BGuthrie Photos: Newseum -- Inside Media w/Bruce Spizer ("Beatles Invade America")

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"The Beatles are Coming! The Birth of Beatlemania in America"
Guest: Bruce Spizer
On the 50th anniversary of the arrival of The Beatles in the United States, Beatles historian Bruce Spizer talks about their historic first trip here and the evolution of Beatlemania.
Considered one of the world's leading experts on The Beatles, Spizer has written eight books on the group, including "The Beatles are Coming! The Birth of Beatlemania in America."
Through images, music and interview clips, Spizer chronicles The Beatles' rise in the United States and discusses what prompted TV host Ed Sullivan to book them on his popular variety show.
Spizer tells how Beatlemania was ignited by CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite, a 15-year-old girl from Silver Spring, Md., and a disc jockey at a Washington, D.C., radio station.
The event was moderated by John Maynard, of the Newseum.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SPIZER_140216_073.JPG: John Maynard
2. SPIZER_140216_092.JPG: Bruce Spizer
3. SPIZER_140216_154.JPG: Bruce Spizer with Beatle wig
4. SPIZER_140216_195.JPG: Bruce Spizer, John Maynard
5. SPIZER_140216_490.JPG: The Beatle wig
6. SPIZSS_140216_019.JPG: The Beatles arrive in New York for the Ed Sullivan show
7. SPIZSS_140216_053.JPG: Vee Jay records had an exclusive license to Beatles records before Capitol picked them up again. Original US 45 with the Beatles name misspelled Vee-Jay Records From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vee-Jay Records is a record label founded in the 1950s, specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll. History Vee-Jay was founded in Gary, Indiana, in 1953 by Vivian Carter and James C. Bracken, a husband-and-wife team who used their initials for the label's name. Vivian's brother, Calvin Carter, was the label's A&R man. Ewart Abner, formerly of Chance Records, joined the label in 1955, first as manager, then as vice president, and ultimately, as president. Vee-Jay quickly became a major R&B label, with the first song recorded making it to the top ten on the national R&B charts. Notable artists Major acts on the label in the 1950s included blues singers Jimmy Reed, Memphis Slim, and John Lee Hooker, and rhythm and blues vocal groups the Spaniels, the Dells, and El Dorados. The 1960s saw the label become a major soul label with Jerry Butler, Gene Chandler, Dee Clark, and Betty Everett putting records on both the R&B and pop charts. Vee-Jay were also the first to nationally issue a record by the Pips (by a master purchase from the tiny Huntom label of Atlanta), who became Gladys Knight and the Pips in 1962 when they moved to Fury Records. Vee-Jay had significant success with pop/rock and roll acts, notably the Four Seasons (their first non-black act) and the Beatles. Vee-Jay acquired the rights to some of the early Beatles recordings in a licensing deal with EMI, in which the main attraction at the time was another EMI performer, Frank Ifield. In the mid-1960s, Vee-Jay signed former successful child singer Jimmy Boyd of I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus fame; Boyd was then twenty-five years old. The company even ventured into folk music with Hoyt Axton and New Wine Singers. The label also picked up Little Richard (who re-recorded his Specialty Records hits) and recorded (1965) the soul classic, "I Don't Know What You've Got (But It's Got Me)", an R & B success, with Jimi Hendrix, Don Covay, Bernard Purdie, Ronny Miller, and Billy Preston (before he became successful on his own). Vee-Jay's jazz line accounted for a small portion of the company's releases, but recorded such artists as Wynton Kelly, Lee Morgan, Eddie Harris, and Wayne Shorter. The A&R for the jazz releases was Sid McCoy. The company also had a major gospel line, recording such acts as the Staple Singers, the Argo Singers, Swan Silvertones, and Maceo Woods. Vee-Jay even released comedy on LP, with records by Dick Gregory, and Them Poems, Mason Williams' early nightclub act, recorded with a studio audience in 1964. Success Vee-Jay's biggest successes occurred from 1962 to 1964, with the ascendancy of the Four Seasons and the distribution of early Beatles material ("From Me to You" b/w "Thank You Girl," "Please Please Me" b/w "From Me to You," and "Do You Want to Know a Secret" b/w "Thank You Girl" via Vee-Jay and "Love Me Do" b/w "P.S. I Love You" and "Twist and Shout" b/w "There's a Place" via its subsidiary Tollie Records), because EMI's autonomous United States company Capitol initially refused to release Beatles records. Vee-Jay's releases were at first unsuccessful, but quickly became huge hits once the British Invasion took off in early 1964, selling 2.6 million Beatles singles in a single month. Cash flow problems caused by Ewart Abner's tapping the company treasury to cover personal gambling debts led to the company's active demise; Vee-Jay had been forced to temporarily cease operations in the second half of 1963, leading to royalty disputes with the Four Seasons and EMI. The Four Seasons then left Vee-Jay for Philips Records, and EMI's Capitol Records picked up the U.S. rights for both the Beatles and Frank Ifield. Other Vee-Jay subsidiary labels included Interphon (which yielded the Top 5 hit "Have I the Right?" by another British group, the Honeycombs), and Oldies 45 for reissues along with Tollie and Abner Records, which was an early subsidiary label formed in 1958. Vee-Jay also did distribution for Ted Jarrett's Champion Records, Rick Hall's Fame Records, and for a time, the Memphis label Goldwax Records and Johnny Vincent's Ace Records. Vee-Jay moved back to Chicago in 1965 after a year in Los Angeles. Liens were placed on Vee-Jay assets still in Los Angeles after legal action by Pye Records due to non-payment of royalties.
8. SPIZSS_140216_115.JPG: Require you immediately cease manufacture and distribution of any and all records containing performances of Frank Ifield or the Beattles STOP Please confirm that all manufacture has stopped and all masters and pressings recalled and destroyed.
9. SPIZSS_140216_162.JPG: Ed Sullivan
10. SPIZSS_140216_165.JPG: Brian Epstein
11. SPIZSS_140216_240.JPG: We have been served with a temporary injunction in Illinois preventing us from selling you Beatles recordings until hearing Wednesday January 22nd. This temporary injunction does not prevent you from selling records previously shipped to you. Vee Jay's own injunction action will be heard in New York against Capital on Friday January 17th.
12. SPIZSS_140216_281.JPG: DC Coliseum performance
13. SPIZSS_140216_292.JPG: Beatles playlist for the Coliseum performance done on Shoreham stationery (1) [Roll Over] Beethoven (2) From Me To You (3) I Saw Her Standing There (4) This Boy (5) All My Living (6) I Wanna Be Your Man (7) Please Please Me (8) Til There Was You (9) She Loves You (10) I Want To Hold Your Hanna (11) Twist and Shout (12) Long Tall Sally
14. SPIZSS_140216_331.JPG: Mohammed Ali with the Beatles
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