The Best Episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show Season 17

Guests include: --The Beatles (first appearance): All My Lovin,'Til There Was You, She Loves You, I Saw Her Standing There and I Wanna Hold Your Hand. --Davy Jones (pre-Monkees, appearing with Georgia Brown & the Broadway cast of 'Oliver'): I'd Do Anything --Georgia Brown: As Long As He Needs Me (with 2 children from the Broadway cast of 'Oliver') --Frank Gorshin (comedian) --Tessie O'Shea (singer, from Broadway's 'The Girl Who Came To Supper') - medley of show tunes --Mitzi McCall & Charlie Brill (comedy team)

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Guests: --Richard Burton - recites Dylan Thomas & does bar bit with drunken observations. --Arthur Worsley (British ventriloquist, his dummy does all the talking) --Dave Madden (comedian) --Morecombe And Wise (comedy team) --The Calicoats - ""Blues Away,"" ""Somebody Loves You,"" and ""Have A Happy Day"" --Topo Gigio --Cinco Brutos (comedy-singing group) - ""Little Darling"" & ""Addio"" --The Augsberg (Augspurg?) Jungle Wonders (monkey/baboon act with trainer doing a tea party bit)

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--The Beatles (2nd appearance): She Loves You, This Boy, All My Lovin', I Saw Her Standing There, From Me to You and I Want to Hold Your Hand --Audience bows: Sunny Liston & and Joe Louis (boxers) --Allen & Rossi (comedy team) - boxing sketch --Steve Rossi sings Strike Up the Band --Mitzi Gaynor (with 4 male dancers who also sing backup): Too Darn Hot, The More I See You and a blues medley: Birth of the Blues, St. James Infirmary,When the Saints Go Marching In, Shadrach, Mescach, Obendigo, Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho & When the Saints Go Marching In (reprise). [Note: Shadrach, Mescach, Obendigo is missing from the DVD release.] --On tape: from Hialeah Race Track. Ed, with Seminole Indian family, introduces the Nerveless Nocks. --Nerveless Nocks (four male sway pole acrobats) - group performs outside (on tape at Hialeah Race Track) --Myron Cohen (stand-up comedian) --The Valanti's (comedic unicyclists) - not on DVD

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--The Beatles (3rd appearance): Twist and Shout, Please Please Me and I Want to Hold Your Hand (Pre-recorded Beatles segments, taped 9 Feb 1964, inserted into a live show.) --Gloria Bleezarde - sings Safety in Numbers --Pinky & Perky (marionettes) --Morecambe & Wise (comedy team) - routine about genuine Louis XIV brandy glasses --Acker Bilk (clarinet player): Acker's Lacquer --Gordon & Sheila MacRae (musical-comedy entertainers) - in a parody of The Gary Moore Show, the duo do celebrity impressions. --Dave Barry (comedian) - comedy monologue about children; sings a parody of Sonny Boy. --Cab Calloway - St. James Infirmary & Old Man River --Morty Gunty (comedian) - comedy monologue

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--The Beatles (on film) - movie clip of ""You Can't Do That"" from ""A Hard Day's Night"" - song was cut from final edit of film. Also on film: Ed Sullivan interviews The Beatles in London on the set of "" A Hard Day's Night"". --On film: footage of the Lipizzaner White Stallions in Vienna. --On film: Michelangelo's Pieta, an exhibit at the New York World's Fair. Guests: --Duke Ellington & his orchestra --Liza Minnelli (actress-singer) - possibly performed ""The Travelin' Life"" --John Paul Vignon (French singer) --Shirley Verrett (mezzo-soprano) - ""Ava Maria"" --Morecambe and Wise (British comedy team) Other guests (scheduled to appear): --Professor Backwards (comedian) --The Watusi Dancers

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Scheduled guests: --Tommy Sands and Nancy Sinatra - ""Old Straw Hat"" & ""Hey Good Lookin'"" --Robert Horton --Kim Sisters & Kim Brothers --The New Sounds (vocal group) --Bob Lewis (comedian) --Nieman Brothers (acrobats) --Davis & Reese (comedy team)

