I can't believe it's been 60 years since the first Beatle album, Please Please Me was released.
I don't remember my first Beatles song that I heard on the radio, but I remember listening to them constantly. It was probably “She Loves You”.
Around that time, (1963) I got a transistor radio. It was a little brown radio and I would take it everywhere I went. I would bring it to bed with me and put the earphones on and hide my head under the pillow at night. That's so my parents wouldn't make me turn it off, or worse take it away from me.
Of course, besides the Beatles there were so many cool songs exploding on AM radio stations.I would listen long into the night.
Soon after I heard “She Loves You” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand”songs from Please Please Me entered the air waves. Songs such as “Twist and Shout”,“Love Me Do”,”Anna”, and more.
“I Saw Her Standing There”, the first track was a stunner though. The count off and then then the band goes into and uptempo groove and McCartney starts “Well she was just 17……..”
The album is not just nostalgia but a straight forward performance of their stage show. It’s a real document of what they actually sounded like live! Still very fresh with great originals and excellent taste in covers.
Recorded in basically one day it was the realization of a self contained band of musicians that could play and write timeless hits.
