saki  wrote:
> marcus wrote:
>> This from over four years ago.
>>
>> Is the basic story true?
>>
>> If so, what was the follow-up?
>>
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:fRSF6HnONIsJ:www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/16/entertainment/main593654.shtml+tim+russert+beatles&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
>
> Yes, the story of Marsha Albert, and her Dec. 1963 request to WWDC-AM
> asking the radio station to play Beatles records, is true.
>
> But what kind of follow-up do you need? The whole story is pretty well
> summed up in this article.

The story of Marsha doesn't preclude the idea that thousands of other
young ears were stimulated by that December 1963 CBS Evening News piece,
including my own.  Unfortunately, the web story that marcus refers to is
couched in the hyperbole of present-day entertainment news reporting.

"Had it not been for a then-15-year-old suburban Washington, D.C. girl
in 1963 and CBS News, you might never have heard of The Beatles"?  Come
on, give your audience credit at least a modicum of intelligence.

I have no doubt that the underlying story is true, as saki says; I have
seen references to it elsewhere, and I wouldn't be surprised if I had
seen it discussed earlier in RMB or RMBM.  But the self-inflating
conclusion of CBS news that the Beatles might have remained unknown in
the US had it not been for its own news story and Marsha's response is
utterly absurd.

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