Throwback Thursday Musical Showcase: Ed Ames and Dinah Shore Sing "Sunrise, Sunset" on the Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show was a television variety program that aired on CBS from 1948-1971. For 23 years it aired every Sunday night and played host to the world's greatest talents. The Ed Sullivan Show is well known for bringing rock n' roll music to the forefront of American culture through acts like Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones. 

The entertainers each week ranged from comedians like Joan Rivers and Rodney Dangerfield, to Broadway stars Julie Andrews and Richard Burton, to pop singers such as Bobby Darin and Petula Clark. It also frequently featured stars of Motown such as The Supremes, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and The Jackson 5. The Ed Sullivan Show was one of the only places on American television where such a wide variety of popular culture was showcased and its legacy lives on to this day. 

Let's turn the clock back 56 years to February 25, 1968 when singers Ed Ames and Dinah Shore sang Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Ed Ames (Edmund Urick) was a pop singer and actor. He was also part of the popular 1950s singing group with his siblings, the Ames Brothers. Dinah Shore (Frances Rose Shore) was an American singer, actress, and television personality, and the chart-topping female vocalist of the 1940s. They both grew up in Jewish families, Ames' parents from Ukraine and Shore's from Russia.

Enjoy!

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Wacky Wednesday Comedy Special: Ed Wynn Accompanies Dinah Shore on His Piano Bicycle

The Ed Wynn Show premiered on September 22, 1949 on CBS. The series starred Ed Wynn (1886–1966), a well-established comedian of stage, vaudeville, film and radio. 

The series consisted of vaudeville-like skits and music performed by the days' popular artists.

The Ed Wynn Show was the first television series to originate from Hollywood. It was also one of the first television series to use the kinescope process in an effort to preserve episodes for later distribution. Sometimes after the live broadcast was finished, some re-takes were kinescoped and edited into the film to improve the east coast version.

The series was known for its list of prominent guest stars every week. In this video clip, Ed Wynn accompanies Dinah Shore on one of his inventions, the piano bicycle, as she sings Shine On, Harvest Moon and Tea for Two.

Enjoy!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Groucho Marx and Dinah Shore Sing "Peasy Weasy"

It's Throwback Thursday -- Time to set the clock back 59 years to 1959, when Groucho Marx appeared on The Dinah Shore Chevy Show to sing a duet with Dinah.

Groucho said that he first sang the song, Peasy Weasy, on the vaudeville stage when he was 15 years old. It looks like they had fun bringing this old song back to life on Dinah's TV show.

Enjoy!


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