Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Content: the main star and there were seven other acts on the show, Elvis was on camera for more than a quarter of the time allotted to all acts. The show had a 43.7 rating, and was viewed by a record 60 million people which at the time was 82.6 percent of the television audience, and the largest single audience in television history. "In the "New York Times"", however, "Jack Gould began his review indignantly: Elvis Presley had 'injected movements of his tongue and indulged in wordless singing that were singularly distasteful.' Overstimulating the physical impulses of the teenagers was 'a

Title: Sun Studio
Content: dropped in to pay a casual visit accompanied by a girlfriend, Marilyn Evans. He was, at the time, the biggest name in show business, having hit the top of the singles charts five times, and topping the album charts twice in the preceding 12-month period. Less than four months earlier, he had appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show", pulling an unheard-of 83% of the television audience, which was estimated at 55 million, the largest in history up to that time. After chatting with Philips in the control room, Presley listened to the playback of Perkins’ session, which he pronounced to

Title: Elvis Presley
Content: The show, NBC's highest rated that season, captured 42 percent of the total viewing audience. Jon Landau of "Eye" magazine remarked, "There is something magical about watching a man who has lost himself find his way back home. He sang with the kind of power people no longer expect of rock 'n' roll singers. He moved his body with a lack of pretension and effort that must have made Jim Morrison green with envy." Dave Marsh calls the performance one of "emotional grandeur and historical resonance". By January 1969, the single "If I Can Dream", written for the special, reached

Title: The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: Welcome Home Elvis
Content: Welcome Home Party for Elvis Presley", he would receive $125,000, an unheard of sum at the time for a single television appearance. Sinatra was not pleased with Presley's fee, knowing full well this exceeded his compensation for hosting the entire program. He accepted, aware that a Presley appearance would attract huge ratings for the hour, something that his three previous specials had failed to do. Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, also made it very clear that this sum was for only two songs, approximately 6–8 minutes. Parker had hoped that showcasing Presley on Sinatra's show would re-introduce him to an

Title: Colonel Tom Parker
Content: any doubts about his return, they were soon gone when he witnessed the turnout along the route. Frank Sinatra, who had declared Presley and rock and roll a disgrace in the 1950s, was keen to have him appear on his show. Parker, not one to forget harsh criticism, stated that the fee would be $125,000 (US$ in dollars) for two songs, a total of eight minutes on screen; Sinatra himself was receiving a lower sum for the whole show, but he agreed. The show, entitled “Welcome Home, Elvis”, was Presley's first national television appearance since "The Ed Sullivan Show" in

Question: On whose show did Elvis Presley appear when 82% of the TV audience tuned in?
Answer: Ed Sullivan