Bob Stroud Root Salutes the Beatles-- Part 2: 'Can't Buy Me Love'

And remember, that the previous week on April 4, the Beatles had 14 songs in the Hot 100, but they also had the Top 5.

#38   I SAW HER STANDING THERE--  One of the great Beatle "B" sides, the flip of "I Want to Hold Your Hand."

#14   DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET--  

#9    PLEASE PLEASE ME--  

#7    I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND--  It was released in January so had spent three months in the Top 100 by now.

#4    SHE LOVES YOU--  This one was on the Swan label here in the United States.

#2    TWIST AND SHOUT--  Beatles doing the Isley's "Twist and Shout."

#1     CAN'T BUY ME LOVE--  Fourteen songs on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts back this week in 1964.  Another reason there will never be another band quite like the Beatles.  Fourteen songs that are the very definition of joy and jubilation that is rock and roll.  This is the #1 song in the country this week in 1964.

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This was Beatlemania at its best.  As much as I admire their later music which was a whole lot more involved, these were the "Fun" songs and the ones I most enjoy listening to.

Name That Tune (from the above songs):  "Well She Was Just 17 And You Know What I mean."  Answer below.  --RoadDog

"I Saw Her Standing There"

Seven Ways the Beatles Changed Boomer Childhood

Terri Hemmert, our Beatle enthusiast here in Chicago on WXRT, 93.1 FM, who has a show on Sundays from 8-10 am called Breakfast With the Beatles found this bit of information and passed it on to us.

1.  The Beatles made music a necessity.  (It sure did for me.  It had a huge impact on my life.)

2.  It displaced traditional childhood past times.  Like toys.  (Well, not really in my case.)

3.  The youngest Beatle fans started continually hanging out with older ones.  (Not me.)

4.  Children became aware of appearance and wanted to look cool.  (I didn't dare cross my parents in this situation.)

5.  They displaced traditional male role models.  (Like I said, I would not dare cross my dad.)

6.  Children became consumers when they became fans.  (To an extent.  I didn't have much money and my dad thought records were a waste of money. I didn't buy my first 45s until 1965, and even then, on the sly.)

7.  They created global and generational consciousness in younger boomers.  (There was no doubt but the Beatles were OUR music, not our parents.)

Something To Think About.  --RoadDog

EGGCELLENT  EASTER JOKES:  From April 2019 Wassup Magazine.    Q.  What does the Easter Rabbit get for making a basket?    A.  Two points just like everyone else.

How Well Do You Know the Fab Four?-- Part 3: The Answers

1. Ringo Starr // 2. 1966 // 3. Stu Sutcliffe // 4. 252 (I said 215) // 5. Brian Epstein // 6. Norwegian Wood (I said Tomorrow Never Knows) // 7. 1970 // 8. Saturday Night At the Palladium // 9. A Hard Day's Night // 10. "Hey Jude" // 11. John Lennon // 12. Abbey Road (I said Sgt. Pepper's) // 13. Arthur (I said bowl cut) // 14. George Harrison // 15. Please Please Me // 16. Revolver (I said Yellow Submarine) // 17. Cynthia Powell // 18. Paul McCartney (I said Ringo Starr) // 19. Jimi Hendrix (I said Eric Clapton) // 20. "I Am the Walrus" (I said "Why Don't We Do It in the Road) // 21. Meet the Beatles // 22. "St. Louis Blues" (I said "In the Mood") // 23. "Get Back" Beatles With Billy Preston (I said "My Bonnie" but misread the question. Well, that's my 'scuse anyway) // 24. "Tomorrow Never Knows" // Paul McCartney. //// Again, a Much Better quiz experience at the site. //// How;'d You Do? --RoadDog

How Well Do You Know the Fab Four?-- Part 2

And, the CSM gives you extra information after you guess. //// 9. The Beatles had five movies which was the first one? //// 10. The Beatles had 21 #1s in the U.S. and 17 in the U.K.. Which one was #1 in both? //// 11. Who wrote "Dear Prudence?" //// *12. What was their best-selling album? //// *13. Their hair was shocking at the time. What did George Harrison call it? //// 14. Who was the youngest Beatle? //// 15. What was their first U.K. album? //// *16. On which album did "Yellow Submarine" first appear? //// 17. Who was Lennon's first wife? //// *18. All four were untrained musicians. Who was the only one to have any musical instruction? //// *19. Two days after the release of "Sgt. Pepper's" what guitarist opened with the title song in his concert? //// *20. Which song was banned by the BBC? //// 21. Which was not one of the 12 original U.K. albums? //// *22. "All You Need Is Love" had parts of all these songs but one: La Marseillaise, She Loves You, St. Louis Bles, In the Mood. //// *23. What was the only official Beatle release with joint credit? //// 24. Which was not written by George Harrison? (Tomorrow Never Knows, Something, Here Comes the Sun, Taxman). 25. Who was barefoot on the Abbey Roaf album cover? //// OK, So I Missed Ten Questions. //// Answers in the next post. //// Some Were Easy, Others Really, Really Hard. --RoadDog

How Well Do You Know the Fab Four?-- Part 1

From the Christian Science Monitor. //// That would be Beatles for those unaware. For me, obviously not so well as I missed nine of twenty-five questions, but did better than Liz who missed 16. However, buddy Carl beat me out by one. He the Fab Moptop now. Me Second Banana. //// You can go to the site by typing in the title to this entry and Christian Science Monitor. They give you four choices as well and score it for you. I'll just give you the questions (and answers in a later post. An asterisk means I missed it: 1. Who was the last to join? //// 2. When did they quit touring? //// 3. Who was the first bassist? //// *4. How many songs did they write? //// 5. Who was their primary manager? //// *6. They were the first rock band to use a sitar. What song? //// 7. What year did they break up? //// 8. Most Americans saw them first on The Ed Sullivan Show. Where did most British first see them?

