The Beatles - Twist & Shout - Performed Live On The Ed Sullivan Show REACTION

[@samolevski1119]

To understand the impact they had, you would have to study the history of the music scene before they arrived, as The Beatles were so different and seemed to get their image, sound and everything spot on to fire the imagination of youngsters in their era. I tried explaining all that to my children in order to try and help them realise the massive impact certain groups or artists had, as some of them exploded onto our screens and bewildered our parents back then. Maybe watch a couple of news reports of their arrival at airports in America to see the huge crowds waiting for them, and the screaming everywhere

[@thomastimlin1724]

they stopped Elvis and drafted him into the army, the payola scandals, Jerry Lee Lewis marrying his 14 year old cousin, arresting Chuck Berry on the Mann Act...we were left with the Twist and and tame boy teen idol singer like, yawn, Fabian...then the President was assassinated....the Beatles came along and rescued rock and roll and the quiet desperation of depression over the assassination. it was a moment like when Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz opened the door to her crashed house and the world was different and suddenly in color. [Even though this is black and white TV].

[@clab5864]

Jayy, there was NOTHING like the Fab 4 in 1964. My little face was glued to our black and white TV during this show!!!!!

[@robertasirgutz8800]

The Beatles are EVERYTHING.

[@nelsonx5326]

I'd be screamin too. I love the Beatles.

[@jenniferjacobs228]

This was way back at the start and Beatlemania etc...We had never seen anything like the Beatles....We screamed and cried and loved them so much. it's hard for those not there to understand the intensity of our feelings haha...

[@lgwappo]

1964 we were visiting family friends, Ed Sullivan was on a tiny black & white TV & us kids were watching when the Beatles came on. All I heard was screaming. I didn't know who the Beatles were & I was confused why all the girls were screaming. I was only 7. I didn't know that night made history & changed pop/rock music forever. This had happened after months of grieving over the JFK assassination & gave some hope back to a young generation.

[@RG-ds8pd]

A critical said it perfectly: it’s rare when an artist or band is both the most popular and Actually the best at what they do.

[@alondra2190]

Love them too, what a spectacular band they were 💞

[@THEJAYYSHOW]

Agreed

[@mandysmith1756]

When I was 7 years old my Mum took me to the local cinema to see the Beatles movie A Hard Days Night. It's still worth a watch and the concert footage towards the end is brilliant, so much so that that the cinema audience was stamping and screaming just like the crowd in this video. I've been a Beatles fan ever since. Enjoyed your reaction!

[@susanelkins3068]

THE....BEST...BAND...EVER... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@shanenolan8252]

Thanks. That tour in America was defined as Beatle mania. They had the top 5 songs in the charts at the same time. And did the first ever stadium concert. Plus 40 million people watching them live on ed Sullivan show

[@msimms-lp5qw]

Watching this again reminds of the fantastic stage power they had ,coupled with that talent , just amazing

[@sumonjamal1653]

This was a cover of a song made popular by the Isley Brothers... the 'twist' was a dance move popular in the early days of rock n' roll music. The Beatles made the decision in 1963 that they would not come to the USA without a #1 record... so it took about a year before their song "I want to hold your hand" hit #1 on the US charts in late '63... The Beatles then flew to America and experienced 'Beatlemania' there for the 1st time... their appearance on the 'Ed Sullivan' on national TV got the highest ratings ever for that show.

[@josephtingley654]

First boy band ever and none have been better than this one ever!

[@joegongora2200]

I've seen most of those performances of the Beatles in Feb of 1964. I was 8 Yrs old when my Grandfather called all of us into his room. He told all us..."Come quick here's some guys with long-hair that are singing, and they look like girls!!! We went in to watch and it seem as though we were on another planet. They were different and so was there music and things weren't the same after that. It was a good thing my Grandfather was watching the Ed Sullivan Show. This was 3 Mo after the assination of JFK.

[@beandean23]

One word...Beatlemainia.

[@KarenLWhiting]

I too, remember watching The Beatles on Sullivan at 7 about to be 8. This was their first trip to America. This is early Beatles, the Moptops. They grew so much musically in the next couple of years, beginning with Rubber Soul (my favorite). Experimenting in the studio, they were pioneers. At the time of this performance John and Ringo were 23, Paul was 21 and George was 20. George was about to turn 21 on 02/25/64. I share a birthday with George. 😀

[@kesleycottrell1416]

This performance sparked so many future rock stars.

[@GunnarJohnson-tj1wk]

I totally agree. Exposing people to ALL music through reaction videos, including the Beatles, should be easy and simple for all of us.

