Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan

1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Do you want subtitles for any video? -=[ ai.OpenSubtitles.com ]=- 2 00:00:38,747 --> 00:00:40,248 [TV clicks on] 3 00:00:40,331 --> 00:00:45,420 [announcer 1] And now, live from the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City… 4 00:00:46,504 --> 00:00:49,549 [announcer 2] The winner of American Idol is… 5 00:00:49,632 --> 00:00:50,592 [crowd shrieks] 6 00:00:50,675 --> 00:00:52,385 You get a car! 7 00:00:52,469 --> 00:00:54,345 [television dial clicking] 8 00:00:54,429 --> 00:00:55,764 [woman] ♪ Look out, baby ♪ 9 00:00:55,847 --> 00:00:58,266 [television dial continues clicking] 10 00:00:59,059 --> 00:01:03,229 [announcer 3] And now, the man who, to many people, is television. 11 00:01:03,313 --> 00:01:05,315 [resolute edgy music playing] 12 00:01:05,398 --> 00:01:09,194 If Ed Sullivan didn't exist, America would have had to invent him. 13 00:01:09,277 --> 00:01:10,195 [music stops] 14 00:01:10,278 --> 00:01:12,280 [audience applauding] 15 00:01:13,782 --> 00:01:15,408 [Sullivan] Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. 16 00:01:15,492 --> 00:01:17,077 I hope you enjoy the show tonight. 17 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:19,287 Will you welcome him now, please? 18 00:01:19,370 --> 00:01:21,539 [drumroll] 19 00:01:21,623 --> 00:01:23,333 Mr. Ed Sullivan. 20 00:01:23,416 --> 00:01:24,793 [audience applauds] 21 00:01:26,252 --> 00:01:27,378 Ed Sullivan! 22 00:01:28,379 --> 00:01:30,256 [announcer 4] Ed Sullivan, ladies and gentlemen! 23 00:01:30,340 --> 00:01:32,759 ["Agent Double-O-Soul" by Billy Preston playing] 24 00:01:32,842 --> 00:01:34,761 ♪ I dig rock and roll music, yeah ♪ 25 00:01:35,345 --> 00:01:37,639 ♪ I can twine and jerk Yes, I can now… ♪ 26 00:01:37,722 --> 00:01:40,642 [woman] If you had to pick one person in the industry to represent us, 27 00:01:40,725 --> 00:01:42,268 it would be Ed Sullivan. 28 00:01:42,352 --> 00:01:45,980 [man] The greatest finger-pointer in the history of television. 29 00:01:46,481 --> 00:01:49,859 A man who pointed his finger at the biggest stars in the business. 30 00:01:49,943 --> 00:01:52,237 [Preston] ♪ That's why they call me, yeah ♪ 31 00:01:53,947 --> 00:01:55,615 ♪ They call me Double-O-Soul ♪ 32 00:01:57,117 --> 00:02:00,286 We think about Ed Sullivan, one of the most famous shows in television history. 33 00:02:00,370 --> 00:02:04,082 Now, ladies and gentlemen, Elvis Presley! 34 00:02:04,165 --> 00:02:05,542 [crowd screams] 35 00:02:05,625 --> 00:02:09,379 How old were you when you saw this, the Ed Sullivan Theater? 36 00:02:09,462 --> 00:02:12,298 Seven years old. It had a tremendous impact. 37 00:02:12,382 --> 00:02:14,551 Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles! 38 00:02:14,634 --> 00:02:15,802 [crowd screams] 39 00:02:15,885 --> 00:02:18,346 The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, people remember where they were, 40 00:02:18,429 --> 00:02:19,681 what was happening, 41 00:02:19,764 --> 00:02:21,891 where they were sitting, what they were doing. 42 00:02:21,975 --> 00:02:23,852 What were you thinking? 43 00:02:23,935 --> 00:02:25,728 [man 2] Ed Sullivan, anybody like him today? 44 00:02:25,812 --> 00:02:27,063 I grew up off Ed Sullivan. 45 00:02:27,147 --> 00:02:29,232 Ed Sullivan always just stayed with me. 46 00:02:29,315 --> 00:02:30,525 ♪ They call me Double-O-Soul ♪ 47 00:02:30,608 --> 00:02:33,403 Watching The Ed Sullivan Show was a cultural revolution. 48 00:02:33,486 --> 00:02:35,363 ["Agent Double-O-Soul" continues] 49 00:02:46,291 --> 00:02:47,500 Yeah! 50 00:02:47,584 --> 00:02:50,587 [long final note blares] 51 00:02:50,670 --> 00:02:51,796 [song ends] 52 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:53,131 [audience applauds] 53 00:02:55,550 --> 00:02:57,886 [light hip-hop beat playing] 54 00:03:07,645 --> 00:03:11,816 [Sullivan] In the early days, TV came in on the heels of radio 55 00:03:11,900 --> 00:03:14,444 and inherited some of its worst characteristics. 56 00:03:16,487 --> 00:03:18,698 [typewriter clacking] 57 00:03:24,204 --> 00:03:25,246 [typewriter bell dings] 58 00:03:25,330 --> 00:03:28,208 [man] Back in those days, when Ed Sullivan first came along, 59 00:03:28,833 --> 00:03:33,004 television was, uh… It was a totally different thing. 60 00:03:33,087 --> 00:03:35,673 First of all, the screen was about this big. [chuckles] Okay? 61 00:03:35,757 --> 00:03:37,967 Let's have our next contestant, please. Will you come in? 62 00:03:38,051 --> 00:03:41,763 [Smokey] And it was not common to see Black performers on TV. 63 00:03:41,846 --> 00:03:42,931 [television dial clicks] 64 00:03:43,014 --> 00:03:45,516 [Sullivan] There were pressures to keep television "lily white." 65 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,102 [suspenseful music playing over TV] 66 00:03:48,186 --> 00:03:52,732 We saw mostly characters like Amos and Andy. 67 00:03:52,815 --> 00:03:58,071 You know, they were comic characters who had blackface. 68 00:03:58,154 --> 00:04:00,573 [man] What in the world are you doing there, Amos? 69 00:04:00,657 --> 00:04:02,742 He said to hold the line. 70 00:04:02,825 --> 00:04:06,537 But with Ed, everything changed. 71 00:04:06,621 --> 00:04:07,455 [TV dial clicks] 72 00:04:07,538 --> 00:04:12,335 Now, we're gonna kick off our show. Jackie Wilson, sir, let's hear it! 73 00:04:12,418 --> 00:04:14,420 [audience applauds] 74 00:04:14,504 --> 00:04:16,589 ["Lonely Teardrops" by Jackie Wilson playing] 75 00:04:16,673 --> 00:04:19,175 -♪ Hey ♪ -[backup singers] ♪ Shooby doo wop… ♪ 76 00:04:19,259 --> 00:04:20,510 ♪ Hey ♪ 77 00:04:20,593 --> 00:04:22,971 ♪ My heart is crying, crying, ha ♪ 78 00:04:23,638 --> 00:04:25,098 ♪ Lonely teardrops ♪ 79 00:04:26,349 --> 00:04:31,854 ♪ My pillows never dry Of lonely teardrops ♪ 80 00:04:31,938 --> 00:04:36,734 -♪ Come home, come home ♪ -[backup singers] ♪ Oh ♪ 81 00:04:36,818 --> 00:04:38,486 ♪ Just say you will ♪ 82 00:04:38,569 --> 00:04:41,739 -♪ Say you will ♪ -♪ Say you will ♪ 83 00:04:41,823 --> 00:04:47,120 -♪ Say that you ♪ [holds note] -♪ Say you will ♪ 84 00:04:47,203 --> 00:04:48,329 ♪ Say you will ♪ 85 00:04:48,413 --> 00:04:51,207 -[backup singers] ♪ Say you will ♪ -♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey, come on ♪ 86 00:04:51,291 --> 00:04:53,209 [backup singers] ♪ Say you will ♪ 87 00:04:53,293 --> 00:04:56,254 -♪ Come on, ah! ♪ -♪ Say you will ♪ 88 00:04:56,337 --> 00:04:58,172 -♪ Say ♪ -♪ Say you will ♪ 89 00:04:58,256 --> 00:04:59,507 ♪ Come on now, baby ♪ 90 00:04:59,590 --> 00:05:02,510 -♪ Say you will ♪ -♪ Somebody better come on ♪ 91 00:05:02,593 --> 00:05:05,179 -♪ Say you will ♪ -♪ Come right on ♪ 92 00:05:05,263 --> 00:05:08,182 -♪ Say you will ♪ -♪ Hey, come on, baby ♪ 93 00:05:08,266 --> 00:05:10,768 -♪ Say you will ♪ -♪ Come on, baby ♪ 94 00:05:10,852 --> 00:05:13,438 -♪ Say you will ♪ -♪ Ah, baby ♪ 95 00:05:13,521 --> 00:05:16,441 -♪ Say you will ♪ -♪ Come on, baby ♪ 96 00:05:16,524 --> 00:05:18,526 [backup singers] ♪ Say you will ♪ 97 00:05:18,609 --> 00:05:21,362 -[song ends] -[audience applauds] 98 00:05:25,950 --> 00:05:28,369 Do you consider yourself to be an influential man? 99 00:05:28,453 --> 00:05:30,330 In the sense of having the power 100 00:05:30,413 --> 00:05:33,291 to influence the attitude of the American people? 101 00:05:33,374 --> 00:05:36,044 Well, you feel that… you feel that you're… you're helpful. 102 00:05:36,127 --> 00:05:38,755 You feel just as, you know, as an editorial in a newspaper 103 00:05:38,838 --> 00:05:40,757 has a… a definite impact on people. 104 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:44,594 Certainly on television, you can do certain things, 105 00:05:44,677 --> 00:05:46,888 so I say with the Negro issue, 106 00:05:46,971 --> 00:05:49,682 we were the first ever to put Negro performers on. 107 00:05:49,766 --> 00:05:53,311 So, ladies and gentlemen, the show opens with our friends. 108 00:05:53,394 --> 00:05:56,022 [man] The variety of artists and individuals 109 00:05:56,105 --> 00:05:57,940 that Ed Sullivan brought on the show 110 00:05:58,024 --> 00:05:59,484 was really quite 111 00:05:59,567 --> 00:06:03,696 challenging and quite different from any experience we had. 112 00:06:05,656 --> 00:06:08,618 Now, Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong! 113 00:06:08,701 --> 00:06:10,745 [pensive music playing] 114 00:06:10,828 --> 00:06:13,998 [Belafonte] And his position in defining 115 00:06:14,082 --> 00:06:17,335 who the guests would be was an act of courage. 116 00:06:17,919 --> 00:06:21,464 The Will Mastin Trio, featuring Sammy Davis Jr. 117 00:06:22,590 --> 00:06:25,843 [Smokey] I used to watch The Ed Sullivan Show faithfully. 118 00:06:25,927 --> 00:06:28,346 Everybody watched Ed Sullivan. It was like an event. 119 00:06:28,429 --> 00:06:30,556 "Okay, Sunday night's coming. What are we doing now?" 120 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:34,102 The whole family is gathering around the TV to watch Ed Sullivan 121 00:06:34,185 --> 00:06:36,771 because it was like a celebratory thing in the hood. 122 00:06:37,563 --> 00:06:43,653 Imagine being ten years old, on welfare, watching The Ed Sullivan Show 123 00:06:44,487 --> 00:06:48,658 in a culture that had no Black people on television. 124 00:06:49,450 --> 00:06:53,079 And when you first see somebody that looked like you, 125 00:06:53,579 --> 00:06:57,333 it represented, literally, possibility and hope. 126 00:06:57,917 --> 00:07:00,211 -Would you hold my gloves, please? -I'd be delighted to. 127 00:07:01,504 --> 00:07:04,882 It was always suspected the South would turn off all their sets 128 00:07:04,966 --> 00:07:09,429 if you introduced, uh, a Negro star in their living room. 129 00:07:09,512 --> 00:07:13,266 [news reporter] Two, four, six, eight. We don't want to integrate. 130 00:07:13,349 --> 00:07:18,229 Because people down south were fiercely hostile to Negroes. 131 00:07:18,312 --> 00:07:22,525 They may be forced by circumstances into some demonstration. 132 00:07:23,526 --> 00:07:26,070 But people, in the privacy of their own home, 133 00:07:26,154 --> 00:07:27,864 are gonna do what they think. 134 00:07:27,947 --> 00:07:29,907 [television dial clicking] 135 00:07:29,991 --> 00:07:31,909 [troubling music playing] 136 00:07:34,078 --> 00:07:38,416 [Berry] You know, at the time, the country was divided. 137 00:07:39,584 --> 00:07:43,838 [woman] I got the bus to go home, and after I had taken a seat on the bus, 138 00:07:43,921 --> 00:07:48,050 the driver demanded that I give the seat up for a white man. 139 00:07:48,134 --> 00:07:52,346 I didn't feel that I was being treated as a human being. 140 00:07:52,430 --> 00:07:53,723 I said no. 141 00:07:57,351 --> 00:08:01,147 The racial situation was blatant. Just out front, you know? 142 00:08:01,230 --> 00:08:04,025 Everybody knew where everybody stood. 143 00:08:05,735 --> 00:08:06,694 [music ends] 144 00:08:06,777 --> 00:08:11,365 And then when Ed Sullivan came along, he seemed to be fearless. 145 00:08:11,449 --> 00:08:15,286 [chuckles] And he didn't seem to care what other people thought. 146 00:08:15,369 --> 00:08:16,871 [audience applauds] 147 00:08:16,954 --> 00:08:18,748 ["Bo Diddley" by Bo Diddley playing] 148 00:08:26,589 --> 00:08:28,841 Now, ladies and gentlemen, as everybody knows, 149 00:08:28,925 --> 00:08:32,261 whenever any new musical trend has evinced itself in the popular field, 150 00:08:32,345 --> 00:08:36,265 the first area to find out about it in advance is Harlem. 151 00:08:36,349 --> 00:08:38,351 ["Bo Diddley" continues] 152 00:08:41,604 --> 00:08:44,690 A couple weeks ago I went up to Harlem. I'd seen people jamming the streets 153 00:08:44,774 --> 00:08:46,943 around Frank Schiffman's Apollo Theater, 154 00:08:47,026 --> 00:08:51,739 all trying to get in to see Dr. Jive's Rhythm & Blues. 155 00:08:51,822 --> 00:08:57,870 So here is Dr. Jive. I want you to meet this young disc jockey from WWRL. 156 00:08:57,954 --> 00:08:59,830 -Thank you. -[audience applauds] 157 00:08:59,914 --> 00:09:04,001 Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. We have a lot of wonderful stars with us. 158 00:09:04,085 --> 00:09:07,421 To get rolling, I'd like to present a wonderful folk-blues singer. 159 00:09:07,505 --> 00:09:09,966 -Here is Bo Diddley. -[audience applauds] 160 00:09:10,841 --> 00:09:13,010 ♪ Bo Diddley bought his baby A diamond ring ♪ 161 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:16,889 ♪ If that diamond ring don't shine ♪ 162 00:09:18,891 --> 00:09:20,893 ♪ Bo Diddley take it to a private eye ♪ 163 00:09:22,562 --> 00:09:24,522 ♪ If that private eye can't see ♪ 164 00:09:26,482 --> 00:09:28,609 ♪ He'd better not take the ring from me ♪ 165 00:09:33,906 --> 00:09:36,742 I remember as a kid, there's a musical riff… 166 00:09:36,826 --> 00:09:39,996 [vocalizes guitar riff] 167 00:09:40,079 --> 00:09:43,249 That's Bo Diddley. [chuckles] I mean, he was the one… That's his invention. 168 00:09:43,332 --> 00:09:45,126 ♪ Bo Diddley bought an alley cat ♪ 169 00:09:47,086 --> 00:09:49,046 ♪ To make his pretty baby a Sunday hat ♪ 170 00:09:49,130 --> 00:09:52,967 [Diddley] It's mixed with African religious chant. 171 00:09:53,050 --> 00:09:55,094 [vocalizes musical rhythm] 172 00:09:57,221 --> 00:10:01,392 I went and called the rest of the guys. Jerome and all them with the maracas. 173 00:10:01,475 --> 00:10:04,395 Backstage, somebody said, "No wiggling." 