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Arlington, Oregon
Arlington is a city in Gilliam County, Oregon, United States. The account of how this city received its name varies: one tradition claims it was named after the lawyer Nathan Arlington Cornish; another tradition claims that the Southern inhabitants of this city had enough clout to rename the city after Arlington, Virginia, home of general Robert E. Lee. The population was 524 at the 2000 census.
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Milwaukee
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The Dalles, Oregon
:This page is about the city in Oregon. For the nearby geological formation called The Dalles, see Celilo Falls. For other uses see Dalles.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Andy Richter
Paul Andrew "Andy" Richter (born October 28, 1966) is an American actor, writer, comedian, and late night talk show announcer. He is best known for his role as the sidekick of talk show host Conan O'Brien on NBC's Late Night between 1993 and 2000, and later The Tonight Show from 2009 to 2010, as well as on O'Brien's upcoming talk show, Conan on TBS. He is also known for his voice work in the Madagascar films and for starring in the sitcoms Quintuplets, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, and Andy Barker, P.I..
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Benny Goodman
In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman (May 30, 1909 - June 13, 1986) led one of the most popular musical groups in America. His January 16, 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music."
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Blaire Reinhard Band
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Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis (born August 26, 1960) is an American saxophonist, composer and bandleader. While primarily known for his work in jazz as the leader of the Branford Marsalis Quartet, he also performs frequently as a soloist with classical ensembles and has led the group Buckshot LeFonque.
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Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate, Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!" and "I've Got You Under My Skin". He was noted for his sophisticated, bawdy lyrics, clever rhymes and complex forms. Porter was one of the greatest contributors to the Great American Songbook. Cole Porter is one of the few Tin Pan Alley composers to have written both the lyrics and the music for his songs.
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Conan O'Brien
'''Conan Christopher O'Brien''' (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, comedian, and producer. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts and raised in an Irish Catholic family. O'Brien landed his first comedy job as a writer for the sketch comedy series, Not Necessarily the News, after first serving as president of the Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University. After graduating, he moved to Los Angeles, where he wrote for several comedy shows, and later moved to New York City to work on the writing staff of Saturday Night Live and later for The Simpsons. O'Brien went on to host ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993 to 2009 before going on to host the short-lived The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien'' for seven months.
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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer.
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Doc Severinsen
Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen (born July 7, 1927) is an American pop and jazz trumpeter. He is best known for leading the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
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Ed McMahon
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Edd Hall
Edd Hall (born December 7, 1958; Boston, Massachusetts) is an American celebrity, television personality, and announcer. Most famous for his work on television as Jay Leno's announcer on The Tonight Show from 1992 to 2004, Hall replaced famed Tonight Show announcer Ed McMahon after Johnny Carson's retirement. Hall famously introduced himself by saying "...And me, I'm Edd Hall." In 2004, Hall was replaced on The Tonight Show by John Melendez.
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Enoch Light
Enoch Henry Light (born Canton, 18 August 1905, died Redding 31 July 1978) was a classical violinist, bandleader, and recording engineer. As A&R; chief and vice-president of Grand Award Records, he founded Command Records in 1959. Light's name was prominent on many albums both as musician and producer. In the 1930s Light studied conducting with the French conductor Maurice Frigara in Paris.
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Francy Boland
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Fred de Cordova
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Gene Krupa
Gene Krupa (January 15, 1909 – October 16, 1973) was an influential American jazz and big band drummer and composer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style.
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Gene Rayburn
Gene Rayburn (December 22, 1917 – November 29, 1999) was an American radio and television personality. Born Eugene Rubessa () in Christopher, Illinois, he was an only child of Croatian immigrants and graduated from Lindblom Technical High School and later from Knox College. While a student at Lindblom, he was Senior Class President and acted in the plays, "Robert of Sicily," and, "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch." On the eleventh episode of, "Match Game '75," the host lambasted the director, a college graduate, for botching a word. Rayburn declared that he knew it and was, "not a high school graduate."
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Gottfried Reiche
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Henri Rene
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Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards (20), including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995. His best-known works include the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series ("The Pink Panther Theme"), the Peter Gunn Theme from the television series, and back-to-back Academy Awards for the songs "Moon River" from the Blake Edwards film ''Breakfast at Tiffany's and "Days of Wine and Roses" from the 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses''.
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Hugh Downs
Hugh Malcolm Downs (born February 14, 1921
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Jack Paar
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Jay Leno
James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno (; born April 28, 1950) is an American stand-up comedian and television host.
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John Melendez
John Edward Melendez (born October 4, 1965), commonly known as "Stuttering John," is an American television writer and radio personality. Prior to his work on television as a writer and announcer, Melendez was a regular on-air personality on The Howard Stern Show. He became known for asking impertinent questions of celebrities on the red carpet and at press conferences with his stuttering.
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Johnny Carson
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Kenny Clarke
Kenny Clarke (born Kenneth Spearman Clarke, nicknamed "Klook", and later known as Liaqat Ali Salaam, on January 9, 1914 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-died January 26, 1985 in Montreuil-sous-bois, France) was a jazz drummer and an early innovator of the bebop style of drumming. As the house drummer at Minton's Playhouse in the early 1940s, he participated in the after hours jams that led to the birth of Be-Bop, which in turn led to modern jazz. While in New York, he played with the major innovators of the emerging bop style, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Curly Russell and others, as well as musicians of the prior generation, including Sidney Bechet.
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Kevin Eubanks
Kevin Tyrone Eubanks (born November 15, 1957 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz guitarist and composer who was the leader of the Tonight Show Band with host Jay Leno from 1995 to 2010. He also led The Primetime Band on the short-lived The Jay Leno Show.
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Lena Horne
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Mac Davis
Morris Mac Davis, known as Mac Davis (born January 21, 1942), is a country music singer and songwriter originally from Lubbock, Texas who has enjoyed much pop music crossover success. He became one of the most successful country singers of the 1970s and 1980s. He is also an actor.
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Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is an American composer. He is one of only two people to have been awarded Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and a Tony (known as an EGOT) plus a Pulitzer Prize (the other is Richard Rodgers). Hamlisch has also won two Golden Globes.
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Max Weinberg
Max Weinberg (born April 13, 1951) is an American drummer and television personality, most widely known as the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and as the bandleader for Conan O'Brien on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien''.
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Mel Lewis
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Milt Jackson
Milton "Milt" Jackson (January 1, 1923 - October 9, 1999) was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms. He is especially remembered for his coolly swinging solos as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his penchant for collaborating with several hard bop and post-bop players.
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Milton DeLugg
Milton DeLugg (born December 2, 1918; Los Angeles, California) is an American composer and arranger.
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New York Pops
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Rickey Minor
Rickey Minor is a music director, composer and music producer, now best known as musical director and bandleader for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Minor was born in Louisiana to parents Cole and Goldie Minor and was raised in South Central Los Angeles, CA. Much of his musical training was self-taught.
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Skitch Henderson
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Steve Allen
Stephen Valentine Patrick William "Steve" Allen ( – ) was an American television personality, musician, actor, comedian, and writer. Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best-known for his television career. He first gained national attention as a guest host on ''Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. He graduated to become the first host of The Tonight Show, where he was instrumental in innovating the concept of the television talk show. Thereafter, he hosted numerous game and variety shows, including The Steve Allen Show, I've Got a Secret, The New Steve Allen Show'', and was a regular panel member on CBS' ''What's My Line?''
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Ted Fio Rito
Theodore Salvatore Fiorito (December 20, 1900, Newark, New Jersey - July 22, 1971, Scottsdale, Arizona) used Ted Fio Rito as his professional name. His name is sometimes given as Ted Fiorito or Ted FioRito. With a career spanning decades, he was a composer, orchestra leader and keyboardist (on both the piano and the Hammond organ).
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Thad Jones
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Tommy Newsom
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Severinsen, Doc Filmography
- I Stand Corrected (2012)
- Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007)
- The Johnny Carson Collection, His Favorite Moments from 'The Tonight Show': 1962-1992 (1994)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1993)
- Fatal Instinct (1993)
- Johnny Carson's 29th Anniversary (1991)
- The Ice Capades with Jason Bateman and Alyssa Milano (1989)
- 1989 MLB All-Star Game (1989)
- One for the Road (1989)
- The 15th Annual People's Choice Awards (1989)
- Comic Relief III (1989)
- In Performance at the White House: A Tribute to American Music - Jerome Kern (1987)
- Comic Relief (1986)
- NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration (1986)
- Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 22nd Anniversary (1984)
- The Winds of Whoopie (1983)
- Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 20th Anniversary (1982)
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 19th Anniversary Special (1981)
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 19th Anniversary Special (1981)
- Uptown: A Tribute to the Apollo Theatre (1980)
- Johnny Carson's 18th Anniversary Special (1980)
- Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 17th Anniversary Special (1979)
- The 4th Annual American Music Awards (1977)
- Happy Birthday, Las Vegas (1977)
- Sandy in Disneyland (1974)
- Get Happy (1973)
- Timex All Star Swing Festival (1972)
Doc
Cast
- Derek McGrath
- Tyler Posey
- Andrea C. Robinson
- Ron Lea
- Billy Ray Cyrus
- Richard Leacock
- Paula Boudreau
- Tracy Shreve
- Ruth Marshall
- Demetrius Joyette
- Neil Dainard
- Kathy Maloney
- Kevin Jubinville
- Season 1
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Episode 1: Pilot: Part 1
A cowboy-boot wearing, ranching, country doctor, who makes house calls, is lured to a sprawling metr...
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Episode 2: Pilot: Part 2
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Episode 3: Family Matters
USA:18 March 2001...
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Episode 4: All in a Day's Work
USA:25 March 2001...
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Episode 5: You Gotta Have Heart
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Episode 6: The Ride
USA:8 April 2001...
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Episode 7: Captain Supremo: Have Tights, Will Travel
USA:22 April 2001...
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Episode 8: The Art of Medicine
USA:29 April 2001...
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Episode 9: You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello
USA:6 May 2001...
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Episode 10: Love or Money
USA:13 May 2001...
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Episode 11: Face in the Mirror
USA:20 May 2001...
- Season 2
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Episode 1: Blind Alley
USA:9 September 2001...
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Episode 2: I've Got a Secret
USA:16 September 2001...
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Episode 3: Second Opinion
USA:23 September 2001...
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Episode 4: Home Is Where the Heart Is
USA:30 September 2001...
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Episode 5: Easy Money
USA:7 October 2001...
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Episode 6: Garbage In, Garbage Out
USA:14 October 2001...
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Episode 7: First Impressions
USA:28 October 2001...
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Episode 8: No Time Like the Present
USA:4 November 2001...
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Episode 9: Some Gave All: Part 1
USA:11 November 2001...
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Episode 10: Some Gave All: Part 2
USA:11 November 2001...
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Episode 11: Gypsies, Janitors and Thieves
USA:18 November 2001...
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Episode 12: Tis the Season
USA:16 December 2001...
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Episode 13: All in the Family
USA:6 January 2002...
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Episode 14: Busy Man
USA:20 January 2002...
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Episode 15: My Boyfriend's Back
USA:10 February 2002...
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Episode 16: Fearless
USA:17 February 2002...
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Episode 17: Queen of Denial
USA:24 February 2002...
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Episode 18: Citizen Crane
USA:3 March 2002...
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Episode 19: Love of the Game
USA:24 March 2002...
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Episode 20: Karate Kid
USA:31 March 2002...
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Episode 21: The Commercial
USA:28 April 2002...
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Episode 22: My Secret Identity
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Episode 23: Time Flies
USA:12 May 2002...
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Episode 24: Complicated
USA:19 May 2002...
- Season 3
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Episode 1: Full Disclosure
USA:15 September 2002...
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Episode 2: On Pins and Needles
USA:22 September 2002...
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Episode 3: Stroke of Luck
USA:29 September 2002...
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Episode 4: Sea No Evil
USA:6 October 2002...
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Episode 5: Nobody
USA:13 October 2002...
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Episode 6: Full Moon Rising
USA:20 October 2002...
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Episode 7: The Price of a Miracle
USA:3 November 2002...
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Episode 8: Second Time Around
Denise: I've finally convinced him that all work and no play makes him a rich but a very lonely man....
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Episode 9: The Producers
USA:24 November 2002...
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Episode 10: Man's Best Friend
USA:8 December 2002...
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Episode 11: A Clear and Present Danger
USA:5 January 2003...
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Episode 12: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
USA:12 January 2003...
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Episode 13: Angels in Waiting
USA:2 February 2003...
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Episode 14: Lost and Found
USA:9 February 2003...
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Episode 15: Welcome to New York: Part 1
USA:16 February 2003...
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Episode 16: Welcome to New York: Part 2
USA:23 February 2003...
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Episode 17: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
USA:9 March 2003...
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Episode 18: Safety First
USA:13 April 2003...
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Episode 19: The Checkered Flag
USA:27 April 2003...
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Episode 20: Evaluate This
USA:4 May 2003...
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Episode 21: While You Were Snoring
USA:11 May 2003...
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Episode 22: And Baby Makes Four
USA:18 May 2003...
- Season 4
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Episode 1: Westbury: The Final Conflict
USA:5 October 2003...
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Episode 2: The Way We Were
USA:12 October 2003...
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Episode 3: The Candidate
USA:19 October 2003...
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Episode 4: Pick Your Poison
USA:2 November 2003...
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Episode 5: Rules of Engagement
USA:9 November 2003...
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Episode 6: Men in Tights
USA:16 November 2003...
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Episode 7: Donnys' Millions
USA:23 November 2003...
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Episode 8: Swing Shift
USA:7 December 2003...
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Episode 9: No Pain, No Gain
USA:11 January 2004...
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Episode 10: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
USA:18 January 2004...
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Episode 11: Modelrageous
USA:25 January 2004...
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Episode 12: Arsenic and Old Spice
USA:8 February 2004...
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Episode 13: Leader of the Band
USA:15 February 2004...
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Episode 14: Till Death do Us Part
USA:22 February 2004...
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Episode 15: Searching for Bonnie Fisher
USA:4 April 2004...
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Episode 16: Wedding Bell Blues
USA:11 April 2004...
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Episode 17: Daddy Dearest
USA:18 April 2004...
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Episode 18: Breaking Away
USA:25 April 2004...
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Episode 19: Eminent Domain
USA:2 May 2004...
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Episode 20: The Great Wall
USA:9 May 2004...
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Episode 21: Choices of the Heart
USA:16 May 2004...
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Episode 22: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
USA:23 May 2004...
- Season 5
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Episode 1: Get Me to Church on Time
USA:3 October 2004...
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Episode 2: Wake Up Call
Dr. Crane gets a surprise when his old girlfriend, Dr. Gwen Hall, wants to work at the clinic to hel...
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Episode 3: Blindsided
USA:17 October 2004...
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Episode 4: Lights Camera Medicine
Clint and Westbury take on a new challenge, with the help of Marcia Rodich who wants to teach Africa...
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Episode 5: Nip, Tuck and Die
USA:31 October 2004...
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Episode 6: The Family Tree
USA:7 November 2004...
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Episode 7: The Last Ride
USA:14 November 2004...
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Episode 8: Happy Trails
USA:21 November 2004...
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Episode 9: Till We Meet Again
USA:28 November 2004...
Doc
Joe Bogert was an older, kind-hearted New York City general practitioner who genuinely cared about his patients--whether or not they could afford to pay him. While loving his longtime wife Annie and married daughter Laurie, tossing mean-spirited barbs at his fussy son-in-law Fred and hanging out with pals Happy and Ben, Joe got involved with the lives of his patients the old-fashioned way. Later Joe started seeing patients at the Westside Clinic, dumped his family and began spending more time with the wacky clinic employees.
Cast
- Barnard Hughes
- Elizabeth Wilson
- Mary Wickes
- Lisa Mordente
- Audra Lindley
- John Harkins
- David Ogden Stiers
- Ray Vitte
- Judith Kahan
- Herbie Faye
- Colleen Camp
- Moosie Drier
- Ron Rifkin
- Matthew Labyorteaux
- Rod Colbin
- Larry Haines
- Dick O'Neill
- Richard Masur
- Steve Martin
- Janis Paige
- Phil Leeds
- Irene Tedrow
- Jack Gilford
- Herb Voland
- John Ritter
- Season 1
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Episode 1: Pilot
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Episode 2: Get Me to the Church
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Episode 3: The Other Woman
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Episode 4: Upstairs, Downstairs
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Episode 5: Quartet
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Episode 6: Not My Bag
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Episode 7: Dog vs. Doc
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Episode 8: A Thief for All Seasons
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Episode 9: Fred's Wild Oats
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Episode 10: Heal Thyself
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Episode 11: Benson Hedges
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Episode 12: Operation Goldman
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Episode 13: My Son, the Doctor
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Episode 14: The Rivalry
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Episode 15: Facts of Life
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Episode 16: And Baby Makes Eight
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Episode 17: A Little Bit of Soap
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Episode 18: Great Expectations
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Episode 19: Nurse Annie
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Episode 20: A Quiet Anniversary
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Episode 21: Oldies But Goodies
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Episode 22: The Death of a Turtle
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Episode 23: My Son, the Father
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Episode 24: All Work and No Pay
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- Season 2
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Episode 1: Carry on Nurse, Please
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Episode 2: Come Scrub with Me
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Episode 3: EKG and Vote for Me
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Episode 4: Mama Doc
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Episode 5: The Westside Clinic and Deli
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Episode 6: A Little Night Visitor
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Episode 7: And Stanley Makes Three
Last show of the series....
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Theme For Doc
- Ben
- Help Me Make It Through The Night
- 'Round Midnight
- Without You
- Make It With You
- Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
- Wave
- Love Theme for Laura
- I Can't Get Started
The Holiday Special: Christmas with Friends (feat. Ed McMahon, Tommy Newson, and the 100 Voice St. Mel's Choir)
Released [1997]
Released [1997]
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- White Christmas
- O Holy Night
- 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
- Ring Christmas Bells
- Peace, Peace / Silent Night
- Angels We Have Heard on High
- One Solitary Life
- A Christmas Lullaby
- He Is Born
- I Wonder as I Wander
- Fanfare for Christmas Day
- This Masquerade
- Sometimes When We Touch
- I'll Never Love This Way Again
- Peg
- How Did We Get This Far?
- Concerto For Trumpet
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart
- Goin' Out of My Head
- Guantanamera
- Mas Que Nada
- Summer Wind
- Walk on By
- It's Not Unusual
- So Nice (Summer Samba)
- Un Poco Rio
- Fanfare for the Common Man
- Commemorative Fanfare
- 5 Episodes for Brass - Episode 1
- 5 Episodes for Brass - Episode 2
- 5 Episodes for Brass - Episode 3
- 5 Episodes for Brass - Episode 4
- 5 Episodes for Brass - Episode 5
- Excerpts from 'Mass' - Gloria in Excelsis
- Excerpts from 'Mass' - De Profundus
- Music of America
- Symphony for Brass and Timpani - Dona Nobis Pacem
- Symphony for Brass and Timpani - Elegy
- Symphony for Brass and Timpani - Jubilation
- Virginia Sunday
- Soft Touch
- There Is A Girl
- Shenandoah
- Do It To It
- Chicken Chatter
- Midnight Flite
- Fernando's Fantasy
- Brass on Ivory
- Dreamsville
- Brian's Song
- If
- Willow Weep for Me
- Sometimes
- Poor Butterfly
- Misty
- Never My Love
- We've Only Just Begun
- Soldier in the Rain
- Night Train
- City Lights
- My Funny Valentine
- Take the ''A'' Train
- Siciliano
- Crystal Gardebn
- Maiden Voyage
- Stormin' at the Savoy
- Begin the Beguine
- April in Paris
- Flying Home
- I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
- In the Mood
- Georgia on My Mind
- One O'Clock Jump
- Stardust
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Poor Butterfly
- I Can't Get Started (feat. Tony Bennett)
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- City Lights
- Siciliano
- Take the "A" Train
- Johnny's Theme (The Tonight Show Theme)
- Unforgettable
- Georgi On My Mind
- Love
- Lush Life
- Misty
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera
- The Bad and the Beautiful
- Stardust
- Speak Low
- Wind Beneath My Wings
- Memory from Cats
- Napoli-Canzone, Napolitana con Variazioni
- Largo al factotum from 'The Barber of Seville', Act I
- Trumpet Voluntary in D major
- Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
- The Flight of the Bumblebee
- A Carmen Fantasy for Trumpet and Orchestra
- Medley of Famous Tenor Arias
- La Danza
- Träumerei
- Carnival of Venice
- A Trumpeter's Lullaby
- Chaconne
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Doc Severinsen
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- Duration: 8:22
- Updated: 14 Nov 2012
Doc Severinsen on the Jack Jones Show (THE PALACE PRESENTS) from 1977 playing 'McArthur Park', then 'I Can't Get Started'
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen
Doc Severinsen Trumpet Clinic - Part 1 of 3
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- Duration: 33:10
- Updated: 12 Nov 2012
A clinic by Doc Severinsen on trumpet playing. He goes through his entire warmup routine, actually warming up during the clinic. I believe this clinic was given in the early 1990's. More Doc stuff on my site, including a searchable database of recordings and links to more videos and to the Amazon Doc Severinsen Store: www.dwerden.com This was during the time when Doc was leader of the Tonight Show Band with Johnny Carson. Prior to that, Doc was a first-call trumpet player for studio work in New York City. See part 2 here: www.youtube.com see part 3 here: www.youtube.com
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_Trumpet_Clinic_Part_1_of_3
Doc Severinsen in a rare 1966 performance
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- Duration: 4:48
- Updated: 08 Nov 2012
Watch Doc, the "Tonight Show" great, in his prime at age 39 perform a benefit concert. Rare high quality TV video.
