I was really that young.

[maystone]

I've been packing up the books in my room, but I stopped to browse through the diary I kept (sporadically) when I was 12 through 14. This one is worth repeating:

Feb. 26, 1964. Brother! I went downtown twice today to get a Beatles album. It was worth it! They're wonderful and I love all of them. This album is great. I hope they come to Conn. so I can see them. I think I'd either faint or try to kiss them. I mean it when I say I love them. I include them in my prayers & everything. I wish I could meet them! I know I'd do something rash like kissing them, but that's what love does to you. Am I Glad!

Along with my abiding love for the boys from Liverpool, I seemed to watch a lot of TV back then. There are breathless entries about The Tall Man. Surfside Six. Bonanza. Rawhide. 77 Sunset Strip. Dr. Kildare. (Huge crush on Richard Chamberlain. HUGE.) I guess there's always been a bit of the fangirl about me.

Back to packing.

Comments

[petranef.livejournal.com]

Uh, yeah. I destroyed all of those younger journals. Posterity has no need to know that I am just like a million other teenagers. ;) I'll destroy all the current ones as soon as I gain the wisdom to see how stupid I am now....

[maystone.livejournal.com]

Awww. Don't you ever have the urge to look back and see how maturing has changed - or reinforced - your perceptions? Plus, it just makes me very glad that I'm not a kid anymore :)

[petranef.livejournal.com]

I SO do! I had a job interview today, and one of the main things I offered was my maturity! LOL!

Why, oh why, can't we learn before it's too late to use the knowledge?

[angelamermaid.livejournal.com]

DID you ever meet the Beatles? :-)

[maystone.livejournal.com]

I did not. But my Aunt Emma was a telephone supervisor for Bell back in the day, and she got to talk with them when they were in NY because fans were burning up the wires trying to get through to them in their hotel room. My aunt said that they sounded like very nice boys. My cousins Janet and Barabara and I nearly built a shrine to her :)

[caerwynx.livejournal.com]

!

!!

!!!

[maystone.livejournal.com]

:-)

[sffan.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

Fangirls. They really never change.

[maystone.livejournal.com]

You should read the entry when I got my autographed picture of Richard Chamberlain. I was ecstatic that it came in a manilla envelope - "how classy!" Ha!

[misspamela.livejournal.com]

Hee hee!

[maystone.livejournal.com]

And then there was the time that my cousin Janet and I baked a cake for John Lennon's birthday and brought it down to our local rock=n-roll radio station :)

[misspamela.livejournal.com]

I'd love for you to post more of the entries!

[finitejester37.livejournal.com]

Hee!

Of course, the nerd in me is about to run to wikipedia to look up which albums were out in Feb 1964.

[maystone.livejournal.com]

I can't remember which one it was! I remember the two trips down to Birnbaum's store to get it, though. A long walk and a bus trip both times. Because my love for them was just that great. If you find it, let me know, please :)

[finitejester37.livejournal.com]

I learned stuff!

Assuming you bought an American release and not a UK import, then it's either Introducing... The Beatles -- which was initially released Jan 10 1964 but they kept changing up some of the songs, making different edits to the songs themselves, playing with which songs were mono or stereo, changing the label and sleeve, plus was hit with multiple restraining orders and often when they had to stop and restart manufacturing, they went to a different plant, so there are almost two dozen (!!!) different commercial versions that went out between Jan and Oct 1964, plus it was the most counterfeited record of all the Beatles' records. -- or it was Meet the Beatles! which came out Jan 20 1964 from a different company.

And holy crap, I always think of them as being incredibly prolific, but they had seven US albums come out in 1964 alone. But only those two were out by Feb 26.

Their first appearance on Ed Sullivan was Feb 9 1964 and then again on Feb 16 and Feb 23, so you must have been into the British Invasion right from day one. So cool! I would love to have seen some of the craziness of Beatlemania.

[llaras.livejournal.com]

ADORABLE. *pinches little mays*

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

I understand that fangirl mentality. It's a rush; it's pure fun.

I still have some of my old diaries. I'm not sure if I should go look at them or not ...

[caerwynx.livejournal.com]

Have you settled on a new home yet amidst this packing?