Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh - Allan Sherman 1963

[@tunanoodle]

Hahaha I am 73 and this song still pops into my head sometimes.

[@nancyhope2205]

Same here.

[@scrapbagstudios]

83 and same here

[@annedavis6090]

66, I was little.. but I remember

[@Gwen592-h3x]

I'm 71. I loved this song when I was 10!!!!!!

[@marmeone]

Me too!😂 I'm 74.

[@SaraMarie41]

"Marge, is Lisa in Camp Granada?"

[@Connorgotapoint]

Lol I saw that

[@marioboi323]

I thought of that too

[@Runningnrolling]

Cum town

[@Cool_Waters]

The entire reason I'm listening to this song

[@aggit8]

😂

[@fred1092]

Heard this on Dr. Demento long time ago. Even worse, I remember Allan Sherman from black and white TV shows. Yeah, I'm that old.

[@imanmondal763]

Nah,ur that cool

[@OGDeeHiggins]

Old is good. Why? I am that old too 😂

[@autodogdact3313]

​@@OGDeeHigginsMe three.

[@cme1027]

I just posted" i remember hearing this on the radio😂"

[@mountainghost5044]

Welcome to the Club 😅

[@johnicka711]

Who else randomly got this song playing in there head

[@nancyomalley6286]

Every time I watch the movie "Indian Summer"

[@flamenskall2016]

Hello mudda Hello fadda Flee, tix, mosquitoes Really bother

[@lk9513]

or Rat Fink, even worse

[@greencertifiedweb]

Yes, truly random! I was listening to Dresden Files audio books, and suddenly this song was there, too strange!

[@SK8_life188]

Bro Like what the fck I'm not alone 💀

[@JillLawton-zt8me]

I’m 78 and listened to this as a kid.

[@rosieE121]

Same here

[@janetdavid2619]

This brings back some memories! I’m 74 and haven’t heard this song in ages! Thank you.

[@sallylines3141]

I remember it too! I’m 72 😉, funny how you remember the words 🤭

[@janetdavid2619]

@ I know. It is hard to remember what happened a little while ago but I can remember things from my childhood. lol

[@DoctrineForensics]

57 and I sang this song too boomer x gen here for it. Fun song.

[@craigfinnegan8534]

At ten yrs old in 1975, I thought this was a recent release. Here I am at 58 and heard it in my head being broadcast by my subconscious memory, and said: "Oh, what the hell, let me see if it's on KZbin."

[@dannyurd85]

Yeah sometimes I do the same

[@cme1027]

❤ kinda the same story😂 i remember as a kid in the 70s i thought it was about Vietnam 😑. I was a dark child.🤦🏼‍♀️😶

[@hellskitchen10036]

@@cme1027 There was nothing fun about Nam..believe me I know.

[@goodfes]

did not Grenada have some trouble in 70's/ 80's ? I'm in my 50's and seem to recall parodies of this song from when that happened, oddly.

[@hellskitchen10036]

@@goodfes Not that Grenada, this Grenada is a fake kids camp, lol.

[@stephanielaurent3888]

Am I the only one who can totally picture George Costanza singing this?!😂

[@jasminnemcdonald94A]

You're so right. I can see this on Seinfeld!!

[@jasminnemcdonald94A]

@@Sum_Yousah Seriously? That's jaw dropping rare!!

[@jasminnemcdonald94A]

@@Sum_Yousah And I repeat. That's jaw dropping rare!!!

[@stephenroot1012]

Music videos from before there was music videos.

[@PatrickWebb-c5w]

Hahahahahahaha 😅

[@marywinn8953]

Oh my gosh. I was 9 when this came out. All of us kids sang it all the time.

[@isabelgaynor2589]

Two years later my parents sent me to camp 250 miles from home and just 40 miles from the Canadian border. 10 miles to the closest general store. I was one pissed seventh grade girl already with a rebellious streak.. No candy because of bears no gum because of the NUNS! Ice cold Lake water. I kept singing this song on our 1/3 mile hike for each and every meal which sure infuriated the nuns. Strangely these other girls never heard this song before Better Catholic girls than me but who wasn't. I needed my Gum. Singing Allan Sherman got me through those rough weeks. Radios didn't even work that far into the mountains.

[@vickywitton1008]

Can you imagine today's kids putting up with that? Sounds like a prisoner of war camp!

[@merseltzer]

​​@@vickywitton1008Putting up? Do you know how expensive that is? Y'all must have been rich.

[@Bobby-mg1uj]

Haaa! I also sang it at camp. Didn't expect snow in SoCal, almost froze my butt off. Fun times.

