Tom Snyder - 1998 Late Late Show Open

[JMMT7022801]

Long live the Late, Late Show with Tom Snyder! And what a beautiful intro by David Sanborn!

Tom Snyder...R.I.P.

[Photoguy7482]

The address is CBS! Welcome home!

[superbrian1214]

wish i could find an mp3 of this. would make a great ringtone.

[tvrewind]

@superbrian1214 Just select the "Convert & Download as MP3" selection under the video above. You can also find a lot of David Sanborn music on CDs at your local music story.

[ilovegoodsax]

David Sanborn is soulfully delicious. That open theme is hot!

[mapboy78]

there was another theme that sounds like this but it has a beat to it

[D7538]

Tom Snyder RULES !!!! we need the '98 repeats....

[ANOTHERify]

seems most shows have a jazz-type intro ... I like craig's cause he sings it himself :)

[hindohondamayne]

craig ferguson's better.

[easytobesteve]

Wow, I have not see TS in, well, 10 years! This is why I was always late to class the next day. Something surreal about the mix of night, the dark and the slow laid back mood of this whole show.

Loved how TS would always say welcome back, even when the show was just beginning!

[hotmetalslugs]

Best late night show ever! I really miss this.

[BenjaminWirtz]

This seems more like a news report than a comedy routine.

[JOEdoesThings22]

i like craig ferguson

[texan176]

I miss Snyder's wit and humor. The show was also much better with his format w/o an audience The dark colors of the set, late night time, and one on one interviews were gripping.

Kilborn and Furgeson cheapened it greatly and everything is a sex joke or toilet humor.

RIP Tom...it'll never be the same.

[gymnastix]

Yes, what you say is true. And even though Charlie Rose has a similar, darkened set, his show is full of pompous, pseudo-intellectuals and celebrities with a political agenda, and Rose fawns all over them, doesn't have the irreverent sense Snyder had.

Tom was just like watching one's favorite, eccentric uncle having a chat in his den over martinis--er, "colortinis.".

[texan176]

I agree. I do like Rose as an interviewer but many of this guests are very full of themselves because Rose himself tries to make the show much more intellectual than it has to. Well, it is on PBS so maybe that is a requirement.

As you said, Snyder interviewed people like how people talk in real life. That laugh he did that was parodied on SNL was also contagious.

These days I like Tavis Smiley the best for one on one interviews. He's not as funny as Snyder was but still very good.

[ncbeach22]

Is that intro available anywhere?

[kstar8706]

Interesting that Tom refers to the network as "The Columbia Broadcasting System." CBS had changed their official corporate name to the shorthand in 1973, and officially disconnected with its namesake Columbia Records in 1988 when the label was sold to Sony.

[gymnastix]

Yes, sadly, so much of our broadcasting & cultural past has been changed, their links to the past severed or only nominally existent.

Of course, even those old enough to know better often don't or have forgotten, and this sense of collective, cultural amnesia seems to be an epidemic at this point.

[gymnastix]

Thank you for uploading this. I always loved Tom's water tower in the opening & bumpers, and his shows (both on NBC & CBS) talking about his interest in railroads and model trains. Another thing I once saw him do, either in a bumper going into a commercial or perhaps at show's close, was a shot of himself spinning around on the circular platform on which his & the guest's chair was perched--funny stuff that made for great TV!

[gymnastix]

My one wish to have, in addition to the generous clips on You Tube & in my own collection (which I'll someday soon upload) is to have at least one interview Tom did with actor Robert Blake.

I know Blake's fallen from grace now, but before that shady woman he married & was alleged to have killed, Blake was a truly eccentric guy & wonderful talk show guest; along with Bonnie Hunt, Dennis Miller, Star Trek writer Harlan Ellison, also one of Snyder's very favorite guests.

[garycalgary]

loved the opening

[clockworktim]

Thanks for posting! First off, God rest Tom's soul. Now, I loved this theme. Good memory. Lived in L.A. @ the time & could never get enough of jazz music, sunsets & the night. This intro nailed it. Lived in cities my whole life & as an artist & I'd study evening/ night scenes. When I first saw this show, there was something comforting to it. Tom Snyder seemed like a nice guy, too, genuine. Especially love the brief sunset shot over the CBS studio. I've seen it for real & it's soothing.

[spikeferesten]

dick van dyke nailed it