# Earliest Beatle Song You Can Still Listen To

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-beatle-song-you-can-still-listen-to/565323>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 24, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-beatle-song-you-can-still-listen-to/565323 "2010-12-24T23:41:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-beatle-song-you-can-still-listen-to/565323/21 "2010-12-27T04:06:19Z")

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I’ve never tired of:

I Saw Her Standing There  
and, especially Twist And Shout

That baby still rocks after all these years.

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**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-beatle-song-you-can-still-listen-to/565323/22 "2010-12-27T04:34:41Z")

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I was probably around 4 years old, because I was in pre-school. I remember playing in a sandbox, while a teacher, a young woman who had thick dark hair with bangs that almost hid her eyes and that extended to her waist, was sitting on the edge of the sandbox. She was wearing a blue jumper and she had, what I now know to be, a transistor radio held to her ear and the song that was playing was “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”. So not only can I still listen to it, it’s my first memory of rock and roll. 😃

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**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-beatle-song-you-can-still-listen-to/565323/23 "2010-12-27T06:50:02Z")

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> [@CanvasShoes](#):
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> I was probably around 4 years old, because I was in pre-school. I remember playing in a sandbox, while a teacher, a young woman who had thick dark hair with bangs that almost hid her eyes and that extended to her waist, was sitting on the edge of the sandbox. She was wearing a blue jumper and she had, what I now know to be, a transistor radio held to her ear and the song that was playing was “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”. So not only can I still listen to it, it’s my first memory of rock and roll. 😃

This.

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