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Here's a site where someone who was at Shea Stadium has posted some picture for those who might be interested.


http://www.pbase.com/tg6string/beatles
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Awesome pix....really capture the atmosphere in a way I never felt. Loved it.
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What a magical moment in history.
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There's a shot 4 rows down, 2nd pic, of George w/his Ric. They must be doing "If I Needed Someone".
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I wish, overall, there were more pics from the '66 show, to see the differences in PA, etc. Supposedly the sound was better on that tour, though that is a relative term considering the era and what was available in those times.
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Those are the best shots I've ever seen of that show. Great!

By the way, RE: YMCA "good guys"

It wasn't the YMCA. That doesn't make any sense. It was a NYC radio station: WMCA.

The "good guys" were the DJs and the station's slogan. For those interested, here is the background:

http://www.musicradio77.com/wmca/home.shtml

And the logo was that smiling face you see on the web site. That face was plastered on an orange sweatshirt that all the "cool" people had.
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Wow, cool PA. I will have to do some research to figure out wtf they were doing there.
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Yes, but as everyone knows who's seen the First US Visit DVD, Murry the K dj'd at 1010 Wins, or as they called it in the old day W Y N S. By the way, the street outside the stage door for CBS (the Ed Sullivan Studio) still looks the same, with the Roseland, etc. When I walk by the sidewalk there I can't help but think of the fabs piling out of the limo and onto the sidewalk.
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Quite right Glenn.
Murray the "K" (Kaufman) known as the "Fifth Beatle" was with WINS in the early 60s (before WINS became all news of course).
[By coincidence, Murray was on WMCA briefly in the 50s.]
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Heh-heh. Well, Mark, WINS has some claim these days to be the most "listened to" radio station or some such thing. Wish I could have heard it in 64 (I was 1 and in IL.) Bill Murray the K was classic, too. He was the 123rd Beatle, I believe.
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The scene is here in Flushing, the whole world's eyes are on Flushing, because the Prefab Four are coming to town tomorrow to talk about their trousers!
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Brilliant....Ron Decline as well.
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