Doc Severinsen

Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen (born July 7, 1927 in Arlington, Oregon, USA) is an American pop and jazz trumpeter. In 1949, Severinsen landed a job as a studio musician for NBC, where he accompanied Steve Allen, Eddie Fisher, Dinah Shore, and Kate Smith. The leader of The Tonight Show Band, Skitch Henderson, asked him to be first-chair trumpeter in 1962, and five years later Severinsen was leading the band. Under Se…