10 Beatles Songs - #3

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I am including "I Want to Hold Your Hand" for a couple of reasons...not because it's one of my favorite songs but because it highlights the simplicity of the Beatles' early music and how it evolved into much deeper and more complex music. Another reason is because it was the first American #1 hit. I remember holding my transistor radio under the covers on my bed and listening to this song and others by the Beatles when I should have been asleep! "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was released in 1963 and was written by Lennon and McCartney. This is the song that was responsible for the start of the British Invasion in the US. The British Invasion was "a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture became popular in the US..." It placed #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the US Cash Box Top 100. This tune became the Beatles' best-selling single worldwide. "Oh yeah, I'll tell you something I think you'll understand When I'll say that something I wanna hold your hand" Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons The video below is a live performance.