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_in_a_rare_1966_performance
Doc Severinsen and Johnny Carson Talk Thanksgiving Plans on "The Tonight Show" — 1979
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- Duration: 5:49
- Updated: 14 Nov 2012
Doc Severinsen and Johnny Carson talk about their Thanksgiving plans on "The Tonight Show" on 1979.
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_and_Johnny_Carson_Talk_Thanksgiving_Plans_on_The_Tonight_Show_—_1979
Doc Severinsen Sampler
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- Duration: 6:23
- Updated: 28 Oct 2012
Doc playing over the years
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_Sampler
Tommy Newsome & Doc Severinsen - Here's That Rainy Day
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- Duration: 6:24
- Updated: 14 Nov 2012
Tonight Show band stalwarts Doc Severinsen, Tommy Newsome and Ed Shaughnessy play Johnny Carson's favourite song 'Here's That Rainy Day' to close David Letterman's tribute to Carson.
http://wn.com/Tommy_Newsome_Doc_Severinsen_Here's_That_Rainy_Day
Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Band - Watch What Happens
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- Duration: 3:44
- Updated: 14 Nov 2012
Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Band perform the song "Watch What Happens" on Carson's 17th anniversary special in 1979. Pardon the slight desync of the audio/video. The master video of this doesn't have that defect. 10/23/08 - Thanks for 30000 views. You guys are the greatest. 3/31/09 - Now over 45000 views. This is definitely my most popular video. 8/25/2009 - 60000 views. 10/20/2010 - Now 100000 views.
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_and_the_Tonight_Show_Band_Watch_What_Happens
Doc Severinsen
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- Duration: 7:30
- Updated: 09 Nov 2012
Doc Severinsen performs The September Song with The United States Army Blues Jazz Ensemble at the 2012 National Trumpet Competition at George Mason University
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen
Doc Severinsen and the Airmen of Note
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- Duration: 15:18
- Updated: 11 Nov 2012
From a performance during the Airmen of Note's Spring 2011 Tour at the campus of University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Doc Severisen a long time friend and supporter of the Airmen of Note was in town, and was invited to sit in with the Note. He's still swinging at 83 years old!
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_and_the_Airmen_of_Note
Doc Severinsen - A Song For You
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- Duration: 3:49
- Updated: 14 Nov 2012
One of the definitive recordings by Doc. It shows various sides of his playing and showcases his broad command of the instrument, all in service of a really nice interpretation of this song. From the album "Rhapsody For Now"
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_A_Song_For_You
Doc Severinsen - "Carnival of Venice"
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- Duration: 3:54
- Updated: 11 Nov 2012
Because of his stated admiration for Harry James famously joined in jazz, but the roots remains.
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_Carnival_of_Venice
Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Band - MacArthur Park
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:14
- Updated: 02 Nov 2012
This was once uploaded from someone and soon disappeared from YouTube. I brought it back for the fans and viewers to see all over gain. This was 1980 off The Monte Carlo Show when this clip was made. No copyright infringement intended.
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_and_the_Tonight_Show_Band_MacArthur_Park
Doc Severinsen plays a Tribute to Harry James Aug 2, 1988
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- Duration: 5:17
- Updated: 07 Nov 2012
I was in attendance at this concert in 1988. It was 105 degrees at concert time at Riverbend outdoor amphitheater in Cincinnati, Ohio. Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops presented "Big Band Hit Parade". The soloists included Buddy Morrow, Dave Brubeck, Eddie Daniels, Gerry Mulligan, Ray Brown, Ed Shaughnessy, Cab Calloway, and Doc Severinsen. Doc played a beautiful, heartfelt tribute to his all-time hero Harry James by playing "You Made Me Love You". Doc hits the final double-high A "flat" but lips it in tune and recieved an great ovation.
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_plays_a_Tribute_to_Harry_James_Aug_2,_1988
Doc Severinsen - "Tonight" - from Steve Allen Show
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- Duration: 2:37
- Updated: 06 Nov 2012
From a live broadcast in 1983 of Steve Allen's Music Room, this is a trumpet solo feature for Doc Severinsen, titled "Tonight." Apparently it was one of Steve's favorites from previous engagements with Steve and Doc. Very smooth and pretty playing by Doc.
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_Tonight_from_Steve_Allen_Show
Doc Severinsen and an "All Star" trumpet quartet from the 50's Tonight Show
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- Duration: 5:22
- Updated: 14 Nov 2012
Doc Severinsen, Bobby Hackett, Charlie Shavers and.....Steve Allen? From a retro look on an installment of Steve Allen's Music Room. Steve Allen was himself an accomplished musician and songwriter and a great advocate in the public eye for good music of various genres..
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_and_an_All_Star_trumpet_quartet_from_the_50's_Tonight_Show
Doc Severinsen - I Wanna Be With You
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- Duration: 4:02
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Funk/Soul music by Doc Severinsen & Orchestra Severinsen was born in Arlington, Oregon, the son of Minnie Mae and Carl Severinsen, who was a dentist.[1] He was nicknamed "Little Doc" after his father, and had originally wanted to play the trombone. But the senior Severinsen, a gifted amateur violinist, urged him to study the violin. The younger Severinsen insisted on the trombone, but had to settle for the only horn available in Arlington's small music store — a trumpet. A week later, with the help of his father and a manual of instructions, the seven-year-old was so good that he was invited to join the high school band. At the age of twelve, Little Doc won the Music Educator's National Contest and, while still in high school, was hired to go on the road with the Ted Fio Rito Orchestra. However, his stay with the group was cut short by the draft. He served in the Army during World War II.
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_I_Wanna_Be_With_You
"In The Mood" Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Band
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- Duration: 3:38
- Updated: 14 Nov 2012
Doc Severinsen's version of "In The Mood" from the album "The Very Best of Doc Severinsen
http://wn.com/In_The_Mood_Doc_Severinsen_and_the_Tonight_Show_Band
Doc Severinsen - Capriccio di Niccolo (Improved Video)
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- Duration: 14:49
- Updated: 10 Nov 2012
I uploaded this same performance earlier, but it was a low-quality video. This new one (of the same performance) is MUCH better. This is quite a different piece for Doc Severinsen. This was the premier of Capriccio di Niccolo for Trumpet and Orchestra by Frank Proto, performed at Boston Pops 1995 opening concert (May 10, 1995), Keith Lockhart conducting. It is theme and variations on Paganini's Caprice 24, and has a beautiful middle ballad section. The music is available from Liben Music: www.liben.com
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_Capriccio_di_Niccolo_Improved_Video
Doc Severinsen performs "El Farol" with Gil Gutiérrez & Pedro Cartas
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- Duration: 8:29
- Updated: 19 Oct 2012
If you're wondering what Doc Severinsen (82 as of this concert) is up to these days, if he's really "retired," if he still plays his trumpet, what he sounds like, if he continues to record, and if he still tours, then watch this slideshow as Doc Severinsen, Gil Gutiérrez (guitar), Charlie Bisharat (violin), Jimmy Branly (percussion) and Kevin Thomas (bass) perform "El Farol" from the Gil & Cartas "El Ritmo De La Vida" CD. Doc plays a Destino III trumpet, which is manufactured by world-renowned SE Shires Co. He still tours, but performs regularly in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with Gil Gutiérrez and Pedro Cartas (who did not perform at this live concert). These photos were taken by me on June 11, 2010 during his concert at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, CA, as part of the "Music in the Mountains" festival.
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_performs_El_Farol_with_Gil_Gutiérrez_Pedro_Cartas
Doc Severinsen - Celebration Suite
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- Duration: 4:32
- Updated: 01 Oct 2012
From a 1977 New Years Eve show with Gladys Knight. If anyone has the rest of this show please let me know.
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_Celebration_Suite
Stiletto Brass Quintet with Doc Severinsen
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- Duration: 3:33
- Updated: 03 Nov 2012
The Stiletto Brass Quintet plays a scheduled event for The Great American Brass Band Festival on June 8, 2012, at the Beaumont Inn located in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, USA. Special guest Doc Severinsen joins the group. This brass band festival is held annually, and is based in Danville, Kentucky.
http://wn.com/Stiletto_Brass_Quintet_with_Doc_Severinsen
Doc Severinsen with orchestra 1965
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- Duration: 6:16
- Updated: 26 Oct 2012
Famed trumpeter Doc Severinsen serves up a heapin' helpin' of musical talent as he performs with a big band during the 1965 WHAS Crusade for Children telethon in Louisville, Kentucky.
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_with_orchestra_1965
Gerry Mulligan, Cab Calloway, Doc Severinsen, Dave Brubeck "When the Saints Go Marching In" 1988
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- Duration: 13:04
- Updated: 28 Apr 2012
Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops presented "Big Band Hit Parade" at Riverbend on Aug 2, 1988. The soloists included Buddy Morrow, Dave Brubeck, Eddie Daniels, Gerry Mulligan, Ray Brown, Ed Shaughnessy, Cab Calloway, and Doc Severinsen. This video features all the soloists on "When the Saints Go Marching In". Please keep in mind this is an outdoor concert in 100 degree heat!
http://wn.com/Gerry_Mulligan,_Cab_Calloway,_Doc_Severinsen,_Dave_Brubeck_When_the_Saints_Go_Marching_In_1988
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Doc Severinsen - "Tonight" - from Steve Allen Show
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:37
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
From a live broadcast in 1983 of Steve Allen's Music Room, this is a trumpet solo feature for Doc Severinsen, titled "Tonight." Apparently it was one of Steve's favorites from previous engagements with Steve and Doc. Very smooth and pretty playing by Doc.
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_Tonight_from_Steve_Allen_Show
They Might Be Giants: Birdhouse In Your Soul (Live 4/3/1990)
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- Duration: 5:08
- Updated: 17 Oct 2012
Posted for the 20th Anniversary of TMBG's legendary performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" with Doc Severinsen and his band. (Full version of this clip with interview and stereo sound)
http://wn.com/They_Might_Be_Giants_Birdhouse_In_Your_Soul_Live_4_3_1990
Doc Severinsen
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:22
- Updated: 18 Oct 2012
Doc Severinsen on the Jack Jones Show (THE PALACE PRESENTS) from 1977 playing 'McArthur Park', then 'I Can't Get Started'
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen
Doc Severinsen
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- Duration: 2:30
- Updated: 25 Apr 2012
A contemplation of Doc Severinsen. Two mins off all you need of Doc!
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen
Doc Severinsen and the Airmen of Note
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 15:18
- Updated: 03 Oct 2012
From a performance during the Airmen of Note's Spring 2011 Tour at the campus of University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Doc Severisen a long time friend and supporter of the Airmen of Note was in town, and was invited to sit in with the Note. He's still swinging at 83 years old!
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_and_the_Airmen_of_Note
George Duke & Doc Severinsen - The Comic Relief Band (Live)
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- Duration: 4:40
- Updated: 13 Oct 2012
George Duke & Doc Severinsen perform together with the Comic Relief Band III. From myprivate collection. Enjoy... (circa: 1989) All TV promos, news clips, airchecks, music related performances etc. remain the sole property of their respective copyright holders. No video clips are for sale, nor do they imply challenge to ownerships. They are intended strictly for entertainment, educational, and historical purposes, and fall under the "Fair Use" guideline.
http://wn.com/George_Duke_Doc_Severinsen_The_Comic_Relief_Band_Live
GIL & CARTAS & DOC SEVERINSEN - SWEET GEORGIA BROWN - "LIVE"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:39
- Updated: 29 Aug 2012
In Feb. this year I got to see these fine gentlemen play, at a restaurant called "Bella Italia" in San Miguel De Allende in Mexico. This tune shook me. The crowd weren't as loud as they sound (it's the incredible little mic in my Sony!) What a wonderful night. Doc was right on & every member of the band was hot, hot, hot! The music speaks for itself. Gil Gutierrez - guitar Pedro Cartas - violin Doc Severinsen - trumpet Gilberto (Beto) Gonzalez - bass Miguel Favero - percussion For more information go to - www.gilandcartas.com http
http://wn.com/GIL_CARTAS_DOC_SEVERINSEN_SWEET_GEORGIA_BROWN_LIVE
El Bimbo - The Ventures live at Doc Severinsen's Oklahoma 31-Mar-1984
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- Duration: 3:04
- Updated: 24 Mar 2012
http://wn.com/El_Bimbo_The_Ventures_live_at_Doc_Severinsen's_Oklahoma_31-Mar-1984
Gerry Mulligan, Cab Calloway, Doc Severinsen, Dave Brubeck "When the Saints Go Marching In" 1988
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 13:04
- Updated: 28 Apr 2012
Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops presented "Big Band Hit Parade" at Riverbend on Aug 2, 1988. The soloists included Buddy Morrow, Dave Brubeck, Eddie Daniels, Gerry Mulligan, Ray Brown, Ed Shaughnessy, Cab Calloway, and Doc Severinsen. This video features all the soloists on "When the Saints Go Marching In". Please keep in mind this is an outdoor concert in 100 degree heat!
http://wn.com/Gerry_Mulligan,_Cab_Calloway,_Doc_Severinsen,_Dave_Brubeck_When_the_Saints_Go_Marching_In_1988
Doc Severinsen performs "El Farol" with Gil Gutiérrez & Pedro Cartas
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:29
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
If you're wondering what Doc Severinsen (82 as of this concert) is up to these days, if he's really "retired," if he still plays his trumpet, what he sounds like, if he continues to record, and if he still tours, then watch this slideshow as Doc Severinsen, Gil Gutiérrez (guitar), Charlie Bisharat (violin), Jimmy Branly (percussion) and Kevin Thomas (bass) perform "El Farol" from the Gil & Cartas "El Ritmo De La Vida" CD. Doc plays a Destino III trumpet, which is manufactured by world-renowned SE Shires Co. He still tours, but performs regularly in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with Gil Gutiérrez and Pedro Cartas (who did not perform at this live concert). These photos were taken by me on June 11, 2010 during his concert at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, CA, as part of the "Music in the Mountains" festival.
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_performs_El_Farol_with_Gil_Gutiérrez_Pedro_Cartas
Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Band - MacArthur Park
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:14
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
This was once uploaded from someone and soon disappeared from YouTube. I brought it back for the fans and viewers to see all over gain. This was 1980 off The Monte Carlo Show when this clip was made. No copyright infringement intended.
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_and_the_Tonight_Show_Band_MacArthur_Park
Eastmoor Concert with Doc Severinsen/March 7, 1971/1970 Medley
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- Duration: 8:55
- Updated: 27 Apr 2012
The Eastmoor High School concert with Doc Severinsen at the Ohio Theater on March 7, 1971. Doc gives some high praise for the Eastmoor students at the start, then plays a medley of 1970 songs that he played on News Years Eve.
http://wn.com/Eastmoor_Concert_with_Doc_Severinsen_March_7,_1971_1970_Medley
Doc Severinsen NBC Chimes Festival Theme
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- Duration: 5:24
- Updated: 11 Sep 2012
From the album "Live From Beautiful Downtown Burbank" . Tommy Newsom and The Nbc Orchestra Featuring Guest Artist Doc Severinsen
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_NBC_Chimes_Festival_Theme
Doc Severinsen - Hermann Concerto for Trumpet
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- Duration: 8:08
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
This unpublished piece was commissioned for Doc Severinsen, who performs it here with the Sapulpa, Oklahoma high school band. Doc actually was involved in the commission of many original works for trumpet and band. He did many guest artist concerts such as this, and performed with my high school band, which was an outstanding experience. This performance was around 1970 and is from a live concert. The recording was never released commercially. This is from a series of educational recordings from Silver Crest. More Doc stuff on my site, including a searchable database of recordings and links more videos and the Amazon Doc Severinsen Store: www.dwerden.com
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_Hermann_Concerto_for_Trumpet
Henry Mancini and Doc Severinsen - I Can't Get Started
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- Duration: 3:30
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
From 1972 or 1973's Brass, Ivory and strings
http://wn.com/Henry_Mancini_and_Doc_Severinsen_I_Can't_Get_Started
Malaguana Live in Edmonton Canada
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- Duration: 10:45
- Updated: 03 Oct 2012
From a concert featuring Doc Severinsen in Edmonton (Canada)
http://wn.com/Malaguana_Live_in_Edmonton_Canada
"Georgia" arr. for "Doc Severinsen" ; Trumpet Soloist: Tom Wade
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- Duration: 3:37
- Updated: 08 Oct 2011
Trumpet version of the old classic " Georgia " May 10, 2010 performed live @ Vonn's Jazz Resturant - Columbus, Ohio via Tony Lewis Big Band - Tom Wade trumpet solo.
http://wn.com/Georgia_arr_for_Doc_Severinsen_;_Trumpet_Soloist_Tom_Wade
Doc Severinsen - Rondo for Trumpet by Claude T. Smith
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- Duration: 7:07
- Updated: 15 Aug 2012
This piece was commissioned for Doc Severinsen, who performs it here with the Plymouth, Michigan high school band. Interestingly, the cadenza has an optional double-high C, which Doc chose not to try. Then at the end he explains to the audience that his cold medication has dried him out, but he wants to take another try at the Coda so he can go for the double C. More Doc stuff on my site, including a searchable database of recordings and links more videos and the Amazon Doc Severinsen Store: www.dwerden.com Doc actually was involved in the commission of many original works for trumpet and band. He did many guest artist concerts such as this, and performed with my high school band, which was an outstanding experience. This performance was from the middle 1970's and is from a live concert. The recording was never released commercially. This is from a series of educational recordings from Silver Crest.
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_Rondo_for_Trumpet_by_Claude_T_Smith
Doc Severinsen - Begin the Beguine.wmv
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- Duration: 3:54
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Doc Severinsen - Begin the Beguine, with the Tonight Show Band
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_Begin_the_Beguinewmv
Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Band - I Can't Get Started
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- Duration: 3:30
- Updated: 29 Apr 2012
Beautiful touch coming from Doc and his orchestra. He does a good job doing a little singing as well. No copyright infringement intended.
