I’m pleased as punch to get a reply from you Donz- thanks for that, and all of your generosity over the years in making the fruits of your labors available to the public.
I was thinking about you and Tony while watching the Garr collection, as she was a guest on the show when Dave wished him Happy Birthday and revealed he was 60, which I thought was a joke for a long time. On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 at 9:45 AM 'donz5' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/b4881971-ca9c-4bef-a563-f1f30ebee120n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. 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