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Paul Butterfield (17 December 1942 – 4 May 1987) was an American blues vocalist and harmonica player, who founded the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in the early 1960s and performed at the original Woodstock Festival. He died of drug-related heart failure.
The son of a lawyer, Paul Butterfield was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood. He was born and raised Jewish. He attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, a private school associated with the University of Chicago. After studying classical flute with Walfrid Kujala of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as a teenager, he developed a love for the blues harmonica, and hooked up with white, blues-loving, University of Chicago physics student Elvin Bishop. The pair started hanging around black blues musicians such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter and Otis Rush. Butterfield and Bishop soon formed a band with Jerome Arnold and Sam Lay, both hired away from the touring band of Howlin' Wolf. In 1963, the racially mixed quartet was made the house band at Big John's, a folk club in the Old Town district on Chicago's north side. Butterfield was still underage (as was guitarist Mike Bloomfield.)
David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host and comedian. He hosts the late night television talk show, Late Show with David Letterman, broadcast on CBS. Letterman has been a fixture on late night television since the 1982 debut of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC. Letterman recently surpassed friend and mentor Johnny Carson for having the longest late-night hosting career in the United States of America.
Letterman is also a television and film producer. His company Worldwide Pants produces his show as well as its network follow-up The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Worldwide Pants has also produced several prime-time comedies, the most successful of which was Everybody Loves Raymond, currently in syndication.
In 1996, David Letterman was ranked #45 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.
Letterman was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father, Harry Joseph Letterman (April 1915 – February 1973), was a florist of British descent; his mother Dorothy Letterman (née Hofert, now Dorothy Mengering), a Presbyterian church secretary of German descent, is an occasional figure on the show, usually at holidays and birthdays.
THE PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND - EAST WEST (FULL ALBUM)
Paul Butterfield - Blues Band (Walking Blues - Live 1978 )
Paul Butterfield's Better Days [Full Album]
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Driftin' Blues (Monterey 1967)
Paul Butterfield - Mike Bloomfield Reunion Boston 1971
151. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Fillmore Auditorium 14th October, 1966
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Morning Sunrise (Lost Treasures of WoodStock)
The Band (feat. Paul Butterfield) - Mystery Train
Paul Butterfield on David Letterman 1985 Late Night
Stevie Ray Vaughan, B B King, Albert King, Paul Butterfield - The Sky Is Crying
Paul Butterfield - The thrill is gone
BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND - BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN - NYC 1970
Paul Butterfield everything gonna be alright Woodstock
Study in Paul Butterfield blues harmonica