Description
DESCRIPTION
EU collection. Jewish humor has been an integral part of American show business since the dawn of vaudeville and it hit something of a sales peak during the early 1960s thanks to Allan Sherman. The master of parody, presented here are his first two albums, the first of which My Son The Folk Singer was by November 1962 described as the fastest selling LP in American music industry history. According to it's label, Warner Brothers, the disc had passed 300,000 units in just it's first three weeks on sale and was well over the million copies by December 1st. The second album My Son The Celebrity was also a runaway success and not long after entering the charts it also reached #1. Sadly by 1969 Allan Sherman was largely forgotten but the two albums on this excellent and hilarious set serve as a permanent reminder of his genius.
TracksCredits
1 The Ballad of Harry Lewis
2 Shake Hands with Your Uncle Max
3 Sir Greenbaum's Madrigal
4 My Zelda
5 The Streets of Miami
6 Sarah Jackman
7 Jump Down, Spin Around (Pick a Dress O' Cotton)
8 Seltzer Boy
9 Oh Boy
10 Shticks and Stones (Medley) Gimme Jack Cohen/Levittown/Little David Susskind/Mount Sinai Hospital/God Bless You Gerry Mendelbaum/Oh, When the Painters Go Marching In/Yascha Got a Bottle/I Gave My Love a Chicken/Catskill Ladies/I'm Melvin Rose of Texas/Mammy's Little Baby Loves Matzo Balls)
11 Al 'N Yetta
12 Medley
13 Barry Is the Baby's Name
14 Horowitz
15 Get on the Garden Freeway
16 Mexican Hat Dance
17 The Bronx Bird Watcher the Let's All Call Up A.T.&T. And Protest to the President March
18 Harvey and Sheila
19 Won't You Come Home Disraeli
20 No Ones Perfect
21 When I Was a Lad
22 Me (Allan Sherman, Lou Busch, Decurtis)
23 Shticks of One and Half a Dozen of the Other (Medley) Molly Malone/Old Lang's Sign/Billy Sol/Cary Grant/Oh, the Moon Is Bright Tonight on the Carwash/On Top of Old Smokey/Aura Lee/My Grandfather's Clock/Coming Through the Rye/Polyunsaturated Fats/Don't Buy the Liverwurst)
