 The title image from The Edsel Show The Edsel Show was an hour-long television special broadcast live on CBS in the United States on October 13, 1957, intended to promote Ford Motor Company's new Edsel cars. It was a milestone in Bing Crosby's career, and was notable as the first full-length television program to use the new technology of videotape. For other uses, see CBS (disambiguation). ...
October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ...
1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Ford Motor Company (often referred to as Ford; sometimes nicknamed FoMoCo), NYSE: F is a multinational corporation that manufactures automobiles. ...
1958 Edsel Pacer The Edsel was a make of automobile manufactured by the Ford Motor Company during the 1958, 1959 and 1960 model years. ...
Bottom view of VHS videotape cassette with magnetic tape exposed Videotape is a means of recording television pictures and accompanying sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. ...
The Edsel Show starred Bing Crosby and featured Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong, and Lindsay Crosby and The Four Preps. It replaced the Ed Sullivan Show in CBS's Sunday lineup and was one of the year's most successful programs, although its popularity did not transfer to the Edsel cars. It has been credited as Bing Crosby's real television breakthrough [1], and set the pattern for his many television specials to come; in its wake he signed a lucrative contract with ABC under which he would produce two specials per year. Harry Lillis Bing Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was one of the most popular and influential American singers and actors of the 20th century whose career flourished from 1926 until his death in 1977. ...
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer who is considered by many to have been the finest male popular song vocalist of all time. ...
Rosemary Clooney on the cover of her 2000 collection 16 Biggest Hits Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American popular singer and actress. ...
Louis Daniel Armstrong (usually pronounced Louee in the French pronunciation with a silent s) (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971) (also known by the nicknames Satchmo and Pops) was an American jazz musician. ...
Lindsay Harry Crosby (5 January 1938-11 December 1989) was an American actor and singer. ...
The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television variety show that ran from June 20, 1948, to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by Ed Sullivan. ...
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ...
Videotape The show was also noteworthy for being the first major broadcast to be recorded on videotape for time-delayed broadcast to the western U.S. It was performed at CBS Television City in the afternoon in California and broadcast live in the eastern part of the country. A videotape was made of the performance and was played back three hours later for western audiences. As videotape was a new technology, CBS made a film-based kinescope of the show and played it back alongside the videotape, so that the broadcast could switch to the kinescope if problems were encountered with the tape. Bottom view of VHS videotape cassette with magnetic tape exposed Videotape is a means of recording television pictures and accompanying sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. ...
CBS Television City is a television studio located in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles West Side at 7800 West Beverly Boulevard, at the corner of Beverly and Fairfax Avenue. ...
The term kinescope originally referred to a type of early television picture tube. ...
Videotape was a technology that had interested Crosby for several years, and his company Bing Crosby Enterprises had investigated several technologies, ultimately investing in Ampex, the first company to demonstrate a practical broadcast-quality videotape system when it unveiled the first 2" Quadruplex videotape machine in 1956. Crosby's interest as a performer was to avoid having to make repeated live performances of the same show. Ampex is based in Redwood City, California. ...
2 Quadruplex (also called 2 Quad, or just quad, for short) was the first practical and commercially successful videotape format. ...
1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
See also
Fred Astaire and Barrie Chase on the cover of TV Guide the week of the special An Evening With Fred Astaire was a one-hour television special starring Fred Astaire, broadcast on NBC on October 17, 1958. ...
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