Re: I Want To Hold Your Hand @ #1

On Mar 5, 12:38=A0pm, Eric Ramon <ramon.e...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mar 4, 6:21 pm, fattuc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
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> > On Feb 5, 2:01 pm, Edvado <Edvadoj...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > > Hello, I have found several references that claim that on
01/17/1964,
> > > backstage at The Olympia Theater in Paris, The Beatles learned that
"I=

> > > Want To Hold Your Hand" was #1 on the Billboard charts in America.
>
> > > Unfortunately, the song would not appear in that position until Feb
1s=
t,
> > > which was two weeks later.
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> > > Anyone got a plausible explanation? =A0Could it be:
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> > > 1) The date they learned about reaching #1 is incorrectly stated?
> > > 2) Sales were so great that Capitol knew the song would top the
chart
> > > two weeks in advance? 3) The song topped another chart besides
Billboa=
rd
> > > on that date?
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> > Although the Beatles have said they had supposedly decided not to
> > perform in the US until I Want to Hold Your Hand reached #!, I
> > sometimes wonder if that was just some PR embellishment. =A0Whether
> > IWTHYH was #3 or #2 or #1, what British band would NOT jump at the
> > chance to tour the US or appear on Ed Sullivan?


> The Beatles were already booked for the show before they reached #1 in
> the US.
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> "Epstein's 1963 appointment book indicates he met with Sullivan at his
> suite at the Delmonico Hotel on Monday, Nov. 11. This was followed by
> a 5 p.m. dinner meeting the next day at the Delmonico Hotel's
> restaurant.
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> The initial meeting was apparently attended only by Epstein and
> Sullivan. They tentatively agreed that The Beatles would appear on
> Sullivan's Feb. 9, 1964"
>
> http://www.beatlesagain.com/the-beatles-on-ed-sullivan.html


Thanks for the info.  I thought that was the case.



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