1964 Beatles Ed Sullivan Show 55th Anniversary Show Envelope

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BEATLES 1964 1ST ED SULLIVAN SHOW
55TH ED SULLIVAN SHOW ENVELOPE
WELCOME BEATLES FANS!
You will receive a 55th anniversary envelope of The Beatles Ed Sullivan show on February 9, 1964 postmarked on Feb 9, 2019 in Sagamore Beach, MA.
It is estimated that 73 million Americans were watching that night as the Beatles made their live U.S. television debut. Roughly eight minutes before Fred Kaps took the stage, Sullivan gave his now-famous intro, “Ladies and gentlemen…the Beatles!” and after a few seconds of rapturous cheering from the audience, the band kicked into “All My Lovin’.” Fifty seconds in, the first audience-reaction shot of the performance shows a teenage girl beaming and possibly hyperventilating. Two minutes later, Paul is singing another pretty, mid-tempo number: “Til There Was You,” from the Broadway musical Music Man. There’s screaming at the end of every phrase in the lyrics, of course, but to view the broadcast today, it seems driven more by anticipation than by the relatively low-key performance itself. And then came “She Loves You,” and the place seems to explode. What followed was perhaps the most important two minutes and 16 seconds of music ever broadcast on American television—a sequence that still sends chills down the spine almost half a century later.
This will be shipped by First Class letter mail.