Me" into radio rotation in late February, and Dick Biondi was the first to play the record on his show. "Please Please Me" reached number 35 on WLS's weekly survey but failed to chart nationally. Vee-Jay released "From Me to You" in May 1963 which reached number 33 at radio station KRLA in Los Angeles, where Biondi was now working. The single only made it to number 116 on the Billboard Hot 100. EMI cancelled Vee-Jay's rights to the Beatles in August because of non-payment of royalties. EMI offered Capitol the next Beatles single "She Loves You" but Capitol again declined, so EMI licensed it to Philadelphia-based Swan Records who released it in September 1963. "She Loves You" also failed to receive airplay, and an airing of the song on Dick Clark's TV show American Bandstand produced laughter from American teenagers when they saw the group's distinctive hairstyles. In early November 1963, Brian Epstein persuaded Ed Sullivan to present the Beatles on three editions of his show in February, and parlayed this into a record deal with Capitol. Capitol committed to a mid-January release of "I Want to Hold Your Hand". CBS Evening News aired a five-minute news story on December 10, 1963, about the phenomenon of Beatlemania in Britain. The segment first aired on the CBS Morning News on 22 November and had originally been scheduled to be repeated on that day's Evening News, but regular programming was cancelled following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Impact of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" The CBS Evening News segment inspired a teenage girl named Marsha Albert in Silver Spring, Maryland to write to Carroll James, a disc jockey at Washington DC's WWDC radio station, requesting that he play records by the Beatles. James had seen the same news story and arranged to have a copy sent to him of the single "I Want to Hold Your Hand". He debuted the record on 17 December, and the station received overwhelming positive audience reaction and immediately escalated its airplay. Capitol Records president Alan W. Livingston learned of the overwhelming listener response a few days later and decided to rush the single's release three weeks ahead of schedule on 26 December 1963. Several New York radio stations began playing "I Want to Hold Your Hand" on its release day. The positive response that had started in Washington was duplicated in New