Any of you other Greybeards catch Ed Sullivan show 50 years ago ?
 

For some reason I remember it like it happened yesterday ..

Thus began the British invasion.

I must have missed it. Then again, I was only five. My wife remembers it. She was seven.

I was 4 years old and I remember it distinctly. The baby sitter and the 4 of us watching Ed Sullivan.

Yep. The whole fam-damily sitting there having a good time, watching our little black and white.

I was ten and remember watching it. I remember looking at my Dad and smiling and him totally uninterested.

Yup....sure do.
It's what made me become a famous guitar player.
Well......except for the nobody's ever heard of me part.

There were 4 of us teenage brothers, so the Old Man put up with it, but, like Hugh said, totally uninterested.
He wouldn't do the Stones, though, Ed Sullivan or not.

I had just gotten back from living & working in New York for the past eight months and was getting ready to be inducted into the Army on Valentine's Day. The Beetles were not an important item to me at the time.

My family was at the house of another family with similar number/ages of siblings (we got together for birthdays on Sunday nights). I wasn't very interested but their teenage daughter was all over it. Had her favorite Beatle (whichever it was).
Jim

I watched it. Our whole family watched Ed Sullivan my parents looked at each other like "WTF??" I don't remember being interested all that much. The next day 2 or 3 guys were sent home from school for combing their hair down over their foreheads. That's the biggest thing I took from it.

Yes, I was there.............
 

in the living room that is, watching Ed S. do his thing on TV. But then, I also remember seeing Elvis on TV about 5 years earlier!

I was 9 and remember the pandamonium. The girls went NUTS! The world and music made a shift with the Beatles. There have been all kinds of pop stars, boy bands, girl bands that were super popular for a year or two that made the youth of the day go a little nuts, but nothing comes close to the Beatles, well maybe Elvis was the closest.

Oh, I never did get those Beatle boots that i coveted, as my friends had them, nothing was cooler. I knew there was no way I'd be allowed to grow my hair like the Beatles but I really wanted the boots!

Yeah, I remember that particular show. I was a little unsure how I felt about their music right then, but pop culture changed a lot soon afterwards.

I saw it, and there was quite a buzz about it the next day at school. My parents disapproved, especially my dad. I'd been playing some folk songs on guitar but really latched on to Beatles songs after that. My friends and I started a band soon after. I was in So Cal so the Beachboys and Beatles competed for admiration awhile before the Beatles won out.

If you didnt live thru it you'll never appreciate the excitement and buzz they generated for years. How many Rock Bands that break up make the front page around the world?

Bless those guys, they've brought me much joy in my life !

Heh......sure I watched that......but I watched Elvis' first gig on Ed Suvillan too.:cool: (it was in green & white & 9 inches across:D)

Me too, I wouldn't have watched but my parents were in control at the time, glad they chose to watch

Remember it well.
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"On our shew tonight...."

"On our shew tonight - the Bee-ules!"

Perfect!

I was at the local country club for the free movie nite
about a 1/4 way into the movie
every teen in the room got up and walked out into the lobby
being that age I followed the group of my peers
and sat down on the carpet in front of the tv [something you didnot do at the club]
as there were a few chairs and about 50 kids around the tv