Doc Severinsen leads The Tonight Show band in an incredible performance of "Last Tango in Paris on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - 02/16/1973 #johnnycarson #donseverinsen #thetonightshow
@@jacktrppr1 Only if you have a really big elevator. But, as Johnny said, if you don't have the volume up (and I also recommend a good speaker system), no music is really very good.
I got to know Doc through a friend. Doc was best friends with his brother. Doc was one of the sweetest, down to earth people you could ever meet. Later in life, I went to one of his shows with my husband who dragged his girlfriend along. She was a trumpeter, not unlike myself. She idolized Doc. She was very excited. I didn’t tell my husband I knew Doc. They went behind the curtains after the concert just outside Docs dressing room. My husband and his girlfriend were making out. I came up on them and went to Docs dressing room to chat. He said”Rebecca! How are you? “ My husband and his girlfriend were shocked. I introduced them. He thought what my husband did (making out with a mistress outside his room) was ridiculous and refused to sign their autographs. He made my day. He invited me to have a drink with him which I sadly declined and headed home with my soon to be ex and his bawling humiliated girlfriend.. lol.. . I smiled all the way home and Doc became my secret hero. Lol
As a professional musician for over 45 yearsI could tell you that there will never be an orchestra like doc severinsen big band on The tonight show these guys were the greatest bar none the greatest musicians in America
A FABULOUS VERSION, OF THE TUNE. Doc led a great band, on the TONIGHT show. One of the best bands, ever on TV. This was back when you still heard jazz, on network TV.
Odd to hear something so 1970's with such outstanding musicianship. Like hearing a form of music never heard before. One of the greatest big bands ever. The tonight show had a huge budget fir that kind of show - was NBC's biggest moneymaker by far when Johnny was host and the budget shows with the quality of these guys in the band. They really could play any kind of music like experts in any style. Then Leno shows up on a dark set and a band with 1/4 the players and a fraction of the talent and in a day the party was over and never came back.
I loved this when it played on the radio a few times and I actually bought the 45 which I still have. I made a short video in JC back in 74 with this song as the background. Wasn't easy splicing together video back then as it is with today with an iPhone. Excellent American Masters show on Doc recently played on PBS.
Gives me an incredible feeling of nostalgia for that time, even though I didn't get to see the movie until about 20 years later due to not being old enough at the time
Just came up in my feed. Glad it did! Doc is one of the best. I'm reminded of an interview he did many years ago where the interviewer asked him if he still practiced and he said he had the horn on his lips for 8 hours every day. So his typical day would be, practice, rehearse, practice a bit more, perform. Good lesson for all us wanna be's.
That guy ed could really play man. I remember him telling his origin story. He just show led up to New York with a snare drum in hand and the rest was history.
Doc performed with the Florida Symphony Orchestra back in the 80's. It was a joy to be on stage with the man. He and Mancini were the coolest in those days. Henry didn't use a baton. He just snapped his finger for the beat. :^)
I remember watching the movie for the first time when I was around 20. I reminded the vhs tape several times to hear this again and again cause it really touched my heavy metal heart then growing into other forms of music when I was in my late teens.
Doc Severinsen by his own admission had an off night. He was only EXCELLENT. But he was big enough to own up to it. Nonetheless, he and the band were, in my book, outstanding.
Wow, nobody plays the trumpet quite like the Doctor; and how about that band. Ah, yes back in the day when late night TV was fun to watch. Thank you Doc!
An emotional level I agree with you but technically Wilfred Marcellus in The Tonight Show band under Jay Leno was considered a big band and don't forget David Letterman and the CBS Orchestra was also considered a big band condensed version of it so up until those shows ended there was still a full house band but CBS called it an orchestra which I think is a little silly
Point taken, the Tonight Show with Johnny had a 17 piece big band although they did call it the NBC Orchestra. It was nothing like the real orchestras they had back in the early days of radio and even TV. But by the time Branford Marsalis and then Kevin Eubanks took over with Jay they were down to nine. That’s not even a big band much less an orchestra. So I guess none of them were really orchestras but the original Tonight Show versions were closer. But as the years went on and the shows don’t pull nearly the ratings that Johnny pulled, it can’t be profitable to pay all those great musicians. Damn shame.
@@Bill_N_ATX I didn't realize there were Seventeen members in that band I thought it was just Paul Shaffer and the world's most dangerous band players hey forgot they must have added a few but Kevin Eubanks or Bradford Marsalis I believe started it off for Leno I always felt they were the real deal I just loved watching Ed Shaughnessy play in the old big band Buddy Rich Style playing that is my favorite. Even TV shows like Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin and other talk shows had really great bands playing I am 57 years old and sorely Miss all of those house bands I mean even though I am not old enough to remember that golden age I caught the tail end of it and was always Blown Away by the professionalism of those musicians and how what a bunch of great players they were. I think the networks eliminated it just to make more money and streamline their profits. Our music is becoming a lost art it is up to all of us 2 exposed are younger people to all of this we owe it to these great Masters. Every one from John Coltrane to Buddy Rich we really owe them a debt of gratitude and we need to continue to burn the torch is bright as possible because once younger people are exposed to this not all of them but enough of them will be turned on to jump on board and maybe incorporate some modern music into it and maybe even come up with the whole new style of jazz that we haven't thought about yet... Buddy himself used to talk about this in some of his interviews he was more open-minded then I think a lot of people give him credit for. People just hear about the bus tapes and act like a bunch of silly school kids discussing it when that was such a small part of who Buddy was. He was a perfectionist and demanded the same from anybody who wanted to sit in his band stand and if the kitchen was too hot for them they were free to leave nobody put a gun to their head and most of them knew what they were walking into long before they joined. He always made sure the audience got their money's worth. A lesson every musician should take to heart
Johnny wanted the band and NBC wanted Johnny happy. They played what he liked. That show cost very little to produce and brought in piles and piles of money. Carson kept taking off more vacation time as he got older and no complaints from the execs.
Another person that is still around the last surviving member of The Honeymooners and played Trixie Norton's wife is Joyce Randolph the last surviving member she is 96 and gave a recent interview in sounded sharp as a tack and very sweet. She only has three years on Doc can you believe it...? Doc is timeless and generation list he is one of those guys that with every new generation he is still relevant, hip and cool as a cucumber. His duet with Arturo Sandoval was absolutely breathtaking and really shows his humbleness as well as his talent
Just noticed that at 2:33 Tommy Newsome (3rd from left) is playing a flute! Normally, you see him playing saxophone, and later in this piece, he indeed switched to the sax. Until now, I didn’t know Tommy played the flute also.
I so miss the RARE occasion you'd see performances like this live. They only got to be heard going to commercial - and only the studio audience could enjoy the music....
MUSICOM PRODUCTIONS: Also C-Band dish owners got the see Doc performed during the commercial breaks. I saw a few.. what they did was to transmit the live shows direct to New York control a few hours before the East Coast broadcast. New York control would package the shows with commercials and other stuff and then get the shows ready for first, the East Coast. It was so fun.