[@JimmyXWolvie]

Ferris Beullers Day Off was my first intro to this classic !🎊🎉😄👍

[@THEJAYYSHOW]

What’s that?

[@dianaskrutskie7314]

I love the early Beatles. They had so many feel good songs. Songs that just made you want to dance and smile. "I Want to Hold Your Hand", She Loves You, All my Loving, Thank You Girl, Help. We Can Work it Out, A Hard Days Night, I Feel Fine, Eight Days a Week. The Rubber Soul Album. They were just fantastic. We never saw or heard anything like them. They were the forerunners for so much of what went on as rock and roll evolved. They wrote their own music, played their own instruments, their harmonies were fantastic, and they had the what was considered "long" hair back then. They were magical. The screaming was ridiculous. They couldn't hear themselves play. When playing live, Ringo would have to watch their mouths and body movement to know where they were in the song. It was nuts! Enjoy some of their early stuff!

[@stonebringer1]

Everybody watched them on Ed Sullivan. EVERYBODY!

[@oldmanghost219]

My parents watched the Ed Sullivan Show and their reaction was "What this"? I must have been about 10. They were not fans. But Twist and Shout was one of the ones that I liked from them at that time.

[@michaelway7936]

Always incredible, from their early pop sound to their more complex songs, they always delivered. Nice reaction as always Jayy

[@alexfletcher5192]

The Isley Brothers sat at home watching this and realised changes were afoot. What did they have to compete against this new invasion? And with a song they themselves had popularized! The answer was sitting nearby, in the form of their young guitarist - Jimi Hendrix...

[@bobschenkel7921]

When it was announced that The Beatles were going to be on The Ed Sullivan Show, the clip you showed, my Mom said we needed a new, bigger TV. Dad said ok, and on the Sunday night they played, we watched. Mom was more excited than Dad and I but we all sat there for the whole show, and we were able to see history, live and in Black and White.

[@subwaygoddess1]

They say when John sang this song, it tore his voice up. He sang it anyway

[@SueProv]

When they sang that Oooo they guys would shake their heads a little bit. For some reason it made the girls scream. It was mostly Paul who did it

[@THEJAYYSHOW]

I love it

[@papercup2517]

@@ashleyfletcher5044 It was kind of contagious! I went to see them in our little local cinema/theatre when I was just 12 years old and when all the girls started screaming my older sister tried (unsuccessfully) shushing me at first... 10 minutes in and she was screaming along with the best of them...! We were beside ourselves to see these gorgeous, strange, funny, creative, talented guys with their extraordinary, infectious music, irreverent attitude and working class accents, 'in the flesh'. The world had seen and heard nothing like them. Far from being a manufactured, marketing-hyped 'boy band' (as some people these days imagine) they paid their dues in years of continuous, once, twice and even three times-per-day gigs in a vast assortment of town halls, coffee bars and sleazy clubs, before they finally got their recording contract and went on to take over the world! [For all the details: see The Beatles Bible/ History] :-)

[@jimlewis6743]

Hi Jayy! I love your enthusiasm for the Beatles. I am a big fan too. But mostly their later years, when they learned their potential as music makers (with the help of George Martin and the studio engineers). When this was shown on Ed Sullivan in 64, my Dad said, "They're just playing our (American) country music". My Dad referred to any modern American music, Country, Blues, Jazz, Rock and Roll, whatever, as "Country Music". Now, I think in many ways, he was right. In 1964, many American music artists were asked to come over to Europe and Great Britain to perform. There are some great KZbin videos of their performances. One that I think shows the contrast between the hysterical American teens on this video, and the British kids in Manchester England, is really interesting! Please watch Sister Rosetta Tharp sing "Didn't It Rain" live, the same year...1964. Here is an old lady, gospel singer, rocking out and amazing the young audience.

[@numberonesongs4444]

Hi Jayy, Great seeing you enjoy the Beatles. That is music history that a lot of young kids don't know about and it's shame. Jayy, just a heads up, in the past I had uploaded Ed Sullivan Show music clips and I got strikes for those. I lost one channel because of that.

[@margaretdasilva5493]

I love her reaction! Too cute.

[@edgarsnake2857]

C'mon now Jay, the Beatles ROCK!

[@debbiechang5781]

I was nine years old when I watched this on TV. They couldn’t even hear themselves during their live performances because of the screaming girls. Just good fun! 🌺✌️

[@lizmil]

I was just one month short of my fourth birthday and watching this show is one of my earliest clear memories. My little sister and I ( she was a year younger) jumped up and down and screamed like the teenagers thought the whole performance! We had never been allowed to,stay up to watch Ed Sullivan before.

