Do you remember Elvis' first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show?

[ThomWV]

Age check ...

[RadicalTexan]

1. Hahahaha

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[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Shut up

Don't make me whack you with my walker.

[JuniperLea]

26. I once joked with a well known guitarist...

Who touted that his band was OTF (On Tour Forever) that I was going to invent a walker that doubles as a guitar and mic holder to help him keep that promise... either he didn't get the joke, or he didn't like it... I haven't really decided which version I want to remember:)

[supernova]

3. Nope,

but I do remember The Beatles '65 performance. I was three. :-)

[Hepburn]

4. Yes....

...and they would only show him from the waist up.

[ThomWV]

5. Thank God I'm not the only one.

[emilyg]

44. You're not the only one. I remember well.

[appleannie1]

38. in case he wiggled his hips. Lordy, even my parents laughed at that.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

6. YES

[madfloridian]

7. From the waist up because the Baptists said his hip movements were evil

Only from the waist up.

[ThomWV]

8. And now that I look back on it maybe they were right.

[az chela]

9. yup I was very young but I fell in love

[murielm99]

10. I was in second or third grade.

I watched some of it, and then went to bed. My parents were very interested in it. I am glad that I remember at least part of it.

[EFerrari]

11. I think so but I'm not sure because I must have been threeish.

But I do remember my mom putting a coin into a jukebox, playing an Elvis tune and putting me on top of a restaurant table to dance to it. lol

[John1956PA]

12. September 9, 1956.

That was the date of Elvis's first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. I do not remember it happening, as it occurred a short while after I was born.

[EFerrari]

17. Okay, then there's no way I could remember that.

My memory must be fake or of some other appearance. I was only about 9 mos old. But, darn, I remember ONE of his appearances because the whole family moved from the kitchen to the livingroom.

[Jeanette in FL]

30. I would have been 1 year, 1 month, 1 day on that date

So I don't remember either. But now I know that I am about 4 months older than you. LOL

But I do remember one of those early appearances too, because everyone was gathered around the television and they only showed him from his waist up.

[John1956PA]

34. Nice seeing these posts pertaining to the mid-1950s..

Your birth year of 1955 heralded the beginning of the rock-and-roll era.

[louis-t]

28. I was 2 months old.

Beatles on Sullivan, I do remember.

[Holly_Hobby]

35. I was 6 months old

I remember the debate between Kennedy and Nixon too, was that '60? But I also remember being in my crib when I was 2. Now, the '70's and what I did yesterday are a blur. :)

[JuniperLea]

41. I was negative 9 months...

heh! Just beyond the gleam in my daddy's eye! LOL!

[Faygo Kid]

46. Nope. I turned 5 five days later. The Beatles? You betcha!

Must have just started kindergarten. Damn, that was a while ago. Boomers rule!

[JuniperLea]

51. Damn straight we do!

Even late-bloomer-boomers like me, born in 1957. I love that year! My guitar was made in August 1957, the 1957 Chevy... all sorts of cool stuff (besides me) happened that year:)

[JuniperLea]

33. OH MY GOD!!!

That's the date? Really? Hahaha! I'm starting my own personal urban legend... that is just about the date I was conceived! I'm now laying claim to Elvis being involved in my mother becoming preggers with me! LOL!!!

I was born two months before my righteous guitar...

[Hepburn]

63. I turned 8 the July before that...

...and I do remember watching him on Ed Sullivan. Black and white TV! LOL!

[monmouth]

13. I was in high school, my parents thought he was fine...My brother and I were shocked...LOL...n/t

[spanone]

14. who wants to know??? paranoid? me? yes, but i was very young.

[Dennis Donovan]

15. I sure do!

I saw a tape of it sometime in the early 80's.:P

[Thirtieschild]

16. Senior in college

Elvis was one month older than I was. Am I the oldest one on DU? My new handle says it for me.

[Pyrzqxgl]

40. I saw it and I was 17 years old. It was the 2nd time he was on Sullivan

that they cut him off at the waist. I also saw him on the Dorsey Brothers TV show
and Milton Berle's show (both before he did Sullivan)

[lpbk2713]

18. I do.

Sophie Tucker, Ed Wynn, Jack E Leonard, Sam Levenson, the Harmonicats, Señor Wences.

I'm older than dirt.

[kskiska]

55. Same here.

Eddie Cantor on the Colgate Comedy Hour, Martin and Lewis, Johnny Ray, and Sid Caesar every Saturday night.

Hell, I remember seeing Harry Truman on his whistlestop campaign in 1948. I was up on someone's shoulders and Truman was on the back of a train.

[MasonJar]

19. I missed the show, but was a big Elvis fan. Remember the flip side

of "Heartbreak Hotel"? I do; it was "I Was the One." That song has always been one of my favorites.

