The Ed Sullivan Show
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The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Episode 36 : Tommy James & the Shondells / Stiller & Meara / Moms Mabley
June. 14,1970
Guests: --Tommy James & the Shondells - ""Ball of Fire"" & ""I'm Alive"" --Moms Mabley (stand-up comedian) - sings ""Abraham, Martin & John"" --Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara (comedy team, parents of Ben Stiller) --Margaret Whiting - ""Moonlight In Vermont"" & ""Gentle On My Mind"" (Richard Whiting's Daughter) --Sergio Franchi - ""Didn't We"" & ""With A Little Help From My Friends"" (also appears in a comedy sketch with Stiller & Meara). --Eugene List (with concert pianists from the Eastman School Of Rochester) --The Carals (balancing & juggling act)
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Episode 35 : Connie Francis / Roslyn Kind / Morey Amsterdam
June. 07,1970
Guests: --Connie Francis (medley of Judy Garland songs): ""The Trolley Song,"" ""You Made Me Love You,"" ""Swanie,"" ""The Man Who Got Away"" & ""Over The Rainbow"" --Roslyn Kind (Barbra Streisand's sister) - ""Purlie"" --Dick Jenson - medley: ""Try A Little Tenderness,"" ""Expressway to Your Heart,"" ""Heard It Through The Grapevine"" & ""Yesterday"" --Morey Amsterdam (stand-up comedy) --Scoey Mitchell (stand-up comedian) --Zonie And Agnes (ballet) --George Kirby (stand-up comedian) --The Ed Sullivan Singers - ""Moon River"" --Tel Smit (magician)
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Episode 34 : scheduled: Al Martino; Rich Little; Bob Lewis; Voices of East Harlem
May. 31,1970
Scheduled guests: --Al Martino --D. Valeny --Julie Budd --Rich Little --Bob Lewis --Voices of East Harlem --The Muppets
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Episode 33 : scheduled: Barbara McNair; Sergio Franchi: Karen Wyman
May. 24,1970
Scheduled guests: --Barbara McNair --Sergio Franchi --Karen Wyman --Stanley Myron Handelman --Georgie Kaye --Cadet Corps Steel Band --Rudi Schweitzer (juggler)
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Episode 32 : scheduled: Phyllis Newman; Rodney Dangerfield; Pat Cooper
May. 17,1970
On film: Ringo Starr - ""Sentimental Journey"" promotional film
Scheduled guests: --Phyllis Newman --Rodney Dangerfield --Pat Cooper --Stu Gilliam --the Lettermen (vocal group) --West Point Glee Club --Lovelace Watkins
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Episode 31 : Jackson Five / Clint Eastwood (on film) / Don Rickles
May. 10,1970
Guests: --The Jackson Five - ""The Love You Save"" and medley (""I Want You Back"" & ""ABC"") --Sonny James - ""My Love"" & ""Waterloo"" --Don Rickles (comedian) --George Carlin (comedian) - In a comedy routine, Carlin appears as a ""vacation expert."" Ed joins in and asks George some questions. --Roger Williams (piano player) - ""Mas Que Nada"" & a medley of Irving Berlin songs --Peter Gennaro (dancer) --Marilyn Michaels (celebrity impressions) --Gino Tonetti - ""This Is My Life"" Film clip: Don Rickles joins Clint Eastwood on the movie set of ""Kelly's Heroes"".
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Episode 30 : Richie Havens / Lesley Gore / John Gary
April. 26,1970
Guests: --Richie Havens - ""The Minstrel from Gault"" --Lesley Gore - ""Cry Me A River"" & ""Hey Jude"" --John Gary - medley: ""The Straight Life,"" ""Then She's a Lover"" & ""Little Green Apples""--Moms Mabley (stand-up comedian, sings ""Deed I Do"") --Stiller & Meara (comedy team) --Robert Klein (stand-up comedy) --Jane Morgan - ""A Girl Named Johnny Cash"" & ""My Way"" --Victor Julian (dog act) --The Rolan Boys (balancing act) Audience bows (cameos): Pete Hamilton; Master Sergeant Leon Donnely; Dr. Howard Rusk; Irving Gyse; Miss USA CBS repeated this show on July 19, 1970.
