170-413: Omar Apolonio Velasco (born May 20, 1997), known professionally as Omar Apollo , is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. After signing a record deal with Warner Records , his debut album, Ivory , was released in 2022 to positive reviews and earned him a Grammy Award nomination for Best New Artist at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards . Apollo sings in both English and Spanish. Omar Apolonio Velasco
340-558: A seating capacity of around 240, up from 189, but smaller than the seating capacity of The Late Late Show . The investment also included a new control room and a new lobby to welcome guests. The larger audience also meant NBC could take advantage of a newly enacted New York state tax credit for talk shows that are "filmed before a studio audience of at least 200, as long as they carry a production budget of at least $ 30 million and have been shot outside New York for at least five seasons." Fallon's Late Night successor, Seth Meyers ,
510-511: A Gold Record award, and is cited as being the fastest-selling LP ever released in the US up to that time. Sherman also scored a hit single in late 1963 with a cut from his third WBR album, My Son, The Nut , when his song "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" (which satirized the American summer camp tradition) became a surprise novelty hit, peaking at #2. Bill Cosby broke through soon after and he continued
680-410: A US No. 1 with " Windy ", and they reached No. 8 on the album chart with their first Warner Bros. album Insight Out . Their next single " Never My Love " also topped the charts in autumn 1967 (No. 2 Billboard , No. 1 Cashbox ), and now ranks as one of the most successful of all Warner Bros. recordings—it became a radio staple and is now accredited by BMI as the second most-played song on US radio in
850-435: A buildup, with Guy playing a back and forth glissando between two notes on his trumpet. A few seconds later, the shot cuts to Higgins, who points towards the curtains and introduces Fallon with a drawn-out "And now, here's your host/here he is, Jimmy Fallon!" The curtains then part, revealing Fallon, who walks out to the cheering audience. Higgins also applauds for Fallon, and The Roots continue playing "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey". After
1020-596: A dinner, he recalled that Warner effusively greeted him as "the man who saved Warner Brothers Records". Despite the turnaround in the label's commercial and critical fortunes at the start of the new decade, Jim Conkling was unexpectedly forced out as CEO during 1961. The ostensible reason for his ousting was that Warner and the studio executives doubted Conkling's commitment to the label, after they discovered that he had sold his shares of Warner Bros stock, netting him around $ 1 million. However, label biographer Warren Zanes and former WBR executive Stan Cornyn both opined that this
1190-480: A fault, and he treated his Tonight Show launch very much like a guy auditioning to be accepted into homes," said Brian Lowry of Variety , who considered the premiere episode a demonstration in Fallon's strengths and weaknesses. The first season of the show was deemed "wildly successful". Entertainment Weekly summarized the show's inaugural year: "In his first year as host of The Tonight Show , [Fallon] turned
1360-434: A few local radio and TV appearances. His break came thanks to a friend, local DJ Dan Sorkin, who knew Warner CEO Jim Conkling. Sorkin arranged for Newhart to make a demo tape of a few of his original sketches, which Conkling heard and liked. Equally remarkably, Newhart revealed that he had never performed in a club prior to recording the album. Warners arranged to record him at a Houston, Texas club called The Tidelands, where he
1530-493: A few ways from the format which Leno used for his show. Fallon's edition places less emphasis on his opening monologue, a feature which was a staple of the Leno edition. In his opening episode, in which he described what the format of the show would be, he only briefly mentioned the monologue. The show has many recurring segments and games that are played with the various celebrity guests. The most popular of these, "Lip Sync Battle",
1700-511: A former cast member from 1998 to 2004 on Saturday Night Live , was appointed as the third host of Late Night by executive producer Lorne Michaels in 2009 when O'Brien moved to Tonight (only for a little over a year). Fallon incorporated the Internet much more than other talk shows. Between Fallon's own musical sensibilities and the recruitment of his house band , hip-hop collective The Roots , his incarnation of Late Night "evolved into
1870-410: A freelance producer for some of Autumn's acts including The Tikis (who later became Harpers Bizarre ), The Beau Brummels , and The Mojo Men , and for these recording sessions he brought in several musician friends who were then becoming established on the L.A. music scene: composer/musicians Randy Newman (a childhood friend), Leon Russell , and Van Dyke Parks . Together they became the foundation of
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#17328023530642040-490: A friend at the church. Apollo created and uploaded his songs to SoundCloud , a platform with DIY streaming. At the time he worked at Jimmy John's and Guitar Center , and he lived in an attic. In 2017, using $ 30 borrowed from a friend, he uploaded his song "Ugotme" to Spotify , where it was soon added to the platform's Fresh Finds and racked up 20,000 streams in a day. A year later, the song had more than 15 million streams. He released his first EP, Stereo, in 2018, which
2210-567: A generous retainer of $ 200 per week. Hanging out around Laurel Canyon , Wickham scouted for new talent and established a rapport with the young musicians Warner Bros. was seeking to sign. Like Lenny Waronker, Wickham's youth, intelligence and hip attitude allowed him to bridge the "generation gap between these young performers and the older Warner 'establishment'". He played a major role in signing Eric Andersen , Jethro Tull , Van Morrison , and Joni Mitchell (who signed to Reprise), whom Wickham successfully recommended to Ostin in his first week with
2380-520: A great show. Everybody, give it up for The Roots!" The band then plays briefly as Fallon walks over to his desk. On March 20, 2019, the title sequence was dropped and replaced by an abbreviated version of the introduction, which begins with a shot of the curtain and Higgins introducing Fallon with "Welcome to The Tonight Show ! And here's your host, Jimmy Fallon!", with a condensed version of "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey" played by The Roots as he walks out. In an exclusive interview with Variety , Fallon stated that
2550-412: A high profile in the industry thanks to songs he wrote that were covered by other acts like Three Dog Night and Alan Price . Although Warner Bros. spent large sums on albums that sold poorly, and there were some missteps in its promotion strategy, the presence of unorthodox acts like The Grateful Dead and critically acclaimed 'cult' performers like Newman and Parks, combined with the artistic freedom that
2720-457: A major reorganization of the entire Warner-Seven Arts music division. Mike Maitland was promoted to Executive Vice-president of both the recorded music and publishing operations, and George Lee took over from Victor Blau as operational head of the recording division. The restructure also reversed the reporting arrangement put in place in 1960, and from this point the Warner publishing arm reported to
2890-430: A meeting with Jerry Wexler , and Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun , co-owners of leading independent label Atlantic Records , which eventually resulted in the purchase of Atlantic in 1968. In June 1967, Mo Ostin attended the historic Monterey International Pop Festival , where The Association performed the opening set. Ostin had already acquired the US rights to The Jimi Hendrix Experience 's recordings, sight unseen, but he
3060-427: A mid-century modern style," including "a slate blue couch, a handsome honey-colored wood desk and matching walls." Behind the desk near the city backdrop is a wood-carved miniature replica of New York City skyscrapers. "I think it's Eugene Lee's masterpiece," said producer Michaels. Fallon's monologue spot is noted by a painted four-leaf clover on the floor. "Fallon's new set is purposefully old-fashioned compared to
3230-482: A musical career. He has Mexican citizenship. Apollo is gay and has denied queerbaiting allegations saying, 'It's not a choice, it's just what I am. [...] I'm totally aware of the privilege we have now to be ourselves and still have a career [...] people thought I was queerbaiting before. I wasn't super open about my sexuality, but people were hearing things. [...] It had a lot to do with me growing up in Indiana which
3400-515: A new extended score of "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey", just before the camera cuts to a shot of The Roots and pans to the curtain (later changed to a pan of the audience on June 13). Another later change included replacing the show's moon logo with a shot of The Tonight Show' s marquee outside of 30 Rockefeler Plaza. On October 7, 2019, the original opening sequence returned in its entire form. Prior to composing an entirely new theme song, bandleader Questlove noted to Vanity Fair that they were considering
3570-430: A new flavor of ice cream called The Tonight Dough. It consists of caramel and chocolate ice creams topped with chocolate cookie swirls, chocolate chip cookie dough, and peanut butter cookie dough. On October 27, 2015, it was announced that the attraction Twister...Ride it Out , at Universal Studios Florida , would be closing on November 2, 2015, to be replaced with Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon ,
