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Ed Shaughnessy, Longtime ‘Tonight Show’ Drummer, Dead at 84
JazzTimes ^
| 25 May 13
| Jeff Tamarkin
Posted on 05/29/2013 12:14:57 PM PDT by real saxophonist
Ed Shaughnessy, the drummer who was seen nearly every night for close to three decades as a member of Doc Severinsen’s band on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, died May 24 in Calabasas, Calif. The cause was a heart attack. Shaughnessy was 84.
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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: docseverinsen; edshaughnessy; johnnycarson; obit; obituary; shaughnessy; thetonightshow; tonightshow
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To: iowamark
Right. And most of those guys looked like they were in their mid-seventies then.
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05/29/2013 1:43:46 PM PDT
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WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; repeal the 16th)
To: plain talk
Court of the crimson king? Original drummer for KC was Michael Giles who recorded that album. Yeah. All the tracks on Doc Severinsen's Closet were covers except for one, IIRC.
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05/29/2013 1:53:00 PM PDT
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Steely Tom
(If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
To: real saxophonist
To: ThomasMore
You gotta be good to go toe-to-toe with Buddy Rich.
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05/29/2013 8:46:01 PM PDT
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dfwgator
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