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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227577124
Label: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Release Date: October 25, 1990
Sales Rank: 4316
Studio: Rhino / Wea
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This collection gathers 19 of Sherman's humorous story-songs. The comic uses original lyrics and pre-existing tunes to poke fun at television shows and consumer items, to send-up the kids and generally riff on early and mid-'60s American pop culture. On tracks like "Pop Hates the Beatles" and "Crazy Downtown," his subject is the generation gap. "Al 'n Yetta" portrays a TV-dependent couple while "Lotsa Luck" describes the complicated hassles of dealing with faulty TVs and new-fangled tape recorders. Sherman assumed his audience had a little knowledge of history, too. On "Good Advice" and "You Went the Wrong Way, Old King Louie," he sings about inventors and French history, respectively. It's hard to imagine contemporary comedians working the historical beat. "One Hippopatami" is a delightfully goofy festival of wordplay that requires only a love of language and a tolerance for schmaltz. --Fred Cisterna
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great collection of tunes, would like to see a performance of him sometime. well worth the money!
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Allan Sherman, born Allan Copelon on November 30, 1924 in Chicago, began his career in show business as a comedy writer for the likes of Jackie Gleason and Joe E. Lewis before becoming a creator/producer for the Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions TV show, I've Got a Secret, which ran from 1952 to 1958. It was also in this period that he recorded a parody of the hit tune A Bushel And A Peck from Guys and Dolls which he called A Satchel And A Seck b/w Jake's Song. It didn't register on any charts ... Read More
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This disc for it's time was worth the price since Warner was sitting on their hands giving up the right to Allan Sherman's original albums to be released on CD. However, now that Rhino (the manufacturer of this disc) has acquired those rights and released his original 6 albums as CDs in "My Son, The Box" along with MANY previously unreleased tracks, this disc becomes window dressing as all these songs are on 1 or more of those 6 discs. I bought that set here, and have since given my copy of this ... Read More
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I bought my first Allan Sherman record "My Son, the Folk Singer" in early 1964, passing up the opportunity to buy "She Loves You." While that may have been a bad choice for appreciating value (I'm sure that my brother's record is worth more), for pure entertainment, the Beatles take a back seat to Allan Sherman.
This record has most of his classics, but it is missing my personal favorite, "The Ballad of Harry Lewis." The line about finding him between roasted dacron and french-fried ... Read More
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Funny songs we thought we'd never find again. We could recall only some words, and now we have them all! A very welcomed Xmas gift! Speedy delivery.
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