Word: severinsen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, female guests almost invariably kiss Carson: they then confront the question of whether to kiss Announcer Ed McMahon as well. Usually, they do, since McMahon has been elevated over the years from the status of hired help to that of deputy executive star. But what if Doc Severinsen is sitting...
...course, are asleep before Tomorrow begins, and Snyder is not the polished product that a major network would spring on a nation of wide awake mild-mannered consumers. But a bedtime attack on the Nixon administration caps a day a whole lot better than "Will you look at Doc Severinsen's suit...
When top studio Trumpeter Doc Severinsen became music director of the Tonight Show in 1967, he started by wearing sober suits on-camera. Then one night he wore a colorful Pucci tie, and Johnny Carson kidded him about it. Next Doc showed up in a zippier suit; more kidding. Soon the routine evolved into the ritual that is now familiar to millions of viewers: an ever more outrageously garbed Doc leading the band through the opening theme, then turning to await the gibes. "That looks like Roddy McDowall's diving-board cover," Carson will say of a white jumpsuit...