He was such a prolific writer on top of being a top tear musician

The cat could play any instrument with incredible feel. Never knew he was a member of the Wrecking Crew and played and usually arranged so many hits of the 1960s

Seeing Elton John inducting him into Hall of Fame made me cry. You could tell Elton was really in awe of Leon and thought he was the lucky one being on a Leon album.

¡Excelente material de archivo audiovisual! ¡Felicitaciones por su trabajo y su difusión! ¡Saludos desde Argentina!

Hi, I send mail to you. I have quad tapes, and I`m looking someone, who can digitalize it.

Did you maybe have 2 inch machine? I have some tapes, what I want to digitalize.

AWESOME just AWESOME 😎

This episode was NOT from August 24, 1964-- a Monday. Johnny said it was Friday. Then, he mentioned the Democratic Convention which started on August 24th, 1964. So this episode was from August 21st, 1964.

There was a documentary on Rose Marie, of the Dick Van Dyke show, and it included an appearance she made on The Tonight Show in 1966 in New York. It was titled "Wait For Your Laugh". This was during the time when shows from that period were regularly erased. It was an interesting clip. It was in black-and-white. I don't know how she aquired it, unless she asked for a copy of it, and NBC granted her request. Or maybe she filmed her own kinescope of it at home, to preserve it. Some colorcasts of the Tonight Show from the '70's have shown up (with alternative hosts on Johnny's nights off, never rebroadcast at the time, such as Rich Little and Burt Reynolds). Examples of people taping them with early home-taping devices. Interesting fact about Rose Marie's documentary. Shown locally in a couple of art theaters around Los Angeles. About two weeks after the documentary opened, she passed away. RIP.

Rest in peace, Stan Zabka.

A rare treat from the Carson-era TONIGHT show 's early years.

Amazing quality, too bad so short.

On August 24, 1964 during The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show and other NBC programs switched from black-and-white to color.👍

i thought these shows were lost? awesome

Leon never bought a house he didn't add a recording studio to.

According to The New York Times TV listings, this was scheduled to air on Friday, August 21, 1964, at 11:30 p.m. EDT.

Do you have Bell Telephone Hours with Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme and can you post them?

Sixty years ago yesterday! I was nine and wasn't allowed to stay up that late! Johnny was the greatest!

4 days before I was born....

That is not wrong, they did go down the toilet after CBS bought them. Those are the Yankees I grew up with and after 64 they were not good at all.

Mark-Almond 73 was one of two of the first albums I ever bought in my life... Recommended to me by my older brother... They became my favorite band of all time, and I loved that no one else knew who they were.. so, they were my best kept secret.. Being a pianist, I immediately learned how to play "Home To You" performed by Nicky Hopkins (RIP).. The Best of Mark Almond features "The City".. "The Ghetto" (Incredible).. and the most credible song written about friendship in "Friends"... Then later on "To The Heart" album.. a journey to the Trade Winds... Its too bad their sound was too sophisticated for mainstream.. They were difficult to classify in record shops and on FM radio.. Great era for music.. too short lived...

210 freeway reminded me of the 880 freeway Oakland loma prieta 1989

The day after I was born.

Omg, I turned 3 years old that day!😂

Johnny was great at the art of subtly. Never tried too hard. Also the king of getting mileage out of the jokes that bombed. Facial expressions and pauses. Great !

Take thou my heart for thine Take every dream fashioned there Take every hope, every thought divine The deep, tender love it would share Humble, unworthy to stand at thy side No secret, I hide unbeknown Take though my heart for thine For thine, now, is mine alone “Take Thou My Heart” (Stanley William Zabka, for his wife Nancy)

Keep Leon's Music a LIVE 😎

Whaddyaknow! No homeless vagrant encampments! Local politicians enforced their City Charters back in 1958 against vagrancy, loitering, panhandling, unlicensed cooks and peddlers that they took an oath to enforce!

A fascinating way to watch analog video and audio work during the '60's. Also the way the network used video signals to alert their affiliates to a local commercial toss coming their way

1968 was Friday

Leave a legacy that will resonate long after you're gone. ~Leon Russell

The Johnny Carson Show was in Color back in 1964 instead of Black and White in 1962-1964, I didn’t know that

The incident Carson references about the Yankees is told in great detail in Jim Bouton's book "Ball Four."

There is no way this is the correct date in 1964. No way.

Thanks. Remarkable quality I do not understand the technology - a monochrome machine making a color recording?

In my house growing up.. my brother still lives there..I wrote may,1964 on a pipe in the basement…this reminds me of the time back then……starting with a yankee story….wow….

It was fun to hear mention of all these people I knew about back then, including Phil Linz! The account by Carson of the harmonica incident is fairly right on, according to sources, and actually led to Berra not being rehired as Yankees manager for the 1965 season. The show looks like it was a hot one for sure, musically speaking!

How Is This a Higher Quality From The 60's? That's Just Suspension!

Great restoration! I wish you would post the entire show.

Try that with helical scan!

I didn't know the show was shot in color in 1964.

RIP, Mr. Zabka, who died last October at age 98 (!) He was almost 40 at the time of this show.

That coverage was just riveting. I was only four months old, living in Fullerton with my parents. Yet people talked about that quake for years after it happened.

Forgotten now, but "The Tonight Show" was 90 minutes then, every weeknight! And that was down from the 105 minutes it had been. You can tell from the guest list that the show absolutely gobbled through New York City talent. And it was during this period when Johnny Carson had perfected what Jack Paar had started as a staple: the monolog and the conventional talk show format we know today.

Such a treat to see his beautiful face without the sunglasses.

If anyone has an Ampex AVR-2 looking for a new home I would be interested in acquiring one. Thanks , H.

1:20 If you followed the cars and turned right on Olive, about 1/4 mile up the road next to the studios is Johnny Carson Park. It has a little stream running through it that feeds into the L.A. River at the south end of the park. Whenever it rained, the stream got respectably bigger and I used to take the dog I was babysitting down there and sit with an umbrella and watch the water.

Anyone else here after reading Lowdown Road?

I wish Claudia jennings was still around the sexiest women to ever walk this earth she was also in the great texas dynamite chase great movie and roller girls

God that was sooo long ago. I was 5!