What is the original theme song for the Ed Sullivan Show?

Answer 1

"the toast of the town.


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The Ed Sullivan Show (variety)
(CBS Sunday Nights, 1948 - 1971)

[original title: "The Toast of the Town (1948 - 1954)";

A long-running television variety series hosted by New York
newspaper columnist Ed Sullivan (whose column was called
"The Toast of the Town");

Sullivan's persona on the television stage was rather stiff
and his reedy high voice was nervous and slurred -- all of
which made him the butt of comic impersonators for decades;
But Sullivan appeared to take all the joking about his vocal
mannerisms and hunched pose in stride;

Undoubtedly a more polished M. C. could have been found; But
CBS knew Sullian's contacts from his many years as a columnist
in New York City could guarantee booking major entertainment
acts if he asked them to appear on his show;

Proof he could deliver was seen in the very first show -- which
included the comedy team of Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis as well
as the Broadway Musical Theatre composers Richard Rodgers and
Oscar Hammerstein II live on stage;

After six seasons, the name of the series "Toast of the Town"
changed in the Fall of 1955 to "The Ed Sullivan Show", since
most people referred to it that way, and it stayed that way
until the series ended some 16 seasons later;

The Sullivan Show became the way many people in the U.S.
first got a glimpse of major new talent -- including an
early booking of young Elvis Presley, and the first U.S.
television appearance of The Beatles when they were the
hottest act in the record business;

Sullivan also insisted upon presenting an odd assortment of
circus acts and puppeteers; Perhaps it was his way of seeing
himself as an inheritor of the grand "impresario" tradition;

Sullivan used to "own" Sunday nights the way Milton Berle
"owned" Tuesday Nights" -- no competing shows ever bested
it in the ratings; And this series helped the medium of
television grow into a household "must-have" during its
formative early years.]

Answer 2

The closing theme song is "There No Business Like Show Business".

Answer 3

OH.. A horse is a horse of course of course and no one can talk to a horse of course....... Err um, sorry, wrong Ed. LOL

Answer 4

who gives a ****