LNwDL #10, February 16, 1982
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- By request: Dave invites an audience member Rosemary Bailey to take over the show while he retrieves his tooth. With guests Dick Cavett and Howard Smith. Also Mail Order Items, and the second "Melman Production" outro with Calvert DeForest.
I just love popping a random episode of Dave, not knowing what to expect.
Thank you for these.
How cool that you posted this. Not only was at at this taping but that is me sitting right next to Rosemary as they pluck her from the audience at 2:55!
That's great!
Did you know Rosemary before that? Any interesting stories to tell, such as what she said after she returned to her seat, or what took place during the commercial break when Rosemary was at the desk? That must have been strange to experience, having the person seated next to you suddenly become the show host.
@@joadbreslin5819 I did not know Rosemary prior to the show. The 3 guys to my right and I went to NYC from NJ for senior skip day. We were walking by Radio City Music Hall when an NBC page stopped us on the sidewalk and asked if we wanted to attend the taping of this new show. I think it was around 4 PM. When we entered the studio they looked you over then brought you to your assigned seat. The person seating us told me that I would be sitting next to a person who would be called up to host the show for a while during the opening. I was told to "clap wildly" when Rosemary was called up to host hence my wild clapping. While waiting for the show to start I talked to Rosemary quite a bit. She said she was very nervous but very happy to be selected to be on TV. She told me where she was from and that her family were in other areas of the audience. The flower she was holding was the "mark" that she was selected to be the guest host. Dave was not there any time prior to the show so I actually think the flower mark was more for him. Prior to the show they had someone warm up the audience who was quite funny. There were some rowdy guys in the back during the warm up show that Dave mentioned during his opening. Then Paul said a few words to the audience then he goes over to the band and a producer, I think the same guy who did the warm up, addressed the audience this time wearing a headset and just started counting down. The band starts playing and Rosemary squeezed my leg. I just said, "You are going to do great" and the show begins. Sitting in the front row is not the best viewing place because the cameras and equipment are in your way. You can see my friends and I looking up at the monitors because that's the only way we could see anything on the stage. It wasn't as bad when Dave went to the desk since that was past the cameras. When Rosemary got back from her opening she asked, "How did I do?" I told her she did great. The show pretty much is filmed live just like you see it on this CZcams presentation. If the commercials were 3 minutes, they waited 3 minutes. It was filmed between 5 and 6 PM and we made it back home just in time to see the show that same night at midnight or 1. On the way out I did get to meet Rosemary's husband who was waiting for her at the top of the steps. He said, "I'm married to a TV star." I just laughed and said, "Yes you are."
@@MBeshadathat’s cool. How old are you now? And how old would you say rosemary was? I’d say she was about 50 so probably dead now
@@MBeshadaGreat story, thanks for sharing it
Excellent! This is exactly what made Dave a true innovator in television broadcasting. Thanks for the upload, Don!
Pretty much everything Lettermann and his writers did they "borrowed" from Steve Allen, who did the same kind of stuff in The 1950's. Lettermann, in the mid 1980's, admitted this. Allen co-invented an was the first host ever of The Tonight Show, etc. + Allen was an excellent musician and composer.
Yet the average American doesn't even know who Allen is / was.
Two of my favorite TV hosts. Thanks for posting, Don.
Rosemary did a great job lol
Cavett was superb in terms of his guest selection and respectful urbanity during the 60s-70s. He seems really lost from the 80s onward imo…
Awesome! Cavett's reaction is awesome.Rosemary for the win.
I'm gonna be so spoiled by the time the writer's strike is over! Now that I've found these, they can hold out for years as far as I'm concerned!
Wish that all ---or at least a lot more---of the tapes of the old nighttime Steve Allen show from the early 60's had survived as they created the wild no-hold-barred craziness mold that David Letterman followed in his night time show. Steve Allen did things like becoming a "human tea bag", driving through a huge block of ice in the street, leading the entire audience out the stage door to walk through the Hollywood Ranch Market next door, walking down the street during the show to interview people in the neighborhood, staging a giant audience pie-fight, crossing an alligator pit on his stage on a thin board etc etc to say nothing of the on-going nonsense with "Allen's gang" that consisted of Don Knotts, Gabe Dell, Dayton Allen, Louis Nye, Pat Harrington Jr., Bil Dana and Tom Poston. Plus including his stage crew as part of the shenanigans, guys like Johnny Jacobs, the technical crew, stage director and announcer. It was THE greatest night show ever, but, unfortunately, someone chose to erase the shows and record new shows over them, video tape being very expensive at the time (or at least that is what I heard, and was also told by Steve's widow, Jane Meadows.)
Both Allen’s “Tonight Show” and “The Steve Allen Show” we’re both on NBC. His 1962-64 “Steve Allen Show” was syndicated on Westinghouse channels. None were on CBS.
@@dongiller His late night show ran on CBS affiliated channel 2 in the Detroit area (I am only referring to that show in my comments, not the earlier NBC Tonight Show, or his Sunday night show. But, yes, you are correct re Westinghouse etc. I should've eliminated mention of CBS since the only connection was that local channel 2's in various parts of the country often carried his syndication. As far as the erasing of the tapes, I guess that was done by whomever was responsible for the taping and re-use of the tapes. So I stand corrected on some of my comments, but....I stand by my comments about the great quality of the comedy and craziness of that night time show.