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_and_the_Tonight_Show_Band_I_Can't_Get_Started
Ali Bello violin - Doc Severinsen and El Ritmo de la Vida - "Black Bird"
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- Duration: 9:33
- Updated: 03 Jan 2011
Doc Severinsen & El Ritmo de la Vida Live in San Miguel de Allende - México 2010 Doc Severinsen - trumpet Gil Gutiérrez - guitar Alí Bello - violin Eugenio Toussaint - piano Kevin Thoma - bass Jimmy Branly - percussion
http://wn.com/Ali_Bello_violin_Doc_Severinsen_and_El_Ritmo_de_la_Vida_Black_Bird
Doc Severinsen and Robert Romanski
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- Duration: 9:55
- Updated: 03 Apr 2012
Full Symphony Pops Orchestra with Doc Severinsen and Robert Romanski, Music Director/Conductor - other excerpts and an appearance by Senior President George Bush promusic@tampabay.rr.com
http://wn.com/Doc_Severinsen_and_Robert_Romanski
Doc Live
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- Duration: 5:57
- Updated: 02 Oct 2012
CJO's "40 Years with Jazz Arts Group" featuring Doc Severinsen
http://wn.com/Doc_Live
2:37
Doc Severinsen - "Tonight" - from Steve Allen Show
From a live broadcast in 1983 of Steve Allen's Music Room, this is a trumpet solo feat...
published: 16 Oct 2011
author: David Werden
Doc Severinsen - "Tonight" - from Steve Allen Show
From a live broadcast in 1983 of Steve Allen's Music Room, this is a trumpet solo feature for Doc Severinsen, titled "Tonight." Apparently it was one of Steve's favorites from previous engagements with Steve and Doc. Very smooth and pretty playing by Doc.
published: 16 Oct 2011
author: David Werden
5:08
They Might Be Giants: Birdhouse In Your Soul (Live 4/3/1990)
Posted for the 20th Anniversary of TMBG's legendary performance of "Birdhouse In ...
published: 04 Apr 2010
author: jollyollyorange
They Might Be Giants: Birdhouse In Your Soul (Live 4/3/1990)
Posted for the 20th Anniversary of TMBG's legendary performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" with Doc Severinsen and his band. (Full version of this clip with interview and stereo sound)
published: 04 Apr 2010
author: jollyollyorange
8:22
Doc Severinsen
Doc Severinsen on the Jack Jones Show (THE PALACE PRESENTS) from 1977 playing 'McArthu...
published: 10 Jan 2008
author: mikebuddy1
Doc Severinsen
Doc Severinsen on the Jack Jones Show (THE PALACE PRESENTS) from 1977 playing 'McArthur Park', then 'I Can't Get Started'
published: 10 Jan 2008
author: mikebuddy1
2:30
Doc Severinsen
A contemplation of Doc Severinsen. Two mins off all you need of Doc!...
published: 06 Oct 2010
author: 702applejacks
Doc Severinsen
A contemplation of Doc Severinsen. Two mins off all you need of Doc!
published: 06 Oct 2010
author: 702applejacks
15:18
Doc Severinsen and the Airmen of Note
From a performance during the Airmen of Note's Spring 2011 Tour at the campus of Unive...
published: 26 Mar 2011
author: jazzybugler
Doc Severinsen and the Airmen of Note
From a performance during the Airmen of Note's Spring 2011 Tour at the campus of University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Doc Severisen a long time friend and supporter of the Airmen of Note was in town, and was invited to sit in with the Note. He's still swinging at 83 years old!
published: 26 Mar 2011
author: jazzybugler
4:40
George Duke & Doc Severinsen - The Comic Relief Band (Live)
George Duke & Doc Severinsen perform together with the Comic Relief Band III. From myp...
published: 19 Apr 2008
author: boricuajazzz8
George Duke & Doc Severinsen - The Comic Relief Band (Live)
George Duke & Doc Severinsen perform together with the Comic Relief Band III. From myprivate collection. Enjoy... (circa: 1989) All TV promos, news clips, airchecks, music related performances etc. remain the sole property of their respective copyright holders. No video clips are for sale, nor do they imply challenge to ownerships. They are intended strictly for entertainment, educational, and historical purposes, and fall under the "Fair Use" guideline.
published: 19 Apr 2008
author: boricuajazzz8
6:39
GIL & CARTAS & DOC SEVERINSEN - SWEET GEORGIA BROWN - "LIVE"
In Feb. this year I got to see these fine gentlemen play, at a restaurant called "Bel...
published: 11 Jun 2009
author: Nothin66
GIL & CARTAS & DOC SEVERINSEN - SWEET GEORGIA BROWN - "LIVE"
In Feb. this year I got to see these fine gentlemen play, at a restaurant called "Bella Italia" in San Miguel De Allende in Mexico. This tune shook me. The crowd weren't as loud as they sound (it's the incredible little mic in my Sony!) What a wonderful night. Doc was right on & every member of the band was hot, hot, hot! The music speaks for itself. Gil Gutierrez - guitar Pedro Cartas - violin Doc Severinsen - trumpet Gilberto (Beto) Gonzalez - bass Miguel Favero - percussion For more information go to - www.gilandcartas.com http
published: 11 Jun 2009
author: Nothin66
13:04
Gerry Mulligan, Cab Calloway, Doc Severinsen, Dave Brubeck "When the Saints Go Marching In" 1988
Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops presented "Big Band Hit Parade" at Riverben...
published: 23 Jun 2011
author: Chuck Par-Due
Gerry Mulligan, Cab Calloway, Doc Severinsen, Dave Brubeck "When the Saints Go Marching In" 1988
Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops presented "Big Band Hit Parade" at Riverbend on Aug 2, 1988. The soloists included Buddy Morrow, Dave Brubeck, Eddie Daniels, Gerry Mulligan, Ray Brown, Ed Shaughnessy, Cab Calloway, and Doc Severinsen. This video features all the soloists on "When the Saints Go Marching In". Please keep in mind this is an outdoor concert in 100 degree heat!
published: 23 Jun 2011
author: Chuck Par-Due
8:29
Doc Severinsen performs "El Farol" with Gil Gutiérrez & Pedro Cartas
If you're wondering what Doc Severinsen (82 as of this concert) is up to these days, i...
published: 16 Jun 2010
author: Full4God
Doc Severinsen performs "El Farol" with Gil Gutiérrez & Pedro Cartas
If you're wondering what Doc Severinsen (82 as of this concert) is up to these days, if he's really "retired," if he still plays his trumpet, what he sounds like, if he continues to record, and if he still tours, then watch this slideshow as Doc Severinsen, Gil Gutiérrez (guitar), Charlie Bisharat (violin), Jimmy Branly (percussion) and Kevin Thomas (bass) perform "El Farol" from the Gil & Cartas "El Ritmo De La Vida" CD. Doc plays a Destino III trumpet, which is manufactured by world-renowned SE Shires Co. He still tours, but performs regularly in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with Gil Gutiérrez and Pedro Cartas (who did not perform at this live concert). These photos were taken by me on June 11, 2010 during his concert at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, CA, as part of the "Music in the Mountains" festival.
published: 16 Jun 2010
author: Full4God
4:14
Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Band - MacArthur Park
This was once uploaded from someone and soon disappeared from YouTube. I brought it back f...
published: 29 May 2011
author: imthebrother
Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Band - MacArthur Park
This was once uploaded from someone and soon disappeared from YouTube. I brought it back for the fans and viewers to see all over gain. This was 1980 off The Monte Carlo Show when this clip was made. No copyright infringement intended.
published: 29 May 2011
author: imthebrother
8:55
Eastmoor Concert with Doc Severinsen/March 7, 1971/1970 Medley
The Eastmoor High School concert with Doc Severinsen at the Ohio Theater on March 7, 1971....
published: 13 Feb 2012
author: MCASE1
Eastmoor Concert with Doc Severinsen/March 7, 1971/1970 Medley
The Eastmoor High School concert with Doc Severinsen at the Ohio Theater on March 7, 1971. Doc gives some high praise for the Eastmoor students at the start, then plays a medley of 1970 songs that he played on News Years Eve.
published: 13 Feb 2012
author: MCASE1
5:24
Doc Severinsen NBC Chimes Festival Theme
From the album "Live From Beautiful Downtown Burbank" . Tommy Newsom and The Nbc...
published: 15 Sep 2011
author: miketemple7
Doc Severinsen NBC Chimes Festival Theme
From the album "Live From Beautiful Downtown Burbank" . Tommy Newsom and The Nbc Orchestra Featuring Guest Artist Doc Severinsen
published: 15 Sep 2011
author: miketemple7
8:08
Doc Severinsen - Hermann Concerto for Trumpet
This unpublished piece was commissioned for Doc Severinsen, who performs it here with the ...
published: 03 Aug 2011
author: David Werden
Doc Severinsen - Hermann Concerto for Trumpet
This unpublished piece was commissioned for Doc Severinsen, who performs it here with the Sapulpa, Oklahoma high school band. Doc actually was involved in the commission of many original works for trumpet and band. He did many guest artist concerts such as this, and performed with my high school band, which was an outstanding experience. This performance was around 1970 and is from a live concert. The recording was never released commercially. This is from a series of educational recordings from Silver Crest. More Doc stuff on my site, including a searchable database of recordings and links more videos and the Amazon Doc Severinsen Store: www.dwerden.com
published: 03 Aug 2011
author: David Werden
Vimeo results:
8:28
Doc Severinsen: "El Farol" with Gil Gutiérrez and Pedro Cartas
If you're wondering what Doc Severinsen (82, as of this concert) is up to these days, if h...
published: 21 Jun 2012
author: Musical Instrument Museum
Doc Severinsen: "El Farol" with Gil Gutiérrez and Pedro Cartas
If you're wondering what Doc Severinsen (82, as of this concert) is up to these days, if he's really "retired," if he still plays his trumpet, what he sounds like, if he continues to record, and if he still tours, then watch this slideshow as Severinsen, Gil Gutiérrez (guitar), Charlie Bisharat (violin), Jimmy Branly (percussion), and Kevin Thomas (bass) perform "El Farol" from "El Ritmo de la Vida" CD. Severinsen plays a Destino III trumpet, which is manufactured by world-renowned S. E. Shires Co. He still tours but also performs regularly in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with Gil Gutiérrez and Pedro Cartas (violinist who did not perform at this live concert). These photos were taken on June 11, 2010, during his concert at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, CA, as part of the Music in the Mountains Festival.
8:23
Doc Severinsen: "MacArthur Park" and "I Can't Get Started"
Doc Severinsen plays "MacArthur Park" and "I Can't Get Started" on the Jack Jones Show in ...
published: 30 May 2012
author: Musical Instrument Museum
Doc Severinsen: "MacArthur Park" and "I Can't Get Started"
Doc Severinsen plays "MacArthur Park" and "I Can't Get Started" on the Jack Jones Show in 1977.
5:50
Festival de los Milagros
Short documentary promo for San Miguel de Allende to host a music festival in it’s disused...
published: 03 Dec 2009
author: bloodredcolt
Festival de los Milagros
Short documentary promo for San Miguel de Allende to host a music festival in it’s disused bullring. The film features Doc Severinsen, Gil and Cartas, Benny Ibarra and Pila Seca.
15:00
The Norman Luboff Choir Album #4 In Beautiful 1080p HD!
Album Song Lyrics:
1) LAMP IS LOW, THE
(Music: Bert Shefter & Peter De Rose / Music: Mitc...
published: 02 Feb 2012
author: Dr. Howdy
The Norman Luboff Choir Album #4 In Beautiful 1080p HD!
Album Song Lyrics:
1) LAMP IS LOW, THE
(Music: Bert Shefter & Peter De Rose / Music: Mitchell Parish -
melody based on Maurice Revel's "Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte"
Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. (vocal: Jack Leonard) - 1939
Mildred Bailey & Her Orch. - 1939
Larry Clinton & His Orch. - 1939
Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb's Orch. - 1939
Harry James & His. Orch (vocal: Frank Sinatra) - 1939
Kay Kyser & His Orch. (vocal: Ginny Simms) - 1939
Jack Teagarden & His Orch. - 1939
Glenn Miller & His Orch. - 1939
Artie Shaw & His Orch. - 1939
Donna Brooks - 1956
Johnny Hartman - 1956
Kate McGarry - 1957
Ray Conniff, His Orch. & Chorus - 1958
Doris Day - 1959
The Hi-Lo's - 1960
Robert Goulet - 1961
George Shearing & The Montgomery Brothers - 1961
Gloria Lynne - 1962
Bill Henderson with the Oscar Peterson Trio - 1963
Benny Goodman & His Orch. - 1964
Patti Page - 1964
The Tymes - 1964
Jack Jones - 1965
Marilyn Maye - 1965
Ella Fitzgerald with Benny Carter & His Music - 1968
Sarah Vaughan - 1969
Wesla Whitfield - 1987
Carmen McRae with the Shirley Horn Trio - 1990
Eileen Farrell - 1993
Dena DeRose - 2002
George Evans - 2002
Also recorded by:
Dorothy Lamour; Nelson Eddy; Della Reese; Dianne Reeves;
Chet Baker; Bobby Hackett; Carmen Lundy; Buddy DeFranco;
Norman Luboff Choir; Oscar Peterson Trio; Wes Montgomery;
Bud Shank; The Three Sounds: Robin McKelle; Shirley Scott;
Maynard Ferguson:............and many others.
Another perfect day has come to a close
Twelve o'clock, all is well
And while a sleepy world is lost in repose
Let my heart softly tell you
Dream beside me in the midnight glow
The lamp is low
Dream, and watch the shadows come and go
The lamp is low
While you linger in my arms
My lips will sigh, "I love you so"
Dream the sweetest dream we'll ever know
Tonight the moon is high, the lamp is low
Dream the sweetest dream we'll ever know
Tonight the moon is high, the lamp is low!
2) SLEEPY LAGOON
(Eric Coates / Jack Lawrence)
Harry James & His Musicmakers (Instr.) - 1942
Dinah Shore - 1942
Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. (vocal: Bob Eberly) - 1942
Hal McIntyre & His Orch. - 1942
Glenn Miller & His Orch. - 1942
Teddy Powell & His Orch. (vocal: Peggy Mann) - 1942
Al Hirt (Instr.) - 1962
Also recorded by: Doris Day; Nellie Lutcher; Alfred Apaka;
Bert Kaempfert; Frank Chacksfield; Ted Heath; Ray Anthony;
George Auld; Stan Kenton; Dorothy Kirsten; Richard Tauber;
Vaughn Monroe; The Platters; Tony Martin; Doc Severinsen;
Lawrence Welk; John Williams: .......... and many others.
A sleepy lagoon, a tropical moon
And two on an island
A sleepy lagoon, and two hearts in tune
In some lullaby land
The fire flies gleam reflects in the stream,
They sparkle and shimmer
A star from on high falls out of the sky
And slowly grows dimmer.
The leaves in the trees all dance in the breeze
And float in the ripple
We're deep in the spell as nightingales tell
Of roses and dew
The memory of this moment of love
Will haunt me forever
A tropical moon, a sleepy lagoon
And you!
3) MOULIN ROUGE THEME , THE (Where Is Your Heart?)
Georges Auric (m) Jacques Larue (Fr l) Bill Engvick (Eng l)
as rec by Jean Sablon 1953
also rec by-
Eduardo Almani & his Orch '53
Ron Goodwin & his Orch '53
Mantovani & his Orch '53
Henri Rene & his Orch '53
Felicia Saunders w Percy Faith & his Orch '53
Connie Francis
Mireille Mathieu (in Fr)
Cliff Richard
Whenever we kiss
I worry and wonder,
Your lips may be near,
But where is your heart?
It's always like this,
I worry and wonder,
You're close to me here,
But where is your heart?
It's a sad thing to realise
That you've a heart that never melts!
When we kiss, do you close your eyes,
Pretending that I'm someone else?
You must break the spell,
This cloud that I'm under!
So please, won't you tell?
Darling, where is your heart?
It's a sad thing to realise
That you've a heart that never melts!
When we kiss, do you close your eyes,
Pretending that I'm someone else?
You must break the spell,
This cloud that I'm under!
So please, won't you tell?
Darling, where is your heart?
4) STELLA BY STARLIGHT
Film : The Uninvited - 1944
Album : Sinatra Rarities
(Lyrics : Ned Washington / Music : Victor Young)
Frank Sinatra
Victor Young
The song a robin sings
Through years of endless springs
The murmur of a brook at eventide
That ripples by a nook where two lovers hide
A great symphonic theme
That's Stella by starlight
And not a dream
My heart and I agree
She's everything on earth to me
(instrumental)
A great symphonic theme
That's Stella by starlight
And not a dream
My heart and I agree
She's everything on earth to me!
5)
UNCHAINED MELODY
(Hy Zaret / Alex North)
The Righteous Brothers - 1965
Heart - 1980
Also recorded by: Les Baxter; Harry Belafonte; Les Brown; Cab Calloway;
Captain & Tennille; Johnny Cash; Perry Como; Ray Conniff; Sam Cooke;
Bing Crosby; Neil Diamond; The Drifters; Duane Eddy; Eddie Fisher;
James Galway; Gerry & the Pacemakers; Roy Hamilton; Ted Heath;
Al Hibbler; Lena Horne; Englebert Hump
Youtube results:
3:30
Henry Mancini and Doc Severinsen - I Can't Get Started
From 1972 or 1973's Brass, Ivory and strings...
published: 27 Sep 2011
author: imthebrother
Henry Mancini and Doc Severinsen - I Can't Get Started
10:45
Malaguana Live in Edmonton Canada
From a concert featuring Doc Severinsen in Edmonton (Canada)...
published: 14 Sep 2012
author: David Werden
Malaguana Live in Edmonton Canada
From a concert featuring Doc Severinsen in Edmonton (Canada)
published: 14 Sep 2012
author: David Werden
3:37
"Georgia" arr. for "Doc Severinsen" ; Trumpet Soloist: Tom Wade
Trumpet version of the old classic " Georgia " May 10, 2010 performed live @ Von...
published: 13 May 2010
author: purifiedworks
"Georgia" arr. for "Doc Severinsen" ; Trumpet Soloist: Tom Wade
Trumpet version of the old classic " Georgia " May 10, 2010 performed live @ Vonn's Jazz Resturant - Columbus, Ohio via Tony Lewis Big Band - Tom Wade trumpet solo.
published: 13 May 2010
author: purifiedworks
7:07
Doc Severinsen - Rondo for Trumpet by Claude T. Smith
This piece was commissioned for Doc Severinsen, who performs it here with the Plymouth, Mi...
published: 14 Aug 2011
author: David Werden
Doc Severinsen - Rondo for Trumpet by Claude T. Smith
This piece was commissioned for Doc Severinsen, who performs it here with the Plymouth, Michigan high school band. Interestingly, the cadenza has an optional double-high C, which Doc chose not to try. Then at the end he explains to the audience that his cold medication has dried him out, but he wants to take another try at the Coda so he can go for the double C. More Doc stuff on my site, including a searchable database of recordings and links more videos and the Amazon Doc Severinsen Store: www.dwerden.com Doc actually was involved in the commission of many original works for trumpet and band. He did many guest artist concerts such as this, and performed with my high school band, which was an outstanding experience. This performance was from the middle 1970's and is from a live concert. The recording was never released commercially. This is from a series of educational recordings from Silver Crest.
published: 14 Aug 2011
author: David Werden
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| Doc Severinsen | |
|---|---|
| File:Doc+Severinsen.jpg | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Carl Hilding Severinsen |
| Born | (1927-07-07) July 7, 1927 (age 84) |
| Origin | Arlington, Oregon, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupations | Bandleader, trumpeter |
| Instruments | Trumpet |
| Years active | 1952–present |
| Associated acts | Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Tonight Show Band |
Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen (born July 7, 1927) is an American pop and jazz trumpeter. He is best known for leading the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Contents |
Early life[link]
Severinsen was born in Arlington, Oregon, the son of Minnie Mae (1897–1998) and Carl Severinsen (1898–1972), a dentist.[1] Nicknamed "Little Doc" after his father, he originally wanted to play the trombone, which he discovered at neighbor Art Fletcher's home, but the senior Severinsen, a gifted amateur violinist, urged him to study that instrument instead. The younger Severinsen insisted on the trombone, but had to settle for the only horn available in Arlington's small music store, a trumpet. A week later, with the help of his father and a manual of instructions, the seven-year-old was good enough to be invited to join the high school band.
At the age of twelve, Severinsen won the Music Educator's National Contest. While still in high school, he was hired to go on the road with the Ted Fio Rito Orchestra. However, his stay with the group was cut short by the World War II draft. After serving in the U.S. Army, Severinsen made his broadcasting debut playing live popular music on KODL radio in The Dalles, Oregon.[2]
[edit] The Tonight Show
Starting in 1952 during Steve Allen's tenure as host of NBC-TV's Tonight, Doc Severinsen played first trumpet in the band directed by Skitch Henderson. Severinsen took over as bandleader in 1967 and soon became noted for his flashy fashions.
