The Bachelors "Marie" on The Ed Sullivan Show

[@Featureman]

They and The Dave Clark Five and the Everly Brothers and so many others were always well dressed. Great quality video.

[@floydp4981]

Saw them at our local dance hall near Sheffield England, would be 1964. They were great. They stayed that night at a pub near us.

[@michaeltuz608]

Nice harmony by these boys from Dublin!

[@matthewclark9652]

The song "No Arms Can Ever Hold You" is a great song!!

[@QueenofArgyle2525]

A dear friend once sang this for me.. great song:)

[@Studgunners]

Did your name used to be Marie? :)

[@QueenofArgyle2525]

@@Studgunners nope:))

[@kevinw9073]

Great harmony! Well done. SO many great acts were on Ed's show.

[@tiffaniaporchiazzo1791]

What A Happy Beautiful Lovely Video I Love This Song It Brings Back Alot Of Memories I Love Watching The Ed Sullivan Show ❤️

[@kenq1363]

The crowd goes wild!

[@recordguy4321]

HA HA

[@AntMan201490]

I love this song😀👍🏿🎶🎸

[@MostlyBrenda]

"The Bachelors" were, in fact, all married by this time. All are still living.

[@MikeBlitzMag]

Sadly not anymore. Front man Con Cluskey died on 08 April 2022 at age 81. Their phenomenal 65 year run (they started off in 1957) is almost without precedent, save for perhaps Danny And The Juniors, the Belmonts and the Mills Brothers, all of whom surpassed the 60 year mark.

[@paulbartlett3200]

Am watching out for singer-guitarist Trini Lopez two appearances,June 1964-65 respectively, both times he was appearing @ Basin St East in NYC, which Ed makes reference to,in his introductions. There are a couple or three sites, that have partial audio clips, so there must be TV footage in the ES archives. Thank you

[@roybean7166]

When I was a young kid, my dad bought me an album, Trini Lopez live at Basin Str East.

[@tonytrotta9322]

Great song - that I never knew the words too but, I do know now - The Bachelors members of the group were Conleth (Con) Cluskey (born 18 November 1941), Declan (Dec) Cluskey (born 23 December 1942), and John Stokes (Sean James Stokes) (born 13 August 1940). They formed their first band together in 1957. Thanks for sharing.

[@reneleclerc6119]

Vocally, the Bachelors were the best of the British Invasion bands.

[@jackwynne2823]

There Irish not British

[@jong0000]

they, and the Four Lads were the best...

[@wendyhill3856]

Brilliant xx

[@KennethPike-oe6qd]

Great song by a great band

[@marietarallo3403]

That’s my song!

[@MikeBlitzMag]

It took extraordinary fortitude and ability to perform live on The Ed Sullivan Show, rather than lip sync the record. Yet that is exactly what John Stokes, Dec Cluskey and front man Con Cluskey did here in 1965 with their larger than life cover of Tommy Dorsey's Marie. Con Hunley's tragic passing in April 2022 at age 81 sadly brought the band's phenomenal 65 year run to a close. But what a legacy. Absolute, utter perfection.

[@sooz9433]

Wow... my youth.🎼🖤

[@JamesGill-d7j]

Super group super harmony 👏

[@mickyalberta3484]

Male vocal groups...I just melt. Wonderul guys.

[@jaimepadilla1537]

Excelentes bvoces, excelente grupo, linda canción.

[@williamschlenger1518]

I remember hearing them while riding around in my car.

[@JamesGill-d7j]

Forever legends perfect harmony

[@TomElvisSmith]

Phenomenal day on the Sullivan channel with the Bachelors, Connie Francis and Teresa Brewer! Thank you SO much these great posts! The Bachelors and the Platters are my two favorite music groups of all time. I'd love to see all the performances on the Sullivan show by both groups. This is the first time the Bachelors have been posted, and it's fantastic! They did a lot of remakes of older songs, and "Marie" had been a hit for Tommy Dorsey. I love the arrangements that the Bachelors always used, and their incredible harmonies and voices. I love the orchestration and background singers too! As another commenter mentioned, they are an Irish band. The Bachelors' version of "Marie" charted at #9 on the UK Singles chart, #3 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and #15 on the Hot 100. They also sang a show-stopping version of "I Believe" on this episode, and I really hope you will post that too, as well as their other appearances. I'd also love to see Guy Lombardo play "Red Roses for a Blue Lady" and Kathy Kirby sing "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" on this episode. Thank you again so much for this great music!

[@pqdlindasgaiolascarlinhosd5758]

Show muito bom !!!!

[@shyman99]

1:55 I don't know why this channel continues to edit in audience footage that was not part of the original broadcast and not related at all to the performance. But I will continue to call it out until they knock it off.

