- Audio CD (Mar 1 2012)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Best of
- Label: Rhino-Atlantic
- ASIN: B00000348Q
- Other Editions: Audio Cassette
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#10,355 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #8 in Music > Miscellaneous > Comedy > Classic Comedy
- #33 in Music > Miscellaneous > Comedy > Comedic Music
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Track Listings
| 1. "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" |
| 2. Crazy Downtown |
| 3. A Waste of Money |
| 4. Harvey & Sheila |
| 5. Good Advice |
| 6. Sarah Jackman |
| 7. "You Went The Wrong Way, Old King Louie" |
| 8. One Hippopotami |
| 9. Shake Hands With Your Uncle Max |
| 10. Your Getting To Be a Rabbit With Me |
| 11. Shticks Of One And A Half Dozen Of The Other |
| 12. Al N' Yetta |
| 13. The Rebel |
| 14. Pop Hates The Beatles |
| 15. The Twelve Gifts Of Christmas |
| 16. Chim Chim Cheree |
| 17. Lotsa Luck |
| 18. The Streets Of Miami |
| 19. "Hail To Thee, Fat Person" |
Product Description
From Amazon.com
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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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great CD!!,
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This review is from: My Son, the Greatest/Best of . (Audio CD)
This CD is filled with all his Classics, if you like Weird Al Yankovic, than you'll love Allan Sherman the one of the original Comedic "song parodist"
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ready for a new generation.,
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This review is from: My Son, the Greatest/Best of . (Audio CD)
Allan Sherman was taken away from us much to soon. Even though he probably would have not been as popular as comedians became more vulgar and the times more permissive, I believe he still would have produced many more hilarious parodies like the ones you will find on MY SON, THE GREATEST. My particular favorites on this good-natured and goofy collection are "Hello, Muddah, Hello, Faddah", "Pop Hates the Beatles", "Sarah Jackman" and "Crazy Downtown". It's good clean fun that I hope will find a home in the hearts of a new generation.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Camp Granada,
By C. A. Luster "The Rook" (Burke, VA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Son, the Greatest/Best of . (Audio CD)
Most people are familiar with his Camp Granada song "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah!". Even if they only saw the ad recently on TV and heard the new version sung by a dog thanking his parents for a flea collar. I grew up hearing and seeing Allan Sherman on radio and TV in the 1960s. My parents had a couple of his records. I scoured for them recently to no avail. I am so glad to see this come out on CD. Even those that did not grow up in the Sixties should find his style of comedy amusing. I thank the producers for having the foresight to re-release his hits if for none other than us baby boomers. For those unfamiliar with him he liked to parody just about anything. Fans of movies like "Airplane", "The Naked Gun", or "Hot Shots!" will probably find him amusing.
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