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Beatle People

Bob Eubanks and Fred R. Krug

Bob Eubanks
In retrospect, it seems hard to believe, but the management of the world famous Hollywood Bowl had to be persuaded and cajoled into "taking a chance" on letting the "upstart" Beatles perform there during their first American tour in 1964. They weren't at all sure, whether the British group was really a big enough draw to fill their amphitheater!

The man who did most of the persuading and cajoling was a Los Angeles radio DJ, artists' agent and promoter by the name of Bob Eubanks, who proposed to produce and promote the concert. The Bowl people demanded a non-refundable security deposit, just in case the British Rockers failed to bring in a large enough audience to cover expenses. Bob Eubanks actually had to go out and mortgage his home to raise the money!

As it turned out, Eubanks and Capitol Records, with some help from the local media, created an event, the likes of which Los Angeles and the Hollywood Bowl had never seen before.To this day, the Bowl concert dates, all produced by Eubanks, are recalled, and replayed, as among the most important live appearances of the Beatles' careers.

Bob Eubanks, born on 8 January 1938 in Flint, Michigan, USA, began his broadcasting career as a disc jockey and, by the early 60's, had become one of the most successful DJs at Los Angeles' premier rock-and-roll station, KRLA. Besides producing the Beatles Bowl appearances for three years running, Eubanks produced live concerts for Elton John, Barry Manilow, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones.

In 1966 the superbly telegenic Eubanks became the host of ABC Television's "The Newlywed Game", which became one of the top rated prime time game shows of all time.

By 1972 he had entered the country music business as a producer and artists manager, guiding the careers of performers such as Marty Robbins, Barbara Mandrell, Dolly Parton and Merle Haggard, for whom he produced over a hundred concert dates a year for a decade.

Eubanks continued to produce and/or host some of the most successful game programs and musical shows for the major television networks into the 1990's, but is probably best known to audiences around the world for his coverage of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade for KTLA-TV, which he has done every New Years Day since 1978!

And he will always be remembered as the man who brought the Beatles to the Hollywood Bowl.

Fred R. Krug
Fred R. Krug was the FILM & VTR Director of KCOP-TV in Los Angeles when the Beatles first came to Southern California in 1964 and subsequently in '65 and '66 and persuaded his station to give extensive television coverage to the band's encounters with the Hollywood press corps, including a now famous press conference at Capitol Records headquarters, which he filmed and got on the early evening news. It's been said that that telecast probably added a couple of thousand hysterical fans to the nearly out-of-control throng trying to get into the Bowl that night.

A Beatles friend ever since, Fred R. Krug, a now retired motion picture and television producer-director, created The Beatles Worldsite for the World Wide Web in the late 1990's and maintains the site on the Internet to this day, as a tribute to the Fab Four.
Santa Ynez neighbors Bob Eubanks and Fred R. Krug are shown during the taping of a Eubanks program in their Valley circa 2001.

Page excerpt from THE BEATLES WORLDSITE.
(www.beatles.ws, on the Web from 1999 to 2012)