No mid-’60s party favor list was complete without these. Manufactured by United Industries Incorporated of Southington, Connecticut, the latex balloons came in six colors — red/pink, blue, yellow, white, green, and orange — each printed with a black-and-white band portrait, in a 5½” size.

The perfect way to dry off after a day of Beatlemania at the beach: a 35”x66” cotton terry towel featuring hand-drawn sketches of the band in vintage striped Victorian bathing suits, based on photos band photographer Dezo Hoffmann took on July 27, 1963. NEMS-licensed and manufactured by Windsor Textile Co. of Chicago, it made its way to consumers via Cannon Mills’ Towel Decorators — proof and “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!” printed right on the terrycloth.

Pat Boone commissioned artist Leo Jansen’s oil-style portraits of the band — sourced from Peter Hall’s May 1963 photos of John and Paul — then built a nationwide contest around them, flying 30 winners to see the Beatles’ Las Vegas show on August 20, 1964. One of those winners, then-eighth-grader Chris Barnes, still remembers being greeted personally by Boone on the tarmac. By October 1964, Boone had sold 10 million of the portraits.

Written and recorded on February 13, 1964, by the Holland-Dozier-Holland-Taylor team at Hitsville U.S.A., this Motown Beatlemania cash-in was slated for release on V.I.P. Records — until Berry Gordy’s team scrapped it before shipping, wary of the label’s reputation. Locked away for nearly 40 years, it finally surfaced on R. Dean Taylor’s 2001 Essential Collection, with Taylor later admitting it was made as a quick joke, not a serious hit.