Ed Sullivan: News Report of His Death - October 13, 1974

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  • Famed TV front man, Ed Sullivan, has died. He was 73 years old.
    Edward Vincent Sullivan (September 28, 1901 - October 13, 1974) was an American television personality, impresario, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. He is principally remembered as the creator and host of the television variety program The Toast of the Town, later popularly-and, eventually, officially-renamed The Ed Sullivan Show. Broadcast for 23 years from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longest-running variety show in US broadcast history. "It was, by almost any measure, the last great TV show," said television critic David Hinckley. "It's one of our fondest, dearest pop culture memories."
    Sullivan was a broadcasting pioneer at many levels during television's infancy. As TV critic David Bianculli wrote, "Before MTV, Sullivan presented rock acts. Before Bravo, he presented jazz and classical music and theater. Before the Comedy Channel, even before there was the Tonight Show, Sullivan discovered, anointed and popularized young comedians. Before there were 500 channels, before there was cable, Ed Sullivan was where the choice was. From the start, he was indeed 'the Toast of the Town'." In 1996, Sullivan was ranked number 50 on TV Guide's "50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time".

Комментарии • 58

  • @scifiradioguy
    @scifiradioguy 2 года назад +49

    Ed Sullivan had a talent for talent- bringing in the best of the best, new or established, regardless of race, creed, or color. He was one of the few who truly used the power of television to its full potential. And there will never be another one like him again.

    • @derekllewellyn6663
      @derekllewellyn6663 2 года назад +3

      It's looks like Christmas stuff show starts at Ed Sullivan show TV and playing music made galya peeva she was i want Hippocampus for Christmas stuff on board with different ways than the last time

  • @laurencebarton276
    @laurencebarton276 2 года назад +62

    Ed Sullivan created the variety show. CBS canceled him without cause, no notice. He held his head high. He booked without concern for race, pace or genre. Pretty good for a newspaper columnist.

    • @willdrucker4291
      @willdrucker4291 2 года назад +7

      Not entirely true…the network had informed both Ed and his son-in-law, Bob Precht (the show’s producer) in early March, 1971, that the program would not be renewed for the ‘71-‘72 season….broke Ed’s heart

    • @derekllewellyn6663
      @derekllewellyn6663 Год назад +2

      @@willdrucker4291 his life look forward back in time travel would be there in the world part time past flash back past life look back to look like the same time as the year made

    • @dougbollacker5444
      @dougbollacker5444 Год назад

      Hopefully he in the same place Fidel Castro is in. He loved communists like him.

    • @JRF1961
      @JRF1961 Год назад +3

      @@dougbollacker5444 He was a good, honorable Roman Catholic Christian Irishman who knew no bigotry or Racism.

    • @michaelsix9684
      @michaelsix9684 10 месяцев назад +1

      Ed had feuds with performers, and he could hurt a career , ask Jackie Mason

  • @barrythomas7336
    @barrythomas7336 2 года назад +16

    Sometimes, the most important talent is supporting and presenting others who have it. STILL miss Ed Sullivan after all these decades!

  • @Airsoftcleaner
    @Airsoftcleaner 2 года назад +30

    Again, He should be in The Rock & Rol Hall of Fame.

    • @shyman99
      @shyman99 3 месяца назад

      No, the TV Hall Of Fame. Ed booked acts for his TV ratings. He didn't book acts to advance rock music or the careers of the performers. He did not care for rock music. So why in the world should he be in the R&R HOF?

  • @stephenguppy8886
    @stephenguppy8886 2 года назад +12

    We did not see this in the UK in his lifetime but seeing him on RUclips you can see the influence his shows had on the public and on showbiz.

  • @johnnytoobad7785
    @johnnytoobad7785 2 года назад +15

    He is STILL the most famous resident of Port Chester NY (my home town). The village just named a street after him. My Uncle (by marriage) was good friend of his in High School. I never met him..but my uncle knew him quite well and my father used to run into him at the local golf courses. He was quite cordial to the locals even after he became a celebrity.