[@hopefrog89]

Omg. I never knew what my mom and uncles were singing when i was a kid until this popped up in my feed tonight. Amazing how much humor has changed between our generations…

[@leonardodalongisland]

Yep, crazy how things change but glad to know you are (at least) aware of how things used to be.

[@spmoran4703]

One of the best songs ever written.

[@ColtDee]

Wow fantastic sketch and song Allan Sherman a comedic genius!

[@kofca7131]

Arthur from King of Queens doing exercises to this one of the funniest things I had seen RIP Jerry Stiller

[@Random_user46]

Lol, that's why I looked this song up. Crazy old man

[@MicheleHill-wv2wc]

Oh my God I have not heard this song since I was a kid I thought everyone had forgotten about this song it is so cute 🥰

[@angelfire67]

I was 11 years old when this first came out. Loved it then and love it now.

[@brianb8060]

I was looking at the date (1963), and realized my dad was 19. (I was -26 🙃)

[@Jverburgh]

I was minus 2 when this came out.@@brianb8060

[@rodneytubbs417]

i was 11yrs old too! at 11yrs I changed a few of the beginning lyrics & everyone loved it. if you like I will text it to you. HAVE FUN!

[@broughtbackin]

I was -5

[@debbiehodson8469]

​@@broughtbackinI was born! 😃

[@leetana8888]

My parents had this on an LP, and would play it all the time! 💙🖤💙🖤💙

[@barbarastrayhorn4667]

Mine too

[@katzn2]

I used to listen to his record when I was really little 5or 6 My parents would play this occasionally on a Sunday and we all sat in the living room, listening to it with a memory. I still sing that song every now and then.

[@musicauthority674]

My brother and I used to listened to Allen Sherman when we were kids. my father had the "My Son the Celebrity" album. and we listened to it for quite some time. and one day when we were listening to it for some reason we got called away. possibly to eat lunch or something I guess? and so we put the album back in it's sleeve/cover. and like a couple little idiots we set the album on top of the amplifier. and when we came back it was warped all to hell. and of course it wouldn't play. that was a sad day for my brother and I. and the amazing thing is that was over 55 years ago.

[@AlanPrice-b7n]

For those who don't know, the music is from "Dance of the Hours" by Amilcare Ponchielli. A perfect match for the lyrics.

[@rosahur]

Aka Dance of the Hippos from Fantasia 😄

[@Beatle849]

​@@rosahur It seemed to be a popular melody. Listen to"Like I Do" by Maureen Evans from 1962.

[@bluedragontoybash2463]

Thank you... my wife know this tune. But I only know one from the Simpsons

[@airjrdn1]

A True Genius !!!! I did this skit in the 4th Grade Talent Show and Won 1st Place !!!!!!!! Thank you Allan Sherman !!!!!!! So many clever, amazing, awesome songs !!!!!!

[@triciac1019]

That's so cool!

[@Nathanatos22]

That’s funny-my brother did the same in the 4th grade to win the talent show. I guess this song was a hit with the adult judges

[@andrewmellen8092]

When you realize that his mother father pronunciation sounds normal because you have the same accent😭😂😂

[@SRP3572]

From Brooklyn or the Bronx?

[@andrewmellen8092]

@@SRP3572 No actually, both Allan Sherman and I are from Chicago, his accent is a very huge giveaway

[@Ranman1]

@@andrewmellen8092Hopefully, you’ve never had ptomaine poisoning!

[@valeriewilleto5583]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tracyrreed]

​@@andrewmellen8092You aren't from Quahog? 😂

[@firewaterbydesign]

*OMGOSH!! GREAT memories!!! This takes me back to my childhood in the 60s. I still remember EVERY single word to this song!! 🤣 This is from the album Our Son the Nut!! I always thought that he looked like my grandpa Harlow on that album cover!! Thank you for the wonderful trip down memory lane!!!* 💕🤣💕🤣💕

[@akgypsy54]

I was just a kid when this song came out! Still know every single word!! 🎶🤣👏

[@justdoingitjim7095]

My dad would send us 3 boys to Piney Woods Bible Camp in Arkansas for two weeks every summer! This song was playing in the church van we were in, during our 3 hour drive there!

[@lynderherberts2828]

I'm 68. I remember how popular this song was. It was fun sing along with him.

[@drbombay91765]

Been a fan since age 9, after hearing this on AM radio. My parents took me to the Hollywood Bowl to see him in 1965. Wonderful memories.

[@emilykanefield3608]

We sing this at camp every night a kid in my bunk was OBSESSED!!! I know this by heart and she knew everything and taught us and like for take me home the rest of the bunk would be like MODUH FADUH

[@Najork]

I had to sing this at some point in elementary school music class. It was the 80s, nobody had ever heard it before.

[@cme1027]

Really??? Where r u from?? Im from NY i heard this as a young kid in the 70s on the radio 😂😂😂

[@MrJamieMurph4141969]

Today, 11/24/2023(Black Friday) is three days after the 50th anniversary of Allan Sherman’s passing. I happen to know he died the day before Thanksgiving in 1973, plus he was nine days short of turning 49. How sad. Perhaps this is why they used to play this song on the radio over Thanksgiving, as if for the two aforementioned reasons-the anniversary of his passing and his birthday? Could be. And now 50 years have come and gone since he joined “Rock and Roll heaven.” May he RIP. :) I remember there was a TV commercial in the 80s promoting some kind of soap, shampoo, etc. featuring a girl away at college writing a letter to her parents saying how much she missed the product in question, which also was sung to the Dance of the Hours. It may have been inspired by this song.

[@petes6545]

I’m 35 from Australia & this song has always been a song in my head.

[@nightthornkvala94132]

I've known this song forever but have never seen this video before. Thanks so much for this addition to my faves playlist.

[@DEVOn.A.Skertic]

Doctor Demento put this song into my head back in 1980. K-MET 94.7, who-ya!

[@davidwalls0571]

Omg I haven't heard this in decades

[@karenclements7497]

I remember that! It was on a "funny songs" album we had and played CONSTANTLY. All kinds of silly songs and jokes on it. At the moment all I can think of is "ooey gooey was a worm, a mighty worm was he. He sat upon a railroad track, the train he did not see..." and, "Ladles and jellyspoons! I come before you, to stand behind you to tell you something I know nothing about. Next Thursday, which is good Friday, there'll be a mother's meeting for fathers only. Admission is free, pay at the door. Take a seat and sit on the floor. We thank you for your unkind attention!" Such fun times!

[@lruss5050]

Always a huge favourite!❤🇨🇦

[@oldschoolsinger]

One of the best novelty songs of all time.

[@xxcharmed1xx]

I wasnt born til 86 but i had this on an oldies tape when I was like 5 and this song was on it. Precious memories! ❤️

[@auntiquek2845]

I still remembered most of the words, years of Summer camp… ahhh memories 😅

[@aggit8]

I just have always loved this. Had it on vinyl as a kid. 😊

[@starshiptrooper7670]

In '63 I was 6. A classic from childhood. Dumb and funny still. 🤠

[@johnmaki3046]

I was 7 and "steady" with the girl with the BEST LEGS EVER! I MISS THIS!

[@waynemetevia7983]

I was 6 in 63 also.

[@starshiptrooper7670]

@@waynemetevia7983 Happy 67th BD this year! I hit it in Jan. Tom Petty sang "I don't know but I've been told, you never slow down, you never grow old...☮

[@waynemetevia7983]

@starshiptrooper7670 Thanks and happy belated birthday to you. I'll catch up to you mid spring. I am old and I have slowed down.

[@starshiptrooper7670]

@@waynemetevia7983 Keep your chin up my friend.

[@MichaelTBalonek]

I never noticed that the band Leonard Skynyrd maybe got their name from this song!

[@AdamFunnell]

I am curious about this too. It's well-documented that Lynyrd Skynyrd took their name from their PE teacher Leonard Skinner but that was six years after this song. Curious.

[@Top10WizardReviews]

It could've been something like they thought it was funny they had a PE teacher with the same name as someone in a silly song.

[@OneOddTodd63]

According to Lynyrd Skynyrd's late singer Ronnie Van Zant in a recorded interview, they got their name from a high school gym teacher he and a couple others in the band used to run afoul of. His name was Leonard Skinner. They used to make fun of his name by calling Leonard Skinard.

[@ImCarolB]

I remember when this song came out and all the kids loved it. Oddly, it made me want to go to summer camp! I asked my mother who said, "We live on a farm. Go run in the woods. Swim in the stream. What can you do at a camp that you can't do here?" I said, "Do it with other kids."

[@mindakahn9964]

Love this. Thanks for the memories.

[@elsenored562]

I heard this in 1965 when my dad played it on his (monophonic) hifi.

[@catherinemerwin2678]

That's hilarious. I was trying to remember the words to this song the other day - I missed a few! Thanks for showing this.

[@GhostRaven1983]

I LOVED singing this as a kid!! So many good memories! Thank you! ❤

[@kerryl4031]

I remembered quite a lot of lyrics so was singing along! Haven't heard this for years!

[@darialinderssen1572]

I still remember some of the lyrics, and I was singing along to it. This is such a funny, entertaining song. It probably isn't, but I grew up in Granada. Hills, CA. Hehh.. It's sad that people didn't like Alan Sherman.

