1962: DICK DALE ROCKS THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW

Fifty-one years ago today, Dick Dale played the Ed Sullivan Show. Dale looks pretty damn punk rock, with greased hair and a black T-shirt—every other rock act at the time, most famously the Beatles, wore suits and ties for the Sullivan show—and as soon as the camera hits him, Dale rears back on one foot and shimmies and cuts loose with a devilish little chuckle. For half a minute, he plays "Swingi...

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