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A lot of folks in the music business talk about betting the house on a hunch, but veteran Top 40 deejay and TV show host Bob Eubanks is one who literally did just that when he arranged for the Beatles to play at the Hollywood Bowl 50 years ago.That event is being celebrated this weekend with three nights of concerts at the Bowl curated by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics. Stewart will preside over a cross-genre bill with singers Martina McBride, Michelle Branch, Billy Ray Cyrus, Mary Lambert, Allen Stone and Vanessa Amorosi, who will re-create the Beatles’ set list from that 1964 show and then offer up other Beatles tunes as well.Their fee for the night was $25,000, a princely sum half a century ago, even to a relatively high-profile entertainment-world figure like Eubanks. He made the leap from radio to television as host of the long-running game show “The Newlywed Game,” then “Card Sharks” and for years has anchored KTLA-TV’s coverage of the Rose Parade in Pasadena, among his many endeavors.“My business partner, Mickey Brown, and I owned a house together as an investment, and I convinced him it was a good idea to bring in the Beatles,” he said. “So we borrowed $25,000 against the house to do that show. I couldn’t get the Hollywood Bowl without the Beatles, and I couldn’t get the Beatles without the Hollywood Bowl.”“Not only was it the beginning of a new era in music,” he said, “it was the beginning of the concert business itself. I’m feel very blessed to be a part of that. I never take it for granted.” This comes with a Pay It Forward Cert This is a stock item and stock images may be used in this listing. The exact item you will receive will be of equal quality to the one pictured.