Posted on 12/24/2023 5:57:14 PM PST by nickcarraway
The show has also reached 670,000 YouTube Subscribers and more than 450 million YouTube views.
One year after hitting the one billion total views mark, The Ed Sullivan Show has amassed more than two billion total views across all channels (including YouTube, Apple Music and Facebook), in tandem with reaching the 670,000 YouTube Subscribers milestone and more than 450 million YouTube views.
The long-running variety show, which kicked off its 75th Anniversary in June, expanded its reach exponentially via a global digital rights agreement between UMe and SOFA Entertainment Inc. in June 2020. The library encompasses the show’s historic 23-year primetime run on CBS.
Scores of rarities were made available digitally for the first-time including iconic entertainers and influential figures from just about every category of cultural relevance, including music, comedy, sports, film, dance, opera and Broadway.
Sullivan was the first to bring country music (Chet Atkins, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Jimmy Dean, Brenda Lee, and Buck Owens) and many key jazz artists like Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, and Louis Armstrong to national television viewers.
Sullivan invited and featured some of the earliest or first televised performances of music superstars including Elvis Presley, Stevie Wonder, The Band, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Jackson 5, The Mamas and The Papas, The Supremes, and The Rolling Stones. Many people and critics agree that if it wasn’t for The Ed Sullivan Show, they wouldn’t have been exposed to the musicians who continue to hold their positions as icons today.
Ed invited Black artists onto his stage despite what network censors and the show’s sponsors demanded. In a segregated era when music heard on the radio was either white pop or “race” music, Ed was never afraid to cross racial lines. If you had talent, you were on his show. Sullivan’s showcasing of Motown artists occurred due to the great relationship forged by Berry Gordy and Ed Sullivan.
It led to one of the most impactful partnerships in music and television history. The Supremes, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight, Diana Ross, and many more Motown stars became household names and music legends, in large part due to their Sullivan appearances.
Across YouTube/Apple Music/Facebook, the most-viewed clips include The Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back” (75M streams), Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” (62M streams) and “Don’t Be Cruel” (54M streams), Ike & Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary” (48M streams), The Temptations & The Supremes’ “Get Ready/Stop! In The Name of Love/My Guy” (38M streams), Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” (48M streams), Janis Joplin’s “Maybe” (28M streams), Tom Jones’ “Delilah” (27M streams), and The Mamas & The Papas’ “Words Of Love” (22M streams), and “Creeque Alley” (20M streams).
Watch all the archival videos from The Ed Sullivan Show on the program’s official YouTube channel.
Ed Sullivan goes to Cuba:
https://www.edsullivan.com/timeline/fidel-castro/
Dumbass thought Fidel was the greatest ever
I always thought he looked like Nixon when I was a kid
Get the free Pluto tv app and besides the 350+ tv shows from yesteryear you can watch ‘The Ed Sullivan’ show on the Classic TV Show section.
Most watched:
1. The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back - 46 million views
2. Elvis Presley - Hound Dog - 28 million views
3. Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline - 19 million views
4. Tom Jones - Delilah - 19 million views
5. Elvis Presley - Don’t Be Cruel - 13 million views.
My favorite Ed Sullivan performance. Jackie Wilson Lonely Teardrops
https://youtu.be/6CNyVlo40h8?si=z9g0HkrBQ6dnvq1u
Mr. Excitement.
I remember Castro telling Sullivan “I am not a Communist!” He lied.
I see him sometimes on one of the cable channels. It’s always a pleasure to watch his “really big shoe.” I’ve thought it’s too bad that we don’t have something like that today but, given the current performers, maybe it’s just as well.
I want to see Toppo Gigio!
670K Subscribers and 470 million views is chump change in the YouTube universe.
Thai music artist Jeff Satur has double the subscribers and 335 million views. He sings in both Thai and English. This is not his complete body of work. He has produced several songs for and under other companies who have the streaming on their YouTube site.
2 different versions of this song (in English), “Why Don’t You Stay” have a combined 54 million views alone on another YouTube account.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZF8RXvV9sQ&ab_channel=BeOnCloud
Jeff Satur@jeffsatursats
UPLOADS 89
SUBSCRIBERS 1.21M
VIDEO VIEWS 355,563,597
COUNTRY Thailand
CHANNEL TYPE Entertainment
USER CREATED May 12th, 2017
I think Ed started out in journalism, and probably voted for FDR four times.
I still remember seeing The Beatles for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 when I was 14. I had already bought one of their first 45s after previously hearing them on the radio.
The all time UTube record with over 10 billion views is Baby Shark. This is proof that we are not being visited by space aliens because if they knew about this top ranking video they would have already destroyed Earth by now.
Ditto on seeing the Beatles - all 3 consecutive shows.
My parents thought I was a juvenile delinquent...even though I was getting straight A’s thru high school.
It wasn’t Sunday without Uncle Ed...
He did have a thing for acts spinning plates on sticks, tho...
Part circus, part musical and part comedy. Sullivan had it all.
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