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Allan Sherman

Allan Sherman (born Allan Copelon;[1] or Allan Gerald Copelon;[2] November 30, 1924 – November 20, 1973) was an American musician, satirist and television producer who became known as a song parodist in the early 1960s. His first album, My Son, the Folk Singer (1962), became the fastest-selling record album up to that time.[3] His biggest hit was "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh", a comic song in which a boy describes his summer camp experiences to the tune of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours.

Allan Sherman
Sherman as a sheriff on The Loner in 1965
Born
Allan Copelon

(1924-11-30)November 30, 1924
DiedNovember 20, 1973(1973-11-20) (aged 48)
Resting placeHillside Memorial Park Cemetery
Occupations
  • Singer
  • satirist
  • producer
  • writer
Years active1951–1973
Spouse
Dee Chackes
(m. 1945; div. 1966)
Children2

Early life

Sherman was born on November 30, 1924, in Chicago, Illinois, to Percy Copelon and Rose Sherman.[1] Percy was an auto mechanic and race car driver from Birmingham, Alabama who suffered from obesity (he weighed over 350 pounds) and died while attempting a 100-day diet.[4] Sherman's family was Jewish. His parents divorced when he was seven,[1] and he adopted his mother's maiden name. Because his parents frequently moved to new residences, he attended 21 public schools in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Miami.[5] For his High School years, he attended Fairfax High School in Los Angeles where he graduated in 1941. He later attended the University of Illinois, where he earned mostly "C" grades and contributed a humor column to The Daily Illini, the college newspaper. He was expelled for breaking into the Sigma Delta Tau sorority house with his girlfriend and future wife, Dolores "Dee" Chackes.[6]

Television writer and producer

Sherman devised a game show he intended to call I Know a Secret.[6] Television producer Mark Goodson adapted Sherman's idea into I've Got a Secret, which ran on CBS from 1952 to 1967. Rather than paying him for the concept, Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions made Sherman the show's producer. Sherman was reported to be warm and kindhearted to all who worked for him. However, differences occurred between Sherman and anyone who was in a position to try to restrain his creativity.[7] As producer of I've Got a Secret, which was broadcast live, he showed a fondness for large-scale stunts that teetered on the brink of disaster. He once released 100 rabbits onstage as an Easter surprise for the Madison Square Boys Club, whose members were seated in the studio. The boys were invited to come up onstage to collect their prize. Although the resultant melee made a good story, it did not necessarily make for good TV.

In his autobiography, A Gift of Laughter, Sherman writes that he was fired from I've Got a Secret in 1958, after guest host Henry Morgan was left short of scripted material by seven minutes,[6] and that Morgan filled the time by berating Sherman on-air.[6] However, the episode in question, featuring a demonstration of childhood games by Tony Curtis, does not run short and in fact Morgan ends it abruptly and says they’ve run out of time.[8]

Sherman also produced a short-lived 1954 game show, What's Going On?, which was technologically ambitious, with studio guests interacting with multiple live cameras in remote locations. In 1961, he produced a daytime game show for Al Singer Productions called Your Surprise Package, which aired on CBS with host George Fenneman.

Song parodies

In 1951, Sherman recorded a 78-rpm single with veteran singer Sylvia Froos which contained "A Satchel and a Seck," parodying "A Bushel and a Peck" from Guys and Dolls, coupled with "Jake's Song", parodying "Sam's Song", a contemporary hit for Bing Crosby and his son Gary.[citation needed] The single sold poorly and when Sherman wrote his autobiography, he did not mention it. Later, he found that the song parodies he performed to amuse his friends and family were taking on a life of their own. Sherman lived in the Brentwood section of West Los Angeles next door to Harpo Marx, who invited him to perform his song parodies at parties attended by Marx's show-biz friends. After one party, George Burns phoned an executive at Warner Bros. Records and persuaded him to sign Sherman to a contract. The result was an LP of these parodies, My Son, the Folk Singer, released in 1962. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[9] The album was very successful and was quickly followed by My Son, the Celebrity.

Capitalizing on his success, in 1962 Jubilee Records re-released Sherman's 1951 single on the album More Folk Songs by Allan Sherman and His Friends, which compiled material by various Borscht Belt comedians such as Sylvia Froos, Fyvush Finkel and Lee Tully.

Sherman's first two LPs were mainly reworkings of old folk songs to infuse them with Jewish humor. His first minor hit was "Sarah Jackman" (pronounced "Jockman"), a takeoff of "Frère Jacques" in which he and a woman (Christine Nelson) exchange family gossip. The popularity of "Sarah Jackman" (as well as the album My Son, the Folk Singer) was enhanced after President John F. Kennedy was overheard singing the song in the lobby of the Carlyle hotel.[10]: 13  By his peak with My Son, the Nut in 1963, however, Sherman had broadened both his subject matter and his choice of parody material and begun to appeal to a larger audience.

Sherman wrote his parody lyrics in collaboration with Lou Busch. A few of the Sherman/Busch songs are completely original creations, featuring original music as well as lyrics, rather than new lyrics applied to an existing melody.

However, Sherman had trouble in getting permission to record for profit from some well-known composers and lyricists, who did not tolerate parodies or satires of their melodies and lyrics, including Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, Ira Gershwin, Meredith Willson, Alan Jay Lerner, and Frederick Loewe, as well as the estates of Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Kurt Weill, George Gershwin and Bertolt Brecht, which prevented him from releasing parodies or satires of their songs. In the late 1950s, Sherman was inspired by a recording of a nightclub musical show called My Fairfax Lady, a parody of My Fair Lady set in the Jewish section of Los Angeles that was performed at Billy Gray's Band Box. Sherman then wrote his own song parodies of My Fair Lady, which appeared as a bootleg recording in 1964, and were only officially released in 2005 on My Son, the Box. Alan Jay Lerner did not approve of having the parody being performed; however, he reluctantly settled to allow the performances of "Fairfax Lady", on the strict conditions that the show could only be allowed to be performed inside the Fairfax Theater, without any touring company, and that the musical could not be videotaped or recorded for any album.

