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In 1959 Jack Kerouac appeared on The Steve Allen Show to read from his new book "On the Road". Prior to reading he explains how he would write on long rolling sheets of paper, and how it took him only 3 weeks to write this book. This is why we love YouTube so much, we would have never seen this otherwise.
Interesting note: The Steve Allen Show was filmed in the Hudson Theater on 44th and 6th, which was granted landmark status in 1987 and is now a part of the Millennium Broadway Hotel complex.
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i believe this a part in the documentary called what happened to kerouac.
The Kerouac Scrolls are touring the US and I think they will be in NYC in 2007. It is definitely something everyone should check out.
I don't know if you've seen this, but YouTube also has a two-part clip of Frank Zappa playing avant-garde bicycle music on the Steve Allen show in 1963.
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Old sweet old dear old Jack.
Bent to it again.
Gone.
Kerouac's On the Road.
Five years to write, three weeks to type.
Wow. Not exactly Leno and Letterman, is it?
Great performance by Kerouac. He's noticeably restless, distracted, and bored during Allen's forewarned "square" questioning and square reception in kind, but instantly comes alive when the reading begins. A neat, classy little clip.
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Darn.