Beach Boys, Jefferson Airplane 1966 Cow Palace, San Francisco Concert Poster....

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Beach Boys, Jefferson Airplane 1966 Cow Palace, San Francisco Concert Poster. An original cardboard window card advertising "The Beach Boys Summer Spectacular" playing at San Francisco's cavernous Cow Palace on Friday night, June 24, 1966. Comprised of strikingly rich, deep Day-Glo pink color which would've really grabbed eyeballs in any store's window back then. Leading Top 40 radio station KFRC presented the show. The bill was packed with Top 10 hit-makers from top to bottom, consisting of the Beach Boys, Lovin' Spoonful, Chad and Jeremy, Percy Sledge, The Outsiders, The Leaves, the Sir Douglas Quintet, the Jefferson Airplane before they ever released an album, and The Byrds, with cool song titles given for all. A very different and catchy piece, and a first-time Heritage offering. Measures 12 7/8" x 22" and grades to Very Good condition. COA from Heritage Auctions.

More Information: The timing for a Beach Boys concert poster simply couldn't be any better than this. This was the Pet Sounds Beach Boys all the way; that beloved LP was #11 in Billboard this week and would enter the Top 10 the very next week. On the singles chart, they were right in between the Top 10 hits "Sloop John B" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice." And Brian Wilson & the gang were fully engaged in recording their masterpiece "Good Vibrations," to be released that fall.

The Lovin' Spoonful were second-billed because they were right in the middle of seven consecutive Top 10 pop hits: "Do You Believe In Magic," "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice," "Daydream" (plugged on the poster), "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?," then this concert, then their biggest hit "Summer in the City" released just a couple of weeks hence, then "Rain on the Roof" and "Nashville Cats." What a run!

Chad & Jeremy were near the end of their run, but had made a splash in 1964 as a British-invasion duo with "Yesterday's Gone," "A Summer Song" and "Willow Weep for Me." On the poster, "Teenage Failure" did not chart for them.

The next four acts all have great hit song titles above their name, forming a great middle section of the poster: Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman," The Outsiders' "Time Won't Let Me," The Leaves' "Hey Joe" and the Sir Douglas Quintet's "The Rains Came," which the poster informally calls "Rain, Rain," a common misnomer for that national Top 40 hit.

We love "San Francisco's Own" Jefferson Airplane, a great plug for the up-and-coming group that still had Signe Anderson as their female singer. It reminds us of the 1955 Memphis, TN concert poster that proclaims at the bottom, "Memphis' Own... Elvis Presley." And then there were the Byrds from Los Angeles, just coming off their last-ever Top 20 hit, "Eight Miles High." Just like the Spoonful, they have those two old-fashioned hands pointing a finger at them from either side, a fun design element.

Tickets ranged from $2.00 – which we can't even imagine, for all those hit records being performed – up to $5.00, which was maybe just the first few rows. We're sure a splendid time was had by all.

Condition details: There's a nail hole right above the "F" in "KFRC" at the top. Sets of staple holes are found in the upper left & right pink triangles, on the "L" of "Spoonful," on the "M" of "P.M.," on the phone number in extreme lower left, and in the extreme lower right area of the pink, touching no characters. There's a crease going down the middle of the board that's strongest in the top half, sort of peters out between "Leaves" and "Sir," and then visually picks up again a tiny bit at the very bottom. It's not one single crease, it's one of those stress creases consisting of multiple little lines, and really only breaks color in the Lovin' Spoonful black strip. In addition, there are a few other small arc-shaped creases from the Byrds on down that actually we detected only by seeing them on the back, you can't see them on the front. The four corners also have diagonal creases, sometimes a couple, that range from one to two inches in length. There's also a horizontal crease above "Time Won't Let Me" that doesn't break color except for a tiny dot in the vertical black bar. And the board's verso has a about a 4" x 2" tape lift that's harmless.


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