Steve Allen

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Sophie

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• Sophie the hit would have launched Libi Staiger. But Sophie the flop stopped her career in its tracks. Its music was deemed second-rate; of Steve Allen’s oeuvre of 1,000-plus songs, only one, “This Could Be the Start of Something Big,” became a major hit (other hits of his include “Picnic,” “Impossible,” “Gravy Waltz,” and the Dixieland t…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
• “Steve Allen’s books, which most people have no idea exist, have one redeeming feature: you can put them down. Sophie Tucker’s estate should have sued when he wrote the score for Sophie . That music had about as much to do with her as I do with Alfred Hitchcock. It was a terrible show, bitterly disappointing in relation to what it could h…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
• “As to how talented and big a star Libi might have become, sadly we will never know.”—STEVE ALLEN on Sophie , about Sophie Tucker (by contrast, Funny Girl , about another offbeat Jewish singer-comedienne, Fanny Brice, was a hit and a star-maker)ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
• But everyone caved as the Elvis quake shook the nation. The rival variety shows, The Steve Allen Show and The Milton Berle Show , booked Elvis and scored high ratings. Even Ed Sullivan gave in after being swamped by the tidal wave of ratings Steve Allen earned by showing Elvis crooning “Hound Dog” to a basset hound. That show triumphed in…ebooks/Moreno, Rita/B008RD31SU EBOK - Rita Moreno.txt
• "Just about anybody who is personable," Adler says. "Lucille Ball is toying with it. The Smothers Brothers, Steve Allen, Flip Wilson, Bill Cosby, Jack Paar-Alex even likes Milton Berle. Also Dick Cavett. Cavett was at the matinee, y'know, and he hates Lewis. He said, "You think I should go backstage and tell Jerry I love the dog act?" I C…ebooks/Suskin, Steven/B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin.txt
• Music by Steve Allen; lyrics by Steve Allen, Warren Douglas and Jerry Schafer; book by Warren Douglasebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt

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