Cover Songs on the Beatles' Studio Recordings
Cover Songs on The Beatles’ Studio Recordings . 1963 - 1966
Songs by White Artists
Till There Was You Matchbox Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby Honey Don’t Words Of Love
Songs by African-American Artists
A Taste of Honey Roll Over Beethoven Anna (Go to Him) You Really Got A Hold On Me Baby It’s You Long Tall Sally Boys Slow Down Chains Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! Twist And Shout Mr. Moonlight Devil In Her Heart Rock And Roll Music Money (That’s What I Want) Dizzy Miss Lizzy Please Mr. Postman Bad Boy
Handout 1 - Teenager Timeline
• Until the later part of the 19th century, children usually began work, on their family farms, in factories or even as miners, as soon as they were physically capable. Once the child hit puberty, s/he was considered an adult. In the mid-19th century millions of children under 15 worked 50-70 hour weeks.
• 1852 - Massachusetts becomes the first state to mandate basic education for all people (Mississippi becomes the final state to agree to compulsory education in 1917)
• 1900 - Only 28 states have laws regulating aspects of child labor
Teenage mill worker, 1911 Credit: Library of Congress
• 1910-1940 - The U.S. is a leader of the “High School Movement,” developing a system of secondary education available to all citizens.
• 1910: 19% of 15-17-year old population in high school • 1940: 73% of 15-17-year old population in high school
• 1920s - The terms “youth” and “adolescence” begin to appear as sociological categories to describe a period of life between “childhood” and “adulthood”
Teenager Timeline (continued)
• 1938 - Congress passes the Fair Labor Standards Act, mandating that “youths” under the age of 16 may only work outside of school hours
• 1940s - Life and other lifestyle magazines begin to use the term “teen- age”
Boston teens, 1940s Credit: Boston Public Library
• 1956 - The Wall Street Journal estimates that teenagers spend between $7 and $9 billion annually
• Late 1950s - Early 1960s - The rise of “Teen Idol” entertainers, who were mostly white, male singers performing a “safe,” TV-friendly version of Rock and Roll
• February 9, 1964 - The Beatles make their American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show in front of an estimated 73 million viewers, more than a third of the American population at the time
Motorola ad, 1959
Handout 2 - A New $10 Billion Power: The U.S. Teen-Age Consumer Excerpt from Life Magazine - August 31, 1959
American teen-agers have emerged as a big-time consumer in the U.S. economy. They are multiplying in numbers. They spend more and have more spent on them. And they have minds of their own about what they want.
The time is past when a boy's chief possession was his bike and a girl's party wardrobe consisted of a fancy dress worn with a string of dime-store pearls. What Depression-bred parents may still think of as luxuries are looked on as necessities by their offspring. Today teenagers surround themselves with a fantastic array of garish and often expensive baubles and amusements. They own 10 million phonographs, over a million TV sets, 13 million cameras. Nobody knows how much parents spend on them for actual necessities nor to what extent teenagers act as hidden persuaders on their parents’ other buying habits. Counting only what is spent to satisfy their special teen-age demands, the youngsters and their parents will shell out about $10 billion this year, a billion more than the total sales of [General Motors].
Until recently businessmen have largely ignored the teen-age market. But now they are spending millions on advertising and razzle-dazzle promotional stunts. Their efforts so far seem only to have scratched the surface of a rich lode. In 1970, when the teen-age population expands from its present 18 million to 28 million, the market may be worth $20 billion. If parents have any idea of organized revolt, it is already too late. Teen-age spending is so important that such action would send quivers through the entire national economy....
Some Fascinating Facts About a Booming Market
FOOD: Teen-agers eat 20% more than adults. They down 3 ½ billion quarts of milk every year, almost four times as much as is drunk by infant population under 1. Teen-agers are a main prop of the ice cream industry, gobbling 145 million gallons a year.
BEAUTY CARE: Teen-agers spent $20 million on lipstick last year, $25 million on deodorants (a fifth of total sold), $9 million on home permanents. Male teenagers own 2 million electric razors.
ENTERTAINMENT: Teen-agers lay out more than $1.5 billion a year for entertainment. They spend about $75 million on single pop records. Although they create new musical idols, they are staunchly faithful to the old. Elvis Presley, still their favorite, has sold 25 million copies of single records in four years, an all-time high. Teen Goods, 1950s Credit: Yale Joel