Kind of our own version of "Breakfast With The Beatles," I guess ...
Not a bad way to start off your Sunday Morning!
Batter Up, Kent!
You posted an Historical Baseball Photo recently about Opening Day at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 21, 1966.
Which reminded me ...
Four months later ... to the day ... I hosted a KIMN, Denver, Radio Beatles Trip with
83 Lucky Listener Winners to fly from Denver, Colorado to St. Louis and
back in one day aboard the "Beatleliner," an exclusively chartered DC-7
specifically to see the Beatles, in Concert, at the All-New Busch Stadium, on August 21, 1966!
$5.50 to see the Beatles?!
Yep! And what an Event! I remember sitting in Busch Stadium with
over twenty-three thousand Beatle Fanatics who spent the entire thirty
minute show screaming and yelling at the top of their young lungs so
much that no one could really hear them sing!
CB sitting Next to a Trip Winner Looking Like He'sAnticipating the Ear-splitting Noise yet to come!
And if that weren't enough, it rained through the open roof stadium throughout their very damp performance!
While the Beatles Played under a makeshift cover, water still dripped onto their amplifiers causing the guys to be apprehensive about the possibility of being shocked by their increasingly wet electrical equipment! But “the show must go on” and go on it did for a half hour! And because of that rain, the group order for the show was abruptly changed at the last minute. The Beatles were moved up to appear third after the Del-Rays, a local "metro-Illinois garage band," followed by Bobby Hebb ("Sunny"), The Beatles, and the show closed with The Cyrkle ("Red Rubber Ball") and The Ronettes ("Be My Baby").
What's historically notable about this Beatles-Busch Concert is that this is the concert, with its weather-impacted physical stage miserableness along with the inability to even hear each other singing, that finally convinced Paul McCartney that
The Beatles should stop touring altogether after this tour joining the previously out-spoken concert feelings of
Harrison and Lennon. He's quoted as saying, this concert "felt like the
worst gig we’d ever played."
CB ( which stood then for "Chuck Beatle-Boy-Buell!" )
