The Ed Sullivan Show

Ed Sullivan Show Special Edition

--Jack Jones (guest host) sings "Get Together" and "If I Could Read Your Mind."
--Your Father's Moustache - "Mountain Dew" and "5-Feet-Two."
--Loretta Lynn - "I Wanna Be Free" and "Coal Miner's Daughter."
--Jack Jones and Loretta Lynn - "Move It On Home."
--The New Seekers - "Look What They've Done to My Song," "Beautiful People" and "Nickel Man."

--Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara (comedy team) - routine includes parody of insurance commercials, pilot admits to being afraid to fly, a woman tells man she's pregnant, and parody of detergent commercial. Later in show, they do a routine where "Walter Cronkite" interviews the mother of a student protester.

Medley (Jack Jones and guests):
"La Bomba" (Charles Rodriguez), "I'm A Nut" (Loretta Lynn), instrumental song (Your Father's Moustache), "Your Song" (The New Seekers), "Do You Love Me?" (Stiller and Meara), "God Bless America" (spoken by Loretta Lynn), "What Are You Doing?" (Jack Jones), and "Those Were the Days" (entire cast).

Music:
--Oliver - "Early Morning Rain" & "Walking Down the Line."
--Bernadette Peters - "Look for the Silver Lining."
--Bernadette Peters & Oliver - "Yes, Yes, Bernadette."
--George Hamilton - "If I Could Read Your Mind" (and possibly "This Time").
--The Phil Driscoll Explosion - "California Dreamin'."
--Young Saints - "Shout," "Oh, Happy Day" & "Didn't It Rain?"

Comedy:
--Georgie Kaye (comedian)
--Skiles and Henderson (comedy team)

Music:
--Gladys Knight & the Pips - "If I Were Your Woman" & "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
--Jerry Vale - "I Want To Make It With You," "My Love, Forgive Me," & "Peace in the Valley."
--Caterina Valente - "Everybody Gets to go to the Moon," "Mack the Knife" (in German) & "The Girl from Impanema" (in Portuguese).
--Peter Nero (pianist) - theme from "Love Story."

Broadway:
--Sid Caesar & Carol Channing - perform a scene from the play "Four on a Garden."

Comedy:
--Robert Klein (stand-up comedian) - tells jokes about going to the dentist.
--Pat Henry (comedian)

CBS repeated this show on June 6, 1971.

Music:
--Friends of Distinction - "Grazing In The Grass."
--Bobbie Gentry and the Goose Creek Symphony - "He Made A Woman Out Of Me," "Cripple Creek" and "Welcome to Goose Creek."
--Bobbie Gentry (playing piano) sings a Gospel medley.
--Peter Nero (pianist, with orchestra) - "I Got Rhythm" and "Rhapsody in Blue."
--Raphael (entertainer from Spain) sings "Maybe" ("Somos"), "When My Love Is Around" ("Cuando llega mi amor"), and "The Sound of the Trumpet" ("Balada de la trompeta").

Comedy:
--Pat Cooper - stand-up routine includes motherhood and child-rearing jokes.
--Steve Rossi and Slappy White (comedians) - Rossi starts routine by singing an Italian song, then interviews Slappy White (playing a hipster/civil-rights leader).
--Billy Baxter (comedian)

Music:
--The New Seekers - medley: "Look What They've Done to My Song," "Your Song," Baby Face" and "Beautiful People."
--Bobby Sherman - "Going Home" & "Song of Joy" (Christmas songs).
--Robert Merrill (baritone singer from The Met) sings "If I Were a Rich Man" (from 'Fiddler on the Roof') and the Arias from "Aida," "Carmen" and "La Traviata."

Broadway:
--Cast members from "The Rothschilds" (including Hal Linden and Robby Benson) perform "Sons."

Comedy:
--Marilyn Michaels (comedian-singer) - sings "Swanee" (as a tribute to Judy Garland).
--Guy Marks (comedian) - stand-up routine about young love.

Also appearing:
--Ali MacGraw (actress) recites a poem from 1692 (while a montage from "Love Story" is shown).
--Les Ballets Africains (troupe that performs traditional African dances) - "Dance of the Lion King."
--Audience bows: Maurie Luxford, Herbert Rainwater and Howard Minsky.

A Salute to Richard Rodgers (broadcast from the Hollywood Bowl).

Songs include:
--Johnny Mathis - "My Funny Valentine."
--Johnny Mathis & the Lennon Sisters - "Johnny One Note."
--'Mama' Cass Elliott - "The Girlfriend."
--Johnny Mathis - "The Lady Is A Tramp."
--The Lennon Sisters - "Where or When."

