{"id":5992,"date":"2022-06-15T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peggylee.com\/?p=5992"},"modified":"2025-11-06T06:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:24:51","slug":"edsullivanshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peggylee.com\/edsullivanshow\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Nights with Peggy Lee on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Peggy Lee\u2019s 13 guest appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show<\/em> span nearly the entire 23-year life of the legendary show \u2013 the longest-running musical-variety program in television history. She first appeared only seven weeks after the show\u2019s June 20, 1948 launch, when it was titled Toast of the Town<\/em>, borrowing its name from Sullivan\u2019s longtime newspaper column. Peggy\u2019s final appearance, in March of 1970, came one year before the series finally concluded on March 28, 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peggy\u2019s first appearance was on August 8, 1948, when she sang It’s Magic<\/em> (a song recently introduced by Doris Day in the Warner Bros. musical Romance on the High Seas<\/em>), I Can’t Give You Anything but Love<\/em> (recently featured on a Capitol single as well as the album Rendezvous with Peggy Lee<\/em>), and My Guitar<\/em> (a song she would record 18 years later for her album Guitars ala Lee<\/em>). Variety<\/em> reviewed her performance: \u201cPeggy Lee, doubling from the Paramount Theater, provided the high-spot with a well-delineated group. She looks excellent in close-up, although the full-length shots tend to harden her appearance. Miss Lee concentrated on ballads, which made for a high degree of audience satisfaction.\u201d Only audio is known to exist for her debut Ed Sullivan performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her second appearance, on October 22, 1950, is the earliest one available on The Ed Sullivan Show<\/em>\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a>. On this broadcast she performed her recent Capitol Records chart hit Show Me the Way to Get Out of This World<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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