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Post by Taildragger on Mar 15, 2021 11:32:17 GMT -5
If anyone is interested: MeTv is going to start re-running it on Sunday, March 21 in the evening. A few of the music acts that Ed featured over the years:
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Post by rdr on Mar 15, 2021 12:22:05 GMT -5
Great! Beatles first?
Actually, they ARE on the first episode!
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Post by oldfartbassplayrwalt on Mar 15, 2021 15:33:40 GMT -5
I wonder how many of us in the forum got a kick start into playing guitar, after
watching the Lads on Ed Sullivan?
(raises hand...)
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Post by gato on Mar 15, 2021 16:41:08 GMT -5
I had been playing guitar since 1959 when the Beatles hit. Before them, I was floundering around with Elvis songs and Peter Paul and Mary.
Within six months or so, I had wheedled my first bass out of the parents, formed a band, and my life changed forever.
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Post by LTB on Mar 15, 2021 17:30:07 GMT -5
That is great. I loved the Ed Sullivan show but the link you posted doesn’t seem to want to submit my info
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Post by jazzguy on Mar 15, 2021 17:40:29 GMT -5
thanks, it's about time they started putting these back on.
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Post by rok-a-bill-e on Mar 15, 2021 19:27:02 GMT -5
We never missed it, and I loved all of them from Topo Gigio to the guy spinning plates. Of course I remember The Beatles but the band that impressed me the most on Sullivan was The Doors. Morrison had this menace about him that was very different from what I was used to seeing from performers and he was in-your-face sexy and mocking about it. A true Rock Star and young me was most impressed.
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Post by guildx700 on Mar 15, 2021 19:32:04 GMT -5
It's been on Decades for quite some time already.
Has not aged well IMO due to all the lip syncing, plate spinning, juggling nonsense.
But yes, the Beatles, Stones...who BTW sold out and changed the words to Let's Spend The Night Together to Let's Spend Some Time Together to placate Ed.
More I think a bout it....no thanks...too much corn.
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Post by roly on Mar 16, 2021 2:41:18 GMT -5
Too much corn.....how else would we have discovered Wayne Newton?
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Post by HenryJ on Mar 16, 2021 10:03:34 GMT -5
I grew up in a parsonage, so I didn’t get to see too much Ed Sullivan. We had church on Sunday nights, when Ed Sullivan was on. The only time we saw Ed Sullivan was when we were sick and had to stay home from church.
My Beatlemaniac brother would sometimes get sick to his stomach whenever he ate peanuts, so on the Saturdays before Beatle appearances, he would suggest that our family parch some peanuts. And eat them. He would eat the peanuts, get sick (or maybe pretend to be sick), and stay home and see the Beatles.
By the mid-60s my dad would end the night service a few minutes before 8 (Central time), so my brothers and I would go home, right next door to the church, turn on the TV, and see the last few minutes of Ed Sullivan. Often, the last act to appear on Ed Sullivan was a rock act's second song, so that was right up our alley. We liked that.
One time I heard Ed Sullivan say that next week’s show would have Johnny Rivers. This was about the time Rivers had the song “Seventh Son” going up the charts. I loved that song! I couldn’t wait to see Johnny Rivers singing “Seventh Son” next week on Ed Sullivan, playing his pretty red Gibson ES-335, a cool-looking guitar, and singing "Seventh Son."
I waited all week. The night service did indeed end a few minutes before 8, so we scurried to our house next door, turned on the TV set, and waited for the picture tube to warm up.
We heard sound before we saw the picture. What we heard was a raspy female voice, and she was saying things I didn’t think you could say on television. I was beginning to worry for two reasons. One was that it was almost 8 o’clock and no Johnny Rivers yet. And also because I was afraid the FCC would take Ed Sullivan off the air because of the raspy female voice’s double entendres.
The picture tube warmed up and we saw the picture. The raspy female voice belonged to a skinny blonde, and the audience was laughing hysterically, all but drowning out the skinny blonde’s raspy voice.
Right before 8, the blonde stops talking, and Ed Sullivan comes out and says
“Let’s hear it for
JOAN
RIVERS!!”
Oh. Joan Rivers.
Oh. I thought he said Johnny Rivers was going to be on this week.
Oh.
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