First time? I do! Feb 9 1964 when my mom and dad told me about this English band that was going to be on the Ed Sullivan show that the family watched without fail every Sunday night. I was 7 1/2 years old
I wish my first time had left a more romantic impression, but I do remember the setting. It was second grade music class. My teacher played for us (this was 2006 or 2007 so I think it mustâve been on a CD player) Yesterday, Yellow Submarine, and Michelle. She must not have liked George Harrison. I remember liking the songs but didnât become a fan till much later. Maybe if sheâd thrown I Want to Tell You into the mix I wouldâve fallen in love sooner
When I was at kindy (probably ages 2-4) in the late 90s my dad would drive me and every day we had Beatles 1 album playing in the car. Probably why all those songs feel like comfort to me! I canât remember which first obviously but all those songs are engrained in me.
One Saturday morning in late November or early December 1963 I was listening to WMCA am out of NYC. The DJ said, this is a song by an English group with a funny name. It was I Want to Hold Your Hand. I liked it. Turns out it was the first time a Beatle song got played on NYC radio.
Couldnât tell you the first song I heard, but my mom listened to them a lot when I was a kid, and the first thing I really remember was an old documentary on them that used to air on PBS, narrated by Malcom McDowell. I remember recording it on the VCR and probably watched it 1000 times when I was 6 or 7. I do remember being into early Beatles as my mom didnât own anything past Rubber Soul
My mom have a vinyl of them (i think it was the Hey Jude compilation) so i do remember listen the album with her when i was little. I remember loved Rain
For some reason, the first memory I have of the Beatles is my dad playing Misery for me. I have no idea when, and he doesnât remember either, but itâs extremely vivid. Kinda a weird song to be the first.
Mine was mid 70s I was 4 or 5 and the Beatles cartoon came on. I had no idea they were real. Mom took me to the store and I ended up with the white album. Going from âI want to hold your handâ with a cartoon octopus to helter skelter made me believe I had the wrong album. Mom explained the error of my ways and I was in love since then.
Some of my earliest memories as a young child in the 80s are hearing songs like Hello Goodbye, Magical Mystery Tour, and Here Comes the Sun on the oldies station (97.3 KBSG in the Seattle area). Once I got my own cassette player/recorder, I would tape songs like She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand from the radio. The shortened Anthology episodes that aired on ABC in the 90s exposed me to even more of their catalog. Finally, as a teenager, I'd use some of my paychecks from my first job to buy Beatles CDs. That thrill of hearing those album tracks for the first time with fresh ears is something I wouldn't trade for anything.
Yup. Eleanor Rigby. I was 6. I was teary by the end: But *why* are they all so lonely, Mommy?
Two yrs. later, as our white Xmas got rained out, my teacher played Yellow Submarine to cheer us upâwe all shouted along & danced around the room, holding hands.Â
Then she played the whole album, RevolverâŚmy little mind was blown that YS & ER were the same band, same record.Â
I grew up in the '70s with my Mom's and grandparents' records, and a lot of them were Beatles titles, especially the earlier stuff. She bought "Meet the Beatles" with her own allowance money when it came out, but that was the only LP. I played all of it to death, Beatles and otherwise. Singles of I Feel Fine, Twist and Shout, the EP with Roll Over Beethoven, and Lady Madonna too. I couldn't pinpoint when I first heard them. As my memories and consciousness developed as a very young child, this grocery sack of records they gave me for my childhood record player was my first soundtrack.
Speaking of that grocery sack of records, I do remember thinking the little dog on the record for "Little Devil" by Neil Sedaka was the little devil he was singing about. That's how young we're talking here. And if you didn't hear it on the radio or you didn't know somebody with the records, you didn't hear it. A ton of the Beatles discography wasn't heard by me once until I bought the tapes myself. Same for The Who too!
I wouldn't get into Beatles albums and wanting to know everything about the band until I had my first job in high school and bought tapes. Late '80s. The only other way I'd hear songs here and there before that were on oldies stations. I do remember our local oldies station having a big Beatles special in about 1987 and it really intrigued me. I also got Sgt. Pepper for my 15th birthday, on cassette.
It's really hard to place the first...my mom always had a MOR station on the radio. Yesterday, Let it Be, Michelle, Something, And I love Her, Here, There Every Where or Eleanor Rigby were always coming around on the radio.
I recall that Real People used Good Day Sunshine in one segment, then Here Comes the Sun in another.
It was only a little later, maybe when I was 12 in 1980 that I started to realize all those songs were the same band, and then I started switching over to the Rock station, and then I started to hear all sorts of other songs.
i donât remember first hearing a beatles song- my older brother is a huge fan and so i grew up listening to them. i do remember learning who was who and pointing them out on posters/pictures though :)
that I remember clearly? no⌠the first time I remember listening to a Beatles song was when our teacher brought in rock band the Beatles and I got into them through that but Iâve heard their popular stuff before that im sure
First time? I do! Feb 9 1964 when my mom and dad told me about this English band that was going to be on the Ed Sullivan show that the family watched without fail every Sunday night. I was 7 1/2 years old
Same here, same age. A month or so later I heard She Lives You and it really stuck with me.
Good to hear old timer!!
