Editing Allan Sherman (section)

==Later work==
In 1965, Sherman published an autobiography, ''A Gift of Laughter'', and, for a short period at least, he was culturally ubiquitous. He sang on and guest-hosted ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson|The Tonight Show]]'', was involved in the production of [[Bill Cosby]]'s first three albums, appeared in the [[Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade]], and sang "The Dropouts' March" on the March 6, 1964, edition of the [[NBC]] satirical program ''[[That Was The Week That Was]]''.

Also in 1964, Sherman narrated his own version of [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]]'s ''[[Peter and the Wolf]]'' in a live concert at [[Tanglewood]] with the [[Boston Pops]] under [[Arthur Fiedler]]. The concert, which was released by [[RCA Victor Red Seal]] as the album ''Peter and the Commissar'', also included "Variations on '[[How Dry I Am]]'", with Sherman as [[Conductor (music)|conductor]], and "The End of a Symphony". In "Variations", Fiedler was the guest soloist, providing solo hiccups. In 2004, [[Collector's Choice Music|Collector's Choice]] reissued the complete RCA Victor album on CD.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Commissar-Arthur-Fiedler-Boston-Sherman/dp/B0002LO7GU |title=Peter & The Commissar: Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops With Allan Sherman: Music |website=Amazon |access-date=April 25, 2012}}</ref>

Sherman's later albums grew more pointedly satirical and less light-hearted, skewering protesting students ("The Rebel"), consumer debt ("A Waste of Money", based on "[[A Taste of Honey (song)|A Taste of Honey]]"), and the [[generation gap]] ("Crazy Downtown" and "Pop Hates [[the Beatles]]"). It was for this reason that Ken Barnes, when attempting to analyze American music acts that were harmed by the British Invasion, surmised in 2021 that Sherman had been doomed to lose momentum anyway and could not blame the Invasion for his career decline<ref name=americasradiostars>{{cite web|url=https://radioinsight.com/ross/202078/did-the-beatles-kill-americas-radio-stars/|title=Did the Beatles kill America's radio stars?|first=Ken|last=Barnes|work=Radio Insight|date=February 9, 2021|access-date=February 20, 2021}}</ref> (even as "Crazy Downtown" was a top-40 hit for him).

Sherman was often tapped to produce specialty song parodies for corporations. An album of six paper-cup and vending machine related songs, titled ''Music to Dispense With'', was created for the Container Division of the [[Scott Paper Company]] for distribution to its vendors and customers. It consisted of the tracks "Makin' Coffee" (a parody of "[[Makin' Whoopee]]"), "Vending Machines", "There Are Cups", "That's How the Change Is Made", "The Wonderful Tree in the Forest" and "Scott Cups".<ref name="scott">{{cite web|url=http://dmdb.org/discographies/sherman.disco.html#scott|title=Music To Dispense With Created By Allan Sherman For The Container Division Of Scott Paper Company|last=Morris|first=Jeff|date=November 21, 2005|work=The [[Dr Demento|Demented]] Music Database!|access-date=January 6, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100105060643/http://dmdb.org/discographies/sherman.disco.html| archive-date= January 5, 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>

Sherman also created a group of eight "public education" radio spots for Encron carpet fibers, singing their praises to the tunes of old public-domain songs. Entitled ''Allan Sherman Pours It On for Carpets Made with Encron Polyester'', it featured an introduction by Sherman and comprised the tracks "Encron Is a Brand New Fiber" (to the tune of the Michael Renzi-[[Jack Norworth]]-[[Nora Bayes]] hit "[[Shine On, Harvest Moon]]"), "Put Them All Together, They Spell Encron" (to the tune of Theodore Morse and E. Johnson Howard's "M-O-T-H-E-R"), "There's a Fiber Called Encron" (to the tune of William H. Hill's "[[There is a Tavern in the Town]]"), "Encron Alive, Alive-O" (to the tune of "[[Molly Malone]]"), "Encron's the Name", "Why They Call It Encron" (to the tune of "[[Let Me Call You Sweetheart]]"), "Encron, Encron" (to the tune of "[[Daisy Bell]]") and "Encron Is a Great New Fiber" (to the tune of "Take Me to the Fair").<ref name="encron">{{cite web|url=http://dmdb.org/discographies/sherman.disco.html#encron|title=Allan Sherman Pours It On For Carpets Made With Encron Polyester|last=Morris|first=Jeff|date=November 21, 2005|work=The [[Dr Demento|Demented]] Music Database!|access-date=January 6, 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100105060643/http://dmdb.org/discographies/sherman.disco.html| archive-date= January 5, 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>