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Music Appreciation

GiqueCee

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6. The first cartoon I ever sold was to the Saturday Evening Post...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Feb 7, 2025, 09:32 AM

Feb 2025

... and it was about the Beatles. A dad with a startled expression replied to his daughter behind him who had a Beatle by the arm, "A what followed you home and can you keep him?"
It appeared in the issue that came out the week they were on the Ed Sullivan Show. I got $75 bucks for it, and bought a new pair of ski boots. They were leather.
I was a junior in high school, and a celebrity for about a week. Then I went back to being the weird kid in the back of algebra class who couldn't even do long division. Still can't, and I'm two years and change shy of 80.

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On this day, Friday, February 7, 1964, "Beatlemania Grips Gotham" as the Beatles arrived in America. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 OP

I fell in love with the Beatles the first time I heard this song malaise Feb 2025 #1

The Music Man Shirley Jones "Till There Was You" mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 #2

I discovered that it was a cover years later malaise Feb 2025 #3

Harrumph. Gotta go with Shirley Jones. I have the movie on DVD. mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2025 #4

Thanks for this link malaise Feb 2025 #5

The first cartoon I ever sold was to the Saturday Evening Post... GiqueCee Feb 2025 #6