174 00:10:05,896 --> 00:10:08,941 I said, "Man, I know too many things. You ain't gonna shut me down." 175 00:10:09,025 --> 00:10:11,277 "You might slow me up, but you won't shut me off." 176 00:10:12,528 --> 00:10:14,989 The network would tell you, "We can't do so-and-so 177 00:10:15,072 --> 00:10:17,783 because the South will not accept it," 178 00:10:17,867 --> 00:10:23,748 but Ed pushed the envelope to as far as an envelope could be pushed. 179 00:10:23,831 --> 00:10:27,543 Since our last appearance, so many of you nice folks have written in asking, 180 00:10:27,627 --> 00:10:30,212 where did it happen for us, when did the doors start to open? 181 00:10:30,296 --> 00:10:33,507 Well, this is the stage, and we'd like to tell you about it. 182 00:10:33,591 --> 00:10:36,969 Can we go right back to the beginning of the life of Ed Sullivan? 183 00:10:37,053 --> 00:10:38,971 [singer shouts] 184 00:10:40,431 --> 00:10:41,432 ["Bo Diddley" ends] 185 00:10:41,515 --> 00:10:43,517 [birds chirping] 186 00:10:44,852 --> 00:10:46,854 [gentle piano music playing] 187 00:10:50,483 --> 00:10:55,905 [Ed Sullivan] For a small-town kid, my life has been an incredible thing. 188 00:10:56,405 --> 00:10:58,157 [children playfully shouting] 189 00:10:58,240 --> 00:10:59,909 [Sullivan] I'm far from special. 190 00:11:00,451 --> 00:11:02,370 Only especially lucky. 191 00:11:03,412 --> 00:11:06,207 Toni, for those who've never seen you before, how old are you? 192 00:11:06,290 --> 00:11:07,625 I'm 11 years old. 193 00:11:07,708 --> 00:11:09,627 -And you come from California? -Yes. 194 00:11:09,710 --> 00:11:13,005 And you dreamed about a candy store and you finally got enough candy? 195 00:11:13,089 --> 00:11:14,006 Sure. 196 00:11:14,090 --> 00:11:16,592 Then you ought to be feeling happy enough to sing another song. 197 00:11:16,676 --> 00:11:18,552 -Mm-hmm. -What would you like to sing? 198 00:11:18,636 --> 00:11:22,056 -"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." -Like to hear "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"? 199 00:11:22,139 --> 00:11:23,057 Huh? 200 00:11:23,641 --> 00:11:25,393 You can get a microphone over there. 201 00:11:25,476 --> 00:11:27,728 [piano keys play lightly] 202 00:11:27,812 --> 00:11:31,440 ♪ Swing low ♪ 203 00:11:31,524 --> 00:11:36,570 ♪ Sweet chariot ♪ 204 00:11:36,654 --> 00:11:43,661 ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ 205 00:11:43,744 --> 00:11:46,997 ♪ Swing low ♪ 206 00:11:47,081 --> 00:11:52,420 ♪ Sweet chariot ♪ 207 00:11:53,003 --> 00:11:57,133 ♪ Coming for to carry ♪ 208 00:11:57,216 --> 00:12:02,596 ♪ Me home ♪ 209 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:04,640 ♪ I looked over Jordan… ♪ 210 00:12:04,724 --> 00:12:06,434 [Sullivan] I was born in Harlem, 211 00:12:06,517 --> 00:12:09,687 which was then an area for the Irish and Jewish. 212 00:12:09,770 --> 00:12:15,151 [Toni] ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ 213 00:12:15,234 --> 00:12:16,986 [Sullivan] I was one of twins, 214 00:12:17,069 --> 00:12:21,031 but my brother Dan died when he was just two years old. 215 00:12:21,574 --> 00:12:25,619 [Toni] ♪ …coming after me… ♪ 216 00:12:26,370 --> 00:12:27,955 [Sullivan] Our family was poor, 217 00:12:28,038 --> 00:12:31,542 but we had a strong streak of pride and self-reliance. 218 00:12:31,625 --> 00:12:35,963 [Toni] ♪ …I'm coming too ♪ 219 00:12:36,046 --> 00:12:40,926 ♪ Coming for to carry ♪ 220 00:12:41,010 --> 00:12:45,890 ♪ Me home ♪ 221 00:12:45,973 --> 00:12:47,975 [poignant music playing] 222 00:12:52,104 --> 00:12:54,482 [Sullivan] From the very first time that I can remember, 223 00:12:54,565 --> 00:12:56,609 I always wanted to write. 224 00:12:56,692 --> 00:12:58,319 [Belafonte] The interesting thing about Ed 225 00:12:58,402 --> 00:13:01,071 was that he started off, first of all, as a columnist. 226 00:13:01,155 --> 00:13:03,199 As a journalist, I should say. 227 00:13:03,282 --> 00:13:06,160 That eventually set him up with a very powerful column. 228 00:13:06,243 --> 00:13:07,495 [cameras clicking] 229 00:13:07,578 --> 00:13:10,122 [Sullivan] And I went to work as sports editor. 230 00:13:10,831 --> 00:13:15,002 Sportswriters get to be very critical and observant. 231 00:13:16,837 --> 00:13:20,049 They can tell you what makes a certain ballplayer click. 232 00:13:21,383 --> 00:13:23,385 [crowd cheers] 233 00:13:25,554 --> 00:13:29,225 And so, sports stayed with you all your life, as your first love. 234 00:13:29,308 --> 00:13:32,686 [Sullivan] When we played baseball in Port Chester High School, 235 00:13:32,770 --> 00:13:34,480 there were Negroes in the league, 236 00:13:34,563 --> 00:13:38,776 and some fellas actually said they would not play against a Negro. 237 00:13:39,443 --> 00:13:41,862 I always resented them very deeply 238 00:13:42,613 --> 00:13:45,199 because the Irish had gone through that when they first came. 239 00:13:45,282 --> 00:13:49,745 They were all supposedly lazy, ignorant drunkards. 240 00:13:49,829 --> 00:13:52,498 And my parents knew these things were wrong. 241 00:13:52,581 --> 00:13:53,666 They were very… 242 00:13:55,167 --> 00:13:58,462 It wasn't broad-minded. They were just… They were just sensible. 243 00:13:59,588 --> 00:14:03,259 My refusal to compromise with people that I despise 244 00:14:03,342 --> 00:14:05,302 certainly comes straight from my dad. 245 00:14:07,137 --> 00:14:10,099 He taught me to respect the rights of the underdog. 246 00:14:10,766 --> 00:14:14,687 He was the most completely fearless man that I ever knew. 247 00:14:17,022 --> 00:14:19,066 [Belafonte] Ed, when he wrote about 248 00:14:19,149 --> 00:14:23,362 people of color, his was a more embracing reflection, 249 00:14:24,196 --> 00:14:29,159 and I think toned down, uh, the temperament, 250 00:14:29,243 --> 00:14:31,245 the political temperament of the nation. 251 00:14:32,204 --> 00:14:36,166 But I was most conscious of the fact 252 00:14:36,250 --> 00:14:39,169 that he had to have gotten a lot of flak 253 00:14:39,962 --> 00:14:44,550 because America and the world was in a huge upheaval 254 00:14:44,633 --> 00:14:46,927 on… on conditions of race. 255 00:14:47,845 --> 00:14:52,349 Ladies and gentlemen, here is Augusta, Georgia's young singing star, 256 00:14:52,433 --> 00:14:54,351 James Brown! Let's bring him on here! 257 00:14:54,435 --> 00:14:55,436 [audience applauds] 258 00:14:55,519 --> 00:14:57,813 ["Prisoner of Love" by James Brown playing] 259 00:15:02,192 --> 00:15:03,569 ♪ Ooh ♪ 260 00:15:03,652 --> 00:15:07,740 ♪ Alone from night to night You'll find me ♪ 261 00:15:09,491 --> 00:15:10,826 ♪ Ooh ♪ 262 00:15:10,910 --> 00:15:16,457 ♪ Too weak to break these chains That bind me ♪ 263 00:15:16,540 --> 00:15:17,708 ♪ Ooh ♪ 264 00:15:17,791 --> 00:15:21,962 ♪ I need no shackles to remind me ♪ 265 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:26,634 ♪ I'm just a prisoner ♪ 266 00:15:27,801 --> 00:15:29,803 ♪ Don't let me be a prisoner ♪ 267 00:15:29,887 --> 00:15:31,639 -[whistle blows] -♪ What's the good of my… ♪ 268 00:15:32,473 --> 00:15:36,310 [announcer] And he's off, carrying the ball 96 yards for the score. 269 00:15:36,393 --> 00:15:38,020 ["Prisoner of Love" continues] 270 00:15:38,103 --> 00:15:41,690 [Sullivan] I was then sports editor at the New York Evening Graphic, 271 00:15:41,774 --> 00:15:45,319 and NYU booked a game against the University of Georgia, 272 00:15:45,402 --> 00:15:46,820 to be held in New York. 273 00:15:48,072 --> 00:15:50,866 And I was sickened to read NYU's agreement 274 00:15:50,950 --> 00:15:54,536 to bench a Negro player for the entire game. 275 00:15:58,082 --> 00:16:00,209 ♪ I'm just a prisoner ♪ 276 00:16:00,292 --> 00:16:04,129 [Sullivan] I felt this issue was important enough to be threshed out publicly. 277 00:16:05,422 --> 00:16:08,175 -[Brown] ♪ Prisoner of love ♪ -[backup singers] ♪ Prisoner of love ♪ 278 00:16:08,258 --> 00:16:09,885 ♪ Ow! ♪ 279 00:16:09,969 --> 00:16:11,428 [backup singers] ♪ Prisoner of love ♪ 280 00:16:11,512 --> 00:16:14,139 [Sullivan] What a shameful state of affairs this is. 281 00:16:14,223 --> 00:16:18,811 Myers risking his neck for a school that will turn around and bench him 282 00:16:18,894 --> 00:16:23,899 because the University of Georgia asks that the color line be drawn. 283 00:16:24,566 --> 00:16:26,777 -[Brown] ♪ No! ♪ -[backup singers] ♪ Prisoner of love ♪ 284 00:16:27,528 --> 00:16:30,239 -♪ Ow! ♪ -♪ Prisoner of love ♪ 285 00:16:30,322 --> 00:16:31,657 ♪ No! ♪ 286 00:16:31,740 --> 00:16:35,911 [Sullivan] If a New York university allows the Mason-Dixon Line 287 00:16:35,995 --> 00:16:39,081 to be erected in the center of its playing field, 288 00:16:39,164 --> 00:16:44,461 then that university should disband its football season for all time. 289 00:16:46,005 --> 00:16:49,633 -♪ You, you, you, you ♪ -[backup singers] ♪ Prisoner of love ♪ 290 00:16:49,717 --> 00:16:53,095 -♪ Made me a prisoner, prisoner of love ♪ -[backup singers] ♪ Prisoner of love ♪ 291 00:16:53,178 --> 00:16:55,180 [percussive flourish] 292 00:16:55,264 --> 00:16:56,098 [song ends] 293 00:16:56,181 --> 00:16:58,183 [audience applauds] 294 00:16:58,267 --> 00:17:00,269 [rhythmic atmospheric music playing] 295 00:17:01,103 --> 00:17:03,772 [Sullivan] I know that I got a lot of lucky breaks. 296 00:17:03,856 --> 00:17:07,568 Take, for instance, the almost incredible stroke of luck 297 00:17:07,651 --> 00:17:11,989 that launched me, a newspaperman, into show business. 298 00:17:12,865 --> 00:17:14,700 [typewriter clacking] 299 00:17:14,783 --> 00:17:17,661 The paper switched me to doing a Broadway column, 300 00:17:18,579 --> 00:17:21,206 even though I knew nothing about Broadway. 301 00:17:21,290 --> 00:17:23,709 Hello? Talk to them? 302 00:17:23,792 --> 00:17:27,880 I didn't want the job, but it was either take it or be fired. 303 00:17:27,963 --> 00:17:32,426 Hello. May I introduce myself? I'm Ed Sullivan, the Broadway columnist. 304 00:17:32,509 --> 00:17:34,720 And I am a columnist, but I'm not an actor. 305 00:17:35,345 --> 00:17:36,847 You will find that out. 306 00:17:36,930 --> 00:17:39,308 May I present to you a very dear pal of mine. 307 00:17:39,391 --> 00:17:43,395 A columnist at The Daily News who has made Broadway live and breathe 308 00:17:43,479 --> 00:17:46,356 throughout the country through the magnificence of his writing. 309 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:50,360 Mr. Broadway himself, Ed Sullivan of The Daily News! 310 00:17:51,236 --> 00:17:55,908 Ladies and gentlemen, The News presents the second annual Harvest Moon Ball. 311 00:17:55,991 --> 00:17:57,910 Strike up the band, Dick Himber! 312 00:17:58,786 --> 00:18:00,788 [silence] 313 00:18:01,497 --> 00:18:02,456 Want it again? 314 00:18:02,539 --> 00:18:05,542 ["Bold Soul Sister" by Ike and Tina Turner playing] 315 00:18:07,044 --> 00:18:10,422 Our show opens right now with the exciting Ike & Tina Turner Revue, 316 00:18:10,506 --> 00:18:12,549 and they are wonderful. Let's have 'em. 317 00:18:12,633 --> 00:18:14,510 [audience applauds] 318 00:18:18,639 --> 00:18:19,765 ♪ Tell me now ♪ 319 00:18:20,974 --> 00:18:21,934 ♪ Oh! ♪ 320 00:18:22,017 --> 00:18:24,728 ♪ Bold soul sister ♪ 321 00:18:24,812 --> 00:18:26,980 ♪ Bold soul sister ♪ 322 00:18:27,064 --> 00:18:29,274 ♪ BSS, all right ♪ 323 00:18:30,484 --> 00:18:31,485 ♪ Tell me now ♪ 324 00:18:31,568 --> 00:18:34,822 ♪ Bold soul sister ♪ 325 00:18:34,905 --> 00:18:36,156 ♪ All right, now ♪ 326 00:18:38,575 --> 00:18:40,869 [Sullivan] The Harvest Moon Ball was one of the big events 327 00:18:40,953 --> 00:18:42,788 of the New York vaudeville scene. 328 00:18:44,540 --> 00:18:48,085 I selected acts and acted as master of ceremonies 329 00:18:48,168 --> 00:18:50,712 at the big Madison Square Garden benefit. 330 00:18:50,796 --> 00:18:53,674 [backup singers] ♪ Bold soul sister ♪ 331 00:18:53,757 --> 00:18:56,051 [Sullivan] I began to develop a stage presence 332 00:18:56,135 --> 00:18:58,762 and a confidence in my judgment of talent. 333 00:18:59,263 --> 00:19:01,723 [reporter] Number nine twosome wins the all-around championship, 334 00:19:01,807 --> 00:19:05,352 which gets them the accolade from Master of Ceremonies Ed Sullivan. 335 00:19:05,435 --> 00:19:06,770 ♪ I do what I wanna do ♪ 336 00:19:07,646 --> 00:19:08,981 ♪ Check it one time ♪ 337 00:19:09,064 --> 00:19:11,066 ♪ Do what you wanna, When you wanna, how you wanna ♪ 338 00:19:11,150 --> 00:19:13,360 -♪ Now, do your thing, soul sister ♪ -[Tina] ♪ All right ♪ 339 00:19:13,443 --> 00:19:16,738 [Sullivan] And it all led up to the most important day of my life, 340 00:19:16,822 --> 00:19:19,825 September 3rd, 1947, 341 00:19:19,908 --> 00:19:24,580 when, for the 12th year in a row, I acted as master of ceremonies. 342 00:19:24,663 --> 00:19:26,248 [Tina] ♪ The more I give you… ♪ 343 00:19:26,331 --> 00:19:29,459 [Sullivan] TV was brand-new, and I hadn't known 344 00:19:29,543 --> 00:19:32,963 that CBS had decided at the last minute to televise the show. 345 00:19:33,046 --> 00:19:35,924 [announcer] It's the night of the Harvest Moon Ball on Broadway. 346 00:19:36,633 --> 00:19:37,634 ♪ Yeah! ♪ 347 00:19:39,469 --> 00:19:42,306 [Sullivan] Nor did I know that CBS executives 348 00:19:42,389 --> 00:19:45,434 were looking for a relaxed and informal guy 349 00:19:45,517 --> 00:19:48,437 to emcee a Sunday night variety program. 