[@jkfan2005]

Monty Python's Flying Circus used to do that.

[@shyman99]

@@harvardkarbodie - I wish it was an innocent explanation. But in one video the comment section made fun of the people shown in the audience and because it was such a distraction, the channel removed the audience shot & restored the original video. It appeared they were trying to hide a player tuning their instrument. Can you imagine the nerve to manipulate history in such a manner? It always seems the people who control vintage programs are always the wrong people to be in charge. Years ago I would assist the owners, but I just don't have the time anymore. So nowadays you get college kids who are oblivious to what they are doing.

[@TomElvisSmith]

While looking for Bachelors videos, I stumbled across a bootleg of this performance elsewhere on KZbin, and there was no audience shot in the original tape. The camera stayed on the Bachelors but there was a brief video glitch where some lines showed up on the screen for a second, so that must be why they interpolated the audience footage from a different episode. In another case, Teresa Brewer's "Music, Music, Music", the bootleg on YT shows that they replaced a shot of the sponsor's logo, Lincoln-Mercury, with audience footage from a different episode. So, these are some of the reasons they do it.

[@shyman99]

@@TomElvisSmith - Unfortunately, those aren't reasons, they are bad excuses. None of those edits should have been done as 100% of KZbin viewers would have voted to air them as is. But the show owners live in a delusional alternate reality.

[@TomElvisSmith]

@@shyman99 Well, I certainly don't agree with everything they do on the channel, and I completely agree that most people, including me, would rather see performances as they were originally aired, but I won't fret about audience interpolations. Cutting up medleys and performances is the thing that bothers me the most, but ultimately, I'm just really happy they are releasing this fantastic rare footage at all.

[@hollywoodjoe123]

The Bachelors were each born in the mid 1930s - and were doing shows earlier than the Beatles - (a few years before the Beatles) - and I am sure that the Beatles had heard of them - if maybe even heard them on the British radio stations - and also seen them perform at one time -

[@spyderlogan4992]

Dig that very, very rare Martin D-18E. Only 302 were made. One of which(serial number 155864, and number 7 out of 302) according to 'Juliens' the auction house belonged to Kurt Cobain and sold for $6 Million dollars...There's a lot of info and pictures on the web about it.

Yes the "Artist" factor attached gave that Martin the outrageous price of $6 million. A normal worn to very clean model would not go more than $ 5 figures. Just cause they made very few models does not make it a collectable item. Listen what George Gruhn says every Friday live at 1PM Eastern/10AM Pacific on his 1+hour live Q&A.

[@spyderlogan4992]

@ I prefer that sweet Gibson J-160E anyway...the Martin is a real kludge(mess).

@@spyderlogan4992 I've owned over 30+ Gibson and 40+Martin acoustic since 1979. Played the J160'S and several late 50's and early 60's D18E'S through the years. I agree with you, Gibson J160e wins!

[@susiepittman601]

Cool.

[@recordguy4321]

yeah some rich dumb yuppie shelled out 6 million for that beautiful guitar. Thanks for the info

[@garyfaught3769]

My daughters middle name is "Marie". Ironically, her mother is named "Diane". Once had a 45 with both songs on it.

[@ranabirgahir462]

😅LUVLI Memos ❤❤❤Grew Up with

[@claudiopedroso8077]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@michaelantone7465]

They were cute as a bug!!

[@jkfan2005]

Their dads like the Tommy Dorsey version.

[@wargeocarl]

The orchestration and back up singers added nothing to this performance. The first 30 seconds were great.

[@MikeBlitzMag]

Backup, to be on the safe side. With those monstrous vocal harmonies, two guitars and a bass, performing such a richly complex arrangement live on that show was not for the faint hearted. But of course Dec, John and Con delivered extraordinarily nonetheless.

[@johnnytoobad7785]

ain't nothing like Louie Armstrong and/or Leon Redbone version of this song !

[@ZJ-ne9kn]

Not heard about enough bachelors were great dont get me wrong i like alot of the more well liked by everybody groups but there are too many singers from this era that are kinda of made fun of but they were still great

[@inezsitu7291]

Anybody know if they ever got married?

[@MikeBlitzMag]

All three of them did. Brothers Dec and Con Cluskey persevered as the Bachelors until Con's tragic passing in April 2022.

[@outtathyme5679]

They’re now The Divorced

[@austincheberenchick9211]

Can you upload the chipmunks

[@RCALivingStereo]

They all missing a tooth on the same side?

[@amazingiggyproductions4711]

Too bad the brothers didn’t want anything to do with the base player and got rid of him . He sued them don’t know the outcome of it .

[@waiata216]

those teeth :)

[@waiata216]

individually they have poor singing voices but in harmonies they sound great

[@aur56765]

Nice teeth