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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...
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Nancy Sinatra "These Boots Are Made For Walkin" on The Ed Sullivan Show, February 27, 1966
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Because he was such an icon, he was able to have Black artists on TV when they were often not welcomed nor wanted elsewhere.I cannot recall when I first heard the name Ed Sullivan, but it certainly had to have been when I was a ghetto youth coming of age in the 1970s and 1980s. I initially connected his name with music superstars Elvis Presley and The Beatles, and their now legendary appearances on his variety show. I was intrigued by how he introduced musical guests, his mightily distinctive diction, his genuinely low-key demeanor. But I had no clue, truly,...
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Strong -- who passed away Sunday, Jan. 29, at the age of 81 in Detroit -- co-wrote some of Motown's most enduring hits.More than 73 years ago, Barrett Strong, as a singer, declared “Money (That’s What I Want)” — for the first hit single from the Motown empire. What he actually wound up getting was musical immortality. As a songwriter. Strong — who passed away Sunday, Jan. 29, at the age of 81 in Detroit — co-wrote some of Motown’s most enduring hits, with a variety of collaborators but primarily the late Norman Whitfield. Those included “I Heard It Through...
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Mercy! Roy Orbison on Ed Sullivan - Pretty Woman The Beatles on Ed Sullivan - Twist and ShoutThe 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
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Steve Rossi was never at the end of his story. He always had one more tale to tell, another tantalizing anecdote, more delicious detail to unveil about his time as a member of the legendary comedy team Allen & Rossi. “There are things I’ve never told anyone about when we were on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ with The Beatles that nobody has heard,” Rossi would say in the later months of his life, as if bracing for a big finish. “We experienced so much. We’ll get together soon and talk about it.” An entertainer with deceptive range and a magnetic...
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Forty-five years ago tonight, one of television's most memorable moments took place - the Beatles' first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Over 70 million viewers tuned in on that Sunday evening long ago. Here are the first ten minutes of the original broadcast, as it aired on CBS-TV, including commercials. This clip includes three of the five songs the Beatles performed that night.
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LONDON (AFP) - Fans have rushed to buy the first "new" Beatles album for a generation -- a radical remixing of some of the group's most famous songs -- more than 35 years after the break-up of the iconic band. "Love", which has the backing of surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, comprises 26 of the Fab Four's hit songs, but many of them mixed together using previously unheard material from the studio. "I hope this will help people to hear Beatles music again," said Giles Martin, son of the group's original producer Sir George Martin who is often...
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Beatlemania!40 years ago today, the Beatles changed America foreverBy David Fricke Cover photo by John Dominis Shortly after 8 p.m. on Sunday, February 9th, 1964, a short, stiff man with rubbery bloodhound features -- Ed Sullivan, the host of the highest-rated variety hour on American television -- addressed his New York studio audience and the folks tuned in at home over the CBS network. "Yesterday and today, our theater's been jammed with newspapermen and hundreds of photographers from all over the nation," Sullivan said in a nasally chuckling voice. "And these veterans agreed with me that the city never...
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