Thank you and contest winner

Wow!  What a great month of Beatles photos and stories!   It has been so much fun for me to bring all of you the stories and photos of the Beatles 1964 North American tour on a daily basis.   It was hard work to keep up with it, but it was well worth my time and effort.    I hope you all enjoyed it and you learned a thing or two about this tour.  I know that I sure did. 

I want to send a special thank you to:  Chuck Gunderson for the information he has supplied in his book, Some Fun Tonight as well as helping me with a few photo questions, Mark Naboshek for the information on the Dallas Show, Ivor Davis for his book, the Beatles and me on tour, Dee Ellis for the story she had about the Cleveland Show in her book, Confessions of a Beatlemaniac,    Pat Simmons for allowing me to reproduce the story about Cleveland that originally appeared in With a Little Help from my Friends, Ted Rozumalski for allowing me to share the photos from the New Orleans show that his father took and all of you who sent me encouraging messages and emails throughout the month.    I truly appreciated the big show of support as we traveled along with the Beatles 50 years later.

I plan on doing the same thing next year with the 1965 North American tour and I am starting to collect photos and stories to share.   So---if you saw the Beatles in 1965 (anywhere in the world really) please write something about it to share on the blog!   

Also just a reminder that I personally am looking to speak with anyone who saw the Beatles at Busch Stadium in 1966, George Harrison at the St. Louis Arena in 1974, or Paul McCartney at Busch Stadium at 1993. 

If you have a story to tell, please email me at Starshyne9@yahoo.com


Now the moment you all have been waiting for!  The winner of the Beatlemania contest!    There were 38 contestants this time around, which I think is pretty good!   The record for a contest I have held is 43 people and so this contest was second place.     The winner needs to contact me through email with his or her address

And the winner is--------

Number 032!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations!! You are the Beatlemaniac winner.    :)  

Peace and Love,
Sara

the Winners

The Beatles concert in Philadelphia was sponsored by WIBBAGE radio.  The month before the Beatles came to town, the radio station ran a contest and 9 girls were chosen (9 because of the call numbers 99 of the station) to meet the Beatles live and in person at the press conference before the show at the Convention Hall!   How exciting for those 9 lucky girls and how disappointing for the thousands who tried to win and didn't make it.

If you live in the Philadelphia area, you might want to check out the Broadcast Pioneers luncheon on Wednesday September 17, 2014.    One of the girls who won the contest is going to be speaking, along with Larry Kane and a group of former WIBBAGE disc jockeys.  They will be talking about the Beatles concert.   Sounds like a fun time!   http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/

Drum roll please!

The boys came over and helped me pick out the winner of the autographed Good Ol Freda DVD.... alright...you got me.  They didn't come over and only had 29 entries into the contest.  I just put the numbers into the random number generator.   Here is the winning raffle number----

If you are number 015 please email me by responding to the email I originally sent you with your number in it.   Please send me the address where you would like your DVD mailed.  

Thank you everyone who participated.   These contests haven't been getting a whole lot of response.  I am thinking about not doing as many of them.    Maybe if I did a few contests instead of one every other month, I would get a better response?   I am not sure.