On Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 2:23 AM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote:
> FWIW, I was in the 'Newhart' boat on my initial listen. > > The best I can find for a connection are two pretty obscure items: > > * A Murphy Brown episode called "Burger, She Wrote" around the theft of a > burger restaurant mascot > * Candice Bergen and Angela Lansbury starred on Broadway in a 2012 > production of The Best Man. > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 4:40 AM Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote: > Another possibility: Somebody thinks Candice Bergen starred in "Murder, > She Wrote." > > Sometimes a screwup is just a screwup. > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 9:39 AM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, yes - that is my default assumption. > > I have just been trying to bend over backwards to see if I am missing > something. As I have noted here a couple of times, his use of play-on music > has been puzzling to me. It often (more accurately, sometimes) seems > neither a reference to the guest, nor just an independent musical choice, > but in some odd and often discordant way “guest adjacent”. The most obvious > explanation is that a young guy who spent his youth becoming a world class > musician and hanging out win cool places rather than watching TV and > mainlining pop culture makes occasional mistakes (after all, apparently if > Bob Newhart was a guest and I was the musical director I would play him on > with the theme from Murder She Wrote) but maybe it is some kind of modern > New Orleans Jazz way of playing the music you don’t expect, or something.i > First I'd say avoid obscure references. As Ken Jennings once wrote about trivia questions, if it's too obscure for anyone trying to play it's no fun. Paul Shaffer and his band had an encyclopedic knowledge of pop, rock, and R&B music, and as songs in all these genres get a lot of radio play, the audience at least will recognize the song and put together what it has to do with the guest. Batiste plays jazz, where the song names don't normally come to the general audience, and a New Orleans mix of jazz and R&B which has a relatively small following. I can see at rehearsal if someone has a great idea for walk out music the band will play it. But they're not thinking about doing it for every guest. -- 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.
