Jack Sheldon

For all you Jack Sheldon fans, comedy and trumpet. Great chart by Bill Holman

[@richerdcooper2383]

His biggest hit was a song you hear on Saturday Morning. Called Conjunction Junction. From Schoolhouse Rock.

[@hairychest7865]

and don't forget I'm Only A Bill also from Schoolhouse Rock

[@Ucantcometowpminelvyoursathome]

@@hairychest7865 Yeah & somebody needs to forward that one to our current congress. Maybe they'll get an idea of what they're suppose to be doing.

[@RealHeyMark]

I thought his voice sounded vaguely familiar so I googled him and ... yeah, there's a reason for that.

[@Jordan-gt8ht]

Louie the lightningbug

[@werewolflover8636]

School House Rock!

[@carlquirarte3415]

This is awesome. He had a wonderful singing voice. ❤

[@jerseytransitauthority5846]

Man, I love Sheldon! Nobody like him before, then or since! Just great.

[@JazzMaven]

MIss Jack SO much; he was so great.

[@theoddfather8782]

This is great, does anyone remember Jack from an old 60’s series called ‘Run Buddy Run’?

[@GFLJO]

What a combination of chops - voice, horn, and wit... nobody like him! More more more!

[@barryguerrero6480]

Man, he was 'on' on this date. Triple threat - comedy, singing and trumpet.

[@nirv]

On 1998-08-06, Jack was on the Phil Hendrie (radio) Show on KFI with his band. Between songs he would make jokes. This is one I haven't forgotten: "Sex and drugs killed my father. He couldn't get either of them so he shot himself."

[@pwramirez]

Ah yes... when smokin' bands like this were the norm.

[@bilbobaggins4403]

This guy is multi talented

[@barrymosleyjazz2677]

Amazing, he was the best .

[@billk5296]

Thanks so much for sharing this, John! What an amazing talent Jack was.

[@MarkBlackburnWPG]

JACK SHELDON - That Old Black Magic I awoke today thinking of the great musicians, most of them no longer with us, who played with Doc Severinsen in Johnny Carson's Tonight Show orchestra - and trying to recall their longest-serving piano player - who at the end of his life recorded my favorite 'alone together' albums with trumpet great Jack Sheldon. Just the two of them. The name came back to me - “Ross Tompkins” - just as I checked to see 'what's playing right this minute' on Siriusly Sinatra satellite radio: Sure enough (if I didn't know better I'd say What a coincidence!). For the third or fourth time in the past 24 hours, just for me, I like to think, channel 70 is playing Jack Sheldon and an uncredited Ross Tompkins and their delightful “New York Medley” - 8 or 9 minutes of musical joy (that features Vernon Duke's Autumn in New York, Rodgers & Hart's I'll Take Manhattan, and Kander & Ebb's New York, New York). Never at KZbin, including today, but the first Jack Sheldon offering there is one I haven't seen before - a 'live' big band performance in New York almost 40 years ago; posted by a great trumpet-player and a great arranger in his own right, John LaBarbera (Wiki note below). He included a note that this performance of Johnny Mercer's OLD BLACK MAGIC combines “for all you Jack Sheldon fans, comedy and trumpet, plus a great chart by Bill Holman” At New York's Beacon Theater, March 17, 1984. Deepest thanks for sharing John Labarbera. Celebrated this day [search] " Great Melody, Great Lyric, Great Rendition, Songwriting Workshop, Harmony Central " kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3mTgKaJqdumprs

[@MarkBlackburnWPG]

WIKIPEDIA note: John LaBarbera (born November 10, 1945) is a trumpeter and arranger who worked with the Buddy Rich Orchestra during the late 1960s. LaBarbera joined Buddy Rich's band in 1968, but moved to Buddy DeFranco's Glenn Miller Band later that year, before rejoining Rich in 1971.[1] "In the 1980s and 1990s he worked principally as a composer and an arranger, supplying new scores for college and high-school big bands and fulfilling commissions for films, television, and commercials".[1] In the area of jazz education, he "directed jazz ensembles at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, from 1988 to 1991 and then joined the faculty in the jazz studies program at the University of Louisville".[1] His On the Wild Side was nominated for a Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album Grammy award in 2004.

[@tomcalderaro7164]

I beleive it was Ross Tompkins ... for about 20 years

[@undeadJazz]

Didn’t know he could blow so beautifully wow

[@jonmathis]

Love it! Thanks for posting!

[@fergusof]

Love this guy!

[@josekuykendall5592]

He was I damn great entertainer I seen him once in las Vegas a free concert in the park great

[@josekuykendall5592]

Me too it was great the Park on Eastern in Las Vegas

[@esnstrider46]

Jack was a great man

[@jvh8806]

Conjunction Junction ! ! ! Thanks Dr. Labarbera !

[@nyronut]

i love this man

[@nicolalarese3696]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@posaunist5]

very cool

[@Guitcad1]

Conjunction Junction, I'm Just a Bill, The Body Machine, Them Not-So-Dry Bones, Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla, and other more recent ones that I have never seen because by then I was grown and Saturday morning cartoons were no longer a thing because cable ruined it. Anyway, now after 50 years I can actually put a face to the voice.

[@TheRealArrendondo]

Aaah all this time I thought he was black 😂

[@Cluez31]

ME TOO!!

[@TromboneRockGod]

That was awesome!

[@babycakes7767]

He also sang “ just a bill”.

[@chefboyardee4467]

The school house rock guy😅

[@mmoonman13]

"I'm an amendment to be, yes an amendment to be..."

[@werewolflover8636]

I’m just a bill, yes only a bill and I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill… Seriously though, RIP Jack Sheldon and thank you for making school civics class entertaining.

[@MrPsamp]

I’m just a bill and I’m standing here on capital hill

[@Cluez31]

AWWOOOOHHH!!!

[@episnod]

Jack was a great!!!

[@jackgates6949]

Awesome! Laid back Jack in command! Anybody know who the piano player was? For a quick sec it looked like Billy Taylor?

[@billholdensaunt4086]

you looked terrific, john! so thin!!!! haha..thanks so much for posting this. jack was a hidden treasure. i used to watch him and knew of his comedy when he was in merv griffin's band. merv would on occasion feature him. guy could sing, play and a decent standup! the last line about sammy is so cool. caught the guitar player off guard! so unscripted! quick question. who was your drummer on this? thanks for your efforts on you tube here.

[@user-tj4sg9ls2o]

His singing sounds a lot lije Louue Prima.

[@r3tr0actiongamer24]

What album is this off so I can buy this on vinyl

[@johnlabarbera4949]

I'm not sure if Jack ever recorded this arrangement but probably just used it in live performance like this show we did.

[@signjoey]

They sewed her knees together?

[@jeshkam]

Is there a full show of this?

[@johnlabarbera4949]

Sorry to take so long to answer you, have been working on my new recording. Yes there is a full 1hr show with Jack as host.

[@jeshkam]

@@johnlabarbera4949 Hello, thanks for your reply. Is it available on DVD etc.?

[@johnlabarbera4949]

@@jeshkam No, I don't think so.

[@rubengreenberg2253]

As funny as Rodney Dangerfield...but Jack could play the trumpet and sing!