So I was fortunate enough to be able to see them inside the limo inside the side Rockefeller garage where the limo was waiting that very day. I along with a friend, Mary, ventured into NYC that day to see if we could catch a glimpse since they taped earlier in the day. We gathered with some other girls trying to do the same thing and we were successful - great memory. Up so close only separated by a car window.
I think he might have been stating he wouldn’t have been the best teacher and thankfully it fell through so that he could get into music which enabled him to record “The Doggone Girl is Mine” with Michael Jackson years later. Thankfully
William lies from the beginning. James Paul McCartney (1942-1966) admitted in 1965 that he didn't want to do anything before he became a Beatle. He only had John and Rock'n'roll in his mind.
May 14th, 1968. Guest host Joe Garagiola who is totally clueless as to what to say.-- I'm sure they were all. disappointed Johnny Carson was absent. Other guest Tallulah Bankhead. This is a great find! NBC erased the original tape, but a fan pointed their movie camera at the screen.
In his memoir of the times, The Longest Cocktail Party, Richard DiLello suggests -- without mentioning her by name -- that Bankhead was rude and disruptive, which we don't see here, although this clip does appear to have been edited somewhere along the way. But none of them seem to be having a particularly good time here. Still, it's kind of miraculous the clip exists at all.
Thanks for sharing this bodacious "blast from the past" ! Til now I never knew Joe Garagiola had ever hosted The Tonight Show ! I only knew of him as a former athlete, sportscaster, game show host & commercial spokesman. Fascinating mixture : two of the Beatles and Tallulah Bankhead ! Sad that she passed away only 7 months later (Dec 12th, 1968). 😞
At this time in TV, they did not have this episode of the Tonight Show on video tape. Like others on the show. People used their 8mm cameras and a tape recorder to tape this show.
They were so cheap they didn't start videotaping until Watergate, although the episode with Jim Garrison is partially videotaped, because they had a feeling it would be the highest rated Tonight Show and it was. Thanks to Mort Sahl
There’s also the complete live Dec. 31, 1965 episode of the Tonight Show, w/the Times Square NYE countdown. The show was still being broadcast from NYC.
Completely fascinating, and in the part that we don't see Tallulah Bankhead was less than complimentary about The Beatles. John and Paul here, as there were really throughout the 60s, at the very heart of what was happening and cool in popular culture. Apple was of course a disaster, but a fascinating one, and mostly because it was several decades ahead of its time. It was the first business of the 21st Century in some ways.
I believe Tapes of Carson's first 10 years on the Tonight Show were not saved. Which Johnny referenced on his Last Tonight Show appearance. So I guess we're lucky to have this, as crappy as it is.
It was never officially kept in archive. Back in the 60s, tapes got wiped regularly (hell, the tapes were more expensive than the entire budgets for programs itself). What you're seeing and hearing here, are a mix of 8mm-film footage made by someone watching the show at home, and an audio-recording on tape.
Carson found out they were booked too late, and was pissed that they didn't tell him about it. Carson said that he would have left his vacation to do the interview.
No wonder J. & P. were disappointed with this interview! If I knew that the greatest songwriting team in history were to grace the TV studio from which I would be broadcasting that evening, I would have had a TEAM scrambling to formulate intriguing questions to ask them, and keep them fully engaged in a fun, humorous give-and-take conversation (e.g., like Dick Cavett did routinely). This was essentially a waste of their time, and, on some level, somewhat lazy and disrespectful....😕
Ikr!!??? It seems like so many interviewers at the time were so condescending and rude to the Beatles from the moment they first landed in the States. I never understood it! I think it was a mixture of ignorance and jealousy.
Why didn't Haley Mills interview them? She was 22, english & savy. Instead, a dumbfounded put to pasture ex baseball player. When Media was still clueless.
Yeah. Johnny would have shown some respect by not being a complete meathead like this goof I don’t even want to say his name. What were the producers thinking that night? It boggles the mind.
It's this footage, or no footage at all. I thought it was common knowledge by now that a BIG part of TV-history had been wiped, but I guess I'm wrong and people still don't quite understand.
