So much TV history lost...especially from NBC...so many color programs from this era are gone, let alone the B&W kinescopes. This is a treasure from a transitional period in "Tonight Show" history. Thank you for sharing it with us.
@@robertszvetics210 The 1960s was a complex time for Jerry Lewis. He was hired by ABC to do a variety TV series in 1963, but quit the show after a handful of episodes due to pay disputes. The show eventually became "The Hollywood Palace", which aired from 1964 to 1970. NBC hired him to do another variety TV series, "The Jerry Lewis Show". It only lasted from 1967 to 1969. Jerry Lewis appeared as guests or guest hosts on a number of TV shows and TV series during the decade, in addition to acting in movies.
I know that Mr. Carson's "Tonight Show" was recorded in color from the very beginning but am unsure if this particular episode was recorded in and broadcast in color?
Eleven years old in 1962--my favorite summer. Stayed with my aunt and uncle and they let me stay up to watch the tonight show with the guest hosts (I remember seeing Groucho) before Johnny's arrival. Nancy Dussault's performance brought tears to my eyes--a reminder of how much the U.S. and it's culture changed since those pre-Viet Nam and assassination years.
I was 11 too. Saw Ms. Dussault in "Sound of Music" on Broadway that year. My mother was disappointed because Mary Martin left the show and was replaced between the time we ordered the tickets and the date of the performance. I still enjoyed the show a lot. Dussault had a great voice. Ms. Dussault is still with us. Yay!
I've been watching that little clip of Jerry with Jack Carter on "Tonight" for too long. I knew there was more out there! Thanks for uploading. I hope there's more...maybe on tape in color? I guess that would be too much to ask for. GREAT STUFF! Loved Nancy Dussault in the first 15 minute spot (was that a regular spot during the interregnum? I don't think Jack or Johnny did that, did they)? No Peacock???
On the original videotape, there was a "Living Color" bumper before the show began. On these black and white kinescopes, the "NBC Presents" bumper was substituted....
@@cactusjackNV Craig Ferguson was the host of "The Late, Late Show" on CBS for a number of years. When he left the show at the end of his contract, British stage actor James Corden took over as the host.
Like it that it has the 15 minutes between 11:15 and 11:30pET, seen by many back then who didn't have 30 minutes of local news at 11p ET/10CT. The 11:30p restart of the show most are familiar with starts on this at 13:53.
And both Jack Paar and Johnny Carson are spinning in their graves over what the Tonight Show has become in the last 25 years... It's progressively gotten worse with each succeeding host. And frankly there is NO LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW HOST I'd bother to stay up to watch today! Oh, and Jerry? I've seen his shtick on different Tonight Show episodes up on UA-cam and frankly -- NOT SO GOOD!
@@markgiardina1303 Late-night talk show hosts have always had political jokes as part of their monologues, but it is different when they add "news and commentary" segments, disguised as a satire of network news broadcasts. Stephen Colbert does it, because it was part of what he did in his previous TV job. Seth Meyers does it because he did it on the "Weekend Update" segments on "Saturday Night Live". The same goes for Jimmy Fallon. There is no excuse for Jimmy Kimmel for what he does on his talk show. What he does is political sniping of anyone or any political entity in a position of power. But it is historically not unusual. Walter Winchell and Dorothy Kilgallen did the same thing during the early-to-mid-20th Century, and celebrities and political leaders hated them for it.
@@allenjones3130 Neither did mass Television viewership audiences. All of his shows, across multiple networks were canceled. Jerry's "schtick" was great in small doses.
Barry I. Grauman Me to I will like to right the same thing Jerry Lewis rest in peace..and thank you for the good times of laughter you gave us..you left a big empty Sorrow behind you..but you be remembered for ever
But I know I just saw the top part of an RCA TK-40 Color T.V. camera!! (When Jerry moves to talk to Hugh Downs It's behind Hugh) So this was broadcast in Color! Just not recorded for Color playback.