Songs from "Oklahoma":
--John Davidson - "Oh, What A Beautiful Morning."
--John Davidson - "Surrey With A Fringe On Top" (Davidson singing to Jeannie C. Riley & Minnie Pearl).
--John Davidson & Jeannie C. Riley - "People Will Say We're In Love."
--Oklahoma (Broadway cast) - "The Farmer & The Rancher Can't Be Found" & "Oklahoma."

Songs from "The King and I":
--Shirley Jones - "Whistle a Happy Tune."
--Herschel Bernadi and Shirley Jones do some dialogue from the play.
--Shirley Jones & Herschel Bernadi - "Shall We Dance?"

--Ed Sullivan interviews Danny Kaye.
Danny Kaye sings "Two By Two."

"Sound of Music" medley:
--"My Favorite Things," "Do-Re-Mi" and "Climb Every Mountain" performed by Johnny Mathis, Cass Elliott, John Davidson, Lennon Sisters, Shirley Jones, Herschel Bernadi, Minnie Pearl and Jeannie C. Riley.

Music:
--Tommy Roe - "Dizzy" & "Oh Heather Honey."
--Billy Joe Royal - "Cherry Hill Park" & "I Knew You When."
--Joe South - "Don't It Made You Want to Go Home" & "Walk A Mile in My Shoes."
--Joe South, Billy Joe Royal & Tommy Roe - "Games People Play"
--Abbe Lane - sings a medley of Gospel songs: "Sometimes I'm Up," "And When I Die" and "Saved."

Comedy:
--Dick Gregory (comedian)
--Tony Fayne and Norman Wisdom (comedians) - sketch about a drum set.
--Jeremy Vernon (comedian) - does a monologue about long-distance phone calls.

Dance:
--Natalya Makarova (Russian ballerina) and Ted Kivitt (of the American Ballet Theater) - perform the pas de deux from "Swan Lake."

Also appearing:
--Professional automobile racers Sterling Moss, Dan Gurney, Jackie Stewart and Graham Hill compete by racing toy cars in a model car track, with Bill Mazur.
--Audience bows:Johnny Mathis, Bob Sylvester.
--Audience bow: Bob Johnson (running back of the New York Giants).

Show broadcast from the Baltimore Civic Center.

Music:
--Rare Earth - "I'm Losing You" & "Let the Sunshine In" (on ice w/ skaters).
--Bobby Vinton sings "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" and a medley ("London Bridge," "Knees Up Mother Brown," "Whoops-A-Daisy," "I'm A Londoner" & "The Old Bamboo").
--Bobby Vinton and Karen Wyman - "For Me and My Gal" duet.
--Karen Wyman sings a medley of Edith Piaf songs ("Milord," "If You Love Me," "Love Is Like Champagne" & "La Vie En Rose").

Comedy:
--Joe Jackson (hobo clown) - rides a bike which falls apart.

Holiday on Ice segments (1970 edition of ice show):
--Tommy Allen & Juanita Percelly (ice skating pair) - do a Russian production number, and skate to "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" & "I'll Never Fall In Love Again."
--Marei Langenbein and Ray Balmer (skaters doing cal and modern ballets).
--John LaDue & Alfredo Mendoza - skaters in a "Ferdinand the Bull" story.
--In a production number, the Holiday on Ice Corps de Ballet do a tribute to Sonja Henie.
--Skaters perform a slapstick cop & drunk routine (pie in the face slapstick, etc.)
--A Cinderella production number.
--Tommy Curtain (juggles while skating).
--Tommy Holiday (trained animal act with chimps on ice skates, dogs also perform).

Music:
--Nancy Sinatra (with the Rutgers University Marching Band) - "California Dreamin'" & "I Love Them All" (2nd song might be "The Boys in the Band").
--Bobby Vinton - "Take Me In Your Arms" & "My Elusive Dream."
--Joan Sutherland & Marilyn Horne - "Mira O Norma."

Comedy:
--Rodney Dangerfield (stand-up routine)
--Wayne and Shuster (comedy team) - psychic skit.
--Irwin C. Watson (stand-up routine)

Also appearing:
--Trio Rennos (comic acrobats)
--Audience bow: Liberace.

Filmed segment:
--A National Urban Coalition PSA promoting racial harmony, with 100 figures in entertainment, business, government and sports gathered together to sing "Let the Sunshine In." The cast includes Ralph Bunche, Ray Charles, Henry Fonda, Merv Griffin, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Ali MacGraw, Leonard Nimoy, Leontyne Price, Ed Sullivan, Eli Wallach & Anne Jackson, Roy Wilkins, Flip Wilson, and the cast of "Hair."