Although Sherman believed that all the songs parodied on My Son, the Folk Singer were in the public domain, two of them, "Matilda" and "Water Boy"–parodied as "My Zelda" and "Seltzer Boy", respectively–were actually under copyright, and Sherman was sued for copyright infringement.[10]: 262 [11]

In 1963's My Son, the Nut, Sherman's pointed parodies of classical and popular tunes dealt with automation in the workplace ("Automation", to the tune of "Fascination"), space travel ("Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue", to "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue"), summer camp ("Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh", to the tune of Dance of the Hours by Ponchielli), the exodus from the city to the suburbs ("Here's to the Crabgrass", to the tune of "English Country Garden"), and his own bulky contours ("Hail to Thee, Fat Person", which claims his obesity was a public service similar to the Marshall Plan). Six cartoon bears were printed on back of every album.

A Top 40 hit

One track from My Son, the Nut, a spoof of summer camp titled "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh", became a surprise novelty hit, reaching No. 2 on the national Billboard Hot 100 chart for three weeks in late summer 1963. The lyrics were sung to the tune of one segment of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours. That December, Sherman's "The Twelve Gifts of Christmas" single appeared on Billboard's separate Christmas chart. Sherman had one other Top 40 hit, a 1965 take-off on the Petula Clark hit "Downtown" called "Crazy Downtown", which spent one week at #40. Two other Sherman singles charted in the lower regions of the Billboard 100: an updated "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh" (#59 in 1964), and "The Drinking Man's Diet" (#98 in 1965). Sherman's "The End of a Symphony", spotlighting Arthur Fiedler's Boston Pops Orchestra, reached #113 on the "Bubbling Under" chart in 1964, but did not make the Hot 100.

The songs on Sherman's next album My Name Is Allan (1965) were thematically connected: except for a couple of original novelty songs with music by Sherman and Busch, all the songs on the album are parodies of songs that had won, or were nominated for, the Academy Award for Best Song. They included "That Old Black Magic", "Secret Love", "The Continental", "Chim Chim Cher-ee" and "Call Me Irresponsible". The cover of the album bore a childhood photograph of Sherman. That, and the album's title, were references to Barbra Streisand's album My Name Is Barbra, released earlier that year, which featured a cover photograph of the singer as a young girl.

During his brief heyday, Sherman's parodies were so popular that he had at least one contemporary imitator: My Son the Copycat was an album of song parodies performed by Stanley Ralph Ross, co-written by Ross and Bob Arbogast. Lest there be any doubt of whom Ross is copying, his album's cover bears a crossed-out photo of Sherman. One of the songs on this album is a fat man's lament, "I'm Called Little Butterball", parodying "I'm Called Little Buttercup" from Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta HMS Pinafore. Sherman would later parody this same song as "Little Butterball" – with the same subject matter – on his album Allan in Wonderland. The song may have had more poignancy for Sherman, as he, unlike Stanley Ross, was genuinely overweight. Sherman also parodied Gilbert and Sullivan's "Titwillow" from The Mikado, in the song "The Bronx Bird-Watcher" (on My Son, the Celebrity), as well as several other Gilbert and Sullivan songs.

Later work

In 1965, Sherman published an autobiography, A Gift of Laughter, and, for a short period at least, he was culturally ubiquitous. He sang on and guest-hosted The Tonight Show, was involved in the production of Bill Cosby's first three albums, appeared in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and sang "The Dropouts' March" on the March 6, 1964, edition of the NBC satirical program That Was The Week That Was.

Also in 1964, Sherman narrated his own version of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf in a live concert at Tanglewood with the Boston Pops under Arthur Fiedler. The concert, which was released by RCA Victor Red Seal as the album Peter and the Commissar, also included "Variations on 'How Dry I Am'", with Sherman as conductor, and "The End of a Symphony". In "Variations", Fiedler was the guest soloist, providing solo hiccups. In 2004, Collector's Choice reissued the complete RCA Victor album on CD.[12]

Sherman's later albums grew more pointedly satirical and less light-hearted, skewering protesting students ("The Rebel"), consumer debt ("A Waste of Money", based on "A Taste of Honey"), and the generation gap ("Crazy Downtown" and "Pop Hates the Beatles"). It was for this reason that Ken Barnes, when attempting to analyze American music acts that were harmed by the British Invasion, surmised in 2021 that Sherman had been doomed to lose momentum anyway and could not blame the Invasion for his career decline[13] (even as "Crazy Downtown" was a top-40 hit for him).

Sherman was often tapped to produce specialty song parodies for corporations. An album of six paper-cup and vending machine related songs, titled Music to Dispense With, was created for the Container Division of the Scott Paper Company for distribution to its vendors and customers. It consisted of the tracks "Makin' Coffee" (a parody of "Makin' Whoopee"), "Vending Machines", "There Are Cups", "That's How the Change Is Made", "The Wonderful Tree in the Forest" and "Scott Cups".[14]

Sherman also created a group of eight "public education" radio spots for Encron carpet fibers, singing their praises to the tunes of old public-domain songs. Entitled Allan Sherman Pours It On for Carpets Made with Encron Polyester, it featured an introduction by Sherman and comprised the tracks "Encron Is a Brand New Fiber" (to the tune of "Shine On, Harvest Moon"), "Put Them All Together, They Spell Encron" (to the tune of Eddy Arnold's "M-O-T-H-E-R"), "There's a Fiber Called Encron" (to the tune of William H. Hill's "There is a Tavern in the Town"), "Encron Alive, Alive-O" (to the tune of "Molly Malone"), "Encron's the Name", "Why They Call It Encron" (to the tune of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart"), "Encron, Encron" (to the tune of "Daisy Bell") and "Encron Is a Great New Fiber" (to the tune of "Take Me to the Fair").[15]

Decline

Sherman's career success was short-lived: after peaking in 1963, his popularity declined rather quickly. After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the public taste for Sherman's type of comedy lessened.[16] Beginning in 1964, Sherman was among many American acts whose sales were affected badly by the British Invasion (which Sherman skewered in the song "Pop Hates the Beatles", a spoof of "Pop! Goes the Weasel").

By 1965, Sherman had released two albums that did not make the Top 50 and in 1966, Warner Bros. Records dropped him from the roster. His last album for WB, Togetherness, was released in 1967 to poor reviews and poor sales. All of his previous releases had been recorded in front of a live studio audience – or in the case of Live, Hoping You Are the Same, recorded during a Las Vegas performance – but Togetherness was purely a studio recording, and the lack of an audience and their response affected the result, as did the nondescript backup singers and studio orchestra.

