Guest post by John Coakley, Volunteer at The Rodgers & Hammerstein Archive of Recorded Sound at The Library for the Performing Arts.In the summer of 1963, The Beatles were huge in Britain. But this was not the case in America. Two earlier singles that had done well in their home country—"Please Please Me" and "From Me to You"—flopped when released in the States on the Vee-Jay label…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:07AM on March 4, 2014