Steve Allen

Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys mark 100th show on April 4

2013-04-04 13:55:00

L.A. singer and pop music preservationist Janet Klein will celebrate her 100th performance of a nine-year-and-running residency in Hollywood with a show April 4 that highlights vintage popular songs from the 1920s and 1930s. Klein and her band, the...

Could a move to New York revitalize 'The Tonight Show'?

2013-03-21 16:20:00

If the rumors are true and “The Tonight Show” is set to return to its ancestral� home at 30 Rockefeller Plaza with Jimmy Fallon as host, the move would be a boon for New York City – and maybe even the aging late-night genre itself. A...

Change of coasts for 'Tonight' could mean a big shift

2013-03-22 05:00:00

For more than 40 years, a studio at the corner of Olive and Alameda avenues in Burbank has been churning out a show that keeps viewers up late. But with NBC's "Tonight Show" poised to migrate back to New York, Southern California is in danger of losing...

Gordon Stoker dies at 88; sang with group backing Elvis Presley

2013-03-27 18:31:00

Gordon Stoker, the lead tenor in the Jordanaires vocal group that backed Elvis Presley, died Wednesday at his home in Brentwood, Tenn., after a lengthy illness, his son, Alan, told the Associated Press. He was 88. Stoker joined the Jordanaires in 1950,...

No joke: NBC a good bet to bump Jay Leno for Jimmy Fallon

2013-03-22 14:30:00

Jay Leno had to know the head honchos at NBC were gunning for him when he told the following joke Monday night: "You know the whole legend of St. Patrick, right?" he asked the audience in his opening monologue. "St. Patrick drove all the snakes out of...

PASSINGS: Peter Meyerson, Fran Warren, Max Jakobson

2013-03-20 23:46:00

Peter Meyerson TV writer, producer worked on 'The Monkees' and 'Welcome Back, Kotter' Peter Meyerson, 81, a TV writer and producer who co-wrote the debut episodes of sitcom classics "The Monkees" and "Welcome Back, Kotter," died March 11 at Hoag...

James DePreist dies at 76; artistic advisor to Pasadena Symphony

2013-02-08 20:31:00

James DePreist, artistic advisor to the Pasadena Symphony and Pops and one of the few African American conductors to lead major orchestras in the United States and abroad, died Friday at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 76. The cause was...

Los Angeles bands swing into an old-school music revival

2012-12-09 06:00:00

A nine-piece band replete with tuba, washboard, accordion, fiddle, mandolin, trumpet and guitar joyously pumped out early 20th century standards such as "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," Muddy Waters' deep blues and original tunes that would...

Steve Allen Adams

2012-10-17 07:52:11

Andy Williams dies at 84; 'Moon River' singer

2012-09-27 00:00:00

Andy Williams' signature hit song from the early 1960s was no accident of timing. Audrey Hepburn sang it first in the 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffany's," and it was nominated for an Oscar. But when the producers of the Academy Awards show asked...

The Unholy Three at the Steve Allen Theater

2012-01-05 00:00:00

Happening Saturday

2012-01-07 00:00:00

Why: NBC has settled on two new stars for "The Tonight Show": Jimmy Fallon and New York City. The network has made a commitment to Mr.

2013-03-20 00:00:00

Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys play the first Thursday of every month at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood

2012-12-06 14:01:00

It's rare that "Tonight Show" hosts get together like in this 1986 photo from "NBC's 60th Anniversary Celebration" that brought (from left) Steve Allen, Johnny Carson and Jack Paar in one room. Allen introduced the format that everyone now knows and follows (the couch, the celebrity guest, comedy

2012-10-25 08:49:00