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Right Here on Our Stage Tonight
Before the advent of cable and its hundreds of channels, before iPods and the Internet, three television networks ruled America's evenings. And for twenty-three years, Ed Sullivan, the Broadway gossip columnist turned awkward emcee, ruled Sunday nights. It was Sullivan's genius to take a worn-out stage genre-vaudeville-and transform it into the TV variety show, a format that was to dominate for decades. Right Here on Our Stage Tonight! tells the complete saga of The Ed Sullivan Show and, through the voices of some 60 stars interviewed for the book, brings to life the most beloved, diverse, multi-cultural, and influential variety hour ever to air. Gerald Nachman takes us through those years, from the earliest dog acts and jugglers to Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and beyond. Sullivan was the first TV impresario to feature black performers on a regular basis-including Nat King Cole, Pearl Bailey, James Brown, and Richard Pryor-challenging his conservative audience and his own traditional tastes, and changing the face of American popular culture along the way. No other TV show ever cut such a broad swath through our national life or cast such a long shadow, nor has there ever been another show like it. Nachman's compulsively readable history, illustrated with classic photographs and chocked with colorful anecdotes, reanimates The Ed Sullivan Show for a new generation.
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DVD Spotlight; Beatles' really big shews; A new two-disc set offers the four complete 'Ed Sullivan' programs with the Fab Four
The Beatles' arrival on the [Ed Sullivan] show has been shown in documentaries, but the unique thing about a new DVD, \"The Four Complete Historic Ed Sullivan Shows Featuring the Beatles,\" is that it doesn't just offer us the Beatles' 20 performances from three shows in 1964 and one in 1965, but the entire programs, including commercials. So we can watch each show just as viewers did. Because [Bruce Springsteen] and the band began their 1999 reunion tour in Barcelona, Spain, many Springsteen fans may assume this two-disc set documents that historic show. Instead, it is taken from Springsteen's return to Barcelona during 2002's \"The Rising\" tour. Besides the songs from that album, which was a moving reflection on the trauma of Sept. 11, the concert features such signature Springsteen songs as \"Badlands,\" \"Born to Run\" and \"Thunder Road.\" The bonus footage includes a tour documentary. [Justin Timberlake]: Blessed with musical instincts.; PHOTOGRAPHER: Getty Images; LINKIN PARK: Lead singer [Chester Bennington] belts it out.; PHOTOGRAPHER: Ken Hively Los Angeles Times; HISTORY: The \"Ed Sullivan\" DVD includes the commercials, so we can watch as viewers did.; PHOTOGRAPHER: SOFA Entertainment Inc.
Newspaper Article
COMMENTARY; A really big showman ...; Ed Sullivan's Sunday night variety hour helped pioneer the idea of must-see TV
Sullivan's major legacy goes almost unmentioned now -- his trailblazing efforts to bring black artists to television at a time when it was unusual to see a black face other than an athlete on the small all-white screen on a major mainstream prime-time show.
Newspaper Article
Los Angeles; L.A. THEN AND NOW; DJ Mortgaged His House to Bring the Beatles to the Bowl
The slavish hysteria repelled some more serious fans. A group of teenagers from Birmingham High School in the San Fernando Valley picketed the airport as the Beatles arrived and the Hollywood Bowl before the concert, begging fans to quiet down and listen to the music. They might have saved their breath. On. Aug. 23, 1964, the Beatles opened the concert with \"Twist and Shout\" and \"You Can't Do That.\" The screams, [Bob Eubanks] wrote, were deafening. No one could hear a thing over the crying, shrieking girls. The Beatles cleared $58,000 for their 30-minute performance; Eubanks paid off his loan, saved his house and cleared a cool $1,000. The Beatles returned to Los Angeles twice before they split up, appearing again at the Bowl in 1965 and at Dodger Stadium in 1966. BOOKED BEATLES: Bob Eubanks was a top-40 disc jockey before he became host of \"The Newlywed Game\" on TV.; FAB FOUR: The Beatles, from left, [Paul McCartney], [George Harrison], [Ringo Starr] and [John Lennon], cleared $58,000 for their 30-minute performance at the Hollywood Bowl on Aug. 23, 1964.; PHOTOGRAPHER: Otto Rothschild Collection; BDU.S. DEBUT: Ed Sullivan, center, meets with the Beatles, from left, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, at rehearsal for their first live American concert in February 1964.; PHOTOGRAPHER: United Press International; BDUP CLOSE: The hostess of a Brentwood charity party in 1964 helps a girl through a reception line to meet the Beatles, seated from left, George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney.; PHOTOGRAPHER: Los Angeles Times
