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Any Beatles fans out there? I remember that as I taking my almost 3 yo daughter for a walk she would chant I wanta hold your hand .
Today March 9, 2014 is the 50th anniversary of their appearance on the Ed Sullivan show.
Some quotes from the net.
How big an event was The Beatles’s first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show? The numbers are still staggering: More than one-third of the country watched—73 million people, in a nation then of 191 million. The equivalent today would be 100 or 105 million people watching something. That is true only of Super Bowls, typically viewed by 110 to 120 million Americans now (112 million, this recent one). The M*A*S*H finale in 1983 is still tops, percentage-wise; it got nearly half the country, 106 million out of 234 million. But outside of those two examples, nothing else quite stacks up, 50 years later.
Swan--- a record company that had purchased this label--- immediately rushed out “She Loves You,” and, immediately, it went to #2. In late March it even dislodged “I Want to Hold Your Hand” from the top spot.