On November 13, 1965, Sherman made a rare prime time television acting appearance in "The Sheriff of Fetterman's Crossing," an episode of Rod Serling's short-lived Western series The Loner (1965–66).[17] Sherman played Walton Peterson Tetley, a local schnook who went off to war and rose to regiment cook before returning home a hero thanks to tall tales and yarn-spinning. The town hails its conquering hero and Tetley is appointed sheriff. Series star Lloyd Bridges as William Colton, a wandering Union veteran, comes to town and signs on to be Tetley's deputy, discovering quickly his boss' utter incompetence in the office.[18] Tetley receives a threatening note from a gunslinger challenging this purported hero to a gunfight when he arrives on the noon stage, at which point the story becomes a parody of iconic Western movie High Noon (1952). Colton sets to teaching the shivering-in-his-boots sheriff courage and gunmanship. Sherman's semi-serious and sympathetic performance was strong and his presence an affable one.[19]

In 1966, Sherman visited Australia. He did a television series in Melbourne, Victoria, for a live audience. During the performance, he sang a parody of "Molly Malone." It included a play on the word "but" (butt) which did not elicit a laugh. What Sherman did not know is that Australians use the word "bum" where Americans would say "butt" (although usage of the word "butt" has since become widespread in Australia). Otherwise, Sherman was well received by the audience. Afterward, he met with some of his fans and signed at least one autograph.

In 1969, Sherman wrote the book and lyrics – with music by Albert Hague – for The Fig Leaves Are Falling, a flop Broadway musical that ran only four performances, despite direction by George Abbott and a cast that included Barry Nelson, Dorothy Loudon, and David Cassidy.[20] Still creative, in 1973, Sherman published the controversial The Rape of the A*P*E*, which detailed his point of view on American Puritanism and the sexual revolution.

In 1971, Sherman was the voice of Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat for the animated television special. He reprised the role for Dr. Seuss on the Loose, his last project before his death.

Health and death

In his final years, Sherman's alcoholism and weight gain caused severe deterioration of his health; he later developed diabetes and struggled with lung disease.[21] In 1966, his wife Dee filed for divorce[22] and received full custody of their son and daughter.[citation needed]

Sherman lived on unemployment benefits for a time and moved into the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital for a short time to lose weight.[21] He died while entertaining his friends during the night of November 20, 1973, at his home in Los Angeles, California, ten days shy of his 49th birthday. According to sheriff's officers, Sherman, who had been undergoing treatment for emphysema, asthma and obesity, died of respiratory failure.[23] He is entombed in Culver City, California's Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery.[24]

Legacy

Sherman was the inspiration for a new generation of developing parodists such as "Weird Al" Yankovic, who pays homage to Sherman on the cover of his first LP.

Sherman's hit song "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" has been translated into other languages. In one notable example, the Dutch–Swedish poet Cornelis Vreeswijk translated the song loosely into Swedish as "Brev från kolonien" (Letter from Summer Camp), which reached fourth on the Swedish popular music chart Svensktoppen in the summer of 1965[25] and is still popular in Sweden today.[26]

A Best of Allan Sherman CD was released in 1990, and a boxed set of most of his songs was released in 2005 under the title My Son, the Box. In 1992 a musical revue of his songs titled Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah ran for over a year off-off-Broadway; other productions ran Off-Broadway for four months in 2001[27] and toured in 2003. A children's book based on the song "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh", with illustrations by Syd Hoff, was published in 2004.

On March 14, 2006, National Public Radio profiled Sherman on All Things Considered.[28]

In 2010, eight of Allan Sherman's Warner Records albums were individually released on CD:

Sherman's son, Robert, later became a game show producer, producing for Mark Goodson during the 1970s and 1980s, including Password Plus, Blockbusters, Body Language and Super Password.

In popular culture

  • Sherman's song "Ratt Fink" was covered by punk rock band The Misfits on their 1979 single "Night of the Living Dead". It was also covered by Ex-Misfits guitarist Bobby Steele by his band The Undead. Sherman wrote the song as a parody of "Rag Mop," originally performed by Johnnie Lee Wills and popularized by The Ames Brothers in 1950.
  • In the "Three Gays of the Condo" episode of The Simpsons, "Weird Al" Yankovic makes a guest appearance. When Homer asks Yankovic if he got the two songs he recorded and sent in, Yankovic replies that he did. When Homer asks which he preferred, Yankovic replies, "They were pretty much the same, Homer." Homer then mutters angrily, "Yeah, like you and Allan Sherman." Other references to Sherman came in the episode "Marge Be Not Proud" when Bart hides an answering machine tape in a copy of his (fictitious) Camp Granada album – "where no one would ever listen to it," and in "A Midsummer's Nice Dream" where Homer shows Bart and Lisa his copy of another fictional Sherman album, Helter Shmelter: Sorry For the Mess.[29]
  • The political parody group Capitol Steps used "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" in Fools On The Hill (Songs of 1992).
  • Dutch comedian Rijk de Gooyer sang two Dutch versions of "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" named "Brief uit La Courtine" (Letter from La Courtine) and "Brief naar La Courtine" (Letter to La Courtine). In the first one, he describes his adventures as a soldier in the Dutch base at La Courtine; the second is his father's reply.

Discography

Albums

Year Title Billboard 200 Record Label
1962 My Son, the Folk Singer 1 Warner Bros. Records
1963 My Son, the Celebrity 1 Warner Bros. Records
My Son, the Nut 1 Warner Bros. Records
1964 Allan in Wonderland 25 Warner Bros. Records
Peter and the Commissar 53 RCA Victor
For Swingin' Livers Only! 25 Warner Bros. Records
1965 My Name Is Allan 88 Warner Bros. Records
1966 Allan Sherman: Live!!! (Hoping You Are the Same)

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Warner Bros. Records
1967 Togetherness

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Warner Bros. Records
2014 There Is Nothing Like a Lox: The Lost Song Parodies of Allan Sherman

