SNL Closing Theme 10/10/09 Drew Barrymore

[wyliexc]

imagine SNL's final show and how amazing the saxophone solo will be. Probably like 20 minutes long. My buddy's dad will watch just the end of SNL for the sax and for good reason.

[TheMantaVisual]

I love this song so much!

I need SNL to produce it as a full version. I'd be a happy man, then. <3

[bunbury555]

majestic!

[MrSax93]

where i can find the score of this music?

[mushr88mhunter]

22,295 views, 84 likes, 0 dislikes. Way to go. Lenny pickett is the man

[MrJacMac1986]

Wish SNL skits were still as good as its closing theme!!

[lisadaveg]

Lenny is da MAN.. If any kids ask me about the Saxophone.. I tell them to listen....LISTEN.... to the SNL orchestra.....

[jim8131]

Lord have Mercy... This is soooo gooood.....I looked for this theme about 15 years ago, found it and it still thrills me everytime that I listening to it. I am a 63 old man now and can listen to this all day long.... What is it? What about it?

[Ryan981]

Where can I download this? This is musical sex.

Thanks.

[sabadoadrianovich]

hi everyone:

any musician, do me a favor please; ¿what kind of drumbeat are this song?

i try to find a drum tutorial whit this pattern but i don´t know exactly the name.

maybe blues waltz, blues 6/8, slow blues, slow shuffle 3/4, shuffle waltz... i don´t know Help me pleeeeaaase!!!!

thanks a lot

[AzNBuDdHa4]

hey there's a recording of "Kathy" by LP you can buy, it's got the same feel as this song- search Kathy Lenny Pickett, or Crescent Super Band Kathy

U can buy it on iTunes! :)

[thephantom39]

A rare gem!

Only 13,313 views and its probably the best copy of this song on YouTube. Thank you for the post...

[thephantom39]

OMG!!! this is fantastic .. why did it take them 30 years to do this

[thephantom39]

OMG!!! this is fantastic .. why did it take them 20 years to do this

[therussellsprouts]

I really know nothing about music, but the saxophone really has to be one of man's greatest inventions, it's totally underrated! And this song, along with the way Lenny Pickett plays it, absolutely fantastic!

[socaliguy81]

Hey, the one from last night (5/21/2011) was so amazing. He covered like 7 octaves or more! Crazy! Please find the whole thing and get it up ASAP. Thanks!

[MSJmusic9]

@socaliguy81 Yeah i noticed that too. That's the highest i've ever heard anybody play

[dratl1487]

this song is a ripoff of frank zappa's sofa n1, wake up.

[SNLThemeAddict]

@dratl1487 Perhaps you're the one who should wake up and listen closely, as the songs sound completely different and have different chord progressions. If anything, sofa n1 is a lousy imitation of Waltz in A

[RaldyV]

@SNLThemeAddict Actually, Sofa No. 1 was released and recorded first and has absolutely positively nothing to do with Waltz in A.

[FZmustacheFZ]

@SNLThemeAddict Well, first of all, while you're right that it does have a different chord progression, and he's wrong that it's a ripoff of Sofa #1, you're also incorrect in saying Sofa is a ripoff of Waltz in A, as Sofa was written before SNL came into existence..

[rtshort]

@SNLThemeAddict I totally agree with you dude. GE Smith was playing the same theme years ago. I don't think that they have anything in common with the Frank Zappa song.

I appreciate you putting this on YouTube. I've been searching for a great SNL closing to put on CD for years. Tonight I finally found one. Thanks for the remix and if you can, please do one with GE Smith. :)

[trey28june]

whew you are sooo right that it brings back memories!!!! everytime!!! It sounds so sad but yet so uplifting...man is that the sax killing it whew!!! such a great song!!! I almost cry when i hear it thinking of all the past members that are no longer on the show or alive....so good...yet soo sad...great song!!!!

[MilliebythePark]

This is a great song. This song alone brings back alot of good memories.

