In this episode of What’s The Frequency, we highlight the anniversary of a big event that proved to greatly impact the direction of popular music, and also spurred the growth of youth culture in a way that veered away from what was happening in the more buttoned-down 1950’s.
Our topic is the arrival 60 years ago this month of The Beatles in America. One calendar benchmark is their appearance on the popular “Ed Sullivan Show” on February 9, 1964, when there was an immediate reaction to the group that contains Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.
So much changed for the world after that.
What’s The Frequency guests for this episode are Sioux City college student and musician Austin Curtis, artist and musician Jessica Hammond, and college professor and musician Eddie Dunn, who range in age and how long they have known the band.
Said Dunn, "Most of the songs they had as The Beatles just had a certain charm to them that was very memorable on first listen. They made a lot of converts, just based on the first time that people heard them, and it stuck."
Hammond raved that "it is really cool that they blazed this trail of weird, trippy, revolutionary goofy stuff."
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*What's The Frequency, Episode 4.
