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Johnson, who turned ninety on July 21, 2021, re-recorded “The Pink Panther Theme” for the 2004 Mancini tribute album, Ultimate Mancini, and the 2006 Pink Panther remake starring Steve Martin. It’s one of the dozens of film and television soundtracks he recorded. A Donaldsonville native who left Louisiana in 1951, Johnson was even more prolific in the music business. From the mid-1950s on, his sax playing enhanced hundreds of stars’ recordings.
“If producers couldn’t get Plas, they got someone who sounded like him,” Harold Battiste, Johnson’s fellow Louisianan in the Los Angeles recording studio and television scene, recalled in his autobiography. “His
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Plas Johnson
American jazz saxophonist (born 1931)
Plas Johnson | |
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| Birth name | Plas John Johnson, Jr. |
| Also known as | Johnny Beecher |
| Born | (1931-07-21) July 21, 1931 (age 93) Donaldsonville, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Saxophone, piccolo, flute, clarinet |
Musical artist
Plas John Johnson Jr. () (born July 21, 1931)[1] is an American soul-jazz and hard boptenor saxophonist, probably most widely known as the tenor saxophone soloist on Henry Mancini’s "The Pink Panther Theme". He also performs on alto and baritone sax as well as various flutes and clarinets.
Biography
Born in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, United States,[2] Johnson sang with his family's group until his saxophonist father bought him a soprano saxophone.[2] Largely self-taught, he soon began playing alto and later tenor saxophone. He and his pianist brother Ray first recorded as the Johnson Brothers in New Orleans in the late 1940s. He first toured with R&B singer Charles Brown in 1951.[3] After a
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