Songs written or composed
Mexican Folk Song Melody (Yid)
- Author:
- Sherman, Allan
- Genre:
- Parody/Humor
- Subject:
- Mexican Hat Dance
Recording
- On album:
- A-027(b) (Bruce Adler An Evening At The Yiddish Theatre -Act II-)
- Track ID:
- 26493
- Composer:
- Copeland, Aaron, adaptation
- Artist:
- Adler, Bruce
- Artist:
- Mlotek, Zalmen — מלאָטעק, זלמן, (1951)
- First line:
- Oley, oley mexikaner, sheykhem arerikaner, zingt mayne...
- First line:
- אָלײ, אָלײ מעקסיקאַנער, שכנים אַמעריקאַנער, זינגט מײַנע שלום ליד,
- Track comment:
- Yomtev Songs.
Al 'N Yetta
- Author:
- Sherman, Allan
- Author:
- Busch, Lou
- Genre:
- Parody/Humor/Social Satire
- Subject:
- Couple/TV/Couch Potato
- Additional song notes:
- Sung to the tune of "Frer Jacques."
Recording
- On album:
- S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)
- Track ID:
- 31291
- Vocal:
- Sherman, Allan
- First line:
- Al and Yetta always sit togetha, watching TV every single night…
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Theatre
Barry Is The Baby's Name & Horowitz &..
- Author:
- Sherman, Allan
- Author:
- Busch, Lou
- Genre:
- Parody/Humor/Jewish Social Satire
- Subject:
- Barry/Vladmir Horowitz/Visiting Suburbs
- Additional song notes:
- Medley sung to "Larry, Larry…" and "Give My Regards to Broadway."
Recording
- On album:
- S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)
- Track ID:
- 31292
- Vocal:
- Sherman, Allan
- First line:
- We'll call him Barry, Barry, that'll be the baby's name…
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Theatre
Mexican Hat Dance
- Author:
- Sherman, Allan
- Author:
- Busch, Lou
- Genre:
- Parody/Humorous
- Subject:
- Dance/Hat
Recording
- On album:
- S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)
- Track ID:
- 31293
- Vocal:
- Sherman, Allan
- First line:
- Oh Americans dance on a dance floor and the Spaniards dance on a table…
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Theatre
The Let's All Call UP A.T.&T And…
- Author:
- Sherman, Allan
- Author:
- Busch, Lou
- Genre:
- March/Humor
- Subject:
- Protest/Digital Dialing
Recording
- On album:
- S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)
- Track ID:
- 31295
- Vocal:
- Sherman, Allan
- First line:
- It's the let's call up A.T. & T and protest to the president march…
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Theatre
Harvey And Sheila
- Author:
- Sherman, Allan
- Composer:
- Lavry, Marc — לברי, מרק
- Genre:
- Parody/Humor/Jewish Social Satire
- Subject:
- Couple/Materialism/Social Status/Cooptation
- Additional song notes:
- Sung to the tune of "Hava Nagila."
Recording
- On album:
- S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)
- Track ID:
- 31296
- Vocal:
- Sherman, Allan
- First line:
- Harvey and Sheila (3x), oh the day they met…
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Theatre
Won't You Come Home, Disraeli
- Author:
- Sherman, Allan
- Author:
- Busch, Lou
- Composer:
- Cannon, Hughie
- Genre:
- Parody/Humor
- Subject:
- Benjamin Disraeli/Queen Victoria/Filandering
- Additional song notes:
- Sung to "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey."
Recording
- On album:
- S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)
- Track ID:
- 31297
- Vocal:
- Sherman, Allan
- First line:
- When Benjamin Disraeli was prime minister of England, and good…
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Theatre
No One's Perfect
- Author:
- Sherman, Allan
- Author:
- Busch, Lou
- Genre:
- Parody/Humor
- Subject:
- Popular Groups/Music/Off-key
- Additional song notes:
- Sung to "High (Far) Above Cayuga's Waters."
Recording
- On album:
- S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)
- Track ID:
- 31298
- Vocal:
- Sherman, Allan
- First line:
- We would now like to salute all the beautiful singing groups…
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Theatre
When I Was A Lad
- Author:
- Sherman, Allan
- Author:
- Busch, Lou
- Composer:
- Sullivan, Sir Arthur
- Genre:
- Parody/Humor/Social Satire
- Subject:
- Yale/Corporate Ladder/Nepotism
- Additional song notes:
- Sung to the tune of the same name.
Recording
- On album:
- S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)
- Track ID:
- 31299
- Vocal:
- Sherman, Allan
- First line:
- When I was a lad, I went to Yale and I knew then I could never fail…
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Theatre
Me
- Author:
- Sherman, Allan
- Author:
- Busch, Lou
- Composer:
- De Curtis, Ernesto
- Composer:
- Aveling, Claude
- Genre:
- Parody/Humor
- Subject:
- Toes/Fingers/Body
- Additional song notes:
- Sung to melody of "Come Back to Sorrento."
Recording
- On album:
- S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)
- Track ID:
- 31300
- Vocal:
- Sherman, Allan
- First line:
- Counting both feet, I have ten toes, they're not lady toes…
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Theatre
Shticks Of One And Half A Dozen Of…
- Author:
- Sherman, Allan
- Author:
- Busch, Lou
- Genre:
- Parody/Humor/Language
- Subject:
- Old Song Standards
- Additional song notes:
- Medley sung to "Cockles and Mussels," "Auld Lang Sign," "Billy Boy," "All Day, All Night, Marianne," "On Top of Old Smokey," etc…
Recording
- On album:
- S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)
- Track ID:
- 31301
- First line:
- She wheels her wheelbarrow, through streets that are narrow…
- Style:
- Klezmer/Theatre
The Bronx Bird Watcher
- Author:
- Sherman, Allan
- Author:
- Busch, Lou
- Composer:
- Sullivan, Sir Arthur
- Genre:
- Parody/Humor/Accent
- Subject:
- Bird/Bronx/Eaten
- Additional song notes:
- Sung to the tune of "Tit Willow."
Recording
- On album:
- S-101(a) (My Son, The Celebrity Allan Sherman)
- Track ID:
- 31294
- Vocal:
- Sherman, Allan
- First line:
- On a branch of a tree sat a little tom tit, singing "willow, tit, willow."
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Theatre
Sir Greenbaum's Madrigal
- Author:
- Sherman, Allan
- Genre:
- Parody/Humor
- Subject:
- Knight/Occupation/Dragons/Armor/Marriage/Dry Goods
- Additional song notes:
- Parody of "Greensleeves"
Recording
- On album:
- N-031(a) (Now That Sounds Kosher)
- Track ID:
- 33802
- Vocal:
- Sherman, Allan
- First line:
- In Sherwood Forest there dwellt a knight, known as the righteous Sir Greenbaum,
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Novelty/Humorous/Parody
- Length:
- 3:40
Shake Hands with Your Uncle Max
- Author:
- Sherman, Allan
- Composer:
- Sherman, Allan
- Genre:
- Novelty/Humorous/Dialect
- Subject:
- Traveling Salesman/Plastics/Family/Reunion/Friends/Brooklyn
- Origin:
- Ephemera 1613
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- Comments:
- 1. 2/25/2018 Lyrics from internet entered in Ephemera on February 25, 2018