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The Melody Lingers on
Lots of interesting information about the Kansas City stop in this newspaper article. Song is gone, but Melody Lingers OnWriter unknownKansas City StarTheir song has ended, but the echo lingers on. In...
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Flash bulb fan photo
Photo by Dana Crick The Kansas City Star online has posted some Beatles memories and photos, including this amazing photo. Here is what the fan who snapped it had to say about the photo:In 1964 I...
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Police hold tide of Beatlemania
Police Hold Tide of BeatlemaniaBy Robert K. SanfordThe Morning Kansas City TimesSeptember 18, 1964When the announcer said, “The Beatles!” and the four British singers bounced onto the stage a concerted...
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KC press conference
The Beatles with Pattie Weinrichphoto by Ray Corey To read an account of a fan who was at the press conference in Kansas City--read this account from Carol Mitchell....
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It's just a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine!!!!!
I have always loved the whole story of the Beatles performing in Kansas City in 1964. If I had been around in 1964, and was able to go to a Beatles concert, I most likely would have gone to the...
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The Beatles were going to Kansas City and the fan remember
photo by Bob Bonisphoto by Bob BonisI was a Senior at Paseo High School and a friend going to college at KCJC got us tickets…we sat waaaaay back but it was electrifying!!! The next day I was hoarse and...
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Kids go Wild over Bugs
10,000 Kids go Wild over BugsBy Larry GroveThe Dallas Morning NewsSeptember 19, 1964The kids gave their hearts and their voices to the Beatles when the mopheads from Liverpool closed out their...
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Crazy times in Dallas
The Beatles were a bit frightened about going to Dallas. It had been less than a year since President John F. Kennedy had been shot and killed in broad daylight while in Dallas. The Beatles loved...
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The story of the lucky Dallas fan club presidents
This great story comes to us through a long, time Meet the Beatles....for Real blog reader, Mark Naboshek. I recall meeting Mark at the Fest for Beatle fans in Chicago and just being amazed that...
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Beatle belts
I am not sure how this exactly fits in with the story I just posted of the Dallas Beatles fan club girls who met the Beatles and gave them black Stetson hats and lighters. There was another Beatles...
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Beatles backstage deep in the heart of Texas
The photos that Curt Gunther took of the Beatles backstage in Dallas are just great, classic photographs. Maybe because it was the Beatles last concert on the formal tour, they were in the mood to...
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The last press conference (well for now)
They made it! The last press conference of the 1964 North American tour! The Beatles with Bert Shipp I love the reporter trying to hold back the girls in this photo....so funny!
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Memories of the Dallas Show
"I was one of ten Dallas Police Reservists assigned to sit in and wait in a side lobby until we received further orders. We could hear the music coming up from the basement. After a while we heard the...
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On the ranch
I am heading down to Walnut Ridge, Arkansas today for the festival "Beatles at the Ridge." It should be a lot of fun! If any of you out there are there, please say hi! I will write about the...
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Go Go Go-Kart George
We know that George loved racecars and the Beatles seemed to enjoy go-karts quite a bit. So it is pretty natural that George would have some fun while on the ranch zipping around in this go-kart....
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Beautiful Boys at the ranch
I think that the photos Curt Gunther took of the Beatles at Reed Pigman's ranch are some of the most beautiful photos of the guys ever. Thank you Mr. Gunther for taking such nice photos of our boys.
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Hanging out with the Beatles
People came from all over the area to see the Beatles at the ranch....but not very many people got their photo taken with them. The one exception is this one young boy. He pops up in a lot of the...
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Beatles stop at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas
After the one day of relaxation at Reed Pigman's Ranch in Alton, Missouri, the Beatles flew in the small airport in a town that only had a population of 5,000 people--- Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. It...
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They waited outside
On September 20, 1964, The Beatles performed at a charity event at New York's Paramont Theater. The event was to raise money for United Cerebral Palsy and Retarded Infants Services (a name that no...
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Beatles and fans meet social set
Beatles and fans meet Social SetBy Gay TalseseThe New York TimesSeptember 21, 1964Coolly elegant women in mink coats and pearls together with men in black tie and in no need of a haircut found...
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