# Commemoration of an important day in pop culture: October 5, 1962 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2022, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commemoration-of-an-important-day-in-pop-culture-october-5-1962/972751 "2022-10-05T09:57:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2022, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commemoration-of-an-important-day-in-pop-culture-october-5-1962/972751/1 "2022-10-05T09:57:37Z")
Sixty years ago today, the first Beatles single, _Love Me Do_, was released. On the same day, the first James Bond film, _Dr No_, opened in cinemas. Two coinciding events that shaped modern Britishness and helped define the Swinging Sixties. [Here](https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221004-bond-and-the-beatles-1962-and-the-day-that-changed-britain)’s a BBC story about it. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commemoration-of-an-important-day-in-pop-culture-october-5-1962/972751/2 "2022-10-05T12:33:57Z")
I thought their first single was “My Bonnie” from June 1961? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2022, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commemoration-of-an-important-day-in-pop-culture-october-5-1962/972751/3 "2022-10-05T12:36:57Z")
Love Me Do [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0pGOFX1D_jg/maxresdefault.jpg "Love Me Do (Remastered 2009)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pGOFX1D_jg) First Bond Opening Theme [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/E-IDfoZuQLM/maxresdefault.jpg "Dr. No Theme Song - James Bond") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-IDfoZuQLM) Everything I’m reading says Love Me Do was their official debut single. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commemoration-of-an-important-day-in-pop-culture-october-5-1962/972751/4 "2022-10-05T13:24:32Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > I thought their first single was “My Bonnie” from June 1961? You’re thinking of Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commemoration-of-an-important-day-in-pop-culture-october-5-1962/972751/5 "2022-10-07T21:05:45Z")
Never knew _The Beatles_ had a song called _My Bonnie_ and was surprised it was the “my Bonnie lies over the ocean song.” Seems like _The Beatles_ did backup for Tony Sheridan on a couple songs. Depending on if you have the right 45 version of _[Bonnie](https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1991/03/15/bonnie-could-bring-a-bundle/)_, you can cash in on it, up to $5000. > Question: A friend gave me some 45 rpm singles from her mother’s attic. Among them is My Bonnie (My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean) backed with The Saints, by the Beatles on MGM. Another friend says she once read in your column that this is an extremely valuable record. Is it? \_ Beverly Larose, Lowell, Mass. Answer: Your copy of My Bonnie (My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean) is a 1964 reissue of material first released in the United States two years earlier. Though yours is not the “extremely valuable record” your friend mentioned, it certainly isn’t chopped liver. For you and others who have any of the 45s of My Bonnie, let me list and appraise them in chronological order: