Feb. 9, 1964: The Beatles perform on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in New York.

[elleng]

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Ringo Starr plays drums and playing guitars from the left are Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John Lennon.

[Ocelot II]

1. I'm so old I actually watched that show.

[niyad]

2. As did I. Heck, I actually watched Elvis' first apoearance on Sullivan,

complete with blackout below the waist!

[elleng]

3. HEY, watched with 'roommates,' in college!

School had overbooked dorm rooms, so they put a few of us up in rented apartments! AMAZING such 'conservative' students, they almost had to beg us sophomores to take apartment!

[bahboo]

4. Changed my life....

What a night…

[brush]

5. No link.

[jxla]

6. My younger brother made me & our 2 older siblings miss it

He was 1st to call dibs on the TV so we had to watch "Swampfox" instead.

[Dem2theMax]

7. Add this old person to the pile.

I will never forget that night. Went out and bought my first Beatles album sometime that following week.

And I will never understand how Paul McCartney didn't get the message that he was supposed to marry me.

[Silver Gaia]

8. Yup. I watched this, too!

We didn't get reception for CBS at Mom & Dad's house, so they took me to Grandma's house, but she wasn't getting good reception that night, so I ended up next door at "Miz Conway's" house. I watched it on the floor in front of her console TV with her granddaughters, one of whom was named Janet. We were sooooo excited!

[txwhitedove]

9. Me too! My two girlfriends spent the night and we watched in our pajamas.

[GiqueCee]

10. The week preceding...

... the Beatles' appearance on Ed Sullivan, The Saturday Evening Post published a cartoon I did about them. I was a junior in high school, and I was a hero for about a week before I went back to being the kid who scribbled pictures in the back of algebra class.
I wish I still had a copy of that 'toon. It featured a Dad with his back to the front door dropping his martini, when his daughter came in with a Beatle by the arm, and the caption read, "A what followed you home and can you keep him?"
It was my first professional cartoon. I got $75 for it. I still make my living as an artist.

[elleng]

11. NICE, and BRAVO!

[GiqueCee]

12. Many thanks, elleng!