the animals were grittier r & b based band who wasn t cute like a beatle. he was a little more dangerous. now you re going to do the new record for us? yeah. and it s called? the house of the rising sun. that song was the song that bob dylan had already recorded a year or two earlier like a folk traditional song. bob came along with his album, house of rising sun. it was crying out to be rocked. the english group music also rose where groups not only were performing their own stuff compact on the stage.
doing or any of those rock n roll bands. and for a period of time there was this distinction between the folk culture and the rock n roll culture. hey mr. tambourine man play a song for me i m not sleepy and there is no place i m going to in 1964, during that first tour, the beatles had the opportunity to meet bob dylan. he understood what they were doing musically, and they were awakened by the more personal perspective of his songs. dylan was a huge influence on john lennon. i think it inspired him to write more serious songs, deeper songs and be more experimental lyrically. i once had a girl or should i say she once had me bob dylan going electric is another one of those big seismic changes in the pop music era in the 60s. he was bold enough to leave
i can t get no no no no there was a dialogue going on between soul music and the british invasion. a, because this is a way for me to make a nod to the mainstream. and b, because the songs were good. i can t get me no oh, no, no i can t get me no satisfaction s fantastic. he doesn t even know the words even, he doesn t care. he s just kind of singing the song. keep trying to find me somebody somebody to love at the time, motown and the british invasion, they re going hand in hand with sort of redefining what america dances and listens and socializes to. motown, it evolved with the rest of the world, but we did have to compete with this british invasion for places on the charts. really got a hold on me i said you really got a hold
hi, everybody all over america. this is the wdc party. that song was absolutely contagious and i think the teenager found a voice. it s what s happening, baby, the beatles. yeah, you there was a moment where you just heard, this is our music now. it was like here in the future. i want to hold your hand i have to ask how you first found out about it. we first saw the beatles in the airport with an enormous kids gather around. we asked what was going on. they said the beatles were here. we didn t even know who the beatles were. we never heard of them. that night i booked ringo starr, paul mccartney, john lennon and
non-haircuts, give non-mercy. meanwhile, yeah, yeah, yeah. this is alexander kendrick in beatle land. some little girl heard just a hint of what the beatles were about and called her local dee jay. he asked his friend to bring over a beatles record from england and has the vision to put it on and hear that there is something happening. so marcia albert of dublin drive, silver spring, is going to introduce something new on wwdc. it s all yours. ladies and gentlemen, for the first time on the air in the united states, here are the beatles singing i want to hold your hand oh, yeah, i tell you something, i think you ll understand that song was impossible to anticipate how much the momentum would continue. i want to hold your hand