350 00:19:48,937 --> 00:19:51,231 ["Bold Soul Sister" continues] 351 00:19:54,568 --> 00:19:56,987 But as a result of that telecast, 352 00:19:57,070 --> 00:20:00,115 CBS decided that I was the man for the job. 353 00:20:02,034 --> 00:20:04,036 [song ends] 354 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:06,121 [audience applauds] 355 00:20:07,873 --> 00:20:11,084 -[static hiss] -[old-timey television music playing] 356 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,214 [announcer] Welcome, ladies and gentlemen! 357 00:20:15,297 --> 00:20:17,549 Emerson Radio & Television proudly present 358 00:20:17,633 --> 00:20:20,886 Toast of the Town, and your host, Ed Sullivan! 359 00:20:20,969 --> 00:20:22,971 [fanfare blares] 360 00:20:23,055 --> 00:20:25,307 [audience applauds] 361 00:20:25,390 --> 00:20:26,767 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. 362 00:20:26,850 --> 00:20:27,935 [tense music playing] 363 00:20:28,018 --> 00:20:29,853 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, 364 00:20:29,937 --> 00:20:33,315 on this particular Toast of the Town show for Emerson… 365 00:20:33,398 --> 00:20:36,735 When I first went on TV with our Toast of the Town program, 366 00:20:36,818 --> 00:20:42,241 the experts… told us to look directly into the camera. 367 00:20:42,324 --> 00:20:43,867 [dramatic sting] 368 00:20:43,951 --> 00:20:45,702 This didn't faze actors… 369 00:20:45,786 --> 00:20:47,579 [audience applauds] 370 00:20:47,663 --> 00:20:50,165 …but when I looked into those iron monsters… 371 00:20:50,249 --> 00:20:51,250 [dramatic sting] 372 00:20:51,333 --> 00:20:52,793 …rigor mortis set in. 373 00:20:52,876 --> 00:20:54,920 [music halts then restarts] 374 00:20:55,003 --> 00:20:57,339 Well, ladies and gentlemen, until next Sunday night 375 00:20:57,422 --> 00:20:59,508 at the same time over CBS TV, 376 00:21:00,300 --> 00:21:02,302 at which time Emerson is gonna produce another… 377 00:21:02,386 --> 00:21:05,138 [splutters] …all-star studded show… 378 00:21:05,222 --> 00:21:08,642 TV critics urged CBS to get rid of me. 379 00:21:09,268 --> 00:21:12,437 "Why, oh why is Ed Sullivan on TV?" 380 00:21:13,105 --> 00:21:16,733 "On camera, Ed has been likened to a cigar store Indian, 381 00:21:17,943 --> 00:21:21,113 a stone-faced monument, just off the boat from Easter Island." 382 00:21:22,614 --> 00:21:26,034 "His smile is that of a man sucking a lemon." 383 00:21:26,118 --> 00:21:29,246 This is the jacket worn by Ed Sullivan on his television debut. 384 00:21:29,329 --> 00:21:31,790 [audience laughs] 385 00:21:31,873 --> 00:21:34,918 And right over here is the rod that held Ed up. 386 00:21:35,002 --> 00:21:36,295 [audience laughs] 387 00:21:36,378 --> 00:21:38,255 [Sullivan] They knocked my brains out… 388 00:21:38,338 --> 00:21:40,382 Aw, now leave me alone, will ya? 389 00:21:40,465 --> 00:21:43,385 [Sullivan] …and when I saw the show, I couldn't blame 'em. 390 00:21:43,468 --> 00:21:45,095 [tense music continues] 391 00:21:45,178 --> 00:21:48,098 I was named the "Great Stone Face of 1949." 392 00:21:48,181 --> 00:21:49,099 [audience laughs] 393 00:21:49,182 --> 00:21:51,310 The abuse was so awful 394 00:21:51,393 --> 00:21:54,438 that my daughter, Betty, stopped reading the newspapers. 395 00:21:55,981 --> 00:21:59,109 One story was that I had a steel plate in my head. 396 00:22:00,944 --> 00:22:05,907 And I received hundreds of letters congratulating me on my courage 397 00:22:05,991 --> 00:22:08,535 in continuing despite such a handicap. 398 00:22:09,202 --> 00:22:10,579 What does it take to survive, 399 00:22:10,662 --> 00:22:14,041 besides, well, imagination, I guess, to begin with? Toughness? 400 00:22:14,124 --> 00:22:16,710 I think that's it, and I think the people at home, 401 00:22:17,586 --> 00:22:21,089 the families down through the years, have come to accept me as I am. 402 00:22:21,173 --> 00:22:24,468 They know I'm not a performer, but they know that we do make 403 00:22:24,551 --> 00:22:26,970 a darn sincere effort to get fine acts. 404 00:22:27,054 --> 00:22:29,014 [audience laughs] 405 00:22:29,097 --> 00:22:31,683 [imitating Ed Sullivan] Welcome to our shoe… Tonight we're gonna… 406 00:22:31,767 --> 00:22:33,935 [Sullivan] I never thought I was the attraction. 407 00:22:34,478 --> 00:22:37,439 I just kept looking for the best thing to put on the show. 408 00:22:37,522 --> 00:22:39,775 [rhythmic jazz music playing] 409 00:22:41,777 --> 00:22:45,614 Just before the war, there was a drought for Harlem performers. 410 00:22:47,449 --> 00:22:51,370 They were hit hard because of a decline in vaudeville. 411 00:22:53,038 --> 00:22:55,874 Day after day and night after night, 412 00:22:55,957 --> 00:22:59,836 we went to the theaters and the nightclubs to view acts. 413 00:23:02,547 --> 00:23:05,675 And no pair of dancing feet ever made such an impression 414 00:23:05,759 --> 00:23:08,345 as those of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. 415 00:23:10,347 --> 00:23:13,683 My name is William Robinson, so by him being Bill Robinson, 416 00:23:13,767 --> 00:23:15,977 I was aware of him from the time I was three years old. 417 00:23:16,061 --> 00:23:19,689 Making movies with Shirley Temple. He was, you know, the man. 418 00:23:19,773 --> 00:23:21,983 Bojangles. They made a song about him. 419 00:23:22,067 --> 00:23:24,611 Sammy Davis had a huge hit. [chuckles] Yeah. 420 00:23:24,694 --> 00:23:27,614 I'm telling you, looks like I'm in Hollywood. You're still in Harlem. 421 00:23:27,697 --> 00:23:31,785 He was a Black face in movies, and he wasn't shuffling and jiving 422 00:23:31,868 --> 00:23:34,996 and all that Black stuff, that, "Y'all the boss," he wasn't doing that. 423 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:36,206 He was dancing. 424 00:23:36,289 --> 00:23:38,291 [audience applauds] 425 00:23:39,167 --> 00:23:42,879 [Sullivan] Over a span of 20 years, we've been dear friends. 426 00:23:43,463 --> 00:23:47,259 He was the first performer to agree to open a show for me, 427 00:23:47,342 --> 00:23:51,221 and that opened the door for so many vaudeville stars. 428 00:23:51,304 --> 00:23:55,392 …His Highness of Hi-De-Ho, Cab Calloway to come out here! 429 00:23:56,017 --> 00:23:58,019 Ladies and gentlemen, Cab Calloway! 430 00:23:58,103 --> 00:24:01,815 I think that vaudeville was a big part of Ed Sullivan's show 431 00:24:01,898 --> 00:24:03,400 because that was his people. 432 00:24:03,483 --> 00:24:04,860 Pearl Bailey. 433 00:24:04,943 --> 00:24:09,322 Vaudeville people are the most interesting of all troupers on the stage. 434 00:24:09,406 --> 00:24:11,616 [Smokey] Back in those days, there were variety shows. 435 00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:12,909 There would be a comedian, 436 00:24:12,993 --> 00:24:15,495 a band, or a singing group. 437 00:24:15,579 --> 00:24:18,457 There was a guy named Peg Leg Bates. He was a tap dancer. 438 00:24:18,540 --> 00:24:21,334 So, Ed Sullivan is the granddaddy 439 00:24:21,418 --> 00:24:24,754 of all of the TV variety shows that have live talent. 440 00:24:24,838 --> 00:24:26,798 He was the first big gun. 441 00:24:27,424 --> 00:24:30,260 [Sullivan] Television will not only put vaudeville stars back to work, 442 00:24:30,969 --> 00:24:33,472 this new medium is made-to-order for them. 443 00:24:33,555 --> 00:24:35,974 [music continues] 444 00:24:37,225 --> 00:24:42,230 And it's been proven on my show by Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, 445 00:24:42,314 --> 00:24:47,402 Louis Armstrong, Hazel Scott, the Ink Spots, and Lena Horne. 446 00:24:48,278 --> 00:24:50,280 [audience applauds] 447 00:24:53,575 --> 00:24:57,746 These acts, always great, become greater on television, 448 00:24:58,747 --> 00:25:00,916 because unlike in a huge theater, 449 00:25:01,708 --> 00:25:03,168 everyone has a front-row seat. 450 00:25:05,420 --> 00:25:07,547 [music ends] 451 00:25:07,631 --> 00:25:08,632 Encore! 452 00:25:08,715 --> 00:25:11,009 [audience applauds] 453 00:25:14,346 --> 00:25:16,848 [pensive music playing] 454 00:25:16,932 --> 00:25:18,558 They didn't get much money. 455 00:25:19,684 --> 00:25:24,481 But when I needed help, the Negro stars were loyal and considerate. 456 00:25:24,564 --> 00:25:26,566 [audience applauds] 457 00:25:27,526 --> 00:25:30,654 I personally know that without them, 458 00:25:30,737 --> 00:25:33,740 the early TV days would have been a nightmare. 459 00:25:33,823 --> 00:25:35,367 [tap dance shoes clicking] 460 00:25:35,450 --> 00:25:39,871 Ed Sullivan is a man with an insatiable curiosity about people. 461 00:25:40,372 --> 00:25:41,831 All kinds of people. 462 00:25:41,915 --> 00:25:44,793 The Sullivans have been living at the Delmonico 463 00:25:44,876 --> 00:25:46,670 here in New York for the past 10 years. 464 00:25:46,753 --> 00:25:47,712 As a matter of fact, 465 00:25:47,796 --> 00:25:52,092 since they were married 24 years ago, home has always been a hotel for them. 466 00:25:52,175 --> 00:25:53,593 [Sullivan] When living in a hotel, 467 00:25:53,677 --> 00:25:56,471 you haven't got an awful lot of room to keep things. 468 00:25:56,555 --> 00:25:59,224 The things you do keep are particularly precious to you. 469 00:25:59,307 --> 00:26:01,851 We have a lot of pictures of Betty, our only daughter. 470 00:26:01,935 --> 00:26:04,479 [interviewer] Ed, I think you have a pair of shoes somewhere. 471 00:26:04,563 --> 00:26:08,650 Yes, I have. They're right over here. I'm glad you reminded me of them 472 00:26:08,733 --> 00:26:11,528 because they're the shoes of a very great performer 473 00:26:11,611 --> 00:26:12,654 and a very great American. 474 00:26:12,737 --> 00:26:15,907 These were the shoes of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. 475 00:26:15,991 --> 00:26:17,200 The last shoes he ever wore. 476 00:26:17,284 --> 00:26:20,537 And you'll notice these lightweight soles, that Bill always explained 477 00:26:20,620 --> 00:26:22,247 helped him a lot in his dancing. 478 00:26:22,956 --> 00:26:25,083 It seems to me, and I'm quite sure it's true, 479 00:26:25,166 --> 00:26:30,672 that if Bill Robinson hadn't given so much of himself in charitable affairs, 480 00:26:30,755 --> 00:26:34,050 that he still would've been alive, rather than dying of a heart attack. 481 00:26:34,134 --> 00:26:36,303 But Bill just kept on till the very end. 482 00:26:36,386 --> 00:26:38,138 [solemn music playing] 483 00:26:38,221 --> 00:26:41,266 When we arranged his funeral, it seemed to all of us 484 00:26:41,349 --> 00:26:45,437 that although Bill, like a great many other generous performers, had died broke, 485 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:50,609 he should be given a funeral befitting his stature as a very great American. 486 00:26:56,114 --> 00:26:58,283 They permitted all the Harlem schoolchildren 487 00:26:58,366 --> 00:26:59,868 to take off the afternoon. 488 00:26:59,951 --> 00:27:03,872 And so when the funeral cortege started down from the church in Harlem, 489 00:27:03,955 --> 00:27:05,415 there were tens of thousands 490 00:27:05,498 --> 00:27:08,585 of these Negro youngsters lining the sidewalk. 491 00:27:09,377 --> 00:27:12,255 And that continued all the way down out of Harlem. 492 00:27:15,258 --> 00:27:16,301 [woman] He cared. 493 00:27:16,968 --> 00:27:21,222 And, uh, he wanted his audience to understand 494 00:27:21,306 --> 00:27:25,185 that there was a lot of talent out there that needed the exposure. 495 00:27:25,268 --> 00:27:26,895 Miss Dionne Warwick. 496 00:27:26,978 --> 00:27:30,148 [Warwick] And he was willing to give it in order to continue to do 497 00:27:30,231 --> 00:27:33,943 what most people wanted us to do, and that was entertain. 498 00:27:34,027 --> 00:27:37,906 And bring them something they couldn't get anywhere else. 499 00:27:38,948 --> 00:27:43,495 And now… for the fantastic Gladys Knight & the Pips. 500 00:27:44,079 --> 00:27:44,954 ♪ Ooh ♪ 501 00:27:45,038 --> 00:27:48,708 ♪ I've gotta get away from you Fast as I can ♪ 502 00:27:48,792 --> 00:27:52,295 ♪ Too much for me, baby More than my heart can stand ♪ 503 00:27:52,379 --> 00:27:56,132 ♪ Like a kid behind the wheel You been reckless with my heart ♪ 504 00:27:56,216 --> 00:27:59,427 ♪ If I stay around you Sure to tear it all apart ♪ 505 00:27:59,511 --> 00:28:03,014 ♪ Said the road's got to end somewhere ♪ 506 00:28:03,098 --> 00:28:06,643 ♪ Oh, every road has got to end somewhere ♪ 507 00:28:06,726 --> 00:28:11,106 ♪ Now is the time for the showdown So let me give you the low down ♪ 508 00:28:11,189 --> 00:28:14,401 ♪ We've come to the end of our road ♪ 509 00:28:14,484 --> 00:28:16,444 [interviewer] Our distinguished guest this evening 510 00:28:16,528 --> 00:28:19,739 is the honorable Herman Talmadge, governor of Georgia. 511 00:28:19,823 --> 00:28:22,659 Well, Governor, I know the local custom and tradition 512 00:28:22,742 --> 00:28:26,162 are against racial mingling, but how do you think this whole problem 513 00:28:26,246 --> 00:28:27,664 is gonna be solved in the future? 514 00:28:27,747 --> 00:28:32,711 We intend to maintain segregation one way or another, come what may. 515 00:28:33,628 --> 00:28:35,505 ♪ …somewhere, yeah ♪ 516 00:28:35,588 --> 00:28:38,591 ♪ Every road has got to end somewhere ♪ 517 00:28:38,675 --> 00:28:42,637 ♪ Sick and tired of your stuff Said enough is enough ♪ 518 00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:46,975 ♪ We've come to the end of our road ♪ 519 00:28:47,058 --> 00:28:48,893 [song continues quietly in background] 520 00:28:48,977 --> 00:28:52,480 [Sullivan] It was suggested that it was most unwise to use Negro performers. 521 00:28:52,564 --> 00:28:55,608 They said if you use Negro performers, Southern audiences would be offended 522 00:28:55,692 --> 00:28:59,112 and would turn your show off, and I said that I didn't believe it. 523 00:28:59,195 --> 00:29:02,657 [reporter] Asa Carter of Alabama organized the boycott. 