How many drummers does it take to make a late-night show? Well over 300 if you’re Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Drummers have been a fixture in late-night for years – think of Max Weinberg, the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band who became the bandleader for Conan O’Brien and Ed Shaughnessy on The Tonight Show with Jonny Carson – but Meyers’ NBC show has paved a new path for stick wizards.
Eric Leiderman, a producer on the show, has been overseeing a rotating group of drummers that since the show began – ten years ago on Saturday.
This has included the likes of Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, Slayer’s Dave Lombardo, Guns N’ Roses’ Matt Sorum, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam’s Matt Cameron, Allison Miller and Mudhoney’s Dan Peters.
As the show celebrates this anniversary, Leiderman tells Deadline how this under-the-radar scheme came about and why...
Drummers have been a fixture in late-night for years – think of Max Weinberg, the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band who became the bandleader for Conan O’Brien and Ed Shaughnessy on The Tonight Show with Jonny Carson – but Meyers’ NBC show has paved a new path for stick wizards.
Eric Leiderman, a producer on the show, has been overseeing a rotating group of drummers that since the show began – ten years ago on Saturday.
This has included the likes of Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, Slayer’s Dave Lombardo, Guns N’ Roses’ Matt Sorum, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam’s Matt Cameron, Allison Miller and Mudhoney’s Dan Peters.
As the show celebrates this anniversary, Leiderman tells Deadline how this under-the-radar scheme came about and why...
- 2/23/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Los Angeles (AP) — Ed Shaughnessy, the jazz drummer who for nearly three decades anchored the rhythm section of Doc Severinsen's "Tonight Show" band, has died in Southern California. He was 84. William Selditz, a close family friend, tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/1albfp7 ) that Shaughnessy had a heart attack Friday at his home in Calabasas, outside Los Angeles. The New Jersey native began his jazz career as a teenager, playing with Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman and Count Basie. He replaced Buddy Rich in Tommy Dorsey's band. In the mid-1950s Shaughnessy became a staff musician at CBS. From 1963 to...
- 5/27/2013
- by AP Staff
- Hitfix
Ed Shaughnessy, a drummer on TV's "The Tonight Show" for nearly three decades, has died at the age of 84. He passed away at his home in Calabasas, a Los Angeles suburb, on Friday according to multiple media reports. Shaughnessy grew up in New Jersey in the 1930s and began playing drums while in his teens. He soon began playing jazz drums in New York City and became a staff musician at CBS in the 1950s. He also became a well-known big band drummer, playing with stars such as Benny Goodman and...
- 5/26/2013
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
Ed Shaughnessy, a longtime drummer for The Tonight Show band, died at age 84 of a heart attack while at home Friday in Calabasas, Calif., the Los Angeles Times reports. The jazz drummer played in Doc Severinsen's band from 1963 to 1992. Shaughnessy performed on the drums for artists as varied as Aretha Franklin, Johnny Cash and Oscar Peterson the Percussive Arts Society noted in a hall of fame profile. Story: Jay Leno Passes the Torch to Jimmy Fallon, or Lights a Fire With It Shaughnessy joined the New York jazz scene as a teenager before later signing up with
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- 5/26/2013
- by Erik Hayden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Child radio star and the voice of Disney's heroine Cinderella
For the American singer Ilene Woods, it was a job of no particular consequence: to record, as a favour to friends, a few demo tapes of songs they were writing for a Walt Disney cartoon film. But the session would lead to her voice being forever associated with one of Disney's enduring heroines, Cinderella.
In 1948, Mack David and Jerry Livingstone asked Woods to record the songs they were writing for a planned animated feature based on the fairytale Cinderella. Woods recorded the Fairy Godmother's magic song, Bibbidi-bobbiddi-boo and Cinderella's songs, A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes and So This Is Love.
Disney had been auditioning actors to voice his new screen heroine and had rejected between 300 and 400 applicants. When he heard Woods's tapes, he declared Cinderella to have been found and offered her the role. Woods, who...
For the American singer Ilene Woods, it was a job of no particular consequence: to record, as a favour to friends, a few demo tapes of songs they were writing for a Walt Disney cartoon film. But the session would lead to her voice being forever associated with one of Disney's enduring heroines, Cinderella.
In 1948, Mack David and Jerry Livingstone asked Woods to record the songs they were writing for a planned animated feature based on the fairytale Cinderella. Woods recorded the Fairy Godmother's magic song, Bibbidi-bobbiddi-boo and Cinderella's songs, A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes and So This Is Love.
Disney had been auditioning actors to voice his new screen heroine and had rejected between 300 and 400 applicants. When he heard Woods's tapes, he declared Cinderella to have been found and offered her the role. Woods, who...
- 7/19/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
The actress/singer who voiced Cinderella in Disney's animated classic has died, aged 81. Ilene Woods died on Thursday, July 1 from causes related to Alzheimer's disease at a nursing home in Canoga Park, Los Angeles.
Woods was an 18-year-old radio singer when she recorded a demo for the then-upcoming Disney feature in 1948. Days later, she was auditioned by Walt Disney himself, and went on to voice the title character's speaking and singing parts for the 1950 film based on the popular fairytale.
In 2003, she was awarded a Disney Legends award for her voicework on the classic. She also sang on Perry Como and Arthur Godfrey's U.S. TV shows in the 1950s before retiring from showbusiness in the early 1970s.
She is survived by her husband, Ed Shaughnessy, their son, a daughter from her first marriage, and three grandchildren.
Woods was an 18-year-old radio singer when she recorded a demo for the then-upcoming Disney feature in 1948. Days later, she was auditioned by Walt Disney himself, and went on to voice the title character's speaking and singing parts for the 1950 film based on the popular fairytale.
In 2003, she was awarded a Disney Legends award for her voicework on the classic. She also sang on Perry Como and Arthur Godfrey's U.S. TV shows in the 1950s before retiring from showbusiness in the early 1970s.
She is survived by her husband, Ed Shaughnessy, their son, a daughter from her first marriage, and three grandchildren.
- 7/5/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
The actress/singer who voiced Cinderella in Disney's animated classic has died, aged 81.
Ilene Woods died on Thursday from causes related to Alzheimer's disease at a nursing home in Canoga Park, Los Angeles.
Woods was an 18-year-old radio singer when she recorded a demo for the then-upcoming Disney feature in 1948.
Days later, she was auditioned by Walt Disney himself, and went on to voice the title character's speaking and singing parts for the 1950 film based on the popular fairytale.
In 2003, she was awarded a Disney Legends award for her voicework on the classic.
She also sang on Perry Como and Arthur Godfrey's U.S. TV shows in the 1950s before retiring from showbusiness in the early 1970s.
She is survived by her husband, Ed Shaughnessy, their son, a daughter from her first marriage, and three grandchildren.
Ilene Woods died on Thursday from causes related to Alzheimer's disease at a nursing home in Canoga Park, Los Angeles.
Woods was an 18-year-old radio singer when she recorded a demo for the then-upcoming Disney feature in 1948.
Days later, she was auditioned by Walt Disney himself, and went on to voice the title character's speaking and singing parts for the 1950 film based on the popular fairytale.
In 2003, she was awarded a Disney Legends award for her voicework on the classic.
She also sang on Perry Como and Arthur Godfrey's U.S. TV shows in the 1950s before retiring from showbusiness in the early 1970s.
She is survived by her husband, Ed Shaughnessy, their son, a daughter from her first marriage, and three grandchildren.
- 7/5/2010
- WENN
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