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Geez, now it's up to 14000 in the article! This is absurd. Allen was something of a blowhard and a braggart, but this is ridiculous. Can anyone back this up with a credible secondary source? That is, a source that doesn't trace back to Allen himself. And no exaggerations by counting a few impromptu
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He had one hit that I know of, "This Could Be the Start of
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I have that ad at home. I kept it because I'd heard Howard Stern on occasion grousing about Allen; Allen evidently despised Howard Stern, although Howard'd had him on his old NBC show. Allen was a very funny guy, but he was not profound & like too many self-styled secular humanists, he flirted
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I believe that he composed a lot of joke songs off the cuff and on his shows, in Stump-the-Band type sketches. I'd also read that, on a bet, he once (or often) sat at a piano in a department store window so that people could see him writing X number of songs in a day. You wouldn't expect much
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I also recall that he had a stunt on his show wherein he'd sit at the piano, read a current newspaper headline and compose, on the spot, a song that had the exact headline text as a proper lyric. For some legal reason, these "songs" had to be registered with the songwriters' union.
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songs. It doesn't look like he registered anywhere near that many, either. A search of the ASCAP database reveals 560 compositions registered to Allen. (Note that not all are exactly "songs", as some are music cues for TV shows.)
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I read online that Allen did not compose this song, rather famed composer George Duning did. Allen only wrote some lyrics after the song came out. He may have written thousands of songs, but how many ever became hits? A handful?
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Allen liked to boast, calling himself TV's renaissance man. Even if he did write that many, how many were recorded, how many were good. Most had to be worthless. I could write that many, but all of them would be worthless.
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As a kid, I loved Allen's ultra-silly comedy, but I really hated it when he'd appear on a show to play the piano in straightfaced fashion, so I'm not a fair judge of his musical; abilities.
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to the disambig page, and then create a new Steve Allen which redirects to SA (comedian). Daniel, you signed up for disambiging Steve Allen, go make the changes.
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I completeley agree. The career section in particular needs work. It goes on for too long with no breaks. It needs to be split up using meaningful sub-headings.
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Didn't he appear on The Steve Allen Show in the late 50's and play a bicycle? There should be something about that. Guest 20:20, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
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