I found this story of two friends, Joanne and Nina who had some fun Beatle adventures in New York in the 1960's. There is a video if you go to the link.
I love the information about Tiny Tim and the 1968 Christmas fan club recording.
Written by Jennifer H. Cunningham
New York Daily News
It was the spring of 1968 — the year of the Beatles’ most challenging
record, the White Album — when two Bronx beauties received the surprise
of their young lives: a three-day flirtation with John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
On the 50th anniversary of the Fab Four’s first U.S. visit, Joanne
Rubino and pal Nina Tornabene recalled a whirlwind Mother’s Day weekend
in which a then 27-year-old Lennon and 25-year-old McCartney gabbed with
the fresh-faced teens in a series of phone calls and brief Manhattan
meetings.
“All of our middle and high school years, we were doing this
foolishness,” Rubino, 63, now a guidance counselor in Bronxdale, told
The News Wednesday. “It was harmless fun.”
Although the lifelong friends first laid eyes on the group 50 years ago
this year after winning tickets to sit in on a Midtown press conference
through the Beatles fan club, it would be another four years before
they exchanged words.
“I remember they were smoking cigarettes and they were answering
questions in their cute way,” said Tornabene of the 1964 press
conference. “There were a lot of girls. People from the back pushed. I
was in the third row and I got pushed through the dais and onto the
chairs.”
Four years later, the pair took their obsession to the next level by
searching phone books for the group’s manager, Nat Weiss. They called
Weiss constantly and would wait outside his Upper East Side flat
whenever the Fab Four came back.
Their persistence worked. The day before Mother’s Day in 1968, they’d
stood outside Weiss’ house all day, staying even when Weiss came outside
and told them and other fans that the Beatles were holed up at the St.
Regis Hotel.
Around 6 p.m., a limo pulled up and Paul McCartney and John Lennon emerged. Rubino went to Lennon, Tornabene McCartney.
“He had a cut on his chin,” Rubino recalled. “I asked, ‘What happened to you?’ He said, ‘I cut me self shaving.’”
So cool! Oh my gosh! Connecting the dots YET AGAIN on MTBFR!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Nina!!!
(I had the Beatles Xmas album on a bootleg when I was a kid....I remember cocking my head, trying to figure out the appeal of Tiny Tim to the Beatles.....also, when John and Paul mention him on the Kenny Everett interview....I understand his act way better now!)
Thanks Sara!
PS: Great video on the link, thanks!
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