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Celebrities, rock stars, comedians, and raconteurs of all stripes will converge in Philadelphia for a tribute concert to ...

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 ...

Hello Fadda, Hello Muddah: No Camp Cedarcrest; there’ll be another. Camp Cedarcrest in Orange, which had hosted up to 120 city kids for six weeks in past years, will not be used this summer. The city ...

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 ...

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 ...

The high-toned set might know it as the finale of a 19th-century Italian opera, Ponchielli’s “La Giocanda,” but my contemporaries would bet their last dollar that it’s Allan Sherman’s 1963 novelty, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...