Back in this message, I posted a link to a medley of Hal David/Burt Bacharach songs performed by The Carpenters. A lot of you wrote in that you really enjoyed it so perhaps you'll enjoy what's basically the same medley performed by The Carpenters on The Ed Sullivan Show for November 8, 1970. This episode was shot at at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, D.C. and the audience was mostly wounded soldiers. In addition to The Carpenters, the lineup included Freda Payne, The Four Tops, Hank Williams Jr., Rodney Dangerfield, Ron Carey, the comedy team of Skiles and Henderson, and magician Dick Ryan…
By the way! I run a lot of clips here from Mr. Sullivan's show. Though a few episodes of that series no longer exist, most of them were preserved and moments from them have been quite available in syndication and on specials. Much credit for that should go to producer Andrew Solt, who in 1990 acquired the rights to that library and has taken very good care of them.
For the first ten years that Solt's SOFA Entertainment controlled those shows, much of the editing and caretaking was done by a lovely and wonderful lady named Susan F. Walker, who wrote, directed and/or produced a great number of excellent documentaries on show business. I believe she received at least two Emmy nominations and she certainly had the love and respect of all who knew her. She died way too young in 2000 and any time I see one of these clips, I think about her.