 It featured such acts as Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Louis Jordan & the Tympany Five, the Treniers, and the Collins Kids.Allen famously scooped Ed Sullivan by being one of the first to present Elvis Presley on network television (after Presley had appeared on the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey "Stage Show" and Milton Berle shows).While Presley was an exceedingly controversial act at the time, "Allen found a way ... to satisfy the Puritans.