@@vikings844 Hugh Downs was the sidekick for Jack Paar. When Johnny Carson took over as host of "The Tonight Show", he was reassigned to work on "The TODAY Show". Downs was also the daytime host of the game show, "Concentration" on NBC during the 1960s.
10:15- "THE HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT" (the original 15 minute edition) was seen weeknights at 6:45pm(et). Some affiliates scheduled a later telecast at 7:15pm. It didn't expand to a full half-hour until September 9, 1963.
Wow...complete with the 15-minute WNBC (New York City) -only portion of the show!!! Really, it was available to all NBC affiliates, but as more of them programmed news in the 11:15-11:29:30 PM (ET) slot, this eventually was fed only for WNBC (NYC was/is 7% of the national TV market; Eastern Time markets are 45% of the national).
Lewis was known for keeping his appearances on TV, so one might think that his other "Tonight Show" spots are out there somewhere. Probably not on tape, but kinescope is not that bad.
This is from 1962, but it's not the 1st....he'd done it earlier. Was loads of fun, everyone tried to copy.........turns out, I learned later, it's a actor's exercise .......Jerry can still do it today..................
+Glenn Iannicelli And she was also part of the original Broadway cast of the Phil Silvers-Nancy Walker musical "Do Re Mi". Decades later she was Ted Knight's wife on "Too Close For Comfort" and between that was actually David Hartman's original co-host on "Good Morning America".
Incidentally, the first 13:47 segment was seen at 11:15pm(et)- this is why news promos were seen instead of "commercial breaks", as NBC just couldn't sell ad time during that first quarter-hour. More stations began to schedule half-hour local newscasts at 11pm, and just skipped the first fifteen minutes, preferring to "start" the show at 11:30pm(et) [13:52]. Johnny Carson didn't like the absence of affiliates at 11:15 either, and decided not to appear during that opening quarter-hour after February 1965 [he convinced NBC to "officially" start the show at 11:30 by January 1967].
Originally telecast on Monday, July 2, 1962.....three months after Jack Paar's final "TONIGHT SHOW", and three months before Johnny's first "TONIGHT SHOW".
It was July 2, 1962 I think ... I remember watching it and never forgot one hen two ducks three squawking geese four limerick oysters five corpulent porpoises etc etc. I believe Dick Summer an all night deejay on WBZ Boston used this exercize to start the show. Place your hand on the radio and repeat after me: one hen two ducks etc etc.
How did you get this? I've heard NBC erased the couple first seasons of Johnny Carson but they never use to save any shows back in the day. Than in the mid to late 60s that's when they started saving them as back copy's. I would love to see the first episode of Johnny Carson. If this is from 1962 than someone has to have the first episode. Am I right?
That 'someone', like probably the original source of this film, could be/have been NBC Archives (who will not rebroadcast it), or a copy of the kinnie/film/videotape given to the actor/performer/guest/advertiser....etc. So as for you being "right"....the only thing right is wrong - people throw these tapes/films away....bye bye. Sad, isn't it?
MUSICOM PRODUCTIONS I did not know there was an existing "NBC Archives" the network having donated almost everything to the Library Of Congress years ago. Is there such a department, and do you think they have gems like this one from 1962 that will not see the light of day as long the day is lit?
Joe Postove NBC has its East Coast storage facility in an air-conditioned nondescript warehouse in North Bergen, NJ, which has rows of Betacam tapes available for in-house producers for their productions (think docs like"Boomers") and they have a boatload of stuff (see their website). But music rights (think "Beverly Hillbilllies" theme song removed) and copyrights are the biggest legal problem with having any of this re-air so its not worth it -but for "News/Documentary", clips ARE available.
In 1970, there was a studio fire in Burbank, California, that destroyed the NBC videotape and kinescope archives. Not a lot of footage survived the fire. Most of the NBC footage that still exists consists of kinescopes and black-and-white videotapes that were recorded by local television station affiliates. The same goes for ABC and Dumont. In both cases, their kinescopes and videotapes made prior to 1970 were dumped into the ocean by a garbage scow off the coast of New York City.