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Episode 29 : Paul McCartney (on film) / Bill Medley (scheduled guest)
April. 19,1970
--Paul McCartney (on film) - ""Maybe I'm Amazed"" video
Other guests (scheduled to appear): --Bill Medley - ""Peace Medley"" --Norm Crosby --Peter Nero --Jan Peerce --Gerri Granger --The Kessler Twins
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Episode 28 : scheduled: Florence Henderson, Joan Rivers, Young Saints, Muppets
April. 12,1970
Scheduled guests: --Florence Henderson (sings a medley from her movie ""Song of Norway"") - including ""Song of Norway"" --Florence Henderson - ""What Do You Do When Love Dies"" --Joan Rivers --The Young Saints (rock group) - ""Your Love"" & ""Tenderly"" --Sergio Franchi --Myron Cohen --The Muppets
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Episode 27 : The Temptations / George Hamilton / Buddy Rich
April. 05,1970
Guests: --The Temptations - ""You Make Me So Very Happy"" & ""Psychedelic Shack"" --Roy Rogers & Dale Evans - medley of patriotic songs: ""This Is My Country"" & ""God Bless America"" --George Hamilton - medley of Hank Williams Sr. songs: ""Hey Good Lookin',"" ""I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You""),"" ""Cold Cold Heart,"" ""Jambalaya (On the Bayou),"" ""I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry,"" ""I Saw the Light"" & ""Your Cheatin' Heart"" --Buddy Rich & Orchestra - ""Oh Ruth"" --Marilyn Maye & Buddy Rich - ""Cabaret"" medley --John Byner (comedian) --Gene Baylos (comedian) --The Canestrellis (trampoline act)
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Episode 26 : Gladys Knight & the Pips / Bobbie Gentry / Buck Owens
March. 29,1970
Special episode taped (probably filmed) at Army Hospitals. Sullivan and guests entertain soldiers who were wounded in Vietnam. Guests: --Gladys Knight and the Pips - ""Hey Jude"" & ""I Heard It Through the Grapevine"" --Bobbie Gentry - ""Papa"" & ""Ode to Billy Joe"" --Buck Owens - ""Act Naturally"" and ""Tall Dark Stranger"" --Nancy Ames - ""So Good To See Ya Babe"" & ""The Name Game"" --Marty Allen (stand-up comedian) --David Frye (comedian doing impressions of celebrities) --George Kirby (stand-up comedian)
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Episode 25 : scheduled: Liza Minnelli, Rod McKuen, Liberace
March. 22,1970
Scheduled guests: --Liza Minnelli - possibly ""If I Were In Your Shoes"" --Rod McKuen (poet-composer) - ""London,"" ""Jean"" and ""Everybody's Rich But Us"" --Liberace --Phyllis Diller (comedian) --Bill Dana (comedian) --Bojangles (singer, from Liza's nightclub act) --The Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band (from Trinidad) Note: An edited version of this episode has appeared on PBS. Any details about the PBS repeat would be appreciated!!
