Celebrate The Beatles’ Remarkable 1964 With Commemorative Turntable
The collector’s item honors the band’s first trip to America.
Devotees of The Beatles can showcase their fandom with a C6 Turntable With Speaker outfitted and accented with graphics that celebrate the iconic band’s monumental 1964.
Priced at $229, this item features tour dates from their North American run, images of tickets to shows at venues like City Park Stadium, and an announcement for their Carnegie Hall show.
This isn’t the only way for Beatles aficionados to celebrate the band’s first trip to America. Last year, seven albums from The Beatles originally compiled for U.S. release between January 1964 and March 1965 by Capitol Records and United Artists were analog cut for 180-gram audiophile vinyl from their original mono master tapes.
Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe reissued the albums in 2024. Out of print on vinyl since 1995, the seven mono albums were available in an eight-LP box set titled The Beatles: 1964 U.S. Albums In Mono, with six of the titles also available individually.
All seven albums – Meet The Beatles!; The Beatles’ Second Album; A Hard Day’s Night (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack); Something New; The Beatles’ Story (2LP); Beatles ’65; and The Early Beatles – feature faithfully replicated artwork.
On February 7, 1964, scores of screaming, swooning fans came to John F. Kennedy International Airport to catch a glimpse of John, Paul, George, and Ringo as The Beatles took their first steps on American soil. Two nights later, on February 9, 73 million viewers in the U.S. and millions more in Canada tuned in to CBS to watch The Beatles make their American television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show.
In this cultural watershed moment in American history, The Beatles performed five songs on the live broadcast. “Beatlemania,” already in full, feverish bloom in The Beatles’ native U.K. and developing in the U.S., exploded with blissful fervor across America and around the world. The British Invasion had begun.
Shortly before The Beatles’ history-making Stateside visit, Capitol Records secured exclusive U.S. rights to release the band’s recordings in a deal with EMI. The storied, already iconic record label rush released Meet The Beatles! on January 20, 1964.