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Rockbeat Records / Smore

Singles

Year Titles (A-side, B-side)
Both sides from same album except where indicated
Chart positions Album
US AC UK
1963 "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter From Camp)"
b/w "Rat Fink"
2 14 My Son, The Nut
"The Twelve Gifts Of Christmas"
b/w "(You Came A Long Way From St. Louis)
You Went The Wrong Way, Old King Louie" (from My Son, The Nut)
5
(Christmas charts)
For Swingin' Livers Only!
1964 "My Son, The Vampire"
b/w "I Can't Dance" (from Allan In Wonderland)
Non-album track
"(Heart) Skin"
b/w "The Drop-Outs March"
Allan In Wonderland
"Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter From Camp)" (1964 version)
b/w Original version of A-side (from My Son, The Nut)
59 9 Non-album track
"The End Of A Symphony"—Part 1
b/w Part 2
With The Boston Pops Orchestra—Arthur Fiedler, conductor
Peter and The Commissar
"Pop Hates The Beatles"
b/w "Grow, Mrs. Goldfarb"
Unreleased
For Swingin' Livers Only!
1965 "Crazy Downtown"
b/w "The Drop-Outs March" (from Allan In Wonderland)
40 6 Non-album track
"The Drinking Man's Diet"
b/w "The Laarge Daark Aardvark Song"
98 21 My Name Is Allan
1966 "Odd Ball"
b/w "His Own Little Island"
Non-album tracks
1967 "Westchester Hadassah"
b/w "Strange Things In My Soup"
Togetherness
1968 "The Fig Leaves Are Falling"
b/w "Juggling"
Non-album tracks

Musical theater

  • The Fig Leaves Are Falling (1969) – musical – lyricist and book-writer
    • Songs: "All Is Well in Larchmont," "Lillian," "All of My Laughter," "Give Me a Cause," "Today I Saw a Rose," "We," "For Our Sake," "Light One Candle," "Oh, Boy," "The Fig Leaves Are Falling," "For the Rest of My Life," "I Like It," "Broken Heart," "Old Fashioned Song," "Lillian, Lillian, Lillian," "Did I Ever Really Live?" The music was composed by Albert Hague.

Filmography

See also

References

Bibliography

  • Instant Status (or Up Your Image) (G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1964) (tear-out pages of celebrity thank you letters you can address to yourself and leave around your home or office to impress people)
  • I Can't Dance! (children's picture book, illustrated by Syd Hoff) (Harper & Row, 1964)
  • A Gift of Laughter: The Autobiography of Allan Sherman (Atheneum, 1965)
  • The Rape of the A*P*E* – The Official History of the Sex Revolution 1945–1973: The Obscening of America. An R*S*V*P* Document (Playboy Press, 1973) ISBN 0-87216-453-5
    • The title page notes that "APE" stands for "American Puritan Ethic" and "RSVP" for "Redeeming Social Value Pornography"
  • Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah, (children's picture book based on song) (Dutton Books, 2004) ISBN 0-525-46942-7

Notes

  1. ^ a b c . October 30, 2018. Archived from the original on October 30, 2018. Retrieved October 10, 2021.
  2. ^ "Famous Jews - Genealogy of Allan Sherman". YouTube. September 7, 2022.
  3. ^ Thomas, Bob (Associated Press). "Fat and fortyish but star no less," Ottawa Herald, December 13, 1962, page 10: "Warner Brothers Records report that it is the fastest-selling album in history, having sold 575,000 in six weeks. With the Christmas season coming up, it might push over a million." Retrieved 14 April 2016 via NewspaperArchive.com
  4. ^ Mark Cohen (2013). Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman. University Press of New England. ISBN 9781611684278. Retrieved August 5, 2020. On November 25, 1949, the front page of the Birmingham Post's late edition announced, "Percy (Fatty) Coplon Dies on 93rd Day of Long Fast."
  5. ^ "Allan Sherman, Lyricist, Dies; Noted for 'My Son' Parodies". The New York Times. November 22, 1973. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  6. ^ a b c d Mueller, Jim (March 29, 2000). "Sherman's March". The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  7. ^ Goodson-Todman executive Gil Fates relates typical Sherman stunts in his memoir about What's My Line?.
  8. ^ Allan Sherman's last episode as producer (I've Got a Secret 6/11/58, 2 of 2), retrieved January 16, 2022
  9. ^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 152. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
  10. ^ a b Sherman, Allan (1965). A Gift of Laughter: The Autobiography of Allan Sherman. Atheneum Publishers. ISBN 9781386784487. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  11. ^ Wallace, Irving and Wallenchensky, David. The People's Almanac of the 20th Century
  12. ^ "Peter & The Commissar: Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops With Allan Sherman: Music". Amazon. Retrieved April 25, 2012.
  13. ^ Barnes, Ken (February 9, 2021). "Did the Beatles kill America's radio stars?". Radio Insight. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
  14. ^ Morris, Jeff (November 21, 2005). "Music To Dispense With Created By Allan Sherman For The Container Division Of Scott Paper Company". The Demented Music Database!. from the original on January 5, 2010. Retrieved January 6, 2010.
  15. ^ Morris, Jeff (November 21, 2005). "Allan Sherman Pours It On For Carpets Made With Encron Polyester". The Demented Music Database!. from the original on January 5, 2010. Retrieved January 6, 2010.
  16. ^ . Petabit.com. Archived from the original on March 12, 2013. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
  17. ^ Witbeck, Charles (November 13, 1965). "Allan Sherman Stars in Western Comedy". The Journal News. p. 28. Retrieved November 30, 2021.
  18. ^ Page, Don (August 26, 1965). "Sherman's Talent Larger Than Life". The Los Angeles Times. p. 82. Retrieved November 30, 2021.
  19. ^ Cohen, Mark (2013). Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman. Boston, MA : Brandeis University Press. p. 217. ISBN 978-1-61168-256-4.
  20. ^ The Broadway League. "The official source for Broadway Information". IBDB. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
  21. ^ a b . Jangle04.home.mindspring.com. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
  22. ^ (Editor's note.) "My favorite jokes," Parade magazine, August 21, 1966, page number illegible: "Unfortunately his domestic life of late has been none too good, and a divorce is in the offing." Retrieved 14 April 2016 via NewspaperArchive.com.
  23. ^ "Allan Sherman, Lyricist, Dies; Noted for 'My Son' Parodies". The New York Times. November 22, 1973. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
  24. ^ Julie Lugo Cerra (April 2, 2013). Culver City Chronicles. ISBN 9781614238768. Hillside Memorial Park
  25. ^ "SVENSKTOPPEN: Date: 1965-01-02". Sr.se. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
  26. ^ "BREV FRAN KOLONIEN - Lyrics - International Lyrics Playground". Lyricsplayground.com. October 10, 2007. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
  27. ^ . Lortel.org. Archived from the original on October 6, 2012. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
  28. ^ Sherman, Allan (March 14, 2006). "Allan Sherman: Beyond 'Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh'". NPR. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
  29. ^ "Allan Sherman's Helter Shmelter - Sorry For the Mess - Wikisimpsons, the Simpsons Wiki". Simpsonswiki.net. August 13, 2012. Retrieved November 9, 2012.

