Capitol Records had originally scheduled the release for "I Want to Hold Your Hand" for January 13, 1964, but, given the success the song was having in Washington, D.C., moved it up — backed by ...

“I Want to Hold Your Hand” became The Beatles’ first No. 1 single in the United States. The hit topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a whopping seven weeks, staying on the chart for a total of ...

Primarily a hit record, “I Want to Hold Your Hand” makes less sense considered as a song.So much of its melody line is disguised harmony that singing it without chordal support makes for comic ...

Excluding holiday fare, The Beatles broke the record for the longest top 10 span on the Hot 100 among all acts in November: 59 years, nine months and three weeks, from “I Want to Hold Your Hand ...

A star said watched The Beatles write “I Want to Hold Your Hand” on his family’s piano. He discussed why the tune became stuck in his head. The tune hit No. 1 in the United States and the ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.… ...

On January 29, 1964, The Beatles went to the Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris, France, and recorded their hits “She Loves You” and “I Want To Hold Your Hand” in German. When they were done ...

When I was a little kid my mom always had the Beatles 1 CD in the car. We would listen to that all the time on the way to school, and “I Want To Hold Your Hand” quickly became one of my ...

On Saturday night, the Killers marked the 60th anniversary of those Beatles shows with a cover of “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” the first Beatles single that Capitol Records released in the US ...

The Killers show took place just a little over two weeks past the exact 60th anniversary of the Beatles shows. In addition to “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” they also played Erasure’s 1988 ...

So Capitol rush-released “I Want To Hold Your Hand” the day after Christmas 1963, and it hit hard and fast. By February, when the band flew to New York for the first time, thousands of ...