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The Ed Sullivan Show
March 17, 2024
It was a "REALLY big sheow"
The performances were always... LIVE...!
It was an honor to be invited to appear...
and the performances were integrative and inclusive
of all races and nationalities... a show for everyone.
The Ed Sullivan Show videos
YouTube Channel
Ed Sullivan
wikipedia
excerpts:
Edward Vincent Sullivan (September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974)
Sullivan was born in Harlem, New York City, to Elizabeth F. (née Smith) and Peter Arthur Sullivan, a customs house employee. Sullivan was raised in Port Chester, New York. He was of Irish descent.
The family loved music, frequently playing the piano, singing and playing phonograph records.
Sullivan was a gifted athlete in high school. He played football as a halfback, basketball as a guard and track as a sprinter. With the baseball team, Sullivan was a catcher and the team's captain, leading the team to several championships.
Sullivan noted that, in the state of New York, integration was taken for granted in high-school sports:
"When we went up into Connecticut, we ran into clubs that had Negro players. In those days this was accepted as commonplace; and so, my instinctive antagonism years later to any theory that a Negro wasn't a worthy opponent or was an inferior person. It was just as simple as that."
Ed Sullivan was the dignified and classy host of the most watched television show on Sunday nights. It was vaudeville on your TV, with top talent and new talent.
Sullivan was an American television host, impresario, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate.
He was the creator and host of the television variety program The Toast of the Town, which in 1955 was renamed The Ed Sullivan Show. Broadcast from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longest-running variety show in U.S. broadcast history. His signature greeting that he was known for was...
"It will be a... REALLY big sheow"
Here are a few of the performances
that I selected from
the Ed Sullivan YouTube Channel.
Fran Jeffries "Moon River" March 18, 1962
Abbe Lane "I Enjoy Being A Girl" December 27, 1958
The Kim Sisters "Try To Remember" November 17, 1963
The Platters "Remember When" August 2, 1962
Diahann Carroll "As Time Goes By" June 18, 1967
The Beach Boys "I Get Around" September 27, 1964
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942 - living)
Dennis Carl Wilson (December 4, 1944 – December 28, 1983)
Carl Dean Wilson (December 21, 1946 – February 6, 1998)
Michael Edward Love (born March 15, 1941 - living)
Alan Charles Jardine (born September 3, 1942 - living)
Barry Fitzgerald - November 9, 1952
"Recites An Excerpt Of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Speech"
"Well, Ed, it's an amazing country. You know, I myself, I was deeply
moved on election night to hear Governor Stevenson tell all the voter
from the "closed ranks" and then to hear General Eisenhower's gracious
response. It had the same kind of tremendous feeling that Lincoln's second
inaugural address had... and I learned that when I was a kid at school.
"With malice towards none, with charity for all,
with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right...
let us finish the work we are in...
to bind up the nation's wounds...
to care for him who still shall have borne the battle...
and for his widow and his orphans...
to do all which may achieve and cherish
a just and a lasting peace...
among ourselves and with all nations."
It was an honor to be invited to appear...
and the performances were integrative and inclusive
of all races and nationalities... a show for everyone.
The Ed Sullivan Show videos
YouTube Channel
Ed Sullivan
wikipedia
Fran Jeffries "Moon River" March 18, 1962
Abbe Lane "I Enjoy Being A Girl" December 27, 1958
The Kim Sisters "Try To Remember" November 17, 1963
The Platters "Remember When" August 2, 1962
Diahann Carroll "As Time Goes By" June 18, 1967
The Beach Boys "I Get Around" September 27, 1964
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942 - living)
Dennis Carl Wilson (December 4, 1944 – December 28, 1983)
Carl Dean Wilson (December 21, 1946 – February 6, 1998)
Michael Edward Love (born March 15, 1941 - living)
Alan Charles Jardine (born September 3, 1942 - living)
Barry Fitzgerald - November 9, 1952
"Recites An Excerpt Of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Speech"
"Well, Ed, it's an amazing country. You know, I myself, I was deeply
moved on election night to hear Governor Stevenson tell all the voter
from the "closed ranks" and then to hear General Eisenhower's gracious
response. It had the same kind of tremendous feeling that Lincoln's second
inaugural address had... and I learned that when I was a kid at school.
"With malice towards none, with charity for all,
with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right...
let us finish the work we are in...
to bind up the nation's wounds...
to care for him who still shall have borne the battle...
and for his widow and his orphans...
to do all which may achieve and cherish
a just and a lasting peace...
among ourselves and with all nations."