External links

  • Allan Sherman at IMDb
  • Allan Sherman at AllMusic
  • Allan Sherman at Find a Grave
  • Complete Discography
  • Allan Sherman discography at Discogs
  • . Archived from the original on December 4, 2004. Retrieved September 6, 2003.
  • Josh Lambert in Tablet Magazine reviewing Mark Cohen's biography, Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman

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1973 1973 11 20 aged 48 Los Angeles California U S Resting placeHillside Memorial Park CemeteryOccupationsSingersatiristproducerwriterYears active1951 1973SpouseDee Chackes m 1945 div 1966 wbr Children2 Contents 1 Early life 2 Television writer and producer 3 Song parodies 4 A Top 40 hit 5 Later work 6 Decline 7 Health and death 8 Legacy 9 In popular culture 10 Discography 10 1 Albums 10 2 Singles 10 3 Musical theater 11 Filmography 12 See also 13 References 13 1 Bibliography 13 2 Notes 14 External linksEarly life EditSherman was born on November 30 1924 in Chicago Illinois to Percy Copelon and Rose Sherman 1 Percy was an auto mechanic and race car driver from Birmingham Alabama who suffered from obesity he weighed over 350 pounds and died while attempting a 100 day diet 4 Sherman s family was Jewish His parents divorced when he was seven 1 and he adopted his mother s maiden name Because his parents frequently moved to new residences he attended 21 public schools in Chicago New York Los Angeles and Miami 5 For his High School years he attended Fairfax High School in Los Angeles where he graduated in 1941 He later attended the University of Illinois where he earned mostly C grades and contributed a humor column to The Daily Illini the college newspaper He was expelled for breaking into the Sigma Delta Tau sorority house with his girlfriend and future wife Dolores Dee Chackes 6 Television writer and producer EditSherman devised a game show he intended to call I Know a Secret 6 Television producer Mark Goodson adapted Sherman s idea into I ve Got a Secret which ran on CBS from 1952 to 1967 Rather than paying him for the concept Mark Goodson Bill Todman Productions made Sherman the show s producer Sherman was reported to be warm and kindhearted to all who worked for him However differences occurred between Sherman and anyone who was in a position to try to restrain his creativity 7 As producer of I ve Got a Secret which was broadcast live he showed a fondness for large scale stunts that teetered on the brink of disaster He once released 100 rabbits onstage as an Easter surprise for the Madison Square Boys Club whose members were seated in the studio The boys were invited to come up onstage to collect their prize Although the resultant melee made a good story it did not necessarily make for good TV In his autobiography A Gift of Laughter Sherman writes that he was fired from I ve Got a Secret in 1958 after guest host Henry Morgan was left short of scripted material by seven minutes 6 and that Morgan filled the time by berating Sherman on air 6 However the episode in question featuring a demonstration of childhood games by Tony Curtis does not run short and in fact Morgan ends it abruptly and says they ve run out of time 8 Sherman also produced a short lived 1954 game show What s Going On which was technologically ambitious with studio guests interacting with multiple live cameras in remote locations In 1961 he produced a daytime game show for Al Singer Productions called Your Surprise Package which aired on CBS with host George Fenneman Song parodies EditIn 1951 Sherman recorded a 78 rpm single with veteran singer Sylvia Froos which contained A Satchel and a Seck parodying A Bushel and a Peck from Guys and Dolls coupled with Jake s Song parodying Sam s Song a contemporary hit for Bing Crosby and his son Gary citation needed The single sold poorly and when Sherman wrote his autobiography he did not mention it Later he found that the song parodies he performed to amuse his friends and family were taking on a life of their own Sherman lived in the Brentwood section of West Los Angeles next door to Harpo Marx who invited him to perform his song parodies at parties attended by Marx s show biz friends After one party George Burns phoned an executive at Warner Bros Records and persuaded him to sign Sherman to a contract The result was an LP of these parodies My Son the Folk Singer released in 1962 It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc 9 The album was very successful and was quickly followed by My Son the Celebrity Capitalizing on his success in 1962 Jubilee Records re released Sherman s 1951 single on the album More Folk Songs by Allan Sherman and His Friends which compiled material by various Borscht Belt comedians such as Sylvia Froos Fyvush Finkel and Lee Tully Sherman s first two LPs were mainly reworkings of old folk songs to infuse them with Jewish humor His first minor hit was Sarah Jackman pronounced Jockman a takeoff of Frere Jacques in which he and a woman Christine Nelson exchange family gossip The popularity of Sarah Jackman as well as the album My Son the Folk Singer was enhanced after President John F Kennedy was overheard singing the song in the lobby of the Carlyle hotel 10 13 By his peak with My Son the Nut in 1963 however Sherman had broadened both his subject matter and his choice of parody material and begun to appeal to a larger audience Sherman wrote his parody lyrics in collaboration with Lou Busch A few of the Sherman Busch songs are completely original creations featuring original music as well as lyrics rather than new lyrics applied to an existing melody However Sherman had trouble in getting permission to record for profit from some well known composers and lyricists who did not tolerate parodies or satires of their melodies and lyrics including Irving Berlin Richard Rodgers Ira Gershwin Meredith Willson Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe as well as the estates of Lorenz Hart Oscar Hammerstein Kurt Weill George Gershwin and Bertolt Brecht which prevented him from releasing parodies or satires of their songs In the late 1950s Sherman was inspired by a recording of a nightclub musical show called My Fairfax Lady a parody of My Fair Lady set in the Jewish section of Los Angeles that was performed at Billy Gray s Band Box Sherman then wrote his own song parodies of My Fair Lady which appeared as a bootleg recording in 1964 and were only officially released in 2005 on My Son the Box Alan Jay Lerner did not approve of having the parody being performed however he reluctantly settled to allow the performances of Fairfax Lady on the strict conditions that the show could only be allowed to be performed inside the Fairfax Theater without any touring company and that the musical could not be videotaped or recorded for any album Although Sherman believed that all the songs parodied on My Son the Folk Singer were in the public domain two of them Matilda and Water Boy parodied as My Zelda and Seltzer Boy respectively were actually under copyright and Sherman was sued for copyright infringement 10 262 11 In 1963 s My Son