On the 2 September 1956 on the ‘Steve Allen Show’ the host decided to read out a poem from the new rock’n’roll idiom
Peter Sellers came up with a similar skit on the Beatles ‘a hard day’s night’ declaimed as Richard III from the Granada TV special ‘The Music of Lennon and McCartney’ broadcast in the UK in December 1965.
CHK further details in Shane Brown’s article on Steve Allem www.elvisinfonet.com/Spotlight-Presley-The-Steve-Allen-Show-Shane-Brown.html
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