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Tonight's Musical Guest, Today
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Nirvana on Saturday Night Live. Warren Zevon on David Letterman. Sometimes, late-night TV musical performances live on forever. Most don’t. But we still want to talk about them.
Each week on “Tonight’s Musical Guest, Today”, long-time friends Alex Beaton and Jon Hillman dive in on the music and cultural memory of a band through the arc of their late-night TV performances. Watch along with Alex and Jon as they examine and react to these musical history moments preserved in the amber of time alongside two celebrity guests and a talk show host.
From Conan to Colbert, Letterman to Leno, or SNL to MadTV, there is no shortage of iconic late-night musical moments. And no end to the ones you don’t remember.
Tonight's Musical Guest, Today
Sheryl Crow
9 Grammy Wins. 32 Nominations. Over 50 million records sold. And now a TMGT episode? Yep. This week on Tonight's Musical Guest, Today, we're talking about the great SHERYL CROW.
The guys explore their own cultural memory of Crow and realize they had it very wrong back in the day. We walk through the extreme drama of her seminal debut record, including a career-defining interview on David Letterman. Sheryl performs on Jay Leno a lot, with varying degrees of creepiness from Jay. Jon discovers "Soak Up the Sun" was originally about Columbine. And the Fashion Doctor is in with a "no vest" prescription.
Want to watch along with us? Check out the links below for the performances discussed this week!
Run Baby Run, 9/28/93 on Late Night with Conan O' Brien
All I Wanna Do, 6/10/94 on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
If it Makes You Happy, 12/3/96 on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (4:36 mark)
Soak Up the Sun w/ Liz Phair, 4/25/02 on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Summer Day, 7/10/10 on The Late Show with David Letterman
Prove You Wrong, 9/16/19 on The Late Late Show with James Corden
