Ed Rudy Bio
Ed Rudy started in show business at “The Milkman”on “The Milkman’s Matinee” on 1010 WINS in New York City, then became “Slim the Milkman” on Big Joe’s Happiness Exchange on WMGM and did Club 770 on WABC in the 50’s. Ed later became host of the syndicated “Ed Rudy at the Celebrity Table” live from the Pom Pom Café in New York City. In addition to hearing Ed’s booming voice on radio, fans began to see him on TV hosting the “Video Variations” variety show, “The Decadence Show”, and was the announcer/second banana on the syndicated Steve Wight variety show from Al and Dicks restaurant nightclub in New York City and later from The Bell in New Jersey.
Ed was also a reporter and columnist for Show Business newspaper, New York Voice, Long Island Post, Entertainment World and syndicated by Amusement Features Syndicate, and a record producer, but it was his broadcasting for INS Radio News, Radio Pulsebeat News and UPI Radio that gave him his brush with The Beatles in 1964.

Ed was the only American reporter who traveled on the full first American tour with The Beatles. Ed met Beatles manager Brian Epstein months before The Beatles came to America and agreed to be a part of the early entourage. He met The Beatles at Kennedy Airport on February 7th, 1964, covered them at the Plaza Hotel on Park Avenue, traveled with them down to Washington, DC for their first US concert, reported on their shows at Carnegie Hall, and traveled with them to Miami later that week, even sharing a suite with George Harrison at the Deauville Hotel on Collins Avenue.

Ed sent reports of his Beatles interviews out to a network of 440 radio stations, featuring exclusive audio of Ed chatting backstage, in person and on the phone with The Beatles, Ed Sullivan, Mal Evans, Neil Aspinall and many others. Ed then put together a 48 minute radio documentary of The Beatles American Tour for his group of affiliates, which became so popular, that Ed later released the documentary on two separate albums in 1964, that both made the charts.

These documentary albums are an historical footprint of Beatlemania in America. They’re a fun, upbeat and innocent reflection of the times, catching The Beatles themselves offguard as they were plunged full force into the American mainstream. The Beatles themselves thought so highly of Ed’s coverage of their visits, that they deemed him “The Fifth Beatle” on the albums, recording custom liners on his behalf.

Today, these two Ed Rudy Beatle interview albums have been digitally remastered, speed corrected, and cleaned up for broadcast and are now available for your personal collection. And while they contain NO BEATLES MUSIC, they are part of the digital DNA of The Beatles mark on America and are a must-have for Beatle fans who want to hear the back story on The Beatles American Invasion.

They are available by mail order or Pay Pal. Order both CDs for just $19.95 (plus S&H) and you’ll receive a replica of The Beatles 1964 press pass, autographed by Ed Rudy.