[Kingofalldems]

20. Yes, the camera shot him from the waist up

No hips.

[Blue_In_AK]

21. I do indeed.

I'm very old. I remember that even toned down as he was, my parents were shocked -- SHOCKED, I tell you. I thought he was cool.

[Stinky The Clown]

22. Yeah

Old

[JuniperLea]

23. No, that was a year before I was born...

But I remember seeing The Beatles! And The Doors! I was really young, but I remember my older cousins swooning:) I swooned too... but I didn't understand why:)

[Are_grits_groceries]

24. Yes!

And I remember Chubby Checker and the Twist. My Grandmama
said we were going straight to hell.

[immoderate]

39. I remember Hank Ballard and the Twist. Chubby covered it a few years later.

--IMM

[Glorfindel]

25. Of course; I was 10 years old, I think

Totally unimpressed. I was never a big Elvis fan, but I went absolutely apeshit over the Beatles.

[islandmkl]

27. of all of ed's shows. ..my single favorite was the Stones...

doing 'Ruby Tuesday' and 'Let's Spend the Night Together'...which had to be altered to 'Let's Spend Some TIME Together'...

Brian Jones (the true heart of the Stones) was still alive and kicking and directing traffic...

[Webster Green]

29. Oh yeah!

It was a big deal.

I was more into the real "King" though. (Little Richard). :smoke:

[Frustratedlady]

31. Yes, I remember. He (and, the Beatles) were products of the Communists.

They were trying to corrupt our youth. We were all going to hell in a hand basket if we watched him (or them).

[williesgirl]

32. yes and it was great!

[Catshrink]

36. No -- but I remember the Beatles.

[appleannie1]

37. Yes

Hate to admit it but yes.

[scarletwoman]

42. Yeah, I was six. My mother was WAAAY into Elvis, and she & my younger sister & me all

jumped up and danced like crazy all around the living room. Woo hoo!

When his song was done we fell back on the couch giggling like mad. It was really cool, one of my fondest memories from childhood. :D

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[Silver Swan]

43. I remember

I was ten years old, too young to have a crush on a performer, but my fifteen year old sister was gaga for Elvis.

As I remember, they didn't show Elvis's hip swivels, but Mitzi Gaynor, or some such person, danced in a bathing suit sort of get up later on the show, and it was fine to show her whole body! (This may have happened with a later Ed Sullivan appearance, not the first. Don't blame me, I am rather old.)

Edited because my parenthetical comment was left off...

[VP505]

45. Yes I do

but it doesn't change the fact that I am 39.

[EFerrari]

47. Jack, is that you?

39 is a very fine age. :)

[calico1]

48. No. But...

I do remember the Beatles first appearance. I was around 6 but I remember it.

[Lex]

49. No, my mom does BUT she wasn't allowed to watch. And I'm 43.

Whoa.

[timtom]

50. Yeah. Ed wouldn't allow Elvis' pelvis to be shown on TV.

[GreenPartyVoter]

52. No, but I remember that guy in a paper bag on the Gong show. :^D

[tsuki]

53. Yep. Only from the waist up the second time. nt

[BabbaTam]

54. generation gap

I was in the sixth grade, but I don't remember us watching it. My favorite singer was Eddie Arnold and my first record was Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Tons"(on 78). My mom bought the first 45 in the house ( we had a brand new record player that would play 45's) The record was "You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog". She always voted for the best looking candidate in an election.(She told me this) When she told me she was voting for Mc Cain because "that's who old people are voting for", I sat her down an explained a few things to her and she actually changed her mind and voted for Obama.
yea Obama! , you go dude!!!! :fistbump:

[texanwitch]

56. I was only 2 years old.

I never liked Elvis anyway.

[Lugnut]

57. Sure do.

I was almost 11 when it happened.

[edbermac]

58. I'm so old, I remember Mozart's first appearance on Ed Sullivan.

I think he opened with a tasteful rendition of Smells Like Teen Spirit.

[XOKCowboy]

59. I remember The Beatles on Ed..

When Elvis was on I was more interested in The Lone Ranger.

[Historic NY]

60. I've seen video of Elvis on the show the. I remember him more with

jump suit concerts and a few events after he came home from the Army.

[dysfunctional press]

61. ed sullivan and i share(d) the same disease- ankylosing spondylitis.

it's what gave him his stiff neck and hunched appearance.

i don't remember elvis(born feb 1961), but i do remember watching ed sullivan- especially topo gigio.

[doc03]

62. I remember, I guess I was only 8 years old n/t

[Historic NY]

64. list of times he appeared

http://www.kki.pl/elvisal/elvis_tv.htm

[Contrary1]

65. Yep...I was a bit too young to appreciate him though.

I mainly remember it because of my parents' hissy fit. :rofl: