Rehearsals for Shindig - October 2, 1964
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| Event | |
| Date | October 2, 1964 |
| Short description | The Beatles rehearse for an appearance on Shindig. |
| Location | The Granville Studio, Fulham Broadway, London |
The Beatls rehearsed in London on this date for the TV program Shindig, an influential American music program with an English producer. ABC's Shindig was one of the two most influential primetime pop seires in the US, the other being NBC's Hullabaloo. Butunlike Shindig, The Beatles never appeared on Hullabaloo in person, instead sending a promotional clip, although Brian Epstein did host a weekly section on British music on that show. Jack Good, who was an Englishman who moved to Hollywood, was the producer of this program. The executive producer was Leon Mirell on behalf of Selmur Productions. They would meet with The Beatls again in August 1965, when they filmed "The 5th National Jazz And Blues Festival" for their Subafilms company. Because they had just come back from an American tour, The Beatles did not want to go back to America to film this program, so Jack Good came to England to make a special all-British edition of Shindig. The Beatles topped the bill, ahead of Sandie Shaw, PJ Proby, The Karl Denver Trio, Tommy Quickly, Sounds Incorporated, and Lyn Cornell, a former member of The Vernons Girls and wife of Beatles session drummer Andy White. Because this was a US TV production, BBC and ITV refused to allow them to film in their studios, forcing them to film in an independent studio, The Granville Studio, based in the west London premises of the Granville Theatre, formerly a Victorian music hall. On this date, they only rehearsed. They would not actually tape until the next day.
Source
- LEWISOHN M., 1992, The Complete Beatles Chronicle, Hamlyn -- Buy it on Amazon.com
