I'll have to pinpoint when guests regularly received play-on music. Comics always were accorded music, starting with Elayne Boosler on March 2, 1982 (LN #18), the second stand-up to appear on the show (the first, Franklyn Ajaye, had no intro- or exit- music when he did his act on February 15, '82 (LN #9). That was rectified with Boosler).
But panel guests didn't normally receive play-on music (until they did, TBA) except for a few guests: Martin Short was introduced with Julian Lennon's "Valotte" for the first time on July 10, 1985. Martin explained in his autobiography that someone told him that he had resembled Julian, so Paul took it from there. Jerry Seinfeld once appeared panel on Dave and asked why he didn't get his traditional walk-on music. Paul told him that that was reserved for stand-ups only, which, in this circumstance, Jerry was not. That discussion took place on November 25, 1988 (taped November 8). However, Jerry's two previous panel-only appearances -- November 11, 1987, and August 26, 1988 -- Paul did play him on, the former accompanied by the Tower of Power horns playing the Beatles' "Got to Get You Into My Life" (Dave's lead guest on that show, Debbie Reynolds, had no play-on music), the latter with the quickie O'Jays number. So there was some inconsistency here. On Friday, September 3, 2021 at 3:02:49 AM UTC-4 PGage wrote: > I have watched parts of it before, but never the entire 5-Part Collection > made available by The Donz (what a great service he has provided on his > YouTube channel). I enjoyed it having seen most (but not all) of her > appearances live. Two questions: > > 1. Why did Dave never ask her about her experience on the back door pilot > “Assignment: Earth” episode of Star Trek TOS? It is a clunky, ponderous > episode, but I always liked the concept, and Garr is by far the best part > of it. The script implies that she would have been a significant part of > the series if it had happened. It’s not clear what the series would have > been - Gary 7 says he will only be on Earth for a short while, and it could > be him and the cat/woman roaming the galaxy saving civilizations, but if > the show was going to be called Assignment: Earth, and Teri Garr his side > kick, then more likely they would have stayed on the planet and helped late > 1960s earthlings solve various problems. > > Famously, this show, which was first broadcast March 29 1968, contains a > report by Spock that “There will be an important assassination today” - an > unspecified day in the specified year of 1968. Six days after the show was > broadcast, on the real Earth in the actual year of 1968, Martin Luther King > was murdered. A little over 2 months later Bobby Kennedy would be murdered. > I guess in a world in which the President had been murdered only 5 years > earlier, and Malcolm X 3 years earlier, predicting assassination as one of > the events in an already turbulent year is not that un-expected but still, > must have sent a shiver through the spine of people who worked on the show. > If I were interviewing Teri Garr dozens of times I would have asked her > about it at least once. I read that Garr has said being on that episode off > TOS was a a big boost to her career. Dave asks her about being in the Elvis > films on like 5 different shows, but as far as I can tell never about Star > Trek. > > 2. When did Paul start doing play-on music for guests? In my memory he > always did it, but for much of the series Teri walks on to applause only > but no music. On 6-14-1990 (which is on Part 4 of Donz’ 5 Part Garr > collection) she again walks on to no music. Then on her next appearance, > 11-23-90 Paul plays “Bridge Over Troubled Waters”, as she walks on, but > there is no discussion about it. The next time she is on, 4-23-91, Paul > plays Bridge again, and in response to inquiry from Dave explains that Art > Garfunkel’s last name originally was Garr. I did not confirm this > consciously, but I think from then on he plays some kind of music as she > comes on, not always Bridge. > > I’m not saying he started the play-on music for Garr, but I am just > wondering when he started it? Based on this sample, it would seem sometime > between June 14 1990 and November 23 1990, but of course its possible he > started much earlier and just didn’t do it for every guest, and didn’t > start with Teri until November of 1990. > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/febc933f-9630-41be-9bad-016e3201e427n%40googlegroups.com.
