She Loves you: 50 years of Beatlemania

It is hard for me to believe that the song "She Loves you" has now been around for 50 years!   This particular Beatles song was basically the springboard for Beatlemania that happened in the fall of 1963.   It is the song that the fans could relate to and loved to sing along to.   It was a fun song and a tad bit rebellious with the "Yeah yeah yeah" part (wasn't it Paul McCartney's father who thought it should have been yes, yes yes to be more proper?).   She Loves you had beautiful harmonies but the fans didn't care too much about that.   Just one head shake from the four Beatles during the first "whoo" and screaming and Beatlemania would erupt like something that had never been seen before.

My very first Beatles memory has to do with this song.   I was 7 1/2 years old and it was the summer of 1984.   I would regularly spend my Saturdays at Mr. T's roller skating rink (if anyone else out there is from the Alton, Illinois area, then you'd remember Mr. T's as being an awesome place to go!).   Songs by Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Cyndi Lauper filled the place and for the price of a quarter you could request a song to be played.    So I remember going to the counter and requesting a song I had recently heard on the radio and totally loved.   The song sounded like nothing else I had heard.  It was so much better than the other music out there.   I wanted to hear it at the roller skating rink.   The song I requested was "She Loves You Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah"  (as I thought the song was called) and I didn't know who sang it.    I was quickly told by the guy who ran the counter that they didn't play "oldies."   I was confused.  This wasn't an oldie.  I had never heard the song before!   The guy laughed and said that the Beatles were oldies and that song came out a really long time ago.   What disappointment.   I had no clue!

And just as I thought in 1984, today in 2013, 50 years and 1 day after "She loves you" was recorded I still think the song sounds great.   When I hear it, I will still turn into a fan girl and want to scream, especially if I am watching a video and the Beatles head shake happens. 

The website, "Do you Remember" has a great article written by Jude Southerland Kessler about this subject.   Jude is a real sweet Beatle fan who has written several John Lennon books.  We were on that panel at the Fest last summer together.    I highly recommend reading this article.   Enjoy!

The whole "Do you Remember" site is a lot of fun and it is a great way get lost in memories of the past. 

http://www.doyouremember.com/news/8459

Fan swarm the Beatles at EMI studios for the first time during the recording of "She Loves You."

The guys read fan mail and sign autographs during a break in the "She Loves you Session" on July 1, 1963