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#17328023530643740-484: A new four-year production and distribution deal with local label Festival Records without informing Warner Bros. During 1969, the rivalry between Mike Maitland and Ahmet Ertegun quickly escalated into an all-out executive battle, but Steve Ross favored Ertegun, and the conflict culminated in Maitland being dismissed from his position on January 25, 1970. He declined an offer of a job with Warner Bros. Pictures and left
3910-639: A report from Radar Online from January 2023, the show is averaging 1.3 million viewers, which is less than half the viewers of Gutfeld! on Fox News . Fallon holds a higher number of YouTube subscribers, and reportedly leads on social media , but this does not drive advertising rates for the show. Much like Fallon's preceding tenure on Late Night , many clips of the show have been made available on YouTube , Facebook , and other services shortly after its television broadcast. Many clips have gone on to become viral videos , which, along with widely viewed videos from competitor Jimmy Kimmel Live! , affected
4080-475: A result of various contractual obligations and fears of losing performers to other networks, Leno was given a nightly prime-time show shortly after Conan's run began. Leno posted less than stellar ratings, leading to a domino effect on the late local news. O'Brien's Tonight also suffered falling ratings leading to a public controversy that resulted in O'Brien leaving the network the following year, and Leno returning to host The Tonight Show . Jimmy Fallon ,
4250-592: A ride based on Fallon's Tonight Show , which opened on April 6, 2017. On September 7, 2023, Rolling Stone published an exposé on Fallon's tenure with testimony by sixteen former and current staff members alleging Fallon's behavior behind the scenes, which included being drunk on set, abrasive yelling at writers, bullying of staff, among other things. Writers used dressing rooms as "crying rooms" to release tension, and one staffer admitted to having suicidal thoughts during his time on staff because of Fallon's behavior. The report also noted that there were nine showrunners in
4420-588: A seat on the Warner/Reprise board; Warner Bros. Records head Mike Maitland became the president of the new combine and Mo Ostin was retained as manager of the Reprise label. Reprise was heavily in debt at the time of the takeover, and the Warner Records management team was reportedly dismayed at their balance sheet being pushed back into the red by the acquisition, but they were given no choice in
4590-400: A sketch featuring a parody ad for "Masculine Man Masks". On March 22, 2021, Fallon returned to Studio 6-B with a smaller audience, making it the first major U.S. late-night talk show to resume tapings in front of a studio audience. For the first week, the audience would consist exclusively of frontline workers. Fallon noted that the first week's audience was 58 people and jokingly compared
4760-419: A substantial advance of $ 30,000 and, most significantly, it set a new benchmark for recording contracts by stipulating that the trio would have complete creative control over the recording and packaging of their music. Soon after, Grossman and Mogull signed a publishing deal that gave Witmark one of its most lucrative clients, Bob Dylan . Grossman bought out Dylan's previous contract with Leeds Music and signed
4930-499: A successful production partnership with noted British studio Hammer Films . Hyman's purchase of Jack L. Warner's controlling share of the Warner group for US$ 32 million stunned the film world—Warner Records executive Joe Smith later quipped that it was ... as if the Pasadena Star-News bought The New York Times . As ludicrous as that." The newly merged group was renamed Warner Bros.-Seven Arts (often referred to in
5100-473: A variation on Late Night 's theme, which itself is a sped-up adaptation of The Roots' 2006 song "Here I Come". For their transition to The Tonight Show , The Roots added Guy and Hendrickson-Smith, two horn players from Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings ("You can't be The Tonight Show without a horn section," said Questlove), to join Bryson on horns. As he did on Late Night , Jonathan Cohen supervises
5270-785: Is an American record label . A subsidiary of the Warner Music Group , it is headquartered in Los Angeles , California . It was founded on March 19, 1958, as the recorded music division of the American film studio Warner Bros. Artists who have recorded for Warner Records include Madonna , Prince , Linkin Park , Zach Bryan , Van Halen , Kylie Minogue , ZZ Top , Gorillaz , Bette Midler , Grateful Dead , Jane's Addiction , Duran Duran , Fleetwood Mac , Rod Stewart , Funkadelic , James Taylor , Red Hot Chili Peppers , Mac Miller , R.E.M. , Bob James , David Sanborn , and
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5440-472: Is co-credited with the band on the album). The group and their concert sound engineer Dan Healy then took over production of the album themselves, taking the unusual step of intermixing studio material with multitrack recordings of their concerts. Anthem of the Sun proved to be the least successful of The Grateful Dead's 1960s albums—it sold poorly, the extended sessions put the band more than $ 100,000 in debt to
5610-521: Is housed directly above his studio in Studio 8G; the combination created logistical challenges for executives, who were concerned about "sound bleed" (as the building was built with steel girders, sound is too easily conducted floor to floor). As a result, The Tonight Show tapes at 5:00 p.m., and Meyers' show tapes later in the evening, at 6:30 p.m.. Until 2024, The Tonight Show typically taped five episodes per-week from Monday through Thursday, with both
5780-552: Is produced by Broadway Video and Universal Television . It is the seventh incarnation of NBC's long-running Tonight Show franchise , with Fallon serving as the sixth host. The show also stars sidekick and announcer Steve Higgins and house band The Roots . The Tonight Show is produced by Katie Hockmeyer and executive-produced by Lorne Michaels . It streams the following day on Peacock . The show records from Studio 6B in Rockefeller Center , New York City , which
5950-602: Is taped every weekday at 5pm. The studio housed both Carson and his predecessor, Jack Paar, before the franchise's move to Burbank in 1972. "It is where The Tonight Show started – actually in the studio where we are going to be, that's where Johnny Carson was, there's Broadway , there's Times Square , there's something glamorous about it. That is The Tonight Show ," Fallon remarked. NBC spent approximately $ 5 million renovating Studio 6B, where Fallon had been taping Late Night , for The Tonight Show 's return to New York City. The upgraded 6B contains improved acoustics and
6120-474: Is the same studio in which Tonight Starring Jack Paar and then The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson were produced from 1957 until 1972. The program airs weeknights at 11:35 /10:35c. The show opens with Fallon's topical monologue, then transitions into comedic sketches/games, concluding with guest interviews and a musical performance or stand-up comedy. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon attracted high ratings from its 2014 premiere. Many moments from
6290-483: Is very conservative. I stopped putting pronouns in my music for a couple of years then I just realized, I can't let other people's opinions influence and dictate my life. In an interview in 2022, Apollo said, "I feel like in the beginning, [...] I was trying to keep the mystique. But I don't even care anymore [...] now I'm just like, I'm very gay." Headlining Supporting Warner Records Warner Records Inc. (known as Warner Bros. Records Inc. until 2019)
6460-554: The Billboard Hot 100 . It was nominally performed by Warner contract actor Edd Byrnes , who played the wisecracking hipster character Gerald Lloyd "Kookie" Kookson III on Warner's TV detective series 77 Sunset Strip . The story behind the recording illustrates the sharp practices often employed by major recording companies. Actress and singer Connie Stevens (who appeared in the Warner TV series Hawaiian Eye ) spoke on
6630-456: The 65th Grammy Awards , Apollo was nominated for Best New Artist , his first Grammy nomination. In 2021, Apollo released the single " Go Away ", including a music video and a live performance on The Tonight Show . He followed up with the single "Bad Life" featuring Kali Uchis , their second collaboration; "Hey Boy" from Apolonio was the first. In February 2022, Apollo released the single " Invincible " featuring Daniel Caesar and announced
6800-646: The Best Comedy Performance–Spoken Word category, and Newhart himself won Best New Artist , the first time in Grammy history that a comedy album had won Album of the Year, and the only time a comedian has won Best New Artist. Interviewed for the official Warner Bros Records history in 2008, Newhart recalled that at the time he signed with the label he was totally unknown outside Chicago, he was still working full-time as an accountant, and he had done only
6970-493: The COVID-19 pandemic , the show suspended production. On March 18, after having used this format for special webisodes of the series, The Tonight Show began airing "At-Home Edition" episodes on NBC; Fallon presented the program from his home, with filming assisted by family members, new interviews conducted via videoconferencing, and reruns of segments from past episodes. On July 13, the program returned to NBC Studios for
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7140-682: The Coachella , Something in the Water , and All Points East music festivals in 2022. In early 2023, he opened for SZA on her SOS Tour . Later in 2023, Apollo was announced as the ambassador for the skincare brand Youth to the People . Omar also starred in the fall/winter 2023 men's campaign for the fashion house Loewe . In September, Apollo was honored with the Inspira Award at the 2023 Hispanic Heritage Awards . In April 2024, Omar released
