[FairfieldLife] Re: Walter Cronkite/Beatles connection: great history!

2009-07-20 Thread azgrey
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip I have to admit to (Read: boast about) being almost completely under- whelmed by the Beatles when they came out. I've been reading it for 15

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walter Cronkite/Beatles connection: great history!

2009-07-19 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: Very neat story, Shemp, thanks for posting it. I had no idea of Cronkite's role, let alone that of the kid in Silver Spring. I remember one of my roommates at the time bringing home a copy of I Want to Hold Your Hand.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walter Cronkite/Beatles connection: great history!

2009-07-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Very neat story, Shemp, thanks for posting it. I had no idea of Cronkite's role, let alone that of the kid in Silver Spring. I remember one of my

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walter Cronkite/Beatles connection: great history!

2009-07-19 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: Very neat story, Shemp, thanks for posting it. I had no idea of Cronkite's role,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walter Cronkite/Beatles connection: great history!

2009-07-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip My female roommate and I (the third, the one who bought the record, was a guy) were utterly captivated by the Beatles as people. We both went nuts

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walter Cronkite/Beatles connection: great history!

2009-07-19 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: I went to see A Hard day's night about 5 times when it first came out, too. By the way, Richard Lester, the director of the film and considered by many as the father of the music video for the way he filmed the music

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walter Cronkite/Beatles connection: great history!

2009-07-19 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip I have to admit to (Read: boast about) being almost completely under- whelmed by the Beatles when they came out.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Walter Cronkite/Beatles connection: great history!

2009-07-18 Thread authfriend
Very neat story, Shemp, thanks for posting it. I had no idea of Cronkite's role, let alone that of the kid in Silver Spring. I remember one of my roommates at the time bringing home a copy of I Want to Hold Your Hand. The three of us (recent college graduates) practically wore it out over the