Bill Maher

I mean, they said Ed Sullivan saw them.

Yes, he saw the crowd at the airport.

So suddenly Capitol got behind us.

They didn't have a record label, that's part of the reason.

She Loves You was issued on Swan.

Swan, that's right, yeah.

Swan Records, which was, you know, like a guy with a fax machine in his mother's basement.

It was, you know, nothing.

So you know, there was no press behind it.

Now, very often what happened in America was a disc jockey would love a song and start playing it.

And then the crowd would, you know, the people in the audience would write in and say, oh, we love that.

I mean, many singles like that have been broken that way.

I don't know if that's how it happened or it was just the noise from overseas was getting deafening.

And finally, Capitol put money behind him.

I suppose they put money behind him.

Right.

Finally.

Capitol Records, which EMI owned, you know, at that point they were with EMI.

They must have told them you've got to do it.

But they always said they didn't want to go to America until they had a number one.