7310-565: The Columbia label, reverted to Warner Bros. Warner Bros. sold Brunswick a second time (along with Brunswick's back catalog up to 1931) in 1941, this time along with the old Brunswick pressing plants Warner owned, to Decca Records (which formed its American operations in 1934) in exchange for a financial interest in Decca. The heavy loss it incurred in the Brunswick deal kept the studio out of
7480-497: The Compo Company . This was the origin of Warner Music Canada. In November 1966 the entire Warner group was taken over by and merged with Seven Arts Productions , a New York-based company owned by Eliot Hyman . Seven Arts specialized in syndicating old movies and cartoons to TV, and had independently produced a number of significant feature films for other studios, including Stanley Kubrick 's Lolita , as well as forging
7650-523: The Desvelado tour supporting the album. The album received mostly positive reviews with praises going towards Apollo's musical growth and vocal performance. It entered the Billboard 200 chart, marking his first-ever entry on the chart. The deluxe version of the album, Ivory (Marfil) , was released on August 12, 2022. In September 2022, the track " Evergreen " went viral on TikTok which helped boost
7820-569: The Orpheum Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona as a lead-out program from NBC's broadcast of Super Bowl XLIX . The show included an appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger , a lip-sync battle with Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell , appearances by Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots players, and a performance by Ariana Grande . In September 2016, Fallon faced criticism after an interview with
7990-762: The Sex Pistols . At the end of the silent movie period, Warner Bros. Pictures decided to expand into publishing and recording so that it could access low-cost music content for its films. In 1928, the studio acquired several smaller music publishing firms which included M. Witmark & Sons , Harms Inc., and a partial interest in New World Music Corp., and merged them to form the Music Publishers Holding Company. This new group controlled valuable copyrights on standards by George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern , and
8160-471: The Tonight job (unlike O'Brien or Leno), most likely because he was just 17 years old and still in college, when Carson retired. Discussions for Fallon to take over The Tonight Show began in early 2013, with the transition intended to happen by late 2014 at the latest. Many industry observers noted that the change appeared to come as a result of another late-night competitor, Jimmy Kimmel (24 years old at
8330-583: The Top of the Rock . Following the show's premiere, many notable episodes of the show have produced segments that went viral on sites like Facebook and YouTube . Among the show's most popular bits are lip sync battles; one featuring actress Emma Stone aired in April 2014, which became a popular viral video. In October 2014, actor Daniel Radcliffe recited rapper Blackalicious ' " Alphabet Aerobics ", which has become
8500-499: The 20th century, surpassing both " Yesterday " by the Beatles and " Stand by Me " by Ben E. King . The group's 1968 Greatest Hits album was also a major hit, reaching No. 4 on the US album chart. In 1968, Mason Williams ' instrumental composition " Classical Gas " reached No. 2 on the Billboard chart, selling more than a million copies, and Williams won three Grammys that year. Another notable Warner release from this period
8670-593: The Beatles . His own influences include diverse musicians like Neil Young , Paul Simon , John Mayer , Prince , Bootsy Collins , Rick James , and The Internet , a r&b band. When speaking to Billboard , Apollo listed Minnie Riperton 's Perfect Angel , Whitney Houston 's self-titled project , Nirvana 's Nevermind , Kanye West 's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy , and Lauryn Hill 's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill as inspiration for his musical career. Apollo's parents encouraged him to attend college; however Apollo dropped out after two weeks to pursue
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#17328023530648840-560: The Bell , in addition to a cappella versions of popular songs performed by Fallon and the Roots, have also been popular. The show's most widely circulated interview segment was one aired in January 2015 with actress Nicole Kidman , who jokingly revealed that she once had a crush on Fallon, to which, at the time, he was oblivious. On February 1, 2015, the show aired its first live show from
9010-537: The Ertegun brothers and Wexler between them 66,000 shares of Warner Bros.' common stock. On June 1, 1968, Billboard announced that Warner Bros. Records' star comedy performer Bill Cosby had turned down a five-year, US$ 3.5 million contract renewal offer, and would leave the label in August of that year to record for his own Tetragrammaton Records label. Just over one month later (July 13) Billboard reported on
9180-418: The L.A. region prior to the relocation. Fallon hosted The Tonight Show again from Universal Orlando Resort, April 3–6, 2017, in anticipation of the opening of Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon , a motion simulator attraction based on his tenure at the show. Fallon once again aired a special episode after Super Bowl LII , from Minneapolis' Orpheum Theatre . A special episode of The Tonight Show
9350-486: The Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump . Critics accused Fallon of humanising Trump, who had made controversial statements during the presidential campaign. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton had also appeared on the show prior that year. Fallon responded to the controversy claiming that nobody should have expected him to ask difficult questions since he is never hard on anyone. Fallon acknowledged that
9520-530: The Thursday and Friday episodes filmed on the same day. In September 2024, following the lead of Late Night and its competitors, NBC announced that it would discontinue original Friday episodes and only produce four episodes per-week from Monday through Thursday. The show's set was designed by theatrical set designer Eugene Lee , known for his credits on Saturday Night Live , whom Fallon thanked on-air on his first episode. The set "emphasizes stained wood and
9690-465: The US (said rights previously being held by Laurie Records ). Clark soon scored a No. 1 US hit with " Downtown ". Warner also released other Pye artists in the US market such as the Kinks. Another significant development in the label's history came in 1966 when Ostin hired young independent producer Lenny Waronker as an A&R manager, beginning a strong and enduring mentor/protegé relationship between
9860-454: The US and selling more than eight million copies, and their debut Warner Bros. album It's Everly Time reached No. 9 on the album chart. In late 1959, Warner Bros signed a virtually unknown Chicago-based comedian, Bob Newhart , marking the beginning of the label's continuing involvement with comedy. Newhart provided the label's next major commercial breakthrough — in May 1960, three months after
10030-484: The Warner family of labels were The Jimi Hendrix Experience 's Are You Experienced , Van Morrison 's Astral Weeks , The Grateful Dead 's Anthem of the Sun , The Doobie Brothers ' Toulouse Street , Tiny Tim 's God Bless Tiny Tim , and Joni Mitchell 's Clouds , which set off a trend of musicians creating the artwork for their own record sleeves. In 1973, when Frank Sinatra emerged from retirement with his comeback album, Thrasher shot candid photographs for
10200-573: The Warner group in the years ahead– National Periodical Publications (which included DC Comics and All American Comics ), the Ashley-Famous talent agency, and Panavision . In the summer of 1969, Atlantic Records agreed to assist Warner Bros. Records in establishing overseas divisions, but when Warner executive Phil Rose arrived in Australia to begin setting up a subsidiary there, he discovered that just one week earlier Atlantic had signed
10370-514: The album would be released, he was amazed to be told that the label was rushing all available copies to Minneapolis, because radio DJs there had broken it, and it had become so popular that a local newspaper was even printing the times that tracks would be played on air. He recalled that the success of the album almost instantly kick-started his career, and that he was soon being deluged with appearance offers, including The Ed Sullivan Show . A few months later, when Newhart met Conkling and Jack Warner at
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#173280235306410540-518: The band presented Warner Bros. with a planned live double album that they wanted to call Skull Fuck , but Ostin handled the matter diplomatically. Rather than refusing point-blank to release it, he reminded The Grateful Dead that they were heavily in debt to Warner's and would not see any royalties until this had been repaid; he also pointed out that the provocative title would inevitably hurt sales because major retailers like Sears would refuse to stock it. Realizing that this would reduce their income,
10710-406: The band voluntarily changed the title to Grateful Dead, known generally as Skull and Roses . Some of Warner Bros.' biggest commercial successes during this period were with " Sunshine Pop " acts. Harpers Bizarre scored a No. 13 Billboard hit in April 1967 with their version of Simon & Garfunkel 's " The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) ", and a month later The Association scored