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Guests: --Hank Williams, Jr. - ""On The Bayou,"" ""Your Cheatin Heart"" & ""Lonesome Blues"" (and possibly ""Cold, Cold, Heart"") --Janet Blair (singer) - ""Some People"" --Audience bow: Otto Preminger --Billy Reed (novelty act) - plays ""I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover"" on dinnerwear. He keeps playing as the china breaks apart. --The Maxwells (2-man pantomime & balancing act) - one man balances wicker boxes on his feet while the other climbs atop the boxes. --Jerry Vale - medley of Italian songs including ""O Solo Mio"" Other guests (scheduled to appear): --cast of ""Twice Over Nightly"" --The Kim Sisters

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Dave Clark Five - ""Glad All Over"" ""A Salute to American Composers"" --Jerry Vale - ""Ah, Sweet Mystery"" & ""You Can't Take That Away from Me"" --Florence Henderson - ""I Get A Kick Out of You"" & ""Wonderful Guy"" --Ed Sullivan talks with Ira Gershwin. --Steve Lawrence - ""A Room Without Windows, A Room Without Doors"" & ""Gigi"" --Harry Ruby (piano medley) --Phil Silvers & Saul Chaplin - ""Old Man River"" sketch --Juliet Prowse (dancer) - dances to ""Black Bottom"" & ""The Peabody"" --Blossom Seeley - ""I Love A Medley"" Piano medley with five ASCAP composers: Jimmy McHugh (""Sunny Side of the Street""); Arthur Freed (""Singing in the Rain""); Grace Kahn & Donald Kahn (""It Had to be You"" & ""Ain't We Got Fun""); Sammy Fain (""Love Is A Many Splendored Thing"").

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Guests: --Dusty Springfield - ""Stay Awhile"" & ""I Only Want to Be with You"" --Gerry and the Pacemakers - ""I Like It"" & ""Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying"" --Bobby Rydell - ""World Without Love"" --Itzak Perlman (violinist) - Wieniawski's ""Second Concerto"" --Phyllis Diller (stand-up comedy) --Jackie Mason (makes jokes about folk songs) --The Brooks Sisters - ""When The Saints Go Marching In"" (instrumental) --Doug Hart (portrays a drunk who wants to do wire walking with a female. He gets on and does a good routine by himself) --Sid Gary (comedian) - imitates George Jessel's flat singing --Los Cinco Latinos - ""El Relicaro""

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Guests: --Dave Clark Five – ""Can't You See That She's Mine"" & ""Do You Love Me"" --Bill Cosby --Helen Hayes - plays Mrs. Woodrow Wilson in a dramatic scene --Abbe Lane - ""The Rhumba Rump"" & ""I Will Follow You"" --Peter Lind Hayes & Mary Healy (husband & wife doing a stand up routine) --Elsa & Waldo (comedy dance team)

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The Searchers – ""Ain't That Just Like Me"" & ""Needles and Pins"" Other guests (scheduled): --Dan Rowan & Dick Martin (comedians) --Senor Wences (ventriloquist) --Nipsey Russell (comedian) --Franco Corelli (Italian tenor) --Topo Gigio (puppet) --Mata & Hari (dance-pantomime team) --The Little Singers of Tokyo.

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Guests (show taped earlier in the season): --Bert Lahr - ""Schneider's Miracle"" --Rita Pavone (Italian pop singer) - ""Remember Me?"" & ""Big Deal"" --Pat Buttram (comedian) --London Lee (comedian) --The Stepp Brothers (tap-dancers) --The Kim Sisters - ""Mr. Banjo"" & a ""West Side Story"" medley --Enzo Stuarti (Italian singer) - ""Battle Hymn"" & ""Yours Is My Heart Alone"" --Attila Galamb (child saxophonist) --The Two Carmenas (a ""head-to-toe"" balancing act)

