The Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand - The Ed Sullivan Show (1964)

[ttlyawesome444]

1:08 What the? What am I doing back in time at a Beatles concert?!?

[KYtelevision]

Kids of my generation dont know what good music is. P.S. I'm eleven

[GustavoVillarBatera]

RIP John's microphone.

[doctorhouseandgirfan]

Such a beautiful song... I would sell my soul to the devil for a chance to have seen them perform live, just once...

[fmckin1]

This is the song that grabbed my 7 year old love. Hearing it at the roller rink sealed the deal. And when my 16 yr old came home the other night telling me that she heard this at the roller rink-too cool. Love the music, it is classic.

[EastCoastDude99]

No curses, no vulgarity, no disrespectful lyrics, and they STILL GOT MORE WOMEN then any of these MTV muppets today.

[jennynjuno]

awww... wish i was one of d girls in da crowd.... i wud scream d loudest....

[0311EdG]

man i wish i was born in the 50's.... my teenage years wouldve been awesome!!!!

[sexypeaches706]

What happen to beautiful amazingg music like this ?

i love beatles soo MUCH ! <3

[MrBeatlesfreak72]

George for the win!

[danicordova202]

mY FAVORITE SONG WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL IN THIS YEAR. i LOVE IT. i COULD NOT BEEN ABLE TO SEE THEVBEATLES IN rED rOCKS.

[LuisVanegas95]

exactly 48 years ago ... :)

[cspace1234nz]

I can't believe these videos have so few views.

[rustysnoot]

I watch these early performances over and over and it's always a young John Lennon- maybe not great, yet... but, yeah "it's" there!

[PC3900]

Talk about nailing an audition - with 70 million in attendance.

[ledhead504]

Is it just me, or is John's mic not turned up enough? I can barely hear him.

[wharri5461]

the song ticket to ride is a misprint. it should have been printed as ryde. it is a park in britain its about a girl who s about to get on a bus to ryde.hence ticket to ryde. it was released as ticket to ride and nobody noticed and by then it was to late

[juliaschoenmakers98]

FREAKING AWESOME !!!!

[Smile4theKillCam456]

@jx14aby I'll go back in time and kick you, then watch the Beatles and brag about it, you know if you want. :p

[emokitty1849]

Iwant to hold your hand was and is my favorite song and can't buy me love. i have the cd of beatles 1.

[a1mac76]

1:29 I'm in love too....

[xoxoxo547]

When Paul first starts singing it's all low and WOOH, sexy.

Love them<3

[Paul14880]

2:41 George : (Ha not for me)

[liddygirlnm]

iconic

the song, the set, the camera work, the vocal performaces, the suits, the hair, playing the instruments and looking like they are having so much fun!!! set the stage for years to come,never to be replicated or topped.

[liddygirlnm]

iconic



[DamienL50110]

j'aime!!!!!



[AutumnGirl300]

I wanna hold your haaaand :D <3

[LisaBaby67]

Back when holding hands meant something and kids were still kids.

[SBNineThree]

Haha, loving Ringo's little skip at the end.

[cubsgirl0522]

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH ITS LIKE CRAZYNESS. i wish john and george could see the world today.....

[Novacsify]

Long live The Beatles!!! Miss you John & George !!

[cbarrett34]

johns mic needs to be turned up

[TPBX225]

how did Ringo manage to get up there? lol

[cubsgirl0522]

@TPBX225 theres a step thing that he climbs up and down with and then he sits on a stool then he plays. its really simple. i saw a hard days night the movie and he uses a step thing soo...

[newallthestars100]

@TPBX225 He flew, cuz he's Ringo!! XD

[zztop520]

1964 ---> I Want To Hold Your Hand

2011 ---> I Want To F*** You

[bigmanpigman]

@zztop520 After all, that's why we are made, there is a start and an ending

[enheigen]

@zztop520 the girls of today, are not as demure as before

[liddygirlnm]

@zztop520 sooooooo true. sadly

[auloniadunolwen]

@zztop520

Oh please, the song Girl contains 64 times the word "tit", there are random sexual noises at the end of Lovely Rita and Revolution 1, Paul wrote Why Don't We Do It In The Road, John used to say "she's a prick teaser" instead of "she's a big teaser" on Day Tripper... It's not like The Beatles were innocent guys ignoring everything about sex. Today's music is mostly shit but don't pretend the 60s music what only about holding hands.

[flamingstar6051]

@auloniadunolwen What would a know it all 18 year old know about living in the 1960's ? You don't know crap kid ! I was around in the 60's and music was not trash like it is now  .

[auloniadunolwen]

I probably wasn't clear in my last comment. What I'm saying is you can't just reduce the Beatles as holding hands. They wrote about sex as well. What I should have pointed is that indeed, today's music sees sex in a much more disrespectful way, especially towards girls. I agree with you, nowadays, most of the music is crappy. But I was just saying that the vision of the innocent 60's is naive. I'm sorry if I sounded aggressive. Because I didn't live in the 60s doesn't mean I don't know crap :)

[jx14aby]

@auloniadunolwen

I'd rather see you dead little girl than to be with another man

You better keep your head little girl or you won't know where I am

You better run for your life if you can little girl

Hide your head in the sand little girl

Catch you with another man and that's the end

Little girl.

[auloniadunolwen]

@jx14aby

Indeed you're right, John was quite harsh on that one ^^

[jx14aby]

I was 9 years old when the Beatles played on Ed Sullivan.  I'm still kicking myself for missing it.

[flamingstar6051]

@auloniadunolwen I am sorry if I sounded aggressive. LOL

The 60's was a good time to be alive . Even with all the riots it was still a good time. Plenty of jobs . Have a nice day .

[Alexthesarcastic]

@auloniadunolwen When did they write about sex?

[auloniadunolwen]

@Alexthesarcastic "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" is about sex, and "Lovely Rita" does have a few sexual innuendos :)

[Alexthesarcastic]

@auloniadunolwen Oh...

[HiCallMeShadow]

@Alexthesarcastic Lol dude almost half or a little less are about sex? I mean "When I touch you I feel happy inside" xD, Please Please Me, "Last night I said these words to my girl", Happiness is Warm gun was about John and Yoko's sex life or something like that, Why Don't We Do it on The Road", "Ticket to Ride", I mean it's hard to believe but just learn about each one's personal life and you'll find out that they were play boys who got every girl!

[alphuez]

@zztop520 Guess which is more alluring?

[HerpDerp777]

@zztop520 the 21st century

Where subtlety died

[dal3fan88]

@zztop520 there was alot more than just "holding hands" in this song. But John and Paul we're creative enough in their song writing, that they didn't just say what they meant. they used other words, if you know what I mean.

[billysm8]

haha the girls are just going crazy, whyyyyy?!?!?!?!?!

[heyummrandommuch]

@billysm8 ...Do.. do you not see them?.. Do you not have eyes?.. And they were singing about holding your hand.. I mean. Come'on.

[maplespak]

that's a huge screwup: lennon's mic was down

[SilvioBenchimol]

Hey Paul! let John sing! Get out!!!!!!!!!!!

[Benno1323]

1:08 I'm in love...

[sublime95oz]

@Benno1323 nope its an orgasm. the beatles tend to have that affect on women. :)

[groppitlikeitshot]

umm you can hear john just fine...

[8Ho03EdONl1liL]

I like this even more than the studio version. And the melody is so nice, you can slow this song way down and enjoy it at least as much.

[PioneersProductions]

@8Ho03EdONl1liL Problem is you can only hear Paul's vocals though