Sherman worked a tight niche: classic songs rewritten to tickle a Jewish audience's funny bone. A new biography, Overweight Sensation: The Life... Hello Muddah, Hello Drama: The Brief Bloom Of ...

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Song parodist chronicled Jewish suburban life and more through the '60s with songs like “Harvey & Sheila," “Sarah Jackman," “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" and “Pop Hates the Beatles." LOS ANGELES, Calif ...

Trina Williamson Jackson grew up listening to Dr. Demento's weekly syndicated radio show, a compilation of comedy, parody and novelty records. So she knew all about Allan Sherman, whose hijacking of ...

Does the name Allan Sherman sound familiar? Every summer, after school lets out, hordes of kids leave home for sleep-away camp. For many children, it’s their first time away from home, and they go ...

Allan Sherman (born Allan Copelon or Allan Gerald Copelon; November 30, 1924 – November 20, 1973) was an American musician, satirist and television producer who became known as a song parodist in the ...

Who doesn’t remember “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh”? But parodist Allan Sherman wrote so many more songs than that and inspired all punny people after him. Learn all about history in “You Went The Wrong ...

This weekend I was visiting some friends up in Washington State where I awoke on Sunday morning to the voice of Allan Sherman coming through the living room stereo speakers. Who is Allan Sherman, you ...

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The summertime novelty tune "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" has been pouring out of radios for 50 years now. In late July of 1963, Billboard magazine reported that fans were "actually breaking down doors ...