[@kevinstarr516]

The Beatles had a bunch of fast,fun and hard rockers. "Long Tall Sally", Money (That's What I Want), "I'm Down", "A Hard Day's Night", "Slow Down", "Bad Boy", "It WOn't Be Long", "Please Mr. Potman", "I Saw Hee Standing There". "She Loves You", I Want To Hold Your Hand", "Can't Buy Me Love", "I Should Have Known Better", "Tell Me Why", "Rock & Roll Music", "Kansas City/Hey. Hey , Hey , Hey", "Dizzy Miss Lizzy", "Got To Get You Into My Life", "Back In The U.S.S.R.", "Paperback Writer" and "Hey Bulldog" just to name a few.

[@ivansavoie3190]

Greatest band of all time. Should react to more Beatles starting older to newer

[@aprilradovic1356]

they were such fun days, i was 15 years old,

[@TangoEliott]

I was 11 going on 12 and this changed my life. For good. The early Beatles are nothing like the later Beatles.

[@elizabethrogers8306]

I attended one of the Beatles last concerts at Dodger Stadium. I was considered a "bubble gummer" in those days. It was a sea of hysteria and loads of fun. I could barely hear the Beatles singing but remember it to this day. They 'escaped' by dashing out in limousines hidden in a tent on the field. I still have the play list I kept to this day. Fabulous experience and era.

[@debitaylor2101]

To think they were considered to have long hair. The sounds in early 60's were the beginning of the change in sound.

[@Pauba1946]

73,000,000 people watched this performance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Nowadays a hit show has 5 or 6 million viewers.

[@josephworthfiftiesguy]

i remember watching this on the ed sullivan show, feb. 1964 i was 7 and i remember the girls in the neighborhood had the buttons on --i love paul,i love john, ect.

[@THEJAYYSHOW]

They are all cool

[@philminion3675]

I was 4 years old and i still remember that night it is the earliest thing i can put a time too

[@willardwooten9582]

I was 12 watching this live. Ed gave so many bands and comedians their 1st chance. If you made the Sullivan's Show then you became very popular.

[@danilleblanc7487]

No one ever became more popular than The Beatles!!! Do yourself a favour and check out how many record sales they've had in the last 3 or 4 years alone. Then do the same for any other musical act that performed on the Ed Sullivan Show! From Frank Sinatra to Elvis to the Rolling Stones and beyond, none of them came even close to The Beatles!!! 52 years after they broke up and still outselling everyone!

[@quinny6920]

OMG I REMEMBER THE NIGHT THIS HAPPENED!!!! HISTORY BABY, HISTORY

[@Cbcw76]

As you read interviews from musicians that started after 1965, they will point to The Gurlz and The Beatles being their primary motivation.

[@tonycocchiola7192]

They were on The Ed Sullivan Show several times.

[@neilphelan145]

This music is pure rock and roll. Period!

[@danilleblanc7487]

Hi Jayy! It started back then and still is true today...The Beatles and then every other band trying to catch up! Loved your reaction!

[@janes.1559]

The girls are going crazy when Paul and George do the now, very famous, head shake. Remember, this is the longest hair america and the world ever saw on modern men. This song went to number one again, 20 years later from the Ferris Bueller movie.

[@Mark-iv7np]

I dig their early music best, this is one of them. When they performed this in 65 at Shea Stadium in NY the whole stadium went crazy, ahahaha 😀. Loved it. I really enjoy when two of them sing at the same mike. Great times back then. Things were simpler not so much emphasis on money as now.

[@Mark-iv7np]

Im a music historian thanks for the great information!

[@kenperk9854]

The concert at Shea.. the Beatles Couldn't hear a thing they were playing! They didn't know if they were nailing it or if they were Stinking up the joint. NO ONE COULD TELL!

[@chuckyoneil2853]

They have so many great songs very versatile, thanks

[@pasi4118]

Hi, great reaction, good job, ty.👌 It's so great when the younger generation enjoyed evergreens, The Beatles, ABBA, Queen etc... Subbed & liked. Keep up the good work.=) Love from Finland.💕

[@hongfang2508]

This was the first live show by Beatles in USA. Beatlemania was heating up.

[@martic51]

I remember this like it was yesterday and I was just a little girl! The very young Beatles!

[@williamjordan5554]

Still the top selling musicians of all time.

