Today we celebrate the brilliant parodist Alan Sherman. Growing up the 60s it was almost impossible to not be affected by “Hello Muddah – Hello Fuddah” which swept across the music industry like a storm. One of the vaudevillians go-to tools to break the audience up was to parody a famous song, play, ballet or even opera. Alan Sherman was one of the best at this art form. Join host Grant Simpson as he looks at the life and times of Alan Sherman.
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Singer-comic Allan Sherman painting in his backyard as daughter looks on. (Photo by Allan Grant/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images) Unspecified – 1963: (L-R) Allan Sherman, Edie Adams performing sketch on Walt Disney Television via Getty Images’s ‘Here’s Edie’ (aka ‘The Edie Adams Show’). (Photo by Walt Disney Television via Getty Images)