History Creator / AllanSherman

* WentToTheGreatXInTheSky: How "The Streets of Miami" ends: the DisproportianteRetribution above results in the gunman who killed his associate being forced to leave Miami, never to return, to avoid mob justice. He complains that New York is so cold that a person could die and winds up envying his murdered colleague, because "he's in that big Fontainebleu in the sky."

* DisproportionateRetribution: ''Streets of Miami'' is about a lawyer shooting his partner to death for criticizing his taste in hotels.

* LongList: "Shake Hands with your Uncle Max" and "Sarah Jockman" both have sections with obscenely long lists of relatives.

* YouHaveToHaveJews: Given his Jewish background, Allan enjoys making all manner of Jewish references in his songs.

With [[Film/{{Fame}} Albert Hague]], he cowrote the 1969 Broadway musical ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fig_Leaves_Are_Falling The Fig Leaves Are Falling]]'', which is notable for two things: the Broadway debut of David Cassidy (later of ''ThePartridgeFamily''), and closing after only four performances. He also guest-hosted ''Series/TheTonightShow'' on several occasions, including the night Creator/BillCosby made his first appearance on the show; he would later be credited as co-producer on Cosby's first three albums for Creator/WarnerBrosRecords.

Although probably best known to modern audiences as the singer of "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp Granada)", Allan Sherman (1924–1973) was a prodigious talent who started working in the entertainment industry in the late 1940s and kept going strong until his death from emphysema at age 48.

* AntiChristmasSong: "The Twelve Gifts of Christmas", which replaces the traditional calling birds, turtledoves, etc. with various schlocky items, including, among other things, a pair of teakwood shower clogs, an indoor plastic birdbath, and a Japanese transistor radio.

He was also the author of several books, including the infamous comic novel ''The Rape of the A*P*E (American Puritan Ethic).'' He made his greatest impact on TV as creator of ''IveGotASecret'' and as the producer of ''The Jackie Gleason Show,'' but it was his numerous albums of [[SongParody song parodies]] (starting with ''My Son, The Folk Singer'' in 1963) that made him a household name in the 1960s.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: "Good Advice" depicts him having a direct hand in numerous inventions (the elevator, the model T, the ''wheel''!) and scientific discoveries (Creator/BenjaminFranklin harnessing electricity, Sir UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton discovering gravity, [[UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud Freudian]] psychology) by giving their creators, well, [[TitleDrop good advice]]. It gets [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in the last verse, where he tells UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus to sail west instead of east [[spoiler: and he plummets off the edge of the earth]].

** His spoken-word piece "Hail To Thee, Fat Person" is about how his mother turned him into one by telling him to "Clean [his] place, because children are starving in Europe!" And this was ''before'' the Martial Plan was even heard of.

Although probably best known to modern audiences as the singer of "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp Granada)", '''Allan Sherman''' (1924–1973) was a prodigious talent who started working in the entertainment industry in the late 1940s and kept going strong until his death from emphysema at age 48.

Although probably best known to modern audiences as the singer of "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp Granada)", Allan Sherman (1924–1973) was a prodigious talent who started working in the entertainment industry in the late 1940s and kept going strong until his death from emphysema at age 48.

* LongList: The protagonists relatives in "Shake Hands with your Uncle Max"

* BeenThereShapedHistory: "Good Advice" depicts him having a direct hand in numerous inventions (the elevator, the model T, the ''wheel''!) and scientific discoveries (Benjamin Franklin harnessing electricity, Sir Issac Newton discovering gravity, Freudian psychology) by giving their creators, well, good advice. It gets subverted in the last verse, where he tells Christopher Columbus to sail west instead of east, [[spoiler: and he plumets off the edge of the earth]].

* BigEater: Mrs. Goldfarb, in "Grow Mrs. Goldfarb", especially this one line:

In the course of his career, Sherman turned his hand to scriptwriting, creating, producing and even acting (including a turn as the voice of the Cat of the Hat in the WesternAnimation/TheCatInTheHat 1971 animated adaptation]] of the famous Creator/DrSeuss book).

With [[Film/{{Fame}} Albert Hague]], he cowrote the 1969 Broadway musical ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fig_Leaves_Are_Falling The Fig Leaves Are Falling]],'' which is notable for two things: the Broadway debut of DavidCassidy (later of ''ThePartridgeFamily''), and closing after only four performances. He hosted ''TheTonightShow'' on several occasions, including the night Creator/BillCosby made his first appearance on the show; he would later be credited as co-producer on Cosby's first three albums for Creator/WarnerBrosRecords.

He was also the author of several books, including the infamous comic novel ''The Rape of the A*P*E (American Puritan Ethic).'' He made his greatest impact on TV as creator of ''IveGotASecret'' and as the producer of ''TheJackieGleasonShow,'' but it was his numerous albums of [[SongParody song parodies]] (starting with ''My Son, The Folk Singer'' in 1963) that made him a household name in the 1960s.

Although probably best known to modern audiences as the singer of "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp Granada)", Allan Sherman was a prodigious talent who started working in the entertainment industry in the late 1940s and kept going strong until his death from emphysema in 1973.

In the course of his career, Sherman turned his hand to scriptwriting, creating, producing and even acting (including a turn as the voice of the Cat in the Hat in the 1971 TV adaptation of the famous Creator/DrSeuss book).

With [[Film/{{Fame}} Albert Hague]] he cowrote the 1969 Broadway musical ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fig_Leaves_Are_Falling The Fig Leaves Are Falling]],'' which is notable for two things: the Broadway debut of DavidCassidy (later of ''ThePartridgeFamily''), and closing after only four performances. He hosted ''TheTonightShow'' on several occasions, including the night Creator/BillCosby made his first appearance on the show; he would later be credited as co-producer on Cosby's first three albums for Creator/WarnerBrosRecords.

* IncrediblyLamePun: The last line of "One Hippopotami"

You'll pant and pant much more\\
And that's! A! Pair! Of! PANTS!!

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[[caption-width:287:My Son, The Media Figure.]]Although probably best known to modern audiences as the singer of "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp Granada)", Allan Sherman was a prodigious talent who started working in the entertainment industry in the late 1940s and kept going strong until his death from emphysema in 1973.

[[caption-width:287:My Son, The Media Figure.]]Although probably best known to modern audiences as the singer of "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter From Camp Granada)", Allan Sherman was a prodigious talent who started working in the entertainment industry in the late 1940s and kept going strong until his death from emphysema in 1973.