Flashback! Studio 50 Marquee Lives Again!

On February 7, 2014 - TV History

Flashback! Studio 50 Marquee Lives Again!

Thanks to our friends at David Letterman’s Ed Sullivan Theater, the famous marquee has been transformed into a replica of the Studio 50 marquee of fifty years ago…at least for this weekend. Not long ago, Paul and Ringo visited the theater with Letterman, remembering the night of February 9, 1964 and that will be a part of the CBS News live webcast at 6:30 Sunday night. Thanks to Letterman’s Rick Scheckman for letting us know about the marquee earlier this week and to CBS Vice President of Late-Night Programming, Vincent Favale for coming up with the idea. There’s much more on this, and this weekend’s events in the article at the link.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/02/06/ed-sullivan-theater-unveiling-special-marquee-to-mark-50th-anniversary-of-beatles-performance/

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7 Comments

  1. Jeff Bell February 9, 2014

    Like a KABILLION other people I remember that night so well.
    I was 9yrs. old and when The Beatles came on, I got up and just HAD to dance.(whatever a 9yr old danced like)
    I remember my mother’s look on her face when she saw me and looked at my dad like I was crazy..And I was..
    With BEATLEMANIA!!!
    It’s NEVER STOPPED!
    ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE!
    PEACE N LOVE!

  2. Tom Roche February 8, 2014

    The very first commercial to hit after The Beatles first set on 2/9/64 was an Anacin :60, with a morose VO saying PAIN PAIN PAIN… likely a truism for the vaudeville gang. The DVD set of the 4 shows claim to have all the commercials in tact as aired, but it was later revealed the excised the cigarette spots. The Anacin spot, by the way, claimed the pill would fix headaches, tension, and depression.

  3. William David French Jr February 7, 2014

    I’m taking my DVD set home with me tonight to watch the original show.

  4. Val Ginter February 7, 2014

    I miss the days when so many theatres had the names of the CBS studios on their marquees. There was also a theatre a block from Rock Center that had TV Preview Theatre on its marquee. It was demolished and replaced with those Harrison & Abramovitz buildings. I don’t know which theatre that was–or what they did in there. Was it strictly for viewing pilots? Sort of a focus-group theatre?

  5. David Fell February 7, 2014

    Thanks, I thought it might be a comedy duo, but searching for Whitehall-Pillsbury found me nada, and I couldn’t find it in references to who was on that amazing night.

  6. Eyes Of A Generation.com February 7, 2014

    FYI, at the bottom are the show’s sponsors. Whitehall is the company that made Anacin.

  7. David Fell February 7, 2014

    For those who are curious, this was one UK-heavy show! Georgia Brown was a British singer who was starring in “Oliver!” and Tessie O’Shea hailed from Wales, and won a Tony for her then-current role on Broadway in Noel Coward’s “The Girl Who Came To Supper.” The “Oliver!” performances included Davy Jones, soon to be made a Monkee of.