Photos

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The Fab Four play tourists in DC on February 11, 1964.
The snowstorm forced them to take the train down from New York.

After their shows and the snow in DC they vacationed in Miami for a few days. John is wearing his WPGC Good Guys sweatshirt in these shots. Ringo & George are wearing their WINS / New York Murray the K Submarine Race Watchers sweatshirts.

These low resolution images from the same photo session were from trading cards.

Print Materials

Playlists

Sales Kit One Sheet

101 Questions About the Beatles

(The station handed these out at remote broadcasts & appearances).

Miscellaneous

(Special thanks to Dean Griffith (Dean Anthony) for the above)

Sound Files

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Harv Moore's 1964 Novelty 45, 'Interview of the Fab Four' - 1:59

Dean Griffith (Dean Anthony) was very highly regarded by record company representatives. He was first to play new releases, and he broke a lot of records out of D.C. He had an amazing ear. Consequently he received a lot of "special attention" from the record companies, and was able to procure a lot of "unavailable" material. I'm sure the Program Directors and Music Directors from the other D.C. stations were scratching their heads when they saw the Evening Star Top Ten, wondering "how in the heck did he get those (Beatles songs ahead of everyone else)?"

Re: the Beatles, I have read in several books the account of their first U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum as to who was on the bill with them. They listed The Chiffons and Tommy Roe. A fellow DJ friend (and Beatlemaniac) had given me an "original" poster from the show, with The Chiffons and Tommy Roe listed as the opening acts. I knew this was wrong because the opening acts were Jay & The Americans and The Righteous Brothers and The Caravelles. I know, because I talked to them in the stands on the afternoon of the show.

What happened was: as we all know, there was a blizzard on the east coast, and the Beatles had to take the train from NYC to DC, instead of flying. The Chiffons and Tommy Roe couldn't make it in, so they had to get some last-minute opening acts. Several years ago on the anniversary of the Beatles show, I had Kenny Vance of Jay & The Americans on the air with me by phone, and he verified this.

On his novelty 45, 'Interview of the Fab Four':

'Interview of The Fab Four' was Bobby Poe's idea. He recalled the Buchanan & Goodman hits of the late 50's where they took excerpts of hit songs to tell a story. I met Bobby in the Spring of '64. He had a hit with The Chartbusters', 'She's The One'.

I had written a song called, 'Breaking Hearts To Him Is Just A Game',
co-written with Don "Pee Wee" Reese (Riis). Don was working with me at 'PGC at the time. I had found a couple of girls who called themselves, The Delights. They were from Hyattsville, MD. We recorded a demo at the station, and I took it to Bobby. He loved it. He placed it with Arlen Records out of Philadelphia.

Bobby and I wrote the script to 'Interview', and we recorded it at Edgewood Studios in DC. Ed Greene was the engineer. He went on to become the chief recording engineer for The Cowsills. The Chartbusters were in the studio at the same time, working on a followup to 'She's The One'. Bobby knew that I had written several songs, and he asked if I could write something really quick so that The Chartbusters could back me up.

I wrote 'I Feel So Fine' (flip side of 'Interview') in about 20 minutes, and it sounds like it! Bobby placed the record with World Artists Records out of NYC. They were hot with Chad & Jeremy, and Reparata & The Delrons. They released it on American Arts Records. 'Interview' was out about 2 weeks, and we got a "Cease & Desist" order from Brian Epstein.

Misc. Audio

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