Re: OT: History at The Ed

Steve Curtis wrote:
Donz5 wrote:

The clip that aired on Paar's show comes
from a 1963 UK documentary called
"Merseysounds," which is included in the
commercially-available video, "Beatles:
Firsts."

Any idea of the actual performance date shown in that clip?

You bet -- it was August 27, 1963 at the Little Theatre in Southport.
It was filmed specifically for the documentary, without an audience,
then "intercut with hysterical audience footage shot the previous night
at the Beates' Odeon show." (Mark Lewisohn, _Beatles Chronicles,_ p.
120).


Correction: the documentary was titled "The Mersey Sound." It aired
October 11 and 12, 1963 in England.


More from Lewisohn:

"One further extract transmission from _The Mersey Sound_ was made in
January 1964 -- a very important one, for it served as the Beatles'
television debut in the USA, outside of news coverage (November 16,
1963 [on CBS and likely also NBC and ABC]). The BBC's New York Office
sold a clip of 'She Loves You' to NBC for use in _THe Jack Paar Show._
Brian Epstein was furious about this, claiming (though he knew it not
to be so) that it would jeopardise [UK spelling] his exclusive Beatles
contract with Paar's CBS-TV rival Ed Sullivan. A considerable flurry of
national and international letters, telexes and telephone calls
followed in the wake of Epstein's wrath, the BBC trying to rescind its
sale of the clip. But Paar resisted any such move and broadcast it
regardless in his show on Friday 3 january (10.00-11.00 pm, EST).
Characteristically, a piqued Epstein threatened -- but failed to carry
through -- a vow to prevent any future BBC TV apppearances by the
Beatles, which would have harmed him and the group as much as the
Corporation, and he certainly accepted the 225-pound fee that came with
the sale.


"Ironically, though, Paar's transmission of the clip did the Beatles
good service in the United Stated, boosting interest considerably --
and this despite Paar's sarcastic comment after the film, 'It's nice to
know that England has finally risen to our cultural level...,' and _New
York TImes_ television writer Jack Gould concluding the next mroning
'It would not seem quite so likely that the accompanying fever known as
Beatlemania will also be successfully exported. On this side of the
Atlantic it is dated stuff.'"

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