1963-12-10, WCBS, 4 min.
On Dec. 12, 1963, Alexander Kendrick reports on the phenomenon of The Beatles who have yet to come to America. Their appearance on the "Ed Sullivan Show" took place Feb. 9, 1964. Walter Cronkite anchors this flashback news report on the Dec. 19, 1980 edition of the CBS Evening News.
1964-02-06, CBS, min.
Castro shuts off the water supply to Guantanamo Bay, the Vietcong score successes in Vietnam, Adam Clayton Powell speaks in Cambridge, Maryland during a crisis, the Beatles arrive in New York City, comments by teenagers and the Beatles, Howard Cosell on coming Clay-Liston fight, Clay might be worried, interview with race car driver Sterling Moss.
Host: Walter Cronkite.
1964-02-07, WINS, 21 min.
A WINS RADIO SPECIAL REPORT.
Murray Kaufman (Murray The K) hosts this special introducing the Beatles singing foursome arriving in New York from the UK on Friday February 7, 1964.
Reporting from Kennedy Airport, WINS reporter, Paul Parker describes the scene, and press conference. Reporter Jim Gordon reports from The Plaza Hotel. Jim Anderson reports from England and relates who The Beatles are, and their historic meteoric rise to stardom. Anderson gives a bio on each of the four Beatles.
Rod McLeish reports from the UK on "The Mersey Sound."
NOTE: This rare 1010 WINS Radio Special Report audio air check contains only the opening 20 minutes of this 55 minute broadcast. Occasional slight static heard during the original transmission.
1964-02-09, WCBS, 59 min.
Ed Sullivan presents the USA television debut of the Beatles. This was to be the highest rated program of the 1963-1964 season. The Beatles sing five songs. Also on the show are Georgia Brown, Tessie O'Shea and impressionist Frank Gorshin. All original commercials are included in this complete historic broadcast, including the KENT cigarette commercial eliminated when this broadcast was originally converted to digital mastering, and not seen/heard since this broadcast originally aired.
1964-02-10, CBS, min.
Eric Sevareid comments on the Beatles including their trip to New York City and appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show last night.
Host: Eric Devareid.
1964-02-10, WMCA, min.
Barry Gray was an American radio personality, often referred to as "the father of talk radio." His late-night New York City radio talk show was carried by WOR radio and then later by WMCA.
Barry Gray returned to WMCA in 1950, and stayed there for 39 years, refining the talk show format still utilized today. During the 1960s, he was in the odd position of having an 11 p.m.-1 a.m. late-night talk show on a station otherwise dominated by Top 40 music and the youth-targeted "Good Guys" disc jockey campaign. But for teenagers who kept their radios on into the night, Gray's show was a window into the high-brow New York culture of the 1940s and 1950s.
Topic: Comments on the Beatles. Also, Howard Samuels on the current political picture.
1964-02-16, CBS, min.
June 20, 1948 - May 30, 1971
ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE, (TOAST OF THE TOWN)
Television's longest-running variety series. Originally, titled, TOAST OF THE TOWN, the name of the series changed on September 18, 1955, to THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. Most remembered for introducing many stand-up comedians, and musical acts, including The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, The Beatles.
Most of the 1,087 broadcasts, encompassing 10,000 performers, have been archived. The major exceptions are the first half-year of shows circa 1948 of which a few kinescope excerpts survive.
The ED SULLIVAN SHOW was a spectacular show-case that for twenty-three years entertained the American family. In its prime, more than thirty million viewers, young and old, tuned in at the same time to view popular culture.
The guests are The Beatles and the comedy team of Marty Allen and Steve Rossi. In the audience are boxing champions Joe Louis and Sonny Liston.
1964-09-18, WABC, 26 min.
Bill Beutel, Bruce Morrow and Scott Muni review the Beatles craze in this special.
Along with studio evaluations as to why the Beatles craze is so escalated, there are on site location recordings prior to the Beatles Forest Hills concert...on location recordings during the making of HARD DAY'S NIGHT, many interviews with the Beatles, reactions from Beatle fans, and Press conferences with the fabulous fore-some. Two complete Beatle songs are played.
Included in this air check is one complete Pepsi Cola commercial who sponsored this program.
1965-03-08, ABC, 24 min.
Rock and Roll music show with Beatles interview. Includes commercials.
Announcer: Scott Vincent, opening introduction.
Highlights: The Isley Brothers sing "Shake it Up Baby," commercial for Noxema skin cream, Linda Scott sings "I Told Every Little Star," and "New York's a Lonely Town," commercial for Kutex Nail Polish, Score Hair Cream and Trade Winds, Linda Scott sings "Patch It Up," Isley Brothers sing "Simon Says," a report on the February 12th marriage of Ringo Starr. Ringo and new wife interviewed.
Host: Bruce Morrow, Co-host, Scott Muni.
1965-05-18, NBC, 52 min.
The seventh annual Grammy awards are presented from the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California.
Dean Martin originally scheduled to hosts is replaced by Steve Allen who hosts this musical hour featuring many winners of the recording industry's 1964 Grammy Awards.
Special guest Sammy Davis Jr. offers a musical tribute to the late Nat King Cole; Frank Sinatra receives the Grammy Golden Achievement Award; and in a segment taped in London, Peter Sellers interviews the Beatles.
