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  • paul is smoking pot at the end

  • Anybody know the song playing at the end of the video while they're all dancing?

  • 5:40 orgasm on TV!

  • I'm a huge second generation Beatles fan (born in 1965) - so I missed all this. However, when I discovered them in the 1980s, it was clear their genius started with "Rubber Soul" and onwards to "Sqt. Pepper." Even though I don't care for this dated "yeah, yeah, yeah" period from 1964, you MUST REMEMBER, this new happy music was just what America needed after seeing the President blown away just three months earlier. The planets were aligned for The Beatles from then on - and even today.

  • damn they could dance too lol

  • I've always been a Beatles fan. But the shocking thing about this video is that they weren't really that great at this time.

  • My dad was only 6 when he watched this live. And here I am now at age 14 watching the same thing that he fell in love with. I'm gonna cry it makes me so happy :)

  • Notice Macca cue the end of the song at 06.34 :"We go!"

  • The best. Always will be.

    

  • MY BABIES

  • OMG...all the girls in the audience are gasping 4 air!!!!!

  • That was AWESOME!!!!!.... 

  • SCENE STOLEN BY TOM HANKS IN THE MOVIE THAT THING YOU DO..

  • ALL MY LOVIN ED SULLIVAN SHOW

  • If I had a time machine, this is the first place I would go. Well... this or seeing them at the Cavern Club... or maybe seeing them in Hamburg... Arrrrrrg I can't decide!

  • At age 5- I asked what are the Beatles? My mom kept talking about watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Amazing all the screaming! So exciting, I fell in love.

  • I remember seeing this show live on TV. I was watching the show with my mom and dad not knowing they were on or even who they were. Then they came on. I had never seen or heard anything like them. I have every LP and most of their CD's.

  • John

    Sorry girls, he's married.

    

  • Oh man, I wish I were in that audience!

  • They really werent good singers, they were flat and off key at times,,,,but to perform live it was the best they could do back then. Paul really sounded bad....I mean come on he couldnt sing on that show.

    It was great to see them that young though.

  • Great video... thanks so much uploader !!! a piece of my life !

  • Who would've thought these ''four youngsters from Liverpool'' would within the next 6 years build an amazing career and forever establish themselves as the best band in the human history.

  • the best thing to happen to human race since sex and food

  • 11:29 Ringo dances with Snooki

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  • is ed sullivan richard nixon?

  • @revived0103 THANKK YOU!

  • Ringos gettin laid tonight!

  • Watching this brings back the night it was first aired...all of 7 yrs old and totally wowed! Incredible talent. And what really rocks??? My kids dig it too!

  • did you guys know ringo wasnt even the original drummer , the original left the group right before they made it big ..... sucks for him

  • @CarmineGames he didn't leave Epstein fired him to bring in Ringo

  • Sophie Tucker!

  • this is not copyright infringement.....IT IS HISTORY!!!!!!!!!

  • Can someone explain to me how the Beatles look so young here, but in later years, like their performance on the roof, they look atleast 15 years older.Plus they were only a band for 7 years? This always confuses me.

  • @TheFabFour11  Drugs.

  • @TheFabFour11 Facial Hair.

  • @TheFabFour11 its because the fact that they did almost every drug there is aged them a lot. here they , were probobly pretty clean. type in the long and winding road. thy all look atleast 15y older because that was towards the end of their reign.

  • RINGO.

    FUCKING.

    RULES.

  • Looking at the audience is prove enough that women actually can have orgasms. :)

  • England's best

  • A very Paul centric American debut. Two Paul songs in a row, then a Paul and John song. He definitely seemed to be presented as the "frontman" of the group here. Interesting

  • I bet even Ringo got laid that night

  • @owendubmc what do you mean by "even ringo" ?

  • i remember seeing this on the Ed Sullivan show when i had just turned 7.I had every album they ever put out in the USA, starting when I was 6

  • Grandioso,un inmejorable recuerdo...

  • From Mèxico, estupendos , UNICOS

  • 48 years ago, wow. 

  • George would never make it today... he knows way too many chords.

  • @jpritch2 You got that right.

  • I was watching the ed sullivann show 48 years ago tonight and having my life forever changed as I recieved mass enlightenment. along with everyother young person in america.never a time like before....never been one since. If you were there you know. if you weren't you can only imagine. the beatles are the best part of being a baby boomer.

