Former KRLA Jocks To Host Beatles Benefit

Eubanks, Hull

When the Beatles invaded Los Angeles in 1964, they didn’t need social media to trumpet their arrival.

They had KRLA, 1110 AM in Pasadena, and the legendary Eleven-Ten Men, including American Top 40-progenitor Casey Kasem, and the comedy team of Hudson & Landry. They’d soon add current KDES-FM disc jockey Russ O’Hara.

But mainly, they had Bob Eubanks and Dave Hull.

KRLA began calling itself “the original Beatles station in Los Angeles” in February 1964, the month the Beatles arrived in New York. Hull headed the Beatles Fan Club of Southern California and Eubanks produced their only three concerts in Los Angeles County.

According to mydesert.com, Saturday, Hull and Eubanks will reminisce about those days and present the Beatles tribute group Paperback Writer in a benefit.

“We’re going to tell stories,” Eubanks said by telephone from L.A. “I was on the business side of it when we were at KRLA in that I was producing the concerts. David (Hull) was on the other side where he was out with the folks. He was the fifth Beatle, for crying out loud! That’s how it all came down.”

Hull is one of many “fifth Beatles.” New York DJ Murray the K made that his brand. Bass guitarist Klaus Voorman and keyboard artist Billy Preston also were called that.  But Hull never wanted the nickname.

“I just wanted to be known as Dave Hull, who got some of the stories before anybody else had them,” he said. “Every city had a guy who was strutting around saying he was the fifth Beatle. I did a TV show once with Pat Sajak and he said, ‘I understand you’re the fifth Beatle.’ And before I could say a thing about disliking that, he said, ‘You may be interested to know I was the sixth Dave Clark Five.’ ”

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