On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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.) >
I freely admit I'm digitizing episodes as they come down, not because I expect to watch every one of them same day or same week, but because I've only had about 2 dozen episodes of Johnny Carson to enjoy since 1992 and I need to build up my cache. > > 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. > > Worse than the loss of Tea For Two was the loss of Sean Connery recreating the moment he sang "Underneath the Mango Tree" in Dr. No. He mentions it, followed by a horrible jump-edit with thunderous applause. I wonder if that (October '83) was his first TV interview without the Bond hairpiece? -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- 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.
