Throwback Thursday Musical Showcase: Ed Ames and Dinah Shore Sing "Sunrise, Sunset" on the Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show was a television variety program that aired on CBS from 1948-1971. For 23 years it aired every Sunday night and played host to the world's greatest talents. The Ed Sullivan Show is well known for bringing rock n' roll music to the forefront of American culture through acts like Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones. 

The entertainers each week ranged from comedians like Joan Rivers and Rodney Dangerfield, to Broadway stars Julie Andrews and Richard Burton, to pop singers such as Bobby Darin and Petula Clark. It also frequently featured stars of Motown such as The Supremes, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder and The Jackson 5. The Ed Sullivan Show was one of the only places on American television where such a wide variety of popular culture was showcased and its legacy lives on to this day. 

Let's turn the clock back 56 years to February 25, 1968 when singers Ed Ames and Dinah Shore sang Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Ed Ames (Edmund Urick) was a pop singer and actor. He was also part of the popular 1950s singing group with his siblings, the Ames Brothers. Dinah Shore (Frances Rose Shore) was an American singer, actress, and television personality, and the chart-topping female vocalist of the 1940s. They both grew up in Jewish families, Ames' parents from Ukraine and Shore's from Russia.

Enjoy!

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