I LOVED ALLAN SHERMAN SINCE I GOT HIS ALBUM, MY SON THE NUT BACK IN LATE 1963! I WAS 10 YEARS OLD.I WAS SAD HE PASSED AWAY IN THE EARLY 1970'S.😢 THANKS FOR SHARING! R.K.3/24/2023.
Brilliant lyricist! I was a teen when Hello Muddah came out in the 60's. We love it! I've been a fan ever since. Yes, he died too young but they say he died while making his guests laugh.
What really makes this genius is the way he belts out the payoff lines as triumphantly as if he was in a Hollywood musical. It's a perfect parody of what was in style back then, and that only makes it funnier today, because he's being so earnest about something that's been dated for half a century.
My vinyl recording of this back in the 70's must've had a colony of water bears living inside the groove right where the lyrics go "on a bus" because I never could make out what the hell Allan was singing there. I grew up with my best guess being "One hippopotami cannot get out of us" which never quite made sense to me. It is a huge relief that I have finally heard the accurate lyric before I die. Thank you. Now, please, I must go - Louie and I have a bus to catch - and BTW we can fit on it with room to spare!
Very nicely done! I recently received a collection of Allan Sherman's work on CD and I have been in heaven listening to these songs I have not heard since childhood and some I have never heard before at all. THANK YOU for keeping this kind of humor and artistry alive so creatively!
There's no more great creative comedic genius today. That great comedy of the past isn't here today and I miss it, so like many older farts, just live in the past.
Thanks for helping bring back the memories I have of my parents . I come here a lot when i`m down , it always put`s a smile on the face . I know If Allan Sherman could see this he would approve of the way you did this video .
Glad to do it for you. You deserve it. I noticed as I scrolled down to find me, that one Ny...99 made reference to "Pop hates the Beatles" Actually that clip "I hate the Beatles" is part of a routine Al did on the Dean Martin Show, and the clip is on youtube! And, also available, there is Allan singing his "crazy downtown". in response to Petula's Downtown.
Great stuff. the first time I remember hearing Allan Sherman was when I was about 11. He had an album, "My Son the Folksinger." Great songs like Harvey and Sheila and My Zelda. The younger generation has Weird Al. It was Allan Sherman for us. I was telling my kids about "One Hippopotami just the other day. Can't believe I found it here! "When you go to the delicatessen store, don't buy the liverwurst." It's been here since October first and today is the 31st of May!
"And if you have two goose, that makes one geese. A pair of mouse is mice, a pair of moose is meese." "A parallelogram is just a crazy square!" Still hilarious all these years after first listening to my grandpa's records 30 years ago. Thanks for making this video. If you have any "guilt" about spreading the Allan Sherman word, just go buy his 6 CD boxset they put out on Rhino a couple of years ago. It has crazy stuff you've never heard before and is well worth it.
Oh a total BRAVO! :::applause::: I haven't had these thoughts in years...I'd love to hear "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" My Mom use to play that a lot. Left my face with a huge smile, Great Job CP!
Maybe there was some legal/copyright issue and he couldn't use the actual tune of "What Kind of Fool Am I". It's obviously based on the song, the tune is quite different, even though the rhythm and rhyme scheme is similar.
An awesome talent that left a wonderful legacy of humor and thoughts that make you go hummmm. Thank you cputb1. Thank you Allan I love my single siz....:-)
One hippopotami cannot get on a bus, Because one hippopotami is two hippopotamus And if you have two goose, that makes one geese A pair of mouse is mice A pair of moose is meese A paranoia is a bunch of mental blocks And when Ben Casey meets Kildaire, that's called a paradox When two minks fall in love, with all their heart and soul, You'll find the plural of two minks is one mink stole Singulars and plurals are so different, bless my soul Has it ever occurred to you that the plural of half is whole? A bunch of tooth is teeth a group of foot is feet And two canaries make a pair, they call it a parakeet A paramecium is not a pair A parallelogram is just a crazy square Nobody knows just what a paraphernalia is And what is half a pair of scissors, but a single sciz? With someone you adore, if you should find romance, You'll pant, and pant once more, and that's a pair of pants!
Bravo! while I love looking at old footage of Allan singing his songs, I have to admit it's more fun watching the brilliant visuals you have so skillfully blended in. It is as if this his how the master himself would have presented his work if he were still alive today to upload to youtube. Very well done!
I am so jealous, fantastic video, wish I had the skills and programs to make them like that. I have everyone of Allen Shermans records and made one video of Call Me, but yours is so much better. Please make more!
Nice video CP. Great work on the visuals. I vaguely remember this song. I think my dad had an LP with 'it' on the playlist. Your clips deffinitely made it more pallatable the second time around. My little Jolie loved it too. J.C.
Thank you so much for this video. It's visible on my own channel, but I love American comedy songs. Your video was good fun too. Keep it in here, and take care! :-)
It took DECADES for me to realize that this is a parody of "What Kind of Fool Am I," probably because even though Allan Sherman was nobody's idea of a singer, he always got the notes right--and in this song, he doesn't. I've hypothesized that he couldn't get the rights, so he sang different notes on purpose.Contrary to what's written earlier, he didn't create "What's My Line." He DID co-create "I've Got a Secret." However, after he achieved fame, he appeared on WML as a guest panelist. Dorothy Kilgallen introduced him as "my son, the folk singer" (his nickname, from the first album), and people all over the country who didn't get the reference wondered, "Is Dorothy Kilgallen Allan Sherman's mother?" (A good trick--if she were, she'd have given birth at the age of 11.)
Thanks! I was searching to see what song it was based on. I could just hear Nat King Cole singing it but could not hear the original words in my head! Driving me nuts!
This is one of his most brilliant efforts, and that is saying something, but I too never realized it is based on What Kind of Fool Am I, so thanks for that. Yah he got sued several times for his parodies. He had no idea he was infringing or whatever they called it. Sad, as he still could be bringing joy as he did to my childhood. A brilliant man who eventually wrote the lyrics to a Broadway show The Fig Leaves Are Falling, and although it bombed, many greats recorded a song from the show, Did I Ever Really Live? Sad as the lyrics to the other songs are fantastic too. A genius who is still appreciated. I hope he in some way knows.
@@strooomon I read somewhere he did "Crazy Downtown" (a parody of Petula Clark's "Downtown") he paid the royalties for the song, but it was so expensive, he never did that again, going back to using music in the public domain.
I just watched "The Cat in the Hat" last week. In the credits I was surprised to learn that Sherman didn't help write the lyrics, they are pure Dr. Seuss. I felt like a "Credunkulous Shmunk!"
Sorry for missing this. I didn't get a notification that you had posted a comment, and WoW what a comment it is! Thanks for stopping by DoubleDutchBuwst!
Liked his songs since the mid 60s when i was a kid..he is still funny after all these years...hope the newer generations get a kick out of his nonsense ...
Thanks mechanicalmagician! I just use PowerDirector 6 (I think it currently retails for around 89 bucks), and PhotoImpression4 (10 bucks), and MS Paint. And then I just kept goofing around with it here and there till it felt done, hahaha. There's trial versions available of those programs. You might want to give 'em a test drive. Thanks again! Very kind of you.
Great comment jonceramic. By posting the three A.Sherman bits I have up on my channel, it was my hope that a younger generation would become exposed to one of the greatest pioneers of song parodies. Now I realize that many of the references in his recordings are very dated, but that just, in my opinion, adds to the charm of them. I'll check out that Rhino set. Thanks again.
This guy was great.... Not well known enough..... Go search youtube for "the painless dentist allan sherman" it is a B/W clip from a TV performance from him..... Very funny!
