How We Ate in 1964, When the Beatles Were on Ed Sullivan, Vs. Now (2024)

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What food was popular in 1964? ›

From Waffles to Cronuts. And during that World's Fair, the most influential item of the year: the Belgian waffle. “It was a tidal wave," says Bill Cotter, author of *The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair: Creation and Legacy, "*and everybody had to have a waffle stand by 1965.” Sound familiar? Ah yes, the cronut craze.

The Beatles' fortunes changed after Ed Sullivan Show talent booker Jack Babb saw the band twice in concert in the UK the following year, after being invited by Peter Prichard, a London talent agent who was also a friend of Beatles manager Brian Epstein.

Never before had the world witnessed this level of fandom and excitement for any musical act. The performance drew an astonishing 73 million viewers to The Ed Sullivan Show, making it the most-watched television event of its time.

PLAYLIST: The Beatles opened their set with “All My Loving,” “Till There Was You,” and “She Loves You." Later in the show, the band returned to play “I Saw Her Standing There” and ended their set with their No.

Gas cost 30 cents a gallon, a loaf of bread. cost 21 cents, a movie ticket set you back about $1.25. and the Olympics were held in Tokyo.

1964: Pop-Tarts

Post and Kellogg's were racing to be the first to introduce this morning treat to the market, and Kellogg's won. Pop-Tarts were a big hit with busy kids—and parents.

According to Stanley, the band provided a sense of liberation for fans of both sexes, in that "The boys could make as much noise as possible; the girls had something with dirt under its fingernails they could scream at." The Beatles began their third nationwide tour on 18 May, the bill this time headed by Roy Orbison.

McCartney tried to remind Sullivan that he was one of the Beatles, but Sullivan obviously could not remember, and nodding and smiling, simply shook McCartney's hand and left. In an interview with Howard Stern around 2012, Joan Rivers said that Sullivan had been suffering from dementia toward the end of his life.

One of the first things you would notice about Ed was how stiff he was. It was like rigor mortis had set in before death. But there was a reason for that, Ed suffered from ankylosing spondylitis, which involves arthritis of the spine. So, it was a medical condition, not nerves that gave Ed such a stiff appearance.

The Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964. That would make Ed Sullivan 62 years old at the time the Beatles first appeared. He was born 28 September 1901 and died 13 October 1974. He was 63 when The Beatles first appeared on his show.

Did John or Paul write "She Loves You"? ›

John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote “She Loves You” in June 1963. They started it in a hotel room a couple of hours before a show. They wanted to write a message song. Lennon wanted a third party talking.

Betty Sullivan

Ed Sullivan / Daughter

The Beatles arrived in the USA in early February 1964. John Lennon and Ringo Starr were both 23, Paul McCartney was 21 and George Harrison was 20.

Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles! Let's bring them on.” At last, John, Paul, George and Ringo came onto the stage, opening with “All My Loving” to ear-splitting screeches from teenaged girls in the audience.

Early August 1966, Christian groups, primarily in the Southern United States took to the streets to burn the sin out of their beloved Beatles records in response to John Lennon's remark that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus.”

The cuisine that the counterculture took to in the late 1960s, and then helped introduce to the mainstream in the 1970s, embraced whole grains and legumes; organic, fresh vegetables; soy foods like tofu and tempeh; nutrition-boosters like wheat germ and sprouted grains; and flavors from Eastern European, Asian, and ...