Which was the very first Beatles song that you ever heard?

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The year was 1962 and i was studying in the First Year of a Science college in Mumbai, India.I was very fond of Western pop music which at that time had soulful melodies of singers like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Cliff Richards, Ricky Nelson, Jim Reeves, Elvis Presley etc. In those days there was no TV so we would listen to music on the old big valve radios and transistor radios. One evening i had tuned to BBC World Service and was listening to music. Suddenly the announcer said that he would be playing a song by a group of talented young men who had started taking Britain by storm.The record started playing and i was mesmerised by the song as it was of a totally differnt genre, a totally different sound and a totaly different type of music, one that i had never heard before in my life.That song happened to be " I wanna hold your hand ". The announcer had not mentioned the name of the band so when the song ended i strained to hear the announcers voice as there was a lot of disturbance in the air waves. I heard something that sounded like Beetles. The next day when i went to college i excitedly told my friends about this group and told them to tune to BBC music program. A couple of days later i once again heard the same song as well as "She loves you yeah yeah yeah ".This time the announcer gave more details of the beat group and also the correct spelling of their name. I was completely hooked. Little did i realize that these youngsters were creating history and would become pathbreakers to a new type of music known as Beat Music.