Ed Sullivan Couldn’t Stand This Singer, He Made It Obvious

Ed Sullivan was a pugnacious reporter before he started his variety show. He became extremely belligerent and threatening towards Big Bill Tilden, the babe Ruth of tennis, over the championship fight between Max Baer and Schmeling. He considered Tilden a trator for supporting, Schmeling, who was not anti-semantic. He just happened to be Hitlers favorite boxer.

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Ed acted like a horese A!!!

Ed Sullivan had an extreme variety of acts, I was not a fan. I recall seeing there and on other shows a ventriloquist who used his made-up hand with wigs as characters.

Wow these singers, musicians are legends & Ed Sullivan didn't like them!

Who could stand ed

Sloppy research and misleading

“What somebody writes about what you do is pretty irrelevant. Most of the people who tell other people what to like are pretty ignorant, though it’s through no fault of their own, since most of them are probably graduates of American schools.” - Frank Zappa

It was the establishment vs the counterculture. Today the establishment actually is the counterculture.

Ed the conservative sounds like he was a lot of fun...

Interesting to see that all the performers Sullivan had issues with are male.

Obvious, there was a clash between the Conservative Sullivan and his Liberal entertainment.

Sounds like Ed Sullivan was not the man for the job. Maybe 20 years earlier.

This is just lame.

You do know who Gary Busey is don't you, probably not..or you wouldn't be featuring him in the Buddy Holly part. Buseys an actor who portrayed him in a movie. And Sullivan had kind words for Elvis on the air, said he was a fine young man. I seriously doubt "Facts Verse" has ever seen any episode of the show.

I wasn't born then when the showed aired or when it canceled back in 1971

Yeah I saw the show but not what you sid,bad job, really bad show,really bad

From everything I’ve read about Ed Sullivan he was an asshole.

Ed Sullivan deep inside seemed to be a real a hole as far as letting rock & roll performers not being able to perform the way their material was intended to be . He shouldn't have hired any of them if he was going to sabotage key components of the material that originally made them famous. He was a power freak & a strange one at that .

Why the pic of Ann-Margret?

NOT Sam Cooke!!!!!

These rebellious artists seem to have very short life spans due to drugs. Is that worth fame & fortune?

Sounds like Mr. Sullivan had A lot of "Strained" Relationships.

Ed Sullivan was an iconic, influential, important person who brought some great talent to larger audiences. That said, his attitude towards music was often that of an old, out-of-touch, white guy, not someone who was cool and hip.

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I hate these channels where they don’t play any audio from the videos. I don’t want to hear YOU talk!

Ed Sullivan wanted eyeballs on his show. He didn't want the acts that could deliver them, lol.

Ed Sullivan was a square.

Can someone explain the misleading thumbnail of Sullivan with the dancer (and occasional singer) Ann-Margaret? 🤔

Amazing that Ed Sullivan couldn’t stand weezer.

Who is the girl on the photo?

We all know he hated jim morrison

Who cares about Ed Sullivan thought? He was the least important part of his show.

This guy was not there....

'He couldn't stand this singer, he made it obvious' ... so yet ANOTHER American kid blathering on with no actual proof via clips, just blah, blah, blah. What is it with Americans, you love to talk and hear your own voices, be spoken TO and TELL other what to believe instead of being quiet and letting people have experiences of their own. its really CREEPY and controlling.

Am I the only one who sees a Richard Nixon type in Ed Sullivan??

The funny thing is all these singers are legends that everyone remembers. Nobody cares or remembers Ed Sullivan.

Never heard of Ed Sullivan, his show was never shown in the UK, however, seeing these singers with their clash with mainstream entertainment at that time was interesting. Everything at the time was new and the generation gap through music, fashion and art at that time seemed to be a real problem, both for the old and the young.

Ed Sullivan was a bully. If you didn't play his way, he would take his ball and go home. Sullivan was trying to sterilize TV viewing and that was not his job. When performers "disobeyed" him, he had a tantrum like a little child.

Again a teeny bopper speaking about something he never experienced. Because Ed commented at the end of Elvis' early appearances He's a nice boy. Or words to that efect.

Sounds like Ed was a Nazi. Before my time but so were Nazi people. Sounds like Ed had a control fetish. His way or no way, but that philosophy didn’t work. Just like the Nazi philosophy doesn’t work. I think Ed was less of a Nazi philosophy but wanted control of his show which he should have but when you invite someone to preform then let them do it.

Surprising that with Ed's personality, he liked anyone at all.

Jackie Wilson ❤❤❤❤❤

Let's spend the night together [no, let's spend (rolls eyes) some time together] - Thanks, Uncle Ed!

The irony is that Elvis was politically a conservative and actually tried to have the Beatles banned from the US when he met Nixon. The man who was not allowed to be filmed from the waste down because it would be morally corrupting to the youth tried to have the Beatles banned for morally corrupting the youth. It never ceases to amaze me how people never learn the cyclic nature of intergenerational conflict. It goes on generation after generation and people never seem to comprehend that it is the same thing representing itself over and over. All that changes is that the youth becomes stodgy old fogies while the new youth just do what youth does.

I never understood the reluctance to allow the line "girl we couldn’t get much higher", as a reference to getting high on drugs. I had interpreted the song as a request to the girl to light his fire and raise her game sexually.

No .. not true.... Ed Sullivan liked Rock music and liked to have all these bands on. He just didn't want anything too sexual, because it was a family show. Thats why he didn't want Mick Jagger to say lets spend the night together.
Watch the Dean Martin show ... he Really Didn't like Rock music and made comments about how long their hair was and how the music was just noise

What does the intro picture with the starlet have to do with the subject of the video? Do you really need a tease to get viewers to watch?

Sullivan was a puppet!