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Episode 24 : Holiday on Ice Salute / Ed Ames / Lana Cantrell
March. 15,1970
Salute to ""Holiday on Ice"" (Silver Anniversary) Guests: --Ed Ames - ""Three Reasons"" --Lana Cantrell - ""Isn't This a Lovely Day?"" Ice skating segments: --Ronnie Robertson (solo skater) --Marei Langenbein (solo skater) --Alfredo Mendoza & Carol Johnson (ice ballet) --John Leech - skater in a sketch about an after-the-party hangover. --Werner and Denise Muller --The Cook Family (acrobats) --Kossmayer's Mules --The Holiday Chimps
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Episode 22 : Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Dionne Warwick
February. 22,1970
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Episode 21 : Supremes (without Diana Ross) / Joe Frazier / Robert Klein
February. 15,1970
Guests: --The ""New"" Supremes - ""Up the Ladder to the Roof"" & show tunes (Supremes with Cindy Birdsong, Jean Terrel & Mary Wilson - without Diana Ross) --Joe Frazier (wearing tuxedo, in a boxing ring set) - sings ""Knock on Wood"" --Robert Klein (stand-up comedian) --Arte Johnson (stand-up comedian) --Caterina Valente - ""Never Will I Marry"" & ""Anything Goes"" --Michael Parks - ""Mountain High"" & ""My Melancholy Baby""
--Hawthorn Tigers (animal act) --Ed Sullivan Singers - ""Mame"" --Santini Demon (a.k.a. The Amazing Fire Eating Santani Demon) - fire eater swallows lit torches, swords --Audience bows (cameos): Molly Pecan, Sam Levine; Ernie Terrel
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Episode 20 : Bobby Goldsboro / Richard Pryor / George Carlin
February. 08,1970
Guests: --Bobby Goldsboro - ""Everybody's Talkin'"" & ""Can You Feel It?"" --Richard Pryor (stand-up comedy) --Connie Stevens - ""Yankee Doodle,"" ""Give My Regards To Broadway"" & ""If I Were A Rich Man"" --Boots Randolph - ""Nashville, Tennessee"" & ""Hey, Jude"" --Floyd Cramer - ""I'll Never Fall in Love Again"" --Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, and Boots Randolph - medley: ""I Can't Help It,"" ""Jambalaya,"" ""I Saw the Light"" --George Carlin (stand-up comedy) --David Frye (impressionist) --Mr. Jiggs (chimp act) --Sam & Sammy (acrobats) --Audience bows (cameos): Joe Frazier, Yankee Durham CBS repeated this show on June 21, 1970.
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Episode 19 : scheduled: Bob Newhart; Gwen Verdon; George Carlin
February. 01,1970
Scheduled guests: --Bob Newhart --Gwen Verdon --George Carlin --Sergio Franchi --Skiles & Henderson --Leo Samourai
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Episode 18 : Little Anthony & the Imperials / B.J. Thomas / Robert Klein
January. 25,1970
Guests: --B.J. Thomas - ""That Old Black Magic"" & ""Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"" --Patti Page - ""La La La,"" ""Winter World of Love"" & ""Something""
--Little Anthony & the Imperials - ""Goin' Out of My Head,"" ""Don't Get Close,"" ""Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop,"" ""Tears on My Pillow"" & ""Hurt So Bad"" --Robert Klein (comedian) - re: working as a substitute teacher --Norm Crosby (comedian) --The Jovers (comic balancing act)
--Klauser's Bears --Jacques d'Amboise (New York City Ballet dancer) Scheduled to appear (but not mentioned on repeat):
--Sly and the Family Stone CBS repeated this show on August 9, 1970
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Episode 17 : Muhammad Ali / June Allyson / Buddy Greco
January. 18,1970
Guests: --Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay) - gives speech & sings: ""Big Time Buck White"" & ""We Came In Chains"" --June Allyson (medley of show tunes) --Minnie Pearl (comedian) --Bill Dana (as Jose Jimenez) --Michael James Brody Jr. & his wife Rennie - ""You Ain't Goin' Nowhere"" --The Kessler Twins (Alice & Ellen Kessler, twin sisters from Germany) - ""This Girl's in Love with You"" --Buddy Greco - ""Aquarius,"" ""Spinning Wheel,"" ""Smiling Faces,"" and ""A Day in the Life of a Fool"" --Mac Ronay (magician)
