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![]() They played before the Brits on several historic dates, including the Beatles’ final full-scale live show in front of an audience, at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park. Fortunately for the Cyrkle, however, they were able to capitalize on their association with Epstein, and landed an opening-act slot on the Beatles’ final North American tour in the summer of 1966. “Red Rubber Ball,” backed by a Dannemann-Dawes original, “How Can I Leave Her,” entered the Billboard chart on May 21, 1966, and peaked at #2 during the week of July 9, kept from the top spot by their manager’s main clients, whose “Paperback Writer” was their latest smash. At its core it’s a basic breakup/brushoff tune, but its chorus ensures that better times are ahead: “And I think it’s gonna be all right/Yeah, the worst is over now/The mornin’ sun is shinin’ like a red rubber ball.” “Red Rubber Ball” was, by any measure, not only a very catchy tune in the red-hot folk-rock mode, but more sophisticated lyrically than the majority of the era’s top 40 hits. to r.): Producer John Simon, Marty Fried, Don Dannemann, Tom Dawes, attorney Nat Weiss, manager Brian Epstein
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