Jack Kerouac on "The Steve Allen Show"

I've posted this clip before, but I enjoy it so much I've decided to post it again on what, let's face it, was never gonna be Jack Kerouac's 89th birthday; it features a performance of On the Road by Kerouac on The Steve Allen Show in 1959.
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Jack Kerouac Reads From "On The Road"

It is a voice simultaneously mannered and casual, confident that it ought to be spoken...  Here's Jack Kerouac, reading from his masterpiece On the Road, accompanied by Steve Allen on piano, and they're both on the top of their game. The year is 1959.

Just a decade later he'd reached the end of the road; on this day in 1969, in St. Petersburg, Florida, hemorrhaging from a cirrhotic liver, Jack Kerouac died.
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