  • 48 years ago today the music world changed forever as America was introduced to an act from England, an act which became the greatest band in the history of music. As Mr. Sullivan said, "Ladies and Gentlemen...THE BEATLES!!!"

  • Thank you so very much for posting this video! I was right there in the audience at the first appearance of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. In fact, I appear in several of the audience shots ... !!! Seats were limited, as you can imagine. While standing on line waiting for the theater to open its doors, everyone was discussing how they got their prized tickets. Mine came through Judith Crist, film critic for the NY Herald Tribune.

  • Sorry girls hes married.

  • Hard to believe it's 48 years...

  • Now we're talking.

  • Now we're talking.

  • :')

  • It was 48 years ago today, and my life hasn't been the same since!

  • close your eyes and i'll kiss you...

  • what happen to johns mic?

    foreshadowing?

  • Simple, effective rock and roll that still holds up. Brian Epstein once told reporter Larry Kane that the kids of 2000 would be listening to the Beatles. As evidenced by the number of kids I saw at a performance of RAIN, was he ever right!

  • Sweet chord solo by George on Till There Was You

  • Sweet chord solo by George on Till There Was You

  • I remeber it like yesterday, knew it would be musical histtory.

  • 1:34 o.0

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  • George couldn't afford his own mic?

  • I'm a fully grown 17 year old male. But if I had the opportunity to be in that audience, I'd be screaming louder than every single one of those girls hahaha

  • really I shouldn't have been born in the 90s

  • Chet Adkins meets rock and roll in this song as George pulls off the most greatest fusion in music history!

  • Very nice i remember watchin this on livin room floor in 64 Dad n mom too they just groan i was 7years old n love it then in black n white also....ah old memorys never die folks!

  • they were amazing ,  no doubt

  • While I was watching this video no crimes were committed anywhere in the city.

  • Wow, what a memory to have and be able to tell your kids and grandchildren that you saw them on the Ed Sullivan show the first time they performed over there, when you were a kid yourself.

  • No band has ever don it like the fab 4. Lots of wet panties

  • @spyndoctors the girls in the audience the ones still alive recall the beatles quite sentimentally as this was their first orgasm!!!!!

  • Lol @ 9:30 the Cougar MILF going nuts n the audience 

  • I wonder the audience members look back on this footage and tell everyone, "LOOK THAT WAS ME!" :D

  • anyone know who the group the beatles were dancing to at the end are? I thought they sounded great themselves

  • @mcRydes i was wondering the same thing! They're popping man!

  • Anyone know if there is version where the mike mix between John and Paul has been corrected? Paul's mike is hotter than John's.

  • Funny how Paul went ''1,2,3,4, c'mon'' and they just went with it. And it all went perfect. Today bands rehearse for like a hundred hours and then they use playback anyway.

    Good old times.

  • Damn George...such great guitar work.

  • I was at a boring ass diner party...I started talking to this fat, ugly old lady just for the hell of it. After a couple of minutes I mentioned something about The Beatles, I don't even know why, and she says " such nice young boys". She then tells me that she was sitting in the THIRD FRICKING ROW at this show. Then her even uglier sister comes over and tells me how they hung out with them in New York while they were in town. Turns out there Dad was president of CBS at the time. You never know..

  • Justin Bieber totally copied their hair.

  • @PreciousKid244 justin bieber is a piece of dung comporad to these guys

  • Hey! where's I Saw Her Standing There?

  • all my lovin is still one of my favorite beatle songs. such a wonderfull arrangement. rock song with a country lead (check out george trying to imitate chet atkins with the lead) and back to rock. i understand that it was playing in the emergency room when john was brought in after he had been shot.

  • @picker50 wow thats spooky!

  • I remember sitting on the brown sectional sofa in the den watching this on the old Admiral TV.

  • Nine dislikes? Nine "fools on the hill"

  • RINGO!! <3

    

  • I LOVE PAUL!!!!!

  • Was Johns microphone botched? Paul's voice seems overbearing, especially in I wanna hold your hand... maybe it's just the video.

  • Paul is absolutely adorable.

