The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand - Performed Live On The Ed Sullivan Show 2/9/64

[Donkees]

[chelsea0011]

1. My first experience of "Must See TV"

[underpants]

2. That was only 3 months after JFK's assassination

We get lost in the time line sometimes.

Cronkite, as I have read, gave the final go ahead with this. CBS execs were worried about the timing (Sullivan was dying to get them on first - after missing on Elvis) so they went to Cronkite for his opinion "America needs to have some fun"was the basis of his response.

[Guilded Lilly]

3. A shining bright star in the life of a ...

Eight year old who was totally confused by what was happening in the crazy adult world around her.

[braddy]

4. They were very upbeat and positive.

[lisa58]

5. Thank you for posting this...

I won't go into too much detail, but I never thought this would be my favorite Beatles song - but as of yesterday- it is.

What inspired you to post it?

[Donkees]

6. Inspiration? Trump's stair phobia and his needing to hold someone's hand :)

[robersl]

7. John's Vocal Hardly Audible

I watched this when it was first broadcast, and just now, for the first time, I noticed that you can barely hear John's singing. It's there, but the level is much lower than Paul's. Weird.....