There once was a fellow named Ed

There once was a fellow named Ed –
The “Toast of the Town*” it was said.
         On his “rilly big shoe**”
         He brought me and you
The “Fab Four” and the invasion they led.

*The newspaper column that Ed Sullivan wrote in New York

**How Ed Sullivan pronounced “really big show”

Fifty years ago, the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and changed American music forever.