The Beach Boys appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
They performed "I Get Around" and “Wendy” to a crowd of screaming
fans.

Pattie Page (Clara Ann Fowler) (November 8, 1927 – January 1, 2013)

The New York based music program The Big Record was sponsored by
Oldsmobile and hosted by singer Patti Page with Vic Schoen conducting
the orchestra. Patti would welcome big name guests of the music and
recording industry. The show was a mix of young and old performers
joining together for a musical hour, later shortened to half an hour in
length. It aired on CBS television for only one season.

The musical variety series "Shindig!" premiered on ABC-TV. The first
show, which was also the pilot, opened with Sam Cooke, The Everly
Brothers, The Wellingtons, The Righteous Brothers, Bobby Sherman
and Alan Sues. The show aired until January 8, 1966.

The show was hosted by Jimmy O’Neill,
a disc jockey in Los Angeles at the time.

James Franklin "Jimmy" O’Neill
(January 8, 1940 – January 11, 2013)

For TV viewers old enough to remember watching the Jerry Lewis MDA
Labor Day Telethon, it was a one-of-a-kind experience. The show was
founded and hosted by actor and comedian Jerry Lewis, who hosted
the broadcast from its 1966 inception until 2010. A telethon would
broadcast for up to 21½ hours, starting on the Sunday evening
preceding Labor Day and continuing until late Monday afternoon on
the holiday itself. MDA called its network of participating stations the
"Love Network". The show originated from Las Vegas for 28 of the
years it was broadcast.

Ramblin’ Rod Anders (November 26, 1933 – May 11, 2002) was
host of the local “Love Network” telethon on KPTV in Portland,
Oregon.

The Midnight Special was a late-night musical variety series that aired on NBC
during the 1970s and early 1980s, created and produced by Burt Sugarman. It premiered as a special pilot on August 19, 1972, then began its run as a regular
series on February 2, 1973; its last episode was on May 1, 1981.The ninety-
minute program followed the Friday night edition of The Tonight Show Starring
Johnny Carson.