Video: '"Put on a Happy Face" – BYE BYE BIRDIE on Ed Sullivan'

(Thursday, April 14, 1960, 7:45 p.m. EST) — Bye Bye Birdie, a Broadway musical inspired by the phenomenon of popular singer Elvis Presley and his draft notice into the Army in 1957, opened tonight at the Martin Beck Theatre at 302 West 45th Street in midtown Manhattan, New York City.

Video: 'Bye Bye Birdie (Original Broadway Cast Recording)'

With music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams and a book by Michael Stewart, the original Broadway cast included Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera, Paul Lynde, Dick Gautier, Susan Watson, Kay Medford, Charles Nelson Reilly and Michael J. Pollard.