I Can't Believe I Never Heard This! I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles Reaction Video!

[@Lovegun-w4s]

I love Johns voice in this live version 👍

[@phillydog17]

One of the most exciting songs ever.

[@dougcrandall7535]

Keep in mind that this was in the early mid 1960's, during the infancy of the growth of rock and roll. Context is everything.

[@patticrichton1135]

It's a shame that you can't hear George's ( the one in the middle) on his guitar solo, for some reason the sound is gone on his guitar there. Listen to the recorded version on the album, so you can HEAR what George is playing there.

[@therealjetty4889]

Okay 😊

[@ernestosangiacomo2634]

Funny how you can forget that they are playing live and being recorded with 1964 technology. Amazing!

[@therealjetty4889]

It’s amazing

[@Tuesdays_Gone]

Great reaction. I love your appreciation for this band. My mom and older brother got me hooked on them, in the 70s.

[@therealjetty4889]

I appreciate you

[@esmaelgonzales6462]

So this performance was in '63 and u can see these fans are going crazy! Here in America? We hadn't yet heard of the Beatles, let alone, this song! But, when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in early '64, just months after President Kennedy was assassinated, this was totally what young America was ready for. I had just turned 14 and these guys are singing about a 17 year old girl? But I loved it! Followed this band til the day they broke up, when I was 20. The announcement was one of the saddest days of my life!

[@therealjetty4889]

So glad you shared this info with me and I’m sorry for you being sad The Beatles had a big impact on you

[@patrickmcgrath5411]

R.J. "YOU HAVE MISSED SO MANY GREAT THINGS IN LIFE"... WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF ROCK AND ROLL ❣️❣️

[@therealjetty4889]

Thank you sir 😊

[@reinacarbetta388]

As someone who has always worked in national TV… I, 1) appreciate how hard it is to mix live performances in a TV studio 2) but mostly I appreciate Paul knowing that side cam was getting his close up and turning towards it! That’s my boy 💙 As my Dad says, there was nothing even remotely like them at the time. The songs. The presentation. The energy. The personalities. (Even the timing.) They were a perfect storm!

[@therealjetty4889]

Their energy is insane and that’s pretty cool you worked in national tv

[@paulmanley8997]

When i was a boy I would change the words to ‘I’ll never dance with her mother wooo when I saw her standing bare’ cheeky huh?

[@therealjetty4889]

😂😂

[@mikewarker4445]

I suggest you go album by album from the start. Amazing how they evolved as they went on. I grew up with them, and unless you did you could never know just how ahead of their time they always were. Greatest Ever

[@therealjetty4889]

I’m going album from album I want to see the growth of The Beatles

[@mikewarker4445]

@@therealjetty4889 enjoy the trip my friend, you will be stunned by what you hear

[@gpxo11]

@@therealjetty4889 if you're going by the British LPs-don't forget the singles they released as some don't make it to the albums.

[@patticrichton1135]

@@therealjetty4889 THAT is the CORRECT WAY to do it, most reactors start with their later albums, which is RIDICULOUS. Like you are doing, you have to start from their beginning to fully appreciate how their music evolved/progressed. ENJOY the JOURNEY, I can't WAIT to see your reactions to ALL of their albums. (I am a 75 year old fan who was 17 when they first came to America in Feb of 1964)

[@debjorgo]

The studio recording of this is 10X better.

[@therealjetty4889]

I went to live and I will list to the studio version

[@kentclark6420]

I thought they sounded really tight, but I couldn't hear George's guitar in the mix too well.

[@debjorgo]

@@kentclark6420 I don't know. What's it called? A soundboard. The guy mixing the sound, wasn't doing a very good job. It sounded like John was singing lead. Oh, I enjoy the video a lot. It's just not great for someone hearing the song for the first time.

[@LaptopLarry330]

Congratulations on reacting to this 1963 Swedish TV music performance by The Beatles. Before it was taken down here on KZbin, I watched the entire episode of the Swedish TV music program, "Drop In". The Beatles performed in the latter part of the show, and performed four songs: "She Loves You", "Twist And Shout", "I Saw Her Standing There", and "Long Tall Sally".

