BUT SERIOUSLY, STEVERINO
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I've Got A Secret had Steve Allen as its guest, rather than as host.
His secret:
"What is in my briefcase?"
One of the women panelists (Kitty Carlisle maybe) guessed his secret:
"Is it a piano?"
WHAT TIPPED HER OFF?
"Because you're wearing tails."
Steve then opened his electric piano, including legs, sat down at it, and played some music.
Frank Zappa is the only '60s rocker I know of who worked with Allen.
Steve Allen was the first host of The Tonight Show, and Letterman credits him.
Today's talk show guys aren't doing anything Steve Allen didn't show them how to do.
Steve Allen wrote the song This Could Be the Start of Something Big, which was a hit for Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé.
Steve Allen played the part of Benny Goodman in the movie, The Benny Goodman Story.
Steve Allen's variety show employed in its cast unknown talent as regulars for comedy skits, guys who went on to stardom of their own, including Don Knotts (deputy sheriff Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show), Tom Poston (George Utley, the Stratford Inn handyman on Newhart) and Pat Harrington (apartment building superintendent Dwayne Schneider on One Day at a Time).
Mom didn't care for Steve Allen, so we rarely watched his show. However, Mom loved The Smothers Brothers, so we always watched The New Steve Allen Show whenever they were on. Which was 6 episodes in 1961.
The show's band was Les Brown and His Band of Renown.
"That our nation is in the throes of a moral collapse of serious dimensions is, apparently, no longer a debatable conclusion..."
.
I've Got A Secret had Steve Allen as its guest, rather than as host.
His secret:
"What is in my briefcase?"
One of the women panelists (Kitty Carlisle maybe) guessed his secret:
"Is it a piano?"
WHAT TIPPED HER OFF?
"Because you're wearing tails."
Steve then opened his electric piano, including legs, sat down at it, and played some music.
Frank Zappa is the only '60s rocker I know of who worked with Allen.
Steve Allen was the first host of The Tonight Show, and Letterman credits him.
Today's talk show guys aren't doing anything Steve Allen didn't show them how to do.
Steve Allen wrote the song This Could Be the Start of Something Big, which was a hit for Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé.
Steve Allen played the part of Benny Goodman in the movie, The Benny Goodman Story.
Steve Allen's variety show employed in its cast unknown talent as regulars for comedy skits, guys who went on to stardom of their own, including Don Knotts (deputy sheriff Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show), Tom Poston (George Utley, the Stratford Inn handyman on Newhart) and Pat Harrington (apartment building superintendent Dwayne Schneider on One Day at a Time).
Mom didn't care for Steve Allen, so we rarely watched his show. However, Mom loved The Smothers Brothers, so we always watched The New Steve Allen Show whenever they were on. Which was 6 episodes in 1961.
The show's band was Les Brown and His Band of Renown.
"That our nation is in the throes of a moral collapse of serious dimensions is, apparently, no longer a debatable conclusion..."
.