The Ed Sullivan
Show
The Longest Running Variety Show in TV
History
When I was
growing up it seemed that Ed Sullivan had been with us forever.
Ed Sullivan started in 1948 and left the air in 1971. Our
family would sit down to watch the Ed Sullivan Show
on CBS every Sunday night. He was a newspaper columnist
who's peculiar diction and weird gesture were made fun of
by all even comedians that appeared on his show.
There were all kind of acts world wide from opera to rock
singers to the unusual. Even circus acts found their way
on the Sullivan Show. Because of the variety of acts, The Ed
Sullivan Show was the longest running variety show in TV
history, surely never to be surpassed.
The show was
originally titled "The Toast of the Town" but in the beginning
of the 1955 season the name was changed to "The Ed Sullivan
Show."
  
Elvis Presley,
The Beatles, The Animals, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, and
The Kinks to name a few were some of the rock acts of the 60s
to appear on his show.
 
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