10880-482: The band was ultimately signed by Atlantic Records , they eventually became part of the Warner Bros. catalogue after Atlantic was purchased by Warner Bros. Records. In 1967, Warner Bros. took over Valiant Records , which added hit-making harmony pop group The Association to the Warner roster. This acquisition proved to be another huge money-maker for Warner Bros.; The Association scored a string of major hits in
11050-485: The change was inspired by Netflix 's "skip intro" feature, which allows viewers to bypass television shows' opening sequences on its streaming platform. On June 11, 2019, the introduction was modified to include shots of New York City from the original title sequence, with Higgins introducing the show with "From 30 Rockefeller Center, here in New York City, it's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon !", along with
11220-573: The city. Just before Higgins introduces Fallon, the camera cuts to a shot of Studio 6B, focused on The Roots, consisting of drummer and bandleader Questlove , rapper and lead vocalist Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter , percussionist Frank Knuckles (later Stro Elliot), guitarist and vocalist Captain Kirk Douglas , bassist Mark Kelley, keyboardists Kamal Gray and James Poyser , sousaphonist Damon "Tuba Gooding Jr." Bryson, saxophonist Ian Hendrickson-Smith , and trumpeter Dave Guy . Questlove then shouts
11390-430: The college-cafe-in-the-meatpacking-district where he lived on Late Night ," said Entertainment Weekly . USA Today called the set more "intimate and theatrical" than the set employed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno , and The New York Times called it more elegant, "but also quite formal and a little impersonal." The show's logo, its title set against a full moon, is a callback to The Honeymooners , while
11560-560: The company, subsequently becoming president of MCA Records . Mo Ostin was appointed president of Warner Bros. Records with Joe Smith as executive vice-president. In 1970, the 'Seven Arts' name was dropped and the WB shield became the Warner Bros. Records logo again. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is an American late-night talk show hosted by actor and comedian Jimmy Fallon that airs on NBC . The show premiered on February 17, 2014, and
11730-419: The company. Over the next thirty years, Wickham became one of Warner's most influential A&R managers, signing such notable acts as Emmylou Harris , Buck Owens , and Norwegian pop trio a-ha . During this formative period, Warner Bros. made several other notable new signings including Randy Newman and Van Dyke Parks . Newman would not make his commercial breakthrough until the mid-1970s but he achieved
11900-552: The concert, Warner A&R manager Joe Smith took the stage and announced, "I just want to say what an honor it is to be able to introduce the Grateful Dead and its music to the world," which prompted a cynical Jerry Garcia to quip in reply, "I just want to say what an honor it is for the Grateful Dead to introduce Warner Bros. Records to the world." Also in 1967, Warner/Reprise established its Canadian operation Warner Reprise Canada Ltd., replacing its distribution deal with
12070-453: The cover and also devised the album title Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back , which was widely used to promote Sinatra's return to recording and touring. Besides his work on album covers, Thrasher art-directed many of Warner Bros.' ads and posters from 1964 to 1979. In 1964, Warner Bros. successfully negotiated with French label Disques Vogue and Warner Bros.' British distributor Pye Records for the rights to distribute Petula Clark 's recordings in
12240-439: The creative salon that centered on Waronker at Warner Bros. and which, with Ostin's continuing support, became the catalyst for Warner Records' subsequent success as a rock music label. Initially, Waronker looked after the acts that Warner Bros. took over when they bought Autumn Records for $ 10,000, but during the year he also avidly pursued rising Los Angeles band The Buffalo Springfield . Although (much to his and Ostin's chagrin)
12410-526: The creators of the dances. On April 1, 2022, both Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel swapped places as part of an April Fools' Day prank with the former hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! from Los Angeles and the latter in Studio 6B for The Tonight Show . On August 13, 2022, the show's YouTube channel reached 30 million subscribers and became the first and the only show as of 2023 to achieve this landmark. The debut episode received generally positive reviews. The New York Times 's Alessandra Stanley referred to
12580-572: The date was moved forward from the end of his contract in September 2014, to February so as to use NBC's coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics as a springboard for Fallon's tenure. The date was later moved up a week to February 17, midway through the Olympics. As Leno's contract ran until September 2014, much of his staff were paid until that month. By bringing over many of his recurring bits and features from Late Night , Fallon has departed in
12750-541: The days immediately following a special Sunday night show from Phoenix, Arizona airing after NBC's coverage of Super Bowl XLIX on February 1, using the Stage One facility previously utilized for Conan O'Brien's tenure at The Tonight Show . The L.A. shows brought Tonight back to the locale where it had been based since Johnny Carson relocated the program from New York in 1972 until the start of Fallon's tenure, and echoes Carson himself hosting special broadcasts from
12920-421: The eggs are raw or hard-boiled. Each week, Fallon has carried over a popular sketch from his Late Night days: the absurdist "Thank You Notes" segment, in which "he dutifully composes notes of gratitude to abstract concepts and inanimate objects." Another recurring segment, " Tonight Show Superlatives", features Fallon presenting yearbook-style superlatives relating to athletes (particularly, NFL players from
13090-429: The entire state of late-night television. Media pundits have predicted that future programs' accessibility online will be more critical than their television ratings. David Letterman , a thirty-year veteran of the format who was the first host of Late Night and then hosted The Late Show on CBS until 2015, partly retired due to his inability to produce viral bits. In February 2015, Ben & Jerry's released
13260-416: The experience to performing a sold-out Madison Square Garden after a year without crowds. The show officially opened to a full capacity audience on June 7, 2021. In the show's debut episode , Fallon introduced his supporting stars and gave a brief history of his life and career, following it up with a sketch, "The Evolution of Hip-Hop Dancing", with actor Will Smith and a musical performance by U2 at
13430-418: The financial year 1961–62 in the black for the first time since its founding. In August 1963, Warner Bros. made a "rescue takeover" of Frank Sinatra 's ailing Reprise Records as part of a deal to acquire Sinatra's services as a recording artist and as an actor for Warner Bros. Pictures. The total deal was valued at around US$ 10 million, and it gave Sinatra a one-third share in the combined record company and
13600-434: The first airing of the show, Fallon expressed that it was essentially an extension of his tenure at Late Night , explaining that his Tonight Show would be "the best of the best of what we do". The show has carried over some of Late Night ' s well-known performance bits, such as "Egg Russian Roulette", a game in which Fallon challenges guests to pick random eggs and then smash them against their forehead to see whether
13770-477: The first late-night talk show to achieve such a milestone. On March 26, 2021, TikTok celebrity Addison Rae appeared on the show. During a segment, she taught Fallon how to do some popular TikTok dances. The segment faced much backlash due to its failure to credit all the many Black creators of the dances, despite NBC's later crediting of the creators in the description of the video on YouTube. In lieu of an apology, on April 6, Fallon interviewed virtually all of
13940-410: The first time since March 12, with limited staff on-site (wearing masks and having been tested and screened before being on-set), and no studio audience. The move made The Tonight Show the first U.S. late-night talk show to return to tapings in a studio setting. The program was filmed from Studio 6-A (which had previously been used by past incarnations of Late Night —including Fallon's while Studio 6-B
14110-540: The following week's shows from Los Angeles maintained their highest ratings since their premiere. A 2016 New York Times study of the 50 TV shows with the most Facebook Likes found that Tonight is more popular in cities than the countryside. The show's ratings began to fall after the debut of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2015; while it quickly rebounded and remained top-rated late-night program, beginning in 2017, The Tonight Show lost total viewership to Colbert . Fallon's ratings continued to fall in
14280-522: The franchise's most-watched week in 20 years. Following its premiere, Fallon consistently won its time slot in ratings, routinely beating Late Show with David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel Live! . Despite this, the ratings for competitors never significantly fell, with Fallon winning due to a surge in younger viewers. In his first year as host, Fallon's Tonight Show improved on ratings delivered by his predecessor Jay Leno . The series' post- Super Bowl episode in 2015 averaged 9.8 million viewers, and