the Nut Sherman s pointed parodies of classical and popular tunes dealt with automation in the workplace Automation to the tune of Fascination space travel Eight Foot Two Solid Blue to Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue summer camp Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh to the tune of Dance of the Hours by Ponchielli the exodus from the city to the suburbs Here s to the Crabgrass to the tune of English Country Garden and his own bulky contours Hail to Thee Fat Person which claims his obesity was a public service similar to the Marshall Plan Six cartoon bears were printed on back of every album A Top 40 hit EditOne track from My Son the Nut a spoof of summer camp titled Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh became a surprise novelty hit reaching No 2 on the national Billboard Hot 100 chart for three weeks in late summer 1963 The lyrics were sung to the tune of one segment of Ponchielli s Dance of the Hours That December Sherman s The Twelve Gifts of Christmas single appeared on Billboard s separate Christmas chart Sherman had one other Top 40 hit a 1965 take off on the Petula Clark hit Downtown called Crazy Downtown which spent one week at 40 Two other Sherman singles charted in the lower regions of the Billboard 100 an updated Hello Mudduh Hello Fadduh 59 in 1964 and The Drinking Man s Diet 98 in 1965 Sherman s The End of a Symphony spotlighting Arthur Fiedler s Boston Pops Orchestra reached 113 on the Bubbling Under chart in 1964 but did not make the Hot 100 The songs on Sherman s next album My Name Is Allan 1965 were thematically connected except for a couple of original novelty songs with music by Sherman and Busch all the songs on the album are parodies of songs that had won or were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song They included That Old Black Magic Secret Love The Continental Chim Chim Cher ee and Call Me Irresponsible The cover of the album bore a childhood photograph of Sherman That and the album s title were references to Barbra Streisand s album My Name Is Barbra released earlier that year which featured a cover photograph of the singer as a young girl During his brief heyday Sherman s parodies were so popular that he had at least one contemporary imitator My Son the Copycat was an album of song parodies performed by Stanley Ralph Ross co written by Ross and Bob Arbogast Lest there be any doubt of whom Ross is copying his album s cover bears a crossed out photo of Sherman One of the songs on this album is a fat man s lament I m Called Little Butterball parodying I m Called Little Buttercup from Gilbert and Sullivan s operetta HMS Pinafore Sherman would later parody this same song as Little Butterball with the same subject matter on his album Allan in Wonderland The song may have had more poignancy for Sherman as he unlike Stanley Ross was genuinely overweight Sherman also parodied Gilbert and Sullivan s Titwillow from The Mikado in the song The Bronx Bird Watcher on My Son the Celebrity as well as several other Gilbert and Sullivan songs Later work EditIn 1965 Sherman published an autobiography A Gift of Laughter and for a short period at least he was culturally ubiquitous He sang on and guest hosted The Tonight Show was involved in the production of Bill Cosby s first three albums appeared in the Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade and sang The Dropouts March on the March 6 1964 edition of the NBC satirical program That Was The Week That Was Also in 1964 Sherman narrated his own version of Prokofiev s Peter and the Wolf in a live concert at Tanglewood with the Boston Pops under Arthur Fiedler The concert which was released by RCA Victor Red Seal as the album Peter and the Commissar also included Variations on How Dry I Am with Sherman as conductor and The End of a Symphony In Variations Fiedler was the guest soloist providing solo hiccups In 2004 Collector s Choice reissued the complete RCA Victor album on CD 12 Sherman s later albums grew more pointedly satirical and less light hearted skewering protesting students The Rebel consumer debt A Waste of Money based on A Taste of Honey and the generation gap Crazy Downtown and Pop Hates the Beatles It was for this reason that Ken Barnes when attempting to analyze American music acts that were harmed by the British Invasion surmised in 2021 that Sherman had been doomed to lose momentum anyway and could not blame the Invasion for his career decline 13 even as Crazy Downtown was a top 40 hit for him Sherman was often tapped to produce specialty song parodies for corporations An album of six paper cup and vending machine related songs titled Music to Dispense With was created for the Container Division of the Scott Paper Company for distribution to its vendors and customers It consisted of the tracks Makin Coffee a parody of Makin Whoopee Vending Machines There Are Cups That s How the Change Is Made The Wonderful Tree in the Forest and Scott Cups 14 Sherman also created a group of eight public education radio spots for Encron carpet fibers singing their praises to the tunes of old public domain songs Entitled Allan Sherman Pours It On for Carpets Made with Encron Polyester it featured an introduction by Sherman and comprised the tracks Encron Is a Brand New Fiber to the tune of Shine On Harvest Moon Put Them All Together They Spell Encron to the tune of Eddy Arnold s M O T H E R There s a Fiber Called Encron to the tune of William H Hill s There is a Tavern in the Town Encron Alive Alive O to the tune of Molly Malone Encron s the Name Why They Call It Encron to the tune of Let Me Call You Sweetheart Encron Encron to the tune of Daisy Bell and Encron Is a Great New Fiber to the tune of Take Me to the Fair 15 Decline EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed October 2017 Learn how and when to remove this template message Sherman s career success was short lived after peaking in 1963 his popularity declined rather quickly After the assassination of John F Kennedy the public taste for Sherman s type of comedy lessened 16 Beginning in 1964 Sherman was among many American acts whose sales were affected badly by the British Invasion which Sherman skewered in the song Pop Hates the Beatles a spoof of Pop Goes the Weasel By 1965 Sherman had released two albums that did not make the Top 50 and in 1966 Warner Bros Records dropped him from the roster His last album for WB Togetherness was released in 1967 to poor reviews and poor sales All of his previous releases had been recorded in front of a live studio audience or in the case of Live Hoping You Are the Same recorded during a Las Vegas performance but Togetherness was purely a studio recording and the lack of an audience and their response affected the result as did the nondescript backup singers and studio orchestra On November 13 1965 Sherman made a rare prime time television acting appearance in The Sheriff of Fetterman s Crossing an episode of Rod Serling s short lived Western series The Loner 1965 66 17 Sherman played Walton Peterson Tetley a local schnook who went off to war