Under Severinsen's direction, the The Tonight Show NBC Orchestra became the most visible big band in America. The band played incidental music for sketch comedy, guest introductions, and intermission music during station breaks. Severinsen took the opportunity to update many well known swing music and jazz standards, including classics by Cole Porter, Dizzy Gillespie, and others.
Adept at comic interplay, Severinsen occasionally substituted for Ed McMahon as Johnny Carson's announcer and sidekick. Severinsen campaigned for the band to get featured slots during the show. The show introduced a "Stump the Band" segment in which audience members challenged the band to play obscure song titles, with the band responding with a comic piece.
Severinsen often cried "key of E," his signal for the band to strike up a western theme, whereupon he would enthusiastically sing a country music-flavoured nonsense song.
Tommy Newsom was frequently the band's substitute director, whenever Severinsen was away from the show or filling in for announcer Ed McMahon.
Severinsen continued as bandleader until Carson's retirement in 1992.
Recording career[link]
During the 1950s and 1960s, Severinsen put out a number of albums of jazz standards, over which he performed very melodic solos. He served as lead trumpet on many of Enoch Light's Command Records LP's of that era. Severinsen certainly had a well-developed high-note range with an incredible amount of control and melodic sense. In the 1960s, Severinsen also recorded with the Clarke/Boland Big Band and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis band. Severinsen was also the second trumpeter whose recording of the fanfare "Abblasen", composed by Gottfried Reiche, has been used as the theme for the CBS News program Sunday Morning.
During the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s, Severinsen released several albums under the band name The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen, and later receiving first billing, Doc Severinsen & The Tonight Show Band. He has also recorded with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.
Severinsen also released albums that have a pop rock basis, some of which include electronic instrumentation components, such as Brass Roots, Good Medicine and Facets. These albums were received with varying degrees of success by the public. He recorded two albums of standards with Henry Mancini and his orchestra in the 1970s, Brass On Ivory and Brass, Ivory And Strings.
Severinsen arranged the score for the nudist-themed cult film Nude on the Moon (1961). In addition, Severinsen co-wrote the Top 10 hit single "Stop and Smell the Roses" with singer-songwriter Mac Davis (1974).
Conducting, academic career, and after[link]
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Doc Severinsen in 2009
Severinsen was the principal pops conductor for several American orchestras during and after his tenure on the Tonight Show. His first was with the Phoenix Symphony in 1983.[3] He held similar positions with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra,the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra.
Severinsen retired from active conducting in 2007, and was named Pops Conductor Emeritus in Milwaukee.[4] and Pops Conductor Laureate in Minnesota.[5] Severinsen was also named Distinguished Visiting Professor of Music and Katherine K. Herberger Heritage Chair for Visiting Artists at Arizona State University School of Music in 2001 and 2002.[6] He has also conducted the New York Pops orchestra at the world-famous Carnegie Hall in New York City.
As of 2012, Severinsen is still performing on a regular basis with the group Doc Severinsen & the San Migeul 5[7] (formerly known as El Ritmo De La Vida[8]). The group plays an eclectic variety of styles, including classical Spanish, gypsy jazz, and Latin and American ballads. In February 2012, the group was called on short notice to replace an ailing Marvin Hamlisch at a concert with the Nashville Symphony. Severinsen declared from the stage that Nashville's Schermerhorn Symphony Center was the finest performing venue in the United States.
Personal life[link]
Severinsen's children are Nancy, Cindy, Allen, Robin and Judy. He also has eight grandchildren: Blaire, Gray and Richard (Blaire and Gray write and perform roots rock music together as the Blaire Reinhard Band). Severinsen has been married three times. Television writer and producer Emily Marshall was his third wife. They met when she was working as a secretary to Tonight Show producer Fred de Cordova.[9]
Severinsen owned Severinsen Custom Trumpets, manufacturer of custom-made horns, including the Destino line of trumpets he personally tests.[10] Severinsen now helps design new Destino trumpets for the S.E. Shires Company.[11] Severinsen also enjoys cooking and collecting American art.
Discography[link]
- 1957: Stormy Weather (with Lena Horne)
- 1961: Tempestuous Trumpet
- 1962: The Big Band's Back in Town
- 1965: High, Wide & Wonderful
- 1966: Command Performances
- 1967: New Sound of Today's Big Band
- 1967: Live!: The Doc Severinsen Sextet
- 1968: The Great Arrival
- 1970: Doc Severinsen's Closet
- 1971: Brass Roots
- 1972: Brass on Ivory
- 1972: Doc
- 1973: Rhapsody for Now!
- 1973: Doc [Command Double Pack]
- 1973: Trumpets & Crumpets & Things
- 1976: Night Journey
- 1977: Brand New Thing
- 1978: Tempestuous Trumpet
- 1978: Torch Songs for Trumpet
- 1980: Seductive Strings Featuring Doc Severinsen
- 1982: The Best of Doc Severinsen
- 1985: Doc Severinsen & Xebron
- 1986: The Tonight Show Band, Vol. 1
- 1986: Episodes
- 1988: Facets
- 1988: The Tonight Show Band, Vol. 2
- 1989: The Big Band Hit Parade
- 1991: Once More...With Feeling!
- 1991: Merry Christmas from Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Orchestra
- 1992: Unforgettably Doc
- 1992: Good Medicine
- 1992: Doc Severinsen and Friends
- 1992: Lullabies and Goodnight
- 1992: Ja-Da
- 1993: Two Sides of Doc Severinsen
- 1997: The Very Best of Doc Severinsen [Amherst]
- 1999: Swingin' the Blues
- 2009: El Ritmo De La Vida
- 2010: En Mi Corazon (with Gil Gutierrez and Pedro Cartas)
- 2010: Stardust
As sideman[link]
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With Gene Krupa
- "Gene Krupa Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements" (Verve, 1958)
With Henri Rene
- "Compulsion to Swing" (RCA Victor, 1959)
With Dizzy Gillespie
- Perceptions (Verve, 1961)
With Milt Jackson
- Big Bags (Riverside, 1962)
References[link]
- ^ "Doc Severinsen Biography (1927-)". Filmreference.com. http://www.filmreference.com/film/42/Doc-Severinsen.html. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ^ "About Us". RadioFreshing KODL. http://www.kodl.com/KODL/media/abotkodl.html. Retrieved April 13, 2009.
- ^ http://www.phoenixsymphony.org/artists/artistic_staff_severinsen.html[dead link]
- ^ http://www.milwaukeesymphony.org/newspress/newsreviewsarchives/view.asp?id=30025839
- ^ "News: Doc Severinsen to Step Down as Minnesota Orchestra's Pops Conductor". PlaybillArts. 2006-07-15. http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/4905.html. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ^ ASU HCFA SOM | e-Notes | Severinsen in concert[dead link]
- ^ "Home". Doc Severinsen. http://www.docseverinsen.com/. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ^ "Home". . Opus 3 Artists. http://www.opus3artists.com/artists/doc-severinsen-and-el-ritmo-de-la-vida. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ^ Sheff, Vicki (1988-12-19). "Doc Severinsen Finds His Key, and It's Writer Emily Marshall". People.com. http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20119094,00.html. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ^ "Severinsen Custom Trumpets - Doc's Dream". Docseverinsen.com. http://www.docseverinsen.com/dream.htm. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
- ^ "Trumpets". Doc Severinsen. http://www.docseverinsen.com/trumpets/. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
External links[link]
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The Tonight Show bandleader 1967 – 1992 |
Succeeded by Branford Marsalis |
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| Name | Severinsen, Doc |
| Alternative names | Severinsen, Carl Hilding |
| Short description | Bandleader, Trumpeter |
| Date of birth | July 7, 1927 |
| Place of birth | Arlington, Oregon, U.S. |
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Not to be confused with the US ambassador Johnnie Carson.
| Johnny Carson | |
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 Carson in January 1966 |
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| Birth name | John William Carson |
| Born | (1925-10-23)October 23, 1925 Corning, Iowa |
| Died | January 23, 2005(2005-01-23) (aged 79) Los Angeles, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Years active | 1950-1994 |
| Genres | Satire, sketch comedy, improvisational comedy |
| Subject(s) | current events, American politics, American culture, pop culture |
| Influences | [list membership disputed] Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Laurel and Hardy, Red Skelton, George Burns, Milton Berle, Steve Allen, Charlie Chaplin, Don Rickles, Michael Gough, Bob Newhart[1] |
| Influenced | [list membership disputed] Ray Combs, Ellen DeGeneres, Kathy Griffin, Bill Hicks, Jay Leno, David Letterman,[2] George Lopez, Bill Maher, Conan O'Brien, Jerry Seinfeld, Garry Shandling |
| Spouse | Jody Morrill Wolcott (m. 1949-1963; divorced) Joanne Copeland (m. 1963-1972; divorced) Joanna Holland (m. 1972-1985; divorced) Alexis Maas (m. 1987-2005, his death) |
| Notable works and roles | Host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson |
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| Emmy Awards | |
| Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement 1976 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1977 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1978 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1979 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Governor's Award 1980 Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program (Series) 1992 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson |
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| Peabody Awards | |
| Personal Award 1985 | |
| American Comedy Awards | |
| Funniest Male Performer in a TV Series (Leading Role) Network, Cable or Syndication 1987 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Lifetime Achievement Award 1992 Lifetime Achievement |
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John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host and comedian, known for thirty years as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992). Carson received six Emmy Awards, the Governor Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award. He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987. Johnny Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993.[3]
Although his show was already successful by the end of the 1960s, during the 1970s Carson became an American icon and remained so until his retirement in 1992. He adopted a casual, conversational approach with extensive interaction with guests, an approach pioneered by Arthur Godfrey and previous Tonight Show hosts Steve Allen and Jack Paar. Late night hosts David Letterman, Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Craig Ferguson, and Jimmy Fallon have all cited [4][5] Carson's influence on their late-night talk shows, which resemble his in format and tone.
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Early life and career[link]
Carson was born in Corning, Iowa, in the year 1925, to Homer Lloyd "Kit" Carson, a power company manager, and Ruth Hook Carson, who was of Irish descent.[6] He grew up in the nearby towns of Avoca, Clarinda, and Red Oak in southwest Iowa before moving to Norfolk, Nebraska, at the age of eight. At the age of twelve, Carson found a book on magic at a friend's house and immediately purchased a mail-order magician's kit. He debuted as "The Great Carsoni" at fourteen and was paid $3; many other performances at local picnics and country fairs followed.[6]
Carson joined the U.S. Navy on June 8, 1943, received V-12 officer training at Columbia University[7] and Millsaps College,[8] and continued to perform magic. Commissioned an ensign late in the war, Carson was assigned to the USS Pennsylvania in the Pacific. While in the Navy, Carson posted a 10-0 amateur boxing record, with most of his bouts fought on board the USS Pennsylvania.[9] He was en route to the combat zone aboard a troopship when the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the war. Carson served as a communications officer in charge of decoding encrypted messages and said that the high point of his military career was performing a magic trick for United States Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal.
Carson then attended the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, where he joined Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, continued performing magic (now paid $25 per appearance[6]), wrote a thesis on the structure of Jack Benny's comedy routines,[10] and graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in radio and speech with a minor in physics in 1949.
He began his broadcasting career in 1950 at WOW radio and television in Omaha, Nebraska.[11] Carson soon hosted a morning television program called The Squirrel's Nest. One of his routines involved interviewing pigeons on the roof of the local courthouse that would allegedly report on the political corruption they had seen. Carson supplemented his income by serving as master of ceremonies at local church dinners, attended by some of the same politicians and civic leaders that he had lampooned on the radio.
In 1951 Carson visited California and unsuccessfully sought work. The wife of one of the political figures he spoofed owned stock in a radio station in Los Angeles and referred Carson to her brother, who was influential in the emerging television market in southern California, and later that year Carson went to work at CBS-owned Los Angeles television station KNXT.[6] He would later joke that he owed his success to the birds of Omaha. In 1953 comic Red Skelton — a fan of Carson's "cult success" low-budget sketch comedy show, Carson's Cellar (1951 to 1953) on KNXT — asked Carson to join his show as a writer. In 1954 Skelton during rehearsal accidentally knocked himself unconscious an hour before his live show began, and Carson successfully filled in for him.[6] In 1955, Jack Benny invited Carson to appear on one of his programs during the opening and closing segments. Carson imitated Benny and claimed that Benny had copied his gestures. Benny, however, predicted that Carson would have a successful career as a comedian.[12]
Carson hosted several shows besides Carson's Cellar, including the game show Earn Your Vacation (1954) and the variety show The Johnny Carson Show (1955–1956).[6][13] He was a regular panelist on the original To Tell the Truth until 1962. After the prime time The Johnny Carson Show failed, he moved to New York City to host Who Do You Trust? (1957–1962), formerly known as Do You Trust Your Wife?. In 1958 he appeared as a guest star in an episode entitled "Do You Trust Your Wife" on NBC's short-lived variety show, The Polly Bergen Show. It was on Who Do You Trust? that Carson met his future sidekick, Ed McMahon. Although he believed moving to daytime would hurt his career, Who Do You Trust? was a success. It was the first show where he could ad lib and interview guests,[10] and because of Carson's on-camera wit, the show became "the hottest item on daytime television" during his five years there.[6]
[edit] The Tonight Show
Main article: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
NBC's Tonight was the late-night counterpart to its early-morning show Today. Originating in 1953 with host Steve Allen, Tonight was somewhat experimental at the time, as the only previous network late-night program was NBC's "Broadway Open House". Tonight was successful, and when Allen moved on to prime-time comedy-variety shows, Jack Paar replaced him as host of Tonight. Paar left the show in 1962.
Johnny Carson's success on Who Do You Trust? led NBC to invite him to take over Tonight a few months before Paar's departure. Carson declined the offer because he feared the difficulty of interviewing celebrities for 1 3/4 hours (105 minutes) daily, but NBC asked him again after Bob Newhart, Jackie Gleason, Groucho Marx, and Joey Bishop all declined. Carson accepted in March 1962 but had six months left on his ABC contract, during which NBC used multiple guest hosts including Merv Griffin.[10][6]
Although he continued to have doubts about his new job, Carson became host of Tonight (later becoming The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson) on October 1, 1962, and, after a difficult first year, overcame his fears.[10] While Tonight under its previous hosts had been successful, especially under Paar, Carson's version eventually did well in the ratings. Billy Wilder said of Carson:
By the simple law of survival, Carson is the best. He enchants the invalids and the insomniacs as well as the people who have to get up at dawn. He is the Valium and the Nembutal of a nation. No matter what kind of dead-asses are on the show, he has to make them funny and exciting. He has to be their nurse and their surgeon. He has no conceit. He does his work and he comes prepared. If he’s talking to an author, he has read the book. Even his rehearsed routines sound improvised. He’s the cream of middle-class elegance, yet he’s not a mannequin. He has captivated the American bourgeoisie without ever offending the highbrows, and he has never said anything that wasn’t liberal or progressive. Every night, in front of millions of people, he has to do the salto mortale [a circus parlance for an aerial somersault performed on the tightrope]. What’s more, he does it without a net. No rewrites. No retakes. The jokes must work tonight.[6]
McMahon followed Carson from Who Do You Trust? as his announcer and sidekick. McMahon's opening line, "Heeeere's Johnny" was followed by a brief monologue by Carson. This was often followed by comedy sketches, interviews, and music. Carson's trademark was a phantom golf swing at the end of his monologues, aimed stage left toward the studio orchestra. (Guest hosts sometimes parodied that gesture. Bob Newhart rolled an imaginary bowling ball toward the audience.) Johnny enjoyed what he called the "Carson Kits," or beautiful girls, to adorn his show. Theona Bryant, a favorite, was a model. The other "Carson Cuties" were Phyllis Applegate, Norma Brooks, and Sally Todd.
Paul Anka wrote the theme song, ("Johnny's Theme"), a reworking of his "Toot Sweet"; given lyrics, it was renamed, "It's Really Love," and recorded by Annette Funicello in 1959. Before taking over The Tonight Show, Carson wrote lyrics for the song and thus claimed 50% of the song's performance royalties (even though the lyrics were never used). The theme is heard being played on sound recordings of Carson's first Tonight Show and it was used without interruption through to his very last broadcast in 1992.
The show was originally produced in New York City, with occasional stints in California. It was not live in its early years, although during the 1970s, NBC fed the live taping from Burbank to New York via satellite for editing (see below). The program had been done "live on tape" (uninterrupted unless a problem occurred) since the Jack Paar days. Carson had a talent for quick quips to deal with problems.[6] If the opening monologue fared poorly, the band would start playing "Tea for Two" and Carson danced, to laughs from the studio audience. Alternatively, Carson might pull the boom mic close to his face and announce "Attention K-Mart shoppers!"
Move to Burbank[link]
In May 1972, the show moved from New York to Burbank, California. Carson often joked about "beautiful downtown Burbank"[14] and referred to "beautiful downtown Bakersfield," which prompted Mayor Mary K. Shell to chide Carson and invite him to her city to see improvements made during the early 1980s.[citation needed]
After July 1971, Carson stopped doing shows five days a week. Instead, on Monday nights there was a guest host, leaving Carson to do the other four each week. Shows were taped in Burbank at 5:30 pm (8:30 pm Eastern time) to be shown that evening at 11:30 pm Eastern time. On September 8, 1980, at Carson's request, the show cut its 90-minute format to 60 minutes; Tom Snyder's Tomorrow added a half hour to fill the vacant time. Joan Rivers became the "permanent" guest host from September 1983 until 1986. The Tonight Show returned to using rotating guest hosts, including comic George Carlin. Jay Leno then became the exclusive guest host in fall 1987. Leno joked that although other guest hosts had upped their fees, he had kept his low, assuring himself more bookings. Eventually, Monday night was for Leno, Tuesday for The Best of Carson—rebroadcasts usually dating from a year earlier but occasionally from the 1970s.
Although Carson's work schedule became more attenuated, Tonight remained so successful that his compensation from NBC continued to rise; by the mid-1970s he had become the highest-paid personality on television,earning about $4 million a year ($14,253,000 today), not including nightclub appearances and his other businesses. He refused many offers to appear in films, including title roles in The Thomas Crown Affair and Gene Wilder's role in Blazing Saddles.[6]
In recognition of his 25th anniversary on The Tonight Show, Carson received a personal Peabody Award, the Board saying he had "become an American institution, a household word, [and] the most widely quoted American"; they also said they "felt the time had come to recognize the contributions that Johnny has made to television, to humor, and to America."[15]
Comic characters[link]
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Carson as the character "Carnac the Magnificent", mid 1970s.[citation needed]
Carson played several continuing characters on sketches during the show, including
- Art Fern, the "Tea Time Movie" announcer, [16] whose theme song was "Hooray for Hollywood". Carson once admitted on camera that this was his favorite character, based on late-afternoon TV hosts who would deliver commercials throughout the movie. Each sketch usually featured three long commercials interrupted by silent, four-second clips from antique films. When the camera returned from each clip, Art was always caught off-guard and immediately reminded viewers that they were watching a film favorite. The movies always had unlikely casts and even less likely titles: "Slim Pickens, Patti Page, Duke Wayne, and Charlton Heston in another classic Western: 'Kiss My Saddle Horn'!" Carson originally played the fast-talking huckster in his own voice (as Honest Bernie Schlock or Ralph Willie), and finally settled on a nasal, high-pitched, smarmy drone, reminiscent of Jackie Gleason's "Reginald Van Gleason III" character. The character, now permanently known as Art Fern, wore a lavish toupee, loud jackets, and a pencil mustache. Actress Carol Wayne became famous for her 100-plus appearances (1971–1982) as Art's buxom assistant, the Matinée Lady. While Art gave his spiel, she would enter the stage behind him. Art would react to her attractive body, wincing loudly: "Ho — leeeee!" After Carol Wayne's death in 1985, Carson kept Art Fern off the air for most of the next year, and finally hired Danuta Wesley and then Teresa Ganzel to play the Matinée Lady. Carson also used these sketches to poke fun at the intricate Los Angeles interstate system, using a pointer and map to give confusing directions to shoppers, often including points where he would unfold the cardboard map to point out, via the appropriate picture, when the shopper would arrive at "the fork in the road". Another freeway routine in the same theme centered around the fictional "Slauson Cutoff". Art Fern would advise drivers to take a series of freeways until they reached the Slauson Cutoff, and would then advise them to "Get out of your car, cut off your slauson, get back in your car," often followed by peals of laughter from the audience, led by McMahon.
