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Feb. 9, 1964: The Beatles perform on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in New York. (Original Post) elleng Feb 2024 OP
I'm so old I actually watched that show. Ocelot II Feb 2024 #1
As did I. Heck, I actually watched Elvis' first apoearance on Sullivan, niyad Feb 2024 #2
HEY, watched with 'roommates,' in college! elleng Feb 2024 #3
Changed my life.... bahboo Feb 2024 #4
No link. brush Feb 2024 #5
My younger brother made me & our 2 older siblings miss it jxla Feb 2024 #6
Add this old person to the pile. Dem2theMax Feb 2024 #7
Yup. I watched this, too! Silver Gaia Feb 2024 #8
Me too! My two girlfriends spent the night and we watched in our pajamas. txwhitedove Feb 2024 #9
The week preceding... GiqueCee Feb 2024 #10
NICE, and BRAVO! elleng Feb 2024 #11
Many thanks, elleng! GiqueCee Feb 2024 #12

niyad

(113,997 posts)
2. As did I. Heck, I actually watched Elvis' first apoearance on Sullivan,
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 01:38 AM
Feb 2024

complete with blackout below the waist!

elleng

(131,457 posts)
3. HEY, watched with 'roommates,' in college!
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 01:40 AM
Feb 2024

School had overbooked dorm rooms, so they put a few of us up in rented apartments! AMAZING such 'conservative' students, they almost had to beg us sophomores to take apartment!

jxla

(201 posts)
6. My younger brother made me & our 2 older siblings miss it
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 05:06 AM
Feb 2024

He was 1st to call dibs on the TV so we had to watch "Swampfox" instead.

Dem2theMax

(9,662 posts)
7. Add this old person to the pile.
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 06:53 AM
Feb 2024

I will never forget that night. Went out and bought my first Beatles album sometime that following week.

And I will never understand how Paul McCartney didn't get the message that he was supposed to marry me.

Silver Gaia

(4,552 posts)
8. Yup. I watched this, too!
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 07:10 AM
Feb 2024

We didn't get reception for CBS at Mom & Dad's house, so they took me to Grandma's house, but she wasn't getting good reception that night, so I ended up next door at "Miz Conway's" house. I watched it on the floor in front of her console TV with her granddaughters, one of whom was named Janet. We were sooooo excited!

GiqueCee

(666 posts)
10. The week preceding...
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 11:09 AM
Feb 2024

... the Beatles' appearance on Ed Sullivan, The Saturday Evening Post published a cartoon I did about them. I was a junior in high school, and I was a hero for about a week before I went back to being the kid who scribbled pictures in the back of algebra class.
I wish I still had a copy of that 'toon. It featured a Dad with his back to the front door dropping his martini, when his daughter came in with a Beatle by the arm, and the caption read, "A what followed you home and can you keep him?"
It was my first professional cartoon. I got $75 for it. I still make my living as an artist.

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