Doc Severinsen and The Tonight Show Band play "Last Tango in Paris" - 02/16/1973
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- Doc Severinsen leads The Tonight Show band in an incredible performance of "Last Tango in Paris on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - 02/16/1973
#johnnycarson #donseverinsen #thetonightshow
More than a dozen musicians, no frequency correction, no prerecorded tracks, nothing but talent. THAT'S music.
TheSteveMol I was going to say...Real music by real musicians. But I think you said it better! Thank you!
THAT'S elevator music.
@@jacktrppr1 Only if you have a really big elevator. But, as Johnny said, if you don't have the volume up (and I also recommend a good speaker system), no music is really very good.
Truth! 🖖
Very well stated! Heck yeah!🎵🎼🎹🎶🎷🎺🎸
Today, July 7th, is Doc Severinsen's birthday. Happy birthday Doc Severinsen!!!!
I got to know Doc through a friend. Doc was best friends with his brother. Doc was one of the sweetest, down to earth people you could ever meet. Later in life, I went to one of his shows with my husband who dragged his girlfriend along. She was a trumpeter, not unlike myself. She idolized Doc. She was very excited. I didn’t tell my husband I knew Doc. They went behind the curtains after the concert just outside Docs dressing room. My husband and his girlfriend were making out. I came up on them and went to Docs dressing room to chat. He said”Rebecca! How are you? “ My husband and his girlfriend were shocked. I introduced them. He thought what my husband did (making out with a mistress outside his room) was ridiculous and refused to sign their autographs. He made my day. He invited me to have a drink with him which I sadly declined and headed home with my soon to be ex and his bawling humiliated girlfriend.. lol.. . I smiled all the way home and Doc became my secret hero. Lol
what a sad but incredible story!
O my. Wouldn’t work here.
@@M231231 What wouldn’t work?
To have a wife and girlfriend both.
You do know Doc is still alive? 97 years old
Doc Severinsen was one of the special and entertaining parts of the Johnny Carson show.
That is the most 70's thing I've ever heard.
Deliciously 70s! From the warmth of the sultry Fender Rhodes to the wack-uh-kuhm of the rhythm guitar.
For such a wistful composition, the ending here is kind of abrupt. As if forcibly imposed by TV viewing format.
The last great big band. I wonder where all these wonderful musicians went after Johnny Carson retired.
When musicianship was still a distilled craft.
AND seen! Those suits and hairstyles- love it :)
Boy, how I miss Johnny Carson and Doc Severinson and the Band...Such INCREDIBLE TALENT!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DOC!!!! (July 7)
I was a high school bandsman. I lived for the nights when Carson featured Doc. He was the most amazing thing I had ever heard!
Doc's 92nd birthday is today! Happy Birthday, Doc!
93rd.
It's comforting to know that someone from the golden age of The Tonight Show is still with us today.
@@DeadAbeVigoda And he's still here. Can't say the same for the tonight show format. :(
He was born in 1927 so he is 97 years old.
Am I the only one that turned the volume up on my smart phone when Johnny said to turn the volume up? lol 😂
A FABULOUS VERSION, OF THE TUNE. Doc led a great band, on the TONIGHT show. One of the best bands, ever on TV.
This was back when you still heard jazz, on network TV.
What a great band they were ! Thank you Johnny and Doc and band !
Happy Birthday, Doc Severinsen🎉🎼
As a professional musician for over 45 yearsI could tell you that there will never be an orchestra like doc severinsen big band on The tonight show these guys were the greatest bar none the greatest musicians in America
I'm no musician but, that is AWESOME! It's weird how you can actually hear the very feeling of the 1970's in the notes of the music!
Doc still looks Great now at 93 🎶 GOD Bless him 🙏
One of the good funky version of this famous motion picture score! A fan of Johnny (The tonight show) and an admirer from Pakistan!
My favorite part of The Tonight Show when I was a kid was when the band would get to play a whole song and not just bumper music.
Especially whenit was Doc Severinsen.
This is Gato Barbieri's composition taken from the Last tango in paris soundtrack, Doc Sevrerinsen and this orchestra did a damn good cover of this.
Doc was so good, even his clinkers got an encore.
I loved this when it played on the radio a few times and I actually bought the 45 which I still have. I made a short video in JC back in 74 with this song as the background. Wasn't easy splicing together video back then as it is with today with an iPhone. Excellent American Masters show on Doc recently played on PBS.
Imagine Johnny giving you a few seconds to WALK ACROSS THE ROOM to turn up the volume.....
Two of the greatest trumpet players both from Oregon, Doc Severinsen and Chris Botti!
Add Charlie Porter to that list. Check him out!
Randall Zielinski Will do. Thanks
Miss all of them 🥺
At 13 years of age, I felt like a grownup watching Johnny until midnight.
