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• Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022

  The wealth of jazz on the Ed Sullivan Show

  The Ed Sullivan Show, which ran on CBS TV in the US every Sunday night from 1948-1971, is well known for appearances by The Beatles and other pop bands, but it also hosted many jazz performers, thus inadvertently forming a valuable historical archive of performances by leading jazz artists.
• Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022

  Watch Peter & Gordon’s British Invasion-Era ‘Five Hundred Miles’ On ‘Ed Sullivan Show’

  A fondly-remembered duo at the heart of the original British Invasion can be seen performing live in a newly-shared clip of Peter & Gordon’s “Five Hundred Miles” from the archive of The Ed Sullivan Show. Peter Asher and Gordon Waller had crashed onto the American pop scene in the late spring of 1964 with the Capitol Records single “A World Without Love,” The Lennon--McCartney song bathed in the limelight...
• Monday, July 11th, 2022

  Watch Motown’s Barbara McNair Sing ‘Just In Time’ on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’

  A late 1965 performance by then-new Motown signing Barbara McNair has been shared from the archives of The Ed Sullivan Show. The clip, now featured on the official YouTube...