As the patriot John Paul Jones screamed “The British are coming, the British are coming” no one knew that the birth of a nation would come soon after. Then, hundreds of years later, Ed Sullivan yelled: “And now the Beatles” which signified the second British invasion, Let’s take a look back at the best Invasion songs from the nation across the pond.
The Ed Sullivan moment, February 1964 – “All My Loving,” “Till There Was You,” “She Loves You,” “I Saw Her Standing There,” and “I Want To Hold Your Hand.”
“Gloria” – Them
“Glad All Over” – The Dave Clark Five
“Paint It, Black” – The Rolling Stones
“All Day and All of the Night” – The Kinks
“You Really Got Me” – The Kinks
“My Generation” – The Who
“The House of the Rising Sun” – The Animals
“Heart Full of Soul” – The Yardbirds
“She’s Not There” – The Zombies
Observations: Doris Day, Mitch Miller, and Frank Sinatra were riding high on the pop charts until that Ed Sullivan appearance by the Beatles, changing music forever. It’s been said that the Beach Boys were heavily influenced by the British invasion, but then everything changed in the early 60s thanks to the Brits.