Seven? So we were about the same age watching them on Ed Sullivan. I wonder, did your folks find them uncomprehendible as mine did? I mean they didn’t want to let us watch them, but they were on Ed Sullivan so pretty much had to (there’s like two TV channels you know, and everyone watches Ed Sullivan) and the kids are going crazy, why are the kids going crazy??? Oh my God Betty the girls are screaming. Why are they screaming? Turn that off! Oh wait- nothing else on.... mutter, grumble...
In 1965 when the movie Help came out I was 8 and even though it was playing just a few blocks down the street my parents wouldn’t take me. Well this being 1965 it cost like 20 cents so of course they had to be careful with their money. I mean popcorn was 15 cents. Can’t take just me, before you know it the whole family is going and too many treats and you could be looking at a whole two dollars!
Besides neighborhood movie theaters (real ones, ones that actually looked like movie theaters and not concrete bunkers) this was also back when they had neighborhood stores. No not convenience stores. Not 7-11. Actual stores. Where they sold pop. In bottles. With a one (three?) cent deposit. (Imagine, if that had kept up, a dollar deposit on a beer bottle!)
Anyway we had just boxes of bottles sitting in the garage. I had a wagon. And so that was how with a little planning and deception I came to watch my first movie Help at the age of 8.
Couple weeks ago Better Records had a Hot Stamper of the album Help. Playing it, in the midst of all the ones everyone knows Help, The Night Before, You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away, You’re Gonna Lose That Girl, Ticket to Ride (this is just side one!), Yesterday (!), somewhere in there is one don’t remember ever hearing at all. And it is just as amazingly good as all the rest!
The Beatles, a band so good even when you grew up with them and think you’ve heard it all over more than 50 years it turns out there’s still great Beatles songs out there waiting to be heard!
Great idea. Gonna play em tonight. Thanks!
