9th February 1964 - America meets the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show

At approximately 8:12 p.m. Eastern time, The Ed Sullivan Show returned from a commercial and there was Ed Sullivan standing before a restless crowd. He tried to begin his next introduction, but then stopped and extended his arms in the universal sign for “Settle Down.” “Quiet!” he said with mock gravity, and the noise died down just a little. Then he resumed: “Here’s a very amusing magician we saw in Europe and signed last summer….Let’s have a nice hand for him—Fred Kaps!”

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