524 00:29:02,741 --> 00:29:04,826 [Carter] We consider it a plot 525 00:29:04,909 --> 00:29:09,497 to undermine the moral standard of the Anglo-Saxon race 526 00:29:09,998 --> 00:29:12,292 and place him on the level with the Negro. 527 00:29:13,084 --> 00:29:16,504 -♪ Hey, hey, hey, no -♪ No, we gotta end this… ♪ 528 00:29:16,588 --> 00:29:18,882 [Sullivan] We get letters from Southern people, 529 00:29:18,965 --> 00:29:21,885 and these people write in and ask us to bring them back. 530 00:29:21,968 --> 00:29:24,429 They enjoyed so-and-so and so-and-so. 531 00:29:24,512 --> 00:29:27,348 And their enjoyment is based on the person's performance. 532 00:29:27,432 --> 00:29:29,309 ♪ …road ♪ 533 00:29:29,392 --> 00:29:31,102 -[song ends] -[audience applauds] 534 00:29:31,186 --> 00:29:34,898 [Talmadge] The white people in the South want it left alone, just like it is. 535 00:29:34,981 --> 00:29:37,859 A lot of people that aren't familiar with it 536 00:29:37,942 --> 00:29:41,446 don't realize how far-reaching or deep-seated that is. 537 00:29:41,529 --> 00:29:44,574 [man] We've, uh, set up a 20-man committee 538 00:29:44,657 --> 00:29:50,121 to do away with the… this vulgar, animalistic nigger rock and roll bop. 539 00:29:50,205 --> 00:29:54,626 Could you conceive the horror of your fair-skinned daughter 540 00:29:54,709 --> 00:30:00,089 by some fur-head, liver-lip, goat-smelling, ape-faced nigger… 541 00:30:00,673 --> 00:30:02,592 Can you conceive such a thing? 542 00:30:02,675 --> 00:30:03,968 [crowd] No! 543 00:30:04,052 --> 00:30:06,012 Are you going to do something about it? 544 00:30:06,095 --> 00:30:07,472 [crowd] Yes! 545 00:30:07,555 --> 00:30:10,809 It was an occasion for a bit of the old Irish temper, I should think. 546 00:30:10,892 --> 00:30:13,144 No, the temper didn't help out then. 547 00:30:13,228 --> 00:30:14,062 [typewriter clacking] 548 00:30:14,145 --> 00:30:17,774 The statements of Governor Talmadge that Negro performers should be barred 549 00:30:17,857 --> 00:30:24,280 from TV shows on which white performers appear is both stupid and vicious. 550 00:30:25,031 --> 00:30:31,538 I know that I shall not contribute money by purchasing of products from any man 551 00:30:31,621 --> 00:30:33,456 who is contributing to the integration, 552 00:30:33,540 --> 00:30:36,668 the degradation, and the mongrelization of the white race. 553 00:30:36,751 --> 00:30:39,087 Just drove in from the country. 554 00:30:39,170 --> 00:30:43,174 Broadcasting as it is done in this country is an advertising business, 555 00:30:43,258 --> 00:30:46,594 and therefore it must give the buyer what he must have. 556 00:30:46,678 --> 00:30:48,680 [optimistic music playing] 557 00:30:49,556 --> 00:30:51,891 [Sullivan] You'd be amazed at what I couldn't do. 558 00:30:52,559 --> 00:30:58,064 If I had a Black performer on, CBS censors would warn me not to get too close. 559 00:30:58,147 --> 00:31:00,942 They tell me a great friend of all of us is in the audience. 560 00:31:01,025 --> 00:31:03,236 Joe Louis! The heavyweight champion of the world. 561 00:31:03,319 --> 00:31:04,779 -Come up. -[audience applauds] 562 00:31:04,863 --> 00:31:07,866 I was told not to shake hands with Joe Louis. 563 00:31:07,949 --> 00:31:10,660 You're not gonna get any more of my money, champion. 564 00:31:10,743 --> 00:31:12,787 -Joe, it's grand to see you. -[audience applauds] 565 00:31:12,871 --> 00:31:16,541 I was criticized when I put my arm around Ethel Waters. 566 00:31:16,624 --> 00:31:18,251 -Thank you. -Thanks. 567 00:31:18,835 --> 00:31:22,088 But in every day and age, and particularly right now… 568 00:31:22,171 --> 00:31:24,173 So nice to have you back on our show. 569 00:31:24,257 --> 00:31:28,136 …the power of simple words is of tremendous importance 570 00:31:28,219 --> 00:31:30,179 in the ideological clash. 571 00:31:31,472 --> 00:31:34,309 [man] I'm speaking to you as an American American. 572 00:31:34,392 --> 00:31:38,521 I see Negroes holding jobs that belong to me and you! 573 00:31:38,605 --> 00:31:42,275 We allow this thing to go on, what's gonna become of us real Americans? 574 00:31:42,358 --> 00:31:43,192 [crowd cheers] 575 00:31:43,276 --> 00:31:47,447 [reporter 1] Communist agitators posing as civil rights leaders 576 00:31:47,530 --> 00:31:52,035 hope to enlist massive support for their schemes. 577 00:31:52,827 --> 00:31:55,330 [reporter 2] Many were tricked into helping create the appearance 578 00:31:55,413 --> 00:31:59,584 of popular support for a conspiracy that hid its true objectives 579 00:31:59,667 --> 00:32:01,794 for a Soviet Negro republic, 580 00:32:01,878 --> 00:32:07,467 behind the humanitarian banners of civil rights and peace. 581 00:32:07,550 --> 00:32:12,055 I'm almost convinced that the very beginning of this 582 00:32:12,138 --> 00:32:14,599 was by a communistic front. 583 00:32:14,682 --> 00:32:19,646 I think it's the communistic front that started every bit of it. 584 00:32:20,605 --> 00:32:22,899 [Belafonte] The racism which permeates American life 585 00:32:22,982 --> 00:32:27,028 has worked its way deep into… into the… into the fiber 586 00:32:27,111 --> 00:32:29,238 of the hearts and minds of many men and women. 587 00:32:29,948 --> 00:32:33,284 And it has had its incredible influence on my own life. 588 00:32:33,368 --> 00:32:35,995 I have children. I have high hopes for them. 589 00:32:36,079 --> 00:32:37,747 My son is ten years old, 590 00:32:38,247 --> 00:32:40,875 and I will arm him with everything that I can 591 00:32:41,542 --> 00:32:48,257 so that he will be free of any primitive, medieval, you know, concepts 592 00:32:48,341 --> 00:32:53,972 about false patriotism, about boundaries, about the meaning of flags. 593 00:32:54,055 --> 00:32:57,475 You know, mankind is much bigger than all of these primitive symbols. 594 00:32:58,726 --> 00:33:00,353 [Sullivan] There's men out in the audience, 595 00:33:00,436 --> 00:33:03,398 famed Blue Angels of the United States Navy. 596 00:33:03,481 --> 00:33:05,191 Would you all stand up, please? 597 00:33:05,274 --> 00:33:07,276 [audience applauds] 598 00:33:08,653 --> 00:33:13,032 [Belafonte] My agent called and told me that Ed Sullivan had made an invitation 599 00:33:13,116 --> 00:33:14,534 for me to come on the show. 600 00:33:15,159 --> 00:33:19,455 Now, ladies and gentlemen, Harry Belafonte will appear on next week's show 601 00:33:19,539 --> 00:33:21,874 for his first TV appearance. 602 00:33:24,502 --> 00:33:29,340 And I was ecstatic because this was really a career launcher. 603 00:33:30,675 --> 00:33:32,760 In the middle of all of this preparation, 604 00:33:32,844 --> 00:33:39,851 I got a call saying, "CBS has informed us that you are not going to be on the air." 605 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,228 "You're blacklisted." 606 00:33:42,311 --> 00:33:45,148 You've been very active in the Civil Rights Movement, have you not? 607 00:33:45,231 --> 00:33:46,482 Yes, I have. 608 00:33:46,566 --> 00:33:48,109 Could you tell us a bit about your role… 609 00:33:48,192 --> 00:33:49,986 [Belafonte] In this McCarthy-like atmosphere, 610 00:33:50,069 --> 00:33:52,071 the tradition was not to present 611 00:33:52,155 --> 00:33:56,451 those of us who represented the voice of left-wing politics. 612 00:33:57,785 --> 00:34:03,082 When Sullivan was told of this, he became very annoyed. 613 00:34:03,166 --> 00:34:05,168 [tense music playing] 614 00:34:06,544 --> 00:34:10,631 [Sullivan] When Harry Belafonte's name came up, I dug around. 615 00:34:10,715 --> 00:34:13,217 I found out that Harry is Catholic. 616 00:34:13,301 --> 00:34:14,844 And I phoned his priest. 617 00:34:15,470 --> 00:34:18,681 As an American, I despise communism. 618 00:34:18,765 --> 00:34:23,061 I despise any "-ism" contrary to good, old-fashioned Americanism. 619 00:34:25,688 --> 00:34:30,860 He wanted to talk to me personally, so he invited me to come to his hotel. 620 00:34:31,569 --> 00:34:34,572 He said, "I'm told that I can't have you on my show 621 00:34:34,655 --> 00:34:40,078 because you are very favorable towards the communist ideology, 622 00:34:40,912 --> 00:34:43,539 and that you're out there making mischief 623 00:34:43,623 --> 00:34:46,042 that's not to the best interests of our country." 624 00:34:46,542 --> 00:34:48,211 And I said, "Well, Mr. Sullivan, 625 00:34:48,294 --> 00:34:52,715 everything that you have suggested I'm guilty of having done 626 00:34:53,549 --> 00:34:54,550 is true." 627 00:34:54,634 --> 00:34:55,718 [optimistic music playing] 628 00:34:55,802 --> 00:34:57,303 "But tell me something." 629 00:34:57,386 --> 00:35:00,640 "When the Irish did battle with the British, 630 00:35:01,474 --> 00:35:04,936 the rebel mood was considered quite heroic 631 00:35:05,019 --> 00:35:08,898 by all the Irish citizens in the world." 632 00:35:09,941 --> 00:35:13,945 "Explain to me what the difference is when those of us of color 633 00:35:14,028 --> 00:35:18,282 also strike out against the same oppression." 634 00:35:18,866 --> 00:35:21,911 "The Irish rebels who do that are heroic." 635 00:35:21,994 --> 00:35:24,914 "Black rebels who do that are 'not patriotic.'" 636 00:35:25,581 --> 00:35:30,378 We thought this was not about loyalty to the nation. 637 00:35:30,461 --> 00:35:33,548 It's about loyalty to the human condition, 638 00:35:33,631 --> 00:35:37,385 and our humanity was being terribly brutalized. 639 00:35:39,011 --> 00:35:42,265 I left the meeting with nothing really resolved, 640 00:35:42,348 --> 00:35:48,146 and I couldn't have been back in the office more than an hour or two, 641 00:35:48,729 --> 00:35:51,691 then I got a call from my agent, and he said, 642 00:35:51,774 --> 00:35:54,068 "I don't know what you said to Ed Sullivan, 643 00:35:54,152 --> 00:35:55,862 but you're on the show." 644 00:35:56,445 --> 00:35:59,115 -[TV dial clicks] -[audience applauding] 645 00:36:00,658 --> 00:36:03,995 Ladies and gentlemen, here's the moment we've all been waiting for. 646 00:36:04,787 --> 00:36:07,331 Here is one of the great artists of our country 647 00:36:07,415 --> 00:36:09,667 and one of the greatest artists of the world. 648 00:36:09,750 --> 00:36:13,880 Here is… Harry Belafonte! So let's bring him on! 649 00:36:13,963 --> 00:36:15,965 [audience applauds] 650 00:36:16,048 --> 00:36:18,176 ["Muleskinner" by Harry Belafonte playing] 651 00:36:27,852 --> 00:36:33,274 ♪ Good morning ♪ 652 00:36:33,357 --> 00:36:35,568 ♪ Captain ♪ 653 00:36:36,861 --> 00:36:39,864 ♪ Good morning, sun ♪ 654 00:36:39,947 --> 00:36:45,870 ♪ Oh well, it's good morning, captain ♪ 655 00:36:45,953 --> 00:36:49,540 ♪ Good morning, sun ♪ 656 00:36:49,624 --> 00:36:55,755 ♪ Don't you need another muleskinner ♪ 657 00:36:55,838 --> 00:36:58,007 ♪ Out on your new mule run ♪ 658 00:36:58,090 --> 00:36:59,383 [whistling call] 659 00:37:00,343 --> 00:37:03,012 -♪ Hey there ♪ -♪ Hey there ♪ 660 00:37:03,095 --> 00:37:07,475 ♪ Hey there, little water boy ♪ 661 00:37:07,558 --> 00:37:09,977 ♪ Bring your bucket round ♪ 662 00:37:10,061 --> 00:37:10,895 [whistling call] 663 00:37:10,978 --> 00:37:12,563 ♪ Oh well, it's hey there ♪ 664 00:37:12,647 --> 00:37:16,567 -♪ Little water boy ♪ -♪ Hey there ♪ 665 00:37:16,651 --> 00:37:20,696 ♪ Bring your bucket round ♪ 666 00:37:20,780 --> 00:37:26,661 ♪ If you don't like your job ♪ 667 00:37:26,744 --> 00:37:29,664 ♪ Better lay that bucket down ♪ 668 00:37:29,747 --> 00:37:30,623 Go! 669 00:37:31,499 --> 00:37:36,754 ♪ Good morning ♪ 670 00:37:36,837 --> 00:37:38,547 ♪ Captain ♪ 671 00:37:38,631 --> 00:37:40,258 [background singer claps, exclaims] 672 00:37:40,341 --> 00:37:44,053 -♪ Good morning, sun ♪ -[background singer makes whistling call] 673 00:37:44,136 --> 00:37:48,224 ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 674 00:37:48,307 --> 00:37:49,767 ♪ Hah! ♪ 675 00:37:49,850 --> 00:37:52,645 -[song ends] -[audience applauds] 676 00:37:52,728 --> 00:37:53,980 [serene music playing] 677 00:37:54,063 --> 00:37:57,149 [Sullivan] When this writer first used Belafonte on TV, 678 00:37:57,233 --> 00:38:02,154 it proved that the South would welcome him into their homes on Sunday nights. 679 00:38:03,739 --> 00:38:07,743 Harry Belafonte can accomplish a vastly important job 680 00:38:07,827 --> 00:38:09,495 for red, white, and blue power. 681 00:38:11,372 --> 00:38:14,083 [Belafonte] But all of a sudden, we who were being demonized 682 00:38:14,166 --> 00:38:16,419 and blacklisted and all those things… 683 00:38:17,169 --> 00:38:21,340 To see us through the lens of a television camera 684 00:38:21,424 --> 00:38:25,636 on a program that was considered to be "most American," 685 00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:28,306 because Sullivan was about as American as you could get, 686 00:38:28,389 --> 00:38:32,518 the more people began to see the human side of the equation 687 00:38:32,601 --> 00:38:36,063 pushed against the political realities of the day. 688 00:38:37,023 --> 00:38:38,858 [audience applauding] 689 00:38:39,775 --> 00:38:42,653 You know, we get so many requests after you've been on the show. 690 00:38:42,737 --> 00:38:47,450 They say, "Would, some night, you please have Nat King Cole sit down at the piano 691 00:38:47,533 --> 00:38:49,410 and actually play a piano number for us?" 692 00:38:49,493 --> 00:38:50,328 I'd be glad to. 693 00:38:50,411 --> 00:38:51,704 -Would you do it? -Okay. 694 00:38:51,787 --> 00:38:53,789 [big band music blares] 695 00:38:55,750 --> 00:38:59,086 [Nat King Cole playing piano version of "Just One of Those Things"] 696 00:39:13,893 --> 00:39:15,936 [reporter 1] This is the United States Supreme Court. 