Dick Biondi, the first genuine superstar DJ on WLS (Chicago), missed the big buildup in Chicago because he was fired in 1963 — a year before the Beatles’ invasion of America. But he still boasts of being the first in town to have played the Vee Jay releases of “Please Please Me” and “From Me to You.”
In fact, WLS music charts document that the station was the first in the country to list the Beatles (misspelled as “The Beattles”) on a weekly record survey — dated March 8, 1963.
“When I took the records with me to the West Coast in the summer of ’63, I played them in Los Angeles and got calls from kids who said, ‘Take that crap off and play the Beach Boys,’ ” said Biondi Full article here>>>
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