Racy,greetings.... Peggy will be the one watching.And then when she gets to work on Monday all the secretary's will be talking about who their favorite Beatle is.. They'll all start wearing their hair like Twiggy. Pete Campbell will call them down on it.Then the following week he'll have his hair like Paul Mccartney. Don will be Don. Suzette will be all excited also,she'll be the biggest fan.....

The Beatles did not stay at the Plaza during that visit. They stayed at the Warwick. Everybody knows this.

This is an excerpt of the WABC radio station in NY.......

WABC had a huge advantage when The Beatles visited New York City. As the flagship station for the ABC radio network, it had access to lots of high tech equipment. This included wireless RF microphones. During The Beatles first 1964 visit to New York, when they stayed at The Plaza, it was impossible for virtually any of the media to get access to them. So, during their second 1964 visit when they stayed at the Delmonico Hotel, WABC mounted an all out offensive. The suite above The Beatles was rented by WABC and was used to set up a remote studio. Using those wireless microphones, WABC disc jockeys Scott Muni and Bruce Morrow wandered around the hotel ready to broadcast anything that might have to do with The Beatles. It gave the station a huge edge. And, it didn’t hurt that as many security and hotel staff people as possible were presented with "gifts" from WABC. Needless to say, there were very few places where the WABC people could not roam.

For what it's worth........

I'm embarrassed to say I don't remember the name of the hotel they stayed at, but I was attending a cocktail party at a grand opening of an Italian restaurant in that hotel. As we were standing around drinking our cocktails, someone said, "Oh, there are those Beatles everyone's talking about" as they walked past the doorway to their rooms with their suitcases. As I was a jazz lover, I said "yeah, yeah, yeah" in a blase tone. I kicked myself later as I became a big fan of their music.

I remember my teenage cousins were watching the Beatles on this TV that looked like it had slides for a picture. I didn't want my grandfather to think I liked boys yet and asked if the Beatles were brothers. I loved Paul, still do.

I sat so close to the tv that my face was almost touching it... : ) ...and screamed and giggled and wiggled right along with the audience. What can I say??? I was 15.

I don't know if this will work but I will try it anyway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd7LSj2HZMo

The Beatles.....never got excited over any of the popular singers of the late 50s and early 60s....my sisters loved Ricky Nelson, Bobby Darin, and the older guys, like Sinatra and Tony Bennett...me, I had no favorites...then I heard the Beatles....then I saw the Beatles....fell in love, total love, with John Lennon....had so many arguments with my friends over who was cuter, John or Paul. Later I became very enamored with George Harrison. They still remain my favorite Beatles. They both died far, far too soon. When you think of the music they could have been giving us in these years since their deaths.....

I never hear of Beatles.But when I study US popular culture we learn that young girls go to rock and roll show and scream until they have orgasm. Did this ever happen to you matronly women here when you were youngster?

I remember seeing their American debut on the ESS.

My little Polish grandmother was watching with us -- wanted to know why all the girls were screaming.

I remember a "Dear Beatles" book that I bought at a grammar school bookfair. hehe -- it allegedly contained real fan letters that the real Beatles got in the mail.:)

I also remember the :

"No Beatle haircuts" edict in high school/junior high dress codes
The animated Beatles cartoon that was shown on Saturday morning (forgot what network)
"The Fifth Beatle", Murray the K, a NYC disc jockey.
The callsign W-A-Beatle-C, NYC...
A coworker of mine, who said "I never thought the Beatles had any talent."

Yes, very Beatles-crazed was I. I still have my Beatles Scrapbook and look at it once in awhile. My niece loves them too (born in late '70's!) and I made her a scrapbook for Christmas one year when she was in her teens, she was thrilled.

Sat there mesmerized before the TV like every other teen did. I had just turned 13 the month before and I was completely enchanted by those mop tops as they were called. I still enjoy Paul and always liked John a very close second.

There's a fun link from back in the summer when everyone was still waiting for S3 of Mad Men to begin ~~ just scroll waaaaaaay back there in the threads listing to a thread called "1964" posted by katie in August '09.

katie posted that thread in July 09, not Aug.....woops...

racy....good and accurate description of the Beatles' arrival.
I am a total Beatlemaniac. I was 9 when the Beatles came to US. I remember my parents being appalled by their haircuts......shocking!! Later, though, they became quite enamored of them, as I developed a love for them that remains to this day
so glad you included the story about George having the flu and his sister Louise flying up from St. Louis to nurse him

I think Sally could be intrigued by the Beatles...and Peggy...

George Harrison and John Lennon Rest in Peace.....

Hi fellow Beatlemaniac/Maddicts!

I have posted this before, but, I think Sally will bring us into the Rock and Roll of the 60s, especially the Beatles!

I didn't watch them that night on the Sullivan show. My 9 volt transistor radio introduced me to them, followed by the purchases of many 45s for my record player!

