Ernie Kovacs / Sheb Wooley / Gordon MacRae / Bobby Van

July 27, 1958
60 min
Season 11 - Episode 44: Ernie Kovacs / Sheb Wooley / Gordon MacRae / Bobby Van

Season 11 - Episode 44: Ernie Kovacs / Sheb Wooley / Gordon MacRae / Bobby Van

The Ed Sullivan Show - Backdrop

Overview

Guests: --Ernie Kovacs - conducts the Nairobi Symphony (with musicians in monkey costumes). --Sheb Wooley - ""The Purple People Eater"" --Gisele MacKenzie - ""All The Way"" --Bobby Van - ""Too Darn Hot"" (sings and dances to song from ""Kiss Me Kate"") --Gordon MacRae - medley: ""Moonlight Bay,"" ""Tea For Two,"" ""Stranger In Paradise"" and ""If I Loved You"" --Paul Hampton - ""Let's Fall In Love"" --George Givot (Italian comic) --Jean Wald (orchestra made up of elderly women) - Grandma Orchestra plays 1920's medley. --Julia Mead - impersonates Ertha Kitt, Ray Bolger, Ethel Merman --Jimmy and Mildred Mulcay (harmonica players) - ""Caravan"" --Frisco Four (barbershop quartet) --The Goofers (comical musicians) - ""Flying Blues"" & ""Man On the Flying Trapeze"" (musicians goofing around, on pogo sticks, doing cartwheels, one swings upside down while playing bass, etc.)

Episode Information

TV Show

The Ed Sullivan Show

Season

Season 11

Episode Number

44

Air Date

July 27, 1958

Runtime

60 minutes

Guest Stars

Bobby Van

Bobby Van

Self

Gordon MacRae

Gordon MacRae

Self

George Givot

George Givot

Self

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Gisele MacKenzie

Self

Paul Hampton

Paul Hampton

Self

J

Jimmy Mulcay

Self