Sunday, November 25, 2012

Bother Me

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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