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- Died
- Birth nameAllan Copelon
- Allan Sherman was born on November 30, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Fired Up! (2009), The Cat in the Hat (1971) and Dr. Seuss on the Loose (1973). He was married to Dee Chackes. He died on November 20, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpouseDee Chackes(June 15, 1945 - 1966) (divorced, 2 children)
- Gravelly, soft singing voice
- Black-framed glasses
- Humorous song parodies sung to the tune of popular classical or big band compositions
- Died while entertaining friends at the piano.
- Introduced Bill Cosby to his first national audience. Famous song parodist, usually teamed with Lou Busch.
- Scored a top-ten hit in 1963 with "Hello, Muddah! Hello, Fadduh! (A Letter from Camp)".
- Comedian and song parodist extraordinaire, whose humor albums ("My Son, the Folksinger", "Allan in Wonderland") were bestsellers during the 1960s.
- Original creator/producer of both "I've Got a Secret" and Jackie Gleason's game show fiasco "You're in the Picture", the former running almost two decades, the latter running for only one week.
- Nobody ever told me anything about sex. I was a nice Jewish boy so I knew you shouldn't do it, whatever it was, to nice girls. All my life I have been attracted to nice girls - the kind you aren't supposed to do it to. And they, too, have been brought up, at least in my generation, that they shouldn't do it either. How it gets done between nice people is a mystery to me. What I think happens is, nice people do it, but their hearts aren't in it.
- On why he always insisted on full orchestral backing on his recordings: The effect is like this - you're looking into Tiffany's most elegant store window, and in the window is a black velvet pillow, and right in the middle of the pillow is an onion - that's me!
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