- Carnac the Magnificent, a turbaned psychic who could answer questions before seeing them. (This same routine had been done by Carson's predecessor, Steve Allen, as "The Answer Man". The Carnac character and routine closely resembled Ernie Kovacs' character "Mr. Question Man".ref name=EW /> Carnac had a trademark entrance in which he always turned the wrong direction when coming onto stage and then "tripped" on the step up to Carson's desk. (In one episode, technicians rigged Carson's desk to fall apart when Carnac fell into it.) These comedic missteps were an indication of Carnac's true prescient abilities. Ed McMahon would hand Carnac a series of envelopes containing questions, said to have been "sitting inside a mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnall's porch since noon today". Carnac would place each envelope against his forehead and predict the answer, such as "Gatorade". Then he would read the question: "What does an alligator get on welfare?" Some of the jokes were feeble, and McMahon used pauses after terrible puns and audience groans to make light of Carnac's lack of comic success ("Carnac must be used to quiet surroundings"), prompting Carson to return an equal insult. McMahon would always announce near the end, "I hold in my hand the last envelope," at which the audience would applaud wildly, prompting Carnac to pronounce a comedic "curse" on the audience, such as "May your sister elope with a camel!", or the most famous: "May the bird of paradise fly up your nose!"[citation needed]
- Floyd R. Turbo, American (with no pause between words). A stereotypical redneck wearing a plaid hunting coat and cap, who offered "editorial responses" to left-leaning causes or news events. Railing against women's rights in the workplace, for example, Turbo would shout: "This raises the question: kiss my Dictaphone!"
- Aunt Blabby, a cantankerous and sometimes amorous old lady, invariably being interviewed by straight man Ed McMahon about elder affairs.[16] McMahon would innocently use a common expression like "check out", only to have Aunt Blabby warn him: "Don't say 'check out' to an old person!" Aunt Blabby was an obvious copy of Jonathan Winters' most famous creation, Maude Frickert, including her black spinster dress and wig.
- El Mouldo, a mentalist, who would attempt to perform mind-reading and mind-over-matter feats, all of which failed. Often his tricks would include an attempt to bilk money from Ed McMahon or would end with him begging the audience for a dollar, or at least bus fare.
- The Maharishi, whose theme song was "Song of India". This frizzy-haired "holy man" spoke in a high-pitched, tranquil tone, greeted announcer McMahon with a flower, and answered philosophical questions.[citation needed]
Carson uncensored on satellite[link]
Even though Carson's program was based in Burbank, NBC's editing and production services for the program were located in New York, resulting in the requirement that Carson's program be transmitted from Burbank to New York. Beginning in 1976, NBC used the Satcom 2 satellite to do this, feeding the live taping (which usually took place in the early evening) directly to New York, where it would be edited prior to the normal broadcast. This live feed lasted usually from two to two-and-a-half hours a night, and was uncensored and commercial-free. During the commercial breaks the audio and picture would be left on, capturing at times risque language and other events that would certainly be edited out later going out over the feed.
At the same time, however, satellite ground stations owned by private individuals began to appear, and some managed to find the live feed. Satellite dish owners began to document their sightings in technical journals, giving viewers knowledge of things they were not meant to see. Carson and his production staff grew concerned about this, and pressured NBC into ceasing the satellite transmissions of the live taping in the early 1980s. The satellite link was replaced by microwave landline transmission until the show's editing facilities were finally moved to Burbank.[17]
Effect on popular culture[link]
Carson's show launched the careers of many performers, especially comedians.[6] Getting Carson to laugh and then to be called to the guest chair was the highest honor. Most notable among these were David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Maher, Ellen Degeneres, Tim Allen, Drew Carey, and Roseanne Barr. Carson was successor to The Ed Sullivan Show as a showcase for all kinds of talent, as well as continuing a vaudeville-style variety show.
In 1966, Carson popularized Milton Bradley's game Twister when he played it with actress Eva Gabor. Not widely known at the time, the game skyrocketed in popularity after the broadcast.[18]
Controversies and feuds[link]
Carson often made jokes at the expense of other celebrities. Some years after a high-profile feud between Carson and Wayne Newton, the latter appeared on Larry King Live, declaring that "Johnny Carson is a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it."[19] One veteran NBC actor, Raymond Burr, became riled over Carson's continuing fat jokes and refused to appear on "The Tonight Show".[20]
Carson reportedly loathed what appeared to represent disloyalty among friends. The comedian was displeased when former Tonight Show guest hosts John Davidson and Joan Rivers got their own talk shows. Rivers's show on the Fox Network directly competed with Carson during the 1986-1987 season and then ended. On June 24, 2009, following Ed McMahon's death, Rivers lauded McMahon on Larry King Live but said that after she got her own show Carson never spoke to her again.[21]
In December 1973, Carson joked on Tonight about an alleged shortage of toilet paper. Panic buying and hoarding ensued across the United States as consumers emptied stores,[22] causing a real shortage that lasted for weeks. Stores and toilet-paper manufacturers had to ration supplies until the panic ended.[23][24] Carson apologized in January 1974[25] for the incident, which became what The New York Times called a "classic study" of how rumors spread.[26]
Carson successfully sued a manufacturer of portable toilets who wanted to call its product "Here's Johnny".[27]
Business ventures[link]
Carson was a major investor in the ultimately failed DeLorean Motor Company.
Carson was head of a group of investors who purchased and operated two television stations. The first was KVVU-TV in Henderson, Nevada, an independent station serving Las Vegas, acquired by the Carson group in 1979. Shortly after buying the station, KVVU was rumored to acquiring an NBC affiliation as then long-time affiliate KORK-TV was in the process of being replaced by KVBC, but it never happened.[citation needed] Carson's second station, independent KNAT-TV in Albuquerque, New Mexico was purchased in 1982. Unlike the Las Vegas operation, KNAT faced stiffer competition for top-quality syndicated programming. Carson sold both of his stations between 1985 and 1986, with KVVU going to Meredith Corporation and KNAT being sold to Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Carson's other business ventures included the successful Johnny Carson Apparel, Inc.[6]—his turtlenecks became a fashion trend—and a failed restaurant franchise.[28]
Retirement[link]
Carson retired from show business on May 22, 1992, at age 66, when he stepped down as host of The Tonight Show. His farewell was a major media event, often emotional for Carson, his colleagues, and the audiences, and stretched over several nights. He said the following on his 4,531st and final Tonight Show:
And so it has come to this... I, uh...am one of the lucky people in the world; I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it. I want to thank the gentlemen who've shared this stage with me for thirty years, Mr. Ed McMahon... Mr. Doc Severinsen... and you people watching. I can only tell you that it has been an honor and a privilege to come into your homes all these years and entertain you... And I hope when I find something that I want to do, and I think you would like, and come back, that you'll be as gracious in inviting me into your homes as you have been. I bid you a very heartfelt good night.
NBC gave the role of host to the show's then-current permanent guest host, Jay Leno. Leno and David Letterman were soon competing on separate networks.
Post-retirement appearances[link]
At the end of his final Tonight Show appearance, Carson indicated that he might, if so inspired, return with a new project, but instead chose to go into full retirement, rarely giving interviews and declining to participate in NBC's 75th anniversary celebrations. He made the occasional cameo appearance, including voicing himself on the May 13, 1993 episode of The Simpsons ("Krusty Gets Kancelled"), telephoning David Letterman on a November 1993 episode of Late Show with David Letterman, and appearing in the 1993 NBC Special Bob Hope: The First 90 Years. On May 13, 1994, Carson appeared on Late Show with David Letterman. During a week of shows from Los Angeles, Letterman was having Larry "Bud" Melman (Calvert DeForest) deliver his "Top Ten Lists" under the guise that a famous personality would be delivering the list instead. On the last show of the week, Letterman indicated that Carson would be delivering the list. Instead, DeForest delivered the list, insulted the audience (in keeping with the gag), and walked off to polite applause. Letterman then indicated that the card he was given did not have the proper list on it and asked that the "real" list be brought out. On that cue, the real Carson emerged from behind the curtain (as Letterman's band played "Johnny's Theme"), an appearance that prompted a standing ovation from the audience. Carson then requested to sit behind Letterman's desk; Letterman obliged, as the audience continued to cheer and applaud. After some moments, Carson departed from the show without having spoken to the audience. He later cited acute laryngitis as the reason for his silence. This night turned out to be Carson's last television appearance.
Letterman[link]
Just days before Carson's death, The New York Times published a story revealing that he occasionally sent jokes to Letterman.[29] Letterman would then use these jokes in the monologue of his show, which Carson got "a big kick out of" according to Worldwide Pants, Inc., Senior Vice-President Peter Lassally, who formerly produced both men's programs. He also claimed that Carson had always believed Letterman, not Leno, to be his "rightful successor."[30] Letterman frequently employs some of Carson's trademark bits on his show, including "Carnac" (with band leader Paul Shaffer as Carnac), "Stump the Band," and the "Week in Review."
Personal life[link]
Despite his on-camera demeanor, Carson was very shy off-camera, avoided most large parties,[6] and was referred to as "the most private public man who ever lived".[31] Dick Cavett recalled that "I felt sorry for Johnny in that he was so socially uncomfortable. I've hardly ever met anybody who had as hard a time as he did."[10] George Axelrod said of Carson: "Socially, he doesn’t exist. The reason is that there are no television cameras in living rooms. If human beings had little-red lights in the middle of their foreheads, Carson would be the greatest conversationalist on earth."[6]
He normally refused to discuss politics, social controversies, his childhood, or private life with interviewers, and offered the following list of pre-written answers to journalists who wanted to ask him questions:[6]
- Yes, I did.
- Not a bit of truth in that rumor.
- Only twice in my life, both times on Saturday.
- I can do either, but I prefer the first.
- No. Kumquats.
- I can’t answer that question.
- Toads and tarantulas.
- Turkestan, Denmark, Chile, and the Komandorskie Islands.
- As often as possible, but I’m not very good at it yet. I need much more practice.
- It happened to some old friends of mine, and it’s a story I’ll never forget.[6]
Politics[link]
Carson opposed capital punishment, favored racial equality, and was against criminalizing extramarital sex and pornography. He avoided explicitly mentioning his views on Tonight, however, saying "I hate to be pinned down", as that would "hurt me as an entertainer, which is what I am".[6] As he explained in 1970, "In my living room I would argue for liberalization of abortion laws, divorce laws, and there are times when I would like to express a view on the air. I would love to have taken on Billy Graham. But I'm on TV five nights a week; I have nothing to gain by it and everything to lose."[32]
Marriages[link]
In 1948, Carson married Jody Wolcott.[6] The marriage was volatile, with infidelities committed by both parties, and ended in divorce in 1963.[33] Carson got a "quickie" Mexican divorce from Wolcott that year and married Joanne Copeland on August 17, 1963. After a second protracted divorce proceeding in 1972, Copeland received a settlement of nearly half a million dollars and $75,000 a year in alimony for life.[6]
At the Carson Tonight Show's 10th anniversary party on September 30, 1972, Carson announced that he and former model Joanna Holland had been secretly married that afternoon,[6] shocking his friends and associates. Carson kidded that he had married three similarly named women to avoid "having to change the monogram on the towels." On March 8, 1983, Holland filed for divorce. Under California's community property laws, she was entitled to 50% of all the assets accumulated during the marriage, even though Carson earned virtually all of the couple's income. During this period, he joked on The Tonight Show, "my producer, Freddie de Cordova, really gave me something I needed for Christmas. He gave me a gift certificate to the law offices of Jacoby & Meyers." The divorce case finally ended in 1985 with an eighty-page settlement, Holland receiving $20 million in cash and property.
On June 20, 1987, Carson married Alexis Maas. The marriage lasted until his death in 2005.
Children[link]
Carson had three sons, Charles (known as "Kit"), Cory and Richard. All three sons were from his first marriage. Richard Carson died on June 21, 1991, when his car plunged down a steep embankment along a paved service road off Highway 1 near Cayucos, California. Apparently, Richard had been taking photographs when the accident occurred. On the first Tonight Show after Ricky's death, Carson paid tribute to his son's photographic work, and showed portraits of Ricky accompanied by Stevie Ray Vaughan on blues guitar playing Riviera Paradise. In addition, the final image of the show, as well as some "More to Come" bumpers, of Carson's last show on May 22, 1992, featured a photo Richard had taken.
Charity[link]
In 1981, Carson created the John W. Carson Foundation, dedicated to supporting children, education and health services. The Foundation continues to support charitable causes.[34]
In November 2004, Carson announced a $5.3 million gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation to support the Hixson–Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Department of Theater Arts, which created the Johnny Carson School of Theater and Film. Another $5 million donation was announced by the estate of Carson to the University of Nebraska following his death.[citation needed], while a $1 million donation was announced on November 4, 2011, creating the "Johnny Carson Opportunity Scholarship Fund".[35]
Carson also donated to causes in his hometown of Norfolk, including the Carson Cancer Center at Faith Regional Health Services, the Elkhorn Valley Museum, and the Johnny Carson Theater at Norfolk Senior High School.
In August 2010, the charitable foundation created by Johnny Carson reported receiving $156 million from a personal trust established by the entertainer years prior to his January 2005 death. Carson's foundation was now by far the largest of the Hollywood charities.[36]
Other notes[link]
Carson, an amateur astronomer, was close friends with astronomer Carl Sagan, who often appeared on The Tonight Show. The unique way Sagan had of saying certain words, like "billions" of galaxies, would lead Carson to ribbing his friend, saying "BILL-ions and BILL-ions". Carson was the first person to contact Sagan's wife Ann Druyan with condolences when the scientist died in 1996. He owned several telescopes, including a Questar, considered at the time a top-of-the line telescope.[37]
Carson was shown on a 1978 segment of 60 Minutes practicing at home on a drum set given to him by close friend Buddy Rich, who was the jazz musician with the most appearances on The Tonight Show. Writer Gore Vidal, another frequent Tonight Show guest and friend, writes about Carson's personality in his 2006 memoirs.[38]
In 1982, Carson was found to be driving his DeLorean while under the influence of alcohol. He pled nolo contendere to a misdemeanor charge and given three years of probation. Carson was required to attend an alcohol program for drivers and was permitted to use his car only to drive to work and back.[39]
Carson was an avid tennis player. He took lessons from Bob Trapenberg for many years. He enjoyed watching tennis at Wimbledon as often as possible. When he sold a Malibu house to John McEnroe, the escrow required McEnroe to give Johnny six tennis lessons.
Death and tributes[link]
On March 19, 1999, Carson, then 74, suffered a severe heart attack at his home in Malibu, California. Carson was sleeping when he suddenly awoke with severe chest pains. He was rushed to a hospital in nearby Santa Monica where he underwent quadruple-bypass surgery.[40]
At 6:50 AM PST on January 23, 2005, Carson died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of respiratory failure arising from emphysema.[41][42] He was 79 years old. Carson had revealed his terminal illness to the public in September 2002. Following his death, Carson's body was cremated and the ashes were given to his wife, Alexis Maas Carson. In accordance with his family's wishes, no public memorial service was held. Numerous tributes were paid to Carson upon his death, recognizing the deep and enduring affection held for him around the world, including a statement by then-President George W. Bush.[43]
The day after his death, January 24, 2005, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno paid tribute to Carson with guests Ed McMahon, Bob Newhart, Don Rickles, Drew Carey and k.d. lang.[44] Letterman followed suit on January 31 with former Tonight Show executive producer Peter Lassally and bandleader Doc Severinsen. At the beginning of this show, Letterman said that for thirty years no matter what was going on in the world, whether people had had a good or bad day, they wanted to end the day by being "tucked in by Johnny." Letterman also told his viewers that the monologue he had just spoken (which had been very well received by the studio audience) had consisted entirely of jokes sent to him by Carson in the last few months of his life.[45] Doc Severinsen ended the Letterman show that night by playing one of Carson's two favorite songs, "Here's That Rainy Day" (the other was "I'll Be Seeing You").
On his final Tonight Show appearance, Carson himself said that while sometimes people who work together for long stretches of time on television don't necessarily like each other, this was not the case with him and McMahon; they were good friends that would have drinks and dinner together, and the camaraderie that they had on the show could not be faked. Carson and McMahon were friends for forty-six years.[46]
The 2005 film The Aristocrats was dedicated to Carson.[47]
At the 1st Annual Comedy Awards on Comedy Central, the Johnny Carson Award was given to David Letterman.
At the 2nd Annual Comedy Awards on Comedy Central, the Johnny Carson Award was given to Don Rickles.
A two-hour documentary about his life, Johnny Carson: King of Late Night, aired on PBS on May 14, 2012, as part of their American Masters series. It is narrated by Kevin Spacey and features interviews with many of Carson's family, fellow comedians and proteges. [48]
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- ^ "Timeline". Millsaps College. http://www.millsaps.edu/about_millsaps/timeline.php. Retrieved September 10, 2011.
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Further reading[link]
Accounts on work and life[link]
- Bart, Peter (1992-05-18). We Hardly Knew Ye.. Los Angeles: Variety.
- Corkery, Paul (August 1987). Carson: The Unauthorized Biography. Randt & Co. ISBN 0-942101-00-6.
- Cox, Stephen (2002-08-15). Here's Johnny: Thirty Years of Americas Favorite Late Night Entertainer. Cumberland House Publishing. ISBN 1-58182-265-0.
- De Cordova, Fred (1988-03-15). Johnny Came Lately. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-55849-8.
- Hise, James Van (1992). 40 Years at Night: the Story of the Tonight Show. Movie Publisher Services. ISBN 1-55698-308-5.
- Knutzen, Erik (1992-05-21). Celebs Say Thanks, Johnny.. Herald.
- Leamer, Laurence (2005-03-29). King of the Night: The Life of Johnny Carson. Avon. ISBN 0-06-084099-4.
- McMahon, Ed (2005-10-18). Here's Johnny!: My Memories of Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show, and 46 Years of Friendship. Thomas Nelson. ISBN 1-4016-0236-3.
- Smith, Ronald L. (October 1987). Johnny Carson: An Unauthorized Biography. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-01051-6.
- Zoglin, Richard (1992-03-16). And What A Reign It Was: In His 30 Years, Carson Was The Best. Time.
- Sweeney, Don (2005). Backstage at the Tonight Show, from Johnny Carson to Jay Leno. Taylor Trade Publishing. ISBN 978-1-58979-303-3.
Humor material collections[link]
- Carson, Johnny (1965). Happiness is a Dry Martini. Doubleday and Company. ISBN 1-199-39735-0
- Carson, Johnny (1967). Misery is a blind date. Doubleday and Company. ASIN: B002J1EG3A
- Johnny Carson Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
External links[link]
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- Johnny Carson at the Internet Movie Database
- Johnny Carson at the Internet Broadway Database
- Johnny Carson at Find a Grave
- Official website for The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
- "Article on Johnny Carson". Archived from the original on 2007-10-13. http://web.archive.org/web/20071013161038/http://dir.salon.com/people/bc/2001/02/20/carson/index.html. at Salon
- "On Carson's contribution to Late Night". Archived from the original on 2007-10-14. http://web.archive.org/web/20071014103641/http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=online&s=siegel012405. at The New Republic
- Tynan, Kenneth. 1978 profile, The New Yorker
- The Johnny Carson Show, USA Today
- Martin, Steve. Posthumous Letter to Carson, The New York Times
- Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Watch on line either clips from or entire program Johnny Carson King of Late Night - Watch The Full Documentary pbs.org Includes a page on the making of the documentary.
Obituaries[link]
- Obituary at CNN
- Obituary at MSNBC
- Wolcott, James. Obituary, Vanity Fair
- Severo, Richard; Carter, Bill (January 24, 2005). "Johnny Carson, Low-Key King of Late-Night TV, Dies at 79". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/24/arts/television/24john.html?ex=1264309200&en=6f658f88eb80aabd&ei=5090. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
- "A Good Friend Has Left Us". James Randi Educational Foundation. http://www.randi.org/jr/carson.html. Retrieved 2008-05-11.