  • sorry girls, he's married :))

  • @beatlejim64 What ?The Stones did not know of the existence of the Beatles Love me do it came out, plus they already were taking place in London, in any case without the chicago blues the Stones would not exist. On the rest of these wrong because The Who are fans of the Stones, like Zep, Dylan took more fron the Stone than that of the Beatles or perhaps there is a song called Like a Beatle? . sorry by inglish

    saludos desde Argentina

  • @maurostone76 George Harrison pretty much got the Stones signed

  • @PrimalStones the olnly thing he did was tell an executive from Decca that he liked the stones, nothing more. sorry my inglish

  • @maurostone76 Thats good English. He told them to sign them, without Harrison signing them history would of panned out differently.

  • @PrimalStones Thanks !!, that's your interpretation of history, I understand it otherwise

    saludos desde Argentina

  • lol look at all those ladies! Thats insane :)

  • I was just turning 12 when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Before I saw this telecast, I had absolutely no idea who they were. Wow did they open my eyes. As I understand it, Ed Sullivan hired plants to scream not lnowing how popular they were. He was shocked to see the entire audience going nuts!

  • What a fucking song!! When George breaks into that Chet Adkins shit, I went crazy. NO ONE HAD EVER DONE THAT BEFORE! Then George did that Spanish lick in that 2nd song. I sat in front of the T.V. that night and my life changed. I was 10 years old and went onto a nice career as a rock drummer and then a world wide biographer. And it was all because of the night the Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan Show. By the way, old Ed looked like your neighborhood mortition.

  • i love she loves you in live than in studio

  • Since 1964, no one has ever changed history, the world, or music like the Beatles did!

    After the tragidy of the Kennedy Asassination on November 22, 1963 the U.S. was cast into a great fear of total destruction of the world. And then The Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show on February 9th,1964, and fear was turned to hope, and love, once again! One fact that shows this is a fact is that during that hour, not one crime was reported in New York City! Amazing fact!

  • @musdeemx Not to mention after the tragic deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in 1959, and Elvis going into the army a year earlier and then starting a movie career, rock music had really started to decline in the early '60s. It was mainly just cutsey bubble gum type male singers and girl groups from 1960-63. The Beatles brought rock n roll back in a big way in '64.

  • @musdeemx Great comment brother,their music still inspires.Rock on!

  • if only I had a time machine, I would so come to this day and scream "I LOVE THE BEATLES"

  • 73 million watched this in America in 1964.. that'd be a blockbuster fucking show nowadays, but back then it was domination.

  • Your mom was at this concert and she got boned.

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  • Question for good guitar players out there; How good is George here at about 21 years old ? how good for that age and how good in general ?

  • @baseballeddie1177 All these guys were xlnt musicians, even then! Abbey Road shows what great musicians and writers they really became, and don't forget the genius of George Martin!

  • @TheBluesnbob Yes...George Martin was a musical genius...i think[correct me if i am wrong]he convinced them to use orchestration...although as we see here they were brilliant without it...it added a new and exciting dimension to their studio recordings...George Harrison had some technically brilliant ability...a one of a kind player...and Ringo...so under rated...i love his style...so many creative runs from verse to chorus to verse...The perfect drummer for the Beatles.

  • I was just shy of my 14th birthday when I watched this laying on the floor in front of the tv.

    it changed my life. I became a poet and musician. This was the start. The Beatles go beyond bullshit like "countries"

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  • 3:22 - 3:56 SEXYNESSSSSES!!!! fuck yea i had a "Georgasm" and "Starr-attack"

  • Beatles in United States

  • Tell me: is it possible to watch this video without smiling?

  • @MargotMilevaZ and without shout like a lady ?

  • 2:04, one of the very few times you see George singing

  • Thank you for this video.

    I just noticed you missed one song, "I saw her standing there". :)

  • Anyone notice that John is too quiet? What's up with that!

  • They deserve fan girls. I dare not say his name here.

  • There you go. I "like" all their "periods". Seriously I like it all, I love some of it. I'm over 60 years old and I was old enough to watch it as a teen. I was a magical era. Jim

  • anyone know what song they're dancing to at the end?

  • @Mrod330

    Money (that's what I want)

    Song written by Janie Bradford and Berry Gordy

    year of production - 1963

    year of publication - 1963

  • I was in boot camp with the Canadian Air Force at the time. I called home on my regular Sunday phone call. The first thing my Mom said was, "Did you see the Beatles tonight?" Well, I had on the TV in the Airman's lounge, but frankly I was too tired from training to take notice. But, did I take notice after I got through training!! Changed the world of music!!

