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"Johnny's Theme" is an instrumental jazz song played as the opening theme of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from the show's inception in 1962 through its finale in 1992. The piece was composed by Paul Anka and Johnny Carson , based on a previous composition by Anka.
The Tonight Show first aired locally in New York City in 1953 and was hosted by Steve Allen. The show went nationally in 1954 on NBC, and was with Steve Allen as host, then was succeeded by Jack Paar in 1957. On October 1, 1962, Groucho Marx introduced Johnny Carson as the new host.
Johnny's Theme, the music that opened The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, famously ended with the "shave and a haircut" flourish every weeknight for 30 years and 4,531 episodes. [citation needed]
This is the way a late-night king leaves his throne: not with a fight, but just a heartfelt good night. Thirty years ago, on May 22, 1992, Johnny Carson sat in front of that colorful Tonight Show ...
Johnny Carson was so popular during his heyday that a late-night quip about a toilet paper shortage caused a run on the product at grocery stores across the country in 1973, nearly a half-century ...
The following is a list of episodes of the television series The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson which aired in 1992: 1992. January. No. Original release date ...
The Tonight Show from the Museum of Broadcast Communications website; Carson's official Tonight Show website; Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress; The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson at IMDb The Man Who Retired a June 2002 Esquire article also available here; Johnny Carson, late-night TV legend, dies at 79, a January 2005 CNN ...
NBC’s “Tonight Show” will try a new way to break out of TV’s late-night pack. The Jimmy Fallon-led program is launching a new six-episode miniseries that chronicles how the show maneuvered ...