Last year
HERE I posted about the 15 year-old girl from Queens who was responsible for the first-ever playing of The Beatles on American radio, but now I find out about Marcia Rauback, who met George Harrison in the summer of 1963 when he was in Illinois
visiting his older sister:
...the first American disc jockey to play a Beatles song in the United
States in the summer of 1963. (Marcia's junior year of high school) she
met a young lad from Liverpool, England. His name was George Harrison.
Marcia had worked for her father's radio station, WFRX, in West
Frankfort, Illinois. Marcia interviewed George in the summer of 1963 on
WFRX. Marcia got a sneak preview of the Beatles' music, and also a
Beatles photograph signed by George Harrison! Thanks to Marcia, Illinois
became the birth place of the Beatles music in North America.
According to the book I just read that tipped me off about this girl, nobody's found a tape of that interview
(yet!)
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