I'm an old ex-hippie, so this isn't "my music", but that doesn't mean I can't recognize an amazing ensemble of musicians. And Doc was an amazing trumpeter who only retired less than 2 years ago!

Happy birthday Doc !!!

Omg I didn't know! God bless him. Where did the years go...

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday to Doc!!

94??? Wowzers!! Life is short! Seize every day....❤

I've always told people the most fun I've had is playing in big bands and symphonies, sonically there's nothing like it.

They were the greatest

I have seen The Brian Setzer Orchestra several times. They are loud and great!

If I could have sat there with these guys right in front of me on a sound stage doing this live, my mind would be permanently blown.

So many greats in this band…sadly, most long gone now.

probably never got the appreciation he deserved, except from those of us who know how exceptionally good he really was. thank you, doc.

IKR? I wear a shirt like that, people think I'm homeless! Looks like something you'd find at a Goodwill! I envy musicians for getting to dress like that.

This show was such a part of my life growing up. As a child I'd wake up at midnight from a bad dream and go see my parents as they watched Johnny. As a teen I enjoyed the funniest comedians and great musicians. As a young adult I loved Johnny's comic brilliance, dapper style and imagined being interviewed by him. There was more class in one night's show than there has been in the entire late night lineup since Johnny signed off.

The best

He’s the best... However, it does disappoint me learning about what a different and complicated person he was behind the camera.

@@brianskeens647 he was a remote man who showed kindness but could be ruthless. And the change could happen very quickly. He kept people arms length. He was unaware that nbcs contract had ended in 1979. The one that started in 1962. He was broke. People ripped him off. Henry bushkin his lawyer and the last person Carson froze out in 1988. Has written an authorititave biography about the greatest us talk show host of all time.

Got that right!

The current crop of Talk show hosts are lame especially Colbert and Kimmel. Conan is the only one I can stand to watch. Johnny was the best.

Yet Doc himself called it a High Bb, not a Double Bb.

@@rjsamp4194 nobody cares what you call a note. Also it doesn't matter how high you play. What matters is that tone. Damn. Screaming high notes that's Doc. Anybody can sqeak a high note out but to scream them takes practice.

Yeah, and not flipping attitude

Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra were the next closest thing in my opinion. Different Eras, but each terrific!

@@feggyduss6463 I agree with you. I was just going to mention them.

A big shout out to parents who let their kids play their instruments in the house....alot of noise when we were just learning....i also played the trumpet back in the days.

Hopefully you are still wailing on that trumpet 🎺

@@stevehardeman7209 Yes I do. In the early 80's I had the opportunity to play lead trumpet for Robert Goulet. I am a better technical player today but I do not have the endurance that I had back when I played 6-8 hours per day. Yes I had great parents that supported me playing my horn.

Right On!

@@michaelbull1513 Bully for you Michael! (Sorry for the pun using your last name. Well, OK, maybe I’m not sorry. I love a good Dad Joke). Seriously, it’s great you’re still playing and enjoying what you do. All the best to ya’!

Me too. Lol

Did you know that Doc was a Country singer, trumpeter, and bandleader on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson?

​@gentrismoore7566 He even worked with Tito Puente back in the 50's!

That was when music was music God blessed us!!!

Well, with Johnny, it was usually 3 days a week :)

Same here.

@@dhpbear2 pretty sure when he was off (which was frequently 🤣) I thought he was gone for the whole week🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@@Tom-ok2rh Agreed, but there were stretches where he wasn't on on Mondays. Johnny misstated the year of the 1929 Stock Market Crash as 1928. Ed quipped "you've been off so many Mondays , you could lose a year!"

Yes!!! Me too!

He doesn't have the kind of range he displayed here, any longer. I think he stopped touring and retired 3 or 4 years ago, in his early 90s. He's like, what, 96 now?

They got a feature every once in awhile. It was usually as a filler such as if a guest didn't show up or if they came up short at the end of the show and needed two or three minutes to fill.

Pretty much all virtuoso musicians in the country would enjoy sitting in this band. None of the late night musical groups since were this entertaining. Although Max Weinberg's group on Conan's show was excellent for a small group.

Yes, I was thinking it sounds like it's from a 70s TV show!

The song was a number one hit for Bobbie Gentry. Ode to Billy Jo.

Yes with all that wah guitar it sure does.

Hello Jean how are you doing over there?

New Vintage

"Gonna Fly Now", from 'Rocky'

They were in the Charlie Barnett Band together “

Give it One.. MF Horn 2 if I remember correctly.

Maynard had a soprano sax player who was a regular in the SF Bay Area Vince Denham. So good they gave him a cut on an album “Invincible “. Great stuff.

Yeah. NICK! I saw that right away.

