![]() In her missive to James, Caldwell writes of spending six months writing “countless letters” and driving “countless miles” to drop off Beatles records with disc jockeys - “and not one bright enthusiastic guy was to be found,” she laments. Louise famously trekked from one radio station to the next to scare up interest in her brother’s band only to find no takers. To thumb through the collection is to trek back through time, to that strange moment before the Beatles were The Biggest Rock and Roll Band of All Time.Ĭontained in the archives, for instance, is a handwritten note from Louise Caldwell - George Harrison’s sister, who, in 1963, moved to the States and settled in the small town of Benton, Illinois. ![]() That recording, pressed on a seven-inch record whose sleeve bears a photo of James in the middle of the Fab Four, is signed by Paul McCartney. 11, 1964, interview with the band at the Washington Coliseum - two nights after Ed Sullivan, and only moments before the Beatles’ first U.S. The auction is filled with Beatles collectibles and keepsakes, none more personal than James’ binders filled with correspondence, fliers, photos, magazines and a recording of his Feb. There is copious paperwork documenting his place in Beatles history contained in James’ personal archives that are part of Heritage Auctions’ massive Entertainment & Music Memorabilia event taking place August 8-9. laid the groundwork for his claim to fame as The Man Who Broke the Beatles. But there was no denying that James’ advocacy - his enthusiastic fandom for four boys from Liverpool not yet beloved, revered or, for that matter, even very well known in the U.S. The Times‘ obit insisted others came before him, noting that a Chicago station began playing ”Please Please Me” in February 1963, before Capitol Records planned on releasing the band’s music on this side of the Atlantic. That record was a little something titled “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” When Carroll James died at the age of 60 in March 1997, The New York Times opened its obituary by referring to him as “a Washington disk jockey whose promotion of the Beatles on his radio program helped make the group famous in the United States in the weeks before its first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.” The Washington Post was even more succinct in its farewell, referring to James as the DJ “who in 1963 was the first to play a Beatles record on the radio in the United States.” Entertainment & Music - Auction Preview by Robert Wilonsky ![]()
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