{"id":3815,"date":"2023-10-03T18:15:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T18:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2023-10-03T18:15:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T18:15:01","slug":"johnny-carson-asked-if-anyone-in-the-audience-could-play-the-piano-this-man-raised-his-hand-and-his-life-was-changed-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/03\/johnny-carson-asked-if-anyone-in-the-audience-could-play-the-piano-this-man-raised-his-hand-and-his-life-was-changed-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Carson asked if anyone in the audience could play the piano. This man raised his hand, and his life was changed forever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is full of surprises, and one unexpected moment changed the trajectory of David Tolley\u2019s life. On December 19, 1985, he was a member of the studio audience for Johnny Carson\u2019s Tonight Show when the unexpected occurred. Carson revealed that the intended guest, Horatio Gutierrez, a classical pianist, had damaged his hand and would be unable to perform. Carson wondered if anyone in the audience could play the piano without missing a beat.<\/p>\n<p>Tolley, who had been playing the piano since infancy, jumped right in. He ascended the stage and sang \u00abMemory\u00bb from the hit musical Cats. The impromptu performance garnered him a standing ovation from the audience as well as newfound fame.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cwvlazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/interestingstories.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/interestingstories.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/1-16.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Tolley\u2019s phone started ringing off the hook the day following the event. He received phone calls from people offering him jobs on cruise ships, movie acting roles, and other opportunities. A accidental encounter on a late-night talk show had irrevocably altered his life. The story of Tolley\u2019s unexpected success serves as a reminder that we never know what opportunities or challenges may come our way in life, and it\u2019s critical to be ready to seize them when they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is full of surprises, and one unexpected moment changed the trajectory of David Tolley\u2019s life. On December 19, 1985, he was a member of the studio audience for Johnny Carson\u2019s Tonight Show when the unexpected occurred. Carson revealed that the intended guest, Horatio Gutierrez, a classical pianist, had damaged his hand and would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3817,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions\/3817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}