NBC | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | August 13, 1970 

most .. not all pre 1972 shows were destroyed. There are approximately 35 complete shows from 1963 to 1971 known to exist.

Yes! Thanks for posting! That band sounds fantastic. Unlike the Los Angeles sound, I could hear every instrument. Tommy Newsom's arrangements were always top notch.

@@jayemel1 More will pop up as some of the younger guests are now passing away. It'll be like the 1960? World Series game that Mazerowski won. It was discovered among Bing Crosby's belongings.

@@jayemel1Where can we find them?

The most revelations have come from reading the Bushkin book from 2014, and most of what you hear and see on YT are out of that book. And however gritty and exaggerated these revelations may be, I think the person who would care the least at this point is Mr. Carson, who never seemed to want to enshrine himself in any way.

I hail from 1977, so this is only slightly before my time, but seeing this today in 2024 I'm amazed by two things: how different things are (plastic trash bags were being advertised as the hot new thing!?) but also how much the same everything is.

They have the complete ones. You see what they can post due to copyright and music copyright laws.

The year I was born. It seems like ages ago.

@@scottmoore1614 Ditto

(PS: It was !)

I know this feeling, except it was Sunday night and the theme to Trapper John MD for me.

He should have stopped SMOKING RIGHT then and there.

Lots of hair dye

Less than *8* , actually.

@@yankeechicken61 And the combover in its nascent stage ; both front corner pockets now receded

Johnny was maybe 45

I’ve always wondered how many American men sat at their chair smoking cigarettes, cigars or drinking a night cap or two just to go to bed and sleep a few hours for work the next day. Unless it was a Friday for the average 40 hour work week man.

@@gm12551 my dad was one of them. Newspaper in hand, barely awake, puffing on that last cigarette before bedtime and getting back up at 4:30 am to do it all over again.

@@gm12551 My father was of the Greatest Generation, My Pop drank every evening, a scotch whisky in one hand and a Camel cigarette in the other. I can't think of any of my friend's fathers who didn't smoke and drink back in the 50s to the 70s.

He sure nailed it. Way ahead of his time.

Meanwhile, Dr Ben Wattenberg turned into a RW crank.

@@billarmstrong6540 - Well, he did predict in 1970 that all important animal life in the seas would be extinct by 1980. He missed that by a little bit. I'll also add that the birth rates have declined over time, not increased as Dr Ehrlich predicted. He's missed quite a bit.

He was a fraud

@@tonymach lol history has proven different.

What a shame

I was 5 years old in 1970. I think it’s cool they briefly mentioned Elvis Presley who at the time was performing Vegas and wouldn’t die for 7 more years!!

Patient...it will come around in next fashion/ color cycle👍

Definitely

That was my first thought, too. Doesn't look natural.

Jack Paar was preferred by many.

That's when Buddy was at his best.

And not even remotely funny

Actually that was his act. Everytime he appears on the Tonight Show , he acts like this....and Yes, he is NOT Funny in the least - in his live act he used profanity and appeared drunk. I'm pretty sure he was in the U S. Military in WWII so he can't be all bad..

I think that Paul anka gave Johnny co-writing credit, kind of like how you got Elvis to record your song you had to give him half the royalties

His hair wasn't dyed.. He was just younger.

@@MarinCipollinaNo, it was dyed. He actually did it himself. Grecian Formula!

Yep.

He’s so smug that he also thinks he was right even though he was proven wrong. He overwhelmed his opponent on this show because he is better at thinking off the cuff and easily understood.

10 billion humans, exponential uncapped growth of the US military (which can’t dream of completing an audit) as the world’s largest polluter, total reliance on single-person auto travel still, addiction to oil (300,000 gallons spilled in the Gulf by BP), plastic in our blood and the clouds, nearly all coral dead, hottest ocean in recorded history every year, the Arctic melting, Yosemite deforested by beetles, PFA’s in the ocean, multiple species expiring daily, total dysregulation of weather patterns, every body of water polluted, invasive species all over…but sure, ignore all that and call him smug. “Everything’s fine.”

A little Buddy Hackett goes a long way. Too much Buddy Hackett in this one.

Probably got up to 75 degrees then

The television can't be superior to the broadcast format.. Stereo television wasn't introduced until 1985 or so. Of course now we have THX certified digital Dolby 5.1 surround sound.

@@MarinCipollina Totally agree and was around during those days but also remember in the 1970's just how compressed that TV sound was. Since the broadcast signal 6mhz? One would have figured that the sound quality would have been better. Not to mention the original video tapes, one might have thought that those would have sounded less compressed.

This is due to much more recent processing. In an attempt to reduce 'noise', many of the lower-volume passages are squelched.

true dat

Wow ! So true!

He was already doing it. He was greying from 68/69 forward. In 71 it was pretty much all grey.

There is no such thing as too much Buddy Hackett, the problem was Hackett couldn't really do his act on television so he had to be rather restrained

No Erlich is right , too many people and too much pollution .

@@josephforest7605 No you're wrong and what's worse wrong-headed.

@@baronvonnembles Population control , is one of the most important things in this world .

@@josephforest7605You first.

Wattenberg is a crank, Dennis Miller. You ARE Dennis Miller, aren't you, Dennis ?

One of the big differences back then was the Tonight Show would actually bring people to represent both sides of issues and let the nation hear and decide for themselves.

50 years from now they’ll say the same thing about you.

Never knew that about Kent cigarettes.

@@garymckee63 I'm not sure that's even true.

78 years old lived til 2003, that’s not too bad

He gets bleeped here by NBC at 32:56

Doc had been the bandleader since around 1967; Johnny mentioned here that Doc was on vacation.

Doc is still kickin it!

Doc shows up in the pre-filmed Pizza Hut ad in this episode. 27:10

Oh my god, you cannot be serious. The " how hot was it thing" has been around probably before Vaudville - as long as telling jokes has been around....!

@@johnsewell6593It was the Old Skool version of "That's what she said."