A thousand Sundays: The story of the Ed Sullivan show

A thousand Sundays: The story of the Ed Sullivan show by Bowles, Jerry. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780399124938.

1980, Putnams, NY. Hardcover volume, 229 pages, b&w photo gallery. For 23 years, from June 1948 to June 1971, on CBS, Ed Sullivan hosted a most successful variety program. Sullivan himself was a writer, a columnist who was not comfortable in front of the camera. His voice was high pitched, and he looked very uneasy, but he put on the best names in show business week after week and here is his story, a long list of the famous and not so famous who graced the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theatre. This book is fascinating because it shows the highlights of appearances by the Beatles, Elvis, comics who mocked the man, jugglers, whistlers, and a whole procession of some very odd acts.