Fact #19945
When:
Short story:
UK pop idol Cliff Richard makes a live appearance on US tv's Ed Sullivan Show in New York City, USA.
Full article:
Cliff Richard : My agent said to me, 'This is such a huge show we need to get you on it.' Now the problem was, as much as it was a wonderful thing to do Ed Sullivan because of his demands on what I should do, it gave me the worst start possible.
I had a film called The Young Ones. I would've liked to have sung the hits I had here, Living Doll, Move It, the kind of pop/rock stuff I was doing. But in the film The Young Ones there was a sequence in there where we as youngsters take over a theatre and we put on kind of a Vaudeville show. And so, he liked the way I was dancing and doing all these old fashioned, English songs from Vaudeville, and that's how I was presented the first time I was ever seen. I was a 19 year old Vaudeville artist. I always think it was great to be on the show. Now, when I look back, I can say I was on The Ed Sullivan Show, excuse me. But when I look back, I think that it was probably the wrong thing to do. If I had been a bigger star at the time I would've said "Look, I'll do this for you, but I need to sing my new single.
(Source : interview with Gary James on www.classicbands.com)
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I had a film called The Young Ones. I would've liked to have sung the hits I had here, Living Doll, Move It, the kind of pop/rock stuff I was doing. But in the film The Young Ones there was a sequence in there where we as youngsters take over a theatre and we put on kind of a Vaudeville show. And so, he liked the way I was dancing and doing all these old fashioned, English songs from Vaudeville, and that's how I was presented the first time I was ever seen. I was a 19 year old Vaudeville artist. I always think it was great to be on the show. Now, when I look back, I can say I was on The Ed Sullivan Show, excuse me. But when I look back, I think that it was probably the wrong thing to do. If I had been a bigger star at the time I would've said "Look, I'll do this for you, but I need to sing my new single.
(Source : interview with Gary James on www.classicbands.com)