Podcasts about selling beatles merchandise

Boy, has the music industry changed! It's almost irrelvant: no radio, no physical product, no sales. But is it? The Beatles were not only pioneers in music and popular culture, they were also the progenitors of the music merchandise phenomenon, which earned over $50 million in 1965! Author Terry Crain joined us early on to talk Beatles merch and other interesting side treks surrounding this nostalgic and trendsetting era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi 2Legs Faithful! This time we focus on an episode that is not 100% Paul centric but Beatles focused. Beatles Merchandising was BIG business in the 1960s. The American Company SELTAEB produced many between 1964-1966 when the marketplace for this merchandise (dolls, "Flip Your Wig Game, Beatles Turntable) etc. NEMS (Northern End Music Stores) was Brian Epstein's family company and the record store was originally located in Whitechapel, City Centre, Liverpool. This week on 2Legs we are joined by Terry Crain who wrote the book "NEMS and the Business of Selling Beatles Merchandise in the US between 1964-1966". Terry was recently featured as a guest author panel at the NY/NJ Fest and will be appearing at the Chicago Fest in August as well. Terry gives us an overview of this topic, how he met collectors across the USA who kept museums in their homes of these products. They are shown on display in this episode and photographs can be found in Terry's wonderful book. Here is the link: NEMS & Beatles Merchandising 1964-1966 Terry is a wealth of knowledge in this field that gets overlooked and we thank him for his appearance on 2Legs 

It's pratically Halloween today, so today we have a particularly spooky episode of Fans On The Run! Why is it spooky you may ask? Just look up pictures of those old Beatles Bubble Bath "Soakies"! In this discussion with the author of "NEMS and the Business of Selling Beatles Merchandise in the U.S. 1964-1966" Terry Crain, we cover a provebial smorgasbord of topics! Unnoficial record players, the mad rush of the morning of Febuary 10th, 1964, nostalgia for the "Paul is Dead" rumour, the fate of the original moulds of the Remco model kits, the era of Beatle historians hyperfixated on certain areas of Beatle knowledge, and an instance of yours truly misremembering an unnoficial "Beat Time" pinball machine! This episode is available to stream wherever good podcats can be heard! Terry's links:https://www.fabgear.company/ https://www.facebook.com/NEMSenterprisesLTD  Follow us elsewhere:https://www.facebook.com/fansontherunpodcast https://www.instagram.com/fansontherunpodcast https://fansontherun.podbean.com/

Inspired by the holiday shopping season, we look at all things Beatles merch, including the new Abbey Road store and the Beatles pop-up shop in NYC. In our feature segment, recorded live at the Beatles at the Ridge festival, we chat with Terry Crain, author of the new book NEMS and the Business of Selling Beatles Merchandise in the U.S. 1964-1966—about collecting from a next-gen point of view.

Back in 2017, SATB first explored of Beatles collectors. This year, a terrific addition to Beatle literature arrived with the publication of Terry Crain's new book, NEMS and the Business of Selling Beatles Merchandise in the U.S. 1964-1966. Terry didn't merely catalog the merchandise of the period: instead, he methodically researched the history of the items marketed stateside, each of which tells a story itself. There's a ton of history to be gleaned from these ephemeral footnotes of the era - each one a memory trigger - as well as from Terry's book.   Terry's site

Back in 2017, SATB first explored of Beatles collectors. This year, a terrific addition to Beatle literature arrived with the publication of Terry Crain's new book, NEMS and the Business of Selling Beatles Merchandise in the U.S. 1964-1966. Terry didn't merely catalog the merchandise of the period: instead, he methodically researched the history of the items marketed stateside, each of which tells a story itself. There's a ton of history to be gleaned from these ephemeral footnotes of the era - each one a memory trigger - as well as from Terry's book.   Terry's site

Terry Crain, author of "NEMS and the Business of Selling Beatles Merchandise in the U.S.," joins the show to talk about the vast and fascinating world of Fab 4 memorabilia.

The Beatles were not only pioneers in music and popular culture, they were also the progenitors of the music merchandise phenomenon. In fact, the Fab Four earned over $50 million in merchandise sales in 1965!Author and researcher Terry Crain joins us to talk about Beatles merch — everything from games, dolls, toys, wigs and bubble bath — and other interesting side treks surrounding this trendsetting and nostalgic era.

This week, Ken Michaels, Allan Kozinn and Darren DeVivo have a chat with Terry Crain about “NEMS and the Business of Selling Beatles Merchandise in the U.S. 1964-1996” his new book about vintage Beatles memorabilia.  As always, we welcome your thoughts about this episode of the show or any other episode. We invite you to send your comments about this or any of our other shows to our email address thingswesaidtodayradioshow@gmail.com, join our "Things We Said Today Beatles Fans" Facebook page and comment there, tweet us at @thingswesaidfab or catch us each on Facebook and give us your thoughts. And we thank you very much for listening. You can hear and download our show on Podbean, the Podbean app and iTunes and stream us through the Tune In Radio app and from our very own YouTube page.  Our shows appear every two weeks. Please be sure and write a (good, ideally!) review of our show on our iTunes page. If you subscribe to any of our program providers, you'll get the first word as soon as a new show is available. We don't want you to miss us. Our download numbers have been continually rising, as more people discover us and it's all because of you. So we thank you very much for your support!

Nobody has been more prepared for writing a book in retirement than Terry Crain! This ultimate Beatles fan is a rock and roll historian/researcher and Beatles author.  His upcoming book, "NEMS and the Business of Selling Beatles Merchandise in the U.S. 1964-1966", covers officially licensed Beatles items in the U.S. between 1964-1966. His book will take readers through those items and other interesting side treks surrounding this era.  Additionally, Crain has an online radio station called 'faBgear radio,' which plays the 50's and 60's hits along with clips from oldies radio stations like KXOK (St. Louis), WLS (Chicago), KOMA (Oklahoma City), WRLA (Pasadena, CA), and WKNR (Detroit, MI).     http://fabgearradio.playtheradio.com/ He also designs Beatle-themed skills for Amazon's 'Alexa' device, which allows users to use their Echo or Alexa device to access information about the band.  He has two free skills on the market which make it easier for Beatles/rock ‘n roll fans to follow the iconic band’s past calendar events. The “This Week in Beatles History” skill provides a summary of events during a 7-day period in the career of the Fab Four. The “Daily Beatle Facts” skill offers you a daily dose of Fab Four history by giving you an interesting fact about the Beatles every day. It is updated often with new information and trivia about the greatest band in the world! And of course, he teaches online classes through his 'faBgear education' site through the TeachAble website.  His first class is "Route 66", and soon two other courses will become available, one on "The Beatles" and one on "The History of Rock and Roll."       https://fabgear-company.teachable.com