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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

side 1: Allan Sherman. Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp); side 2: [Ides of March]. Vehicle (American Pie 9007) 45 rpm side 1 is a re-ssue of Warner Bros. 5378 side 2 is a re-issue of ...

Jared Spigler stays pretty busy down in the Big Apple. So when the opportunity came to spend most of the summer in upstate New York, he didn’t have to think twice. “It’s great to get out of the city ...

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 ...

At least not entirely, though many think gym teacher Leonard Skinner was the inspiration for the band's name. Their decision was confirmed when they noticed a lyric from folk song satirist Allan ...

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 ...