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This is a list of works by American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer Steve Allen .
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This is a list of works by American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer Steve Allen .
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| Year | Title | Notes | Identifiers |
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| 1955 | Steve Allen's Bop Fables | illustrated by George Price | OCLC 1006762 |
| 1955 | Fourteen for Tonight | short stories | OCLC 1034835 |
| 1956 | The Funny Men | OCLC 329974 | |
| 1956 | Wry on the Rocks | poems | OCLC 1150685 |
| 1958 | The Girls on the 10th Floor and Other Stories | short stories | OCLC 1131890; ISBN 0-8369-3608-6 (1970 printing) |
| 1959 | The Question Man... | photographs by Gene Lester | OCLC 1150647 |
| 1960 | Mark It and Strike It: An Autobiography | OCLC 25533614 | |
| 1962 | Not All of Your Laughter, Not All of Your Tears | Steve's first novel | OCLC 1626391 |
| 1964 | Dialogues in Americanism | transcript of three debates: Allen vs. William F. Buckley, Jr.; Robert M. Hutchins vs. L. Brent Bozell, and James MacGregor Burns vs. Willmoore Kendall | OCLC 397431 |
| 1965 | Letter to a Conservative | OCLC 1150594 | |
| 1966 | The Ground is Our Table | photographs by Arthur Dubinsky | OCLC 358823 |
| 1967 | Bigger than a Breadbox | with commentary by Leonard Feather; illustrations by Rowland B. Wilson | OCLC 717481 |
| 1969 | A Flash of Swallows: New Poems | poems | ISBN 0-8375-6734-3; OCLC 5024 |
| 1972 | The Wake | ISBN 0-385-07608-8 | |
| 1973 | Princess Snip-Snip and the Puppy-Kittens | illustrated by David Gantz | |
| 1973 | Curses! or... How Never to Be Foiled Again | illustrated by Marvin Rubin | ISBN 0-87477-008-4 |
| 1974 | What To Say When It Rains | ISBN 0-8431-0357-4 | |
| 1975 | Schmock-Schmock! | ISBN 0-385-09664-X | |
| 1978 | Meeting of Minds | ISBN 0-517-53383-9; 1989 printing: ISBN 0-87975-550-4 | |
| 1978 | Chopped-Up Chinese | ||
| 1979 | Ripoff: A Look at Corruption in America | with Roslyn Bernstein and Donald H. Dunn | ISBN 0-8184-0249-0 |
| 1979 | Meeting of Minds, Second Series | ISBN 0-517-53894-6; 1989 printing: ISBN 0-87975-565-2 | |
| 1980 | Explaining China | ISBN 0-517-54062-2 | |
| 1981 | Funny People | ISBN 0-8128-2764-3 | |
| 1982 | Beloved Son: A Story of the Jesus Cults | ISBN 0-672-52678-6 | |
| 1982 | More Funny People | ISBN 0-8128-2884-4 | |
| 1986 | How to Make a Speech | ISBN 0-07-001164-8 | |
| 1987 | How to Be Funny: Discovering the Comic You | with Jane Wollman | ISBN 0-07-001199-0; 1992 printing: ISBN 0-87975-792-2; 1998 revised edition: ISBN 1-57392-206-4 |
| 1989 | The Passionate Nonsmoker's Bill of Rights: The First Guide to Enacting Nonsmoking Legislation | with Bill Adler, Jr. | ISBN 0-688-06295-4 |
| 1989 | "Dumbth": And 81 Ways to Make Americans Smarter | ISBN 0-87975-539-3; 1998 revised edition: ISBN 1-57392-237-4 | |
| 1989 | Meeting of Minds, Vol. III | ISBN 0-87975-566-0 | |
| 1989 | Meeting of Minds, Vol. IV | ISBN 0-87975-567-9 | |
| 1990 | The Public Hating: A Collection of Short Stories | ISBN 0-942637-22-4 | |
| 1990 | Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion & Morality | ISBN 0-87975-638-1 | |
| 1992 | Hi-Ho, Steverino: The Story of My Adventures in the Wonderful Wacky World of Television | ISBN 0-942637-55-0; large-print edition: ISBN 1-56054-521-6 | |
| 1993 | More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion & Morality | ISBN 0-87975-736-1 | |
| 1993 | Make 'em Laugh | ISBN 0-87975-837-6 | |
| 1994 | Reflections | ISBN 0-87975-904-6 | |
| 1995 | The Man Who Turned Back the Clock, and Other Short Stories | ISBN 1-57392-002-9 | |
| 1995 | The Bug and the Slug in the Rug | ISBN 1-880851-17-2 | |
| 1996 | But Seriously...: Steve Allen Speaks His Mind | ISBN 1-57392-090-8 | |
| 1999 | Steve Allen's Songs: 100 Lyrics with Commentary | ISBN 0-7864-0736-0 | |
| 2000 | Steve Allen's Private Joke File | ISBN 0-609-80672-6 | |
| 2001 | Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio – Raising the Standards of Popular Culture | ISBN 1-57392-874-7 |
Allen was the credited author of a series of mystery novels "starring" himself and wife Jayne Meadows as amateur detectives. The first one (The Talk Show Murders) was ghostwritten by Walter J. Sheldon; later volumes were ghostwritten by Robert Westbrook.
