August 24, 1968, I hear Hey Jude for the first time. It was on WABC -in New York and It was on a small transistor radio. I was a waiter at Kutsher’s CC in the Catskills and I was half asleep, in between breakfast and lunch work. It seemed to go on forever. I couldn’t get over what I had just heard! To me, it is the greatest song ever. In college that fall, I would not leave the car if it was on the radio until the song was over (and it was on every single hour, during its nine week run at Number One.) Needless to say, I was late for many classes in my senior year!!! All these years later it is still 7:11 of pure joy and magic. The final song that Liverpool performs at the FESTS is always Hey Jude. Go have a listen to it today. See what I mean.
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Happy 42nd birthday Hey Jude! Every year at the fest when the people would come on stage, Mark Hudson would tell me “Sing Hey Jude” on Saturday after Working Class Hero, Glen gets into Hey Jude mode and he sings “Hey Jude is that what you meant? That’s not what I’m supposed to sing.” Mark sings “Glen, you are a bastard!”
Yeah AMrk one of the best songs ever. Thanks again for the amazing chicago Fest, can’t wait until 2011!!!
remember when I first heard that too I was blown away .. all my school chums were talking about it and how it was on the new label owned by the Beatles “APPLE” it was exciting to say the least an exciting time
”68”was the year..i had just returned from nam and ‘let it be”was my way for therapy.great great song ,the boys are to be congradgulated..
this was the first beatles album i brought i remember it well it was the night my sister died and i went out and for some reason brought this album been a Beatles man ever since
YES! They played it once, and then over the next 2 days they CUT it down to <3mins and the listeners went WILD! Outraged that the whole song wasn't played, the station made amends… Dan Ingram, Cousin Brucie, Chuck Leonard, Ron Lundy did the right thing! Awesome time, Kurt, and it never sounded better than on an AM transistor!