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Tommy Dorsey Band - ""Marie"" Jimmy Durante - ""A Piano Is A Delicate Thing"" & "" September Song"" Helen Forrest - ""Just One Of Those Things"" & ""Craziest Dream (with the Tommy Dorsey Band) Pied Pipers - ""Chicago"" Pied Pipers & Frank Sinatra, Jr. - ""I'll Never Smile Again"" Frank Sinatra, Jr. & Tommy Dorsey Band - ""Night & Day"" The Harvest Moon Ball winners (categories: Waltz, Tango, Polka, Rhumba, Jitterbug & all around champs). Topo Gigio Audience bows (cameos): Paul Newman; New York Yankees: Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle, Al Downing, Roger Maris, Elston Howard & manager Ralph Hauk.

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Guests: --Dick Dale - ""Swingin' & Surfin'"" (with some ""Miserlou"") --Totie Fields (comedian) - boasts about her diet, sings, and then flirts with men in the audience. --Sonny Liston (heavyweight champion of the world) - skips rope to ""Night Train"" recording. --The Page Seven (featuring Page Cavanaugh at the piano) - ""Preacher"" (instrumental song) --The Three Stooges (Larry, Moe and Curly Joe) - sketch with Curly Joe as the Rajah --Audience bow: Eileen Brennan --The Clark Brothers (tap dancers) --Kate Smith - medley of WWII songs: ""Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree,"" ""The White Cliffs of Dover,"" ""On a Wing and a Prayer"" and ""God Bless America."" --Alan Gale (comedian) - jokes about politics, sports, modern conviences, supermarkets, banks --Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara (comedy team) - a couple starts arguing following their dinner party. --The Angels - ""My Boyfriend's Back""

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Guests (confirmed): --Lesley Gore - ""It's My Party""/""She's A Fool"" medley --Szony & Claire (dancers) --The Baranton Sisters (foot jugglers) --Mr. Pastry (comedian Richard Hearn) - Ed participates in a sketch about various dances. --Tony Bennett - ""The Moment Of Truth"" & ""Don't Wait Too Long "" --Frank Gorshin (impressionist) - does his classic ""Actors in Heaven"" routine Additional guests (scheduled to appear): --Bob & Ray (comedy team) - doing a collection of satiric sketches titled ""What's Going on Here?"" --Jonathan Miller & Peter Cook (from the Broadway play ""Beyond the Fringe."") --Danny Meehan (singer-dancer) --John Bird (from the off-Broadway play ""The Establishment"") --Pat Henry (comedian) --Peter Duchin (pianist) --Mac Ronay (pantomimist) ""What's Going On Here?"" - Some of the comedians on this show were to appear in a satire of current news titled ""What's Going On Here?""

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Scheduled guests: --Cliff Richard (singer) - ""Stranger In Town"" & ""Some of These Days"" --Eydie Gorme (singer) --the Kessler Twins (singing & dancing team) --Dave Madden (comedian) --Shirley Verrett (opera singer) --Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) --Vic Grecco & Fred Willard (comedy team) --The Four Saints (comedy-instrumental group) - ""Tonight""

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The Moscow State Circus are a group of Animals, Acrobats, Jugglers, Clowns, Daredevils, High Wire Act, Dog Act, Trapeze Act & The Cannonball.

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Scheduled guests: --The Jane Russell, Connie Haines and Beryl Davis trio --Shelley Berman --Allen and Rossi (comedy team) --Dennis Spicer (British ventriloquist) --the West Point Cadet Glee Club --Dick Contino (accordian player) --Teri Throton (singer) --Baby Opal and Baby Kay (elephant act)

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The Obratsov Russian Puppet Theatre --Ed dedicated the entire hour show to the Obratsov Russian Puppet Theatre. The puppet act, led by Sergei Obratsov, specialized in satire. --The show was divided into different puppet acts: ""The Coloratura Soprano""; ""The Tango""; ""The Wunderkind,"" ""The Gypsies"" from the Forests of Transcaucsia; ""The Performing Animals""; ""The Illusionist""; ""The Tap Dancers"" and ""Jazz Singer and her Combo."" --This show was taped in November 1963 at the conclusion of the troupe's Broadway engagement, a part of the American-Soviet cultural exchange.

