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[Skynet74]

Conan was on 7 days a week? Funny, I must have missed his shows on Saturdays and Sundays.

I was thinking the same thing. I would like to see all those programs that I missed. 2 shows a week multiplied by 52 weeks. That is 104 shows a year I missed. The show began in 1993 and ended in 2009. So that is 1,664 weekend shows Total. That's a lot of shows that I never saw. Now I feel jipped!

 

[radiojomo]

HAHA My mistake, I meant 5 days a week.
Although Comedy Central used to air reruns on weekends a few years back...
Just a question, I watched the Late Shift the other day and I thought the reason NBC wanted Jay on the air was because he was offered a contract over at CBS. Is this true?

 

[DToTheJ]

Even NBC re-aired "Saturday Night Live" and "Meet The Press" on weekend late nights, but I don't recall Leno or Conan during those hours.

 

[firepoint525]

if you listen closely though, it is not really the Beatles....just a close knock-off like they used to sell in those K-Tel record commercials in
the 70's.   (Paul McCartney probably wanted more money to use his recording than Jay Leno is getting to do the show)

Paul doesn't own the rights to very many of the Beatles' songs.  Michael Jackson's estate does.  And I think the estate doesn't even have total ownership of the songs, only a controlling interest.

This is why you usually hear cover versions of Beatles songs in television, like the theme song for Life Goes On (gag!), TV commercials, and in the Beatles-themed episode of American Dreams.  That's the major reason why the kids in that show did not appear to be major Beatles fans, and instead only had a passing interest in the group.

 

[FreddyE1977]

you are correct....I remember reading about how the rights to many Beatles songs had eventually made
their way to Michael Jackson, while McCartney had gone out and invested in the rights to a bunch of
non-Beatles songs (including oddball stuff like the University of Wisconsin Fight Song)

 

[firepoint525]

I believe Paul was able to buy (back) the rights to a handful of very early Beatles songs, like "Love Me Do." And George Harrison owned the rights to some of the later Beatles songs that he wrote (Harrisongs), like "Something," etc.

I wish someone here could explain to me the difference between the rights to a given song, versus the rights to a given recording of a song. It seems to me that if you own the publishing rights to a song, that would include any cover versions of that song. So with that in mind, it would seem that the rights to all Beatles songs would still be expensive, even if using cover versions by other artists. ???

 

[searadiofreak]

Hmm, not many Leno promos the past few days (the last days of the games)...certainly nothing during the Hockey finals, and nothing during the closing ceremonies. I guess they have moved to "low rotation" as it were.

 

[ixnay]

[Y]ou usually hear cover versions of Beatles songs in television, like the theme song for Life Goes On (gag!),

That song was "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da" from the "White Album", with the line "la la how the life goes on". Wonder if Desmond and Molly Jones were fans of LGO?

ixnay

 

[DToTheJ]

Wonder if Desmond and Molly Jones were fans of Life Goes On?

Probably not, since the song was written some twenty-some-odd years before the show was in existence.