697 00:39:16,020 --> 00:39:18,898 On May 17th, the court unanimously declared 698 00:39:18,981 --> 00:39:22,276 segregation in public schools to be illegal. 699 00:39:22,777 --> 00:39:25,654 [man] There is a brand-new Negro in the South 700 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:30,034 with a new sense of dignity and destiny. 701 00:39:32,870 --> 00:39:34,705 [reporter 2] Governor Davis and the legislature 702 00:39:34,789 --> 00:39:36,957 tried one legal device after another 703 00:39:37,041 --> 00:39:39,335 to prevent or stop the integration. 704 00:39:39,418 --> 00:39:41,253 Segregationists hurled stones. 705 00:39:41,337 --> 00:39:43,339 [indistinct chanting] 706 00:39:47,301 --> 00:39:51,180 [Smokey] The racial situation was rough, and especially in the South, 707 00:39:51,263 --> 00:39:54,600 but when you're doing a job that you absolutely love, 708 00:39:55,184 --> 00:39:57,686 you are living your wildest dream. 709 00:39:57,770 --> 00:39:59,313 You're a young person. 710 00:40:00,606 --> 00:40:03,734 You ain't even old enough to be scared, [chuckles] you know what I'm saying? 711 00:40:10,449 --> 00:40:12,159 -[percussive flourish] -[song ends] 712 00:40:12,243 --> 00:40:16,288 You're not thinking like that. Sometimes it just hits you in the face. 713 00:40:16,372 --> 00:40:17,248 [TV dial clicks] 714 00:40:17,331 --> 00:40:19,333 [foreboding music playing] 715 00:40:21,877 --> 00:40:24,630 [reporter] This is the muddy, backwoods Tallahatchie River 716 00:40:24,713 --> 00:40:26,757 where a weighted body was found, 717 00:40:26,841 --> 00:40:29,802 alleged to be that of young Emmett Till. 718 00:40:29,885 --> 00:40:31,137 [man] I never will forget. 719 00:40:31,220 --> 00:40:36,016 I was 15 years old when we saw what they did to Emmett Till. 720 00:40:38,144 --> 00:40:40,771 And I don't… 'Cause I get emotional on that. 721 00:40:46,944 --> 00:40:49,822 We played down there where Emmett Till was shot. 722 00:40:49,905 --> 00:40:50,990 [siren wailing] 723 00:40:51,073 --> 00:40:53,409 They changed the name from where it happened. 724 00:40:53,492 --> 00:40:58,080 I said, changing the name ain't gonna make us forget how it happened or where. 725 00:40:59,790 --> 00:41:02,168 So many different things that has happened. 726 00:41:02,835 --> 00:41:06,839 We're getting shot at… on our tour bus. 727 00:41:08,215 --> 00:41:10,634 Getting called the N-word 'cause we want to eat. 728 00:41:11,260 --> 00:41:14,472 You find out how strong and resilient you can be. 729 00:41:14,555 --> 00:41:17,183 You had to get through it. You can't stop. 730 00:41:17,683 --> 00:41:19,602 You ain't gonna let 'em stop you. 731 00:41:19,685 --> 00:41:22,146 So what you gonna do? Fight on. 732 00:41:22,229 --> 00:41:24,231 [siren wailing] 733 00:41:25,107 --> 00:41:27,109 [resolute edgy music playing] 734 00:41:36,202 --> 00:41:37,953 [reporter 1] Nat, where are you going today? 735 00:41:38,037 --> 00:41:39,121 I'm going to Raleigh. 736 00:41:39,622 --> 00:41:41,749 Raleigh? You're continuing your Southern tour? 737 00:41:41,832 --> 00:41:43,667 Yes. Well, it's not a complete Southern tour. 738 00:41:43,751 --> 00:41:46,253 We only have about four more days to go on it anyway. 739 00:41:46,337 --> 00:41:48,797 [reporter 1] They say that the reason those men attacked you 740 00:41:48,881 --> 00:41:51,759 was because of a feeling against rock and roll music 741 00:41:51,842 --> 00:41:53,802 and "Negro music," so called. 742 00:41:53,886 --> 00:41:55,846 Now, what do you feel about that? 743 00:41:55,930 --> 00:41:57,890 It wasn't the particular song I was singing. 744 00:41:57,973 --> 00:42:01,101 It could've been "Nearer My God to Thee" as far as they were concerned. 745 00:42:01,185 --> 00:42:02,436 That type, you know. 746 00:42:03,187 --> 00:42:06,273 [reporter 1] You don't expect a repetition of what happened in Birmingham, then? 747 00:42:06,357 --> 00:42:09,944 Well, no, I mean, you don't expect it, of course. We didn't expect that. 748 00:42:10,027 --> 00:42:11,904 [reporter 2] Are these the guns found in the car 749 00:42:11,987 --> 00:42:13,447 the night King Cole was attacked? 750 00:42:13,531 --> 00:42:15,491 -[man 1] Yes, they were. -Are they loaded? 751 00:42:15,574 --> 00:42:16,951 -Fully loaded. -Fully loaded. 752 00:42:17,034 --> 00:42:19,286 Two men were charged with intent to murder, right? 753 00:42:19,370 --> 00:42:20,496 [man 1] That's right. 754 00:42:20,955 --> 00:42:24,416 [man 2] As a kid being in show business, I didn't learn until later 755 00:42:24,500 --> 00:42:27,962 about why we slept in bus stations and why we had to go to the police 756 00:42:28,045 --> 00:42:31,340 and say where's their colored family that you can stay with. 757 00:42:32,091 --> 00:42:33,801 [reporter 1] You think by your tour, uh, 758 00:42:33,884 --> 00:42:37,137 that you're helping the cause of integration in the South? 759 00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:41,225 Well, yes. I've been asked by a lot of people, 760 00:42:41,308 --> 00:42:44,061 why do I play to segregated audiences? 761 00:42:44,144 --> 00:42:46,730 But, uh, being a Negro performer 762 00:42:46,814 --> 00:42:49,108 and you're having white as well as colored audiences, 763 00:42:49,191 --> 00:42:51,443 you're helping a lot to bring people together. 764 00:42:51,527 --> 00:42:53,445 I have no jurisdiction over the law. 765 00:42:53,529 --> 00:42:56,740 Of course, I don't condone segregated audiences. I never have. 766 00:42:56,824 --> 00:43:00,411 But I can't, in my own voice, just walk out on the stage in any state 767 00:43:00,494 --> 00:43:03,122 and just say, "I demand integration." 768 00:43:03,205 --> 00:43:04,582 [typewriter clacking] 769 00:43:04,665 --> 00:43:07,334 [Sullivan] Nat King Cole, applauded for 15 minutes 770 00:43:07,418 --> 00:43:09,962 by the crowd that witnessed the attack, 771 00:43:10,045 --> 00:43:14,174 may be one of the relieving influences in this present tension. 772 00:43:15,050 --> 00:43:19,388 There's something that can be done, but it has to be everyone's fight. 773 00:43:21,056 --> 00:43:23,058 Two great headliners in their own right, 774 00:43:23,976 --> 00:43:26,729 Tony Martin and Nat King Cole! 775 00:43:26,812 --> 00:43:28,814 [audience applauds] 776 00:43:28,897 --> 00:43:32,651 ["On the Sunny Side of the Street" by Tony Martin and Nat King Cole playing] 777 00:43:34,069 --> 00:43:36,113 -Martin. -Cole. 778 00:43:36,196 --> 00:43:37,323 -Glad. -Happy. 779 00:43:37,406 --> 00:43:38,699 -Grand. -Wonderful. 780 00:43:38,782 --> 00:43:39,783 Fine. 781 00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,048 You always wear a hat when you work? 782 00:43:54,131 --> 00:43:55,174 Sometimes. 783 00:43:55,257 --> 00:43:57,384 -What times? -When it's sunny. 784 00:43:57,468 --> 00:44:00,471 -What do you do when it's rainy? -Well, I get back on the sunny side. 785 00:44:00,554 --> 00:44:02,014 We better hurry, the way we're going. 786 00:44:02,097 --> 00:44:05,059 ♪ Get your coat, get your hat ♪ 787 00:44:05,142 --> 00:44:08,354 ♪ Leave your worries round the doorstep ♪ 788 00:44:08,437 --> 00:44:10,731 ♪ Just direct your feet ♪ 789 00:44:10,814 --> 00:44:13,609 -♪ To the sunny side of the street ♪ -♪ To the sunny side of the street ♪ 790 00:44:13,692 --> 00:44:16,612 ♪ Can't you hear that pitter-pat? ♪ 791 00:44:16,695 --> 00:44:19,740 ♪ And that happy tune is your step ♪ 792 00:44:19,823 --> 00:44:22,409 ♪ Life can be so sweet ♪ 793 00:44:22,493 --> 00:44:25,287 -♪ On the sunny side of the street ♪ -♪ On the sunny side of the street ♪ 794 00:44:27,164 --> 00:44:29,416 Like I said, you don't stop. 795 00:44:29,500 --> 00:44:30,668 We never stop. 796 00:44:31,251 --> 00:44:32,461 You know that. 797 00:44:32,961 --> 00:44:34,672 -♪ On the sunny ♪ -♪ On the sunny ♪ 798 00:44:35,589 --> 00:44:38,300 -♪ Side of the street ♪ -♪ Side of the street ♪ 799 00:44:39,426 --> 00:44:42,137 Well, Mr. Cole, it's always a pleasure to work with you. 800 00:44:42,221 --> 00:44:43,722 Same to you, Mr. Martin. 801 00:44:43,806 --> 00:44:46,475 Say, uh, I think we better get off here. We're wasting time. 802 00:44:46,558 --> 00:44:48,394 Yeah, I think so, before our suits fade. 803 00:44:48,477 --> 00:44:49,478 Ooh. 804 00:44:51,897 --> 00:44:53,899 [audience applauds] 805 00:44:55,025 --> 00:44:56,652 [song ends] 806 00:44:56,735 --> 00:44:58,821 [pensive electronic music playing] 807 00:44:58,904 --> 00:45:02,199 [broadcaster 1] We're on the scene with the man behind the really big show. 808 00:45:02,282 --> 00:45:06,829 Patrick Watson talked to Ed Sullivan about showmanship, and you… are there. 809 00:45:07,454 --> 00:45:10,833 [broadcaster 2] Here is something that not everyone is privileged to see. 810 00:45:10,916 --> 00:45:14,586 You're about to see smiling Ed Sullivan really smile. 811 00:45:15,462 --> 00:45:18,340 Actually, he's known for going to any length 812 00:45:18,424 --> 00:45:20,884 to get the right thing in front of their cameras. 813 00:45:21,385 --> 00:45:25,013 [Sullivan] I have always believed that success is a mystery, 814 00:45:25,764 --> 00:45:30,060 a mixture of things you do yourself and things that happen to you. 815 00:45:31,228 --> 00:45:37,651 My show has a weekly national audience ranging from 35 to 50 million people. 816 00:45:37,735 --> 00:45:39,611 If I brought anything to the show, 817 00:45:39,695 --> 00:45:42,322 it's a sense of knowing what the people liked. 818 00:45:42,906 --> 00:45:46,326 That, I believe, is the secret of my success. 819 00:45:46,410 --> 00:45:48,120 -[TV dial clicks] -[drumroll] 820 00:45:48,203 --> 00:45:50,205 [audience applauds] 821 00:45:52,166 --> 00:45:54,251 Now, ladies and gentlemen… 822 00:45:55,294 --> 00:45:57,296 [audience shrieking] 823 00:46:01,592 --> 00:46:04,720 …here is Elvis Presley! 824 00:46:04,803 --> 00:46:06,805 [audience screams] 825 00:46:09,475 --> 00:46:11,477 -[guitar strum] -[audience screams] 826 00:46:14,313 --> 00:46:16,315 ♪ You ain't nothing but a hound dog ♪ 827 00:46:17,357 --> 00:46:18,692 ♪ Crying all the time ♪ 828 00:46:19,735 --> 00:46:21,737 ♪ You ain't nothing but a hound dog ♪ 829 00:46:22,696 --> 00:46:24,198 ♪ Crying all the time ♪ 830 00:46:25,115 --> 00:46:29,244 ♪ Well, you ain't never caught no rabbit And you ain't no friend of mine ♪ 831 00:46:29,328 --> 00:46:31,038 [audience screams] 832 00:46:31,121 --> 00:46:33,123 ["Hound Dog" by Elvis Presley continues] 833 00:46:44,885 --> 00:46:46,970 ♪ Well, you ain't never caught no rabbit ♪ 834 00:46:47,054 --> 00:46:49,181 ♪ And you ain't no friend of mine ♪ 835 00:46:50,224 --> 00:46:53,060 -[song ends] -[audience screams] 836 00:46:54,728 --> 00:46:56,438 [tranquil music playing] 837 00:46:56,522 --> 00:47:01,109 Is it important to be liked? Do you worry about if somebody doesn't like you? 838 00:47:01,193 --> 00:47:02,986 -Yeah, it bothers me. Yeah. -Does it? 839 00:47:03,070 --> 00:47:04,655 I want people to like me, 840 00:47:05,197 --> 00:47:09,159 and when I read something that, you know, sounds real harsh, 841 00:47:09,243 --> 00:47:11,411 it… it bother… it bothers the life out of me. 842 00:47:11,495 --> 00:47:13,789 I'm much too, uh… probably much too sensitive. 843 00:47:14,540 --> 00:47:17,167 That is the show, and don't forget! 844 00:47:17,251 --> 00:47:20,587 Be sure and drop in, for the sake of me and my family, 845 00:47:20,671 --> 00:47:23,632 on your Lincoln-Mercury dealers and tell them how you liked it. 846 00:47:23,715 --> 00:47:25,926 Good night. You've been a swell audience. 847 00:47:26,009 --> 00:47:28,428 [interviewer 1] What's the worst moment of your career? 848 00:47:28,512 --> 00:47:32,182 Someone said that it was when you heard that someone had gone round, 849 00:47:32,266 --> 00:47:37,187 trying to sell your show to a sponsor, with or without you. 850 00:47:37,271 --> 00:47:38,605 The network was offering it. 851 00:47:38,689 --> 00:47:43,193 A request to sponsor, with or without Ed Sullivan. 852 00:47:43,277 --> 00:47:48,365 That… That was a… That was really a… an all-time low. 853 00:47:49,616 --> 00:47:54,580 That night when I went to bed, there was a note on my pillow from Betty, 854 00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:58,417 saying, "Win, lose, or draw, I love you." 855 00:48:00,794 --> 00:48:05,465 Down through the years, no phrase ever expressed so completely 856 00:48:06,341 --> 00:48:08,760 the devotion of the three of us. 857 00:48:09,928 --> 00:48:12,180 And I knew exactly what she meant. 858 00:48:13,140 --> 00:48:15,267 [interviewer 2] Mrs. Sullivan, is he hard to live with 859 00:48:15,350 --> 00:48:17,978 after a rough day at the office or the studio? 860 00:48:18,061 --> 00:48:20,981 Well, no, I don't think he's very hard to live with at all, 861 00:48:21,064 --> 00:48:24,067 and I know that on the day that he had his round with Ben Hogan, 862 00:48:24,151 --> 00:48:25,819 he's a perfect joy to live with. 863 00:48:25,903 --> 00:48:27,487 -[interviewer chuckles] -[dog growls] 864 00:48:28,739 --> 00:48:30,574 [Sullivan] I hate adverse criticism. 865 00:48:32,159 --> 00:48:33,285 I'm a pop-off. 866 00:48:33,827 --> 00:48:34,912 [piano rumbles] 867 00:48:34,995 --> 00:48:37,372 And let's have a big hand for Nina Simone. 