On Sunday, January 3, 2016 at 11:28:54 PM UTC-5, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: > > >> As someone who has bought DVDs and iTunes downloads from the Carson > estate, the cutting out of music is a major annoyance to me. That band was > the sound of the show. Watching the episodes I've digitized off of > videotape, I'm still struck that the audience wasn't cued to applaud coming > back from commercial. The music played, stopped, then the show resumed. It > served as a button to each and every segment, and to not bother to work out > the rights ticks me off. > >
Caught a little bit of last night's Carson repeat. Just like in the eighties, I'm turning on Johnny and falling asleep before the monologue is finished. (I recorded all the shows the first week, then stopped when I realized I just don't have time for eight more hours of TV each week.) But the cutting out of music reached a new, ridiculous zenith on last night's repeat. One of my favorite Carson bits - and one of Letterman's too, as he mentioned when he interviewed Peter Lassally right after Johnny's passing - was that occasional moment when, after Johnny had told several jokes in a row that bombed, the band would play "Tea for Two" and Johnny would dance. Last night they showed one of those moments - except "Tea for Two" was replaced by *generic piano music*. Which totally ruins the joke. Instead of being a reference to vaudeville entertainers who'd try anything for a laugh, now it's just some guy dancing to some bland music. Ugh. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