I have loved The Beatles since!

I agree with you, 60's child. Sally should be around 10 - the same age I was at that time. She is the character I identify most with, and I feel that this show is really about the children in it. Every time I see her (and she certainly has come closer to center stage this season), my heart melts for my inner child. I don't wish I could warn her. My parents were in their 40s when I was born, and they loved me and paid a great deal of attention to me, unlike the Drapers. I guess I just stopped paying attention to them. I was a wild hippie, and loved every minute of that. But I managed to keep my feet on the ground and my parents and I continued to love each other, although we've very seldom had any common interests or philosophies. But I feel Sally will become lost.

We were all shattered by the Kennedy assassination. But Sally will be more so, due to the grief she is currently experiencing due to the death of her grandfather. She seems to be the character on the show most aware of death, as it is new to her. Witness her relationship with Carla, which brings her into a more empathetic relationship with death, and her eyes glued to the television as she watched a monk set fire to himself. But I didn't post under the Kennedy-Assassination-Postings for a reason, and so I digress.

Still reeling from the assassination, so many of us experienced a When-God-Closes-A-Door-He-Opens-A-Window of biblical proportions when we watched the Ed Sullivan show that night. My family didn't listen to rock and roll - we only listened to big band, "popular" music, broadway musicals, and comedy records. My sister was away at college by this time, but when she visited home, she listened to Pete Seeger, The Weavers, etc. Which my father intensely disliked but did not hate.

About a month before Ed Sullivan, my aunt and uncle returned from a trip to Europe and reported to us that the airport they had landed in in New York City, as well as other places there, were displaying small, rectangular, orange-on-white stickers which said, "The Beatles Are Coming." We knew nothing about them, so they told us that The Beatles were an English rock and roll group. I was sort of familiar with Elvis, and didn't think much of him, but knew no more of rock and roll. I don't remember talking with any of my friends about this, but I was sitting in front of my parents television that night, and the only thing I can compare it to was, after almost a lifetime of watching black and white television, someone had just turned on the color. Which is a very weak comparison. My life changed that night.

My father bought me "Meet The Beatles" a few days later, and I listened to it day and night. I started asking them to tune to a rock and roll station in their car, and put a radio in my bedroom. He bought me most of their subsequent albums, but, to this day, that night was the night I went to black and white and my relationship with him changed forever. He hated rock and roll. He hated and still hates The Beatles.

I think other characters will be affected by them. Most will show their amused disdain. I remember newspaper articles, op ed pieces, and critics all around decrying them, with in-depth comparisons to classical music - Leonard Bernstein was the perhaps the first to champion them, but my father was not impressed by Lenny. I think Peggy will like them. Paul will initially side with the other Mad Men, but when it becomes cool to listen to them in a few years, he will say he liked them all along. Roger and Bert will hate them.

Since my generation was the most affected by them, I aver that Sally will be as well. This will be the beginning of the change of her relationship with Don and Betty, and the dominoes will fall. Bobby will love them too, but will probably not to the extent as she.

I'm curious to see whether or not this has any effect on Jane. We know virtually nothing about her, and what the creators have revealed makes her appear as an airhead with marrying a rich man as her main agenda. She and Roger seem to glide through their lives together, their age difference now a non-issue. It's only been hinted at that she has any chinks in her armour (at their ridiculous party). It would make good dramatic sense to have this event begin to expose the gap between them. It did become the moment of the division of the young and old, and the origin of the generation gap.

My FAV all-time Beatles song is "Here There and Everywhere." I was always more of a Stones/Zeppelin girl; their lyrics and lifestyles seemed wilder and darker and more fascinating. But I remember my parents having copies of "Rubber Soul" and "Meet the Beatles" and playing them (along w/ Dylan) when they were entertaining.

I like The Beatles yet do not adore them, nonetheless, I'm aware of their legacy and how they were massively instrumental in generating the divide between Authority and Independence, during the genesis of the Youth Movement: mid Sixties.

FYI:My friend Rachael has an Autistic son who is 40. He is Crazy about the band and eerily, uncannily, can sing EVERY Tune word-by-word, album-by-album, despite not even being able to bathe himself. Ah, the Mysteries and Disparaties in the Realm of the Mind!

Addendum: "The New Yorker" music critic :Sash Frere-Jones, touts the British band "Depeche Mode" as being the only Brit band since the '80s to have such an impact on the evolution of Pop/Rock music since the Beatles and Stones!?

Oh yes , I like old fashioned Stones music. The song, Bitch, is good.

But that Paul McCartney must be a fool man because he always marries bitch gold digger woman like that peg legged woman who steals his money.

Ron Wood,62, is so much smarter. He just gets sweet Russian girl to have hot sex with. It's such a romantic true love story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1077805/Never-old-puppy-love-Ageing-rocker-Ronnie-Wood-new-girlfriend-Ekaterina-Ivanova-dog-walk.html