To read more about Tommy Johnson click the article below to read a tribute to Tommy by Roger Bobo, former Tuba player for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.
http://www.tubanews.com/articles/contentid-296.html
At the bottom of this article there are links to interviews and a profile of Tommy Johnson.
He was famous for getting solos in one take during studio recording sessions. In other words, he could sight read better than anyone. Here is one sample:
http://home.comcast.net/~helicon/1take.mp3
Most of you should be familiar with the movie
Jaws, well he was the tuba at the beginning of the movie that played the menacing sounds of the shark attack. He recorded that in one take, while sight reading AND without warm up.
Just some of the soundtrack recordings made by Tommy Johnson are:
Tubby the Tuba Meets the Manhattan Transfer, Silverado, Batman Forever, The Incredibles, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (split principal with Roger Bobo), Beetlejuice, Poltergeist, Jaws, the Back to the Future Trilogy, The Natural, Toy Story, Star Trek 1, The Fugitive, Last Starfighter, E.T., Close Encounters of a Third Kind and MANY, MANY more...