"Skitch" Henderson - The showbusiness sobriquet of the bearded Lyle Russell Cedric Henderson who was the bandleader for THE TONIGHT SHOW starring Steve Allen from 1954-57 and THE TONIGHT SHOW starring Johnny Carson from 1962-66 on the NBC network. Besides his Tonight Show gig as bandleader, Henderson  was also the  musical director for Frank Sinatra, accompanist for Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Judy Garland and founder and leader of the New York Pops Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Henderson claimed somewhere along the line he was dubbed "Skitch" and it just stuck. Entertainment lore claims that Henderson earned his nickname because of his ability to "sketch" out a score quickly. People soon began to call him "the sketch kid," which singer Bing Crosby urged him to shorten to "Skitch." Born in England, Skitch Henderson died peacefully at his home in America of natural causes on October 31, 2005. He was 87.