27 August 1964: Beatles' Records
On 27 August 1964, The Beatles flew into Cincinnati's Lunken Airport from Denver at 5:05pm. After posing for photographs and answering a few questions from reporters on the plane steps, the group were ushered into a waiting Cadillac to make the trip to Cincinnati Gardens. As the group's motorcade arrived to the venue, someone (presumably a fraternity member) pushed an LP into George's hand. In the below photo George can be seen holding the LP as they walked away from the car. (The Beatles arrive to Cincinnati Gardens, 27 August 1964) The album in question is the recently completed Songs of Phi Kappa Psi LP. The liner notes tell us that the twenty-five song long-player was recorded over two years under the production and arrangement of Richard Maltby and finished (i.e. mixed and mastered) in July at the Gotham Recording Corporation in New York City. Songs of Phi Kappa Psi features twenty-five of the sixty-one song repertoire of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. The f
