 The promotional films for " Strawberry Fields Forever " and " Penny Lane " were selected by New York 's MoMA as two of the most influential music videos of the late 1960s . Both were originally broadcast in the US on 25 February 1967 , on the variety show The Hollywood Palace , with actor Van Johnson as host . The Ed Sullivan Show and other variety shows soon dropped their time constraints to allow for psychedelic music performances . 