[apennington23]

where can I download the song!!!!!!! I want/need it as played here

[skills1ent]

Melodically amazing!!! Technically it's so ethereal and soulful you'd have to have half a heart not to be move by such emotion. Lenny Pickett is musics best keep secret. He's a savant with divine talent and resides in the milieu of brilliance with Davis, Munk, Parker , Yo Yo Ma and the other greats!

[thewordreader]

@skills1ent I agree with you 100 percent.....Thanks for saying what I didn't have the vocabulary to utter........

[D1cilli]

Does anyone know of any bands or songs that sound like this???? None of Lenny's songs on his cds are even close to the blues feel in the SNL Closing Theme, and you cannot buy it anywhere either. PLEASE POST!!

[frankryte]

@D1cilli check out the song "through the night softly" by jim orourke

[alirzb]

@D1cilli

You want to hear LP?

Tower of Power, "Knock Yourself Out" from the album "Live and in Living Color"

[awesome3214]

Lenny is the man , he's the best sax player ever,ever ,ever, this is the best sax music also, thanks Lenny. Never get tired of listening to this. the best ....

[sdotnet]

omg yes i love it....The most resent one i seen was sat 9/4/10...made me look it up to see who the hell was screamin on that sax....lol he's amazing! and i have a orchestra background!! thanks snl addict!!!

[ddebenedictis]

Lenny is definitely amazing, and this song is perfect. Truly a gift. Thanks for posting, addict.

[Eagle0ne9022]

I have looked for this piece for a long time, thanks for the post. Never knew who thisamazing "sax" player until now; got get some of his stuff. One of the only reason I watched SNL was to hear this song at the end. Hated it when it was cut short, thanks again.

[ledfootmeadows]

If I see Lenny go before I do, that'll be one of the saddest days ever; he and Stevie Wonder. Damn he's an amazing horn player!!! You know you're good when people are creating entire playlists of your pre and postlude performances from a tv show. Lol!!!

[goose8354]

thank you so much keep em coming!!!! :)

[NightSky0]

Gota love LP. Anyone know where i could get a recording of this? can't find it for my life

[ffgew22]

@NightSky0 I dont think it exists, but there are programs you can use to download videos off of youtube and turn them to audio files

[ffgew22]

id love to take lessons from LP

[ledfootmeadows]

@ffgew22 Apply to NYU's school of music and get into the jazz program. He's a jazz professor there.

[RandyBluesmanHock]

I'd kill for a Horn player like that in my Band--He's better than good!

[OaklandStroke1969]

Oh my gosh! Lenny is amazing! B-E-A-utiful!

[DrHouse779]

I wonder what kind of horn Lenny has--I can't see the label too well from this perspective...then again he could make a piece of crap sound like this horn. My god--his altissimo!!!!!!!

[ffgew22]

@DrHouse779 I THINK he plays a Selmer Mark VI which aren't made anymore, so they're very expensive. That and a Berg Larsen.

[thenewyorkjazz]

@ffgew22 yeah, he's on a late 60's mark vi and a 130/0 berg

[alirzb]

@thenewyorkjazz

Nope. he switched to a relaq'd SBA, albeit a late one, although the serial number eludes me ATM.

you can see by the octave mech in recent pictures...it resembles an old buescher, king, or conn mech. than the ones with the Selmer "S" of the Mark VI

[thenewyorkjazz]

@alirzb I had a recording session with him last night. He was still playing the same mark vi he has always played. As far as I know his only other horn is an older 62 that he uses on occasion.

[alirzb]

@thenewyorkjazz

Really! I've seen him in photos with the SBA octave mech, and others with a full-fledged SBA horn. Maybe this was an experiment?

And that's interesting about the YTS-62...not entirely surprising though, the old purple-logo yamaha's can peel paint off the walls!

[DanMcCaffrey]

Commercially un-cut Pickett power --  I've been waiting for this since childhood. Thank You internets.

[potatodar]

@DanMcCaffrey yes, thank you interwebs. i've been searching for something like this since i was like 10.