Doc Severinsen And The Tonight Show Band – Ode to Billie Joe
An evening pause: Another selection from the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, from 1974.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
An evening pause: Another selection from the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, from 1974.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Looked up Doc to see if he was still with us—
Doc Severinsen:
United States Coast Guard Guardians Big Band
“I Want To Be Happy” (2020)
https://youtu.be/AWj6IEjGN-I
3:21
Wow. Had forgotten why Carson was so good. Snap, Crackle, Pop with grown -up (not ‘adult’) humor.
Always liked Doc Severinsen; trumpet was my primary instrument.
Can’t say I care for the arrangement. ‘Ode to Billy Joe’ has been a favorite: because it is dark and deliberate, because much is implied, because Bobbie Gentry is performing it.
The Orchestra’s (Band’s?) version is like Paul Simon’s take on Simon & Garfunkle’s ‘Sound of Silence’.
When Johnny Carson left the stage, he took “class” with him.
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER!
I didn’t even recognize Ed until he said he’d been introducing the band as an orchestra. I also didn’t recognize the music under all the, uh, “creative stylings”.
On the whole, I’m glad the 1970s are over, but that was fun.