50(!) years ago today. The album "Please Please Me" is released...
...and a really GREAT tribute:
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...you became a pioneer of Karaoke!
The first one I ever had was the Second Album. I remember because that's when my dog was a puppy and she chewed all the corners. 
...because, during its climb in the charts, JFK was murdered. 
Though I had heard of them, thanks to my mother, who hauled me out to watch them on Ed Sullivan. She told me I needed to see that because it was "historic..." 
She just let her emotions get in the way.
Up to Abbey Road, anyway. But my brother currently has custody of them. 
...from Wikipedia:
Please Please Me was released as an LP album on Parlophone in the UK on 22 March 1963, and has remained on UK catalogue continuously from 1963 to the present.
Release formats:
Vinyl (12"
record (stereo and mono)[20][21]
Reel-to-reel (3-3/4-ips) (mono) (paperbox) [deleted late 1960s][22]
Reel-to-reel (3-3/4-ips (mono)+(stereo)) (plastic boxes) [deleted mid-1970s]
8-track tape (stereo) [deleted late 1970s]
Cassette tape (originally released in stereo, re-issued in mono in 1988) [deleted late 1990s][23]
CD (1987 version) (mono) [deleted 2009][24]
CD (remastered in 2009) (stereo and limited edition mono)[25]
Digital Download (remastered in 2009) (stereo)
Vinyl (re-issued of 1963 Vinyl, but used 2009 CD release) (stereo)
In the United States, most of the songs on Please Please Me were first issued on Vee-Jay Records' Introducing... The Beatles in 1964, and subsequently on Capitol Records' The Early Beatles in 1965. Please Please Me was not released in the US until the Beatles' catalogue was standardised for CD.
In New Zealand, the album first appeared only in mono on the black Parlophone label. The following year (1964) EMI(NZ) changed from black to a blue Parlophone label and the album was again available only in mono. Due to constant demand, it was finally made available in stereo, first through the World Record Club on their Young World label in both mono and stereo, and finally on the blue Parlophone label.
The album was released on CD on 26 February 1987 in mono, as were their three subsequent albums, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night and Beatles for Sale. It was not released on vinyl or tape in the US until five months later when it was issued for the first time in the US on LP and cassette on 21 July 1987.[citation needed]
Please Please Me was remastered and re-released on CD in stereo, along with all the other original UK studio albums, on 9 September 2009.[26] The 2009 remasters replaced the 1987 remasters. A remastered mono CD was also available as part of the limited edition The Beatles in Mono box set.[27]
you can see the different prices he made until he paid it off ($4.83) penciled in on the album back. We bought our vinyl at the
furniture stores in our neck of the woods back then.
Tikki
I keed...
A mix of cheekiness and very addictive rhythms. And, brilliance.
I miss John and George almost as much as I miss my own parents.
I remember bouncing on a bed with a friend (as kids bounce on beds) and remarking about the breakup. My first memory regarding their music happened 6 years later, when my sister bought the Red and Blue albums. This happened concurrently with my music teacher (in middle school) playing "Penny Lane" to teach us about time-signature. I went home, put the Blue Album on the turntable (turntable!) and was enraptured! My love for the Beatles grew from there, and hasn't waned in 37 years. I'm not an original fan, but a huge fan, nonetheless.
To be 47 again!!!
Good music is good music, no matter when you find it!
I wasn't an original fan of Puccini, but I love his stuff!!! Hee hee!
Listening to Elvis right now, fixing to go to a funeral...!
...although, given the chance to see them live, I might be annoyed because I couldn't hear the music due to a 16 year old girl screaming in my ear!
Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
Hilarious...Television is never as good as the real thing, though, ain't it?...Once had an old-timer stick his hand toward an open flame and ask "What's that??"
They gotta be watched! 
...but it really is the companion piece to (I can't get no) Satisfaction!
