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| Title | New Beatles record being delivered to KJR radio station, Seattle, 1969 |
| Photographer | Barlet, Tom
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1969 |
| Caption | This 1969 image shows Capitol Records promoter Dan Niles, under Seattle police escort, delivering the new Beatles single to KJR disc jockey Tom Murphy. The single, on the Beatles-owned Apple Records, was likely "Get Back/Don't Let Me Down, " which quickly shot to number 1 in the U.S. and U.K. after its April 11 release. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: Promotion shots for new Beetle [sic] record. Shows Niles, Dan of Capitol records delivering platter to KJR and KOL with police escort.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): April 14, 1969. Tom Murphy identified by MOHAI volunteer. |
| Subjects | Radio stations--Washington (State)--Seattle; Sound recordings--Washington (State)--Seattle; Police--Washington (State)--Seattle; Uniforms--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Niles, Dan; Murphy, Tom |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.50648.1 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 35 mm |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