Introducing the Grammy-winning performers are Woody Allen, Eddy Arnold, Tony Bennett, Godfrey Cambridge, Carol Channing, Arthur Fiedler, Jack Jones and Steve Lawrence.
HIGHLIGHTS:
"Hello Dolly!".........................Jimmy Durante
"Downtown"................................Petula Clark
"King of the Road..............................Roger Miller
"Pink Panther".............................Henry Mancini
Comedy Monologue.....................Bill Cosby
"Girl from Ipanema"..........Astrud Gilberto, Stan Getz
"A Hard Day's Night...............................Beatles
" We'll Sing in the Sunshine................Gale Garnett
"Bedinerie" (from Bach's Suite in B Minor).......Swingle Singers
1967-01-10, WABC, 52 min.
Telecast of the concert given by The Beatles at Shea Stadium in New York on August 15, 1965; featuring Sounds, Incorporated, Brenda Holloway, King Curtis and The Discotheque Dancers, also performing. The report covers the time before, during and after the concert, including comments from members of The Beatles group in their dressing room.
1967-11-12, WCBS, 52 min.
June 20, 1948-June 6, 1971. Television's longest-running variety show ran on Sunday nights for twenty-three years. Its host, Ed Sullivan.
1968-03-30, WABC, 52 min.
January 4, 1964-February 7, 1970. This hour-long variety series was a midseason replacement for "The Jerry Lewis Show."
1968-10-06, WCBS, 52 min.
February 5, 1967-June 8, 1969. "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" was a breath of fresh air, but to CBS the Smothers Brothers seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, with the wrong things to say.
1969-05-05, WNBC, 54 min.
Dan Rowan and Dick Martin open this musical special which features the 1968
Grammy winners performing their hits.
Celebrities include The Temptations, Flip
Wilson, Jeannie C. Riley, The King Family, Jose Feliciano, Lou Rawls, Bobbie Gentry, Glen Campbell, Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Mama Cass Elliot, The Beatles, Nancy Sinatra, Mason Williams, Davy Jones, Bobby Goldsboro, Tiny Tim, Don Rickles,
Simon & Garfunkel, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Tom Smothers, Henry Mancini, and the Broadway cast of "Hair."
1969-09-22, WABC, 45 min.
September 22, 1969-January 12, 1970. This was the first broadcast of the series. Music series featuring appearances by guest artists. The forty-five-minute series was hosted by comedian David Steinberg. Performers included Chris Bokeno, Larry Hankin, Paul Reid Roman, Christopher Ross, and Lily Tomlin.
NOTE:
The Beatles perform "Give Peace A Chance". First showing on American television of the promotional film "The Ballad Of John And Yoko".
1969-12-21, WCBS, 51 min.
Ed Sullivan reviews the decade in entertainment. Highlights include The Beatles, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Robert Goulet, Petula Clark, John Byner and many clips of the great television entertainers from the 1960's, including Judy Garland, Sophie Tucker, Tony Bennett, Tiny Tim, David Frost, Herb Alpert, Richard Burton, Flip Wilson, Rolling Stones, Jack Benny, Gwen Verdon and Anthony Newley.
1970-03-01, WCBS, 52 min.
Ed Sullivan salutes The Beatles. Guest performers are Dionne Warwick, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Peggy Lee, Duke Ellington and the Muppets.
1971-10-17, WCBS, 78 min.
Ed Sullivan is host for a presentation of the most memorable segments from his former series, The Ed Sullivan Show; presenting unique, special or major performances by the most famous performers of past years, including some who made first appearances on the show or were provided with special showcasing; including: Elvis Presley, Jerry Lewis, the Beatles, Nureyev and Fonteyn, the Moiseyev Ballet; Jerry Lewis as a solo, Jack Benny, segments from the show devoted to the music of Irving Berlin, Sammy Davis Jr., Alan King, Wayne and Schuster, Joan Sutherland, Shirley Verrett and many others.
1975-02-02, WCBS, 50 min.
Memorable moments from the Ed Sullivan Show hosted by Dick Cavett. Highlight appearances by The Beatles, Maurice Chevalier, Sophie Tucker, Petula Clark, Janis Joplin, Barbra Streisand, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Woody Allen, Myron Cohen, Rodney Dangerfield, Alan King, Sam Levinson, Henny Youngman, Jerry Lewis, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, Joan Sutherland, Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, and Rod Steiger. This presentation was a specially edited one hour commercial repeat of the 90 minute TV Special which aired Oct. 17, 1971.
1975-02-02, CBS, 00 min.
Memorable moments from the Ed Sullivan Show hosted by Dick Cavett. Highlight appearances by The Beatles, Maurice Chevalier, Sophie Tucker, Petula Clark, Janis Joplin, Barbra Streisand, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Woody Allen, Myron Cohen, Rodney Dangerfield, Alan King, Sam Levinson, Henny Youngman, Jerry Lewis, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, Joan Sutherland, Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, and Rod Steiger. This presentation was a specially edited one hour commercial repeat of the 90 minute TV Special which aired Oct. 17, 1971.
Dupe Of Number 1144.
1977-11-24, WNBC, 52 min.
A Thanksgiving Day Special that salutes the music of The Beatles.
1977-11-24, WNBC, 52 min.
A Thanksgiving Day Special that salutes the music of The Beatles.
Dupe of # 5047
1980-12-09, CBS, 13 min.
Retrospective of CBS Evening news, November 21st 1963. The Beatles phenomenon, one day after the shooting death of John Lennon.