{"id":28733,"date":"2024-02-09T18:03:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T18:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-february-9-1964-the-beatles-perform-on-the-ed-sullivan-show\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T18:03:11","slug":"on-this-day-february-9-1964-the-beatles-perform-on-the-ed-sullivan-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-february-9-1964-the-beatles-perform-on-the-ed-sullivan-show\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day \u2013 February 9, 1964: The Beatles perform on &#8216;The Ed Sullivan Show&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-09\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, February 9, 1964\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Beatles\u00a0<\/strong>made their first appearance on\u00a0<em>The Ed Sullivan Show<\/em>, which was their first exposure to an American audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The band performed the songs &#8220;All My Loving,&#8221; &#8220;Till There Was You,&#8221; and \u201cShe Loves You&#8221; and then later returned to perform \u201cI Saw Her Standing There\u201d and \u201cI Want to Hold Your Hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The performance was seen by a then-record 73 million viewers, and helped Sullivan top the nightly ratings for the first time in seven years.<\/p>\n<p>The show is considered one of the seminal moments in pop culture and launched Beatlemania in America.<\/p>\n<p>In November, The Beatles dropped their final song, &#8220;Now and Then,&#8221; featuring\u00a0vocals\u00a0<strong>John Lennon<\/strong>\u00a0recorded on a demo in the late &#8217;70s along with new recordings from\u00a0<strong>Paul McCartney\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Ringo Starr<\/strong>, and guitar parts\u00a0<strong>George Harrison<\/strong>\u00a0recorded in the &#8217;90s during the sessions for their\u00a0<em>Anthology\u00a0<\/em>series. The tune debuted in the top 10 in the U.S. and at #1 in the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, February 9, 1964\u2026 The Beatles\u00a0made their first appearance on\u00a0The Ed Sullivan Show, which was their first exposure to an American audience.\u00a0 The band performed the songs &#8220;All My Loving,&#8221; &#8220;Till There Was You,&#8221; and \u201cShe Loves You&#8221; and then later returned to perform \u201cI Saw Her Standing<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-february-9-1964-the-beatles-perform-on-the-ed-sullivan-show\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}