{"id":22883,"date":"2015-01-03T06:19:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T11:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22883"},"modified":"2016-10-28T19:31:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T23:31:57","slug":"picture-parade-3-another-tonight-rarity-two-birds-one-stone-its-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22883","title":{"rendered":"Another &#8216;Tonight&#8217; Rarity, Two Birds&#8230;One Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picture Parade  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/3\">#3<\/a>&#8230;Another &#8216;Tonight&#8217; Rarity, Two Birds&#8230;One Stone <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not often that we see the TK41s in NBC Studio 6B, but even more rare is this shot with band leader and Musical Director, Milton Delugg.  <\/p>\n<p>The band was formed in 1954 for the debut of &#8216;Tonight&#8217; with Steve Allen by its first long-term director, Skitch Henderson. When Jack Paar, took over Jose Melis became the leader in late 1957. <\/p>\n<p>Henderson returned in 1962 when Johnny Carson took over after Carson increased the band budget, which allowed Henderson to  hire some of the best  musicians from the touring big bands which were going out of business at the time. The new band included Clark Terry, Bobby Rosengarden, Doc Severinsen, Urbie Green, Ed Shaughnessy, and Ernie Royal, among others.<\/p>\n<p>In 1966, Henderson left the show and was replaced by Milton DeLugg, who in 1967 was replaced by Doc Severinsen. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/777491085621776\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Picture-Parade-3...Another-Tonight-Rarity-Two-Birds...One-Stone-Its-not\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/777494338954784\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture Parade #3&#8230;Another &#8216;Tonight&#8217; Rarity, Two Birds&#8230;One Stone It&#8217;s not often that we see the TK41s in NBC Studio 6B, but even more rare is this shot with band leader and Musical Director, Milton Delugg. The band was formed in 1954 for the debut of &#8216;Tonight&#8217; with Steve Allen by its first long-term director, Skitch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[703,827,825,782,826],"class_list":["post-22883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-director","tag-jack-paar","tag-johnny-carson","tag-nbc","tag-steve-allen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}