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Allan Sherman

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Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.


— Allan Sherman


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Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.


— Allan Sherman


#automobile #crash #else #getting #happens

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.


— Allan Sherman


#difference #little #reality #recommend #unreality

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.


— Allan Sherman


#else #imitate #might #own #program

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.


— Allan Sherman


#extremely #family #great #high #history






About Allan Sherman

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Did you know about Allan Sherman?

Due to his parents constantly moving to new residences Allan attended over a dozen public schools in Chicago New York Los Angeles and Miami. Although Sherman believed that all the songs parodied on My Son the Folk Singer were in the public domain two of them "Matilda" and "Water Boy" – parodied as "My Zelda" and "Seltzer Boy" respectively – were actually under copyright and Sherman was sued for copyright infringement. Television producer Mark Goodson used Sherman's idea and turned it into I've Got a Secret which ran on CBS from 1952 to 1967.

His first album My Son the Folk Singer (1962) became the fastest-selling record album up to that time. Allan Sherman (born Allan Copelon; November 30 1924 – November 20 1973) was an American comedy writer and television producer who became famous as a song parodist in the early 1960s.

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