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Guests: --Ginger Rogers - ""Something's Gotta Give"" & ""They Can't Take That Away from Me"" --Burt Lanchester (on film, interview & film clip from ""The Train"") --Sophie Tucker - ""So Much to Do"" --Buddy Greco - ""The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"" & ""In Other Words"" --Topo Gigio (mouse puppet) --Jan Murray (comedian) --Georgie Kaye (comedian) --Vic Greco & Fred Willard (comedy team) --Los Chevales de Espana (a.k.a. The Kids from Spain, singers & dancers)

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Guests: --Burt Lancaster (actor) --Al Hirt - ""Java"" & ""Man with a Horn"" --Milton Berle (comedian) - running gag: keeps interrupting Ed throughout show --Milton Berle - pays tribute to the ""unsung heroes who work in dept. stores all over the country, the shipping clerks "" --Georgia Brown - ""I've Got Plenty Of Nothing"" & ""I'll Walk Alone"" --The Amin Brothers (foot jugglers, Milton Berle gets into the act) --Audience bows: Joe Morrison; John Chandler; Y. A. Tittle; Herman Levin (producer of ""My Fair Lady"") Additional guests (scheduled to appear): --Walter Dare Wahl (comedian) --Emmett Oldfield (comedian)

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Scheduled guests: --Buster Keaton --John Huston (director) --Teresa Brewer --George Kirby --Tessie O'Shea --Frank Ifield (British singer) --The Burke Family Singers --Paul Dooley and Dick Liberti (comedians) --Rene Lavand (one-armed magician) --Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) --Hugh Forgie (ice skater)

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Guests: --The Singing Nun (Sister Sourire) - ""Hallelujah,"" ""Dominique,"" & ""Les Piedes des Missionaires"" (performance filmed in Waterloo, Belgium) --Count Basie Orchestra - ""One O'Clock Jump"" --Kelly Smith - ""Let Me Call You Sweetheart"" & ""Bill"" (with the Count Basie Orchestra) --Count Basie Orchestra & Keely Smith - ""Won't You Come Back, Count Basie"" --Jane Powell - song & dance number, and movie medley: ""Wonderful Day,"" ""Too Late Now"" & ""A Most Unusual Day."" --Johnny Hart (magician, does card tricks, silk tricks doves) --Dieter Tasso (juggler, balancing act) --Marcelo Spanish Ballet (Flamenco dance w/ male soloist)

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Guests include: --Connie Francis - ""With A Song In My Heart,"" ""I Left My Heart In San Francisco,"" ""You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You"" & ""Al Di La"" --Frank Sinatra, Jr. - ""Second Time Around"" & ""Nancy"" (with the Dorsey Orchestra) --Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - ""Git It"" --Stiller & Meara (comedy team) --Helen Forrest - ""I've Heard That Song Before"" (with the Dorsey Orchestra) --The Pied Pipers - ""Look At Him Now"" (with the Dorsey Orchestra) --Con Conwally (sword balancing act)

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--Bobby Vinton - medley: ""If You Knew Susie,"" ""When My Baby Smiles at Me"" and ""Yankee Doodle Dandy"" --Dick Alberts (or Albers - trampoline act) - does comic tumbling --Pat Buttram (comedian) - stand-up rural comedy --Juliet Prowse (dancer) - ""Lazy Afternoon with You,"" ""My Heart Belongs to Daddy"" and ""Tell All the World"" --Kate Smith - ""This Is All I Ask,"" ""Fine and Dandy"" and ""As Long As He Needs Me"" --Vic Grecco & Fred Willard (comedy team) - does a telephone act --Marvin Roy (magician act with female assistant) - pulls items out of hat & lightbulbs out of mouth.

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