@@miguelmacias8177
I was in 7th grade when this aired. I could only stay up to watch Johnny on Friday nights. 📺
Great show. Great band. That type of entertainment died with cable
Amazing I loved listening to dock and the band today's television is nothing like the past Johnny Carson and his Entourage were the best
3:51 Doc says "there were some clams that they won't get on the original record." Also what a groove by Ed Shaughnessy
The Best Band EVER on a TV "variety" show.
Doc was always a fave of mine. I loved his flamboyant style. I had a crush on him when I was a tiny girl.
Just finished 2020...now in 2021 watching this made my day. Missing Carson, Doc, Ed
Doc's music was fantastic.
Odd to hear something so 1970's with such outstanding musicianship. Like hearing a form of music never heard before. One of the greatest big bands ever. The tonight show had a huge budget fir that kind of show - was NBC's biggest moneymaker by far when Johnny was host and the budget shows with the quality of these guys in the band. They really could play any kind of music like experts in any style. Then Leno shows up on a dark set and a band with 1/4 the players and a fraction of the talent and in a day the party was over and never came back.
Just came up in my feed. Glad it did! Doc is one of the best. I'm reminded of an interview he did many years ago where the interviewer asked him if he still practiced and he said he had the horn on his lips for 8 hours every day. So his typical day would be, practice, rehearse, practice a bit more, perform. Good lesson for all us wanna be's.
❤️ Always a favorite.
Gives me an incredible feeling of nostalgia for that time, even though I didn't get to see the movie until about 20 years later due to not being old enough at the time
Doc's shirt is so badass! I want it for my next dinner party or my next trip to Vega$!
Johnny, Ed, and Doc- the dream team.
So great!
Simply outstanding! Doc was A number one all the way! Such a great talent. The 1970's was a very special time.
Loved that.
I used to love Doc on Johnny's show.
I just read that he is still living at 93 years old. Such a very talented man!
Love doc and the tonight show orchestra...🙂🌞👍
Great smile, sharp dresser, excellent musician.
In the late '60's Ross the piano man was frequently playing at the Half Note Club spring and Hudson NYC !
That's a good band right there, plus Doc's shirt is awesome.
One of the GREATEST big bands ever!
He was a frequent visitor in my small town to visit fantastic band director. It became t hff e no. One HS band in the county
La mejor versión de este tema!!!
My favorite song...
Back in the days when you had to get off the couch, walk over to the TV, and turn a physical volume knob.
On the cheaper TVs. My parents had a big Magnavox console with a remote in the early 70s.
All that work to turn some knobs, now we can just say Alexa, read my thoughts.
Remember when my dad brought home a curved Zenith with remote.....circa 75-76 we could not believe it...good old days....
The outfit Doc is wearing!!!!!
I love that woodwind combination on the intro.
Clarinet and piccolo? Very sweet and unusual sound. Such versatility and great arranging!
Doc performed with the Florida Symphony Orchestra back in the 80's. It was a joy to be on stage with the man. He and Mancini were the coolest in those days. Henry didn't use a baton. He just snapped his finger for the beat. :^)
Don't guess I noticed the soundtrack to Last Tango until now. That was smooth as butter.
One of the greatest bands of their day -- wonderful talent in that band!
Thanks Doc.
great rendition from a truly great movie
THAT is some really SWEET BRASS !
My high school band in Columbus Ohio did a trumpet concerto on 1972 with him. I was the third French horn in the back
I remember watching the movie for the first time when I was around 20. I reminded the vhs tape several times to hear this again and again cause it really touched my heavy metal heart then growing into other forms of music when I was in my late teens.
Real music.
such talent, such talent, such talent wow
That was wonderful! 🖒🖒🖖
Love it!!!
That guy ed could really play man. I remember him telling his origin story. He just show led up to New York with a snare drum in hand and the rest was history.
..and Docs outfit is awesome!
2:24
👆🏻That Dude On Drums 🥁 is literally pouring all his soul 🧡 wow 💖
The great Ed Shaughnessy. Joined the Tonight Show band in 1963.
Got to be in the Tonight Show audience in 1986 and one of the best parts was of course The Tonight Show Band.
Nobody beats The Doc!!!!
I like the way Ed changes the grip on his left hand drumstick @ 1:55
Good stuff- sounds like every 70's TV show I watched as a kid
This is music!
The REAL !
Doc’s got some chops🎺🎶
The best.
I heard Doc play this live in Houston in 1973 and had not heard it since. Wonderful!
Back when there was good tv.
That tune really brings back memories...think I'll perhaps watch the movie again.
The last network orchestra....
An emotional level I agree with you but technically Wilfred Marcellus in The Tonight Show band under Jay Leno was considered a big band and don't forget David Letterman and the CBS Orchestra was also considered a big band condensed version of it so up until those shows ended there was still a full house band but CBS called it an orchestra which I think is a little silly
Point taken, the Tonight Show with Johnny had a 17 piece big band although they did call it the NBC Orchestra. It was nothing like the real orchestras they had back in the early days of radio and even TV. But by the time Branford Marsalis and then Kevin Eubanks took over with Jay they were down to nine. That’s not even a big band much less an orchestra. So I guess none of them were really orchestras but the original Tonight Show versions were closer. But as the years went on and the shows don’t pull nearly the ratings that Johnny pulled, it can’t be profitable to pay all those great musicians. Damn shame.