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Host of the Academy Awards 1979–82 |
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| Name | Carson, Johnny |
| Alternative names | Carson, John William |
| Short description | Talk show host |
| Date of birth | October 23, 1925 |
| Place of birth | Corning, Iowa |
| Date of death | January 23, 2005 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles, California |
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| Birth name | Henry Haag James |
| Born | (1916-03-15)March 15, 1916 Albany, Georgia |
| Died | July 5, 1983(1983-07-05) (aged 67) Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Genres | Big band, swing music |
| Occupations | Musician, Bandleader |
| Years active | 1937–1983 |
| Associated acts | Frank Sinatra Ben Pollack Benny Goodman |
Henry Haag “Harry” James (March 15, 1916 - July 5, 1983) was an actor and musician best known as a trumpeter who led a swing band during the Big Band Swing Era of the 1930s and 1940s. He was especially known among musicians for his astonishing technical proficiency as well as his superior tone.
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Harry James was born in Albany, Georgia,[1] the son of a bandleader of a traveling circus.[2] By the age of 10 he was taking trumpet lessons from his father, who placed him on a strict daily practice schedule. Each day, James was given one page to learn from the Arban's book and was not allowed to pursue any other pastime until he had learned that particular page.
In 1931 his family settled in Beaumont, Texas, where James began playing with local dance bands.
In 1935 he joined the nationally popular Ben Pollack but at the start of 1937 left Pollack to join Benny Goodman's orchestra, where he stayed through 1938. He was nicknamed "The Hawk" early in his career for his ability to "sight-read." A common joke was that if a fly landed on his written music, Harry James would play it. His low range had a warmth associated with the cornet and even the flugelhorn, but he achieved this on the trumpet. This was emulated by Jack Sheldon, but this sound was underrecorded in favor of James' brilliant high register.
In February 1939 James debuted his own big band in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His hit "You Made Me Love You" was in the Top 10 during the week of December 7, 1941.[3] He toured with the band into the 1980s.
His was the first "name band" to employ vocalist Frank Sinatra, in 1939. He wanted to change Sinatra's name to 'Frankie Satin' but Sinatra refused. His later band included drummer Buddy Rich.
He played trumpet in the 1950 film Young Man with a Horn,[4] dubbing Kirk Douglas. James's recording of "I'm Beginning to See the Light" appears in the motion picture My Dog Skip (2000). His music is also featured in the Woody Allen film Hannah and Her Sisters. James recorded many popular records and appeared in many Hollywood movies.
He was second only to Glenn Miller as the most successful recording artist of 1942.[2] His orchestra succeeded Miller's on a program sponsored by Chesterfield Cigarettes that year when Miller disbanded his orchestra to enter the Army.
James was married three times. On May 4, 1935, he married singer Louise Tobin, with whom he had two children. They divorced in 1943.[2] That same year, he married actress Betty Grable. They had two daughters, Victoria and Jessica, before divorcing in 1965. James married a third time in 1968 to Las Vegas showgirl Joan Boyd, whom he would divorce in March 1970. Contrary to some assertions, he did not marry a fourth time. He had five children (two by Tobin, two by Grable, one by Boyd) and (as of his death) 16 grandchildren.
James owned several thoroughbred racehorses that won races such as the California Breeders' Champion Stakes (1951) and the San Vicente Stakes (1954). He was also a founding investor in the Atlantic City Race Course. His knowledge of horse racing was demonstrated during a 1958 appearance on The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour entitled "Lucy Wins A Racehorse.[5]"
In 1983, James was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer, but he continued to work, playing his last professional job on June 26, 1983, in Los Angeles, California, just nine days before his death in Las Vegas, Nevada.[1][6] He died exactly 40 years after his marriage to Betty Grable (July 5, 1943), who was buried exactly 30 years after that date (July 5, 1973). Frank Sinatra gave the eulogy at the Bunkers Eden Vale Memorial Park in Las Vegas.[7]
In 2007, a personally owned and stage-played custom made trumpet formerly owned by both James and trumpeter Joe Cabot was sold at auction for a mid five-figure amount. It was played by both men while they toured together from 1979–1982 in the musical review The Big Broadcast of 1944.
Filmography[link]
- Hollywood Hotel (1937) (as himself, in Benny Goodman's band)
- Springtime in the Rockies (1942) (as himself)
- Private Buckaroo (1942) (as himself)
- Swing Fever (1943) (as himself)
- Best Foot Forward (1943) (as himself)
- Bathing Beauty (1944) (as himself)
- Two Girls and a Sailor (1944) (as himself)
- Do You Love Me (1946)
- If I'm Lucky (1946)
- Carnegie Hall (1947) (as himself)
- I'll Get By (1950) (as himself)
- The Benny Goodman Story (1956) (as himself)
- The Opposite Sex (1956) (as himself)
- Outlaw Queen (1957)
- Riot in Rhythm (1957) (short subject; as himself)
- The Sting II (1983)
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References[link]
- ^ a b "The Dead Rock Stars Club". http://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/1980.html. Retrieved July 17, 2008.
- ^ a b c "Allmusic". http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p6801. Retrieved July 19, 2008.
- ^ "http://www.harryjamesband.com" Harry James Orchestra – Official Site
- ^ "Harry James"
- ^ "The Lucy Desi Comedy Hour Lucy Wins A Racehorse"
- ^ Findagrave.com
- ^ hnwhitekings.com
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- Harry James and his big band
- Solid! – Harry James
- – The Man With The Horn – A Biography of Harry James
- Harry James Official 10inch (78rpm) Discography (w/ Photo Vinyl & Cat. Numbers)
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| Name | James, Harry |
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| Place of birth | Albany, Georgia, United States |
| Date of death | July 5, 1983 |
| Place of death | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States |
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For other people named Steve Allen, see Steve Allen (disambiguation).
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 Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows at the 39th Emmy Awards in September 1987. |
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| Born | Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (1921-12-26)December 26, 1921 New York City, New York |
| Died | October 30, 2000(2000-10-30) (aged 78) Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | Actor, comedian, television personality, musician, writer |
| Years active | 1940s–2000 |
| Spouse | Dorothy Goodman (m. 1943-1952; divorced) Jayne Meadows (m. 1954-2000; his death) |
Stephen Valentine Patrick William "Steve" Allen (December 26, 1921 - October 30, 2000) was an American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer. Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best known for his television career. He first gained national attention as a guest host on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. He graduated to become the first host of The Tonight Show, where he was instrumental in innovating the concept of the television talk show. Thereafter, he hosted numerous game and variety shows, including The Steve Allen Show, I've Got a Secret, The New Steve Allen Show, and was a regular panel member on CBS' What's My Line?
Allen was a "creditable" pianist,[1] and a prolific composer, having penned over 14,000 songs,[citation needed] one of which was recorded by Perry Como and Margaret Whiting, others by Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Les Brown, and Gloria Lynne. Allen won a Grammy award in 1963 for best jazz composition, with his song The Gravy Waltz. His vast number of songs have never been equaled. Allen wrote more than 50 books, has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Hollywood theater named in his honor The Steve Allen Theater.[2]
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Allen was born in New York City, the son of Billy and Isabelle Allen (née Donohue), a vaudeville comedienne, who performed under the stage name Belle Montrose.[3] Allen was raised on the south side of Chicago by his mother's Irish Catholic family. Milton Berle once called Allen's mother "the funniest woman in vaudeville."
Allen's first radio job was on station KOY in Phoenix, Arizona, after he left Arizona State Teachers College (now Arizona State University) in Tempe, while still a sophomore. He enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II and was trained as an infantryman.[citation needed] He spent his service time at Camp Roberts, near Monterey, California and did not serve overseas. Allen returned to Phoenix before deciding to move back to California.
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The hand prints of Allen in front of Hollywood Hills Amphitheater at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.
Allen became an announcer for KFAC in Los Angeles and then moved to the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1946, talking the station into airing a five-nights-a-week comedy show, Smile Time, co-starring Wendell Noble. After Allen moved to CBS Radio's KNX in Los Angeles, his music-and-talk half-hour format gradually changed to include more talk on a full-hour, late-night show, boosting his popularity and creating standing-room-only studio audiences. During one episode of the show reserved primarily for an interview with Doris Day, his guest star failed to appear, so Allen picked up a microphone and went into the audience to ad lib for the first time.[4] His radio show attracted a huge local following, and in 1950 it replaced Our Miss Brooks, exposing Allen to a national audience for the first time.
Allen's first television experience had come in 1949 when he answered an ad for a TV announcer for professional wrestling. He knew nothing about wrestling, so he watched some shows and discovered that the announcers did not have well-defined names for the holds. When he got the job, he created names for many of the holds, some of which are still used today.
After CBS radio gave Allen a weekly prime time show, CBS television believed it could groom him for national small-screen stardom and gave Allen his first network television show. The Steve Allen Show premiered at 11 am on Christmas Day, 1950, and was later moved into a thirty-minute, early evening slot. This new show required him to uproot his family and move from LA to New York, since at that time a coast to coast program could not originate from LA. The show was only a modest ratings success, and was canceled in 1952, after which CBS tried several shows to showcase Allen's talent.[5]
Allen achieved national attention when he was pressed into service at the last minute to host Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts because Godfrey was unable to appear. Allen turned one of Godfrey's live Lipton commercials upside down, preparing tea and instant soup on camera and then pouring both into Godfrey's ukulele. With the audience (including Godfrey, watching from Miami) uproariously and thoroughly entertained, Allen gained major recognition as a comedian and host.
He was a regular on the popular panel game show What's My Line? (where he coined the popular phrase, "Is it bigger than a breadbox?") from 1953 to 1954 and returned frequently as a panelist after Fred Allen died in March 1956, until the series ended in 1967.
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Main article: Tonight Starring Steve Allen
Leaving CBS, he created a late-night New York talk-variety TV program in 1953 for what is now WNBC-TV. The following year, on September 27, 1954, the show went on the full NBC network as The Tonight Show, with fellow radio personality Gene Rayburn (who later went on to host hit game shows such as Match Game, 1962–1982) as the original announcer. The show ran from 11:15 pm to 1:00 am on the East Coast.
While Today developer Sylvester "Pat" Weaver is often credited as the Tonight creator, Allen often pointed out that he had previously created it as a local New York show. Allen told his nationwide audience that first evening: "This is Tonight, and I can't think of too much to tell you about it except I want to give you the bad news first: this program is going to go on forever... you think you're tired now. Wait until you see one o'clock roll around!"[citation needed]
It was as host of The Tonight Show that Allen pioneered the "man on the street" interviews and audience-participation comedy breaks that have become commonplace on late-night TV.
The Steve Allen Show[link]
In 1956, NBC offered Allen a new, prime-time, Sunday night variety hour, The Steve Allen Show, aimed at dethroning CBS's top-rated Ed Sullivan Show. The show included a typical run of star performers, including early TV appearances by Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. Many popular film and television stars were guest stars, including Bob Hope, Kim Novak, Errol Flynn, Abbott and Costello, Esther Williams, Jerry Lewis, Martha Raye, The Three Stooges, and a host of others.
The show's regulars were Tom Poston, Louis Nye, Bill Dana, Don Knotts, Pat Harrington, Jr., Dayton Allen, and Gabriel Dell. All except film veteran Dell were relatively obscure performers prior to their stints with Allen, and all went on to stardom. The comedians in Allen's gang were often seen in "The Man in the Street," featuring interviews about some topical subject. Poston would appear as a dullard who could not remember his own name; Nye was "Gordon Hathaway," fey Madison Avenue executive; Dana played amiable Latino "Jose Jimenez"; Knotts was an exceedingly jittery man who, when asked if he was nervous, invariably replied with an alarmed "No!"; Harrington was Italian immigrant "Guido Panzini"; Dayton Allen played wild-eyed zanies answering any given question with "Why not?". Gabe Dell usually played straight men in sketches (policemen, newsmen, dramatic actors, etc.).
Other recurring routines included "Crazy Shots" (also known as "Wild Pictures"), a series of sight gags accompanied by Allen on piano; Allen inviting audience members to select three musical notes at random, and then composing a song based on the three notes; a satire on radio's long-running The Answer Man and a precursor to Johnny Carson's Carnac the Magnificent (Sample answer: "Et tu, Brute."/Allen's reply: "How many pizzas did you eat, Caesar?")
The live Sunday night show aired opposite The Ed Sullivan Show on CBS and Maverick on ABC. One of Allen's guests was comedian Johnny Carson, a future successor to Allen as host of The Tonight Show. Among Carson's material during that appearance was a portrayal of how a poker game between Allen, Sullivan, and Maverick star James Garner (all impersonated by Carson) would transpire. Allen's programs also featured a good deal of music; he helped the careers of singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, who were regulars on his early Tonight Show, and Sammy Davis, Jr.
Allen's show also had one of the longest unscripted "crack-ups" on live TV when Allen began laughing hysterically during "Big Bill Allen's Sports Roundup." He laughed uncontrollably for over a minute, with the audience laughing along, because, as he later explained, he caught sight of his unkempt hair on an off-camera monitor. He kept brushing his hair and changing hats to hide the messy hair, and the more he tried to correct his appearance the funnier it got.
Allen helped the recently invented Polaroid camera become popular by demonstrating its use in live commercials and amassed a huge windfall for his work because he had opted to be paid in Polaroid Corporation stock.
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Steve Allen (left) and Lenny Bruce.
Allen remained host of "Tonight" for three nights a week (Monday and Tuesday nights were taken up by Ernie Kovacs) until early 1957, when he left the "Tonight" show to devote his attention to the Sunday night program. It was his (and NBC's) hope that the Steve Allen show could defeat Ed Sullivan in the ratings. Nevertheless the TV Western Maverick often bested both The Ed Sullivan Show and The Steve Allen Show in audience size.[6] In September 1959, Allen relocated to Los Angeles and left Sunday night television (the 1959-'60 season originated from NBC Color City in Burbank as The Steve Allen Plymouth Show, on Monday nights). Back in Los Angeles, he continued to write songs, hosted other variety shows, and wrote books and articles about comedy.
Later TV projects[link]
From 1962 to 1964, Allen re-created The Tonight Show on a new late-night The Steve Allen Show, which was syndicated by Westinghouse TV. The five-nights-a-week taped show was broadcast from an old vaudeville theater renamed The Steve Allen Playhouse on 1228 N. Vine St. in Hollywood.[7] (Several sources have erroneously identified Allen's show using the name of his theater.)
The show was marked by the same wild and unpredictable stunts and comedy skits that often extended down the street to a supermarket known as the Hollywood Ranch Market. He also presented Southern California eccentrics, including health food advocate Gypsy Boots, quirky physics professor Dr. Julius Sumner Miller, wacko comic Prof. Irwin Corey, and an early musical performance by Frank Zappa.[8]
During one episode, Allen placed a telephone call to the home of Johnny Carson, posing as a ratings company interviewer, asking Carson if the Television was on, and what program he was watching. Carson didn't immediately realize the caller was Allen, and the exchange is classic humor from both, beginning to end. A rarity is the exchange between Allen and Carson about Carson's guests, permitting him to plug his own show on a competing network.
One notable program, which Westinghouse refused to distribute, featured Lenny Bruce during the time the comic was repeatedly being arrested on obscenity charges; footage from this program was first telecast in 1998 in a Bruce documentary aired on HBO. Regis Philbin took over hosting the Westinghouse show in 1964, but only briefly.
The show also featured plenty of jazz played by Allen and members of the show's band, the Donn Trenner Orchestra, which included such virtuoso musicians as guitarist Herb Ellis and flamboyantly comedic hipster trombonist Frank Rosolino (whom Allen credited with originating the "Hiyo!" chant later popularized by Ed McMahon). While the show was not an overwhelming success in its day, David Letterman, Steve Martin, Harry Shearer, Robin Williams, and a number of other prominent comedians have cited Allen's "Westinghouse show," which they watched as teenagers, as being highly influential on their own comedic visions.
Allen later produced a second half-hour show for Westinghouse, titled Jazz Scene, which featured West Coast jazz musicians such as Rosolino, Stan Kenton, and Teddy Edwards. The short-lived show was hosted by Oscar Brown, Jr.
Allen hosted a number of television programs up until the 1980s, including The New Steve Allen Show in 1961 and the game show I've Got a Secret (replacing original host Garry Moore) in 1964. In the summer of 1967, he brought most of the regulars from over the years back with The Steve Allen Comedy Hour, featuring the debuts of Rob Reiner, Richard Dreyfuss, and John Byner and featuring Ruth Buzzi, who would become famous soon after on "Laugh-In." In 1968–71, he returned to syndicated nightly variety-talk with the same wacky stunts that would influence David Letterman in later years, including becoming a human hood ornament; jumping into vats of oatmeal and cottage cheese; and being slathered with dog food, allowing dogs backstage to feast on the free food. During the run of this series, Allen also introduced Albert Brooks and Steve Martin to a national audience for the first time.
A syndicated version of I've Got A Secret hosted by Allen and featuring panelists Pat Carroll and Richard Dawson was taped in Hollywood and aired during the 1972-73 season. In 1977, he produced Steve Allen's Laugh-Back, a syndicated series combining vintage Allen film clips with new talk-show material reuniting his 1950s TV gang. From 1986 through 1988, Allen hosted a daily three-hour comedy show heard nationally on the NBC Radio Network that featured sketches and America's best-known comedians as regular guests. His cohost was radio personality Mark Simone, and they were joined frequently by comedy writers Larry Gelbart, Herb Sargent, and Bob Einstein.
Composer, actor, and author[link]
Allen was an accomplished composer who wrote over 10,000 songs. He began his recording career in 1953 by signing with Decca Records's Brunswick Records sublabel.[9] In one famous stunt, he made a bet with singer-songwriter Frankie Laine that he could write 50 songs a day for a week. Composing on public display in the window of a Hollywood music store, Allen met the quota, winning $1,000 from Laine. One of the songs, Let's Go to Church Next Sunday, was recorded by both Perry Como and Margaret Whiting. Allen's best-known songs are "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" and "The Gravy Waltz," the latter having won a Grammy award in 1963 for Best Jazz Composition. He also wrote lyrics for the standards "Picnic" and "South Rampart Street Parade." Allen composed the score to the Paul Mantee imitation James Bond film A Man Called Dagger (1967), with the score orchestrated by Ronald Stein.
Allen was also an actor. He wrote and starred in his first film, the Mack Sennett comedy compilation Down Memory Lane, in 1949. His most famous film appearance is in 1955's The Benny Goodman Story, in the title role. The film, while an average biopic of its day, was heralded for its music, featuring many alumni of the Goodman band. Allen later recalled his one contribution to the film's music, used in the film's early scenes: the accomplished Benny Goodman could no longer produce the sound of a clarinet beginner, and that was the only sound Allen could make on a clarinet! In 1960, he appeared as the character "Dr. Ellison" in the episode "Play Acting" of CBS's anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson though his The Steve Allen Show had been in competition with the June Allyson program the preceding season.