Who played drums on Lonely Bull?

Thanks for sharing that info

@@john-giovannicorda3456 i think it was Hal Blaine & the Wrecking Crew.

@@jw4321 Yeah. For sure Wrecking Crew. And there is mandolin played on that by Bud Coleman. Who would have thought mandolin but it sounds perfect.

Johnny was amazed to learn that trumpeter Snooky Young got his start in Jimmie Lunceford’s band.

Hey Kevin, good to see a kindred spirit. one of my old bosses was in the Air Force band program. George Phelps, very cool guy to work for..

@@delightschwartz1469 That names sounds very vaguely familiar, though I'm sure we never crossed paths.

I think I count 17

Indeed. Exactly this.

Hello Sharee how are you doing over there?

yep, and they influenced more amazing players like Bill Chase, Chuck Findley & Jon Faddis-just to name a couple

@@chasefreak Indeed they did. The late South African trumpeter Hugh Masakela was another whose robust playing was also in the same vein.

And if they touched his cigarette box, they'd probably just break it

Especially Sick Liars(meyers).

@Reed Alexander Erhm ....no, he probably wouldn't.

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Or Don Rickles

And he chased that reply with a very Paul Lynde-esque face - perfect!

Hello Brenda how are you doing over there?

This video is a great example of why Johnny was so much better than Jay Leno. Look at the interaction between Johnny, Ed, and Doc. Very relaxed, cordial, and respectful. Johnny really cared for his team and interacted with them in a sincere way. Jay Leno, on the other hand, only had Kevin Eubanks and treated him like dirt. Jay Leno was a one man show where the main character was marginally funny. Johnny was an amazing talent made all the better by the people he surrounded himself with. THAT is what made Johnny a legend

@@toddbu-WK7L such a great analysis, Todd, all true. One of Johnny's greatest attributes us something no one else has proved to do: make fun of himself all the time and it seems he really enjoyed it. He was edgy and laid back all the time. We never knew what pure gold he had in him until he retired and all the wannabes proved Johnny the best by not being able to come up to his shoetops. I never laugh at or with the others. I have just started watching these old shows and I do laugh and they are usually wildly entertaining across the board. What a luck out for NBC. They never could have imagined what they had in 1961 when they first hired him. I hope more of th eff shows fron the 60's and 70's keep resurfacing. I was too young and in bed to remember the 60', welk, maybe the late 69's, but to see the NBC peacock at the beginning with the narrator, " the following program is presented in living color, on NBC". Yikes. Love it.

Jimmy Fallon is unwatchable.

@@photonotavailable7936 no kidding. He's terrible. Just a dull, smarmy, slow guy with a weird, glassy glaze in his stare.

@@davidrosler5413 I could not agree with you more. What was NBC thinking.

Yes I have the lp too finally nice to see the video and yes there is some things cut out from the record

True 👍🏻🏆

Orchestra.

They're not shows. They're paid mouth pieces for the left.

When NBC approached Johnny in the 80's and asked him to downsize his band, he told them to take a hike. Finally when they got to replace him they fired the entire orchestra. There has never been a big jazz band on television since. I miss it too.

@@JohnSmith-gq9gn. Exactly. A bunch of leftist idiots making asses of themselves. I don't even try to watch late night anymore. After Leno & Letterman were gone, there was no more late night. Although Ferguson was a good laugh at times.

Hello Maria how are you doing over there?

That’s the great thing about these musicians. They are so good, they can sound as tight as a band that has been playing an arrangement for a month even though they first saw the music that afternoon at rehearsal. Spectacular!

I know, I was just thinking how different they both looked. As a drummer I later found out about Ed's body of work outside that band.

I was lucky enough to attend a drum clinic Ed put on at a college here in Hampton VA in the early 90s. I know that's one of his kits but that sure doesn't look like him. I think it might be someone sitting in for him. Just don't know????

@@leewhiteman1417 It's not Ed, but I don't recognize him. Probably an A list LA session player.

@@don4476 Good call. Doc looks very young. I figured it was Ed because of the kit.

@@dallasstiles118 He had quite the resume. My bass teacher landed a bass gig in Hollywood back in the eighties playing with Tom Scott for the Pat Sajak show. This was after touring with Madonna and doing the Rippington’s first two discs. He’s playing bass on this fairly well known smooth jazz tune: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iZqUdKpzld_Pmps.html Sadly, I recently found out that he has early stages of dementia.

Jimmy Fallon isn't even worthy enough to polish Johnny Carsons shoes.🤣🤣🤣

That's a big YEP!

Probably John Bambridge (Snr.) He did a lot of charts for the band. He's on alto 05:12

Hello Barbara how are you doing over there?