The Tonight Show bandleader Doc Severinsen, host Johnny Carson, and  announcer/sidekick Ed McMahon

Singer Paul Anka wrote the theme song ("Johnny’s Theme"), a
reworking of his "Toot Sweet".

The Phil Donahue Show was a syndicated television talk show that ran for 26
years on national television from Monday November 6, 1967 until September
13, 1996. The national run was preceded by three years of local broadcast on
WLWD (now WDTN) in Dayton, Ohio. The first guest on the show was known
atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair. In 2002, the program was ranked #29 on TV
Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.   

 
 
Bob Elliott (born 1923) and Ray Goulding (1922-1990). The teams
career spanned five decades. 

Susan Anton – Miss California 1969

Susan Ellen Anton  is a actress and singer who first experienced fame by
winning the Miss Redlands and Miss California contests in 1969 and tied
as second runner-up in the 1970 Miss America Scholarship Pageant held
in September of that year. In the mid-1970’s, Anton became known for her
Muriel Cigar commercials. In 1978 she joined country singer Mel Tillis on
a summertime TV variety series, Mel and Susan Together on ABC. Anton
appeared approximately 30 times on The Merv Griffin Show on NBC. She
was also in such films as Goldengirl (1979) and Cannonball Run ll (1984).

It was in 1952 during Steve Allen’s stint as host of NBC-TV’s Tonight that 
Arlington, Oregon’s own Doc Severinsen began playing first trumpet in
the shows band, directed by Skitch Henderson. When Henderson left the
show, Severinsen took over as band leader on Monday October 9, 1967 
and remained with the show until Carson’s retirement in 1992. While under   
the direction of Severinsen, The Tonight Show NBC Orchestra was the most  
visible big band in America.

Doc Severinsen turned 84 on July 7th