Editing Allan Sherman (section)

==A Top 40 hit==
One track from ''My Son, the Nut'', a spoof of [[summer camp]] titled "[[Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)|Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh]]", became a surprise novelty hit, reaching No. 2 on the national [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] chart for three weeks in late summer 1963. The lyrics were sung to the tune of one segment of [[Amilcare Ponchielli|Ponchielli]]'s ''[[Dance of the Hours]]''. That December, Sherman's "[[The Twelve Gifts of Christmas]]" single appeared on ''Billboard''{{'}}s separate Christmas chart. Sherman had one other Top 40 hit, a 1965 take-off on the [[Petula Clark]] hit "[[Downtown (Petula Clark song)|Downtown]]" called "[[Crazy Downtown]]", which spent one week at #40. Two other Sherman singles charted in the lower regions of the ''Billboard'' 100: an updated "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh" (#59 in 1964), and "The Drinking Man's Diet" (#98 in 1965). Sherman's "The End of a Symphony", spotlighting [[Arthur Fiedler]]'s [[Boston Pops Orchestra]], reached #113 on the "Bubbling Under" chart in 1964, but did not make the Hot 100.

The songs on Sherman's next album ''My Name Is Allan'' (1965) were thematically connected: except for a couple of original novelty songs with music by Sherman and Busch, all the songs on the album are parodies of songs that had won, or were nominated for, the [[Academy Award for Best Song]]. They included "[[That Old Black Magic]]", "[[Secret Love (Doris Day song)|Secret Love]]", "[[The Continental (song)|The Continental]]", "[[Chim Chim Cher-ee]]" and "[[Call Me Irresponsible]]".  The cover of the album bore a childhood photograph of Sherman. That, and the album's title, were references to [[Barbra Streisand]]'s album ''[[My Name Is Barbra]]'', released earlier that year, which featured a cover photograph of the singer as a young girl.

During his brief heyday, Sherman's parodies were so popular that he had at least one contemporary imitator: ''My Son the Copycat'' was an album of song parodies performed by [[Stanley Ralph Ross]], co-written by Ross and [[Bob Arbogast]]. Lest there be any doubt of whom Ross is copying, his album's cover bears a crossed-out photo of Sherman. One of the songs on this album is a fat man's lament, "I'm Called Little Butterball", parodying "I'm Called Little Buttercup" from [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s [[operetta]] ''[[HMS Pinafore]]''. Sherman would later parody this same song as "Little Butterball"&nbsp;– with the same subject matter&nbsp;– on his album ''[[Allan in Wonderland]]''. The song may have had more poignancy for Sherman, as he, unlike Stanley Ross, was genuinely overweight. Sherman also parodied Gilbert and Sullivan's "Titwillow" from ''[[The Mikado]]'', in the song "The Bronx Bird-Watcher" (on ''My Son, the Celebrity''), as well as [[Cultural influence of Gilbert and Sullivan|several other Gilbert and Sullivan songs]].