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In Reply to: Ed Sullivan / Beatles DVD Review posted by Claude Abraham on September 26, 2003 at 09:45:52:
"The sound was good, as well as the performance"...
Performance? I thought it was all lip synced. If I remember correctly, anyway. Check the guitars. Do they have any cables coming from them? From what I remember, they Beatles were on the stage just a playing and singing away, and they didnt even have the electric guitars hooked up. Correct me if my memory is a bit foggy now (aahh..the 60's!).
But I do agree that it is am interresting snapshot of the era. It seems so long ago now.
Follow Ups:
It was not lip-synced, at least as far as I can tell. The guitars do have cords connected. The sound is not like the commercial recording at all. It is definitely a live performance. When the camera moves in towards Ringo, the drums get louder and all else gets softer. It is real. I've had the "Ready Steady Go" video of their 1964 British performance, since 1985, and it is definitely lip-synced. Ringo botches the entrance on "I Wanna Be Your Man" and makes it too obvious. Also, John missed a lead vocal in "Shout" which gives it away as well. This Ed Sullivan video has no evidence of such. In "Help", John sings the wrong lyric for the second verse, with Paul and George eventually adjusting to his mistake. Of course, one could argue that that in itself could have been staged, just to make it look "live". An active imagination can assume anything. I'll view this video some more this weekend. I doubt that I'll find any evidence of fakery. I've had "The Beatles First U.S. Visit" video since 1990, which featured most of the Beatles' Sullivan performances (Beatles only, not the rest of the show). I've looked for evidence of fakery since 1990, and have yet to find any. No one as far as I know has ever pointed one out. I know one thing. Mitzi Gaynor's charm is real. Best regards.
Claude
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