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| From | "Gene Good" <javagene@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Beatles on Ed Sullivan DVD |
| Date | Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:45:29 +0000 |
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There has been a plate spinner on the Letterman segment "Is this
Anything?"-maybe it's his son.
>From: "Alan Haber" <zoogang@bellatlantic.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: Beatles on Ed Sullivan DVD
>Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:52:55 -0500
>
>I believe it was Billy who said: I don't know why America fell in love with
>Ed's show - the
> > guy was stiff as cardboard and had a painfully clipped voice. Maybe
>there
> > wasn't
> > anything better to watch on NBC and ABC at the time.
>
>Well, I don't know about the latter, but about the former.I think it was
>just a different time, when trying to please everyone was the name of the
>game. Remember that families gathered around the tube to watch Ed-Moms,
>Dads, Sisters and Brothers and Grammas and Grampas, and they all had
>different joneses to be satisfied. In my family room, when the "teen" acts
>came on, my mother cringed! (Of course, for many years, she was convinced
>that Paul McCartney couldn't possibly have written "Yesterday," because how
>could a long-haired guy write such a sensitive song?!) My mother loved the
>Broadway stuff; I cringed. My father and I loved the comedians. And who
>didn't love Topo Gigio? Or the plate spinner? Or the contortionist who
>would
>get folded into a suitcase and carried off the stage? It really didn't
>matter who was on the show; we watched it religiously, every Sunday night,
>without fail, and loved every minute of it. Don't like this act? The next
>act you'll love! And it's Sergio Franchi!
>
>Something for everyone, and Ed was the guy to bring it to America. Ed was a
>newspaper columnist who became a TV star, which doesn't necessarily mean he
>wasn't cut out for the tube. I happen to think he was, his old-fashioned
>suits and corny pointing out of famous people in the audience, and his
>weird
>pronunciation of the word "show" among his charms. He wouldn't cut the
>mustard these days, because the world is a wholly different place, but back
>in the good old days, he fit like a glove.
>
>Do you suppose the plate spinner is available for my next party?
>
>Alan
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