Throughout its 23-year run, The Ed Sullivan Show repeatedly made history with its penchant for marking the debut of a wide array of musical artists. Between 1948 and 1971, the variety series ...

For entertainers of all stripes, an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show could make their career overnight—unless they rubbed the show’s host the wrong way. From the birth of The Beatles to the ...

After all, it appears in several movies and TV shows about the conflict ... So, it seems that the producers of The Ed Sullivan Show didn’t realize “Fortunate Son” was a protest song.