Clark Terry – Mumbles

Feb 19, 2025

(From 11/14/2018)
Well — I missed “Two for Tuesday” yesterday so I’m gonna post a “Wacky Wednesday” music video-:)

If you were a Tonight Show with Johnny Carson fan, you might remember seeing this guy step out front to perform this song every now and again.

 

Clark Terry was a member of that band under both Skitch Henderson and Doc Severinson. As such he was the first African American to become a regular in a band on a major US television network. In the bottom one he’s with Woody Hermann in 1985.  I think you’ll get a kick out of both of these…


This video’s owner disabled it being played on other websites so you have to click the Watch on YouTube link…


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