14450-584: The history of the broadcast up to that point. Fallon made an apology to his staff the afternoon of the September 7th Rolling Stone report. On October 3, 2023, Rolling Stone noted that Fallon did not address the controversy whatsoever during the first taping of the show after the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike , with the Rolling Stone exposé seemingly and oddly being forgotten about shortly thereafter. In Australia, The Tonight Show premiered on The Comedy Channel on February 18, 2014 – airing
14620-471: The hit record, rather than Hunter's latest Warner movie. In 1958, the studio signed Hunter as its first artist to its newly formed record division, although his subsequent recordings for the label failed to duplicate his success with Dot. Warner Bros. agreed to buy Imperial Records in 1956 and, although the deal fell apart, it marked the breaking of a psychological barrier: "If the company was willing to buy another label, why not start its own?" To establish
14790-426: The hits by Sinatra and his daughter Nancy , and the label also secured the US distribution rights to the recordings of the Kinks and Jimi Hendrix . Most importantly for the future of the company, the merger brought Reprise manager Mo Ostin into the Warner fold and "his ultimate value to Warner Bros. would dwarf Sinatra's." Ostin's business and musical instincts, and his rapport with artists were to prove crucial to
14960-462: The industry standard of the day. The duo were fielding offers from all the major labels as their Cadence contract wound up, but Warners eventually won out because the brothers harboured ambitions to branch out into film, and the label's connection to the movie studio provided the perfect opportunity. Luckily, the Everlys' first Warner Bros. single " Cathy's Clown " was a smash hit, climbing to No. 1 in
15130-568: The intervening years. Colbert secured key demographics wins in 2019, and has since won each consecutive television season overall as of 2023, marking that show's longest winning streak over The Tonight Show . For the 2020–21 season, Fallon fell to third in overall ratings for the first time, behind both Colbert and Kimmel . Fallon's ratings fall has been ascribed to his pursuit of "broad appeal rather than political criticism" on divisive issues, especially in an era of increased national polarization. His cheerful 2016 interview of Donald Trump
15300-886: The interview was a setback, three months after Trump was inaugurated. On February 4, 2018, the show aired its second live show from the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota as a lead-out program to NBC's broadcast of Super Bowl LII . The show included guests Justin Timberlake (who was the featured performer at that year's halftime show ), the cast of This Is Us including Milo Ventimiglia , Mandy Moore , Sterling K. Brown , Chrissy Metz , and Justin Hartley , and Dwayne Johnson , with performances by Timberlake featuring Chris Stapleton . On February 20, 2019, during that night's episode, The Tonight Show ' s YouTube channel reached 20 million subscribers, making it
15470-415: The introduction of television in the late 1940s. Legal changes also had a major impact on their business—lawsuits brought by major stars had effectively overthrown the old studio contract system by the late 1940s and, beginning in 1949, anti-trust suits brought by the U.S. government forced the five major studios to divest their cinema chains. In 1956, Harry Warner and Albert Warner sold their interest in
15640-427: The label afforded them, proved significant in building Warner Bros.' reputation and credibility. Bob Krasnow , who briefly headed Warner Bros.' short-lived 'black' label Loma Records, later commented that The Grateful Dead "...were really the springboard. People said, 'Wow, if they'll sign The Dead, they must be going in the right direction.'" Although not widely known to the general public at that time, Van Dyke Parks
15810-502: The label's creation was the music career of Warner Bros. actor Tab Hunter . Although Hunter was signed to an exclusive acting contract with the studio, it did not prevent him from signing a recording contract, which he did with Dot Records , owned at the time by Paramount Pictures . Hunter scored several hits for Dot, including the US No. 1 single , " Young Love " (1957) and, to Warner Bros.' chagrin, reporters were primarily asking about
15980-506: The label's dream run with comedy LPs into the late 1960s, releasing a string of highly successful albums on Warner Bros. over the next six years, alongside his groundbreaking career as a TV actor. The label's fortunes had finally turned around by 1962 thanks to the Everly Brothers , Newhart , folk stars Peter, Paul & Mary , jazz and pop crossover hit Joanie Sommers and comedian Allan Sherman , and Warner Bros. Records ended
16150-530: The label, and Warner Bros. executive Joe Smith later described it as "the most unreasonable project with which we have ever involved ourselves." The Grateful Dead's relationship with Warner Bros. Records was stretched even further by the making of their third album Aoxomoxoa (1969), which also took around seven months to record and cost $ 180,000, almost twice as much as its predecessor. It sold poorly and took almost thirty years to be accredited with gold-record status. There were further difficulties in 1971 when
16320-527: The label, the company hired former Columbia Records president James B. Conkling; its founding directors of A&R were Harris Ashburn, George Avakian , and Bob Prince . Conkling was an able administrator with extensive experience in the industry—he had been instrumental in launching the LP format at Columbia and had played a key role in establishing the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
16490-487: The late 1960s, and their 1967 hit " Never My Love " went on to become the second-most-played song on American radio and TV in the 20th century. During the year, the label also took its first tentative step into the burgeoning rock market when they signed leading San Francisco psychedelic rock group The Grateful Dead . Warner Bros. threw the band a release party at Fugazi Hall in San Francisco's North Beach . During
16660-419: The latter booked Apollo for a university show at NYU . Apollo signed with Artists Without A Label earlier that year and performed at SXSW as part of a showcase with the group. He went on a European tour in 2019 and played at Lollapalooza as well as Tropicália. In late 2019, Apollo released the singles, "Frío" and "Hit Me Up" which are collaborations with producer Kenny Beats . In April 2020, Apollo released
16830-404: The mainstream audience, and Warner Bros. took an early (though largely unsuccessful) lead in recording stereo LPs that targeted the new " hi-fi " market. The catalogue in this period included: Some albums featured jokey or self-deprecating titles such as: Almost all were commercial failures; and the only charting album in Warner Bros.' first two years was Warren Barker's 'soundtrack' album for
17000-443: The marquee as being a "bold statement" that The Tonight Show had been brought back to New York. Fallon joked that he was "jealous of Letterman ", and that the marquee "makes it exponentially harder for them to fire me." The show's opening sequence, directed by filmmaker Spike Lee , features Fallon visiting various New York City landmarks, including Grand Central Terminal and Katz's Delicatessen . Steve Higgins introduces
17170-494: The matter. Ben Kalmenson, a Warner Bros. company director and close aide to Jack Warner , summoned the label's directors to a meeting in New York and explicitly told them that both he and Warner wanted the deal and that they expected them to vote in favor of it. Despite these misgivings, the purchase ultimately proved very beneficial to the Warner group. Reprise flourished in the late 1960s thanks to Sinatra's famous comeback and
17340-435: The medium to become overly friendly. Fallon also has been both criticized and lauded for his seemingly uncontrollable laughter where he would laugh at absolutely everything. The debut episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon averaged a 3.8 rating in adults 18–49, the most coveted demographic, and 11.31 million viewers overall according to Nielsen ; the program's first week averaged 8.49 million viewers, making it
17510-463: The monologue, but have occurred as a cold open for the show on a few occasions. Just as he portrayed Mitt Romney during the 2012 election season , Fallon portrayed Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders . Alongside Fallon's impressions, other celebrities occasionally appear. Several have recurring roles, including Dion Flynn as Barack Obama , David Alan Grier as Ben Carson , Aziz Ansari as Bobby Jindal ,
17680-473: The most deeply musical of TV's musical-comedy variety programs", with sketches in which he parodies Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen going viral online. Coincidentally, it was during the 2010 Tonight controversy that Fallon's show found its footing. The show, according to Fallon's former SNL castmate Tina Fey , established itself as "an uncommonly warm, welcoming show". In 2010, New York complimented Fallon's "good humor" and noted his improvement: "In
17850-470: The most expensive 'pop' albums ever made up to that time. It sold very poorly despite rave critical reviews, so publicist Stan Cornyn (who had helped the label to sign The Grateful Dead) wrote an infamous tongue-in-cheek advertisement to promote it. The ad cheekily declared that the label had "lost $ 35,509 on 'the album of the year' (dammit)," suggested that those who had purchased the album had probably worn their copies out by playing it over and over, and made
18020-503: The most-viewed online video of the show. Other clips, including the "Wheel of Musical Impressions" with singers Ariana Grande and Christina Aguilera have been widely viewed, as has a clip of Fallon and comedian Kevin Hart riding the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit roller coaster during the show's first remote broadcast at Universal Studios Florida . Sketches that reunite casts of television shows, such as Saved by