    • @michaelsix9684
      @michaelsix9684 10 месяцев назад +1

      he was a very good athlete, played sports well

  • @BTURNER1961
    @BTURNER1961 Год назад +5

    The debt we owe Sullivan we can never repay. We are still discovering kinescope of historic figures in popular culture and slices of our cultural heritage of astonishing importance. If you are a student of popular American music history, Broadway, Vaudeville, rock, jazz, blues, classical, even opera, your best hope of finding any video of a live performance will be in those vaults. Its not just the Beatles, or Presley. Just a few months ago, I saw the ONLY VIDEO and audio of the great Gertrude Lawerence performing any of her Broadway or West End stage performances. A year before her death, there she is singing numbers from The King and I in costume in 1951. Those of us who are history buffs of that art form, can add it to over a hundred other recreations of stage performances Sullivan has kept tucked safely away for decades. I am not sure you can name another figure more responsible for changing the way we saw segregation. He brought more black talent into our homes than anyone else. He shook Nat King Cole's hand and put his arm around Bill Bojangles Robinson in the forties,, and kissed Pearl Bailey's cheek in the early fifties.

  • @Laughandsong
    @Laughandsong 2 года назад +8

    His show was simulcasted on CBC here in Canada for most of its run and everyone, whether they spoke French or English, would watch. It had universal appeal.

    • @fromthesidelines
      @fromthesidelines Год назад

      He would often remind his Canadian viewers to "stay tuned for the 'WAYNE & SHUSTER' special".

    • @user-kp2rr8xf7x
      @user-kp2rr8xf7x 10 дней назад +1

      @@fromthesidelines He was a Sunday night tv treat, always entertaining. He more than anything and everything that is what led to demise if Sunday night church services.

  • @daydayh7671
    @daydayh7671 2 года назад +6

    Amazing... Thank u for this Footage❤️

  • @joeschsuster4804
    @joeschsuster4804 Год назад +1

    Such a talent where he met a wide variety of celebrities

  • @davidsafier6333
    @davidsafier6333 2 года назад +7

    I met him when I was 9.

  • @bh5606
    @bh5606 2 года назад +7

    Loved Sullivan’s show.

  • @calvinbealer7264
    @calvinbealer7264 2 года назад +4

    RIP Mr Ed Sullivan.

  • @Airsoftcleaner
    @Airsoftcleaner 2 года назад +7

    Almost HALF of the enshrinees in The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame performed on his show.

    • @BTURNER1961
      @BTURNER1961 Год назад

      Now you just have to add the stars of the country Hall of Fame, the great vaudevillians, the Tony award winners, the jazz and blues artists, the comedians, the circus acts, mimes, classical musicians, opera singers, the pop, crooners, balladeers, and recording artists, it just does not stop.

  • @rick3301958
    @rick3301958 Год назад +3

    When we lost Ed we lost a piece of America. Oh my how we have strayed …

  • @Playbyplaymedia
    @Playbyplaymedia 2 года назад +5

    The last shot of the profile shows ES standing below lettering that reads "The Sullivan Years". It makes me wonder what programming that was taken from.

    • @willdrucker4291
      @willdrucker4291 2 года назад +5

      It was from a series of specials the network had given Ed to compensate for cancelling his weekly program..I believe it was two a year for two years…1971-72, and 1972-73

  • @user-pb6nj3jy6r
    @user-pb6nj3jy6r 6 месяцев назад

    I loved his show

  • @dietpepsivanilla3095
    @dietpepsivanilla3095 2 года назад +4

    Ed did nothing. Better than anyone else.

  • @JosephRowe-hq9oq
    @JosephRowe-hq9oq 3 месяца назад

    He brought in The Doors but then they blacklisted them when Jim Morrison used the word "higher" a drug term in their hit Light My Fire. When Ed got peeved at them and told them they're not allowed to perform for the show again, Jim reacted with "Hey, we just DID the Ed Sullivan show."

  • @wesleycook7687
    @wesleycook7687 Год назад +1

    Sullivan was one of a kind. He had no apparent talent but he was a savvy judge of what his audience would like. He agued with his producers about certain acts especially the musical ones like the Beatles. He was usually right. His show was the longest running variety show. His way of talking inspired impressionests to imitate his way of introducing acts. He actually did say " really big show" but after imitations if him said " really big show", he started saying it like that. He liked the impressionests' takes on him and laughed at himself. He replaced Red Skeleton on Red's show when Red was out for a while. He was actually really good. He was as funny as Red in many ways. It's on U Tube. Pull it up and watch. ( I meant really big shew but my spell check changed it and I didn't notice )

  • @kali3665
    @kali3665 5 месяцев назад

    Jack Benny came on the show one time and asked Ed, point blank, "What do you do here?" Ed responded, "I introduce the acts."
    Jack then replied, "You don't sing. You don't dance. You merely introduce the acts. Well, Ed, how much do you make on the show?"
    As seriously as possible, Ed replied, "Jack, I think I make about 18 million dollars." Then he corrected, "18 **THOUSAND** dollars. I raised it but I'm going to cut it down."
    Jack then turned to the audience and smirked, "He's READING it and he got it wrong!!" Even Ed laughed at THAT one!!
    🤣🤣🤣🤣
    We really need another Ed Sullivan - someone who could do his job without calling attention to himself. Ed knew the guests were the stars, and he was just there to hold everything together, and he did it perfectly like no one else.