@@Bill_N_ATX I didn't realize there were Seventeen members in that band I thought it was just Paul Shaffer and the world's most dangerous band players hey forgot they must have added a few but Kevin Eubanks or Bradford Marsalis I believe started it off for Leno I always felt they were the real deal I just loved watching Ed Shaughnessy play in the old big band Buddy Rich Style playing that is my favorite. Even TV shows like Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin and other talk shows had really great bands playing I am 57 years old and sorely Miss all of those house bands I mean even though I am not old enough to remember that golden age I caught the tail end of it and was always Blown Away by the professionalism of those musicians and how what a bunch of great players they were. I think the networks eliminated it just to make more money and streamline their profits. Our music is becoming a lost art it is up to all of us 2 exposed are younger people to all of this we owe it to these great Masters. Every one from John Coltrane to Buddy Rich we really owe them a debt of gratitude and we need to continue to burn the torch is bright as possible because once younger people are exposed to this not all of them but enough of them will be turned on to jump on board and maybe incorporate some modern music into it and maybe even come up with the whole new style of jazz that we haven't thought about yet... Buddy himself used to talk about this in some of his interviews he was more open-minded then I think a lot of people give him credit for. People just hear about the bus tapes and act like a bunch of silly school kids discussing it when that was such a small part of who Buddy was. He was a perfectionist and demanded the same from anybody who wanted to sit in his band stand and if the kitchen was too hot for them they were free to leave nobody put a gun to their head and most of them knew what they were walking into long before they joined. He always made sure the audience got their money's worth. A lesson every musician should take to heart
Johnny wanted the band and NBC wanted Johnny happy. They played what he liked.
That show cost very little to produce and brought in piles and piles of money. Carson kept taking off more vacation time as he got older and no complaints from the execs.
The song is just so spicy
Seeing Doc on the Tonight Show was one of the reasons I wanted to play trumpet❤
Now that's entertainment!
this is like time travel
Doc Severinsen by his own admission had an off night. He was only EXCELLENT. But he was big enough to own up to it. Nonetheless, he and the band were, in my book, outstanding.
Fabulous
Wow, nobody plays the trumpet quite like the Doctor; and how about that band. Ah, yes back in the day when late night TV was fun to watch. Thank you Doc!
Played the whole show in the 70s I think. Might have been a different instrument. I been looking for many years.
It was
Glorious
Weird. It was only yesterday that I Googled Doc’s name to see if he was still alive.
Another person that is still around the last surviving member of The Honeymooners and played Trixie Norton's wife is Joyce Randolph the last surviving member she is 96 and gave a recent interview in sounded sharp as a tack and very sweet. She only has three years on Doc can you believe it...? Doc is timeless and generation list he is one of those guys that with every new generation he is still relevant, hip and cool as a cucumber. His duet with Arturo Sandoval was absolutely breathtaking and really shows his humbleness as well as his talent
One thumbs down? Must be Doc's ex.
Up to seven. Must be all of Carson’s ex’s too.
@@BangerFleet LOL!
15 now! Lots of exes.
17 thumbs down voters are Jimmy Fallon fans.
I actually watched the Tonight show when Doc Severinson performed this song.
This song takes me to a poker table where Carson, Ed & Dean are playing & Rickles is sitting on a couch roasting everybody.
What goes around comes around. I am sure Doc got the chance to call Johnny on one or two of his own “clinkers” over the years. Ba doomp! 🥁
When Doc dies, part of my childhood will die too.
I like when the sax players get out the flute and clarinet.
There are still musicians like this today, you just have to find them at clubs in the cities!
Many of the band members are still out there playing.
I so miss the RARE occasion you'd see performances like this live. They only got to be heard going to commercial - and only the studio audience could enjoy the music....
MUSICOM PRODUCTIONS: Also C-Band dish owners got the see Doc performed during the commercial breaks. I saw a few.. what they did was to transmit the live shows direct to New York control a few hours before the East Coast broadcast. New York control would package the shows with commercials and other stuff and then get the shows ready for first, the East Coast. It was so fun.
Everyone in the band(except bongo player) wore a jacket and tie! Damn I miss this show in its prime
What about Doc?
That's just God-given talent.
Nope, hard work.
@@michaelrandall9034 Both
Awesome days
How I miss the late night orchestra's
This was almost 50 years ago. Has late night entertainment gotten better since then?
No.
@Matthew So are you saying you're not waiting breathlessly for the next Kardashian sighting on Jimmy Fallon?
@Doug Fernandes absolutely
Hell no. There will never be Late Night TV like Carson again.
What a place you have USA 🇺🇸