08-06-2016, 11:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-06-2016, 11:52 PM by Eric the Green.)
The best of the Summer of 1964 was "A Hard Day's Night;" The Beatles' first movie, and the great "award-winning" music from it. At least for now, the movie clips are allowed on you tube and the actual recordings are heard in the videos (although the final guitar riff is not heard).
When I first heard them on their second visit to the Ed Sullivan show (Feb 1964), I thought, "just like any other rock n roll group." But after a while I decided I needed to tune in to what's going on and see what all the fuss was about (just like I later checked out Justin Bieber). When I did, 6 months later, this title song, it's flip side, and the other songs from the album were on the radio. Before long, I was a big fan, and this song and its flip side were my favorites. A Hard Day's Night brought the whole phenomenon of the music and the Beatlemania scene to life for me, and I saw the movie too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day...ght_(song)
"The American and British singles of "A Hard Day's Night" as well as both the American and British albums of the same title all held the top position in their respective charts for a couple of weeks in August 1964, the first time any artist had accomplished this feat."
When I first heard them on their second visit to the Ed Sullivan show (Feb 1964), I thought, "just like any other rock n roll group." But after a while I decided I needed to tune in to what's going on and see what all the fuss was about (just like I later checked out Justin Bieber). When I did, 6 months later, this title song, it's flip side, and the other songs from the album were on the radio. Before long, I was a big fan, and this song and its flip side were my favorites. A Hard Day's Night brought the whole phenomenon of the music and the Beatlemania scene to life for me, and I saw the movie too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day...ght_(song)
"The American and British singles of "A Hard Day's Night" as well as both the American and British albums of the same title all held the top position in their respective charts for a couple of weeks in August 1964, the first time any artist had accomplished this feat."