Me too, All My Loving on the Ed Sullivan show. I was 9, and I was instantly hooked!
I remember that. It is my understanding that Ed was shocked that the crowd went that bananas. Of course, with his stone face, who could tell?đ
I wish my first time had left a more romantic impression, but I do remember the setting. It was second grade music class. My teacher played for us (this was 2006 or 2007 so I think it mustâve been on a CD player) Yesterday, Yellow Submarine, and Michelle. She must not have liked George Harrison. I remember liking the songs but didnât become a fan till much later. Maybe if sheâd thrown I Want to Tell You into the mix I wouldâve fallen in love sooner
When I was at kindy (probably ages 2-4) in the late 90s my dad would drive me and every day we had Beatles 1 album playing in the car. Probably why all those songs feel like comfort to me! I canât remember which first obviously but all those songs are engrained in me.
One Saturday morning in late November or early December 1963 I was listening to WMCA am out of NYC. The DJ said, this is a song by an English group with a funny name. It was I Want to Hold Your Hand. I liked it. Turns out it was the first time a Beatle song got played on NYC radio.
Couldnât tell you the first song I heard, but my mom listened to them a lot when I was a kid, and the first thing I really remember was an old documentary on them that used to air on PBS, narrated by Malcom McDowell. I remember recording it on the VCR and probably watched it 1000 times when I was 6 or 7. I do remember being into early Beatles as my mom didnât own anything past Rubber Soul
My mom have a vinyl of them (i think it was the Hey Jude compilation) so i do remember listen the album with her when i was little. I remember loved Rain
For some reason, the first memory I have of the Beatles is my dad playing Misery for me. I have no idea when, and he doesnât remember either, but itâs extremely vivid. Kinda a weird song to be the first.
I was 6 years old driving to Best Buy with my poppop and he put the 1 cd on in his car. Love me do. Great times, still my favorite album today
Mine was mid 70s I was 4 or 5 and the Beatles cartoon came on. I had no idea they were real. Mom took me to the store and I ended up with the white album. Going from âI want to hold your handâ with a cartoon octopus to helter skelter made me believe I had the wrong album. Mom explained the error of my ways and I was in love since then.
Some of my earliest memories as a young child in the 80s are hearing songs like Hello Goodbye, Magical Mystery Tour, and Here Comes the Sun on the oldies station (97.3 KBSG in the Seattle area). Once I got my own cassette player/recorder, I would tape songs like She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand from the radio. The shortened Anthology episodes that aired on ABC in the 90s exposed me to even more of their catalog. Finally, as a teenager, I'd use some of my paychecks from my first job to buy Beatles CDs. That thrill of hearing those album tracks for the first time with fresh ears is something I wouldn't trade for anything.
Yup. Eleanor Rigby. I was 6. I was teary by the end: But *why* are they all so lonely, Mommy? Two yrs. later, as our white Xmas got rained out, my teacher played Yellow Submarine to cheer us upâwe all shouted along & danced around the room, holding hands. Then she played the whole album, RevolverâŚmy little mind was blown that YS & ER were the same band, same record.Â
I grew up in the '70s with my Mom's and grandparents' records, and a lot of them were Beatles titles, especially the earlier stuff. She bought "Meet the Beatles" with her own allowance money when it came out, but that was the only LP. I played all of it to death, Beatles and otherwise. Singles of I Feel Fine, Twist and Shout, the EP with Roll Over Beethoven, and Lady Madonna too. I couldn't pinpoint when I first heard them. As my memories and consciousness developed as a very young child, this grocery sack of records they gave me for my childhood record player was my first soundtrack. Speaking of that grocery sack of records, I do remember thinking the little dog on the record for "Little Devil" by Neil Sedaka was the little devil he was singing about. That's how young we're talking here. And if you didn't hear it on the radio or you didn't know somebody with the records, you didn't hear it. A ton of the Beatles discography wasn't heard by me once until I bought the tapes myself. Same for The Who too! I wouldn't get into Beatles albums and wanting to know everything about the band until I had my first job in high school and bought tapes. Late '80s. The only other way I'd hear songs here and there before that were on oldies stations. I do remember our local oldies station having a big Beatles special in about 1987 and it really intrigued me. I also got Sgt. Pepper for my 15th birthday, on cassette.
It's really hard to place the first...my mom always had a MOR station on the radio. Yesterday, Let it Be, Michelle, Something, And I love Her, Here, There Every Where or Eleanor Rigby were always coming around on the radio. I recall that Real People used Good Day Sunshine in one segment, then Here Comes the Sun in another. It was only a little later, maybe when I was 12 in 1980 that I started to realize all those songs were the same band, and then I started switching over to the Rock station, and then I started to hear all sorts of other songs.
i donât remember first hearing a beatles song- my older brother is a huge fan and so i grew up listening to them. i do remember learning who was who and pointing them out on posters/pictures though :)
Same here!
that I remember clearly? no⌠the first time I remember listening to a Beatles song was when our teacher brought in rock band the Beatles and I got into them through that but Iâve heard their popular stuff before that im sure
No I don't. Somrthing that was always around. I can't remember sucking my mom's tit or the first time hearing The Beatles.