From 1977 to 1981, Allen was the producer of the award-winning PBS series, Meeting of Minds, a "talk show" with actors playing the parts of notable historical figures and Steve Allen as the host. This series pitted the likes of Socrates, Marie Antoinette, Thomas Paine, Sir Thomas More, Attila the Hun, Karl Marx, Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and Galileo Galilei in dialogue and argument. This was the show Allen wanted to be remembered for, because he believed that the issues and characters were timeless and would survive long after his death.[citation needed]
Allen was a comedy writer and author of more than 50 books, including Dumbth, a commentary on the American educational system, and Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, and Morality. Twenty of his books were concerned with his views about religion.[10] Perhaps influenced by his son's involvement with a religious cult, he became an outspoken critic of organized religion and an active member of such humanist and skeptical organizations as the Council for Media Integrity, a group that debunked pseudoscientific claims.[11]
Allen and rock music[link]
Allen was notoriously contemptuous of rock 'n' roll music, although he was showman enough to scoop Ed Sullivan by being one of the first to present Elvis Presley on network television (after Presley had appeared on the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey Stage Show and Milton Berle shows). "Allen found a way... to satisfy the Puritans. He assured viewers that he would not allow Presley 'to do anything that will offend anyone.' NBC announced that a 'revamped, purified and somewhat abridged Presley' had agreed to sing while standing reasonably still, dressed in black tie."[12] In fact, on this occasion, Allen had Elvis wear a top hat and the white tie and tails of a "high class" musician while singing "Hound Dog" to an actual hound, who was similarly attired. According to Jake Austen, "the way Steve Allen treated Elvis Presley was his federal crime. Allen thought Presley was talentless and absurd, and so he decided to goof on him. Allen set things up so that Presley would show his contrition by appearing in a tuxedo and singing his new song 'Hound Dog' to an elderly basset hound..."[13] Elaine Dundy says that Allen smirkingly presented Elvis "with a roll that looks exactly like a large roll of toilet paper with, says Allen, the 'signatures of eighteen thousand fans.' " Presley looked "at Steve as if to say, 'It's all right. I've been made a worse fool in my life,' and after he patted the basset hound he is about to sing Hound Dog to, he wiped his hands on his trousers as if to wipe away Steve Allen, the dog, and the whole show."[14] Guitarist Scotty Moore later said that Elvis and the members of his band were "all angry about their treatment the previous night." "The next day, as Elvis entered the RCA studios to record 'Hound Dog,' fans greeted him with signs that declared, 'We Want the Real Elvis' and 'We Want the Gyrating Elvis.' In the press, critics were no kinder with the singer than they had ever been, this time pronouncing him a 'cowed kid' who had demonstrated, once again, that he 'couldn't sing or act a lick.' "[15] In a column in Newsweek, John Lardner wrote, "Like Huckleberry Finn, when the widow put him in a store suit and told him not to gap or scratch, [Elvis] had been 'fouled' by NBC's attempt to 'civilize him... for the good of mankind.'"[16] Presley often referred to the Allen show as the most ridiculous performance of his career.
The singer "was later featured in a mediocre cowboy sketch with Allen, Andy Griffith, and Imogene Coca. As 'Tumbleweed Presley,' his big joke was, 'I'm warning you galoots, don't step on my blue suede boots.' "[17][18] That apparent mockery was consistent with other situations in which Allen had singers in such comic scenarios on his show, in contrast to the simple "singing in front of a curtain" style of the Sullivan show. The house singers on the early Tonight show were subjected to many such stunts. In addition, Allen's skit with Presley actually was less a put-down of Presley and mainly a satire of country music stage shows like the Grand Ole Opry and the Louisiana Hayride, the Shreveport-based country music radio show (over KWKH) Presley performed on in 1954 and 1955. It's highly debatable, given Presley's spirited performance, whether unlike the top hat and tails performance, there was any put-down motivation on Allen's part with this particular skit, since he could have easily done it in any of his other programs.
In a 1996 interview Allen was asked about the show. Asked if NBC executives expressed any concerns about Elvis's planned appearance, Allen replied that he'd "read more nonsense about " it, and "a lot of wrong reports have gotten into the public -". "If there ever was, I never heard about it. And since it was my show, I think it would have brought to my attention. " Regarding Elvis's movements he stated "No! I took no objection to the movements I'd seen him make on the Dorsey Brothers show. I didn't see a problem. Of course, I had read about some of the controversy, much of it generated by Ed Sullivan, who was opposite of our show on CBS. It didn't matter to me. I was using good production sense in booking him."[19]
In his book "Hi-Ho Steverino!" Allen wrote the following: "When I booked Elvis, I naturally had no interest in just presenting him vaudeville-style and letting him do his spot as he might in concert. Instead we worked him into the comedy fabric of our program." "We certainly didn't inhibit Elvis' then-notorious pelvic gyrations, but I think the fact that he had on formal evening attire made him, purely on his own, slightly alter his presentation."[20]
Allen also appeared on the shows of entertainers, even the rock and roll program The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom on ABC.
Later career[link]
In the late 1970s early 80s, Steve Allen recorded a solo piano Pianocorder album for the Pianocorder Contemporary Artists Series, joining other illustrious artists-pianists of the day such as Liberace, Floyd Cramer, Teddy Wilson, Roger Williams, and Johnny Guarnieri to name a few. His solo album was very popular. Pianocorder was founded by Joseph Tushinsky. The Pianocorder was the first modern mechanical player piano made for the public that used solenoids to power the keys. Later, it was bought out by Yamaha-Disklavier and discontinued and is known today as the Yamaha Disklavier. During the late 80s, Allen and his second wife Jayne Meadows made numerous appearances on the drama St. Elsewhere, playing Victor Erlich's estranged parents.
The 1985 documentary film Kerouac, the Movie starts and ends with footage of Jack Kerouac reading from On the Road as Allen accompanies on soft jazz piano from The Steve Allen Plymouth Show in 1959. "Are you nervous?" Allen asks him; Kerouac answers nervously, "Noo," a take-off on the character usually played by Don Knotts.
Allen appeared in a PSA advocating for New Eyes for the Needy in the 1990s.
Also, Allen made a cameo appearance at Wrestlemania VI in a skit with The Bolsheviks. Allen told the Bolsheviks that he was going to play the Soviet National Anthem while The Bolsheviks sang along; however, Allen simply stalled playing other notes while never actually playing the anthem.
Personal life[link]
Steve Allen was married to Dorothy Goodman in 1943 and they had three children, Steve Jr., Brian, and David. That marriage ended in divorce in 1952. Allen's second wife was actress Jayne Meadows, sister to actress Audrey Meadows. The marriage of Allen and Meadows produced one son, Bill Allen. They were married from 1954 until his death in 2000.
Allen received a traditional Irish Catholic upbringing.[10] He later became a secular humanist and Humanist Laureate for the Academy of Humanism, a member of CSICOP and the Council for Secular Humanism.[10] He received the Rose Elizabeth Bird Commitment to Justice Award from Death Penalty Focus in 1998. He was a student and supporter of general semantics, recommending it in Dumbth and giving the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture in 1992. In spite of his liberal position on free speech, his later concerns about the lewdness he saw on radio and television, particularly the programs of Howard Stern, caused him to make proposals restricting the content of programs, allying himself with the Parents Television Council.[21] His full-page ad on the subject appeared in newspapers a day or two before his unexpected death. Allen's views evolved in the last dozen years of his life, as he called himself an "involved Presbyterian".{[fact}} He had been married for decades to Jayne Meadows, who was the daughter of a Christian missonary.[10]
Allen made a last appearance on The Tonight Show on September 27, 1994, for the show's 40th anniversary broadcast. Jay Leno was effusive in praise and actually knelt down and kissed his ring.
He was a Democrat whereas his wife was a Republican[22].
Death[link]
On October 30, 2000, Allen was driving to his son's home in Encino, California, when his car was struck by another vehicle backing out of a driveway. Neither Allen nor the other driver believed he was injured and damage to both vehicles was minimal, so the two exchanged insurance information and Allen continued on.
Shortly after arriving at his son's home (after carving pumpkins with his grandchildren and taping a radio tribute to an old friend, satirist Paul Krassner), Allen did not feel right and decided to take a nap. While napping, he suffered a massive heart attack and was pronounced dead shortly after 8 p.m. Autopsy results concluded that the traffic accident earlier in the day had caused a blood vessel in his chest to rupture, causing blood to leak into the sac surrounding the heart (known as haemopericardium.[23]) In addition, he suffered four broken ribs as a result of the accident.
Allen was two months shy of his 79th birthday at the time of his death. He is interred in an unmarked grave at Forest Lawn Memorial Park-Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles.
Allen has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — a television star at 1720 Vine St. and a radio star at 1537 Vine St.
Works[link]
Shows[link]
- Songs for Sale (1950–1952)
- What's My Line? (regular panelist, 1953–1954; frequent guest panelist 1954-1967)
- Jukebox Jury (1953)
- Talent Patrol (1953–1955)
- The Steve Allen Show (1956–61)
- The Tonight Show (1954–1957, NBC)
- The Steve Allen Westinghouse Show (1962–1968)
- I've Got a Secret (1964–1967, 1972–1973)
- The Steve Allen Show (Filmways production, 1968–1969)
- Match Game (panelist, 1974)
- Meeting of Minds (1977–1981, PBS)
- Steve Allen Comedy Hour (1980–1981)
- The Start of Something Big (1985–1986)
- Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1997, one episode, Guest)
- Homicide: Life On The Street (1998): Steve and Jayne appeared as guests (January 16, 1998).
Songs[link]
- "Theme from Picnic"
- "This Could Be the Start of Something Big"
- "Pretend You Don't See Her, My Heart"
- "The Gravy Waltz"
- "The Saturday Evening Post"
- "Impossible"
- "Cool Yule"
Comedic Discography[link]
- "Man in the Street" (1963) (Signature 1004)
- "Funny Fone Calls" (1963) (Dot 3472, re-issued as Casablanca 811-366-1-ML)
- "More Funny Fone Calls" (1963) (Dot 3517, re-issued as Casablanca 811-367-1-ML)
Musical Discography[link]
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- Songs for Gentle People (Dunhill, 1967)
- Soulful Brass with Oliver Nelson (Impulse!, 1968)
- Soulful Brass #2 with Oliver Nelson (Flying Dutchman, 1969)
Books[link]
| Year | Title | Notes | Identifiers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Steve Allen's Bop Fables | illustrated by George Price | OCLC 1006762 |
| 1955 | Fourteen for Tonight | short stories | OCLC 1034835 |
| 1956 | The Funny Men | OCLC 329974 | |
| 1956 | Wry on the Rocks | poems | OCLC 1150685 |
| 1958 | The Girls on the 10th Floor and Other Stories | short stories | OCLC 1131890; ISBN 0-8369-3608-6 (1970 printing) |
| 1959 | The Question Man... | photographs by Gene Lester | OCLC 1150647 |
| 1960 | Mark It and Strike It: An Autobiography | OCLC 25533614 | |
| 1962 | Not All of Your Laughter, Not All of Your Tears | Steve's first novel | OCLC 1626391 |
| 1964 | Dialogues in Americanism | transcript of three debates: Allen vs. William F. Buckley, Jr.; Robert M. Hutchins vs. L. Brent Bozell, and James MacGregor Burns vs. Willmoore Kendall | OCLC 397431 |
| 1965 | Letter to a Conservative | OCLC 1150594 | |
| 1966 | The Ground is Our Table | photographs by Arthur Dubinsky | OCLC 358823 |
| 1967 | Bigger than a Breadbox | with commentary by Leonard Feather; illustrations by Rowland B. Wilson | OCLC 717481 |
| 1969 | A Flash of Swallows: New Poems | poems | ISBN 0-8375-6734-3; OCLC 5024 |
| 1972 | The Wake | ISBN 0-385-07608-8 | |
| 1973 | Princess Snip-Snip and the Puppy-Kittens | illustrated by David Gantz | |
| 1973 | Curses! or... How Never to Be Foiled Again | illustrated by Marvin Rubin | ISBN 0-87477-008-4 |
| 1974 | What To Say When It Rains | ISBN 0-8431-0357-4 | |
| 1975 | Schmock-Schmock! | ISBN 0-385-09664-X | |
| 1978 | Meeting of Minds | ISBN 0-517-53383-9; 1989 printing: ISBN 0-87975-550-4 | |
| 1978 | Chopped-Up Chinese | ||
| 1979 | Ripoff: A Look at Corruption in America | with Roslyn Bernstein and Donald H. Dunn | ISBN 0-8184-0249-0 |
| 1979 | Meeting of Minds, Second Series | ISBN 0-517-53894-6; 1989 printing: ISBN 0-87975-565-2 | |
| 1980 | Explaining China | ISBN 0-517-54062-2 | |
| 1981 | Funny People | ISBN 0-8128-2764-3 | |
| 1982 | Beloved Son: A Story of the Jesus Cults | ISBN 0-672-52678-6 | |
| 1982 | More Funny People | ISBN 0-8128-2884-4 | |
| 1986 | How to Make a Speech | ISBN 0-07-001164-8 | |
| 1987 | How to Be Funny: Discovering the Comic You | with Jane Wollman | ISBN 0-07-001199-0; 1992 printing: ISBN 0-87975-792-2; 1998 revised edition: ISBN 1-57392-206-4 |
| 1989 | The Passionate Nonsmoker's Bill of Rights: The First Guide to Enacting Nonsmoking Legislation | with Bill Adler, Jr. | ISBN 0-688-06295-4 |
| 1989 | "Dumbth": And 81 Ways to Make Americans Smarter | ISBN 0-87975-539-3; 1998 revised edition: ISBN 1-57392-237-4 | |
| 1989 | Meeting of Minds, Vol. III | ISBN 0-87975-566-0 | |
| 1989 | Meeting of Minds, Vol. IV | ISBN 0-87975-567-9 | |
| 1990 | The Public Hating: A Collection of Short Stories | ISBN 0-942637-22-4 | |
| 1990 | Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion & Morality | ISBN 0-87975-638-1 | |
| 1992 | Hi-Ho, Steverino: The Story of My Adventures in the Wonderful Wacky World of Television | ISBN 0-942637-55-0; large-print edition: ISBN 1-56054-521-6 | |
| 1993 | More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion & Morality | ISBN 0-87975-736-1 | |
| 1993 | Make 'em Laugh | ISBN 0-87975-837-6 | |
| 1994 | Reflections | ISBN 0-87975-904-6 | |
| 1995 | The Man Who Turned Back the Clock, and Other Short Stories | ISBN 1-57392-002-9 | |
| 1995 | The Bug and the Slug in the Rug | ISBN 1-880851-17-2 | |
| 1996 | But Seriously...: Steve Allen Speaks His Mind | ISBN 1-57392-090-8 | |
| 1999 | Steve Allen's Songs: 100 Lyrics with Commentary | ISBN 0-7864-0736-0 | |
| 2000 | Steve Allen's Private Joke File | ISBN 0-609-80672-6 | |
| 2001 | Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio—Raising the Standards of Popular Culture | ISBN 1-57392-874-7 |
Allen's series of mystery novels "starring" himself and wife Jayne Meadows were in part ghostwritten by Walter J. Sheldon, and later Robert Westbrook.
- The Talk Show Murders (1982), ISBN 0-440-08471-7
- Murder on the Glitter Box (1989), ISBN 0-8217-2752-4
- Murder in Manhattan (1990), ISBN 0-8217-3033-9
- Murder in Vegas (1991), ISBN 0-8217-3462-8
- The Murder Game (1993), ISBN 0-8217-4115-2
- Murder on the Atlantic (1995), ISBN 0-8217-4647-2
- Wake Up to Murder (1996), ISBN 1-57566-090-3
- Die Laughing (1998), ISBN 1-57566-241-8
- Murder in Hawaii (1999), ISBN 1-57566-375-9
Politics[link]
Allen was keenly interested in social justice and wrote pamphlets on a variety of issues, including the problems facing migrant workers, as well as the problems of capital punishment and nuclear weapons proliferation. He once considered running for Congress from California, calling his politics "middle-of-the-road radicalism".[24]
References[link]
- ^ LIFE February 13, 1956. p. 56.
- ^ Anthony Dalessandro (February 1, 2006). "The God and Satan Show". LA Times. http://www.laweekly.com/2006-02-02/stage/the-god-and-satan-show/. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ Stephen Allen Biography (1921–2000)
- ^ The Official Website of Steve Allen
- ^ Ben Alba, Inventing Late Night: Steve Allen and the Original Tonight Show (Prometheus Books, 2005), pp. 40-42
- ^ "Maverick". The Museum of Broadcast Communications. http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/maverick/maverick.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-20. "Maverick premiered on September 22, 1957, and pretty soon won over the viewers from the powerful opposition of CBS's The Ed Sullivan Show and NBC's The Steve Allen Show, two programs that had been Sunday night favourites from the mid-1950s."
- ^ http://cinematreasures.org/theater/1419
- ^ Slaven, 1996, Electric Don Quixote, pp. 35–36. and Youtube
- ^ Billboard Sep 12, 1953
- ^ a b c d Godsmack. OC Weekley. Published March 1, 2007.
- ^ "A Tribute to Steve Allen]," Paul Kurtz, Skeptical Inquirer magazine, January/February 2001.
- ^ Glenn C. Altschuler, All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (Oxford University Press, 2003), p.90.
- ^ See Austen, Jake, TV-A-Go-Go: Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol (2005), p.13.
- ^ Dundy, Elaine, Elvis and Gladys (University Press of Mississippi, 2004), p. 259.
- ^ Altschuler, p.90.
- ^ Cited in Altschuler, p.90.
- ^ See for yourself
- ^ Jake Austen, TV A-Go-Go: Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol (2005), p.13.
- ^ http://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/steve_allen.html
- ^ The Steve Allen Comedy Show
- ^ TV legend Steve Allen dies. BBC News. Published 31 October 2000.
- ^ http://articles.latimes.com/1997-05-07/local/me-56437_1_love-letters
- ^ transcripts.cnn.com
- ^ Richard Severo (November 01, 2000). "Steve Allen, Comedian Who Pioneered Late-Night TV Talk Shows, Is Dead at 78". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/01/arts/steve-allen-comedian-who-pioneered-late-night-tv-talk-shows-is-dead-at-78.html.
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| Name | Allen, Stephen Valentine Patrick William |
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| Short description | American writer, comedian, musician |
| Date of birth | December 26, 1921 |
| Place of birth | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Date of death | October 30, 2000 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Birth name | Gerald Joseph Mulligan |
| Also known as | Jeru |
| Born | (1927-04-06)April 6, 1927 |
| Origin | Queens Village, Queens, New York, United States |
| Died | January 20, 1996(1996-01-20) (aged 68) |
| Genres | Jazz, cool jazz |
| Occupations | Saxophonist |
| Instruments | Baritone saxophone, clarinet, piano |
| Associated acts | Gil Evans, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Lee Konitz, Paul Desmond, Billy Taylor, Ben Webster, Stan Getz, Dave Brubeck, Bob Brookmeyer |
Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.[1] Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. Mulligan's pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the more important cool jazz groups. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments. Mulligan reportedly had a relationship with actress Judy Holliday until she died in 1965, and with actress Sandy Dennis from 1965 through 1976.
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Biography[link]
Early life and career[link]
Gerry Mulligan was born in Queens Village, Queens, New York, the son of George and Louise Mulligan. His father was a Wilmington, Delaware native of Irish descent; his mother a Philadelphia native of half Irish and half German descent. Gerry was the last of four sons: George, Phil, Don and Gerry.
George Mulligan's career as an engineer necessitated frequent moves through numerous cities. When Gerry was less than a year old, the family moved to Marion, Ohio, where his father accepted a job with the Marion Power Shovel Company.
With the demands of a large home and four young boys to raise, Mulligan's mother hired an African-American nanny named Lily Rose, who became especially fond of the youngest Mulligan. As he became older, Mulligan began spending time at Rose's house and was especially amused by Rose's player piano, which Mulligan later recalled as having rolls by numerous players, including Fats Waller. Black musicians sometimes came through town, and because many motels wouldn't take them, they often had to stay at homes within the black community. The young Mulligan occasionally met such musicians staying at Rose's home.
The family's moves continued with stops in southern New Jersey (where Mulligan lived with his maternal grandmother), Chicago, Illinois, and Kalamazoo, Michigan, where Mulligan lived for three years and attended Catholic school. When the school moved into a new building and established music courses, Mulligan decided to play clarinet in the school's nascent orchestra. Mulligan made an attempt at arranging with the Richard Rodgers song "Lover", but the arrangement was seized prior to its first reading by an overzealous nun who was taken aback by the title on the arrangement.
When Gerry Mulligan was 14, his family moved to Detroit and then to Reading, Pennsylvania. While in Reading, Mulligan began studying clarinet with dance-band musician Sammy Correnti,[2] who also encouraged Mulligan's interest in arranging. Mulligan also began playing saxophone professionally in dance bands in Philadelphia, an hour and a half or so away. Mulligan also studied the blues with Corey Lynn Carter at this point.
The Mulligan family next moved to Philadelphia, where Gerry attended the West Philadelphia Catholic High School for Boys and organized a school big band, for which he also wrote arrangements. When Mulligan was sixteen, he approached Johnny Warrington at local radio station WCAU about writing arrangements for the station's house band. Warrington was impressed and began buying Mulligan's arrangements.
