saki <saki@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:6cd4p5F3c6l8hU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> But Canada gets the award for being most prescient of all. The earliest
> known North American coverage was the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg,
> Manitoba, on 28 Sept 1963, via the Times of London:
>
> http://www.physics.ucla.edu/hep/fab/winnipegfp28sept1963.jpg
>
> This is a chatty article by Derek Jewell who mentions other Merseyside
> groups of the day and provides some analysis of the Beatles' fame. It
> also sounds to me (from his prose) as if he'd just seen the do***entary
> "The Mersey Sound".
Actually, that's not a bad article, especially for one that isn't
piggybacking on dozens of others, like they would a few months later.
And what was it about Winnipeg? Not usually thought of as a trend setter
- but the nearby Grande Prairie radio station has the earliest known (to
me at least!) chart placement for the Beatles too, April 27th, 1963 (#27
for PPM).
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