# Allan Sherman Reference **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2011, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500 "2011-12-27T08:20:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/21 "2011-12-28T01:21:48Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > I went to camp with one of their sons. Had a crush on his older twin sisters, but never made anything of it—I got ptomaine poisoning and had to leave early. Could be worse. You remember Jerry Hardy? They’re about to organize a searching party. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/22 "2011-12-28T01:52:22Z")
Is there anyone who does not watch (“Fantasia”) or listen to Ponichelli’s “Dance of the Hours” and immediately start singing “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh”? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/23 "2011-12-28T05:14:34Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > Is there anyone who does not watch (“Fantasia”) or listen to Ponichelli’s “Dance of the Hours” and immediately start singing “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh”? “Fantasia”? Was that the one with Dorothy Gish (what a dish!)? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/24 "2011-12-28T05:24:17Z")
Anyone else a fan of [_The Rape of the A.P.E.?_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_A*P*E*) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/25 "2011-12-28T12:29:51Z")
Yeah. I’ve re-read it countless times. And I’ve searched out old Allen Sherman records as the second-hand stores. I’ve got a pretty com,plete collection of his LPs ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/26 "2011-12-28T13:31:24Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Anyone else a fan of [_The Rape of the A.P.E.?_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_A*P*E*) A damnfine book-funny, yet pretty accurate. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/27 "2011-12-28T14:17:49Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Yeah. I’ve re-read it countless times. > And I’ve searched out old Allen Sherman records as the second-hand stores. I’ve got a pretty com,plete collection of his LPs When I was a wee lad, I dropped one of my Dad’s treasured Alan Sherman LPs, and put a chip in it. From then on, you had to start playing the record at the second song. When I got older, I started to look for a replacement, until one day (30 years later) I found [My Son, the Box](http://www.amazon.com/My-Son-Box-Allan-Sherman/dp/B000BNWNRY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1325081838&sr=8-2), and gave it to him as a present - he loved it! ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/28 "2011-12-28T15:53:24Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > When I was a wee lad, I dropped one of my Dad’s treasured Alan Sherman LPs, and put a chip in it. From then on, you had to start playing the record at the second song. When I got older, I started to look for a replacement, until one day (30 years later) I found [My Son, the Box](http://www.amazon.com/My-Son-Box-Allan-Sherman/dp/B000BNWNRY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1325081838&sr=8-2), and gave it to him as a present - he loved it! On my ipod, and I love it too. I may have to follow it up with ‘When You’re in Love, The Whole World is Jewish’ ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/29 "2011-12-28T17:26:02Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Anyone else a fan of [_The Rape of the A.P.E.?_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_A*P*E*) Thought it was a great bit of social history. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/30 "2011-12-28T18:42:01Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Yeah. And it had to be the one they discontinued. As Og as my witness, I have one of these sitting on a shelf with my other antique knick-knacks. My Grandfather gave it to me circa 1969. AM only, I used to listen to it as a kid, through the holes in the leather case! If you took it out, it had a little chrome stand that flipped out so you could stand it up! We miss you Allan! ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/31 "2011-12-29T01:23:31Z")
I love you guys! At work I am quite often caught singing, “I See Bones” while taking x-rays. ---
**Author:** ![WaltP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@WaltP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WaltP)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/32 "2012-07-02T02:26:43Z")
Started putting together an [Allan Sherman: Annotated](http://pattinson.net/sherman/index.htm) page. Let me know what you think! ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/33 "2012-07-03T20:07:32Z")
> [@WaltP](#): > > Started putting together an [Allan Sherman: Annotated](http://pattinson.net/sherman/index.htm) page. Let me know what you think! Brilliant! Keep it up! My god, his stuff stays in your brain for 50 years. I remember as a wee tyke asking my mother to explain all the cultural references (and neither of us even remotely knew anyone Jewish). Whenever I ponder lapel widths I still think of My Zelda, who took the money and ran with the tailor. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/34 "2012-07-06T13:57:47Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Yeah. I’ve re-read it countless times. > And I’ve searched out old Allen Sherman records as the second-hand stores. I’ve got a pretty com,plete collection of his LPs I’m going to question the use of the word “search” here; I can’t NOT find Allen Sherman records at second-hand stores. I spend too much time looking for used vinyl and it’s “My Son The Folk Singer”, “My Son The Nut”, “Whipped Cream and Other Delights”, “My Son The Folk Singer”, “My Son The Folk Singer”, “Whipped Cream and Other Delights”, “My Son The Folk Singer”…\* Geez, don’t they have any Beatles?\* No, but here’s “My Son The Folk Singer” again… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/35 "2012-07-06T15:06:42Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I’m going to question the use of the word “search” here; I can’t NOT find Allen Sherman records at second-hand stores. > > I spend too much time looking for used vinyl and it’s “My Son The Folk Singer”, “My Son The Nut”, “Whipped Cream and Other Delights”, “My Son The Folk Singer”, “My Son The Folk Singer”, “Whipped Cream and Other Delights”, “My Son The Folk Singer”…\* Geez, don’t they have any Beatles?\* No, but here’s “My Son The Folk Singer” again… We obviously look in different stores. The one I found most of mine in doesn’t have old vinyl anymore. The others I’ve looked in don’t seem to have Allen Sherman. Obviously, YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/36 "2012-07-06T15:24:58Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Sheila’s a girl I know at BBD&O–she works the PBX, and makes out the checks. Harvey went to M.I.T. and got his PhD! I think he’s a CPA with IBM. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/37 "2012-07-06T16:12:24Z")
> [@WaltP](#): > > Started putting together an [Allan Sherman: Annotated](http://pattinson.net/sherman/index.htm) page. Let me know what you think! good work. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/38 "2012-07-06T16:18:58Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > My god, his stuff stays in your brain for 50 years. much of your young brain that was taken up by this, Disney and Alvin and the Chipmunks. later generations got to learn some as kids and boomers got that. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/39 "2012-07-06T17:43:53Z")
> [@ducati](#): > > 😃 > Forget Jerry, who are Harvey and Sheila? > [@Shinna\_Minna\_Ma](#): > > I heard after they got married they joined the GOP. > [@SanibelMan](#): > > But on Election Day, they worked for JFK. **Shinna Minna Ma** got the order wrong. They didn’t join the GOP until after they moved to West L.A. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500/40 "2012-07-06T20:21:32Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > **Shinna Minna Ma** got the order wrong. They didn’t join the GOP until after they moved to West L.A. Wasn’t that about the time they traded in their used MG for an XKE? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allan-sherman-reference/607500.md?page=3)