Ep. 13: Everyone Needs A Carson

Host: Richard Gibbs
Guest announcer: Doc Severinsen
Engineer: Lance Powell

RG and LG get hitched, 1982Best man, Joe Berardi, groomsmen left to right, Johnny Bakken, Carson Warters, Gary Gibbs, John Liotine, Tom Gibbs, Doug Morton

RG and LG get hitched, 1982

Best man, Joe Berardi, groomsmen left to right, Johnny Bakken, Carson Warters, Gary Gibbs, John Liotine, Tom Gibbs, Doug Morton

Carson Warters and his Cheshire Cat grin Seabreeze High School yearbook photo

Carson Warters and his Cheshire Cat grin

Seabreeze High School yearbook photo

Johnny Carson

Johnny Carson

Doc Severinsen and Johnny Carson

Doc Severinsen and Johnny Carson

Frame grab from Night of the Lepus

Frame grab from Night of the Lepus

Carson Warters and RG, 2018

Carson Warters and RG, 2018

Big TopCarson sitting in front, RG back to camera far rightFrom Big Top attendee Robert Seegmiller:At times I felt like I was the only person in the audience who wasn’t high. I remember a guy next to me who said, “You are just here for the movies? T…

Big Top

Carson sitting in front, RG back to camera far right

From Big Top attendee Robert Seegmiller:

At times I felt like I was the only person in the audience who wasn’t high. I remember a guy next to me who said, “You are just here for the movies? That is so weird, man.”

Carson Warters, present day

Carson Warters, present day

Frame grab from Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou

Frame grab from Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou

Paul Anka

Paul Anka

Carson and little sister Lyle, sometime in the 80s

Carson and little sister Lyle, sometime in the 80s

Seabreeze Junior High, long gone, not missed

Seabreeze Junior High, long gone, not missed

More Night of the Lepus

More Night of the Lepus

Martha Mae Gibbs and RG, 1956

Martha Mae Gibbs and RG, 1956

Music

invisible arts Theme
artists: Richard Gibbs and George Doering
composer: Richard Gibbs
BMI, Ribbs MX

The Tonight Show Theme Song
artist: Doc Severinsen and The Tonight Show Band
composers: Paul Anka, Johnny Carson
BMI, Chrysalis Standards Music, EPA Publishing, Here S Johnny Music

Little Martha
artist: The Allman Brothers
composer: Howard Duane Allman
BMI, Happily Married Music

Born To Be Wild
artist: Steppenwolf
composer: Bonfire Mars
BMI, SOCAN, Songs of Universal

Kung Fu Fighting
written and performed by Carl Douglas
GEMA, ASCAP, Carren Music Edition

Penny’s Motel
The Book of Stars
composer: Richard Gibbs
BMI, Ribbs MX

Soul Korea
Big Mama’s House
composer: Richard Gibbs
BMI, Fox Film Music, Ribbs MX

La Grange
artist: ZZ Top
composers: Frank Lee Beard, Bill Gibbons, Joe Michael Hill
BMI, Music of Stage Three

Who Are You
artist: The Who
composer: Peter Dennis Blandford Townsend
BMI, GMR, Universal Music Group

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
artist: The Rolling Stones
composers: Michael Phillip Jagger, Keith Richards
PRS, BMI, ABKCO Music Inc.

Special Delivery
Music From Another Room
composer: Richard Gibbs
BMI, RibbsMX