Q: "Here I am surrounded by Beatles and I don't feel a thing. Fellas, how does it feel to be in the United States?"
RINGO: "It's great! Wonderful!"
PAUL AND GEORGE: "Very nice!"
Q: "What have you seen that you like best about our country?"
JOHN: "You!!"
(laughter)
Q: "Thank you very much. I'll take that under advisement. Now, do you have any plans or any arrangements to meet the Johnson girls?"
JOHN: "No. We heard they didn't like concerts."GEORGE: "I didn't know they were on the show!"
(laughter)
Q: "They may come.... Are they coming to your show tonight?"
RINGO: "We don't know."
GEORGE: "I don't know."
PAUL: "We're not sure. But if they do, you know, we'd love it."
RINGO: "We'd like to meet them."
Q: "You and the snow came to Washington at the same time today. Which do you think will have the greater impact?"
JOHN: "The snow will probably last longer."
RINGO: "Yeah. We're going tomorrow."
Q: "Have you ever heard of Walter Cronkite?"
PAUL: "Nope."
GEORGE: "Yeah. News."
JOHN: "Good old Walter! NBC News, isn't he? Yeah, we know him. See? You don't catch me!"
Q: (correcting) "CBS News."
RINGO: "CBS News."
(laughter)
PAUL: (jokingly) "CUT!"
GEORGE: "I know, but I didn't want to say it. 'Cuz I thought it was CBS."
JOHN: "Yeah?"
GEORGE: (to John) "We're doing ABC..."
JOHN: "Yeah?"
GEORGE: "The other fella is on CBS, and the other one is NBC."
Q: "This is NBC, believe it or not."
JOHN: "And you're Walter!!"
Q: "No, I'm Ed."
JOHN: (jokingly) "What's going on around here!!"
Q: "I don't know! So, we're all together here."
GEORGE: "This is NBC."
(A different reporter begins asking questions)
Q: "What do you think of your reception in America, so far?"
JOHN: "It's been great."
Q: "What struck you the most, so far?"
PAUL: "YOU!! (laughing) We won't do that one again."
RINGO: "When we first came in, you know--- The airport. We never expected nothing like that. It was great."
Q: "You mean the crowds?"
PAUL AND JOHN: "Yeah."
JOHN: "It knocked us out!"
Q: "In spite of the snow, you still got a good crowd?"
JOHN: "Great crowd, yeah. I don't know-- Half of them thought we were coming by air, and we came by train."
Q: "Tell me this. Why do you think you're so popular all of a sudden?"
JOHN: "I don't know. It must be the weather."
PAUL: (giggles) "We've no idea at all why. Really."
Q: "Do you think it's your singing?"
JOHN: (Operatic singing voice) "Eeeeeee Dhhooooo!"
PAUL: "I doubt it. It could be alot of things, and we don't know which it could be."
Q: "Where did you get the idea for the haircuts?"
PAUL: "We didn't. It just the way we..."
RINGO: "Where did you get the idea for yours??"
PAUL: (laughs) "No, it's just something that we liked. We enjoyed wearing our hair this way, so it's developed this way."
Q: "You save on haircutting, at least?"
PAUL: "Yeah, uhhh-- We're saving."
JOHN: "I think it costs more to keep it short than to keep it long, don't you?"
Q: "I don't know. I imagine."
PAUL: "Yeah. We're saving our money."
Q: "Well, where do you go from here?"
RINGO: "Back to, ummm..."
PAUL AND JOHN: "New York."
RINGO: "...New York tommorrow."
GEORGE: "Then Miami at the weekend, just for the next Sullivan show, and then we go home."
RINGO: "On Monday."
Q: "Are you still number one in Europe?"
JOHN: "Well, Europe is alot of countries."
Q: "Where are you number one then?"
GEORGE: "We're now number one in America and England."
JOHN: "Hong Kong and Sweden..."
GEORGE: "Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France..."
Q: "And you haven't any idea why?"
RINGO: "We lay down and do it."
JOHN: "We're coming out in Hong Kong and suddenly you're number one there years after so many records. Even here, you know, we've got records we've forgotten."
PAUL: "Funny records, yeah."
Q: "You call your records 'funny records'?"
GEORGE: "Yeah!"
JOHN: "They're funny once we've forgotten them."
GEORGE: "You know-- It's unusual because they've been out in England for over a year. Like "Please, Please Me" is a hit over here now, but it's over a year old, you see. And it's funny."
Q: "But, what I'm saying is-- Do you think of your records as funny records?"
BEATLES: "NO!"
GEORGE: "We think it's funny-- peculiar-- that they should be hits after such a long time."
Q: "Do you feel they're musical?"
JOHN: "Obviously they're musical because it's music, isn't it! Instruments play music. It's a record."
PAUL: "It's musical, you know."
JOHN: "It is musical."
PAUL: "It's music, isn't it! (sings) 'Bumm Bumm Bumm.'"
JOHN: "That's music, too."
PAUL: "He's good-- He knows music!"
Q: "Alright, but what do you call it?"
PAUL: "We try not to define our music because we get so many wrong classifications off it. It's no use. We just call it-- MUSIC??? (laughs) ...even if you don't."
Q: "With a question mark."
PAUL: "Pardon?"
Q: "With a question mark?"
PAUL: "No."
JOHN: "We leave that to the critics."
PAUL: "With an exclamation mark!"
Q: "OK. Have a good time in America."
PAUL: "Thank you very much."
JOHN AND GEORGE: "Thank you."
JOHN: "Keep buying 'em."
RINGO: "Look after yourself."
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