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wibg introduced me to the beatles

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oasisrulz

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Watching all the Beatle specials on VH1 classic and other music networks this weekend made me think how I was introduced to them. I think most of the posters on this board were not alive when they hit, you all missed the greatest time in music history. I was an avid WIP listener, because my dad always had it on, Nat Wright, McCauley, Tom Brown and never heard any Beatle music, never knew who they were, then one day going over the Walt Whitman Bridge with my dad in his 1963 Impala, I finally put WIBG on, all my schoolmates and friends listened to WIBG and talked about this new band from England, but I only listened to WIP. It was March 1964, I was 11 and heard Twist and Shout, this was my first taste of this new band....I never ever heard anything like this type sound before I was shocked and I was hooked to WIBBAGE and WABC and the Beatles.....and WIP was history....which I think later in the year started to play the slower Beatle hits...there will never be any artist/s to come close to the Beatles...except the King...and I don't mean Jackson....
 
When I was much younger my father would have the radio on in his "office", which the bedroom across the hall from mine. The Beatles were constantly on the radio, or on his record player. This was from the very early 70's, right after they split up, well through my teen years. Whatever Philly station was playing the most Beatles would be the station he listened to the most.

I remember how shocked and upset he was the day Lennon was murdered, it was as if he lost a family member.

I had to call him early yesterday morning. My 6 year old daughter came in my room when she woke up and crawled in bed with my wife and I. I had VH-1 classic on, and one of the Beatles videos from Rockband came on. It was "Here Comes the Sun". She said "Daddy this is my favorite song!" I was shocked, then she informed me that the song was in the "Bee Movie". It made me think just how universal and multi-generational the Beatles are, and how the cliche that they have stood the test of time is so dead on with this band.

I enjoyed Sam Lit's post on the Beatles and his father's interaction with them when they came to Philly. I showed my father Sam's website today, and he was blown away.

I hope more Philly radio stations jump on the band wagon this week by playing a ton of Beatles music to coincide with the digital CD releases as well as the game.
 
Before I started tuning the dial myself, the only station on at our house was WOWO, so that's where I was introduced to the Beatles.
 
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