The Beatles She Loves You Knocks on America's Door

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The Beatles She Loves You was their first real break into the American music market. The year was 1963, and the Beatles had already scored big time in their native Britain with the million-selling hit ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’. The release of ‘She Loves You’ afforded the group with the same level of success, and by now, Capitol Records, headquartered on the other side of the Atlantic, began to take notice of the phenomenon unfolding in England. They exercised their option to release tracks by the band in the United States, and ‘She Loves You’ was their first pick. As a result, the Beatles She Loves You is for many Americans one of the first songs that they ever heard by the band.
While the only previous release by the band to make it Stateside reached a meager number 116 on the charts before being unceremoniously dumped by radio, ‘She Loves You’ found a rather circuitous way to the top It was put out in September but did not find a great deal of success until the band also released ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ in the United States a few months later. Already the best selling single of all-time in the UK, (ironically only surpassed 14 years later by a song recorded by Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles group Wings), the Beatles She Loves You would soon find itself occupying a very special place in the history of American music as well. In the first week of April, 1964, ‘She Loves You’ was one of the Beatles songs claiming the top 5 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 charts – a feat never since duplicated. Having been re-released on the Swan record label, the track spent over 15 weeks on the American charts.
The Beatles She Loves You, along with ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ and their appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show went a long way towards cementing their popularity with the youth of America. The band finally offered a viable option to the packaged teenage crooners which had been thrust upon them by corporate record labels as mainstream music for much of the early 60’s. The Beatles helped to legitimize rock and roll as a cultural phenomenon, and not just pap released by the major labels to satisfy the youth market. With so many teenagers screaming for more, the band opened the doors for the wave of British bands that would invade the U.S. over the next few years.

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