Beatles Gold Coin in a 1964 Ed Sullivan Show Miniature Ticket Display + FDC

Description

BEATLES
ED SULLIVAN SHOW CUSTOM FDC
+ COIN DISPLAY
WELCOME BEATLES FANS!
You will receive a very limited First Day Cover. This 3 5/8 inch by 6 1/2 inch colorful FDC, with the John Lennon stamp, issued on 7 September, 2018 and with the custom official USPS John Lennon signature cancellation. The custom artwork is a salute to the Feb 9, 1964 Beatles appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. This also has the 2009 "Early TV Memories" Ed Sullivan Show stamp released on August 11,2009.
You will also receive a 1 1/2 inch (40mm) gold color metal coin that is stored in a 2 3/8 inch x 3 1/4 inch protective presentation case with colorful header of a miniature 1964 Beatles Ed Sullivan Show ticket.
This display comes with a small, clear plastic display stand.
The group's lack of success in the US puzzled the Beatles' producer George Martin and manager Brian Epstein, given their huge hits in the UK. Their only US release that had charted was "From Me to You", which lasted three weeks in August 1963, never going higher than No. 116 on the Billboard Hot 100. Capitol Records had been stubborn in turning down the chance to become their record label in the US, and consequently the Beatles had been with Vee-Jay Records until that label failed to pay their royalties on time. Trans global Music, an affiliate of EMI, held the licenses to their output in the US, and promptly ordered Vee-Jay to halt their manufacturing and distribution of Beatles records. Epstein, who needed a record label to release "She Loves You" in the US, asked Trans global to find another label for him, and Trans global came up with Swan Records. To avoid potential disagreements and lawsuits, the contract signed with Swan licensed to them only "She Loves You" and "I'll Get You", enough only for the A and B-sides of a single – and only for two years.
When "She Loves You" came out as a single in the US on 16 September 1963, it received a positive notice in Billboard, but garnered very little radio airplay. New York disc jockey Murray the K saw it place third out of five in a listener record contest, but it failed to take off from that. The song was also featured as a part of the Rate-a-Record segment of American Bandstand where it scored in the low 70s, noticeably lower than those songs considered to score well. Overall, it sold approximately 1,000 copies and completely failed to chart on Billboard. On 22 November 1963, the CBS Morning News ran a five-minute feature on Beatlemania in the UK which heavily featured "She Loves You". The evening's scheduled repeat was cancelled following the assassination of John F. Kennedy the same day and the four days' worth of news coverage that followed. On 10 December, Walter Cronkite decided to transmit the piece again on the CBS Evening News, and the resulting interest led to the rush-release of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and – only weeks before the Beatles' arrival – a US commercial breakthrough. In January 1964, the Beatles released "I Want to Hold Your Hand", which quickly climbed to No. 1, launching the "British invasion" of the American music scene and paving the way for more Beatles records and releases by other British artists. In the wake of that success, the Swan "She Loves You" single re-emerged, and entered the Billboard chart on 25 January 1964. Beatlemania took hold of America, spurred by the group's appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show in February, where they performed this among other songs. "She Loves You" spent five weeks at No. 2, behind "I Want to Hold Your Hand", then replaced it for two weeks at No. 1 beginning on 21 March.
This will be shipped by First Class mail.