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I've never understood why fans of either gender scream etc. I like many groups and appreciate them at concert but don't scream, whoop, holler etc. Never have. Must be me :( Darren Darren P. Ingram : Curator MUSIC LIBRARY FINLAND +358 6 781 0275 (FIN) ¦ +44 203 411 1620 (UK) ¦ extn 8001 On 31 maj 2012, at 07:09, David Weiner wrote: > The girls were already screaming the house down in Britain in 1963 - I > think all the American girls had to do was see a few minutes of newsreel > clips of Beatlemania UK-style and they were off to the races in the > decibel department. > David Letterman has been parodying that recently (in the same theater) by > having a hired claque of girls scream and weep when he mentions Mitt > Romney's name. > > Dave Weiner > > On 5/30/12 11:14 PM, "Bob Olhsson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> To me the only thing even nearly comparable has been Harry Potter. >> >> I can tell a bit of the back story. The screaming girls on the first Ed >> Sullivan show were actresses brought in by the Beatles' publicist but the >> screaming quickly turned into a national ritual. >> >> Bob Olhsson >> 615.562.4346 http://www.bobolhsson.com http://audiomastery.com >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From Tom Fine: >> For those not alive when the Beatles hit America, myself included, it's >> hard to imagine the excitement and cultural impact on the youth. I >> suppose Michael Jackson was a huge thing when I was a teen, but his star >> power was confined to the worlds of radio play and MTV. The Beatles were >> everywhere at once and I don't recall girls of my generation going nuts >> and screaming over anything like 1964-65 teenage girls did with just a >> look at the Beatles.