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Episode 15 : scheduled: Temptations; Oliver; Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
January. 04,1970
--The Temptations - ""Psychedelic Shack""
Other guests (scheduled): --Oliver - ""Sunday Morning,"" ""Jean,"" ""Good Morning Starshine"" --Roy Rogers & Dale Evans --Rodney Dangerfield --Jacques d'Amboise
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Episode 14 : scheduled: Charlie Manna; Your Father's Moustache
December. 28,1969
Scheduled guests: --Roberta Peters - sings ""Sempra Libera"" (from ""La Traviata"")
--Robert Merrill - sings ""Di Provenza IL Mar"" (from ""La Traviata"") --Joan Rivers (comedian) --Jerry Vale (singer) --Dana Valery (singer) --Charlie Manna (comedian) --Your Father's Mustache (Dixieland band)
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Episode 9 : The Rolling Stones / Ella Fitzgerald / Eddie Albert
November. 23,1969
Guests: --The Rolling Stones - ""Gimme Shelter,"" ""Love in Vain"" & ""Honky Tonk Woman."" --Ella Fitzgerald - ""You Better Love Me"" & ""Open Your Window"" --Robert Klein (stand-up comedian, talks about his school days) --Ed Ames - ""A Thing Called Love"" & ""I Believe"" --Topo Gigio (Topo prepares for football game) --Peter Gennero (dance segment; Gennero and 2 women dance to ""Smiling Phases"")
--Hawthorn Tigers (animal act; tiger riding on horseback alone & with trainer) --Eddie Albert (actor, delivers speech to God about religion's hypocrisy & reality)
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Episode 6 : Petula Clark, Les Faux Follets
October. 02,1969
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Episode 4 : Smith / Cyd Charisse / Joan Rivers / Lana Cantrell
October. 19,1969
Guests (on 30-minute PBS repeat): --Smith - ""Baby It's You"" --Cyd Charisse - dances to an instrumental version of ""MacArthur Park"" --Joan Rivers & Anthony Holland - bank robber sketch with Rivers as teller and Holland as robber. --Lana Cantrell (singer from Australia) - ""A Time for Us"" --Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) - Topo talks to Ed about Halloween; Topo then sings with chickens as their eggs hatch. --The Don Ellis Band - ""Concerto for Trumpet""
Additional guests: --Raphael (scheduled to appear) --The New York Mets (with Tom Seaver) sang ""You Gotta Have Heart"" (Please see Note below).
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Episode 3 : Lee Marvin / Woody Allen / Oliver / Shirley Bassey
October. 12,1969
Guests: --Woody Allen
--Lee Marvin (with the Yale Glee Club) - ""Wandering Star"" (from the movie ""Paint Your Wagon"") Lee Marvin making his singing debut,
--Oliver (singer) - ""Jean"" & ""Where is Love?""
--Shirley Bassey - ""I'll Never Fall in Love Again"" & ""This is My Life""
--Jo Anne Worley (comedian) --The Yale Glee Club - Football medley --The Castro Brothers (singers-instrumentalists) - ""Say a Little Prayer for Me"" & ""Michelle"" --The Alcettys (plate spinners) --Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) CBS repeated this show on August 23, 1970.
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Episode 1 : 23rd Season Premiere: Barbra Streisand / The Temptations
September. 28,1969
1969-70 season premiere (Ed Sullivan's 23nd season):
--The Temptations - ""I Can't Get Next to You,"" ""September in the Rain"" & ""Autumn Leaves"" --Barbra Streisand (on tape from Las Vegas) - ""Hello, Dolly"" medley: ""Before the Parade Passes By,"" ""So Long, Dearie"" & ""Hello Dolly""
--Tony Bennett - ""What the World Needs Now Is Love,"" ""People"" & ""I Gotta Be Me."" --Red Skelton (comedian) - classic drunk routine; ""the bin salesman"" --The Osipov Balalaika Festival Orchestra - Russian folk dance and music. --Audience bows: Jerry Vale; Rodney Dangerfield
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