28th July 1969, Monday

[Graeme]

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[Alan]

Ed Sullivan brought his cameras to tape a special segment with Barbra for his CBS TV show. Sullivan taped his part in front of the live audience. He introduced Barbra; she sang a medley of songs from Hello, Dolly!; then Sullivan came back on stage and congratulated Streisand. Ed Sullivan and the Dolly medley were shown September 28, 1969 on the opening show of his 23rd season. [A clip of Barbra singing “On A Clear Day” was shown on 1970's Entertainer of the Year Awards, too.]

Under the supervision of Sullivan's executive producer Bob Precht, Barbra's entire Vegas show was taped for a possible one-hour television special for the 1970 television season. She performed for the cameras and an invited audience of Las Vegas entertainers at 2:15 a.m. on Monday, July 28th.

Precht told the press that he turned over the tapes to Barbra's manager, Marty Erlichman, who would seek a television deal for the footage.

The potential Streisand television special was shelved and never released.

In 1973, Marty Erlichman offered a possible explanation for the abandoned show: “The reason we didn't do any special for CBS for a long time was because of my running battle with Mike Dann,” Erlichman explained about Dann—who was senior vice president in charge of programming at CBS. “He never believed in Barbra as a talent. His idea for her was to put her in a special with Dick Van Dyke and Andy Griffith ... The last special we did was Central Park and it was right before her film career took off. We had it in the can and Mike Dann scheduled it to air on Sept. 12, 1968. Funny Girl was set to open on Sept. 18, 1968 and I begged him to air the special after the movie opened because it would be a more important event for CBS and Barbra. He wouldn't do it and I swore we wouldn't do anything for CBS until Mike Dann was out.”

No deal was ever done to broadcast the whole show. It has never been shown.
As far as can be known the invited audience of Las Vegas entertainers has one Elvis Presley sitting there but the booth he was in with Priscilla, Joannie and Joe Esposito was out of shot on the ones that showed the audience on camera. The tables were reconfigured to have the extended stage set up and shots of those at the tables can be seen, but not the booths. Well, maybe in the unbroadcast footage thay may have filmed some of the stars.

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Elvis made his way to see Barbra in her dressing room, she was doing her nails and found it difficult to look up at him, before he met up with Priscilla and they made their way to their table.

      

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[Alan]

I said above the booths couldnt be seen in the footage, but at 11:16 there's a camera on the balcony with an angle that does show the booths. Elvis should be in one of them. But which one???