18190-403: The new division was soon earning solid profits of up to US$ 2 million every year. In 1930, Music Publishers Holding Company (MPHC) paid US$ 28 million to acquire Brunswick Records (which included Vocalion ), whose roster included Duke Ellington , Red Nichols , Nick Lucas , Al Jolson , Earl Burtnett , Ethel Waters , Abe Lyman , Leroy Carr , Tampa Red and Memphis Minnie , and soon after
18360-488: The numbers symbolizing the episode number of The Tonight Show , followed by Black Thought energetically shouting, "Yeah!" During the week of April 4, 2022, Questlove was not present in Studio 6B, so Stro Elliot, who was also playing drums that week, shouted the episode numbers in Questlove's place. As Questlove transitions into a drumroll, the camera pulls out to reveal the curtains and the audience. The entire band goes into
18530-437: The offer that listeners could send these supposedly worn-out copies back to Warner Bros., who would exchange it for two new copies, including one "to educate a friend with." Incensed by the tactic, Parks accused Cornyn of trying to kill his career. Cornyn encountered similar problems with Joni Mitchell—he penned an advertisement that was meant to convey the message that Mitchell was yet to achieve significant market penetration, but
18700-568: The opportunity to use the company's cars, which were idle at night, he founded a successful car hire operation, which he later merged with the Kinney parking garage company. Ross took the company public in 1962, and from this base it expanded rapidly between 1966 and 1968, merging with National Cleaning Services in 1966 to form the Kinney National Company, and then acquiring a string of companies that would prove of enormous value to
18870-486: The plan fell through at some point before the show. The role was filled by Darrell Hammond , who played Trump over his fourteen years on SNL . Fallon has also appeared as figures such as Vladimir Putin and Bob Dylan . The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon originates from NBC Studio 6B at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City , the original home of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson , where it
19040-474: The previous year. However, Conkling had decidedly middle-of-the-road musical tastes (he was married to Donna King of vocal trio the King Sisters ), and was thus rather out of step with emerging trends in the industry, especially the fast-growing market for rock'n'roll music. Warner Bros. Records opened for business on March 19, 1958. Its early album releases (1958–1960) were aimed at the upscale end of
19210-499: The price of records from 75 to 35 cents. In December 1931, Warner Bros. offloaded Brunswick to the American Record Corporation (ARC) for a fraction of its former value, in a lease arrangement which did not include Brunswick's pressing plants. Technically, Warner maintained actual ownership of Brunswick, which with the sale of ARC to CBS in 1939 and their decision to discontinue Brunswick in favor of reviving
19380-578: The profits from Warner/Reprise, W7 purchased Atlantic Records for $ 17.5 million, including the label's valuable archive, its growing roster of new artists, and the services of its three renowned executives Jerry Wexler , Nesuhi Ertegun and Ahmet Ertegun . However, the purchase again caused rancor among the Warner/Reprise management, who were upset that their hard-won profits had been co-opted to buy Atlantic, and that Atlantic's executives were made large shareholders in Warner-Seven Arts—the deal gave
19550-442: The record business booming – sales had topped US$ 500 million by 1958 – Semnenko argued that it was foolish for Warner Bros. to make deals with other companies to release its soundtracks when, for less than the cost of one motion picture, they could establish their own label, creating a new income stream that could continue indefinitely and provide an additional means of exploiting and promoting its contract actors. Another impetus for
19720-423: The record business for almost 20 years, and during this period it licensed its film music to other companies for release as soundtrack albums. Warner Bros. returned to the record business on March 19, 1958, with the establishment of its own recording division, Warner Bros. Records. By this time, the established Hollywood studios were reeling from multiple challenges to their former dominance—the most notable being
19890-488: The record division under Maitland. The Billboard article also noted the enormous growth and vital significance of W7's music operations, which were by then providing most of Warner-Seven Arts' revenue—during the first nine months of that fiscal year, the recording and publishing divisions generated 74% of the corporation's total profit, with the publishing division alone accounting for over US$ 2 million of ASCAP 's collections from music users. In 1969, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
20060-455: The relative safety of his 12:35 a.m. time slot, Fallon has been cultivating a distinct, and refreshing, strain of humor: the comedy of unabashed celebration." "In our heads, we've been doing The Tonight Show […] We're just on at a later hour," Fallon said. Fallon, who dropped out of college at the College of Saint Rose a semester shy of a degree to pursue comedy, grew up with no designs on
20230-433: The release date for his debut album. The next month he released the singles " Killing Me " which included a live performance on The Tonight Show as well as "Tamagotchi ," which was co-written and produced by The Neptunes . With the release of "Tamagotchi", Apple Music Up Next selected him as its featured artist for the month in April 2022. Apollo released his debut studio album Ivory on April 8, 2022, and embarked on
20400-576: The revered late-night franchise into the hottest party in town, a celebrity playpen full of games, music, surprise guests, and good vibes all around." Nevertheless, detractors of the show, such as John Walters of Newsweek , criticized Fallon for his weakness in interviews. Andrés du Bouchet, a writer for Conan , a fellow late-night show, criticized Fallon for creating what he dubbed "Prom King Comedy"—eschewing odder, more clever material for an over-reliance on games and celebrity cameos. Rolling Stone 's Rob Sheffield opined that Fallon's effect led
20570-502: The right. Below the shield in white Rockwell font, it read "VITAPHONIC HIGH FIDELITY;" this 45 label was used for two years, 1958 – 1960. This initial 45 label was soon replaced by a new, all-red label with the WB shield logo at 9 o'clock and a number of different-colored arrows (blue, chartreuse, and yellow) surrounding and pointing away from the center hole. The first hit was the novelty record " Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) ", with words and music by Irving Taylor, which reached No. 4 on
20740-574: The role of Alexander Hamilton exclusively for the three-week Puerto Rico engagement of Hamilton' s third US tour at the Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center before the company continued their tour in the United States. On November 7, 2019, The Tonight Show aired at the University of Texas–Austin. This was the first time the show had been filmed on a university campus. In March 2020 due to
20910-508: The sale to Warner Bros., the label signed rising radio and recording stars Bing Crosby , Mills Brothers , and Boswell Sisters . Unfortunately for Warner Bros., the dual impact of the Great Depression and the introduction of broadcast radio greatly harmed the recording industry—sales crashed, dropping by around 90% from more than 100 million records in 1927 to fewer than 10 million by 1932 and major companies were forced to halve
21080-496: The same day as its U.S. broadcast. It also aired on free-to-air network ABC Comedy (as opposed to The Comedy Channel which is a subscription television network) on a two-day delay, premiering on March 24, 2014. On September 21, 2014, The Comedy Channel dropped The Tonight Show , making ABC Comedy the exclusive broadcaster of the show in Australia at the time. Beginning March 2, 2015, the series returned to pay television, this time, however, airing on E! – airing within hours of
21250-533: The same role and the company of the third national tour of Hamilton , Bad Bunny performing " Mia " in the streets of the Old San Juan , and José Feliciano performing " En Mi Viejo San Juan " alongside Ozuna in the gardens of La Fortaleza . The episode also included a segment where Fallon and Tariq Trotter took on the second-longest zip-line in the world and a tour and food tasting nearby Piñones State Forest with Chef José Andrés. Miranda reprised
21420-445: The show have generated viral videos . The show has been nominated for nine Primetime Emmy Awards , winning two. On May 17, 2021, NBC renewed the show for five more years through 2026. On June 13, 2024, NBC extended Fallon's contract to host until 2028. The Tonight Show premiered on NBC in 1954 as Tonight , hosted by Steve Allen . Jack Paar hosted the show from 1957 to 1962, but the show's longest-running and most famous host
21590-404: The show with "From Studio 6B in Rockefeller Center , in the heart of New York City , it's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon !" and announces that night's guests and "the legendary Roots crew". The Roots are then shown performing outside 30 Rock as Fallon enters the building. The show's theme song, titled "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey", is "energetic with jazzy overtones", designed to match the shots of
