And thanks! I'm currently working on a mammoth retrospective on Tony Mendez. Hopefully uploaded in a couple of weeks.
On Friday, September 3, 2021 at 12:39:14 PM UTC-4 donz5 wrote: > 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/b4881971-ca9c-4bef-a563-f1f30ebee120n%40googlegroups.com.
