History Creator / AllanSherman

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 Creator/DavidCassidy (later of ''Series/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.

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, as well as ''Dr. Seuss On the Loose'').

** ''My Son, The Nut'' featured "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah! (A Letter from Camp)", sung to Amilcare Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours", and "Hungarian Goulash No. 5", sung to Johannes Brahms' "Hungarian Dance No. 5".

* NamesTheSame: One of his fellow campers at Camp Grenada is named [[Music/LynyrdSkynyrd Leonard Skinner]]

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The original 1963 single of "The Twelve Gifts of Christmas" had the "five gold rings" equivalent as "a statue of a naked lady with a clock where here stomach ought to be." But when it was included on ''For Swingin' Livers Only!'', "naked" was edited out awkwardly. Even if you didn't know what the original lines were, you could easily tell that ''something'' had been cut for the album version. After mostly being unheard for decades (Creator/DrDemento almost always played the edited version and included it on his Christmas compilation albums), the unedited version, in stereo, showed up as a bonus track on ''My Son, The Box'' in 2005 (and Demento has played it every Christmas since).

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The original 1963 single of "The Twelve Gifts of Christmas" had the "five gold rings" equivalent as "a statue of a naked lady with a clock where here stomach ought to be." But when it was included on ''Songs for Swingin' Livers'', "naked" was edited out awkwardly. Even if you didn't know what the original lines were, you could easily tell that ''something'' had been cut for the album version. After mostly being unheard for decades (Creator/DrDemento almost always played the edited version and included it on his Christmas compilation albums), the unedited version, in stereo, showed up as a bonus track on ''My Son, The Box'' in 2005 (and Demento has played it every Christmas since).

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The original 1963 single of "The Twelve Gifts of Christmas" had the "five gold rings" equivalent as "a statue of a naked lady with a clock where here stomach ought to be." But when it was included on ''Songs for Swingin' Livers'', "naked" was edited out awkwardly. Even if you didn't know what the original lines were, you could easily tell that ''something'' had been cut for the album version. After mostly being unheard for decades (Creator/DrDemento almost always played the edited version and included it on his Christmas compilation albums), ''My Son, the Box'' in 2005 included the unedited single version (in stereo) as a bonus track (and Demento has played it every Christmas since).

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The original 1963 single of "The Twelve Gifts of Christmas" had the "five gold rings" equivalent as "a statue of a naked lady with a clock where here stomach ought to be." But when it was included on ''Songs for Swingin' Livers'', "naked" was edited out awkwardly. Even if you didn't know what the original lines were, you could easily tell that ''something'' had been cut for the album version. After mostly being unheard for decades (Creator/DrDemento almost always played the edited album version), ''My Son, the Box'' in 2005 included the unedited single version (in stereo) as a bonus track (and Demento has played it every Christmas since).

* SpiritualSuccessor: Not surprisingly, Sherman was a huge influence on (and frequently compared to) Music/WeirdAlYankovic.

** 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!"
-->"So I would clean the place, four, five, six times a day, because somehow I felt that that would keep the children from starving in Europe. But I was wrong: they kept starving, and I got fat!"

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

* ToyShip: ''I Can't Dance'' is about a pair of cute, awkward middle-schoolers falling in love at a school dance.

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).

* ToyShip: ''I Can't Dance'' is about a pair of [[{{Adorkable}} cute, awkward]] middle-schoolers falling in love at a school dance.

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 ''Series/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.

He went to MIT and got his [==PhD==].\\

He went to MIT and got his [[==PhD==]].\\

He went to MIT and got his PhD.\\

And makes out the checks.\\

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His debut single from 1951, "Jake's Song"/"A Satchel and a Seck", is more overtly Jewish-themed than his later material, with Sherman singing in a Yiddish accent and throwing in Yiddish words.

* NewSoundAlbum: 1967's ''Togetherness'' was his first album not recorded in front of a live audience. It also proved to be his final album.