This weekend, Public TV's My Music series launches a revolving feature that includes Rock performances filmed during appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show.  Ed Sullivan's Top Performers on PBS includes songs done on the CBS Sunday night variety program that was one of the few mass media outlets featuring emerging Rock acts in the mid 1960s. Included in the lineup of shows to run Saturday are performances by the Rolling Stones, Doors, the Beatles and Creedence Clearwater Revival. Network censors famously wrangled with some acts over lyrics - forcing the Stones to substitute 'some time' for 'the night' when singing Let's Spend The Night Together and making an unsuccessful bid to prevent Jim Morrison from singing about getting higher when the Doors performed Light My Fire.
A CD compilation containing more than 100 songs performed during the years the Sullivan Show ruled the Sunday night TV roost adds performances by the Beach Boys, Van Morrison, the Who, Janis Joplin, the Byrds, James Brown and many more is also getting released.
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