The Ed Sullivan Show

Fifth Dimension / Imogene Coca / Ferrante & Teicher (23x11)

Air date: Dec 07, 1969

Guests: --Fifth Dimension - ""Wedding Bell Blues"" & medley (""People Got to Be Free"" & a musical version of the Declaration of Independence) --The Fifth Dimension sing ""Happy Birthday"" to Rudolph Friml (the oldest member of ASCAP). --Ferrante & Teicher (two pianists) - theme from ""Midnight Cowboy"" --Imogene Coca (comedian) - does stand up routine about an aggressive sales woman who forces Coca into radical Hippie garb --Tony Sandler & Ralph Young - ""Put On A Happy Face"" & ""The 59th Street Bridge Song"" (""Feelin' Groovy"") --Richard Tucker (Metropolitan tenor wearing clown suit) - sings the aria from the opera ""Pagliacci"" --Ron Carey (stand-up comedian, topic: Catholic football team) --Burch Mann's Ballet America (twelve dancers) --Feller Brothers & Dodo (high wire act from West Berlin) --Audience bows: Irene Papas, Yves Montand, Irving Rudd & Mrs. Bob Gibson; and a group of wounded Vietnam veterans CBS repeated this show on August 2, 1970.