The Rolling Stones' performances on "The Ed Sullivan Show" are being released on two DVDs.

"4 Ed Sullivan Shows Starring the Rolling Stones" goes on sale in the U.S. and Canada on October 4, 2011. "6 Ed Sullivan Shows Starring the Rolling Stones" goes on sale in the U.S. and Canada on November 1, 2011. Both DVDs are being released by Sofa Entertainment and distributed by Universal Music.

The Rolling Stones appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" six times from 1964 to 1969. The band was on the show twice in 1966.

The most notorious appearance was in 1967, when the Rolling Stones performed "Let's Spend the Night Together," and lead singer Mick Jagger was forced to change the chorus to "let's spend some time together." Sullivan had threatened to cancel the band's appearance on the show unless the lyrics were changed. During the performance, Jagger showed his disdain for the forced alteration by rolling his eyes when he sang the changed lyrics.

"The Ed Sullivan Show" (based in New York City and televised in the United States on CBS) was on the air from 1948 to 1971. In its heyday, "The Ed Sullivan Show"  was the most influential variety TV series in the United States. Acts such as the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Elvis Presley and the Jackson 5 made legendary performances on the show.

The track listings for "The Ed Sullivan Show"/Rolling Stones DVDs are to be announced, but here is a list of the songs that the Rolling Stones performed on the show:

1964

Around and Around

Time Is on My Side



1965

The Last Time

Little Red Rooster

Everybody Needs Somebody to Love



1966

Appearance #1:

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

As Tears Go By

19th Nervous Breakdown



Appearance #2:

Paint It Black

Lady Jane

Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?



1967

Ruby Tuesday

Let’s Spend the Night Together (altered to Let’s Spend Some Time Together)



1969

Gimme Shelter

Love in Vain

Honky Talk Women
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Ed Sullivan and Mick Jagger on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1964
Credits: CBS.Video: The Rolling Stones performing "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
Video: The Rolling Stones performing "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
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I have a DVD of the entire Stones performances on Sullivan show, forget about putting it on Youtube, Sofa Entertainment (Ed Sullivan's people) will complain & it comes off, & here Sullivan's people are trying to make money from it with this release.

this makes me moist

It's long overdue. However, I have a decent bootleg DVD of all their Sullivan performances, so I won't be purchasing. What would be wonderful is a DVD of all their Ready Steady Go! appearances, though some of these no longer exist.

Very good news!

Hope there will be a DVD Region 2 version too.

How on Earth can this comprise 2 dvd's? Total track time would be about 20mins!

corgi37 wrote on Sep 5^th, 2011 at 6:05am:

How on Earth can this comprise 2 dvd's? Total track time would be about 20mins!

oops!!! Good point. Makes me thinking.

philgood wrote on Sep 5^th, 2011 at 2:35am:

Hope there will be a DVD Region 2 version too.

Why do they have this "Region" stuff for DVDs and not CDs?  :forfucksake

corgi37 wrote on Sep 5^th, 2011 at 6:05am:

How on Earth can this comprise 2 dvd's? Total track time would be about 20mins!

It's maybe complete shows with only partly Stones parts.

Official trailer in good quality, thanks Rogerriffin who posted this last Friday at our message board in Spanish

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DVD One

The Ed Sullivan Show
October 25, 1964
Opening
London Lee - Comedian
Itzhak Perlman - Wieniawski's "Concerto #2 in D Minor"
Stiller and Meara - Comedy Routine
Peg Leg Bates - Tap Dancer
Laurence Harvey - "Charge of the Light Brigade"
The Rolling Stones - "Around and Around"
The Kim Sisters - "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho"
The Berosinis - Acrobats
Phyllis Diller - Comedienne
The Rolling Stones - "Time Is On My Side"

The Ed Sullivan Show
May 2, 1965
Opening
The Rolling Stones - "The Last Time"
Topo Gigio - Topo falls in love
Morecambe and Wise - Comedy Sketch
Leslie Uggams - "My Melancholy Baby"
Gitta Morelly - Balancing Act
Dusty Springfield - "I Only Want to Be With You"
The Rolling Stones - "Little Red Rooster"
The Rolling Stones - "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"
Tom Jones - "Watcha Gonna Do When Your Baby Leaves You"
Totie Fields - Comedienne
The Half Brothers - Jugglers
The Rolling Stones - "2120 South Michigan Avenue" under credits

The Ed Sullivan Show
February 13, 1966
Opening
The Rolling Stones - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
Señor Wences - Ventriloquist
Les Olympiades - Adagio Act
Eddie Schaeffer - Comedian
Hal Holbrook - Lincoln's Second Inaugural Speech
Romanian Folk Ballet - Traditional Music and Dance
The Rolling Stones - "As Tears Go By"
The Rolling Stones - "19th Nervous Breakdown"
Sandy Baron - Comedian

DVD Two

The Ed Sullivan Show
September 11, 1966
Opening
The Rolling Stones - "Paint It, Black"
The Muppets - Rock `n' Roll Routine
Franco Corelli and Renata Tebaldi - "Vicino a te" from Andrea Chénier
Louis Armstrong - "Cabaret"
Joan Rivers - Comedienne
Robert Goulet - "Once I Had a Heart"
Red Skelton - Comedian
The Rolling Stones - "Lady Jane"
The Rolling Stones - "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?"

