List of works by Steve Allen

This is a list of works by American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer Steve Allen.

Steve Allen in 1977

Films

Shows

Songs

Comedic discography

  • Man in the Street (1963) (Signature 1004)
  • Funny Fone Calls (1963) (Dot 3472, re-issued as Casablanca 811-366-1-ML)
  • More Funny Fone Calls (1963) (Dot 3517, re-issued as Casablanca 811-367-1-ML)

Musical discography

  • Steve Allen's All Star Jazz Concert Vol. 1 with Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band, Billy Butterfield Jazz Band (Decca, 1954)
  • Steve Allen's All Star Jazz Concert Vol. 2 with Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band, Billy Butterfield Jazz Band (Decca, 1954)
  • Music for Tonight (Coral, 1955)
  • Jazz for Tonight (Coral, 1955)
  • Steve Sings (Coral, 1955)
  • The Steve Allen Show (Coral, 1955)
  • Allen Plays Allen (Coral, 1956)
  • The James Dean Story with Bill Randle (Coral, 1956)
  • Steve Allen Plays Benny Goodman (Coral, 1956)
  • Romantic Rendezvous with Neal Hefti(Coral, 1957)
  • Venetian Serenade (Coral, 1957)
  • Terry Gibbs, Captain with Terry Gibbs (Emarcy, 1958)
  • Steve Allen Plays Hi-Fi Music for Influentials (Coral, 1958)
  • The Poetry of Love (Coral, 1958)
  • What Is Subud with John Bennett (Hanover, 1958)
  • Steve Allen Plays Neal Hefti (Coral, 1958)
  • Man On the Street with Tom Poston, Don Knotts, Louis Nye (Signature, 1959)
  • The Discovery of Buck Hammer (Hanover, 1959)
  • Steve Allen Presents Carole Simpson - Singin' and Swingin' (Tops, 1959)
  • Steve Allen Presents Sandy Warner - Fair & Warner (Tops, 1959)
  • Poetry for the Beat Generation with Jack Kerouac (Hanover, 1959)
  • Steve Allen at the Roundtable (Roulette, 1959)
  • Swingin' & Dancin' with Gus Bivona (Mercury, 1959)
  • Steve Allen Plays (Dot, 1959)
  • Around the World (Dot, 1959)
  • Monday Nights (Signature, 1960)
  • Steve Allen Presents 12 Golden Hits (Dot, 1962)
  • Steve Allen Plays Bossa Nova Jazz (Dot, 1963)
  • Plays the Piano Greats (Dot, 1963)
  • Gravy Waltz and 11 Current Hits! (Dot, 1963)
  • Steve Allen Sings (Dot, 1963)
  • More (Theme from "Mondo Cane") (Dot, 1963)
  • Steve Allen's Funny Fone-Calls (Dot, 1963)
  • Some of My Favorites (Hamilton 1964)
  • Songs from the Steve Allen TV Show (Dot, 1964)
  • Poetry in Piano (Coral, 1964)
  • I Play for You (Dot, 1965)
  • His Piano & Orchestra (Dot, 1965)
  • Cool, Quiet Bossa Nova (Dot, 1967)
  • Do the Love with Bob Thiele (ABC, 1967)
  • Soulful Brass with Oliver Nelson (Impulse!, 1968)
  • A Man Called Dagger (Music from the Original Soundtrack) (MGM 1968)
  • Soulful Brass #2 (Flying Dutchman, 1969)
  • Soulful Brass #3 (Flying Dutchman, 1971)
  • Steve Allen Presents Linda Guymon (Dobre 1978)
  • Funny Fone Calls (Casablanca, 1983)
  • Steve Allen's More Funny Fone Calls (Casablanca, 1983)
  • Anthony Plays Allen with Ray Anthony (Capitol 1984)
  • Alice in Wonderland Original Cast Voice Track Recording (1985)
  • Steve Allen Presents Terry Gibbs at the Piano (Fresh Sound/Signature, 1960)
  • Steve Allen Plays Jazz Tonight (Concord Jazz, 1993)

