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SNL Band
The Saturday Night Live Band (referred to in the closing credits as The Live Band) is the house band of the NBC television program ''Saturday Night Live'' (''SNL''). Role on ''Saturday Night Live'' The band consists of mostly jazz, R&B, and some rock musicians and features a strong horn section. They normally play the opening theme music (after the cold opening), musical pieces in between commercial breaks, and the closing theme music "Closing Theme (Waltz in A)," written by founding member Howard Shore. Often, the band will provide the music to a sketch when necessary. Band leaders and musical directors Musician and future Academy Award winning film composer Howard Shore was the original musical director and bandleader from 1975 until 1980. Paul Shaffer (himself, one of the original band members from 1975-1980) recounted that Jean Doumanian (who was taking over as the executive producer for season 6 of ''Saturday Night Live'') offered him to be the new musical-director in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Pendarvis
Leroy Leon Pendarvis (born 1945) is an American session musician. He plays keyboards and is a background vocalist. He is also an occasional guitarist. Early life The son of a first-grade primary school teacher, Pendarvis grew up in South Carolina. In addition to teaching, his mother was also pianist at their church. She also gave piano lessons to make extra money. The young Pendarvis graduated from climbing up on the bench to hit the keys to being taught by his mother. He also learned to play trumpet and saxophone. He also was a bass player when he came to New York. Personal life Pendarvis was previously married to Janice Gadsden, whom he had known since she was 13. They married some time after she left her parents place and moved in with her cousin Andrew Gadsden, who was Pendarvis's roommate. He was also previously married to former Los Jovenes del Barrio singer Jillian Armsbury, who died in January 2009 from mesothelioma. He married a woman named Josephine in 2018. Pendar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Shaffer
Paul Allen Wood Shaffer (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian musician, actor, and comedian who served as David Letterman's musical director, bandleader, and sidekick on ''Late Night with David Letterman'' (1982–1993) and ''Late Show with David Letterman'' (1993–2015). Early years Shaffer was born in 1949 in Toronto, and raised in Fort William (now part of Thunder Bay), Ontario, Canada, the son of Shirley and Bernard Shaffer. He was raised in the Jewish faith; his mother volunteered with local charities, and donated to Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America. His father, a lawyer, was a jazz aficionado while his mother loved show tunes. When Shaffer was 12, his parents took him on a trip to Las Vegas where they took in Nat King Cole and other shows; this was an experience Shaffer described later as "life changing" and led to his decision to become a performer. As a child, Shaffer took piano lessons, and in his teenage years played the organ in a band called Fabu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Belushi
John Adam Belushi ( ; January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor, singer and musician. He was one of seven ''Saturday Night Live'' cast members of the first season. He was arguably the most popular member of the ''Saturday Night Live'' ensemble. Belushi had a partnership with Dan Aykroyd. They had first met while at Chicago's the Second City comedy club, remaining together as cast members on the inaugural season of the television show ''Saturday Night Live''. Born in Chicago to Albanian-American parents, Belushi started his own comedy troupe with Tino Insana and Steve Beshekas, called "The West Compass Trio". Bernard Sahlins recruited him for The Second City comedy club. Once there he met Aykroyd, Brian Doyle-Murray, and Harold Ramis. In 1975, Chevy Chase and Michael O'Donoghue recommended Belushi to ''Saturday Night Live'' creator and showrunner Lorne Michaels, who accepted him as a new cast member of the show after an audition. Belushi develope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers (formally, The Fabulous Blues Brothers’ Show Band and Revue) are an American blues and soul revue band founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, who met and began collaborating as original cast members of ''Saturday Night Live''. The Blues Brothers Musical Revue consisted of lead vocalist " Joliet" Jake Blues (Belushi) and his brother, Elwood (Aykroyd), who played a harmonica that he carried onstage in a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. The duo were usually dressed in matching black suits, black pencil ties, black trilby hats and sunglasses. The band itself was carefully constructed, and made up of experienced musicians of the time, including Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, "Blue" Lou Marini, Tom "Bones" Malone, and Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin. The act debuted as musical guest on the April 22, 1978 episode of ''Saturday Night Live'', hosted by comedian Steve Martin. After recruiting a full band, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTV Unplugged
''MTV Unplugged'' is an American television series on MTV. It showcases recorded live performances of popular music artists playing acoustic instrument, acoustic or "unplugged" variations of songs. The show aired regularly from 1989 to 1999. From 2000 to 2009, it aired less frequently and was usually billed as ''MTV Unplugged No. 2.0''. Since 2009, ''MTV Unplugged'' specials have aired occasionally, sometimes through online or Paid subscription, subscription only. Episodes and specials have tended to showcase one artist or group, playing a combination of their hit songs and covers. Many of the artists who appeared on the show in the 1990s released their ''Unplugged'' session as an album, and some of these albums were commercial and critical hits. Eric Clapton's ''Unplugged (Eric Clapton album), Unplugged'' (1992) sold 26 million copies worldwide and became the best-selling live album of all time. Albums such as Mariah Carey's ''MTV Unplugged (Mariah Carey EP), MTV Unplugged'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Young (saxophonist)