The Ed Sullivan Show
January 15, 1967
Opening
Michael Bennett Dancers - Clog Dance
Flip Wilson - Comedian
Petula Clark - "Elusive Butterfly"
Petula Clark - "Color My World"
Monroe - Acrobat
The Muppets - Vaporous Pool Routine
Sisters '67 - "Kumbaya"
Alan King - Comedian
The Rolling Stones - "Ruby Tuesday"
The Rolling Stones - "Let's Spend Some Time Together"

The Ed Sullivan Show
November 23, 1969
Opening The Rolling Stones - "Gimme Shelter"
Rodney Dangerfield - Comedian
Topo Gigio - Football Routine
Ella Fitzgerald - "You Better Love Me"
Ella Fitzgerald - "Open Your Window"
Hawthorne Tiger & Horses - Animal Act
Lucho Navarro - Comedian
Robert Klein - Comedian
The Rolling Stones - "Love In Vain"
The Rolling Stones - "Honky Tonk Women" "

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DVD review: ‘The Rolling Stones: All 6 Ed Sullivan Shows'
Published: November 4, 2011
http://newsok.com/dvd-review-the-rolling-stones-all-6-ed-sullivan-shows/article/3619357#ixzz1cnvwP19b

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“The Ed Sullivan Show Starring The Rolling Stones” Deluxe Edition

On the night of Oct. 25, 1964, we had to sit through commercials for Pillsbury cake mix and Sweet 10 sweetener, performances by standup comic London Lee and Israeli violinist Itzhak Perlman, more ads for Pillsbury turnover pastries and dinner rolls, more standup comedy from Stiller and Meara (Ben Stiller's parents), a one-legged tap dancer named Peg-Leg Bates, a segment in which Ed Sullivan presented the actual bugle blown during the Charge of the Light Brigade to the 17th/21st Lancers and British actor Laurence Harvey read the Tennyson poem commemorating the charge, and a spot for Dove soap before Sullivan finally introduced the Rolling Stones for the first time “right here on our stage.”

That's why they called them variety shows, but thank goodness the variety of Sullivan's program included the vanguard of the British Invasion. First he brought us the everlasting pride of Liverpool, then the blues-rocking bad boys of London, and things have never been the same in popular music. Suffering through all those acts and ads was worth it for us rock 'n' roll kids on that historic night, but the great thing about the Deluxe Collectors' Edition of “The Rolling Stones: All 6 Ed Sullivan Shows” is that you can skip over all that other stuff and watch the Stones' Sullivan debut in glorious black and white, as a young Mick Jagger jacklegs around the microphone to the reeling, rocking beat of Chuck Berry's “Around and Around” while Keith Richards and Brian Jones' interlocking rhythms and riffs drive the train. Then they're back in the second half of the show with their Top 10-er “Time is on My Side” and the little girls' screams almost drown them out.

The band returns on Feb. 13, 1965, with a Jagger-Richards original, “The Last Time,” an edgy rendition of Willie Dixon's “Little Red Rooster,” a rousing cover of Solomon Burke's “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love” and a rare performance of their own instrumental tribute to Chess Records, “2120 South Michigan Avenue.”

When they return on Feb. 13, 1966, they're in vivid color as CBS can finally use the technology that NBC had monopolized for years, and they open with one of their biggest smash hits, “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction,” followed by a poignant acoustic duet featuring only Jagger and Richards on “As Tears Go By” and a manic workout on “19th Nervous Breakdown.”

Their Sept. 11, 1966, appearance features treatments of “Paint It Black” and “Lady Jane” with Jones lending sitar accompaniment on the former and dulcimer on the latter, ending with the attitude-laden “Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows?”

The Jan. 15, 1967, show marks Jones' last appearance on Sullivan and features the altered “Let's Spend the Night Together,” which censors insisted be changed to “Let's Spend Some Time Together,” causing Jagger to roll his eyes sarcastically during the performance.

They also offered up “Ruby Tuesday” on the episode.

The Stones final Sullivan appearance on Nov. 23, 1969, introduced newest member Mick Taylor on guitar during the tumultuous “Gimme Shelter,” a melancholy cover of Robert Johnson's blues classic “Love in Vain” and a raucous reading of “Honky Tonk Women.”

Also included in the deluxe set is a replica of a 1966 ticket to the show, a booklet full of photos, rare documents and liner notes by Greil Marcus, and if the variety aspect appeals to you, Tom Jones singing “Whatcha Gonna Do When Your Baby Leaves You,” Louis Armstrong performing “Cabaret,” Petula Clark lilting through “Elusive Butterfly” and “Color My World,” standup by Robert Klein and Rodney Dangerfield, Jim Henson's Muppets and Ella Fitzgerald performing “You'd Better Love Me” and “Open Your Window,” are all acts worth catching. The dated commercials are a hoot as well.

— Gene Triplett

YES! I can finally watch Topo Gigio's football routine!