Ya-Yas in Bloom by Rebecca Wells

Author:Rebecca Wells
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780061758843
Publisher: HarperCollins

After The Ed Sullivan Show, Joanie and I and all my other girlfriends at school were feverish, just taken completely. Even Lulu and her little friends were starry-eyed over the Beatles. We wanted to go out and get every song the Beatles ever sang! We were afraid we might never hear or see them again, that they were a onetime miraculous thing that came into our house only once and then would be taken away from us forever.

After buying all their singles as soon as they were available, Lulu and I finally bought their first album sold in the U.S., called Meet the Beatles. We bought it in March and played it 84,000 times. I loved every single song! There was not one bad song on it. It was definitely worth every penny of the $1.98 that Lulu and I saved to buy it.

The Ogdens weren’t allowed to play Beatles music when their father was in the house. In fact, they had to hide the fact that Necie had even let them buy Beatles records. Joanie and I began writing long, fictional stories in which the Beatles and our friends all played major roles. We wrote cratefuls of those stories, which we thought we could turn into a real book called The Beatles and Us. We tried to hand them in at school for book reports, but the nuns gave us F’s. So we had to stop.

Throughout the year, we learned every word to every Beatle song. Cenla Bop Record Shop downtown became a regular hangout for Lulu and me, with Shep and Baylor sometimes tagging along. We studied everything we could get our little hands on to read about the Fab Four. About how they came from Liverpool and started in that little hole in the wall called the Cavern. We had no idea where Liverpool was. We thought it was a really cool part of London near a pool.

We scoured Teen Magazine for pictures of John or Paul or George or Ringo to cut out and tape on the mirror in our bedroom. Lulu even had a photo of John standing next to his mother. She taped it on her side of the bedstand, where it was the first thing she saw when she woke up. His mother was kind of fat and looked like somebody’s housekeeper. But just imagine! She brought him into the world. John himself credited her for being the first one to bring an Elvis record into their house. That is what got him hooked on music.

Little Shep, Lulu, Baylor, and I each decided who our favorite individual Beatle was. It was a litmus test for your personality.

I declared, “Mine is Paul because he looks romantic with those eyes.”

Lulu said, “Mine is John because he looks bad.”

Little Shep said, “George is the only one who looks like a man.”

“Ringo,” Baylor said. “I like him, even though nobody else does. I want to know why he wears all those rings.”

Lulu and Joanie and my friends M’lain and Sissy and I bought every newspaper and magazine that had Beatles pictures.

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