21760-466: The show's announcer Steve Higgins as Jeb Bush , and the show's head writer A. D. Miles as Lindsey Graham . After his critically acclaimed appearances as Trump on Tonight , Fallon was asked to play the role on the December 19, 2015, episode of Saturday Night Live , since Taran Killam (who had been announced as the season's Trump) would be busy playing Ted Cruz . Fallon accepted the offer, but
21930-492: The show's musical guest bookings. Steven Mandel serves as musical producer for The Roots. Following the monologue, the main segments are a mix of interviews and performances—examples of the latter include musical impressions , lip-syncing contests, games of Pictionary and egg Russian roulette . Journalist Richard Zoglin described Fallon's interview style as more deferential than Letterman's, writing that Fallon "resurrected... Merv Griffin -style celebrity gush ." Before
22100-450: The show's premiere as "more sweet than sassy", calling Fallon "the grateful heir, the eager freshman, the class clown with top grades and a good heart, someone older viewers can embrace without fear of being mocked or overlooked." Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter was positive in his assessment of the evening, but noted the older fanbase used to Leno may not latch on as quickly. "Indeed, Fallon comes across as eager to please almost to
22270-422: The single "Imagine U", another collaboration with Kenny Beats. On August 7, 2020, Apollo released the lead single "Stayback" from his debut mixtape; and two weeks later released a remix featuring Bootsy Collins, whom Apollo has cited as an influence. On September 10, he released the second single "Kamikaze." On September 25, Apollo appeared on alternative R&B Japanese singer Joji 's second album Nectar on
22440-533: The single "Spite," the first release from his second album God Said No . This was followed by the May 16 release of the second single "Dispose of Me". The 14-track set was written over the course of a three-month stay in London in 2023, and was inspired by poets Mary Oliver , Victoria Chang , and Ocean Vuong . God Said No was recorded in London's Abbey Road Studios with executive producer Teo Halm with features from Mustafa and actor Pedro Pascal . The title
22610-427: The song ends, Fallon finishes accepting the applause, welcomes the audience and viewers to the show, and begins his brief monologue. Often during the monologue, Higgins, Questlove, and/or Black Thought join the conversation, responding as the straight men to Fallon's comedic take on current events. Similar to what he did on Late Night , Fallon segues directly from the final punchline of his monologue into saying, "We have
22780-492: The song to enter the Spotify and Apple Music charts and eventually debut on Billboard Hot 100 at number 62 for the week ending of October 1, 2022, earning Apollo his first-ever entry on the chart. In response to the rapid success, the song was chosen as the album's next single and was sent to contemporary hit radio on October 4, 2022, making it his first-ever radio single. In addition to solo tours, Apollo also performed at
22950-604: The song's chorus, but although her record contract entitled her to a five-percent royalty rate, the label arbitrarily defined her contribution to be a favor to Byrnes, and assigned her just 1% royalty on the song, despite the fact that, as she soon discovered, her name was being prominently displayed on the single's label. Warner Bros. also charged her for a share of the recording costs, which was to be recouped from her drastically reduced royalty. When Stevens scored her own hit single with " Sixteen Reasons " in 1960, Warner Bros. refused to allow her to perform it on Hawaiian Eye because it
23120-507: The studio and the board was joined by new members who favored a renewed expansion into the music business—Charles Allen of the investment bank Charles Allen & Company, Serge Semenenko of the First National Bank of Boston and investor David Baird. Semenenko in particular had a strong professional interest in the entertainment business and he began to push Jack Warner on the issue of setting up an 'in-house' record label. With
23290-407: The studio's hit series 77 Sunset Strip , which reached No. 3 in 1959. Tab Hunter's " Jealous Heart " (WB 5008), which reached No. 62, was Warner Bros.' only charting single during its first year. Early Warner Bros. singles had distinctive pink labels, with the WB logo at the top center and "WARNER" in white Hellenic font to the left of the WB shield and "BROS." in the same color and style font to
23460-505: The success of "Cathy's Clown", Newhart's debut album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart unexpectedly shot straight to No. 1 in the US, staying at the top for fourteen weeks, charting for more than two years and selling more than 600,000 copies. Capping this commercial success, Newhart scored historic wins in three major categories at the 1961 Grammy Awards — he won Album of the Year for Button-Down Mind , his quickly released follow-up album, The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back (1960) won
23630-528: The success of the Warner labels over the next two decades. In 1964, Warner Bros. launched Loma Records , which was meant to focus on R&B acts. The label, run by former King Records promotion man Bob Krasnow , would release over 100 singles and five albums, but saw only limited success and was wound down in 1968. An important addition to the Warner Bros. staff in this period was Ed Thrasher , who moved from Columbia Records in 1964 to become Warner/Reprise's head art director. Among his design credits for
23800-405: The tag-line "Joni Mitchell is 90% Virgin" reportedly reduced Mitchell to tears, and Cornyn had to withdraw it from publication. Warner Bros. also struggled with their flagship rock act, The Grateful Dead who, like Peter, Paul and Mary , had negotiated complete artistic control over the recording and packaging of their music. Their debut album had been recorded in just four days, and although it
23970-744: The teams being featured that week on Sunday Night Football , or NHL players during the Stanley Cup playoffs ). While the vast majority of episodes are produced at the show's New York home base, Fallon's Tonight Show has gone on the road to produce episodes remotely in its first year, spending four nights at Universal Orlando in Florida in June 2014 to promote the new Diagon Alley expansion of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Florida . Four nights of shows from Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles aired February 2015, in
24140-432: The then-current hosts of Late Night , the program directly following Tonight since its premiere in 1982. Original Late Night host David Letterman was considered Carson's top choice as successor and left the network acrimoniously in 1993 after Leno was given the job. Years later, NBC attempted to transit Letterman's Late Night successor, Conan O'Brien to in turn succeed Leno as host of Tonight in 2009. However, as
24310-560: The then-unknown singer-songwriter to Witmark for an advance of $ 5000. Two years later in 1963, Peter, Paul & Mary scored two consecutive Top 10 hits with Dylan songs, launching Dylan's career, and this was followed by many more hits by artists covering Dylan's songs, alongside the growing commercial success of Dylan himself. Grossman benefited enormously from both deals, because he took a 25% commission as Dylan's manager, and he structured Dylan's publishing deal so that he received 50% of Witmark's share of Dylan's publishing income —a tactic that
24480-423: The time of Carson's retirement) of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC , who moved to the 11:35 slot months prior; NBC feared that by waiting too long to promote Fallon, Kimmel could create a stranglehold on young demographics, which is key to the financial success of the franchise. Fallon had reportedly impressed top executives at Comcast (which had recently completed a full takeover of NBCUniversal), and his succession
24650-588: The title is a throwback to Carson's tenure: Leno and O'Brien both favored a "with", rather than "starring", in their respective titles. In November 2014, a new marquee was added to the Avenue of the Americas entrance of 30 Rock, which promotes the building as the home of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ; the new marquee was also designed so that it can be usable as a stage for performances. John Wallace, NBCUniversal's president of technical operations, described
24820-470: The track "High Hopes." Apollo released two more singles, "Dos Uno Nueve (219)" and "Want U Around" (featuring Ruel ) before releasing his first mixtape Apolonio on October 16, 2020. Apollo was featured on "Te olvidaste" by Spanish artist C. Tangana on his 2021 album El Madrileño . The song received two Latin Grammy Awards nominations for Record of the Year and Best Alternative Song . At
24990-416: The trade press by the abbreviation it adopted for its new logo, "W7"). Although Warner Bros. Pictures was faltering, the purchase coincided with a period of tremendous growth in the music industry, and Warner-Reprise was now on its way to becoming a major player in the industry. Hyman's investment banker Alan Hirshfeld, of Charles Allen and Company, urged him to expand the company's record holdings, and arranged
25160-407: The two. Waronker, the son of Liberty Records founder Simon Waronker , had previously worked as an assistant to Liberty producer Snuff Garrett . Later he worked with the small San Francisco label Autumn Records , founded by disc jockeys Tom Donahue , Bobby Mitchell , and Sylvester Stewart (who would soon become famous as a musician under his stage name Sly Stone). Waronker had been hired as
