 "The Story Teller" won a Grammy in 1962 for Best Spoken Word Recording.Although the album has yet to be released on compact disc, it can now be heard in its entirety online.Laughton was the fill-in host on 9 September 1956, when Elvis Presley made his first of three appearances on CBS's "The Ed Sullivan Show", which garnered 60.7 million viewers (Ed Sullivan was recuperating from a car accident).