George Ernest Young (10 July 1937) Feather, Leonard; Ira Gitler''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz'' Oxford University Press, 2007. . At Google Books. Retrieved 14 November 2019 is an American jazz saxophonist. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. After leading his own band in the late 1950s, Young became a New York City session and studio musician in the 1960s and joined several line-ups including Mike Mainieri's jazz-rock big band White Elephant Orchestra, as well as later joining the Saturday Night Live Band. In 1982, along with fellow saxophonists Dave Sanborn, Ronnie Cuber, Young was voted one of the Most Valued Players by the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences' annual awards edition. Young has led his own quartets featuring Harold Danko, Rick Laird and Butch Miles (early 1980s) and another quartet, featuring Warren Bernhardt, Tony Marino and Tom Whaley (early 1990s). He has performed with Eric Clapton, Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey ( ; born March 27, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Songbird Supreme" by ''Guinness World Records'', Carey is known for her five-octave vocal range, melismatic singing style, signature use of the whistle register, and diva persona. An Cultural impact of Mariah Carey, influential figure in music, she was ranked as the fifth-Rolling Stone's 200 Greatest Singers of All Time, greatest singer of all time by ''Rolling Stone'' in 2023. Carey rose to fame in 1990 with her Mariah Carey (album), eponymous debut album and became the only artist to have their first five singles reach number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, from "Vision of Love" to "Emotions (Mariah Carey song), Emotions". She achieved international success with the List of best-selling albums, best-selling albums ''Music Box (Mariah Carey album), Music Box'' (1993) and ''Daydream (Mariah Care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katreese Barnes
Katreese Barnes (January 3, 1963 – August 3, 2019) was an American musician, musical director, and songwriter, best known for being half of the pop duo Juicy with her brother Jerry Barnes, and her work on the music of ''Saturday Night Live ''Saturday Night Live'' (''SNL'') is an American Late night television in the United States, late-night live television, live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC. The ...'', including the Emmy-winning hit " Dick in a Box". She died in 2019 at the age of 56, following a decades-long battle against breast cancer. References 1963 births 2019 deaths 21st-century American women musicians American women songwriters Deaths from breast cancer Primetime Emmy Award winners 21st-century American songwriters {{US-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels (born Lorne David Lipowitz; November 17, 1944) is a Canadian and American television writer and film producer. He created and produced ''Saturday Night Live'' (1975–1980, 1985–present) and produced the ''Late Night (franchise), Late Night'' series (since 1993), ''The Kids in the Hall (TV series), The Kids in the Hall'' (from 1989 to 1995), and ''The Tonight Show'' (since 2014). He has received 21 Primetime Emmy Awards from 106 nominations, holding the record as the most nominated individual in the award show's history. Early life Lorne David Lipowitz was born to a Jewish family in Toronto, Ontario, on November 17, 1944, to Florence () (1915–2001) and Abraham Lipowitz (1908–1959), who worked as a furrier. Several sources incorrectly state that he was born on a kibbutz in the then-Mandatory Palestine, British mandate of Palestine, and that his Jews, Jewish family immigrated to Toronto, Ontario, when he was an infant. Michaels and his two younger siblings w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hall & Oates
Daryl Hall & John Oates, commonly known as Hall & Oates, were an American Rock music, rock duo formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1970. Daryl Hall was generally the lead vocalist, while John Oates primarily supplied electric guitar and backing vocals. The two wrote most of the songs they performed, either separately or in collaboration. They achieved their greatest fame from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s with a fusion of rock music, soul music, and rhythm and blues. Though they are commonly referred to by only their surnames, the duo's official and preferred title included the members' first names. They have been credited on albums as Daryl Hall & John Oates (or Daryl Hall John Oates) on all of their US releases. The duo reached the US Top 40 with 29 of their 33 singles charting on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 between 1974 and 1991. Six of these peaked at number one: "Rich Girl (Hall & Oates song), Rich Girl" (1977), "Kiss on My List" (1980), the two 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Ebersol
Duncan Richard Ebersol (; born July 28, 1947) is an American television executive and a senior adviser for NBC Universal Sports & Olympics. He had previously been the chairman of NBC Sports, producing large-scale television events such as the Olympic Games and National Football League broadcasts. Early life Ebersol was born in Torrington, Connecticut, the son of Mary (née Duncan) and Charles Roberts Ebersol, a former chairman of the American Cancer Society. He and Josiah Bunting III are half-brothers. In 1967, aged 20, Ebersol began his long history with the Olympics when he temporarily dropped out of Yale University to join Roone Arledge and ABC Sports as television's first-ever Olympic researcher. Career Move to NBC In 1974, he joined NBC as Director of Weekend Late Night Programming. In 1975, at the suggestion of Paramount Pictures executive Barry Diller, Ebersol and NBC president Herbert Schlosser approached Lorne Michaels for help in creating a show to fill the Saturda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Malone (musician)
Tom "Bones" Malone (born June 16, 1947) is an American jazz musician, arranger, and producer. As his nickname implies, he specializes on the trombone but he also plays saxophone, trumpet, tuba, flute, and bass guitar. He has been a member of the Blues Brothers, Saturday Night Live Band, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and the CBS Orchestra, the house band for the ''Late Show with David Letterman''. Early life Malone was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, Odie Malone, was a U.S. Navy pilot who survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Malone graduated from North Texas State University with Lou Marini, who would also become a member of the Blues Brothers band. Both were members of the One O'Clock Lab Band at North Texas. Career He began playing professionally as lead trumpeter for Brenda Lee at a club in Jackson, Mississippi while enrolled at the University of Southern Mississippi. In response to a call from Warren Covington, leader of the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, he began cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