[@maxpolaris99]

Beatles were phenomenal

[@danielceo4694]

Hello from Chicago! Loved your reaction! I gotta tell you, their earlier music from 1962 to 1965 is fun stuff, no matter of you're listening or watching. And their music from late 1965 till 1970 is the hard-core music, where they made things a little more complex, they lent a bit of sophistication to their songs and so forth. I would suggest some other fun early songs of theirs as well, like, "She Loves You," "Please Please Me," "I Want To Hold Your Hand" or even "A Hard Day's Night". Love you! Love your reactions! You're beautiful! And Happy New Year!

[@robertasirgutz8800]

PS- "All my Loving", live. Gonna love it!

[@joanneharper9090]

I'm just old enough to remember seeing this. I was almost 7 years old.

[@nw8000]

I met Paul in 2002 I screamed and shook my hands in the air like you do....He was not impressed lol

[@THEJAYYSHOW]

Oh wow

[@MadMattInc1]

If this sound from the Beatles is new to you, then I welcome you to the end all best of this sound with them, Love Me Do.

[@sczen]

They started out with this kind of sound. Started that is.Had Great Variety.

[@eclconsulting]

The Beatles' got their "woo" from Little Richard, although theirs is softer than his. He was a big influence on them. The song "Twist and Shout" is a cover of the 1962 Isley Brothers' hit. They always had to perform it last because it would trash John Lennon's voice.

[@eclconsulting]

@@loosilu Very cool!

[@kevinstarr516]

Actually they opened a lot of their concerts with Twist & Shout. They didn't always end their shows with it. The thing is they saved Twist & Shout for their last song of their "Please Please Me" recording session because they were recording the whole album in one day wih three sessions. John was nursing a bad cold on that day, and that is the only reason why they saved Twist & Shout for the last track they would record because they jknew that they couldn't do more than one take or anything after that with his sore throat.

[@eclconsulting]

@@kevinstarr516 Good to know. Another urban legend bites the dust.

[@ptournas]

The woo's in this song are also in the Isley brothers version they're covering.

[@eclconsulting]

@@ptournas Woo's were certainly popular in the 50's and 60's.

[@kenperk9854]

The guys said they rarely could hear themselves sing which made it hard.

[@SibKiss-hc7zn]

We all watched this on a 📺 back in the day. My older siblings had bought their .45's

[@kathyneuman5613]

Early Beatles was my favorite .

[@belendawigington7618]

I love that you’re reacting to the Beatles!!

[@stacymoore9836]

Yeah the girl’s went crazy! Just called beatle mania

[@belendawigington7618]

They loved Little Richard and contribute there screaming to his influence. Love your reactions

[@sukie584]

That's their Little Richard 'Woos. As someone mentioned. The music was so different back then. It can't be emphasized how huge their impact was. You should listen to the hits from 1960-1962 and the how much it started to change because of them in '63. So early Beatles are short, great AM radio pop songs and then by '65 they started to evolve out of that..

[@gpxo11]

She Loves You has a similar vibe-YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!

[@alejandraperez3034]

My childhood band!!! 😘💝

[@rvponto]

Please More Beatles, More, More,More,Moreeeeeeeeeeeee....

[@THEJAYYSHOW]

They are extremely hard to upload

[@rvponto]

@@THEJAYYSHOW This is sad, they are my favorite band of all time, its hard find reactions ;-; but amazing work love from brasil

[@jannaromine5908]

I was 12 when this came out! It was sheer madness 🤗

[@nancywengert7301]

As someone who was sitting in front of our tv at the age of 15, the Beatles were a breath of fresh air on the music scene. President Kennedy had been assassinated a few months before they came to America and they helped to bring us out of a period of national mourning. They wrote most of their songs, played their own instruments, sang well together and were cute as hell with their moptop haircuts and matching suits. I still have all of their albums.

[@joannfowler8407]

I watched them on Ed Sullivan show,I was 11yrs old.

[@georgesams4936]

Twist and Shout is an Isley Brothers cover

[@jamesragan7956]

Not really. The Isley Brothers didn't write it and were not the original performers.

[@hollywoodharriet13]

Some Little Richard influence going on there. Ed Sullivan hosted a Sunday night variety show and featured The Beatles 3 consecutive Sundays in 1964. I can't tell you how exciting it was. Even our parents liked them in those early days. This was just after the Nov 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy when everybody needed something happy to think about and that something was The Beatles. As I'm thinking back on this though, I wonder if this wasn't also part of their cover up.

[@joe6096]

Sunday, February 9th, 1964, 8:00 pm eastern standard time, on CBS. 74 million people watching this in America. The date, time, and channel of the exact moment America changed forever.

