Auction Date:2012 Jan 26 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Multi-Act 14 x 22 cardboard poster for the 1964 Forest Hills Music Festival, with the Beatles appearing on August 28 and 29, printed by Murray Posters of NYC. A few light scuffs, some light corner tip creasing and edge dings and some water spotting to the upper left corner. Professional washing by a paper conservator has softened signs of typical age toning.
It was always assumed a poster advertising the 1964 Forest Hills Music Festival was produced, since examples from 1962–63 and 1965–1968 have occasionally appeared in the marketplace, but not until this example finally surfaced in 2008 was the assumption confirmed. Until now, the only known poster dating from the ’64 summer tour of North America is one announcing the group’s September 2nd appearance at Philadelphia’s Convention Hall—a poster void of ticket outlet and price information. While interest among both Beatles and serious concert poster collectors will, undoubtedly, be intense, this recently unearthed cardboard rarity will garner additional interest from Bob Dylan collectors as well, since he appeared with Joan Baez during her August 8 appearance.
The Beatles’ return to New York City, where they made their historic Ed Sullivan Show appearances the previous February, was a rousing triumph as they played a pair of sold-out concerts at the 16,000 seat Forest Hills Tennis Stadium on August 28th and 29th. The festival routinely presented a wide-ranging array of artists and ’64 was no exception with the likes of Barbra Streisand (who was appearing on Broadway in Funny Girl at the time), Count Basie, Woody Allen, Johnny Mathis, Trini Lopez, Harry Belafonte, Miriam Makeba, and Peter Nero all taking bows. A unique rarity of the first order!
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