Books

YearTitleNotesIdentifiers
1955Steve Allen's Bop Fablesillustrated by George PriceOCLC 1006762
1955Fourteen for Tonightshort storiesOCLC 1034835
1956The Funny MenOCLC 329974
1956Wry on the RockspoemsOCLC 1150685
1958The Girls on the 10th Floor and Other Storiesshort storiesOCLC 1131890; ISBN 0-8369-3608-6 (1970 printing)
1959The Question Man...photographs by Gene LesterOCLC 1150647
1960Mark It and Strike It: An AutobiographyOCLC 25533614
1962Not All of Your Laughter, Not All of Your TearsSteve's first novelOCLC 1626391
1964Dialogues in Americanismtranscript of three debates: Allen vs. William F. Buckley, Jr.; Robert M. Hutchins vs. L. Brent Bozell, and James MacGregor Burns vs. Willmoore KendallOCLC 397431
1965Letter to a ConservativeOCLC 1150594
1966The Ground is Our Tablephotographs by Arthur DubinskyOCLC 358823
1967Bigger than a Breadboxwith commentary by Leonard Feather; illustrations by Rowland B. WilsonOCLC 717481
1969A Flash of Swallows: New PoemspoemsISBN 0-8375-6734-3; OCLC 5024
1972The WakeISBN 0-385-07608-8
1973Princess Snip-Snip and the Puppy-Kittensillustrated by David Gantz
1973Curses! or... How Never to Be Foiled Againillustrated by Marvin RubinISBN 0-87477-008-4
1974What To Say When It RainsISBN 0-8431-0357-4
1975Schmock-Schmock!ISBN 0-385-09664-X
1978Meeting of MindsISBN 0-517-53383-9; 1989 printing: ISBN 0-87975-550-4
1978Chopped-Up Chinese
1979Ripoff: A Look at Corruption in Americawith Roslyn Bernstein and Donald H. DunnISBN 0-8184-0249-0
1979Meeting of Minds, Second SeriesISBN 0-517-53894-6; 1989 printing: ISBN 0-87975-565-2
1980Explaining ChinaISBN 0-517-54062-2
1981Funny PeopleISBN 0-8128-2764-3
1982Beloved Son: A Story of the Jesus CultsISBN 0-672-52678-6
1982More Funny PeopleISBN 0-8128-2884-4
1986How to Make a SpeechISBN 0-07-001164-8
1987How to Be Funny: Discovering the Comic Youwith Jane WollmanISBN 0-07-001199-0; 1992 printing: ISBN 0-87975-792-2; 1998 revised edition: ISBN 1-57392-206-4
1989The Passionate Nonsmoker's Bill of Rights: The First Guide to Enacting Nonsmoking Legislationwith Bill Adler, Jr.ISBN 0-688-06295-4
1989"Dumbth": And 81 Ways to Make Americans SmarterISBN 0-87975-539-3; 1998 revised edition: ISBN 1-57392-237-4
1989Meeting of Minds, Vol. IIIISBN 0-87975-566-0
1989Meeting of Minds, Vol. IVISBN 0-87975-567-9
1990The Public Hating: A Collection of Short StoriesISBN 0-942637-22-4
1990Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion & MoralityISBN 0-87975-638-1
1992Hi-Ho, Steverino: The Story of My Adventures in the Wonderful Wacky World of TelevisionISBN 0-942637-55-0; large-print edition: ISBN 1-56054-521-6
1993More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion & MoralityISBN 0-87975-736-1
1993Make 'em LaughISBN 0-87975-837-6
1994ReflectionsISBN 0-87975-904-6
1995The Man Who Turned Back the Clock, and Other Short StoriesISBN 1-57392-002-9
1995The Bug and the Slug in the RugISBN 1-880851-17-2
1996But Seriously...: Steve Allen Speaks His MindISBN 1-57392-090-8
1999Steve Allen's Songs: 100 Lyrics with CommentaryISBN 0-7864-0736-0
2000Steve Allen's Private Joke FileISBN 0-609-80672-6
2001Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio – Raising the Standards of Popular CultureISBN 1-57392-874-7

Allen was the credited author of a series of mystery novels "starring" himself and wife Jayne Meadows as amateur detectives. The first one (The Talk Show Murders) was ghostwritten by Walter J. Sheldon; later volumes were ghostwritten by Robert Westbrook.

  • The Talk Show Murders (1982), ISBN 0-440-08471-7
  • Murder on the Glitter Box (1989), ISBN 0-8217-2752-4
  • Murder in Manhattan (1990), ISBN 0-8217-3033-9
  • Murder in Vegas (1991), ISBN 0-8217-3462-8
  • The Murder Game (1993), ISBN 0-8217-4115-2
  • Murder on the Atlantic (1995), ISBN 0-8217-4647-2
  • Wake Up to Murder (1996), ISBN 1-57566-090-3
  • Die Laughing (1998), ISBN 1-57566-241-8
  • Murder in Hawaii (1999), ISBN 1-57566-375-9[1]

Skeptic magazine

As Allen was a supporter of the scientific skepticism movement, he worked to promote critical thinking, contributing many pieces to the American magazine Skeptic, which is published by the California-based Skeptics Society.

  • Skeptic Vol. 1, No. 1, "A Tribute to Isaac Asimov" (with Harlan Ellison and Martin Gardner)
  • Skeptic Vol. 1, No. 2
  • Skeptic Vol. 1, No. 3
  • Skeptic Vol. 1, No. 4
  • Skeptic Vol. 2, No. 1, "Genius" (with James Randi, Paul MacCready, Marilyn vos Savant, Elie Shneour, and David Alexander)
  • Skeptic Vol. 2, No. 2, "The Jesus Cults"
  • Skeptic Vol. 2, No. 3
  • Skeptic Vol. 2, No. 4
  • Skeptic Vol. 3, No. 1
  • Skeptic Vol. 3, No. 2
  • Skeptic Vol. 3, No. 3
  • Skeptic Vol. 3, No. 4
  • Skeptic Vol. 4, No. 1
  • Skeptic Vol. 4, No. 2
  • Skeptic Vol. 4, No. 3
  • Skeptic Vol. 4, No. 4
  • Skeptic Vol. 5, No. 1
    • "An Open Letter from Steve Allen to Heber Jentzsch, President, Church of Scientology"
    • "But Seriously … Steve Allen Speaks His Mind"
  • Skeptic Vol. 5, No. 2
  • Skeptic Vol. 5, No. 3, "Scientology Reply to Steve Allen"
  • Skeptic Vol. 5, No. 4[2]

References

  1. "Steve Allen | Album Discography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-07-01.
  2. "Back Issues, volumes 1 through 5". Skeptic. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
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