Norm Crosby's First Appearance on the Tonight Show (1964)

Comedian Norm Crosby, "The Master of the Malaprop", first appeared on the Tonight Show, Starring Johnny Carson, on December 30, 1964. It is not likely that the video of this program has survived. In the 1960's, NBC wiped and reused the expensive 2-inch video tapes which were used to record the program in the late afternoon for showing later the same evening (or on the following weekday evening when the program was visiting California). Long before there were VCR's, I recorded the audio of the program on January 1, 1966, when it was rerun on "The Saturday Tonight Show". Norm's death on November 7, 2020 prompted me to post my recording, with the addition of a few photographs from the period. I had tried, unsuccessfully, to contact Norm several years ago so that I could send him this recording.

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