@@RSEFX Ah! I wasn’t aware of the CBS connection, thanks. It’s admittedly an extremely minor detail to your overall comment, and I probably shouldn’t have dwelled on it.
Yes, a short-sighted crime on cultural history, allowing all that treasure to just be wiped away.
My first time, watching the first show, with the NBC peacock logo bug, at the beginning. Most of the time, in the beginning, u would see the NBC In Stereo trademark. So fantastic!
The stereo trademark appeared only after the show began broadcasting in stereo, which was in mid-1985.
24 yrs old at the time living in Orlando. 😅 I too can name all three of the Hudson brothers. Sooo funny Dave was. 😁
These old shows give so much insight into inner workings of "Late Night". @5:59 (watch in 0.25 slo-mo for best viewing), when they pan around the band's side of the set, you can see how Dave's desk was angled towards all the set equipment, stage personnel and Paul, and not really facing the audience as you probably imagined from watching the show all those years. In my ignorance of how TV stagecraft works, I always thought Dave was facing directly towards the audience during taping.
I was at this show. You are right. Dave's desk is sort of angled and the guests are directly facing the audience. Not that the audience could see much live because of the lights and camera equipment. When they pan the audience you can see us actually looking up at the monitors and not at the show stage, especially in the first few rows, because our view was blocked by the equipment.
Based on the "Thanks Dave" graphic- I assume this was the final NBC airing of a Letterman show- as they ran the earliest "Late Night" episodes the last 2 weeks between the CBS debut and Conan O'Brien (August 30-September 10, 1993)
That's right. I thought that was a classy move by whoever thought of adding that bumper. I plan to put together all of the "farewell" bumpers after I finish digitizing Late Night.
Most famously, Howard Smith also produced Marjoe(1972) about a child Pentecostal preacher. It's a revealing look at evangelicals, revival meetings etc.
Can’t help but get nostalgic watching old letterman shows Gotta love the 80s
That kind of daring stuff by then you wouldn't see now.
Don, I’ve been searching many years for an episode in which Dave read my letter. Sometime between 1982 and 1984. It was on yellow stationary, signed mike comer Ravenswood WV. I asked Dave why he never mentioned WV on his show. Paul pulls out a map and WV was not on the map. I’ve told the story, no one believes me. Lol. Can I find all episodes somewhere and continue my search?
April 7, 1983. Email me your email address, and I’ll send it to you directly via wetransfer. You’ll find my address in the About page of my YT channel.
A couple of years ago on the Decades channel, I caught the last part of a Dick Cavett show where he too interviewed Howard Smith about "Gizmo!" I think it originally aired in April of 1980. Been trying to watch for it to come up again in the rotation but so far no joy. (Cavett may have met Smith years earlier on his ABC show when he was shopping "Marjoe!" around.)
Brilliant!
Don, ..don[t stop. Thanks.
My childhood 😄
Would you happen to have the full 7/28/1982 episode of LNwDL, which has the Jerry Lawler/Andy Kaufman confrontation?
I have every show. You’ll find the (uncensored) Kaufman/Lawler in this collection - czcams.com/video/4GCt9CLdmew/video.html
Pioneer.
Steve Allen copycat.
I’ve watched shows of Parr, Allen and tons of Carson but I always felt Dick Cavett had a quick a wit as Letterman did.
The other three were sharp and quick but Dick and Dave just always seemed to quickly put together the correct concise, quick comeback that made you wonder how did they do that!
Is That Bill Wendell amping up the crowd near the start?
Yep.
Back when Hiram Bullock wore shoes.
Dave saying "good morning" for a show airing at 12:30am seems a bit odd. It's probably technically correct to say "good morning" as it is past midnight, but that time slot still feels more like an evening thing. Didn't Larry Bud say "good evening" at the beginning of the first show at 12:30?
I guess this is one of the things they worked on as the show progressed down the line.
I was at this taping. It was taped at 5 PM.
Actually, you have to keep in mind that Tom Snyder originally occupied the timeslot after The Tonight Show, and he had that for 8 years and 2 months before David Letterman replaced him, and he said "Good Morning" at the beginning of most of his Tomorrow Show offerings as well. The reason why is exactly what you just said. Any time after midnight is morning, which is why you heard the song "Good Morning" in a popular film entitled Singing in the Rain. Tom Snyder stopped saying Good Morning on The Tomorrow Show in 1980, and David Letterman stopped saying Good Morning on Late Night in about 1983 or so, but in any event, we should all remember that a late night talk show airing after midnight is technically an early-morning show because the people who might watch those shows either have DVRS or VCRS that will allow them to watch them while they're eating breakfast. Does that make sense?
@@graxjpg Thank you. Of course, now that we have the Internet and things like that, the hosts can literally say "Hi" at the beginning of the show and they won't be punished.
11 goofy years wow 👌 miss the old NBC show...CBS meh
It’s too bad that I guess there’s no way of posting the band playing an entire song through the commercial break.
Well, there is a way. I put up a collection of complete "Green Onions" performances here: czcams.com/video/iLsiPx_mygQ/video.html
And there are full music breaks here:czcams.com/video/ptrYNzmma64/video.html
I'll include more when I can.
She just passed away. 😢
I guess they ran out of time for Cutman Al Braverman...
Yeah, he was bumped and never subsequently appeared on the show.