25330-435: The verge of signing with Atlantic Records , but before the deal could be completed they were poached by Warner Bros. Artie Mogull (who worked for one of Warner Bros.' publishing companies, Witmark Music) had introduced their manager Albert Grossman to Herman Starr, and as a result the group signed a recording and publishing deal with Warner Bros. Grossman's deal for the group broke new ground for recording artists — it included
25500-431: Was Astral Weeks , the second solo album by Van Morrison (his first was on Bang ), who signed with the label in 1968. Although it sold relatively poorly on its first release (and did not reach gold record status until 2001), it has been widely acclaimed by musicians and critics worldwide, has featured on many "Best Albums of All Time" lists, and has remained in release almost continuously since 1968. During 1968, using
25670-399: Was Johnny Carson , who hosted the show for three decades and received six Emmys. Following Carson's 1992 retirement, "vast quantities of brainpower, money, and column inches were devoted to the issue of who was truly best suited to carry the franchise forward." NBC chose Jay Leno , who took over the show that year. A pair of conflicts ensued over Leno's 22-year tenure, both revolving around
25840-484: Was a figure of high repute on the L.A. music scene thanks to his work as a session musician and songwriter (notably with the Byrds and Harper's Bizarre ), and especially because of his renowned collaboration with Brian Wilson on the legendary unreleased Beach Boys album Smile . In 1967, Lenny Waronker produced Parks' Warner debut album Song Cycle , which reportedly cost more than $ 35,000 to record, making it one of
26010-421: Was an electric guitar without a guitar amplifier . Apollo traded the electric guitar for an acoustic guitar at a pawn shop. At age 17, he worked at McDonald's to save up enough money to buy a laptop and then a microphone which he used to learn how to sing and play by watching and mimicking YouTube cover videos. Apollo was also taught by his uncle and he played music at church; he formed a short-lived band with
26180-586: Was because the Warner board was reluctant to write off the additional $ 2 million the label was owed in outstanding receivables and inventory. After a restructure, Conkling was obliged to report to Herman Starr; he rejected a buyout offer by Conkling and a group of other record company employees but agreed to keep the label running in exchange for heavy cost-cutting—the staff was reduced from 100 to 30 and Conkling voluntarily cut his own pay from $ 1000 to $ 500. Warner Bros. now turned to rock'n'roll acts in hopes of advancing its sales but their first signing, Bill Haley ,
26350-407: Was being renovated for The Tonight Show ), using the set of the former NBC talk show Megyn Kelly Today modified with a darker atmosphere inspired by Fallon's home, and conducting his monologue from a stool rather than behind a desk. His first episode in the format featured an interview with Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo , an " It's Beginning to Look a Bit Like Normal " musical number, and
26520-449: Was booked for a two-week residency as the opening act, beginning February 12, 1960, and Newhart freely admitted to being "terrified" on his first night. He quickly realised that he had only enough material for one side of an album, but by the time Warner A&R manager George Avakian arrived for the recording, Newhart had hastily written enough new material to fill both sides of an LP. When Newhart contacted Warners in April to find out when
26690-529: Was born on May 20, 1997, in Hobart, Indiana to Mexican parents who immigrated to the U.S. from Guadalajara . He grew up in Indiana with his three older siblings. Apollo's parents both worked multiple jobs to support the family.As a child, Apollo was a ballet folklorico dancer and he was also a part of his Catholic church choir. At the age of 12, Apollo's parents bought him a guitar at his request; however, it
26860-485: Was broadcast on January 15, 2019, filmed in Puerto Rico , rather than a typical remote broadcast, in which Fallon described it as a "love letter" to Puerto Rico, which was severely hit by Hurricane Maria in September 2017. The episode included guests Lin-Manuel Miranda and Chef José Andrés , a musical performance of " The Story of Tonight " with Miranda reprising the role of Alexander Hamilton alongside Fallon in
27030-547: Was by then past his prime and failed to score any hits. The label was more fortunate with its next signing, the Everly Brothers , whom Warner Bros. secured after the end of their previous contract with Cadence Records . Herman Starr effectively gambled the future of the company by approving what was reputed to be the first million-dollar contract in music history, which guaranteed the Everly Brothers $ 525,000 against an escalating royalty rate of up to 7 percent, well above
27200-473: Was inspired by a friend's assessment of his recently ended relationship, which Apollo described as "I gave it my everything, and God said 'no.'" The album was released on June 28, 2024. Apollo's music has primarily been described as R&B , alternative R&B , and pop with elements of soul , funk , hip hop , latin music , trap , and bedroom pop . While growing up, he listened to his parents' favorite musicians such as Pedro Infante , Los Panchos and
27370-478: Was later emulated by other leading artist managers such as David Geffen . Meanwhile, the label enjoyed further major success with comedy recordings. Comedian Allan Sherman (who had been signed on the personal recommendation of George Burns ), issued his first Warner LP My Son, the Folk Singer in 1962. The album, which satirized the folk boom, became a major hit, selling over a million copies, and winning
27540-514: Was merely a pretext, and that the studio effectively scapegoated Conkling for the label's earlier failures, pointing to the fact that Conkling's successor had been selected well before Conkling was terminated. Conkling resigned in the fall of that year, and was replaced by Mike Maitland, another former Capitol Records executive. Around the same time, Joe Smith was appointed as head of promotions. Warner Bros. made another prescient signing in folk group Peter, Paul & Mary . The trio had been on
27710-546: Was not a major hit, it cracked the US Top 50 album chart and sold steadily, eventually going gold in 1971. For their second album, The Grateful Dead took a far more experimental approach, embarking on a marathon series of recording sessions lasting seven months, from September 1967 to March 1968. They started the album with David Hassinger , who had produced their first album, but he quit the project in frustration in December 1967 while they were recording in New York City (although he
27880-400: Was not published by MPHC, and they also prevented her from singing it on The Ed Sullivan Show , thereby robbing her of nationwide promotion (and a $ 5000 appearance fee). With only two hits to its credit in two years, the label was in serious financial trouble by 1960, having lost at least US$ 3 million and music historian Fredric Dannen reports that the only reason it was not closed down
28050-479: Was reportedly unimpressed by Hendrix's now-famous performance. During his visit he met Andy Wickham , who had come to Monterey as an assistant to festival promoter Lou Adler . Wickham had worked as a commercial artist in London , followed by a stint with Andrew Loog Oldham 's Immediate Records before moving to Los Angeles to work for Adler's Dunhill label. Ostin initially hired Wickham as Warner's "house hippie" on
28220-451: Was similarly well received. In 2018 and 2019, Apollo went on two tours, the "Want Tour" and the "Voyager Tour." His second EP, Friends, was released in April 2019. The EP featured production by rock producer John Shanks , who had previously worked with artists such as Michelle Branch and Melissa Etheridge . Apollo is managed by Shanks' son, Dylan, whom he met over Twitter in July 2017 when
28390-741: Was spun off into its own show that premiered on Spike (later re-branded as Paramount Network) after being passed on by NBC, who did not realize its potential as showcased by Emma Stone 's rendition of DJ Khaled 's " All I Do Is Win ". Similarly, "Wheel of Musical Impressions", another popular segment spawned That's My Jam , a music and variety game show that debuted in November 2021 on NBC with Fallon as host. Other segments include playing charades, Catchphrase , Pictionary , or other family style games. Additionally, Fallon and celebrity guests regularly appear in sketches parodying pop culture or political events. These segments normally take place after
28560-531: Was taken over by the Kinney National Company , headed by New York businessman Steve J. Ross , who would successfully lead the Warner group of companies until his death in 1992. The US$ 400 million deal created a new conglomerate that combined the Warner film, television, recording, and music publishing divisions with Kinney's multi-faceted holdings. Ross had founded the company in the late 1950s while working in his family's funeral business—seeing
28730-454: Was widely considered an unpopular move that contributed to his ratings decline. Some have argued the decline of the talk show as a form, as well as cratering ratings across linear television renders the problem moot; "Like pretty much everything on TV, late-night ratings are down across the board," observed a columnist for TheWrap in 2021. As of late 2023, Fallon averages behind both Colbert and Kimmel in total ratings. According to
28900-405: Was widely expected throughout the company. The transition reportedly lacked the tension of previous Tonight transitions, and the program's relocation east "signals NBC's strong commitment to not messing with the program any further." On April 3, 2013, NBC announced that Jay Leno would retire in 2014, with Fallon taking over The Tonight Show beginning on February 24, 2014. At Leno's suggestion,
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