Who was Les Crane? Late night US tv talk show host who passed away last month. He was not on the air long.

From Wikipedia entry - In late August 1963, Crane moved to New York City to host a 1:00 a.m. talk show on WABC-TV, the American Broadcasting Company flagship station. The first American TV appearance of The Rolling Stones  was on Crane's program in June 1964 when only New Yorkers could see it. The program debuted nationwide with a trial run (telecast nightly for two weeks) in August of 1964 starting at 11:15 p.m. on the ABC schedule and titled The Les Crane Show. It was the first network program to compete with The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. ABC used kinescopes of two episodes from that month to pitch the show to affiliates that hadn't yet signed up to carry the series.

Like a lot of others, this show with the Stones unfortunately didn't survive. Have to assume they did NOT FADE AWAY.

Two other classic appearances around that time that I personally remember were back to back Sat. nights in NY on The Clay Cole Show where they lip synched several numbers from "12 X 5", and a live radio stop on The Murray The K Show. Murray had a crazy chant that began with "AHHHH-VAY!!!" and ended with nonsense syllables. He had the Stones try to do it along with him. They just couldn't get the rhythm. A total disaster, but funny.