This appearance of JL on the Tonight Show makes me appreciate JC more. He is not so funny without the movie tricks. I think in this of stand up type environment Dean Martin would have been funnier and more entertaining. A young Nancy Dussault seemed to be similar to Florence Henderson. I guess why they were both associated with the theater version of The Sound of Music with Miss Mary Martin. Also I would think that both Doc Severson and Tommy Newsom were in back shadows of the band since Sketch Henderson returned and Jose Melis had left. Johnny Carson taking over The Tonight Show was not the slam dunk everyone thinks now . There could have been a slow death this show with a succession of hosts after Jack Parr. doc
He is a slapstick comedian in the same vein as silent comedians. That is a different type of humor, and that's what he was best at. But verbally he was still really funny, and could rattle off some good ad-libs. There was a reason he was asked to do 2 weeks of this show.
I would love to find the copy when I WAS ON The Tonight show and Johnny was flirting with me WOW back in 1964..I dated him between wives for many years afterwards,,,He said it was love at first sight HA I could add to that book that was just written as I was going to include him in my tell all book about the Celebs I have known. Haven't finished it YET LOL..How can U find that tape> I heard they were not saved YET they have this one with Jerry Lewis Maybe HE wanted it saved ,,God I was better than that awful singer sorry but she is awful..
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So much TV history lost...especially from NBC...so many color programs from this era are gone, let alone the B&W kinescopes. This is a treasure from a transitional period in "Tonight Show" history. Thank you for sharing it with us.
+maynardsmoreland i think he was too busy then doing his movies
@@robertszvetics210 The 1960s was a complex time for Jerry Lewis. He was hired by ABC to do a variety TV series in 1963, but quit the show after a handful of episodes due to pay disputes. The show eventually became "The Hollywood Palace", which aired from 1964 to 1970. NBC hired him to do another variety TV series, "The Jerry Lewis Show". It only lasted from 1967 to 1969. Jerry Lewis appeared as guests or guest hosts on a number of TV shows and TV series during the decade, in addition to acting in movies.
@@LaptopLarry330 Let's not forget Mr. Lewis's duties as chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association and host of the annual MDA telethons.
I know that Mr. Carson's "Tonight Show" was recorded in color from the very beginning but am unsure if this particular episode was recorded in and broadcast in color?
@@johnsjohnson448 The Tonight Show started broadcasting in color in 1960.
Eleven years old in 1962--my favorite summer. Stayed with my aunt and uncle and they let me stay up to watch the tonight show with the guest hosts (I remember seeing Groucho) before Johnny's arrival. Nancy Dussault's performance brought tears to my eyes--a reminder of how much the U.S. and it's culture changed since those pre-Viet Nam and assassination years.
I was 11 too. Saw Ms. Dussault in "Sound of Music" on Broadway that year. My mother was disappointed because Mary Martin left the show and was replaced between the time we ordered the tickets and the date of the performance. I still enjoyed the show a lot. Dussault had a great voice. Ms. Dussault is still with us. Yay!
I hope theres more love jerry lewis amazing person rip 😢going to be missed so much xx
Rest In Peace Hugh and Jerry . Love you both !
This was originally taped in color. NBC had the practice of erasing and reusing video tapes in the 1960s. This is a black and white kinescope.
Nancy Dussault. OMG. What a voice. Gave me chills.
I've been watching that little clip of Jerry with Jack Carter on "Tonight" for too long. I knew there was more out there! Thanks for uploading. I hope there's more...maybe on tape in color? I guess that would be too much to ask for. GREAT STUFF! Loved Nancy Dussault in the first 15 minute spot (was that a regular spot during the interregnum? I don't think Jack or Johnny did that, did they)? No Peacock???
On the original videotape, there was a "Living Color" bumper before the show began. On these black and white kinescopes, the "NBC Presents" bumper was substituted....
Crazy. Because most of the Early years when Johnny took over were lost. Because they used to re-record (re-use)the expensive early video tape.
