While everyone and his brother is recalling where they were when the Beatles made their first of three consecutive appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, the first of these having been on this day in 1964, it's caught my attention that the band's first actual American TV appearance was just a couple of months earlier on, of all places, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, over on NBC. Like, couldn't they have had Perry Como, whose production company was in charge of the Kraft Music Hall, negotiate to get the Fab 4 on that show?
Digressing aside, it is the stuff of legend. Time Warner is marking the occasion with a Life special edition, among other things. I don't know who owns the cable rights to the 1965 Beatles cartoons, but you'd think they'd dig those toons out of the vaults to join the party!
Anyway, here's a short sample of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" from that night....
And Sullivan thought it was crazy when he had Elvis on the show a few years earlier......
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