Thursday, January 7, 2010

The Beatles Go Global. . .Again

Thanks to Beatlemaniac Christine, I just heard about this:



Obviously, this song was chosen for this project on the basis of its simplicity, familiarity, and because it was Britain's contribution to the first worldwide television broadcast, Our World, on June 25, 1967:



Thank goodness for YouTube! This is the song as originally broadcast, not the more familiar colorized version created for The Beatles Anthology in 1995.

One detail I've never seen any comment on: why were John and Paul chewing gum while they sang?

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