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Department of Self-Referential Videos Department.
The original Broadway cast of Bye Bye Birdie—including the fabulous Paul Lynde— singing the Ed Sullivan song—on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Thanks to YouTuber lee a
Jack Shalom
Musings, Memories, and Magic
Looking at the studio audience at the end of the clip, you can really see how things have changed. Men in suits and ties, ladies in dresses with their hair all made up (though a sea of white faces) is quite the contradiction to today’s T-shirts, shorts, and crocks of prime time audiences.
The Occasion for Dress has been greatly reduced.
That Paul Lynde… a fixture on Hollywood Squares and The Dean Martin Show…