and rose to regiment cook before returning home a hero thanks to tall tales and yarn spinning The town hails its conquering hero and Tetley is appointed sheriff Series star Lloyd Bridges as William Colton a wandering Union veteran comes to town and signs on to be Tetley s deputy discovering quickly his boss utter incompetence in the office 18 Tetley receives a threatening note from a gunslinger challenging this purported hero to a gunfight when he arrives on the noon stage at which point the story becomes a parody of iconic Western movie High Noon 1952 Colton sets to teaching the shivering in his boots sheriff courage and gunmanship Sherman s semi serious and sympathetic performance was strong and his presence an affable one 19 In 1966 Sherman visited Australia He did a television series in Melbourne Victoria for a live audience During the performance he sang a parody of Molly Malone It included a play on the word but butt which did not elicit a laugh What Sherman did not know is that Australians use the word bum where Americans would say butt although usage of the word butt has since become widespread in Australia Otherwise Sherman was well received by the audience Afterward he met with some of his fans and signed at least one autograph In 1969 Sherman wrote the book and lyrics with music by Albert Hague for The Fig Leaves Are Falling a flop Broadway musical that ran only four performances despite direction by George Abbott and a cast that included Barry Nelson Dorothy Loudon and David Cassidy 20 Still creative in 1973 Sherman published the controversial The Rape of the A P E which detailed his point of view on American Puritanism and the sexual revolution In 1971 Sherman was the voice of Dr Seuss s The Cat in the Hat for the animated television special He reprised the role for Dr Seuss on the Loose his last project before his death Health and death EditIn his final years Sherman s alcoholism and weight gain caused severe deterioration of his health he later developed diabetes and struggled with lung disease 21 In 1966 his wife Dee filed for divorce 22 and received full custody of their son and daughter citation needed Sherman lived on unemployment benefits for a time and moved into the Motion Picture amp Television Country House and Hospital for a short time to lose weight 21 He died while entertaining his friends during the night of November 20 1973 at his home in Los Angeles California ten days shy of his 49th birthday According to sheriff s officers Sherman who had been undergoing treatment for emphysema asthma and obesity died of respiratory failure 23 He is entombed in Culver City California s Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery 24 Legacy EditSherman was the inspiration for a new generation of developing parodists such as Weird Al Yankovic who pays homage to Sherman on the cover of his first LP Sherman s hit song Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh has been translated into other languages In one notable example the Dutch Swedish poet Cornelis Vreeswijk translated the song loosely into Swedish as Brev fran kolonien Letter from Summer Camp which reached fourth on the Swedish popular music chart Svensktoppen in the summer of 1965 25 and is still popular in Sweden today 26 A Best of Allan Sherman CD was released in 1990 and a boxed set of most of his songs was released in 2005 under the title My Son the Box In 1992 a musical revue of his songs titled Hello Muddah Hello Faddah ran for over a year off off Broadway other productions ran Off Broadway for four months in 2001 27 and toured in 2003 A children s book based on the song Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh with illustrations by Syd Hoff was published in 2004 On March 14 2006 National Public Radio profiled Sherman on All Things Considered 28 In 2010 eight of Allan Sherman s Warner Records albums were individually released on CD My Son the Folk Singer My Son the Celebrity My Son the Nut Allan in Wonderland For Swingin Livers Only My Name Is Allan Allan Sherman Live Hoping You Are the Same Togetherness Sherman s son Robert later became a game show producer producing for Mark Goodson during the 1970s and 1980s including Password Plus Blockbusters Body Language and Super Password In popular culture EditThis article appears to contain trivial minor or unrelated references to popular culture Please reorganize this content to explain the subject s impact on popular culture providing citations to reliable secondary sources rather than simply listing appearances Unsourced material may be challenged and removed January 2019 Sherman s song Ratt Fink was covered by punk rock band The Misfits on their 1979 single Night of the Living Dead It was also covered by Ex Misfits guitarist Bobby Steele by his band The Undead Sherman wrote the song as a parody of Rag Mop originally performed by Johnnie Lee Wills and popularized by The Ames Brothers in 1950 In the Three Gays of the Condo episode of The Simpsons Weird Al Yankovic makes a guest appearance When Homer asks Yankovic if he got the two songs he recorded and sent in Yankovic replies that he did When Homer asks which he preferred Yankovic replies They were pretty much the same Homer Homer then mutters angrily Yeah like you and Allan Sherman Other references to Sherman came in the episode Marge Be Not Proud when Bart hides an answering machine tape in a copy of his fictitious Camp Granada album where no one would ever listen to it and in A Midsummer s Nice Dream where Homer shows Bart and Lisa his copy of another fictional Sherman album Helter Shmelter Sorry For the Mess 29 The political parody group Capitol Steps used Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh in Fools On The Hill Songs of 1992 Dutch comedian Rijk de Gooyer sang two Dutch versions of Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh named Brief uit La Courtine Letter from La Courtine and Brief naar La Courtine Letter to La Courtine In the first one he describes his adventures as a soldier in the Dutch base at La Courtine the second is his father s reply Discography EditAlbums Edit Year Title Billboard 200 Record Label1962 My Son the Folk Singer 1 Warner Bros Records1963 My Son the Celebrity 1 Warner Bros RecordsMy Son the Nut 1 Warner Bros Records1964 Allan in Wonderland 25 Warner Bros RecordsPeter and the Commissar 53 RCA VictorFor Swingin Livers Only 25 Warner Bros Records1965 My Name Is Allan 88 Warner Bros Records1966 Allan Sherman Live Hoping You Are the Same Warner Bros Records1967 Togetherness Warner Bros Records2014 There Is Nothing Like a Lox The Lost Song Parodies of Allan Sherman Rockbeat Records SmoreSingles Edit Year Titles A side B side Both sides from same album except where indicated Chart positions AlbumUS AC UK1963 Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh A Letter From Camp b w Rat Fink 2 14 My Son The Nut The Twelve Gifts Of Christmas b w You Came A Long Way From St Louis You Went The Wrong Way Old King Louie from My Son The Nut 5 Christmas charts For Swingin Livers Only 1964 My Son The Vampire b w I Can t Dance from Allan