Guests (appearing live):
--Dionne Warwick - "We Can Work It Out"
--Peggy Lee - "Something" & "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
--Paul McCartney (on tape), Dionne Warwick, Peggy Lee - "Yesterday"
--Duke Ellington and his orchestra
--Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme - "Fool on the Hill"
--Peter Gennaro Dancers (with Gennaro as Sergeant Pepper in a dance production number) - "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
--Edward Villella (of the New York Ballet) - "Lucy in the Sky"
--The Muppets - "In an Octopus's Garden"''
CBS repeated this episode on Sept. 13, 1970.moreless

"The Swinging, Soulful Sixties"
Ed Sullivan reviews the decade in entertainment with taped segments from Ed's shows throughout the 1960s:

Broadway-Theater music (taped):
--Richard Burton - Soliloquy from Shakespeare's "Hamlet."
--Robert Goulet - song from "Camelot" and "Happy Face."
--Gwen Verdon - "If My Friends Could See Me Now" (from "Sweet Charity")

Beatlemania (taped):
--Beatles at Shea Stadium August 15, 1965.

Other British Invasion acts (taped):
--Petula Clark - "Downtown" (excerpt) & interview.
--Clips of Dave Clark Five, Animals, Herman's Hermits, and the Rolling Stones.

'60s Headlines and Movies (live in-studio)
--David Frost looks at '60s news events and cinema.

Diana Ross & the Supremes (live):
--Ed Sullivan talks to Diana Ross about trends of popular music in the 1960s.
--The Supremes - Medley ("Baby Love," "Stop! In the Name of Love," "Come See About Me," "My World Is Empty Without You," "You Can't Hurry Love," "The Happening," "Keep Me Hangin' On," "Reflections," "Love Child" and "I Hear a Symphony").
--The Supremes - "Someday We'll Be Together"

Barbara Streisand (taped):
Excerpt of Barbra Streisand singing "I Cried a River," clips from "Funny Girl" and her Las Vegas appearance.

American performers (taped):
--Herb Alpert - "Taste of Honey" (excerpt).
--Judy Garland - "Smile."

Music:
--The Rolling Stones perform "Gimme Shelter," "Love in Vain" & "Honky Tonk Woman." (All three songs taped Nov. 18, 1969 in Los Angeles).
--Ella Fitzgerald - "You Better Love Me" & "Open Your Window."
--Ed Ames - "A Thing Called Love" & "I Believe."

Comedy:
--Robert Klein - talks about his school days.
--Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) - Topo prepares for a football game.

Also appearing:
--Eddie Albert (actor) - recites Norman Corwin's "Prayer for the '70s," a speech to God about religion's hypocrisy & reality. (Eddie Albert also read this prayer on the April 6, 1969 episode.)
--Peter Gennero and two women dance to "Smiling Phases."
--Hawthorn Tigers (animal act) - tiger rides on horseback alone & with trainer.

Other guests (scheduled to appear): ''--Rodney Dangerfield''--Stiller & Meara (comedy team) ''--Peter Gennaro (dancer) - "Don't Rain on My Parade"''--The Inner Dialogue - "The Touch" & "I Go to Life"moreless

Music:
--Janis Joplin - "Raise Your Hand" & "Maybe, Maybe, Maybe."
--Ed Ames - "If I Had A Hammer" & "Changing, Changing" (possible 3rd song: "Love").
--Honey Ltd. (four female singers) - "At Long Last Love" & "R-E-S-P-E-C-T."
--The United States Air Force Marching Band (Strategic Air Command band).

Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer and Boots Randolph segment:
--Boots Randolph (saxophonist) - "Yakety Sax."
--Floyd Cramer (pianist) - "On the Rebound."
--Chet Atkins (guitarist) - "Autumn Leaves."
--Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer and Boots Randolph - "Rock a Bye Your Baby (with a Dixie Melody)."

Comedy:
--Scoey Mitchell (stand-up comedian).
Also appearing:
--The Carals (juggling-balancing act from Germany) - man with female assistant.
--Norm Neilson (magic act)
--Barbara Joe Rubin (female jockey) - interviewed by Ed.
--Audience bows: Buddy and Sherry Hackett (comedian & his wife); Jerry Vale (singer); and Benny Friedman (University of Michigan 1925 All American star).

--Paul Anka - "Goodnight My Love" & "It Only Takes A Moment."
--The Checkmates Ltd.
--Flip Wilson - comedy monologue.

Additional guests (scheduled to appear):
--Gwen Verdon (dancer-singer) - "Big Wind Blew in from Winnetka" production number.
--Alan King - comedy monologue.
--Nancy Walker and Alan King (comedians) - play an arguing couple in a comedy sketch.
--Nancy Ames - sings a medley of pop tunes.
--The Ethiopian Peace Corps Orchestra.
--The Hermanis(novelty act).