  • i laughed when it was John Lennon sorry girls hes married

  • im watching this on a computer screen and im losing control i just can't just imagine being in that audience at that time.i'm 14 and i'm proud to say that i'm completely in love with george.

  • I remember sitting in my parents livingroom watching this with my sisters. I was about 10 years old. Love it!

  • @lookatpics I remember watching this with my parents and aunt and uncle in the living room on a Sunday evening! I was 8 or 9 . it was so great My Mom said they needed a hair cut. my Dad always thought they looked like nice young boys.lol

  • @dakotahstr me and my sisters were bummed when it came across the screen that John was married! haha

  • "Just got a wire from Elvis Presley wishing them well in this country" What, they didn't have twitter? Elvis could have just tweeted lol

  • All the girls in the audience are screaming and going crazy, and the guys next to them are like WTF?? lol

  • Calie and Joe forever Beatles fans

  • The simpler times.

  • The Beatles never were a good "live" band, much more of a studio band that tried to play their stuff live. I was there kids, I'm past 60.

  • @jiminlhc woah, ok yeah they're definitely a studio band, but this is live performance at its finest right here. I dream to play this well live consistently, this is really good stuff! Tried and succeeded they did.

  • @jiminlhc I say that their earlier works were the best ones for performing live. "Please Please Me", "Do You Wanna Know a Secret?", even on up into "Help!" It must be remembered that they honed their skills by playing live, night after night, in Hamburg, Germany, for hours on end without rest and also later, in the Cavern Club in Liverpool. But after they stopped touring and really got into the studio and started experimenting with sounds...I must admit I do like that period better.

  • @jiminlhc Beatles, not a good "live" band. You need to check out the NME 1964 performance of Long Tall Sally. Mick Jagger called them the 4 headed monster... Beatles invented live performances!

  • @otterj6 You are right, I frequently hear people, who attended their concerts, say that they remember that the Beatles were a particularly good live band; and these are people who have become rockn'roll pundits not the former screaming girls. It must have been all those years of practice in the Cavern and Hamburg.

  • @fredmila Althougth I'm not an expert but they had some pretty memorable live performances - the 1965 Shea stadium concert was awesome, especially I'm Down. The main reason they because a 'studio band' was for many reasons - exhaustion, girls screaming and well, death threats. It didn't matter how good they were live - people just came to SEE them, not HEAR them

  • @otterj6 Yes but they ended up as a studio band because they wanted to and the real music fans did go to hear them but could not. There not just screaming girls in their concerts, you know, read some testimonials below.

    In fact they were a "live" band (1960-1966= 6 years) longer than they were a "studio" band (1966-1970=some 4 years)

  • sweet fragrant meadows of dung and dew?

  • @Jemmer1000 dawn and dew

  • @Jemmer1000 I always thought it was "sweet fragrant meadows of doggie doo"

  • The solo on till there was you is brilliant. :D

  • The bass sound on this is better than the English recordings... thumbs up, old American sound engineer.

  • John was like so grown up...haha they never knew he was married

  • lol so nuts how the girls just scream n weird their all old ladies now haha

  • @XxpauldadudexX some perhaps and it will happen that fast to you too! lady or man

  • 7 people don't like good old black and white television.

  • What's wrong with the dislike bar? It's there!

  • Everything was so nice back then...no tattoos, no piercings, few if any drugs and the music was bright and cheery...we sure do owe you Brits alot for these guys and their music. They provided such enthusiasm and good mirth....

  • min 4:34 check out those girls French kissing the air...LOL!!!!

  • @RideMyF150 For sure, jealous?

  • I wonder how long it took for the boys to get a copy of this performance...considering there was no video or digital back then. Suppose at one point CBS must have snail mailed them an 8mm print of their performance.

  • sweet fragrant meadows of dung and dew?

  • ringo in the final scene of simon of the desert

  • Now she's at 9:10 or thereabouts. My Lord God, this girl must be famous, who the hell is she?

  • Ed, Ed, can we do Helter Skelter, c'mon Ed, c'mon...

  • Where's Yoko?

  • @Jemmer1000 John hadn't met Yoko yet

  • @Vasilouxxx but but, it says he's married

  • @Jemmer1000 John was married to Cynthia Yoko fortunately did not happen for years to come

  • Oh, those loveable moptops, what will they think of next?

  • "Oh, I love this place, America! ......Terrific it is!! Ooooh!" *spazzy movements*

    Paul <3