From the six months between Jack Paar's last show and Johnny Carson's first.
+Clark Humphrey thanks for the info i was wondering if johnny took time off in his first year of hosting
Johnny's contract with ABC prohibited him from beginning the Tonight Show until October 1, 1962.
@@cactusjackNV Craig Ferguson was the host of "The Late, Late Show" on CBS for a number of years. When he left the show at the end of his contract, British stage actor James Corden took over as the host.
@@norelcopc2431 That's right. Johnny was hosting a daytime game show for ABC called "Who Do You Trust?", with Ed MacMahon as announcer.
you guys know that the mic at 16:01 is the first SM7B from Shure ? (obviously it wasnt called that model then) but wow right? OMG!!!
Like it that it has the 15 minutes between 11:15 and 11:30pET, seen by many back then who didn't have 30 minutes of local news at 11p ET/10CT. The 11:30p restart of the show most are familiar with starts on this at 13:53.
This was probably done in NBC Studio 6B where Jimmy Fallon does his show today.
And both Jack Paar and Johnny Carson are spinning in their graves over what the Tonight Show has become in the last 25 years... It's progressively gotten worse with each succeeding host.
And frankly there is NO LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW HOST I'd bother to stay up to watch today!
Oh, and Jerry?
I've seen his shtick on different Tonight Show episodes up on UA-cam and frankly --
NOT SO GOOD!
@@AvengerII I liked Jay Leno's show.
@@markgiardina1303 Late-night talk show hosts have always had political jokes as part of their monologues, but it is different when they add "news and commentary" segments, disguised as a satire of network news broadcasts. Stephen Colbert does it, because it was part of what he did in his previous TV job. Seth Meyers does it because he did it on the "Weekend Update" segments on "Saturday Night Live". The same goes for Jimmy Fallon. There is no excuse for Jimmy Kimmel for what he does on his talk show. What he does is political sniping of anyone or any political entity in a position of power. But it is historically not unusual. Walter Winchell and Dorothy Kilgallen did the same thing during the early-to-mid-20th Century, and celebrities and political leaders hated them for it.
@@AvengerII there's no pleasing you, huh?
@@nedwart And you like TOO MUCH shit.
You have no taste, so there!
Feel good about yourself, Tristan?
Great show! Mr. Lewis' schtick wore thin after five minutes (LOL), so he had no chance of landing the gig on a permanent basis. Thanks for sharing!
I never cared for Mr. Lewis's style of comedy myself.
@@allenjones3130 Neither did mass Television viewership audiences. All of his shows, across multiple networks were canceled. Jerry's "schtick" was great in small doses.
As Don Rickles woud say: "Facts."
Rest In Peace, Jerry (1926-2017)
Barry I. Grauman Me to I will like to right the same thing Jerry Lewis rest in peace..and thank you for the good times of laughter you gave us..you left a big empty Sorrow behind you..but you be remembered for ever
So,does any of groucho marx's episodes as the substitute host exists?.
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But I know I just saw the top part of an RCA TK-40 Color T.V. camera!! (When Jerry moves to talk to Hugh Downs It's behind Hugh) So this was broadcast in Color! Just not recorded for Color playback.
Jerry had every one of these appearances filmed in 16mm for himself
The memory game was insane.
Jerry was a very smart guy, Huge was very smart too. Huge was in much tougher position having heard the words for the first time.
Hugh Downs from 20/20! Great find! I didn't know he was a host of the tonight show!
@@joeambrose3260🤣
@@vikings844 Hugh Downs was the sidekick for Jack Paar. When Johnny Carson took over as host of "The Tonight Show", he was reassigned to work on "The TODAY Show". Downs was also the daytime host of the game show, "Concentration" on NBC during the 1960s.
Nancy Dussault, standing ovation!
10:15- "THE HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT" (the original 15 minute edition) was seen weeknights at 6:45pm(et). Some affiliates scheduled a later telecast at 7:15pm. It didn't expand to a full half-hour until September 9, 1963.
