The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show else." Harris and Faye stayed with NBC rather than succumb to the CBS talent raids of the late 1940s that began when Benny was lured to CBS and took a few NBC stars (including George Burns and Gracie Allen) with him. NBC offered the couple (as well as Fred Allen) a lucrative new deal to stay, though occasionally Harris would allude to Benny's network switch on the Harris-Faye show. (Typically, Harris would crack an odd joke and then say, "I gotta give this one to Jackson! It might bring him back to NBC.") Despite the network conflict and a grueling
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and final segment is almost always a musical performance, but occasionally, a stand-up comedian will perform instead. Immediately following the last performance segment, Leno walks on camera to thank the performers, bid farewell to the audience and recommends watching "Late Night" which immediately follows "The Tonight Show". As the closing credits roll on-screen, the closing theme, composed by bandleader Rickey Minor plays the show off the air. Minor composed a new opening and closing theme when he began his reign as bandleader on June 7, 2010. Branford Marsalis was the original bandleader of the show from 1992 to 1995, leaving