in Hamburg, West Germany for the first time and they looked like Elvis clones at the time - leather jackets and greased hair... They would be very entertaining performing covers of 50's rock n' roll songs.
By 1961, Sutcliffe left The Beatles to focus on art (Sadly, he died unexpectedly in 1962 from a brain aneurysm)... Paul McCartney took over playing bass so that John Lennon and George Harrison could shine on guitar... The Beatles soon adopted their signature 'mop top' look after Stu Sutcliffe's girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr (who first photographed The Beatles in 1960 in Hamburg) had given him a haircut... They were managed by Brian Epstein, who booked The Beatles' gigs and promoted them relentlessly...
Between 1961 and 1962, The Beatles were regulars at Liverpool's Cavern Club and in Hamburg at the Top Ten Club (in 1961), and then the Star Club (1962) ... and the word spread fast in Europe and in the UK that The Beatles were the best rock n' roll band without even having a record out... Young fans would travel long distances to Liverpool and Hamburg to see The Beatles perform live in concert and there would be lines to get into the club ... The Beatles would play multiple sets a day (usually about 30 - 40 minutes each) to keep up w/ demand.
Ringo Starr (real name: Richard Starkey, drums) had met The Beatles in Hamburg when he played for Rory Storm & the Hurricanes; Starr was from Liverpool and by 1962, Ringo Starr was getting called by Brian Epstein to fill in for Beatles drummer Pete Best... As the Beatles began recording their first songs, Pete Best was already on thin ice and not showing up for shows... He was fired in '62 when producer George Martin demanded a new drummer in the studio; Ringo Starr was announced as his replacement... Beatles fans did not take the change well initially - Ringo was heckled, pelted and abused by Pete Best fans for a while...
In late 1962, the first Beatles single was made available - 'Love me do'... Because of the reputation that The Beatles had built playing live, it went to #1 on the UK charts and the next single 'From me to you' was an even bigger hit... When The Beatles released their first full album 'Please, please me' in early 1963, it went to #1 on the UK charts and the band exploded in popularity.
With a hit record, The Beatles were booking shows across the UK in 1963 and weren't making much money... but the fanfare and fervor that the band had experienced in Liverpool and Hamburg was growing nationwide... The Beatles would be sharing the bill w/ other artists and would always elicit the loudest cheers and screams from audiences when they played...
Back then, tickets were really cheap; $5 to $6 in the US ... Promoters would hire a band to play and would pay them like employees - The Beatles were no different, no matter how famous they got. Their manager Brian Epstein had to arrange security for The Beatles once it was apparent that they were getting bigger w/ each show... After the UK, The Beatles toured Europe and saw similar hysteria directed at the band during their short concerts.
With more Beatles singles charting and sales for their albums shooting through the roof, the band made a decision - a #1 single in the US before they would even consider touring N. America... Hard as they tried in '63, it didn't happen.
The #1 single in the US finally came during the 1963 Christmas season - 'I want to hold your hand' ... became their first American #1 hit and The Beatles finally agreed to come to America to tour... Their first US national TV appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in early 1964 generated 73 million viewers that night and launched Beatlemania in the US more than 3 years since their first residency in Hamburg.
Another Beatles song that brings elation to the listener.
A few other British groups had similar fan reactions for a short time - Gerry and the Pacemakers, Hermans Hermits etc - but the Beatles soared out of sight after a while
I sang here comes the sun in chorus class in Jr High School (Called Middle School now).
My wife saw them in concert in Birmingham, uk and cried all the way through. 😅
Calling the Shea Stadium concert Seattle cringed me into a new dimension I think.
I really enjoyed both of you chair dancing and Phil’s great facial expressions in this reaction! 😊 You know the old saying, “You had to be there”?, it’s very true of this period in time. We had never seen anything like it, except maybe for the early Elvis era. I was only in kindergarten when they were on Ed Sullivan and can’t tell you what an incredible memory it is to me. For your next Beatles reaction I’d love for you to do “The Long and Winding Road”, it is an incredibly beautiful and meaningful piece with Paul on lead vocals. Keep up the great work, I’m so glad I found your channel!
This is the first Beatles song I remember as a kid , I was 10 years old. It was then that
I decided to learn to play. I could sing along and it was fun. Its still fun .
the Baby sweater that John is holding up was for Ringo's first newborn son ZAK that was sent to the stadium by a fan. Tickets for the Beatles concerts in 1964 were $3.50. $4.50 and $5.50 and for the 1966 concert I went to they were $4.50, $5.50 and $6.50. 1966 was the last year they toured.
If you're interested in hearing them live, I highly recommend you watch the film The Beatles: the Touring Years. Produced by Tom Hanks. They were able to lower the volume of the screaming fans, so you can actually hear the band. Amazing how good they were when they couldn't hear themselves playing.