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We Need More "Ed Sullivan" and Less "The View" and "The Five" - Ditch the Inane Chit-Chat
February 28, 2016 | Vanity

Posted on 02/27/2016 11:35:38 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Mercy!

Roy Orbison on Ed Sullivan - Pretty Woman

The Beatles on Ed Sullivan - Twist and Shout

The Three Stooges on Ed Sullivan

Rodney Dangerfield on The Ed Sullivan Show

Cilla Black "You're My World" on The Ed Sullivan Show

Red Skelton on The Ed Sullivan Show

Georgia Tech Glee Club on The Ed Sullivan Show

Neil Diamond "Sweet Caroline" on The Ed Sullivan Show


TOPICS: Humor; Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: edsullivan; hollywood; laughter; music; song; thefive; theview
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To: iowamark

“Anyone who had a Heart” is a great one.

Here, Cliff Richard sings during her funeral service:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHm6vEUvAjw


21 posted on 02/28/2016 2:49:05 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Several years ago there was a writer-s strike. This was the beginning of reality TV, which in theory did not require a writer. The writer-s guild -won.-, keeping prices outrageously high and imposing onerous requirements on the users of their services. They also raised the bar to entry for new writers ensuring the guild-s eventual extinction. The reason we no longer have variety shows like Carol Burnette is nobody can afford them. The Writer-s Guild has destroyed TV and itself.


22 posted on 02/28/2016 2:54:15 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Gen.Blather

Thank you for that information.

Now there are self-serving “Awards” shows.

And watching Reality TV is like driving by a car wreak.


23 posted on 02/28/2016 3:03:51 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: All
RHONDA VINCENT/ JOHNNY VINCENT "OUT OF HAND"

Rhonda & Darren Vincent /Jamie Dailey - Beneath Still Waters Classic Country Music

24 posted on 02/28/2016 3:09:39 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: All
Dolly Parton - Harper Valley PTA
25 posted on 02/28/2016 3:20:23 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

For fifty-two years, until September 2015, the spirit of the Ed Sullivan Show came alive every Saturday night via Sábado Gigante – Gigantic Saturday. Created and hosted since 1963 by Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld, AKA Don Francisco, Sábado Gigante was a time warp of sorts in that it provided a stage for a Sullivan Show cross section of Latin talent. Even many commercials were presented product in-hand in a live 50’s manner. And like Sullivan, Don Francisco provided a first break for many Latin performers. Perhaps using taped segments in later years, Sábado Gigante was produced with a live and very much participatory audience.


26 posted on 02/28/2016 3:44:05 AM PST by Huaynero
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Ah yes, those were the good old DECENT days!


28 posted on 02/28/2016 4:00:25 AM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: Huaynero

“...19 Things You Didn’t Know About Don Francisco

1. His real name is Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld, but we all know him as Don Francisco

2. The iconic Latino host is Jewish. There were bar mitzvahs and some special celebrations, but his family wasn’t strictly observant.

3. His parents were Holocaust survivors.

4. His mother was an opera singer in Germany and his father was a tailor.

5. He traveled to New York to study because he wanted to be a famous clothing designer, but he spent most of the time watching TV.

6. When he returned to his native Chile, he used what he had learned from Ed Sullivan and Steve Allen by watching their shows and made a whole new variety show in Spanish in his country. The show, called “Sabados Gigantes” aired in Chile’s Channel 13.”.....

http://www.latintimes.com/sabado-gigante-hasta-siempre-19-things-you-didnt-know-about-don-francisco-341265


29 posted on 02/28/2016 5:00:03 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Don't forget these guys. RIP Pete Lucia.
30 posted on 02/28/2016 5:17:02 AM PST by Calvinist_Dark_Lord ((I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper))
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

More and more talent shows would be great! Musicians, singers, dancers.


31 posted on 02/28/2016 5:25:49 AM PST by abclily
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To: Calvinist_Dark_Lord

=O


32 posted on 02/28/2016 5:40:14 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

That was the raw video from their third appearance on the Sullivan show.

In case you didn’t know, that’s Tommy James and the (original) Shondells.

Good song, but it had the misfortune of being the ‘B’ side of a record titled “Crystal Blue Persuasion”.


33 posted on 02/28/2016 6:05:55 AM PST by Calvinist_Dark_Lord ((I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper))
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Orbison is my specialty as you say, but first I have to give props to J. Cash because while checking your posted links I came across the following “can’t miss” that is seldom played any more.

Also, everyone needs to understand that there were no two closer friends in life or in the music biz than Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash.

Rock Island Line 1957

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRmdS76oXw4

And Sonny James, posted earlier, covered Roy Orbison’s “Only the Lonely” and it was a Country Chart topper at #1 in ‘69 while otherwise the world went crazy in the late ‘60s.


34 posted on 02/28/2016 6:13:08 AM PST by txrangerette (("...hold to the TRUTH; speak without fear". - Glenn Beck))
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

If the inane chit-chat were ditched, the tube would be mostly silent. (which might be a blessing)


35 posted on 02/28/2016 6:15:56 AM PST by Savage Beast (We see an ocean of crashing waves, as black holes create a violent storm in the fabric of space-time)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Raleigh, NC has a channel called MeTV that plays the old shows that makes you laugh or smile at real humor not the hate filled, nasty stuff that is called humor today. Great to see something positive.


36 posted on 02/28/2016 6:20:24 AM PST by nclaurel
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To: nclaurel

We have MeTV where I live also. It’s my favorite channel.


37 posted on 02/28/2016 6:22:18 AM PST by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Don't forget Dean Martin
38 posted on 02/28/2016 6:32:26 AM PST by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; digger48

Roy Orbison 1956 - 1988 memories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvR1YgT7QYs You Got It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVCQGcHvrOA Goodnight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGlD6Ho24lU Walk On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMMeAfHCkH0 Leah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T2Pd-c5Dh0 Beaujolais

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB7NLyc6cG4 Roys Ooby Dooby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnMrnFaRt8M Kids Ooby Dooby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A529_uyRu-o Wild Hearts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZwweBHtHcI In Dreams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2hoqgDtxzY Not Alone


39 posted on 02/28/2016 7:20:53 AM PST by txrangerette (("...hold to the TRUTH; speak without fear". - Glenn Beck))
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To: txrangerette

Thanks!

I’m going to save this thread to keep that list.

: )


40 posted on 02/28/2016 7:38:00 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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