[@Dee-JayW]

OMG GIRL….the girls screaming drowned out their jet at JFK…this was everywhere they went..MOBBED!!

[@kiwimatt6891]

Very cool Jay - you have to do the Ed sulivan performances by Elvis - they are iconic. It was his 87th birthday yesterday - don’t think you’ve done these yet and you’d love them. I think there 3 seperate shows he appeared on taking in up to 85% of the viewing audience in the states

[@charlesdavis7461]

I watched Ed Sullivan every Sunday night with my grandparents and was afraid they would turn off when the Beatles came on. Next I believe was the show with Dorothy Kilgallen, "What's My Line". I believe this was the first time for most to have even seen them. d Sullivan also had Elvis Presley but only could me shown from his waist up lol.

[@johnbrookes3261]

John Lennon was lead in this song but overall there was never anyone to equal them even today They changed pop music forever and set the scene for everyone following .

[@danilleblanc7487]

Exactly!!!

[@danilleblanc7487]

Exactly!!!

[@Isleofskye]

Great Reaction, as always. If you look at the videos of all THE "NUMBER 1'S" in THe Charts in the 1950s and then watch The 1960's Video you will see how they changed the World of music forever. At one point they ad ALL The Top 5in The USA Charts at the same time The first few years were all Pop songs until the Mid 1960's from their first hit in The UK in 1962 :)

[@roboh27]

Early on the Beatles did a lot of covers of songs.

[@stevensprunger3422]

Believe it or not when I was on the television and 64 and I was at somebody else’s house all the girls in the house wanted to watch it I thought they were just a stupid passing fad then in about three years my mind got blown by the Beatles …

[@stevensprunger3422]

Of course I met when they were on television and 64 I was only 10 years old but in three years they blew my mind I think it was Sergeant peppers or magical mystery tour or one of those albums

[@larrystuder8543]

There's a reason it was called Beatle-mania. The only mass reaction like it was to early Elvis....

[@completecharleston7142]

Gotta love the Beatles, the group that inspired thousands (including me) to play guitar! If / when you have the time, there's a really cool movie called "That Thing You Do", which is about a fictional Beatle-ish group that goes from garage band to national fame, stars Tom Hanks, Liv Tyler, Charlize Theron and others, one of my top fave movies. Thx Jayy!

[@brucepalme7271]

She loves you yeah yeah yeah

[@Pauba1946]

We went crazy at home too!

[@paulraymond959]

Good song good reaction

[@THEJAYYSHOW]

Thank you so much

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

John Lennon used to do this song last, it was very hard on his voice.

[@LaptopLarry330]

If you want to watch some more early TV performances by The Beatles, check out their performance on the Swedish TV show, "Drop In" from October, 1963. It was basically a "dress rehearsal" before they arrived in the US in January, 1964. The Beatles performed four songs in their set: "She Loves You", "I Saw Her Standing There", "Twist And Shout", and "Long Tall Sally".

[@jonnno243]

There is a live black and white video of The Beatles singing "Please Please Me" which I think you will like. And, there is a band called The Fab Four who sing Twist and Shout and Please Please Me, and most other Beatles songs SO well.

[@hookstomper7322]

Those girls were going crazy with joy...lol. Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones said the only times when he was truly scared for his life was when they were mobbed by hysterical young girls...:o)

[@davidmazon7516]

This was their debut in the US. America never knew what hit them.

[@thomastimlin1724]

This is how good they were without monitors, LIVE and THEY created the long hair style you still see today. They had shock value back then and talent with it. Boy did they piss off our parents with the noisy music and long hair. and the girls went out of their minds, but make no mistake , the boys really dug the sound, the guitars and drums, and the look. today it may seem tame, but back then, outrageous.

[@jessegreen6138]

The Beatles were actually filmed for this Ed Sullivan show in October of 1963. It aired in 9 February 1964. They appeared two more times after 73,000,000 people saw them in the first appearance.

[@THEJAYYSHOW]

They were great

[@jessegreen6138]

@@THEJAYYSHOW They were in my opinion the greatest band of all time.

[@jessegreen6138]

@JC SKI Sorry, What isn't exactly true. Can you clarify your statement please?

[@amb2745]

That's not true. The Ed Sullivan Show appearances were February 9th, 16th, and 23rd 1964. This performance was from a video taped appearance of The Ed Sullivan Show done in the afternoon of February 9th in front of a live audience. It was saved for the 23rd after The Beatles left for England.

[@terrygarcia897]

Seen sir Paul 2002 Dallas TX. He played 4 hours.

[@THEJAYYSHOW]

Really