  • @BBQFanNo1
    @BBQFanNo1 Год назад +3

    Back in those decades a TV show that ran for 10 years was equivalent to TV shows today that have ran for 20 years. Yet his show ran for nearly 25 years. Incredible. At the time in the 1970s his show, Gunsmoke and Lassie all on CBS were the longest running TV shows. TV has never been the same since the last of his and Jack Benny's new shows and specials aired. A great gem of TV shows and specials from 1948 to 1973. His last show aired on June 6, 1971. He did Flip Wilson Show guest appearances, the Tonight Show Guest Appearance in 1972 and a few TV specials his last in 1973. The 1970s marked the end of the era of the greatest entertainment medium personalities in not only the 20th century but in all of American history. I didn't mention the deaths of Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby and Groucho Marx in 1977. So many in the 1970s. Sad future generations will never experience live growing up with in their youth to adulthood.

    • @jimdep6542
      @jimdep6542 Год назад +1

      People in general presented themselves much classier back then.

  • @willdrucker4291
    @willdrucker4291 2 года назад +5

    It was horrible that CBS cancelled his long running shew just two seasons short of what would have become its silver anniversary….it was attributed to the so called “Rural Purge” as well as Ed being too old…yet the network had no problem renewing “Lucy” and “Gunsmoke”…go figure

    • @jimdep6542
      @jimdep6542 Год назад

      What was the "rural purge" ? .........btw, Gunsmoke was one of the best TV shows ever, and was still good right up to the end, although Amanda Blake left before the last season. James Arness, Ken Curtis and Milburn Stone were still going strong.

    • @ab348
      @ab348 Год назад

      Bill Paley who owned CBS liked Gunsmoke and prevented its cancellation during the rural purge. Most of the shows cancelled had viewer demographics that skewed older and rural and hence were unappealing to advertisers. I must assume that Lucy did not suffer from that.

    • @suave-rider
      @suave-rider Год назад

      he made the right decision to drag TV into the present with stuff like The Mary Tyler Moore show. Advertisers were behind the shift to urban shows

    • @kenjohannessen9908
      @kenjohannessen9908 3 месяца назад

      Fred Silverman cancelled Ed in 1971; Sullivan's ratings had dropped, he was running third in his time period. Silverman said it was tough to do, Ed was part of the family, but it had to be done.

  • @michaelsix9684
    @michaelsix9684 10 месяцев назад

    if you got on his show, you hit big, it was a huge feat

  • @AarHan3
    @AarHan3 11 месяцев назад +1

    The rilly big shew was rilly over. 😢

  • @calvinbealer7264
    @calvinbealer7264 Год назад

    LONG LIVE ED SULLIVAN.

  • @reneauvray3440
    @reneauvray3440 11 месяцев назад

    I fondly remember watching the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite at that time. I remember Hughes Rudd mentioning this on the CBS Morning News.

  • @roberthuot7887
    @roberthuot7887 Год назад +1

    These were great times, this was a good man, and today great is not heard of much anymore, and there's nothing good about today,,,,,this world sucks! Sorry.💘 I'm just saying.

  • @wizzelhoart
    @wizzelhoart 2 года назад +4

    and the guy reporting is dead as well by now

    • @markmed9091
      @markmed9091 Год назад +1

      You’re a real genius .

    • @Lava1964
      @Lava1964 Год назад

      It's amazing that you don't know the guy is Walter Cronkite--an American institution in his own right.

  • @booberry349
    @booberry349 Год назад

    Ed Sullivan and Richard Nixon two of the funniest stars

  • @zsaurusrex150
    @zsaurusrex150 Год назад

    Actually he died at the age of 73

  • @TayDays1128
    @TayDays1128 7 месяцев назад

    Johnny Carson before Johnny Carson

  • @booberry349
    @booberry349 Год назад +1

    A REALLY BIG SHEW

  • @RichardSmith-bl5vj
    @RichardSmith-bl5vj Год назад

    Buddy Holly Fued

    • @jimdep6542
      @jimdep6542 Год назад

      I'd never heard there was one before.

  •  6 месяцев назад

    ole Walter, telling us about the coming ice age in 1972