Mulligan dropped out of high school during his senior year to pursue work with a touring band. He contacted bandleader Tommy Tucker when Tucker was visiting Philadelphia's Earle Theatre. While Tucker did not need an additional reedman, he was looking for an arranger and Mulligan was hired at $100 a week to do two or three arrangements a week (including all copying). At the conclusion of Mulligan's three-month contract, Tucker told Mulligan that he should move on to another band that was a little less "tame". Mulligan went back to Philadelphia and began writing for Elliot Lawrence, a pianist and composer who had taken over for Warrington as the band leader at WCAU.
Mulligan moved to New York City in January 1946 and joined the arranging staff on Gene Krupa's bop-tinged band. Notable arrangements of Mulligan's work with Krupa include "Birdhouse", "Disc Jockey Jump" and an arrangement of "How High the Moon" that quoted Charlie Parker's "Ornithology" as a countermelody.
Mulligan next began arranging for the Claude Thornhill Orchestra, occasionally sitting in as a member of the reed section. Thornhill's arranging staff included Gil Evans, whom Mulligan had met while working with the Krupa band. Mulligan eventually began living with Evans, at the time that Evans' apartment on West 55th Street became a regular hangout for a number of jazz musicians working on creating a new jazz idiom.
[edit] Birth of the Cool
In September 1948, Miles Davis formed a nine-piece band that featured arrangements by Mulligan, Evans and John Lewis. The band initially consisted of Davis on trumpet, Mulligan on baritone saxophone, trombonist Mike Zwerin, alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, Junior Collins on French horn, tubist Bill Barber, pianist John Lewis, bassist Al McKibbon and drummer Max Roach.
The band only played a handful of live performances (a two week engagement at the Royal Roost jazz club and two nights at the Clique Club). However, over the next couple of years, Davis reformed the nonet on three occasions to record twelve pieces for release as singles. These were eventually compiled on a Capitol Records album, titled Birth of the Cool. Mulligan wrote and arranged three of the tunes recorded ("Rocker," "Venus de Milo," and "Jeru," the latter named after himself), and arranged a further three ("Deception," "Godchild," and "Darn That Dream").
He was also (with Davis, Konitz and Barber) one of only four musicians who played on all the recordings. Despite the chilly reception by audiences of 1949, the Davis nonet has been judged by history as one of the most influential groups in jazz history, creating a sound that, despite its East Coast origins, became known as West Coast Jazz.
During his period of occasional work with the Davis nonet between 1949 and 1951, Mulligan also regularly performed with and arranged for trombonist Kai Winding. Mulligan's composition "Elevation" and his arrangement of "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" were recorded by Mulligan's old boss, Elliott Lawrence. This brought Mulligan additional recognition. Mulligan also arranged for and recorded with bands led by Georgie Auld and Chubby Jackson.
In September, 1951, Mulligan recorded the first album under his own name, Mulligan Plays Mulligan. By this point, he had mastered a melodic and linear playing style, inspired by Lester Young, that he would retain for the rest of his career.
In the spring of 1952, Mulligan became more desperate for remunerative employment and headed west to Los Angeles with his girlfriend, pianist Gail Madden. Through an acquaintance with arranger Bob Graettinger, Mulligan started writing arrangements for Stan Kenton's Orchestra. While most of Mulligan's work for Kenton were pedestrian arrangements that Kenton needed to fill out money-making dance performances, Mulligan was able to throw in some more substantial original works along the way. His compositions "Walking Shoes" and "Young Blood" stand out as embodiments of the contrapuntal style that became Mulligan's signature. His sound or tone (timbre) was likened to a tweed cloth.[citation needed]
The Pianoless Quartet with Chet Baker[link]
While arranging for Kenton, Mulligan began performing on off-nights at The Haig, a small jazz club on Wilshire Boulevard at Kenmore Street. During the Monday night jam sessions, a young trumpeter named Chet Baker began sitting in with Mulligan. Mulligan and Baker began recording together, although they were unsatisfied with the results. Around that time, vibraphonist Red Norvo's trio began headlining at The Haig, thus leaving no need to keep the grand piano that had been brought in for Erroll Garner's stay at the club.
Faced with a dilemma of what to do for a rhythm section, Mulligan decided to build on earlier experiments and perform as a pianoless quartet with Baker on trumpet, Bob Whitlock on bass and Chico Hamilton on drums (later Mulligan himself would occasionally double on piano). Baker's melodic style fit well with Mulligan's, leading them to create improvised contrapuntal textures free from the rigid confines of a piano-enforced chordal structure. While novel at the time in sound and style, this ethos of contrapuntal group improvisation hearkened back to the formative days of jazz. Despite their very different backgrounds, Mulligan a classically-trained New Yorker and Baker from Oklahoma and a much more instinctive player, they had an almost psychic rapport and Mulligan later remarked that, "I had never experienced anything like that before and not really since." Their dates at the Haig became sell-outs and the recordings they made in the fall of 1952 became major sellers that led to significant acclaim for Mulligan and Baker.
This fortuitous collaboration came to an abrupt end with Mulligan's arrest on narcotics charges in mid-1953 that led to six months at Sheriff's Honor Farm. Both Mulligan and Baker had, like their peers, become heroin addicts. However, while Mulligan was in prison, Baker transformed his lyrical trumpet style, gentle tenor voice and matinee-idol looks into independent stardom. Thus when upon his release Mulligan attempted to rehire Baker, the trumpeter declined the offer for financial reasons. They did briefly reunite at the 1955 Newport Jazz Festival and would occasionally get together for performances and recordings up through a 1974 performance at Carnegie Hall. But in later years their relationship became strained as Mulligan, with considerable effort, would manage to kick his habit, while Baker's addiction would bedevil him professionally and personally almost constantly until his death in 1988.[3]
Middle career[link]
Mulligan continued the quartet format with valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer replacing Baker, although Mulligan and Brookmeyer both occasionally played piano. This quartet structure remained the core of Mulligan's groups throughout the rest of the 1950s with sporadic personnel changes and expansions of the group with trumpeters Jon Eardley and Art Farmer, saxophonists Zoot Sims, Al Cohn and Lee Konitz, and vocalist Annie Ross. In 1957, Mulligan and his wife, Arlyne Brown Mulligan (daughter of composer Lew Brown), had a son, Reed Brown Mulligan.
Mulligan also studied Piano with Suezenne Fordham, who was a member of the inner circle of Jazz players in NY. She was sought out by jazz musicians of the era to coach them to improve their piano technique. She and Mulligan also had a personal relationship from 1966 through 1972.
Mulligan also performed as a soloist or sideman (often in festival settings) with a veritable Who's Who of late 50s jazz artists: Paul Desmond, Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Witherspoon, André Previn, Billie Holiday, Marian McPartland, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Stan Getz, Thelonious Monk, Fletcher Henderson, Manny Albam, Quincy Jones, Kai Winding, Miles Davis, and Dave Brubeck. Mulligan appears in Art Kane's celebrated A Great Day in Harlem portrait of 57 major jazz musicians taken in August 1958.
Mulligan formed his first "Concert Jazz Band" in the Spring of 1960. Partly an attempt to revisit the ornate arrangements of big band music in a smaller setting, the band varied in size and personnel, with the core group being six brass, five reeds (including Mulligan) and a pianoless two-piece rhythm section. The membership included (at various times, among others): trumpeters Conte Candoli, Nick Travis, Clark Terry, Don Ferrara, Al Derisi, Thad Jones and Doc Severinsen, saxophonists Zoot Sims Jim Reider, Gene Allen, Bobby Donovan, Phil Woods and Gene Quill, trombonists Willie Dennis, Alan Raph and Bob Brookmeyer, drummers Mel Lewis and Gus Johnson, and bassists Buddy Clark and Bill Crow. The band also recorded an album of songs sung by Gerry's close friend Judy Holliday in 1961. The band toured and recorded extensively through the end of 1964, ultimately producing five albums for Verve records.
Mulligan resumed work with small groups in 1962 and appeared with other groups sporadically (notably in festival situations). Mulligan would continue to work intermittently in small group settings until the end of his life, although performing dates started to become more infrequent during the mid '60s. After Dave Brubeck's quartet broke up in 1967, Mulligan began appearing regularly with Brubeck as the "Gerry Mulligan / Dave Brubeck Quartet" through 1973. Thereafter, Mulligan and Brubeck would work together sporadically until the final year of Mulligan's life.
In 1971, Mulligan created his most significant work for big band in over a decade for the album The Age of Steam. At various times in the 70's he performed with Charles Mingus. The Concert Jazz Band was "reformed" in 1978 and toured at various times through the '80s.
Orchestral work[link]
Mulligan, like many jazz musicians of his era, occasionally recorded with strings. Notable dates include 1957 recordings with Vinnie Burke's String Jazz Quartet, a 1959 orchestra album with André Previn and a 1965 album of the Gerry Mulligan Quintet and Strings. In 1974, Mulligan collaborated with famed Argentine tango musician Ástor Piazzolla. While in Milan for the recording sessions, Mulligan met his future wife, Countess Franca Rota Borghini Baldovinetti, a freelance photojournalist and reporter. In 1975, Mulligan recorded a string album with Italian composer Enrico Intra.
Mulligan's more serious work with orchestra began in May 1970 with a performance of Dave Brubeck's oratorio, The Light in the Wilderness with Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Symphony.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Mulligan worked to build and promote a repertoire of baritone saxophone music for orchestra. In 1973, Mulligan commissioned composer Frank Proto to write a Saxophone Concerto that was premiered with the Cincinnati Symphony. In 1977, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation commissioned Harry Freedman to write the saxophone concerto Celebration which was performed by Mulligan with the CBC Symphony. In 1982, Zubin Mehta invited Mulligan to play soprano saxophone in a New York Philharmonic performance of Ravel's Bolero.
In 1984, Mulligan commissioned Harry Freedman to write The Sax Chronicles which was an arrangement of some of Mulligan's melodies in pastiche styles. In April of that year, Mulligan was a soloist with the New American Orchestra in Los Angeles for the premier of Patrick Williams' Spring Wings.
In June 1984, Mulligan completed and performed his first orchestral commission, Entente for Baritone Saxophone and Orchestra, with the Filarmonia Venetia. In October, Mulligan performed Entente and The Sax Chronicles with the London Symphony Orchestra.
In 1987, Mulligan adapted K-4 Pacific (from his 1971 Age of Steam big band recording) for quartet with orchestra and performed it beside Entente with the Israel Philharmonic in Tel Aviv with Zubin Mehta conducting. Mulligan's orchestral appearances at the time also included the Houston Symphony, Stockholm Philharmonic and New York Philharmonic.
1988 saw the premier of Mulligan's Octet for Sea Cliff a chamber work commissioned by the Sea Cliff Chamber Players. In 1991 the Concordia Orchestra premiered Momo's Clock, a work for orchestra (without saxophone solo) that was inspired by a book by German author Michael Ende.
Later career[link]
Throughout Mulligan's orchestral work and until the end of his life, Mulligan maintained an active career performing and recording jazz - usually with a quartet that included a piano.
In June 1988, Mulligan was invited to be the first-ever Composer-in-Residence at the Glasgow International Jazz Festival and was commissioned to write a work, which he titled The Flying Scotsman. In 1991, Mulligan contacted Miles Davis about revisiting the music from the germane 1949 Birth of the Cool album. Davis had recently performed some of his Gil Evans collaborations with Quincy Jones at the Montreux Jazz Festival and was enthusiastic. However, Davis died from a stroke in September and Mulligan continued the recording project and tour with Wallace Roney and Art Farmer subbing for Davis. Re-Birth of the Cool (released in 1992) featured the charts from Birth of the Cool, and a new nonet which included Lewis and Barber from the original Davis band. Mulligan appeared at the Brecon Jazz Festival 1991. Mulligan's final recording was a quartet album (with guests), Dragonfly, recorded in the Summer of 1995 and released on the Telarc label. Mulligan gave his final performance on the 13th Annual Floating Jazz Festival, SS Norway, Caribbean Cruise, November 9, 1995.
Mulligan died in Darien, Connecticut on January 20, 1996 at the age of 68 following complications from knee surgery. His widow Franca — to whom he had been married since 1976 — said he had also been suffering from liver cancer. Upon Mulligan's death, his library and numerous personal effects (including a gold-plated Conn baritone saxophone) were given to the Library of Congress.[4] 'The Gerry Mulligan Collection' is open to registered public researchers in the library's Performing Arts Research Center.[5] The library placed Mulligan's saxophone on permanent exhibit in early 2009.
Theatre and film[link]
Mulligan's first film appearance was probably with Gene Krupa's orchestra playing alto saxophone in the 1946 RKO short film Follow That Music. Mulligan had small roles in the films I Want to Live! (1958 - as a jazz combo member), The Rat Race (1960 - in which he appears as a tenor saxophonist instead of playing his usual baritone sax), The Subterraneans (1960) and Bells Are Ringing (1960). Mulligan also performed numerous times on television in a variety of settings during his career.
As a film composer, Mulligan wrote music for A Thousand Clowns (1965 - title theme) the film version of the Broadway comedy Luv (1967), the French films La Menace (1977) and Les Petites galères (1977 - with Ástor Piazzolla) and I'm Not Rappaport (1996 - title theme).
In 1974 Mulligan collaborated on a musical version of Anita Loos' play Happy Birthday. Although the creative team had great hopes for the work, it never made it past a workshop production at the University of Alabama. In 1978, Mulligan wrote incidental music for Dale Wasserman's Broadway play Play with Fire.
In 1995 the Hal Leonard Corporation released the video tape The Gerry Mulligan Workshop - A Master Class on Jazz and Its Legendary Players.
Awards[link]
- 1981 Grammy Award (Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Big Band) for Walk on the Water
- Grammy nominations for the albums The Age of Steam, For an Unfinished Woman and Soft Lights and Sweet Music
- 1982 The Birth of the Cool album inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
- 1982 Connecticut Arts Award
- 1984 Viotti Prize (Vercelli, Italy)
- 1984 inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame
- 1988 Duke Ellington Fellow at Yale University
- 1989 received keys to the city of Trieste, Italy
- 1990 Philadelphia Music Foundation Hall of Fame
- 1991 American Jazz Hall of Fame
- 1992 Lionel Hampton School of Music Hall of Fame
- 1992 Guest composer at the Mertens Contemporary American Composer's Festival, University of Bridgeport, Connecticut
- 1994 Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame
- 1995 Artists Committee for the Kennedy Center Honors for the Performing Arts
- 42 consecutive years (1953–1995) winning the Down Beat magazine reader's poll for outstanding baritone saxophonist
Discography[link]
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As leader[link]
- 1950: The Gerry Mulligan Quartet/Gerry Mulligan with the Chubby Jackson Big Band - The big band sides are from 1950, the band led by bassist Jackson included Howard McGhee, Zoot Sims, and trombonist J. J. Johnson. The quartet sides, with Chet Baker were recorded at two sessions in 1952.
- 1951: Historically Speaking
- 1951: Mulligan Plays Mulligan - Mulligan's first session as leader
- 1953: The Original Quartet With Chet Baker -2-CD collection of the recordings of the pianoless quartet with Chico Hamilton for Pacific Jazz
- 1953: Konitz Meets Mulligan (with Chet Baker
- 1954: Gerry Mulligan quartet: Pleyel Concert - (2 CD, with Bob Brookmeyer (v.trb.), Red Mitchell (b), Frank Isola (d)
- 1955: Gerry Mulligan and his Quartet (California Concerts or Jazz Goes To High School)
- 1956: At Storyville ( Quartet, live in Boston, Mulligan plays piano on some tracks,
- 1957: Reunion with Chet Baker
- 1957: Mulligan Meets Monk (with Thelonious Monk as co-leader)
- 1957: Blues in Time (Quartet with Paul Desmond Verve records, released on CD as Gerry Mulligan/Paul Desmond Quartet)
- 1957: Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi (with Stan Getz (t.sax), Lou Levy (p), Ray Brown (b), Stan Levey (d).
- 1958: Jazz Giants '58 (Verve)
- 1958: What Is There to Say?
- 1959: Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (with Ben Webster (t.sax), Jimmy Rowles (p), Leroy Vinnegar (b), Mel Lewis (d).
- 1960: Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard (with drummer Mel Lewis)
- 1961: Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges (with Johnny Hodges (a.sax), Claude Williamson (p), Buddy Clark (b), and Mel Lewis (d)
- 1962: Live at the Olympia Paris
- 1962: The Gerry Mulligan Quartets - Complete Studio Rec. with Bob Brookmeyer (v.trb & p) /Chet Baker (trp), Bill Crow/Henry Grimes (b), Gus Johnson/Dave Bailey (d).
- 1963: Jeru (with Tommy Flanagan, Ben Tucker, Dave Bailey)
- 1963: The Great Gerry Mulligan (Crown Records)
- 1963: Night Lights (with Art Farmer (tpt.), Bob Brookmeyer (v.trb), Jim Hall (g).) (Philips Records)
- 1963: Spring is Sprung (quartet with Bob Brookmeyer) (Philips Records)
- 1964: Feelin' Good (Limelight Records)
- 1964: Complete Studio Recordings- The Gerry Mulligan Sextet with Art Farmer, Bob Brookmeyer, Jim Hall (g), Bill Crow (b), Dave Bailey (d).
- 1965: If You Can't Beat 'Em,Join 'Em, (Limelight Series)
- 1965: Something Borrowed / Something Blue (Limelight Records) (with Zoot Sims - Mulligan also plays alto sax)
- 1970: Live at the Berlin Philharmonie (with the Dave Brubeck Trio)
- 1971: Age of Steam Gerry Mulligan and his Orchestra
- 1974: Summit with Astor Piazzolla (bnd), Angel Pocho Gatti (p), Giuseppe Prestipino (Pino Presti) (elb), Tullio De Piscopo (d), Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli (1st violin) and Strings Orchestra.
- 1974: Gerry Muligan/Chet Baker: Carnegie Hall Concert (with Chet Baker (trp), Ed Byrne (trb), Bob James (p), John Scofield (g), Ron Carter (b), Harvey Mason (d), Dave Samuels (vb).
- 1976: Gerry Mulligan meets Enrico Intra with Enrico Intra (p), Giancarlo Barigozzi (f), Sergio Farina (g), Pino Presti (b), Tullio De Piscopo (d)
- 1983: Little Big Horn (GRP)
- 1990: Lonesome Boulevard
- 1992: Re-Birth of the Cool
- 1993: Billy Taylor and Gerry Mulligan: Live at MCG (live, with pianist Billy Taylor at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild (MCG) in Pittsburgh)
- 1993: Paraiso with Brazilian singer Jane Duboc
- 1994: Dream a Little Dream Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Ted Rosenthal (p), Dean Johnson (b), Ron Vincent (d)
- 1995: Dragonfly The final recordings
As sideman[link]
With Miles Davis
- Conception (1951)
- Birth of the Cool (1957)
With Charles Mingus
With Mel Tormé and George Shearing
- The Classic Concert Live (Concord, live, 1982)
References[link]
- ^ Watrous, Peter. "Gerry Mulligan, a Baritone Saxophonist and 'Cool School' Jazz Pioneer, Dies at 68", The New York Times, January 21, 1996. Accessed January 1, 2008.
- ^ Profiles, Jazz (2009-11-12). "Jazz Profiles: Robert Gordon - Jazz West Coast: The Los Angeles Jazz Scene of the 1950's - Chapter 4". Jazzprofiles.blogspot.com. http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2009/11/robert-gordon-jazz-west-coast-los_12.html. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
- ^ Jazz: Jerry Jazz Musician. "Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/Chet Baker biographer Jeroen de Valk interview". Jerryjazzmusician.com. http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/linernotes/devalk.html#Baker%20and%20Gerry%20Mulligan. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
- ^ "Memory.loc.gov". Memory.loc.gov. http://memory.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/html/mulligan/index.html. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
- ^ "Loc.gov". Loc.gov. 2011-03-29. http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
External links[link]
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- The Gerry Mulligan Collection at the Library of Congress
- A site with information on Mulligan and all the great Jazz Baritone Saxophonists
- Craig Allan Hanley's repository of Mulligan liner notes, articles and information
- Excerpts from Mulligan's oral autobiography at the Library of Congress
- Biography of Gerry Mulligan on his publishing company's website
- An extensive Mulligan discography and record of performances by Gérard Dugelay and Kenneth Hallqvist
- Mulligan's 1996 NY Times Obituary
- Gerry Mulligan at Allmusic
- Gerry Mulligan at the Internet Movie Database
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