In Wonderland Non album track Heart Skin b w The Drop Outs March Allan In Wonderland Hello Mudduh Hello Fadduh A Letter From Camp 1964 version b w Original version of A side from My Son The Nut 59 9 Non album track The End Of A Symphony Part 1b w Part 2With The Boston Pops Orchestra Arthur Fiedler conductor Peter and The Commissar Pop Hates The Beatles b w Grow Mrs Goldfarb Unreleased For Swingin Livers Only 1965 Crazy Downtown b w The Drop Outs March from Allan In Wonderland 40 6 Non album track The Drinking Man s Diet b w The Laarge Daark Aardvark Song 98 21 My Name Is Allan1966 Odd Ball b w His Own Little Island Non album tracks1967 Westchester Hadassah b w Strange Things In My Soup Togetherness1968 The Fig Leaves Are Falling b w Juggling Non album tracksMusical theater Edit The Fig Leaves Are Falling 1969 musical lyricist and book writer Songs All Is Well in Larchmont Lillian All of My Laughter Give Me a Cause Today I Saw a Rose We For Our Sake Light One Candle Oh Boy The Fig Leaves Are Falling For the Rest of My Life I Like It Broken Heart Old Fashioned Song Lillian Lillian Lillian Did I Ever Really Live The music was composed by Albert Hague Filmography EditMy Son The Vampire 1963 introductory segment Filmed repackage of the 1952 film Mother Riley Meets the Vampire Fractured Flickers 1 episode 1963 as himself The Loner 1 episode 1965 as Walter Peterson Tetley The Cat in the Hat 1971 as The Cat in the Hat Narrator voice Wacky Taxi 1972 as Nervous Man Dr Seuss on the Loose 1973 as The Cat in the Hat voice final film role See also EditHello Muddah Hello Faddah musical review amp children s book Camp GranadaReferences EditBibliography Edit Instant Status or Up Your Image G P Putnam amp Sons 1964 tear out pages of celebrity thank you letters you can address to yourself and leave around your home or office to impress people I Can t Dance children s picture book illustrated by Syd Hoff Harper amp Row 1964 A Gift of Laughter The Autobiography of Allan Sherman Atheneum 1965 The Rape of the A P E The Official History of the Sex Revolution 1945 1973 The Obscening of America An R S V P Document Playboy Press 1973 ISBN 0 87216 453 5 The title page notes that APE stands for American Puritan Ethic and RSVP for Redeeming Social Value Pornography Hello Muddah Hello Faddah children s picture book based on song Dutton Books 2004 ISBN 0 525 46942 7Notes Edit a b c Southern Jewish Life Magazine October 30 2018 Archived from the original on October 30 2018 Retrieved October 10 2021 Famous Jews Genealogy of Allan Sherman YouTube September 7 2022 Thomas Bob Associated Press Fat and fortyish but star no less Ottawa Herald December 13 1962 page 10 Warner Brothers Records report that it is the fastest selling album in history having sold 575 000 in six weeks With the Christmas season coming up it might push over a million Retrieved 14 April 2016 via NewspaperArchive com Mark Cohen 2013 Overweight Sensation The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman University Press of New England ISBN 9781611684278 Retrieved August 5 2020 On November 25 1949 the front page of the Birmingham Post s late edition announced Percy Fatty Coplon Dies on 93rd Day of Long Fast Allan Sherman Lyricist Dies Noted for My Son Parodies The New York Times November 22 1973 Retrieved February 12 2019 a b c d Mueller Jim March 29 2000 Sherman s March The Chicago Tribune Retrieved February 12 2019 Goodson Todman executive Gil Fates relates typical Sherman stunts in his memoir about What s My Line Allan Sherman s last episode as producer I ve Got a Secret 6 11 58 2 of 2 retrieved January 16 2022 Murrells Joseph 1978 The Book of Golden Discs 2nd ed London Barrie and Jenkins Ltd p 152 ISBN 0 214 20512 6 a b Sherman Allan 1965 A Gift of Laughter The Autobiography of Allan Sherman Atheneum Publishers ISBN 9781386784487 Retrieved February 12 2019 Wallace Irving and Wallenchensky David The People s Almanac of the 20th Century Peter amp The Commissar Arthur Fiedler amp The Boston Pops With Allan Sherman Music Amazon Retrieved April 25 2012 Barnes Ken February 9 2021 Did the Beatles kill America s radio stars Radio Insight Retrieved February 20 2021 Morris Jeff November 21 2005 Music To Dispense With Created By Allan Sherman For The Container Division Of Scott Paper Company The Demented Music Database Archived from the original on January 5 2010 Retrieved January 6 2010 Morris Jeff November 21 2005 Allan Sherman Pours It On For Carpets Made With Encron Polyester The Demented Music Database Archived from the original on January 5 2010 Retrieved January 6 2010 Los Angeles Times The Boy in Camp Granada Petabit com Archived from the original on March 12 2013 Retrieved November 9 2012 Witbeck Charles November 13 1965 Allan Sherman Stars in Western Comedy The Journal News p 28 Retrieved November 30 2021 Page Don August 26 1965 Sherman s Talent Larger Than Life The Los Angeles Times p 82 Retrieved November 30 2021 Cohen Mark 2013 Overweight Sensation The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman Boston MA Brandeis University Press p 217 ISBN 978 1 61168 256 4 The Broadway League The official source for Broadway Information IBDB Retrieved November 9 2012 a b Allan Sherman Hail to Thee Fat Person by David Holzel page 3 Jangle04 home mindspring com Archived from the original on February 24 2012 Retrieved November 9 2012 Editor s note My favorite jokes Parade magazine August 21 1966 page number illegible Unfortunately his domestic life of late has been none too good and a divorce is in the offing Retrieved 14 April 2016 via NewspaperArchive com Allan Sherman Lyricist Dies Noted for My Son Parodies The New York Times November 22 1973 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved February 21 2023 Julie Lugo Cerra April 2 2013 Culver City Chronicles ISBN 9781614238768 Hillside Memorial Park SVENSKTOPPEN Date 1965 01 02 Sr se Retrieved November 9 2012 BREV FRAN KOLONIEN Lyrics International Lyrics Playground Lyricsplayground com October 10 2007 Retrieved November 9 2012 Lortel Archives The Internet Off Broadway Database Lortel org Archived from the original on October 6 2012 Retrieved November 9 2012 Sherman Allan March 14 2006 Allan Sherman Beyond Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh NPR Retrieved November 9 2012 Allan Sherman s Helter Shmelter Sorry For the Mess Wikisimpsons the Simpsons Wiki Simpsonswiki net August 13 2012 Retrieved November 9 2012 External links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Allan Sherman Allan Sherman at IMDb Allan Sherman at AllMusic Allan Sherman at Find a Grave Complete Discography Allan Sherman discography at Discogs Review of Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh the Allan Sherman Musical Revue Archived from the original on December 4 2004 Retrieved September 6 2003 Josh Lambert in Tablet Magazine reviewing Mark Cohen s biography Overweight Sensation The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Allan Sherman amp oldid 1144043222, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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