I contacted someone who works for Colbert's Show and asked about the song choice. He asked someone who might know, although not a band member. The response was that Batiste played the original Murphy Brown theme song. I am leaving out the names of those involved to protect the innocent.
Not sent from an iPhone On Oct 1, 2018, 9:17 PM, at 9:17 PM, 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV <[email protected]> wrote: >Just a note that, on Monday's show, Colbert did a plug for his book >"Whose >Boat Is This Boat?" (the proceeds to which go to hurricane victims). >Batiste commented on it by singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," which he >then >played for Jake Tapper's walk-out. > >--Dave Sikula > >On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 2:58:52 PM UTC-7, Dave Sikula wrote: >> >> Most of the time, I have no idea why he's playing what he's playing, >and >> it's useless to try to associate the guest with the walk-on music. >> Sometimes, it'll have a relationship (direct or indirect), but there >have >> been many shows where everyone gets the same music. >> >> Moving on from there, I don't know who books the musical acts, but >they >> generally have two things in common: They're loud and they're >terrible, >> >> --Dave Sikula >> >> On Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 1:57:58 PM UTC-7, PGage wrote: >>> >>> The Monk insight has been very helpful for me overall in thinking >about >>> this I music on the show (if not about this specific instance). It >suggests >>> that, while he occasionally plays guests on with music related to >them, >>> more often he is working off of some other theme - maybe often >related to >>> jazz. We know that when Aretha died he used her music for all of one >show, >>> and he recently used all Prince music on occasion of a release of >new music >>> from his estate. I like Jazz in general and Monk in particular, but >unless >>> it is from well known tracks I would not recognize many references. >>> >>> Perhaps the Murder, She Wrote theme was the closest tv reference to >>> something related to whatever musical theme he was using that night? > >>> >>> <Pause for quick Wikipedia check). The Murder theme was written by >>> British composer John Addison who died in 1998. He did a lot of film >and TV >>> scores, and some classical compositions. Maybe Batiste studied some >of this >>> things in grad school. I vaguely recognize the story the Wikis tell >that >>> Addison had been a British solider involved in Operation Market >Garden, and >>> then wrote the score to the film “A Bridge Too Far” about the >ill-fated >>> operation. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 12:22 PM 'brugdr' via TVorNotTV < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Batiste was on Fresh Air this past Wednesday, and parts of that >show are >>>> in the weekend Best Of episode. >>>> >>>> >>>> >https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/2018/09/26/651815801/fresh-air-for-sept-26-2018-musician-jon-batiste >>>> >>>> The Late Show specific material starts around the 30 minute mark >and >>>> runs about 10 minutes. Turns out both Terry Gross and Batiste love >Monk. >>>> Regrettably, aside from that we don't get much resolution on the >topic at >>>> hand. >>>> >>>> David >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>> Sent from Gmail Mobile >>> >> > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >an email to [email protected]. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
