Belle Baker

Singer and actress Belle Baker hosted a radio variety show on
WABC in New York City from a moving train in the area. It was
a first for radio broadcasting. She talked about everything from
the current weather conditions to local news from various towns. 

    
      Philco Cathedral radio, 1932

The Bee Gees made their US television debut when they appeared on The 
Ed Sullivan Show. They performed "To Love Somebody" and "Words."

Barry Alan Crompton Gibb is 67 and the last surviving
member of the Bee Gees.

The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for a third consecutive week. The
taped segment showed The Fab Four performing "Twist and Shout", "Please Please
Me" and "I Want To Hold Your Hand.

Will Rogers (far right), Art Gillham, Wendell Hall, Carson Robison, Eveready Quartet, Graham McNamee and the Waldorf-Astoria Dance Orchestra.

"The Eveready Hour" became radio’s first commercially sponsored network variety
program. The National Carbon Company was the first sponsor of the show which 
originated from WEAF Radio in New York.

The AR-812, manufactured in 1924, was the first commercial superhet.

(AP) – The Beatles made their first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," America’s
must-see weekly variety show, on Sunday, Feb. 9, 1964. And officially kicked off
Beatlemania on this side of the pond.

More than 70 million viewers were tuned to the program, airing live from the studio
in Manhattan which now houses the “Late Show With David Letterman.”