Wow...complete with the 15-minute WNBC (New York City) -only portion of the show!!! Really, it was available to all NBC affiliates, but as more of them programmed news in the 11:15-11:29:30 PM (ET) slot, this eventually was fed only for WNBC (NYC was/is 7% of the national TV market; Eastern Time markets are 45% of the national).
I❤JERRY
Lewis was known for keeping his appearances on TV, so one might think that his other "Tonight Show" spots are out there somewhere.
Probably not on tape, but kinescope is not that bad.
Jerry was known to be able to recite social secutiry numbers of 10 people (or more) the day after having been told them only once.
Mr. Lewis is brilliant.
This is from 1962, but it's not the 1st....he'd done it earlier.
Was loads of fun, everyone tried to copy.........turns out, I learned later, it's a
actor's exercise .......Jerry can still do it today..................
If i'm not mistaken, johnny arrived three months after this broadcast in october being given an introduction by groucho.
Nancy D. starred on Broadway in Sound of Music (after Mary Martin).
+Glenn Iannicelli And she was also part of the original Broadway cast of the Phil Silvers-Nancy Walker musical "Do Re Mi". Decades later she was Ted Knight's wife on "Too Close For Comfort" and between that was actually David Hartman's original co-host on "Good Morning America".
Give or take a day or two, that aired 4 months before the day that I was born.
And perhaps that fact is relevant only to me.
I think this was before Carson was to join the tonight show in 1962
Must have been a 16mm or 35mm Kinescope that saved this.
Incidentally, the first 13:47 segment was seen at 11:15pm(et)- this is why news promos were seen instead of "commercial breaks", as NBC just couldn't sell ad time during that first quarter-hour. More stations began to schedule half-hour local newscasts at 11pm, and just skipped the first fifteen minutes, preferring to "start" the show at 11:30pm(et) [13:52]. Johnny Carson didn't like the absence of affiliates at 11:15 either, and decided not to appear during that opening quarter-hour after February 1965 [he convinced NBC to "officially" start the show at 11:30 by January 1967].
date: the week of July 2, 1962
What's the date of this? Before October and the Cuban Missile Crisis, I'm assuming...
Originally telecast on Monday, July 2, 1962.....three months after Jack Paar's final "TONIGHT SHOW", and three months before Johnny's first "TONIGHT SHOW".
It was July 2, 1962 I think ...
I remember watching it and never forgot one hen two ducks three squawking geese four limerick oysters five corpulent porpoises etc etc.
I believe Dick Summer an all night deejay on WBZ Boston used this exercize to start the show. Place your hand on the radio and repeat after me: one hen two ducks etc etc.
Who is the announcer
Jerry will celebrate his 90th birthday next Wednesday (March 16). Hugh Downs is also still alive at 95.
Hey it's that Jerry a whole guy.
7:27 Nancy Dussault from Too Close For Comfort!!
I’m hearing a lot of Don Rickles phrasing here. Did Rickles glean from Jerry?
Amazingly Jerry Lewis, Hugh Downs and Nancy Dussault are all still alive!
Adam Nedeff Jack Carter RIP. Died 6/28/2015.
Here it is, 5 years after, and of those three, Hugh (age 99 as of this writing) and Nancy (age 83) are still with us; Jerry died in 2017.
@@byrd56 hugh is dead, now Nancy Dussalt is the remaining one who appeared in this episode!
JERRY LEWIS
16 DE MARZO DE 1926
20 DE AGOSTO DE 2017
91 AÑOS
What was the theme music between Paar and Carson?
@@joeambrose3260 No. Thanks a lot!
How did you get this? I've heard NBC erased the couple first seasons of Johnny Carson but they never use to save any shows back in the day. Than in the mid to late 60s that's when they started saving them as back copy's. I would love to see the first episode of Johnny Carson. If this is from 1962 than someone has to have the first episode. Am I right?
