<p>Since February 9th marks the sixty-first anniversary of The Beatles first appearance on American television on The Ed Sullivan show, we're going to revisit the early days of Beatlemania. It was less than three months since President Kennedy had been murdered and we needed some good news. Well, that good news landed at the recently renamed Kennedy Airport on February 7, 1964 in a PanAm plane aptly named Jet Clipper Defiance. Life was never gonna be the same.</p>

Since February 9th marks the sixty-first anniversary of The Beatles first appearance on American television on The Ed Sullivan show, we're going to revisit the early days of Beatlemania. It was less than three months since President Kennedy had been murdered and we needed some good news. Well, that good news landed at the recently renamed Kennedy Airport on February 7, 1964 in a PanAm plane aptly named Jet Clipper Defiance. Life was never gonna be the same.

Beatlemania Part 1

<p>Host and creator Siobhan Barry takes listeners back to the 1950s and 1960s. Her stories, sometimes funny and sometimes serious, are time traveling trips through the days of penny candies, neighborhood ice cream parlors, fifty-cent movie tickets, air raid drills, summers without air conditioning, street games, homemade toys, football weddings, transistor radios, Beatlemania, and a cultural revolution.</p>

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Host and creator Siobhan Barry takes listeners back to the 1950s and 1960s. Her stories, sometimes funny and sometimes serious, are time traveling trips through the days of penny candies, neighborhood ice cream parlors, fifty-cent movie tickets, air raid drills, summers without air conditioning, street games, homemade toys, football weddings, transistor radios, Beatlemania, and a cultural revolution.

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Beatlemania Part 1

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