Do any of you remember The Ed Sullivan show?

[Archae]

Tomorrow night, Milwaukee's PBS channel will show The Best Of Ed Sullivan.

Oh man, the memories!

Like the guy who spun plates on sticks!
The Beatles!
Stones!
Topo Gigio
Senior Wences, "S'right? S'right."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

1. A weekly event in my home

I was too young to give a crap about most of the legendary performances by the Beatles and Stones.

The Doors doing "Light My Fire" was more my speed.

I also remember Ed's introductions to Topo Gigio...the way he said his name was better than the whole segment with that little rat.

:evilgrin:

[redwitch]

2. A really big shew

:-)

[Rhiannon12866]

3. My mother made me come and watch when The Beatles were on.

They meant nothing to me at that age, but she said that it was history. She sure was right... :D

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Do I REMEMBER it?

I grew up with it!

I was in my college dorm's TV room when the Beatles first showed!

Good times, good times...

:headbang:

[bikebloke]

5. The Beatles

I remember when the Beatles played and the had their names under each one when the camera was on them. For John, it said, "Sorry girls, he's married."

A really big shew.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Oh, yes -- very well.

We always watched it. I thought he was kind of dorky, but there were some cool acts. I loved Senor Wences.

[DemBones DemBones]

7. I saw Elvis the first time he was on Ed Sullivan.

Saw the Beatles the first time they were on, as well as other times.

Mr. Bones and I saw the Beatles doing "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" on the tv in the living room of our honeymoon hotel suite.

Then there was the time the Stones had to sing "Let's Spend Some Time Together" so as not to offend anyone with the real lyrics.
Such salacious lyrics they were.

:rofl:

[BuelahWitch]

8. It's on here tonight!

Good stuff and true variety. The show had something for everyone: music, comedy and sometimes puppets!

[Archae]

9. Didn't Ed have a row with Jackie Mason?

And Mason was banned from the show?

[Capn Sunshine]

10. ED was interwoven with the family tapestry

throughout the 50's and into the early 60's, the families gathered at my grandmother's home in Westwood for Sunday dinner. Jacket required.
The kids in the den watching Ed Sullivan while the adults conversed in the living room, yeah. I remember Elvis when I was a little kid, my cousin who was ten years older insisting we watch, and later the Beatles were MY band. The Doors, that was hilarious the way Morrison emphasized "higher".......

[Faygo Kid]

11. Are you kidding?? LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE BEATLES!! And here's the link.

I was 12. Check it out: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6963424931484533250#

[elleng]

14. Was in college,

and as the university ran out of dorm space, was in an apartment with 3 other sophomore women; we watched together!

[merh]

12. Yes!

I love Topo Giogo and I drove my mom crazy as I tried to spin plates.



I loved that show.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. Everybody, and I do mean everybody, watched the Ed Sullivan Show

It was a Sunday night ritual.

When my high school put on the musical "Bye Bye Birdie," the song

"Ed Sullivan, Ed Sullivan
We're going to be on Ed Sullivan...
We'll be coast to coast
With our favorite host..."

really meant something to us. :-)

[rurallib]

15. Well except for my family.

My parents hated Sullivan - I do not know why.
I did get to watch the Beatles shows, but that was about it. I would catch bits and pieces here and there.
What was on opposite Sullivan? Something like Maverick or Sugarfoot on ABC and maybe Hitchcock on NBC?

[txwhitedove]

16. Oh yeah! I watched every Sunday night. Girlfriends slept over to watch

The Beatles. Then when the Doors were on, playing Light My Fire..., uh, Jim Morrison in leather pants, that's when puberty kicked in...

[trof]

17. Remember Will Jordan, Sullivan impersonator?

He was good.
A lot of comedians/impersonators did Sullivan.

[Paper Roses]

18. Sunday night, 8 PM. Ladies and Gentlemen,---the show was

our Sunday highlight. Anyone remember the kid that sang "I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"? The song was then banned. Bad influence on kids. 1950's mentality.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights each had a special show. Friday was "I remember Mama".
Sunday, Ed Sullivan, and I can't remember what Saturday was. Lone Ranger and Hopalong Cassidy?

[cmkramer]

22. Jimmy Boyd

He was also on "Bachelor Father". It was a little before my time, but I remember it being in reruns when I was younger and recently I saw it again on one of those TV nostalgia channels. He died earlier this year at the age of 70

My mom was a huge fan of "The FBI" which was on at the same time as "The Ed Sullivan Show" so most Sundays if my sister and I wanted to see the show, we had to watch the black and white TV upstairs.

I used to like when Ed introduced celebrities from the audience.

[hippywife]

19. Eddie. Keesa me goodnight!

Watched it through most of my childhood. :hi:

Senor Wences:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJiYZ6QIAtY

[Turbineguy]

20. The time Marty Feldman

called him a "pedantic vulgarian".

[peekaloo]

21. A really big shoe.

My parents watched it every week. Dad started getting the ass around the time all "those long hairs" started appearing. I was way too young to be too interested in the rock music but I do remember that mouse/rat puppet thingie and as I called him "Mr Fistes".

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

23. Oh yes!

Every Sunday night! :)

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24. They ran that last night here,

and it was a great show. The Beatles, the Stones, the Mamas and the Papas, the Beach Boys, Herman's Hermits, the Animals and more - all on the Ed Sullivan Show. Ol' Ed was pretty hip!

[annabanana]

25. Yup. . Bed time was right after.... . n/t

[asjr]

26. This thread is making me cry. Memories!!

[mnhtnbb]

27. Of course! Sunday night.

[Z_I_Peevey]

28. It was always the comedians I loved the most...

Alan King and Shelley Berman. Jackie Vernon, the deadpan fellow who clicked an imaginary clicker and narrated a nonexistent slide show.

I remember when George Carlin went from straight to counterculture. And I loved the duos. Stiller and Meara. Wayne and Shuster. Burns and Schreiber.