Newspaper Article
ON NEW DVDS AND A REMIXED CD, THE BEATLES GET BACK ON A SUNDAY NIGHT IN 1964, AN `ED SULLIVAN' EPIPHANY
For their children, the baby boomers, it was a much happier date: Feb. 9, 1964, the night the Beatles first appeared on \"The [ED SULLIVAN] Show.\" Now that the four hours of the Beatles' live appearances on the show - the three February dates from 1964 and their return in 1965 - have been released on DVD as \"The Four Complete Historic Ed Sullivan Shows Featuring the Beatles,\" it's time to look back in wonderment, more than nostalgia. What made these programs such a transformative experience? While Mitzi Gaynor was stirring our hormones on the Feb. 16 show, and any number of horrible individual acts - including comedians Dave Barry (no, not that Dave Barry) and Myron Cohen - were catering to our parents, the Beatles were teaching another lesson. Watching them enjoy one another's company and goof on the Sullivan ethos (their collective disbelief when Sullivan tells them Richard Rodgers was a huge fan) made me realize that I didn't have to be a macho man. Oh, and the music. Even with the bad sound of '60s television, the gentle but propulsive quality of the Beatles' songs come through on these DVDs - particularly in the 1965 segment, when the music got quirkier, with the hard R&B of \"I'm Down\" and the country swing of \"Act Naturally\" setting off the Mersey-er melodies of \"Ticket to Ride,\" \"I Feel Fine,\" and \"Yesterday.\" The Beatles were more confident this time around. By 1965, Sullivan needed them more than they needed him.
Newspaper Article
Squashed by the Beatles; The Mop-Tops Weren't the Only Act on 'Ed Sullivan' That Night. More's the Pity
[Mitzi McCall] and [Charlie Brill] are on the phone from Los Angeles, where they live, still married and not quite retired from show business. They have a sense of humor about their disastrous walk-on before 73 million people -- about 40 percent of the U.S. population -- and they described it one recent afternoon, talking over each other and taking turns with the excruciating details. The passage of 40 years has given them some distance about the episode, and they realize now that the quality of their performance is beside the point. But there are limits. Brill has never watched a tape of their five-minute fiasco, and though it now can be seen on a two-disc DVD of the Beatles' four appearances on \"The Ed Sullivan Show\" (\"Ed Sullivan Presents the Beatles and Various Other Artists\"), it sounds as if he never will. As McCall and Brill ran through their act, [Sullivan] watched and decided that their routine, which he'd never before seen, was a little too highbrow for a national audience. So he beckoned the couple into his dressing room and asked them to audition some other material for him, on the spot. They did, and then Sullivan instantly fabricated a new sketch by cobbling together the bits he liked. It was a complicated and confusing patchwork, and McCall and Brill soon slumped to their dressing room, where they desperately tried to remember their instructions. By 8 p.m. -- showtime -- McCall and Brill had a draft of something. Ed Sullivan delivered his famously wooden introduction of the Beatles, whom he called \"tremendous ambassadors of goodwill.\" He prepped the audience with quick mentions of the season's past highlights, which included a visit from the Italian mouse puppet Topo Gigio and the Singing Nun. Then: \"Now yesterday and today, our theater's been jammed with newspapermen and hundreds of photographers from all over the nation, and these veterans agree with me that the city never has witnessed the excitement stirred by these youngsters from Liverpool who call themselves the Beatles.\"
Newspaper Article
DVD Reviews: Various Artists: \Ed Sullivan's Rock 'N' Roll Classics\
A DVD recording of full-length performances by various artists on \"The Ed Sullivan Show\" is reviewed. Photographs are included.
Magazine Article
Right here on our stage tonight!: Ed Sullivan's America
[CIP Nachman] (a freelance writer and newspaper columnist) contributes to the literature on popular culture in the US by telling the story of Ed Sullivan's weekly variety show on CBS, The Ed Sullivan Show, from its beginning in 1948 (when it was called Toast of the Town).
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