HOLLYWOOD — Capitol Records will release the Beatles’ second single, “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “You Can’t Do That,” tentative Monday, March 16, claiming advance orders will exceed 1,700,000 copies. The Capitol label plans asking the RIAA to certify the disk as a million-seller on the same date for release.
Both tunes were written by band members Paul McCartney and John Lennon and the songs were recorded in London on February 27, upon returning from their triumphant U. S. visit here. Capitol Records has three outside pressing plants working on the disk, in addition to its own two facilities. The disk is also slated to be released in Europe tentative Friday, March 20. END
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(Information and news source: Billboard; March 14, 1964)
Police Called On Special Duty; Beatle Antics Causes Headaches
HOLLYWOOD — The Beatles may be idols of teenage girls and the love of top 40 stations, but to California police, airport officials and hotel managers they spell trouble.
When the mop-topped British band arrived here last week for concerts at the San Francisco Cow Palace and Hollywood Bowl, they found their reservations at the Fairmont and Ambassador Hotel canceled because of management fears about what screaming hordes of teenagers would do to their property, stayed guests and jovial the quartet itself.
The group was scheduled to land at Lockheed Airport in Lockheed, California, for their concert Sunday (August 23) at the Bowl, but officials nixed the idea, stating they didn’t want teenagers ruining their facilities.
“Beatlemania” frenzy displayed in full force during the 1964 Beatles concert performance in San Francisco.
The quartet arrived with accustomed hysteria and confusion at Los Angeles International Airport Tuesday, August 18, en route to San Francisco. Over 500 screaming girls flocked to the Pan American terminal when word was leaked that the Beatles was passing through L. A. Extra police were called in to supplement the regular airport security force. The Beatles touched down at 4:15 p.m. and were airborne at 5:45 p.m., appearing at a hastily arraigned press conference which accomplished nothing.
Forty-five minutes later, when they arrived in San Francisco, a howling mob of 5,000 hysterical teenage girls were there to greet them. More than 100 San Mateo County sheriffs and police officers fought back the hysterical youngsters.
The four were taken to the Hilton Hotel, one of the few places willing to rent them rooms.
To secure maximum protection for the Bowl concert, which Capitol planned recording, producers Bob Eubanks, Reb Foster (both of KRLA) and night club owners Michael Brown and Bill Uttley obtained the services of 149 Los Angeles policemen, with the city picking up the tab for the coverage because the Bowl is county property. When events are held in private facilities, police are often hired by the producers.
San Francisco producer Paul Catalana paid the salaries for 100 policemen, hired especially for the concert at the Cow Palace, but San Mateo County faced an estimated $4,000 tab for additional protection at the airport. END
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(Information and news source: Billboard; August 29, 1964)
Police security in high-action during the Beatles performance at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. The date was August 19, 1964.Fast-forward: September 14, 1964. The Cleveland police were heavily present posing as a security barrier from screaming female fans during the Beatles concert in Cleveland, sponsored by Top 40 WHK.
A MCRFB NEWS brief: 1964
HOLLYWOOD — Capitol Records will release the Beatles’ second single, “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “You Can’t Do That,” tentative Monday, March 16, claiming advance orders will exceed 1,700,000 copies. The Capitol label plans asking the RIAA to certify the disk as a million-seller on the same date for release.
