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Doc Severinsen And The Tonight Show Band – Ode to Billie Joe

6:01 pm

An evening pause: Another selection from the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, from 1974.

Hat tip Tom Biggar.

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4 comments

4 comments

  • wayne
    August 16, 2021 at 6:27 pm

    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

  • Blair K Ivey
    August 17, 2021 at 12:28 am

    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’.

  • Captain Emeritus
    August 17, 2021 at 6:35 am

    When Johnny Carson left the stage, he took “class” with him.
    BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.
    DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER!

  • markedup2
    August 17, 2021 at 7:25 am

    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.

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