868 00:48:37,456 --> 00:48:39,458 [audience applauds] 869 00:48:39,541 --> 00:48:41,543 [Playing "Love Me or Leave Me"] 870 00:48:42,419 --> 00:48:46,715 Sylvia would come in and say, "Type it up, put it in an envelope, 871 00:48:46,798 --> 00:48:49,927 and then when you're all done, tear it up." 872 00:48:50,010 --> 00:48:53,138 ♪ Say love me or leave me And let me be lonely ♪ 873 00:48:53,221 --> 00:48:55,724 ♪ You won't believe me But I love you only ♪ 874 00:48:55,807 --> 00:48:59,311 ♪ I'd rather be lonely Than happy with somebody else… ♪ 875 00:48:59,394 --> 00:49:01,939 [Sullivan] I would do everything except tear it up. 876 00:49:02,022 --> 00:49:03,899 [Simone] ♪ …the right time for kissing ♪ 877 00:49:03,982 --> 00:49:06,109 [Sullivan] I once wrote a letter that began, 878 00:49:06,193 --> 00:49:11,615 "Dear Ms. Van Horne, You bitch. Sincerely, Ed Sullivan." 879 00:49:11,698 --> 00:49:16,328 ♪ There'll be no one Unless that someone is you ♪ 880 00:49:16,411 --> 00:49:20,082 ♪ I intend to be independently blue ♪ 881 00:49:20,916 --> 00:49:23,752 [Sullivan] On TV, I've been myself. 882 00:49:23,835 --> 00:49:26,296 And it's the only thing that saved me. 883 00:49:26,380 --> 00:49:29,007 If I'd tried to whip up some phony smile, 884 00:49:29,091 --> 00:49:31,927 the public would've tossed me the hell out. 885 00:49:32,678 --> 00:49:35,472 I remember there were a few at Lincoln-Mercury 886 00:49:35,555 --> 00:49:37,265 who were afraid to send me to the South, 887 00:49:37,349 --> 00:49:41,436 because we featured great stars who happened to be Negro, 888 00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:42,354 and they were worried 889 00:49:42,437 --> 00:49:45,273 about what Lincoln-Mercury dealers' reaction would be. 890 00:49:45,357 --> 00:49:47,859 Now, we've gotten some real good news tonight. 891 00:49:47,943 --> 00:49:51,863 Lincoln dealers all over the country are reporting that sales of 1957 Lincolns 892 00:49:51,947 --> 00:49:53,865 are way ahead of last year. 893 00:49:53,949 --> 00:49:56,952 And remember, last year was the biggest year in Lincoln history. 894 00:49:58,245 --> 00:50:01,456 Today, it's laughable. 895 00:50:01,540 --> 00:50:03,583 We've proved it ridiculous. 896 00:50:04,251 --> 00:50:10,549 ♪ Your love is my love ♪ 897 00:50:11,633 --> 00:50:15,220 [Sullivan] I'm tired of shaking hands with Lincoln-Mercury dealers, 898 00:50:15,303 --> 00:50:16,430 signing autographs… 899 00:50:16,513 --> 00:50:18,849 [Simone] ♪ My love is your… ♪ 900 00:50:19,433 --> 00:50:22,728 [Sullivan] …getting up and saying slogans that would make you throw up. 901 00:50:22,811 --> 00:50:24,021 [typewriter clacking] 902 00:50:24,104 --> 00:50:26,314 I don't give a damn what any of them feel! 903 00:50:28,734 --> 00:50:32,654 They're going on the show, and if you want to get the hell out, fine. 904 00:50:34,614 --> 00:50:39,202 I think it's significant that our show maintains one point of view, 905 00:50:40,078 --> 00:50:40,912 mine. 906 00:50:40,996 --> 00:50:43,415 [Simone] ♪ There is no love ♪ 907 00:50:43,498 --> 00:50:48,837 ♪ For nobody else ♪ 908 00:50:50,756 --> 00:50:52,966 [audience applauds] 909 00:50:53,050 --> 00:50:55,052 [song ends] 910 00:50:57,054 --> 00:51:03,185 The way in which Mr. Sullivan survived any response to what he was doing 911 00:51:03,268 --> 00:51:06,354 was a testimony to his omnipotence. 912 00:51:06,438 --> 00:51:12,027 He was not to be invaded. He was… he was too powerful. 913 00:51:12,110 --> 00:51:13,403 [crowd cheers] 914 00:51:13,487 --> 00:51:16,073 [man] …the Office of President of the United States. 915 00:51:16,156 --> 00:51:19,993 -And will to the best of your ability… -And will to the best of my ability… 916 00:51:20,077 --> 00:51:24,414 …preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. 917 00:51:24,498 --> 00:51:25,749 …preserve, protect… 918 00:51:25,832 --> 00:51:27,667 For the first time in our lives, 919 00:51:27,751 --> 00:51:30,420 Mrs. Sullivan and I attended the inauguration, 920 00:51:30,504 --> 00:51:33,465 and it was really a tremendously thrilling American privilege. 921 00:51:33,548 --> 00:51:37,969 And all of us in show business trust that President Kennedy 922 00:51:38,053 --> 00:51:41,765 continuously will use the people of show business 923 00:51:41,848 --> 00:51:44,017 as sources of creative thinking, 924 00:51:44,101 --> 00:51:48,396 as well as ambassadors of goodwill to the country and to the world. 925 00:51:49,481 --> 00:51:51,650 [interviewer] You've used the show from time to time 926 00:51:51,733 --> 00:51:53,360 as an instrument of patriotism, in a way. 927 00:51:53,443 --> 00:51:54,277 Yeah. Mm-hmm. 928 00:51:54,361 --> 00:51:57,823 To reflect things that… that you find to be proud of. 929 00:51:57,906 --> 00:51:59,908 Well, you have to be, for your country. 930 00:52:01,618 --> 00:52:03,870 I'm delighted that Jack Kennedy won. 931 00:52:03,954 --> 00:52:07,165 It's time the younger men of the country step in 932 00:52:07,249 --> 00:52:12,170 and make the decisions which have been loused up so often by their elders. 933 00:52:13,296 --> 00:52:15,048 Good evening, my fellow citizens. 934 00:52:15,590 --> 00:52:20,095 In too many parts of the country, wrongs are inflicted on Negro citizens, 935 00:52:20,637 --> 00:52:22,472 and there are no remedies at law. 936 00:52:22,973 --> 00:52:26,059 Difficulties over segregation and discrimination exist 937 00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:29,479 in every city, in every state of the union, 938 00:52:30,230 --> 00:52:35,152 producing, in many cities, a rising tide of discontent. 939 00:52:35,235 --> 00:52:40,615 A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, 940 00:52:40,699 --> 00:52:45,745 is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all. 941 00:52:46,746 --> 00:52:49,958 I am therefore asking the Congress to enact legislation, 942 00:52:50,709 --> 00:52:53,336 giving all Americans the right to be served in facilities 943 00:52:53,420 --> 00:52:55,088 which are open to the public, 944 00:52:55,172 --> 00:52:57,465 including greater protection for the right to vote. 945 00:52:57,549 --> 00:53:01,386 But legislation cannot solve this problem alone. 946 00:53:01,469 --> 00:53:04,389 It must be solved in the homes of every American, 947 00:53:04,472 --> 00:53:07,100 in every community across our country. 948 00:53:07,184 --> 00:53:09,769 [Sullivan] Television, to justify itself, 949 00:53:09,853 --> 00:53:13,023 must be more than singing, dancing, and comedy acts. 950 00:53:13,523 --> 00:53:15,734 I'm hopeful that the people of show business 951 00:53:15,817 --> 00:53:19,029 will measure up to their obligation as citizens. 952 00:53:19,905 --> 00:53:23,158 [Belafonte] My relationship with Ed grew to be one of the most pleasant. 953 00:53:23,241 --> 00:53:25,035 -Harry! -Hi, Ed. 954 00:53:25,118 --> 00:53:28,413 Hiya, boy! I'm so surprised, I thought I'd find you on location. 955 00:53:28,496 --> 00:53:30,290 -That's where we are. -What do you mean? 956 00:53:30,373 --> 00:53:33,168 -Here. The whole town. -Mayor Kelly gave you the whole town? 957 00:53:33,251 --> 00:53:34,377 The whole thing. Gave us… 958 00:53:34,461 --> 00:53:36,880 He gave me a chance to talk to him 959 00:53:36,963 --> 00:53:40,342 about acts of what was considered rebellious. 960 00:53:40,425 --> 00:53:41,343 [Sullivan] Terrific. 961 00:53:41,426 --> 00:53:43,595 [Belafonte] He had a humanist side to him. 962 00:53:43,678 --> 00:53:45,805 In our relationship. I tapped into that. 963 00:53:45,889 --> 00:53:49,851 You're going to continue to be entertained by Harry Belafonte 964 00:53:49,935 --> 00:53:52,729 with Miriam Makeba and other members of the Belafonte Company. 965 00:53:52,812 --> 00:53:55,273 [Belafonte] There are those who weren't happy 966 00:53:55,357 --> 00:53:58,860 about his giving us the platform because of my politics. 967 00:53:58,944 --> 00:54:01,363 What was I doing with Miriam Makeba? 968 00:54:01,446 --> 00:54:04,699 Here she was, she sang in the Indigenous language, 969 00:54:04,783 --> 00:54:07,327 which was not the American appetite. 970 00:54:07,410 --> 00:54:09,287 [singing in Indigenous language] 971 00:54:09,371 --> 00:54:14,084 But Ed took the position, "Let's test it and see where it would go." 972 00:54:14,167 --> 00:54:15,585 [audience applauds] 973 00:54:15,669 --> 00:54:18,838 He was a door opener, especially for Black artists. 974 00:54:18,922 --> 00:54:22,717 This man opened up his door and let artists come on his show 975 00:54:22,801 --> 00:54:25,470 to be able to express and to be seen. 976 00:54:27,681 --> 00:54:31,685 Let's have a splendid ovation for Mahalia Jackson, would you please? 977 00:54:31,768 --> 00:54:33,770 [audience applauds] 978 00:54:33,853 --> 00:54:35,855 ["Give Me That Old Time Religion" playing] 979 00:54:35,939 --> 00:54:39,484 [backup singers] ♪ Oh, Lord ♪ 980 00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:45,949 ♪ Oh! ♪ 981 00:54:47,575 --> 00:54:50,620 ♪ Give me that old-time religion, Lord ♪ 982 00:54:50,704 --> 00:54:53,957 ♪ Good religion that it used to be ♪ 983 00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:57,961 ♪ Old-time religion Hallelujah! Good enough for me ♪ 984 00:54:58,044 --> 00:54:59,671 [Sullivan] Hello, this is Ed Sullivan. 985 00:54:59,754 --> 00:55:03,341 Today we've been called upon to search our hearts and souls 986 00:55:03,425 --> 00:55:06,761 and cleanse them of unnatural hate and fear of our neighbors. 987 00:55:06,845 --> 00:55:11,266 The fight for freedom today is a fight for the ideal of brotherhood. 988 00:55:11,349 --> 00:55:13,768 [Mahalia] ♪ Give me that Old-time religion, Lord ♪ 989 00:55:13,852 --> 00:55:16,730 ♪ Good religion that it used to be ♪ 990 00:55:16,813 --> 00:55:19,566 ♪ Old-time religion ♪ 991 00:55:19,649 --> 00:55:21,693 ♪ Hallelujah! Good enough for me ♪ 992 00:55:21,776 --> 00:55:24,237 ♪ It was good for the Hebrew children… ♪ 993 00:55:24,321 --> 00:55:28,742 Bigotry and intolerance, racial or religious hate and discrimination, 994 00:55:28,825 --> 00:55:30,952 are spiritual acts of treason. 995 00:55:31,036 --> 00:55:33,580 [Kennedy] Where legal remedies are not at hand, 996 00:55:33,663 --> 00:55:36,875 redress is sought in the streets and protests. 997 00:55:36,958 --> 00:55:39,502 -[man] I may be poor! -[crowd] I may be poor! 998 00:55:39,586 --> 00:55:41,171 -But I am! -[crowd] But I am! 999 00:55:41,254 --> 00:55:43,214 -Somebody! -[crowd] Somebody! 1000 00:55:43,298 --> 00:55:47,052 ♪ …good enough for me It was good for my own mother ♪ 1001 00:55:47,135 --> 00:55:48,428 ♪ It was good for my… ♪ 1002 00:55:48,511 --> 00:55:53,391 We call upon all of you to join in this great crusade for our brotherhood. 1003 00:55:53,475 --> 00:55:56,644 Brotherhood means a united America, 1004 00:55:56,728 --> 00:56:00,273 and a united America is perhaps the sole remaining hope 1005 00:56:00,357 --> 00:56:01,816 for our shattered world. 1006 00:56:01,900 --> 00:56:04,986 [Mahalia] ♪ Old-time religion ♪ 1007 00:56:05,070 --> 00:56:06,571 ♪ Hallelujah! Good enough for me ♪ 1008 00:56:06,654 --> 00:56:08,406 -I am! -[crowd] I am! 1009 00:56:08,490 --> 00:56:09,991 -Black! -[crowd] Black! 1010 00:56:10,075 --> 00:56:11,618 -[man] Beautiful! -[crowd] Beautiful! 1011 00:56:11,701 --> 00:56:13,244 -[man] Proud! -[crowd] Proud! 1012 00:56:13,328 --> 00:56:15,205 -[man] I am! -[crowd] I am! 1013 00:56:15,288 --> 00:56:17,290 -[man] Somebody! -[crowd] Somebody! 1014 00:56:19,209 --> 00:56:21,378 [Mahalia] ♪ …good enough… ♪ 1015 00:56:21,461 --> 00:56:26,925 "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal." 1016 00:56:27,008 --> 00:56:32,347 [Mahalia] ♪ …for me! ♪ 1017 00:56:32,430 --> 00:56:33,932 ["Give Me That Old Time Religion" ends] 1018 00:56:34,015 --> 00:56:38,561 Mr. Belafonte, we all heard Mr. King say that this was perhaps 1019 00:56:38,645 --> 00:56:43,274 the greatest day for freedom in modern American history. 1020 00:56:43,358 --> 00:56:45,735 To be in Washington today 1021 00:56:45,819 --> 00:56:50,532 was, for me, an accumulation of a number of generations 1022 00:56:50,615 --> 00:56:56,830 of Black Americans who have been trying to appeal to the conscience 1023 00:56:56,913 --> 00:56:58,331 of white supremacy. 1024 00:56:58,415 --> 00:56:59,791 [hopeful music playing] 1025 00:56:59,874 --> 00:57:03,086 And the reason that I struggle with it so hard is because I really believe 1026 00:57:03,169 --> 00:57:05,088 in the potential of this country. 1027 00:57:05,797 --> 00:57:07,841 -[TV static crackles] -[foreboding music playing] 1028 00:57:07,924 --> 00:57:09,634 [sighs] Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. 1029 00:57:09,717 --> 00:57:11,594 Excuse the fact that I'm out of breath, 1030 00:57:12,178 --> 00:57:15,849 but about 10 or 15 minutes ago a tragic thing from all indications 1031 00:57:15,932 --> 00:57:19,060 at this point has happened in Dallas. Let me quote to you this. 1032 00:57:19,561 --> 00:57:21,312 [microphone feedback squeals] 1033 00:57:21,396 --> 00:57:24,065 This is Walter Cronkite in our newsroom, and… 1034 00:57:25,108 --> 00:57:27,318 there has been an attempt, as perhaps you know now, 1035 00:57:27,402 --> 00:57:28,862 on the life of President Kennedy. 1036 00:57:28,945 --> 00:57:31,239 [reporter] As you can imagine, there are many stories 1037 00:57:31,322 --> 00:57:35,285 that are coming in now as to the actual condition of the president. 1038 00:57:35,368 --> 00:57:39,247 One is that he is dead. This cannot be confirmed. 