marcus wrote:
> The kind of follow-up story after that article's appearance where this
> "mystery woman" stops acting so coy, and actually allows herself to be
> seen by the public. What is she afraid of...the truth?
My impression is that she's reluctant to be drawn into any pumped-up
hyperbole (such as that offered by CBS in the article) about her role in
the rise of American Beatlemania. She herself sees herself as "kind of a
footnote", as she says.
Bruce Spizer's comments are worth considering. Her request to WWDC, and
the radio station's efforts to secure a Beatles record for airplay as
early as about Dec. 15, 1963, did have some effect on persuading Capitol
to push up its release date for "I Want To Hold Your Hand". But so did
other radio stations in the USA, most in major markets, who obtained the
song themselves, either on vinyl or via tape. My local station started
playing it in mid-December as well...and Capitol Records was probably
aware of it, being located in the same radio market.
> I find it very difficult to believe that her tipping off the radio
> station launched the career of The Beatles in America. In early
> November, Epstein and Sullivan had all ready worked out the deal for
> their TV appearances on the latter's show.
As RichL pointed out, she didn't launch their career. She was a gear in
the timepiece, one of many. As you point out, the Beatles were already
contractually obligated to appear on Ed Sullivan in Feb. 1964, whether
or not they had hit record by that time. And various mainstream print
media outlets (Time, Newsweek, New York Times Magazine, New Yorker) had
all had stories on the phenomenon of Beatlemania in England.
> And as many have all ready pointed out, there were a small cluster of
> stations in the US that had all ready played some of The Beatles'
> recordings before WWDC.
True! But those airings didn't catch like "IWTHYH"...not the right
moment, I guess.
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