As Allen was a supporter of the scientific skepticism movement, he worked to promote critical thinking, contributing many pieces to the American magazine Skeptic , which is published by the California-based Skeptics Society.
Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen was an American television and radio personality, comedian, musician, composer, writer, and actor. In 1954, he achieved national fame as the co-creator and first host of The Tonight Show, which was the first late-night television talk show.
Edward F. Davis, known professionally as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. It is unclear how he acquired the moniker "Lockjaw" : it is either said that it came from the title of a tune or from his way of biting hard on the saxophone mouthpiece. Other theories have been put forward.
Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen is an American retired jazz trumpeter who led the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Frank Rosolino was an American jazz trombonist.
Charles James Shavers was an American jazz trumpeter who played with Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, Sidney Bechet, Midge Williams, Tommy Dorsey, and Billie Holiday. He was also an arranger and composer, and one of his compositions, "Undecided", is a jazz standard.
Eydie Gormé was an American singer who achieved notable success in pop, Latin, and jazz genres. She sang solo and in the duo Steve and Eydie with husband, Steve Lawrence, on albums and television. She also performed on Broadway and in Las Vegas.
Urban Clifford "Urbie" Green was an American jazz trombonist who toured with Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, Jan Savitt, and Frankie Carle. He played on over 250 recordings and released more than two dozen albums as a soloist. He was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1995.
Pete Candoli was an American jazz trumpeter. He played with the big bands of Woody Herman and Stan Kenton and worked in the studios of the recording and television industries.
James Mundell Lowe was an American jazz guitarist who worked often in radio, television, and film, and as a session musician.
Terry Gibbs is an American jazz vibraphonist and band leader.
Edwin Thomas "Ed" Shaughnessy was a swing music and jazz drummer long associated with Doc Severinsen and a member of The Tonight Show Band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Albert Richard "Jazzbo" Collins was an American disc jockey and musician who hosted The Tonight Show in 1957.
Daniel Eugene Quill was an American jazz alto saxophonist who played often with Phil Woods in the duet Phil and Quill. Quill also worked as a sideman for Buddy DeFranco, Quincy Jones, Gene Krupa, Gerry Mulligan, and Claude Thornhill. In 1988, Quill died at the age of 60 in his hometown of Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Abraham Samuel Richman, better known as Boomie Richman, was an American jazz tenor saxophone player who played with Tommy Dorsey. He also played clarinet, bass clarinet, piccolo, and flute.
Jack Sperling was an American jazz drummer who performed as a sideman in big bands and as a studio musician for pop and jazz acts, movies, and television.
Lawrence Benjamin Bunker was an American jazz drummer, vibraphonist, and percussionist. A member of the Bill Evans Trio in the mid-1960s, he also played timpani with the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra.
Joseph Barry Galbraith was an American jazz guitarist.
Willis Leonard Holman was an American composer, arranger, conductor, saxophonist, and songwriter working in jazz and traditional pop. His career spanned over seven decades, starting with the Charlie Barnet orchestra in 1950.
Andy Williams Sings Steve Allen is the first studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released late in 1956 by Cadence Records. This was his first LP and features songs written or co-written by then-Tonight Show host Steve Allen. Williams, at the time, was a regular weekly contributor to Allen's groundbreaking late night television series. The review of the album in the December 22 issue of The Billboard that year reads, "Cover shows only a photo of the singer with no copy and it might have been a better bet to identify the personality." The cover of the 1960 reissue of the album attempts to rectify this situation with the title presented in two lines of large capital letters that sandwich a headshot of Williams this time instead of the seated pose of the original.
"Li'l Darlin'" is a jazz standard, composed and arranged in 1957 by Neal Hefti for the Count Basie Orchestra and first recorded on the 1958 album, The Atomic Mr. Basie.