1039 00:57:39,330 --> 00:57:42,417 …word as yet, we are awaiting something more official… 1040 00:57:42,500 --> 00:57:44,502 [somber music playing] 1041 00:57:47,297 --> 00:57:48,715 [guns fire in salute] 1042 00:57:52,051 --> 00:57:53,553 [guns fire in salute] 1043 00:57:54,804 --> 00:57:56,973 [Smokey] That was one of the shocks of my life. 1044 00:57:57,056 --> 00:57:57,891 [guns fire in salute] 1045 00:57:57,974 --> 00:58:03,771 I mean, I never ever dared to imagine that in the 20th century, 1046 00:58:03,855 --> 00:58:07,358 that someone could assassinate the President of the United States. 1047 00:58:07,442 --> 00:58:10,278 You know, I mean, that was… I mean, that was impossible. 1048 00:58:13,823 --> 00:58:16,284 So yeah, it set me back personally. 1049 00:58:18,369 --> 00:58:21,998 [Sullivan] We can well ask, and we can well wonder, 1050 00:58:22,916 --> 00:58:24,667 where do we go from here? 1051 00:58:29,172 --> 00:58:32,842 To those of you who have been down in the dumps 1052 00:58:32,926 --> 00:58:35,345 because of the assassination of JFK, 1053 00:58:36,137 --> 00:58:39,432 it is human to worry about a crisis. 1054 00:58:42,018 --> 00:58:45,522 But despair only comes with the empty nightmare 1055 00:58:46,523 --> 00:58:47,982 that there is no future. 1056 00:58:48,942 --> 00:58:50,944 [optimistic music playing] 1057 00:58:52,278 --> 00:58:54,864 This is the season that is full of hope. 1058 00:58:54,948 --> 00:58:55,865 [children shouting] 1059 00:58:55,949 --> 00:58:59,911 If we are truly religious, we can never despair. 1060 00:59:06,876 --> 00:59:10,421 [reporter] 1964 came in with a sigh of relief. 1061 00:59:10,505 --> 00:59:13,633 Relief that the year had ended in which President Kennedy was killed, 1062 00:59:13,716 --> 00:59:15,552 and that there could be new beginnings. 1063 00:59:16,052 --> 00:59:18,846 For most of us, the sounds of 1964 1064 00:59:18,930 --> 00:59:21,558 really went in one ear and then out the other. 1065 00:59:21,641 --> 00:59:24,143 But one sound seemed to be with us always. 1066 00:59:24,227 --> 00:59:26,688 Hanging over the city streets in the daytime 1067 00:59:26,771 --> 00:59:29,065 and drifting in through the windows evenings, 1068 00:59:29,148 --> 00:59:32,151 until it seemed the air itself was permeated with it. 1069 00:59:33,528 --> 00:59:37,907 Most Americans became aware of the melody that lingered on and on and on… 1070 00:59:39,951 --> 00:59:41,286 in February, 1071 00:59:41,995 --> 00:59:45,331 when it passed across our borders at Kennedy International Airport. 1072 00:59:53,423 --> 00:59:55,508 [crowd cheering] 1073 00:59:59,220 --> 01:00:01,139 Yesterday and today our theater's been jammed 1074 01:00:01,222 --> 01:00:03,349 with newspapermen and photographers from all over, 1075 01:00:03,433 --> 01:00:06,185 and these veterans agree with me the city never has witnessed 1076 01:00:06,269 --> 01:00:09,230 the excitement stirred by these youngsters from Liverpool. 1077 01:00:09,314 --> 01:00:11,858 Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles! 1078 01:00:11,941 --> 01:00:13,318 [crowd screams] 1079 01:00:13,401 --> 01:00:14,694 [man] One, two, three, four! 1080 01:00:15,528 --> 01:00:18,698 ♪ Close your eyes and I'll kiss you ♪ 1081 01:00:18,781 --> 01:00:21,743 ♪ Tomorrow I'll miss you ♪ 1082 01:00:21,826 --> 01:00:26,414 ♪ Remember I'll always be true ♪ 1083 01:00:26,497 --> 01:00:27,332 ♪ Yeah! ♪ 1084 01:00:27,415 --> 01:00:30,501 ♪ And then while I'm away ♪ 1085 01:00:30,585 --> 01:00:33,463 ♪ I'll write home every day ♪ 1086 01:00:33,546 --> 01:00:39,385 ♪ And I'll send all my loving to you ♪ 1087 01:00:39,469 --> 01:00:44,182 -♪ All my loving, I will send to you ♪ -♪ Ooh ♪ 1088 01:00:45,683 --> 01:00:50,396 -♪ All my loving, darling, I'll be true ♪ -♪ Ooh ♪ 1089 01:00:51,856 --> 01:00:54,817 -♪ All my loving ♪ -♪ Ooh ♪ 1090 01:00:54,901 --> 01:00:57,236 ♪ All my loving ♪ 1091 01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:00,573 -♪ Ooh-ooh, all my loving ♪ -♪ Ooh ♪ 1092 01:01:00,657 --> 01:01:03,451 ♪ I will send to you ♪ 1093 01:01:03,534 --> 01:01:04,577 [song ends] 1094 01:01:10,917 --> 01:01:12,126 [Sullivan] Thank you. 1095 01:01:15,213 --> 01:01:17,215 [serene music playing] 1096 01:01:18,466 --> 01:01:20,468 [audience continues cheering] 1097 01:01:22,845 --> 01:01:25,014 [Smokey] It took a long time for the country 1098 01:01:25,098 --> 01:01:27,725 to come around to some sense of normalcy. 1099 01:01:27,809 --> 01:01:29,977 -Okay. Thank you. -See you, Ed. 1100 01:01:30,561 --> 01:01:31,604 Took a long time. 1101 01:01:34,190 --> 01:01:37,485 [man] No memorial oration or eulogy 1102 01:01:38,069 --> 01:01:42,156 could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory 1103 01:01:42,990 --> 01:01:47,537 than the earliest possible passage of the Civil Rights bill 1104 01:01:47,620 --> 01:01:49,539 for which he fought so long. 1105 01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:01,342 [serene music continues] 1106 01:02:03,845 --> 01:02:09,016 [Smokey] You know, I look at the things that have happened racially 1107 01:02:10,601 --> 01:02:14,230 and socially, the passage of a lot of laws, 1108 01:02:14,313 --> 01:02:18,568 of equality, and a lot of desegregation moves, 1109 01:02:20,153 --> 01:02:23,865 and a lot of court battles, and there's a lot of forced movement 1110 01:02:23,948 --> 01:02:26,075 to bring about what we live today. 1111 01:02:27,285 --> 01:02:30,580 And then you take what happened with those people that did the same thing 1112 01:02:30,663 --> 01:02:33,624 around the world, just did it through music. 1113 01:02:35,376 --> 01:02:40,590 Music is one of the great healers… of life. 1114 01:02:41,841 --> 01:02:43,384 Music is the soother. 1115 01:02:44,093 --> 01:02:46,012 It's the international language. 1116 01:02:46,846 --> 01:02:48,598 It's the barrier breaker. 1117 01:02:49,182 --> 01:02:52,518 And… And the musical power that we were gonna have, you know, 1118 01:02:52,602 --> 01:02:56,647 it was one of my childhood impossible dreams come true. 1119 01:02:58,065 --> 01:03:00,860 [interviewer] Meet the president of the Motown Record Corporation, 1120 01:03:00,943 --> 01:03:02,737 Mr. Berry Gordy. Hello, Berry. 1121 01:03:02,820 --> 01:03:04,697 [Smokey] The reason we started Motown was because 1122 01:03:04,781 --> 01:03:06,699 Berry would produce our records, 1123 01:03:06,783 --> 01:03:10,620 put them out to other companies, and… nobody was paying us. 1124 01:03:10,703 --> 01:03:12,663 We were fledgling at first. It was rough. 1125 01:03:12,747 --> 01:03:14,457 I mean, it was always rough, you know. 1126 01:03:14,540 --> 01:03:16,751 Even after we became Motown. 1127 01:03:16,834 --> 01:03:18,419 [tense music playing] 1128 01:03:18,503 --> 01:03:20,463 Detroit, back in the day when we started, 1129 01:03:20,546 --> 01:03:24,592 there were areas like Grosse Pointe and Bloomfield Hills and Dearborn 1130 01:03:24,675 --> 01:03:27,345 and places like that, where if you were Black, 1131 01:03:27,428 --> 01:03:30,765 you were not supposed to be in that area at all, period. 1132 01:03:30,848 --> 01:03:32,433 'Cause you're Black. 1133 01:03:32,517 --> 01:03:36,020 If the police catch you, you better be working for somebody in that area, 1134 01:03:36,103 --> 01:03:39,273 and you better have something on you that says you work for somebody. 1135 01:03:40,817 --> 01:03:42,944 [Berry] So, on a few of my early album covers, 1136 01:03:43,027 --> 01:03:45,321 I didn't use Black faces. 1137 01:03:45,822 --> 01:03:52,537 Because I wanted to have people not judge a book by its cover. 1138 01:03:52,620 --> 01:03:55,414 So we start to get letters from the white kids in that area. 1139 01:03:55,498 --> 01:03:57,291 "Hey, man. We got your music." 1140 01:03:57,375 --> 01:03:59,669 "We love your music." 1141 01:04:00,545 --> 01:04:02,547 "But our parents don't know we have it." 1142 01:04:02,630 --> 01:04:05,383 "Because if they did, they might make us throw it away." 1143 01:04:06,425 --> 01:04:11,097 For Motown, The Ed Sullivan Show, to us, was the ultimate. 1144 01:04:11,180 --> 01:04:12,723 [Sullivan] You have a fine act. 1145 01:04:12,807 --> 01:04:13,891 [audience cheers] 1146 01:04:13,975 --> 01:04:16,018 [Berry] If it was a hot act, 1147 01:04:16,102 --> 01:04:18,187 Ed Sullivan had 'em. [chuckles] You know? 1148 01:04:19,021 --> 01:04:21,774 -It was American culture. -[audience screaming] 1149 01:04:22,567 --> 01:04:25,194 And for Motown to be a part of that 1150 01:04:26,487 --> 01:04:29,532 would be the dream come true for me. 1151 01:04:29,615 --> 01:04:30,575 [TV dial clicks] 1152 01:04:31,826 --> 01:04:33,828 -[camera clicks] -[audience applauds] 1153 01:04:37,248 --> 01:04:39,750 Out here on stage is this… 1154 01:04:39,834 --> 01:04:43,379 Detroit's amazing 13-year-old singing star, 1155 01:04:43,462 --> 01:04:44,714 Stevie Wonder. 1156 01:04:45,256 --> 01:04:47,508 [Berry] Little Stevie Wonder [chuckles]… 1157 01:04:48,009 --> 01:04:52,471 Thirteen years old… performing "Fingertips." 1158 01:04:52,555 --> 01:04:55,182 I mean, it was so wonderful for me, 1159 01:04:55,266 --> 01:05:01,063 because this little blind Black kid on national TV. 1160 01:05:01,772 --> 01:05:04,275 Our first major television break. 1161 01:05:04,358 --> 01:05:06,569 -Let's have a fine welcome, would you? -[audience cheers] 1162 01:05:07,570 --> 01:05:09,572 Thank you, Mr. Sullivan! 1163 01:05:09,655 --> 01:05:13,075 Now, I want you to clap your hands, 1164 01:05:13,159 --> 01:05:18,372 stomp your feet, jump up and down, do anything that you wanna do. 1165 01:05:18,456 --> 01:05:22,001 -[playing "Fingertips" over harmonica] -[audience clapping to the beat] 1166 01:05:45,733 --> 01:05:47,193 [Berry] He was up there, 1167 01:05:47,276 --> 01:05:50,696 playing the harmonica and singing live to America 1168 01:05:50,780 --> 01:05:55,284 with the white studio audience clapping right along with him. Wow! 1169 01:05:56,535 --> 01:05:58,579 My little Wonder. It was wonderful. 1170 01:05:59,914 --> 01:06:04,043 ♪ Oh, come on! Now, everybody sing, "Yeah!" ♪ 1171 01:06:04,126 --> 01:06:05,419 [audience] ♪ Yeah! ♪ 1172 01:06:05,503 --> 01:06:08,714 -♪ Sing "Yeah!" ♪ -[audience] ♪ Yeah! ♪ 1173 01:06:08,798 --> 01:06:11,133 -♪ Sing "Yeah!" ♪ -[audience] ♪ Yeah! ♪ 1174 01:06:11,217 --> 01:06:12,718 -♪ Yeah! ♪ -[audience] ♪ Yeah! ♪ 1175 01:06:12,802 --> 01:06:14,637 ♪ Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah ♪ 1176 01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:16,722 ["Fingertips" continues] 1177 01:06:21,185 --> 01:06:24,188 [Berry] People rallied to possibilities, you know? 1178 01:06:24,271 --> 01:06:28,192 Ed Sullivan Show… there was possibilities. 1179 01:06:28,275 --> 01:06:32,947 That's what made it so special when he liked us. 1180 01:06:33,739 --> 01:06:36,659 [Sullivan] It seemed to me that inasmuch as you're using public air, 1181 01:06:36,742 --> 01:06:41,038 that the least you can do, or TV can do, in return for this high privilege 1182 01:06:41,122 --> 01:06:44,542 was to try to do something to bring people a little closer together. 1183 01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:48,587 [announcer 1] CBS presents this program in color! 1184 01:06:49,380 --> 01:06:52,383 [announcer 2] And now… Ed Sullivan! 1185 01:06:52,466 --> 01:06:57,179 [Berry] The Motown artists were treated with the greatest respect by Ed, 1186 01:06:57,263 --> 01:07:01,517 but there was something special between him and The Supremes. 1187 01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:05,688 [woman] Right before The Supremes and the Motown sound, 1188 01:07:05,771 --> 01:07:09,859 Black music was called race music. Uh, it wasn't played on the radio. 1189 01:07:09,942 --> 01:07:13,195 I know you're listening all over America and Canada. That's great. 1190 01:07:13,279 --> 01:07:14,822 [Diana] And we made it okay. 1191 01:07:14,905 --> 01:07:17,992 Motown made it okay to listen to our music. 1192 01:07:18,492 --> 01:07:21,037 So let's have a fine welcome for The Supremes. 1193 01:07:21,787 --> 01:07:24,665 [Oprah] For me, watching her for the first time, 1194 01:07:24,749 --> 01:07:30,087 glamorous and beautiful, it was life-changing for me. 1195 01:07:30,921 --> 01:07:34,925 ♪ I need love, love, to ease my mind ♪ 1196 01:07:35,009 --> 01:07:38,804 ♪ I need to find, find Someone to call mine ♪ 1197 01:07:38,888 --> 01:07:40,056 ♪ But Mama said ♪ 1198 01:07:40,139 --> 01:07:44,310 ♪ You can't hurry love No, you just have to wait ♪ 1199 01:07:44,393 --> 01:07:47,146 ♪ She said love don't come easy ♪ 1200 01:07:47,229 --> 01:07:49,065 ♪ It's a game of give and take ♪ 1201 01:07:49,148 --> 01:07:53,360 ♪ You can't hurry love No, you just have to wait ♪ 1202 01:07:53,444 --> 01:07:55,946 ♪ She said just give it time ♪ 1203 01:07:56,030 --> 01:07:57,990 ♪ No matter how long it takes ♪ 1204 01:07:58,074 --> 01:08:01,911 ♪ No, I can't bear to live my life alone ♪ 1205 01:08:01,994 --> 01:08:06,415 ♪ I grow impatient for a love To call my own ♪ 1206 01:08:06,499 --> 01:08:11,545 ♪ But when I feel that I, I can't go on ♪ 1207 01:08:11,629 --> 01:08:14,840 ♪ These precious words Keeps me hanging on ♪ 1208 01:08:14,924 --> 01:08:17,009 ♪ I remember Mama said ♪ 1209 01:08:17,093 --> 01:08:20,346 -♪ Can't hurry love ♪ -♪ No, you just have to wait ♪ 1210 01:08:20,429 --> 01:08:23,224 ♪ She said love don't come easy ♪ 1211 01:08:23,307 --> 01:08:25,184 ♪ It's a game of give and take ♪ 1212 01:08:25,267 --> 01:08:29,021 ♪ You can't hurry love No, you just have to wait ♪ 1213 01:08:29,105 --> 01:08:32,358 ♪ She said love don't come easy ♪ 1214 01:08:32,441 --> 01:08:34,276 ♪ It's a game of give and take ♪ 1215 01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:35,945 [backup singers] ♪ Can't wait ♪ 1216 01:08:36,028 --> 01:08:40,157 Ed loved Motown. He loved The Supremes. He loved The Temptations. 