Beatles Anniversary Yesterday

As I expected, Bob Stroud featured the 50th anniversary on his Rock and Roll Roots show on WDRV, the Drive, in Chicago. Great show as usual with lots of information and Beatle songs. He played the first three Ed Sullivan songs and closed with the last two. //// Meanwhile, over at WXRT FM, Chicago's Finest Rock, Terri Hemmert, probably Beatle Fan Primo, broadcast her Breakfast With the Beatles show from New York City where she has been the last week, soaking up all the Beatle stuff. Talk about your "Busman's Holiday." Professor Moptop went into great detail on what was on the Ed Sullivan Show that night in two different segments (usually he only does one). I recorded Breakfast With the Beatles and will be listening to it this week as it runs opposite Rock and Roll Roots. You can hear podcasts of Professor Moptop's show at WXRT or on his own site. //// --RoadDog

CBS Grammy Beatles Show Last Night: Good, But Could Have Been Better

For the most part, it was a very good show. The younger singers and bands did a great job interpreting the Beatle songs. And, I enjoyed the historical clips, and, of course, Ringo and Paul performing together. I did miss an hour from 8 to 9 when I went downstairs to Margaritaville to watch the "The Walking Dead." I thought I was recording on the VCR, but apparently wasn't. //// However, CBS should have just aired the whole Ed Sullivan Show from Feb. 9, 1964, in its entirety, even commercials. That would have been the ultimate trip back for me and I'm sure those of us who watched it back then. Also, I would have liked to see the stage recreated for Paul and Ringo and see Dhanny Harrison and Sean Lennon up there playing for their dad's. //// Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. --RoadDog

Beatles Today

Sad that there are only two Beatles left, but it was great to see the two of them performing onstage together at the Grammys. The last time they had done that was in a 2010 concert when McCartney sang "Birthday" to celebrate Ringo's 70th birthday. Before that, the last time was 2009 and they reunited in 2002 for a memorial concert for George Harrison. //// Paul McCartney won four Grammys at the recent show. All four Beatles received Lifetime Achievement Awards and I was happy to see Yoko Ono and her son Sean (John's son) and Olivia Harrison there to accept for their late husbands. //// I'll definitely be watching CBS tomorrow at 7 PM, for the Grammy Salute and the Letterman interview. Looking forward to hearing what Terri Hemmert is going to do on her Breakfast With the Beatles show on WXRT from 8-10 AM CST. Plus, if Bob Stroud is off his vacation, his Rock and Roll Roots show on WDRV tomorrow from 7 to 10 AM should be a good one as well. //// Fifty Years Ago to the Day and Time. --RoadDog

The Beatles and Me-- Part 2: And What About These Other Songs?

I tuned into WLS and it didn't take long for me to hear "I Want to Hold Your Hand." But what about all these other songs I'm hearing by other groups? I liked them too. Thanks a lot Beatles, now I'm hooked on pop music. Gotta get me a radio. I really need a radio. //// After I got one, I really started listening a lot. I had a lot of catching up to do. I found out this rock and roll music went back to 1955 so had a lot of listening to do. //// Looking back at the WLS Top 40 from January 17, 1964, there are still quite a few groups and singers that I never heard of before, mostly KO'd by Beatlemania and the British Invasion. Here are those: Ginny Arnell (I did a lot of research and will write about her later), Jim and Monica, Dale Ward, Murry Kellum, Reflections, Ideals, Drewvells, Nick Noble, Kevin and Greg and the Cookies. And there were 14 songs that I was not familiar with as well. And, this is considering all the listening and research I've been doing in the last fifty years. I didn't listen to pop music at all before the Beatles. //// Like I Said, I Had a Lot of Listening to Do. --RoadDog

The Beatles and Me-- Part 1

There I was, a happy-go-lucky seventh grader at Winston Park Junior High School in Palatine, Illinois, minding my own business and getting good grades and completely unconcerned with pop music. I didn't listen to it at all. Could care less //// But, then all the kids started talking about these guys from England called the Beetles (well, I knew how to spell it, anyway). Then, I started hearing about them on the TV and the girls were just beyond themselves. Says I to myself, "Well, I just am going to have to hear these guys so tuned into WLS on my parents' radio (hey, you don't need a radio if you don't listen to music). Of course, that was when my parents were gone because they were way too much into Big Band and Swing Music not to get on my case. //// WOW!!! ABSOLUTELY BLOWN AWAY!!! --RoadDog