# Bill Clinton playing sax **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 30, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-playing-sax/515681 "2009-10-30T01:21:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-playing-sax/515681/1 "2009-10-30T01:21:37Z")
I’m looking for a video of the time Bill Clinton went on late night TV and played the saxophone while wearing sunglasses. I believe the song was 'Heartbreak Hotel" I’ve found discussion of the incident, but I can’t find any video of it. Help me out? ---
**Author:** ![Livardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/43a26b/32.png) [@Livardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Livardo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-playing-sax/515681/2 "2009-10-30T01:37:23Z")
I’m sure it was the Arsenio Hall show. Youtube yields a piece he did during a show but he’s not wearing the shades. ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-playing-sax/515681/3 "2009-10-30T02:20:34Z")
That’s all I could find too. Why isn’t the video clip anywhere? ---
**Author:** ![Livardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/43a26b/32.png) [@Livardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Livardo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-playing-sax/515681/4 "2009-10-30T02:31:01Z")
Dude, I found a [VH1 clip of it](http://www.blackbottom.com/watch.php?v=b000eb0d698d7d399d85d3b2b58967a86651f2f8). (not a full clip but better than nothing) I typed “video search” at Google and a site called [Blinkx](http://www.blinkx.com/videos/bill+clinton+arsenio) came up. Looks like a decent video search site. ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-playing-sax/515681/5 "2009-10-30T02:37:36Z")
Yea! Better than anything I could find. Thanks! I told my 12 yer old son about it since he is learning the saxophone, and he really wanted to see it. He watched and declared it ‘cool.’ ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-playing-sax/515681/7 "2020-10-08T02:37:46Z")
I suppose this thread was bumped by a spammer since I can’t see anything, but in the interest of completion, here’s the full video in question: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/a_WuGDYawFQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Bill Clinton playing saxophone on Arsenio Hall Show (HD)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_WuGDYawFQ) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-playing-sax/515681/8 "2020-10-08T03:20:48Z")
He also “played sax” on **The Simpsons** once; Moe told him to get back to work and he said **Make me**. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-playing-sax/515681/9 "2020-10-08T15:18:46Z")
How did the saxophone playing turn out? Though I see you haven’t posted since June - interestingly, in a completely unrelated thread that I also posted in. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-playing-sax/515681/10 "2020-10-08T20:14:16Z")
Arsenio Hall: “It’s nice to see a Democrat blow something besides an election.” Clinton had actually played saxophone on late night TV four years earlier while he was just the governor of Arkansas, not a presidential candidate. He was a guest on Johnny Carson that time, and played “Summertime” with Doc Severinson’s band. At about 9:00: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/TfcKQcGg_sM/maxresdefault.jpg "Bill Clinton on The Johnny Carson Show 1988") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfcKQcGg_sM) (This is the “no sunglasses” appearance mentioned above) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-playing-sax/515681/11 "2020-10-08T20:48:07Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > He also “played sax” on **The Simpsons** once Don’t forget this! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/O7Q4tPTLUVk/maxresdefault.jpg "Animaniacs Theme Song") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Q4tPTLUVk&t=33)