1217 01:08:40,241 --> 01:08:41,408 Here they are! 1218 01:08:41,492 --> 01:08:43,619 [man] We idolized those artists at the time. 1219 01:08:43,702 --> 01:08:47,373 ♪ Anticipating for that soft voice ♪ 1220 01:08:47,456 --> 01:08:49,416 ♪ To talk to me at night ♪ 1221 01:08:49,500 --> 01:08:51,168 It's not just our family. 1222 01:08:51,252 --> 01:08:53,963 The whole neighborhood would just stop and go see that. 1223 01:08:54,046 --> 01:08:56,215 [Diana] ♪ I keep waiting ♪ 1224 01:08:56,298 --> 01:08:59,051 ♪ Ooh, you gotta give and take ♪ 1225 01:08:59,135 --> 01:09:01,554 [Smokey] We'd go down south, and when we'd first go down there, 1226 01:09:01,637 --> 01:09:04,306 stage is in the middle, white people here, Black people there, 1227 01:09:04,390 --> 01:09:06,058 and they didn't even look at each other. 1228 01:09:07,101 --> 01:09:10,813 Year or so later, we go down there, see white boys with Black girlfriends. 1229 01:09:10,896 --> 01:09:14,275 Black boys with white girlfriends, all dancing together and singing. 1230 01:09:14,358 --> 01:09:17,486 Having a good time together. With that music. 1231 01:09:17,570 --> 01:09:21,615 ♪ …love! ♪ 1232 01:09:21,699 --> 01:09:23,701 ["You Can't Hurry Love" ends] 1233 01:09:23,784 --> 01:09:26,453 [audience applauds] 1234 01:09:26,537 --> 01:09:30,082 My artists were seen in millions of homes across America, 1235 01:09:30,166 --> 01:09:35,296 right along with the greatest white pop stars of the time. 1236 01:09:35,379 --> 01:09:37,840 I do feel that this has been an exciting decade 1237 01:09:37,923 --> 01:09:39,675 in the history of American music. 1238 01:09:39,758 --> 01:09:40,885 What is soul? 1239 01:09:40,968 --> 01:09:42,678 Well, soul is hard to describe. 1240 01:09:42,761 --> 01:09:45,306 I think it's everybody, uh, doing their own thing. 1241 01:09:45,931 --> 01:09:50,311 I think you've been doing your own thing for 22 years here on this show, 1242 01:09:50,394 --> 01:09:51,937 on this really big show, Ed. 1243 01:09:52,021 --> 01:09:53,772 -[audience applauds] -So… 1244 01:09:53,856 --> 01:09:55,816 And I think you've got a lot of soul. 1245 01:09:55,900 --> 01:09:58,068 -Well, thank you very much. -[laughs] Yeah. 1246 01:09:58,152 --> 01:10:01,697 -The whole world was watching Ed Sullivan. -Yeah. Yeah. 1247 01:10:01,780 --> 01:10:06,535 And for us to go on that show, we knew it was the show to be on. 1248 01:10:06,619 --> 01:10:10,080 We had just put out our first recording, 1249 01:10:10,164 --> 01:10:13,792 and you need that one big show to really take it over the top, 1250 01:10:13,876 --> 01:10:15,586 so we rehearsed and rehearsed. 1251 01:10:15,669 --> 01:10:16,795 [both] And rehearsed. 1252 01:10:18,964 --> 01:10:24,970 I was always a fanatic for perfection. I had to get it perfect. 1253 01:10:25,054 --> 01:10:29,099 And I wanted the song to sound just like the record. 1254 01:10:29,183 --> 01:10:32,186 Now, here are five brothers from Gary, Indiana, 1255 01:10:32,269 --> 01:10:34,647 ranging in age from ten to 18. 1256 01:10:34,730 --> 01:10:36,690 And I was so nervous 'cause I said, 1257 01:10:36,774 --> 01:10:38,901 "This is our break. We gotta really do great." 1258 01:10:38,984 --> 01:10:41,528 -You get that kinda nervous stomach. -Yeah, the butterflies. 1259 01:10:41,612 --> 01:10:45,699 And it was up to us to do what we're gonna do with this opportunity. 1260 01:10:45,783 --> 01:10:49,912 They're a sensational group. Here, The Jackson 5. 1261 01:10:49,995 --> 01:10:51,705 It just launched us. 1262 01:10:51,789 --> 01:10:54,917 ["The Love You Save" playing] 1263 01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:57,002 [band members vocalizing the beat] 1264 01:10:59,922 --> 01:11:02,258 ♪ When we played tag in grade school ♪ 1265 01:11:02,341 --> 01:11:04,134 ♪ You wanted to be it ♪ 1266 01:11:04,218 --> 01:11:08,430 ♪ But chasing boys was just a fad You crossed your heart you'd quit ♪ 1267 01:11:08,514 --> 01:11:12,810 ♪ When we grew up you traded Your promise for my ring ♪ 1268 01:11:12,893 --> 01:11:17,314 ♪ Now just like back to grade school You're doing the same old thing ♪ 1269 01:11:17,398 --> 01:11:20,567 ♪ Stop, the love you save May be your own ♪ 1270 01:11:20,651 --> 01:11:25,364 ♪ Darling, take it slow Or some day you'll be all alone ♪ 1271 01:11:25,447 --> 01:11:29,118 ♪ You'd better stop The love you save may be your own ♪ 1272 01:11:29,201 --> 01:11:32,079 ♪ Darling, look both ways Before you cross me ♪ 1273 01:11:32,162 --> 01:11:34,290 ♪ You're headed for the danger zone ♪ 1274 01:11:34,373 --> 01:11:38,294 ♪ I'm the one who loves you I'm the one you need ♪ 1275 01:11:38,377 --> 01:11:42,715 ♪ Those other guys will put you down As soon as they succeed ♪ 1276 01:11:42,798 --> 01:11:46,552 ♪ They'll ruin your reputation They'll label you a flirt ♪ 1277 01:11:46,635 --> 01:11:50,806 ♪ The way they talk about you They'll turn your name to dirt ♪ 1278 01:11:51,390 --> 01:11:55,311 That night, every kid in America fell in love with The Jackson 5. 1279 01:11:55,394 --> 01:11:57,730 Monday morning, the phones lit up 1280 01:11:57,813 --> 01:12:01,150 with the clubs all over the country wanting to book them. 1281 01:12:02,735 --> 01:12:08,073 Little Michael Jackson and his brothers were considered a true phenomenon. 1282 01:12:10,868 --> 01:12:12,870 [audience applauds] 1283 01:12:13,954 --> 01:12:15,664 Come on over here, fellas. 1284 01:12:16,332 --> 01:12:18,834 Now… congratulations. 1285 01:12:20,085 --> 01:12:24,423 On July 7th, these five brothers will begin their summer tour 1286 01:12:24,506 --> 01:12:26,967 of one-nighters at Madison Square Garden, 1287 01:12:27,051 --> 01:12:29,011 and you're gonna bust every record in the country. 1288 01:12:29,094 --> 01:12:31,263 -Wonderful to have you on our show. -Thank you. 1289 01:12:31,347 --> 01:12:32,181 Thank you. 1290 01:12:32,264 --> 01:12:34,600 [audience cheers] 1291 01:12:34,683 --> 01:12:38,604 [Berry] The show did what I wanted our music to do, 1292 01:12:38,687 --> 01:12:40,356 be for all people. 1293 01:12:40,981 --> 01:12:42,858 It broke down all those barriers. 1294 01:12:43,942 --> 01:12:45,194 Put people together. 1295 01:12:45,277 --> 01:12:47,404 [sentimental music playing] 1296 01:12:47,488 --> 01:12:49,490 [interviewer] How long will you go on with the show? 1297 01:12:49,573 --> 01:12:51,909 I don't know. We were discussing it the other day. 1298 01:12:51,992 --> 01:12:54,995 You know, it's been so a part… [chuckles] …part of our lives 1299 01:12:55,079 --> 01:12:58,582 and part of my life, a very… big part of my life. 1300 01:12:59,416 --> 01:13:03,837 And I enjoy it very, very much, and I like show business people. 1301 01:13:03,921 --> 01:13:06,423 I like to be around with them. They're lots of fun. 1302 01:13:06,507 --> 01:13:08,759 [audience applauds] 1303 01:13:10,219 --> 01:13:13,806 You know, when you were singing that so eloquently, I was thinking, 1304 01:13:13,889 --> 01:13:16,308 and probably everybody listening was thinking the same thing. 1305 01:13:16,392 --> 01:13:20,854 What the world needs now, I think, is the camaraderie of show business. 1306 01:13:21,397 --> 01:13:22,856 -I agree. I agree. -You know? 1307 01:13:22,940 --> 01:13:25,359 Something we've known in show business for a long time. 1308 01:13:25,442 --> 01:13:27,111 -Show business has it. -Has it. 1309 01:13:27,194 --> 01:13:29,947 And if the world could have it, it would be a fantastic thing. 1310 01:13:30,030 --> 01:13:32,533 -Let's have a wonderful… -Thank you. 1311 01:13:32,616 --> 01:13:34,451 [audience applauds] 1312 01:13:34,535 --> 01:13:36,412 It is one thing to look at the transformation 1313 01:13:36,495 --> 01:13:38,288 of the United States of America 1314 01:13:38,372 --> 01:13:43,001 through the prism of what Dr. King brought to the table, 1315 01:13:43,085 --> 01:13:46,839 the big Black rebellion, the Civil Rights Movement. 1316 01:13:46,922 --> 01:13:50,384 But that movement would never have been able to sustain itself 1317 01:13:50,467 --> 01:13:55,848 with the intensity that it did if there were not subtle forces at play. 1318 01:13:55,931 --> 01:13:59,351 That subtle force was a moment like Ed Sullivan. 1319 01:14:00,102 --> 01:14:03,355 Does that mean that Ed Sullivan's going to go on doing The Ed Sullivan Show 1320 01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:04,815 just as long as he possibly can? 1321 01:14:04,898 --> 01:14:06,650 Well, that's what I'd like. [chuckles] 1322 01:14:06,733 --> 01:14:10,946 Whether the sponsors and the networks will agree with that, I don't know. 1323 01:14:12,406 --> 01:14:16,243 I don't know what I would do without it if I didn't have that to look forward to. 1324 01:14:16,326 --> 01:14:19,413 You don't have another component in your life that would fill that gap? 1325 01:14:19,496 --> 01:14:21,290 No. No. 1326 01:14:23,709 --> 01:14:25,544 I don't know what I'd do without it. 1327 01:14:26,545 --> 01:14:28,297 -[interviewer] You'd be… -I'd be lost. 1328 01:14:28,839 --> 01:14:30,841 [film projector humming] 1329 01:14:32,301 --> 01:14:34,303 [poignant music playing] 1330 01:14:36,305 --> 01:14:38,182 [Sullivan] When our ratings first dropped, 1331 01:14:39,475 --> 01:14:43,270 I said to myself, "Well, maybe it's the weather." 1332 01:14:44,563 --> 01:14:46,523 When we dropped to about 37, 1333 01:14:48,233 --> 01:14:50,819 -I knew it wasn't the weather. -[film projector powers down] 1334 01:14:50,903 --> 01:14:52,362 [music becomes invigorating] 1335 01:14:53,989 --> 01:14:55,908 [reporter] Thousands of peace demonstrators 1336 01:14:55,991 --> 01:14:57,159 marched on the Pentagon. 1337 01:14:57,242 --> 01:14:58,202 [big band music plays] 1338 01:14:58,285 --> 01:14:59,620 [woman] ♪ All the time ♪ 1339 01:14:59,703 --> 01:15:01,079 But I do promise action. 1340 01:15:01,163 --> 01:15:03,832 [announcer] The first adult space adventure blasts off Thursdays. 1341 01:15:03,916 --> 01:15:05,918 [crowd] ♪ Blowin' in the wind ♪ 1342 01:15:06,001 --> 01:15:08,045 -[crowd commotion] -[tinkly chime] 1343 01:15:08,128 --> 01:15:09,129 [crowd commotion] 1344 01:15:09,713 --> 01:15:11,048 [audience applause] 1345 01:15:13,050 --> 01:15:17,221 ♪ These are the days! ♪ 1346 01:15:17,304 --> 01:15:19,932 [Sullivan] Time slips by so quickly and hurriedly 1347 01:15:20,641 --> 01:15:23,393 that you scarcely have a chance to catch your breath. 1348 01:15:23,477 --> 01:15:27,105 Before you go, you know, Eddie… 1349 01:15:27,189 --> 01:15:28,941 [both chuckle] 1350 01:15:29,024 --> 01:15:30,776 -"Kiss me…" -Kiss me good night! 1351 01:15:30,859 --> 01:15:33,320 -[puppet laughs] -[crowd applauds] 1352 01:15:33,403 --> 01:15:35,781 -Goodbye! -Goodbye, Eddie! 1353 01:15:38,408 --> 01:15:43,705 [Sullivan] The phenomenon of our show is proof that miracles still happen. 1354 01:15:43,789 --> 01:15:45,707 Let's have a tremendous hand for both of 'em. 1355 01:15:45,791 --> 01:15:48,252 I'm sort of like some ordinary guy 1356 01:15:49,419 --> 01:15:51,838 who somehow met someone famous 1357 01:15:51,922 --> 01:15:56,677 and is throwing a party for his friends, saying, "Look who I got to come over!" 1358 01:15:57,427 --> 01:16:00,681 For a long time, everyone came to those parties. 1359 01:16:00,764 --> 01:16:02,849 [crowd applauds] 1360 01:16:02,933 --> 01:16:04,643 -Pearl, come up here! -Here we are. 1361 01:16:05,477 --> 01:16:07,479 [music continues] 1362 01:16:09,523 --> 01:16:11,275 [Sullivan] I had a good long run. 1363 01:16:12,150 --> 01:16:15,529 I put up a good fight for what I believed in. 1364 01:16:15,612 --> 01:16:18,365 And I have no complaints at all. 1365 01:16:18,448 --> 01:16:20,450 [audience applauds] 1366 01:16:21,827 --> 01:16:24,204 Thank you very, very much, ladies and gentlemen! 1367 01:16:24,955 --> 01:16:26,206 Good night! 1368 01:16:27,791 --> 01:16:30,210 [Brown] ♪ Please! Please! ♪ 1369 01:16:30,294 --> 01:16:32,170 ["Please, Please, Please" by James Brown playing] 1370 01:16:32,254 --> 01:16:33,839 [backup singers] ♪ Don't go ♪ 1371 01:16:33,922 --> 01:16:35,757 [Brown] ♪ Please, please ♪ 1372 01:16:35,841 --> 01:16:38,385 [backup singers] ♪ Please, please, don't go ♪ 1373 01:16:40,137 --> 01:16:44,099 ♪ Don't go ♪ 1374 01:16:44,182 --> 01:16:45,809 ♪ I love you so ♪ 1375 01:16:45,892 --> 01:16:46,727 ♪ Yeah ♪ 1376 01:16:46,810 --> 01:16:50,105 -♪ Don't go ♪ -♪ Ow! ♪ 1377 01:16:50,188 --> 01:16:53,150 -♪ Don't leave me, baby ♪ -[backup singers] ♪ Please, don't go ♪ 1378 01:16:55,652 --> 01:16:57,946 ♪ Please, please, don't go ♪ 1379 01:16:59,781 --> 01:17:04,661 ♪ Don't go ♪ 1380 01:17:05,370 --> 01:17:07,914 ♪ Please, please, don't go ♪ 1381 01:17:10,292 --> 01:17:12,794 -♪ Please, please, don't go ♪ -[Brown] ♪ Ow! Don't leave me ♪ 1382 01:17:12,878 --> 01:17:14,338 ♪ Ow! ♪ 1383 01:17:14,421 --> 01:17:17,215 -♪ Don't leave me, baby ♪ -[backup singers] ♪ Don't go ♪ 1384 01:17:19,885 --> 01:17:23,013 ♪ Please, please, don't go ♪ 1385 01:17:24,348 --> 01:17:28,435 ♪ Don't go ♪ 1386 01:17:30,771 --> 01:17:31,688 ♪ Don't go ♪ 1387 01:17:31,772 --> 01:17:33,315 [audience applauds] 1388 01:17:33,398 --> 01:17:35,400 [long final note blares] 1389 01:17:37,235 --> 01:17:38,236 [song ends] 1390 01:17:43,825 --> 01:17:46,036 [contemplative ambient music playing] 1391 01:19:27,679 --> 01:19:29,681 [music fades out] 1392 01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:32,642 [pensive synth music playing] 1393 01:20:32,828 --> 01:20:35,163 [music fades out] 1394 01:20:36,305 --> 01:21:36,316