That 'someone', like probably the original source of this film, could be/have been NBC Archives (who will not rebroadcast it), or a copy of the kinnie/film/videotape given to the actor/performer/guest/advertiser....etc. So as for you being "right"....the only thing right is wrong - people throw these tapes/films away....bye bye. Sad, isn't it?
MUSICOM PRODUCTIONS I did not know there was an existing "NBC Archives" the network having donated almost everything to the Library Of Congress years ago. Is there such a department, and do you think they have gems like this one from 1962 that will not see the light of day as long the day is lit?
Joe Postove NBC has its East Coast storage facility in an air-conditioned nondescript warehouse in North Bergen, NJ, which has rows of Betacam tapes available for in-house producers for their productions (think docs like"Boomers") and they have a boatload of stuff (see their website). But music rights (think "Beverly Hillbilllies" theme song removed) and copyrights are the biggest legal problem with having any of this re-air so its not worth it -but for "News/Documentary", clips ARE available.
On those older show, however, are not the music and other rights going to run out sooner than later?
MUSICOM PRODUCTIONS What is the website for this storage facility? I'd love to search it if there's a search function.
Guess this was during the transition from Jack to Johnny.
Was this Paar's set at the time he left?
No. But it was taped in studio 6B ..
the year my dad was born..oh my god
becky lk The year my dad was born as well lol
becky lk April 2nd, 1962. So my dad was 3 months old....crazy
I was born in 1962 also....
becky lk Yep, my year also
My dad was born 1963
Looks like fun...
Hmmmm, I was two weeks old.
I was -8 years old.
34 days before Johnny took over.........
Cool
He had aplomb.:)
Used to be pros on late night TV...
Not anymore
Can somebody identify a class act equal to Jerry Lewis? Doubtful.
Color cameras. And all that's left is a B&W film. What a disgrace.
In 1970, there was a studio fire in Burbank, California, that destroyed the NBC videotape and kinescope archives. Not a lot of footage survived the fire. Most of the NBC footage that still exists consists of kinescopes and black-and-white videotapes that were recorded by local television station affiliates. The same goes for ABC and Dumont. In both cases, their kinescopes and videotapes made prior to 1970 were dumped into the ocean by a garbage scow off the coast of New York City.
Hugh downs body language. Did not like Lewis at all.
July 1962
Really?.my mother was only a month when this was initially broadcasted.
OOPS!, what i meant to write was that she was only a month old at the time of this broadcast.
I’m here because of the ringer and coco
This appearance of JL on the Tonight Show makes me appreciate JC more. He is not so funny without the movie tricks. I think in this of stand up type environment Dean Martin would have been funnier and more entertaining. A young Nancy Dussault seemed to be similar to Florence Henderson. I guess why they were both associated with the theater version of The Sound of Music with Miss Mary Martin. Also I would think that both Doc Severson and Tommy Newsom were in back shadows of the band since Sketch Henderson returned and Jose Melis had left. Johnny Carson taking over The Tonight Show was not the slam dunk everyone thinks now . There could have been a slow death this show with a succession of hosts after Jack Parr.
doc
He is a slapstick comedian in the same vein as silent comedians. That is a different type of humor, and that's what he was best at. But verbally he was still really funny, and could rattle off some good ad-libs. There was a reason he was asked to do 2 weeks of this show.
Not funny at all
Hugh Downs was funnier and nicer.
I would love to find the copy when I WAS ON The Tonight show and Johnny was flirting with me WOW back in 1964..I dated him between wives for many years afterwards,,,He said it was love at first sight HA I could add to that book that was just written as I was going to include him in my tell all book about the Celebs I have known. Haven't finished it YET LOL..How can U find that tape> I heard they were not saved YET they have this one with Jerry Lewis Maybe HE wanted it saved ,,God I was better than that awful singer sorry but she is awful..
@@holygeneration7 m
They saved this video, but Johnny's first show was destroyed.
This likely came from Jerry's own personal collection, because he saved most of his appearances.
Jerry was a terrific host. However, his schtick grew old after about five minutes. LOL...