[@therealjetty4889]

Thank you

[@buddyneher9359]

Interesting mix, you hear John's harmony more than Paul's lead vocal in some spots. But hey, that's the special magic of listening to a live performance from 1963! Agree with you 100% about the danceability factor. Those guys knew how to get the crowd going. Glad you're enjoying the early Beatles 🙂

[@therealjetty4889]

The Beatles are amazing

[@BuffaloC305]

The mixboard technology absolutely SUCKED so most TV shows us lip-sync'ing rather than pretend a 2-input mixboard was satisfactory. Ed Sullivans Show had to be one of the richest programs in TV history up to that point and still their Beatles' show was using two 2-input mixboards - and they were far from perfect. It really wasn't until after 1975 that venues could afford the newest and barely decent products.

[@pestbsn]

I have to agree with everyone complaining about the mixing. John was supposed to be a harmony, not take over as lead vocalist.

[@braudabo]

It's not really the Beatles' first song. They previously released tracks as a short-term backing band (as "The Beat Brothers") to British rock 'n' roller Tony Sheridan. They even had a minor hit with their version of "My Bonnie" (1962). Two weeks before this performance in Sweden with, among other songs, "I saw her standing there", on October 13, 1963, the Beatles first became known to a large public in the UK through their performance on "Val Parnell's Sunday Night At The London Palladium". A 15,000,000 TV audience, that was introduced to the fan hysteria for the first time. The term "Beatlemania" was born.

[@therealjetty4889]

See thank you for letting me know but this was their first song off their first album right? I did some research

[@braudabo]

@@therealjetty4889 Yes, that's right. The first official Beatles-album "Please Please Me" (1963) starts with "I saw her standing there". Regulary played live by the Beatles between 1962-1964. Actually, I just wanted to point out, that the Beatles were already professionally active, long before this first official LP was released. Is sometimes overlooked.

[@garylee3685]

The song was the lead off song on their first album, but there were 2 songs on the 45 released earlier.

[@johnandrews3151]

You should also review the stereo studio version!

[@mokrodog]

u would def with helter skelter. that would blow your bind hahaha. make sure it’s the official version and not a cover

[@therealjetty4889]

Okay

[@DawnSuttonfabfour]

Remember! Age of consent was, and still is, 16. "she was just 17, you know what I mean"??

[@debjorgo]

How do we know he wasn't 15 when this happened? They could still hold hands and dance even though he was underage.

[@therealjetty4889]

How old was the Beatles?

[@braudabo]

@@therealjetty4889 McCartney was 20 when he wrote the song, inspired by a traditional. And one can't easily transfer the customs of 1962 or any other time to today. Especially in the 1960s, when young people in large parts of the world finally fought for more freedom, not least sexual freedom, and shook through the brittle, often mendacious and pseudo-moral world of adults. Not least with the influence of the Beatles and the generally emerging pop culture. Of course, there were also various exaggerations, hedonism, growing drug use, but if one compare the positives and negatives, a large part of the world has benefited from these developments.

[@debjorgo]

@@therealjetty4889 We don't know how old Paul was went he met the girl in the song. If he were an 80-year-old guy singing about how he met his wife, would you assume he was 80 when he met her?

[@DawnSuttonfabfour]

@@therealjetty4889 19, 20 and 21.

[@mikefetterman6782]

Unfortunately, the sound people were unaware of the importance of knowing when harmonies were coming on the mics, or guitar solos were about to be played. Other than that, this is pure Gold. Probably just 6-8 months after Ringo stepped in for Pete. What a difference it made.

[@therealjetty4889]

It’s amazing

[@1967PONTIACGTO]

another great song off that album is called "Please Please Me" (which is also the name of the album)... when you react to that I suggest you do it watching them perform it live in 1964 in Washington DC at the Coliseum... this was their first US concert, and took place between their appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show

[@therealjetty4889]

Okay

[@lancewolf2451]

paul is about 21 in this video...

[@draculis6721]

Please react everglow alternative music video by Coldplay please.

[@garfle1959]

Love at first sight doesn't exist. How can you love somebody you don't know. If you love for beauty, then you would love every pretty girl you saw. That's infatuation or lust.