[@elaineb4490]

This is 10 years before my time but I have always loved it as it’s so funny and clever. Such clear lyrics and this is the first time I have ever seen this man- don’t know what I expected but didn’t think he looked like this (a bit chunkier than the fabulous Eric Morecambe but similar looks- maybe it’s the glasses?) Brilliance.

[@Trek001]

1:54 - well, the party doesn't have to go far... He's writing a letter in front of you

[@Kussta]

I'm 18 but I love 1950-1960s media

[@tonybinkley5802]

Loved this song and all his other songs

[@halnwheels]

My folks had a few of his records. His cleverness with words was amazing. And pairing them with great recognizable (at that time) tunes was another skill. This particular song hopped at least another generation and is known by more than just us seniors.

[@staceyg.4320]

I had Alan Sherman LPs given to me when I was a kid, and I LOVED his comedy and music! I never saw him in person, so this video was a real treat! ❤

[@rikky383]

We sang this song all the time when we were kids, but had no idea where it came from. Also, the alternative version with the "smoking marijuana" line. Without the Internet, I would have never known the original

[@jeffj9322]

Remembering Allan Sherman born on November 30, 1924. He was an American musician, satirist and television producer who became known as a song parodist in the early 1960's. His first album, My Son, the Folk Singer (1962), became the fastest-selling record album up to that time. His biggest hit was "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh", a comic song in which a boy describes his summer camp experiences to the tune of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Sherman

[@GregoryRussell-e6e]

What a classy song🥳

[@thewenik6876]

What a good song. Thanks Alan.

[@lorraineevans681]

Practicing Dance of the Hours on piano this morning, I had an irresistible need to find the funny lyrics we kids used to sing...found it..happy now...vinaka from Fiji❤

[@dwlsn93]

All I could ever remember was the very first part (I’m 65, so probably something I heard from my brother, now 73). It was fun to hear the whole song! 🎶 How cute! ☺️

[@bgstarider]

The story of my childhood!!!!

[@mvan8307]

It was 1992-93 and i was thriteen listening to this on vinyl, still makes me smile and chuckle to this day.

[@Floridafisherman5000]

I have two of his record albums on vinyl!!! One of the funniest comedians ever!!!

[@susanborkenhagen58]

My dad's favorite!

[@louismatassa9105]

Totally hilarious and cracks me up everytime i listen to it!

[@carrieannmcleod5219]

Wonderful song!

[@MaryNovak-lk1bv]

This was taken from the classical instrumental "dance of the hours" by a composer Helmut Brandenburg

[@coyotelong4349]

The Family Guy cutaway about Lois throwing away her old Allan Sherman record brought me here 😆

[@alexzandereisman6602]

Oh such heat this morning I don’t need this jacket

[@Samantha-ms9fd]

thx so much

[@cchawk6280]

I remember this album when I was a kid

[@gutz1981]

Marge, is Lisa at camp Granada?

[@Paul-lm5gv]

I remember this when it first came out and it was hilarious at the time!

[@brockschul3221]

Allan Sherman also played the cat in the hat in the animated version of the cat in the hat

[@ryanmillar6572]

No he did not,Martin Short played the cat in the hat

[@andywinslow9638]

​@@ryanmillar6572Allen and Martin voice him. Martin P. Robinson

[@tzeccentric7848]

Did anyone else go watch the K9 Advantix commercial after watching this?

[@frankmorton1626]

Greatest song ever penned👏👏👏💯bravo. This and tip toe through the tulips 👍✌️I was smoking a ton of good reefer back in those days 🤪😝😯

[@lisabarr6004]

Awesome 😂, love that song! All the best from🇨🇦

[@thrumylenns2207]

My mom used to sing this song to me when I was a kid

[@ApostleDrSabrina]

😂 my dad sang bits and pieces of this song when I was a child. After hearing the entire song, it’s funny.

[@goblinhairedguy]

An absolute comedy masterpiece.

[@beaudwayful]

Fond memories of listening to my parents LP of this.

[@mrcryptozoic817]

I didn't know there was a skit that went with that! Very good!

[@cme1027]

Wow im old... i remember this playing on the radio 😂

[@melodytigelaar3334]

I know it’s old but how hasn’t this video broke 1M yet

[@jeanstiehl1591]

Love it

[@katygitlin9615]

Great memories. 😊

[@marylouisebarlass5345]

I love this!

[@GracieLou626]

My father use to sing this to me when I was a little kid. Lol

[@dianemastriano5583]

Love him. He was great with song parodies.

[@Konsker]

love the ending of the song

[@stefanboster5728]

A Lynyrd Skynyrd reference (a 01:16) in 1963? Youza!

[@dookerdwayne3962]

Its the other way around. Their band name origin is from this song.

[@HardCold-Alquan]

Nice and clear video from 1963. If they all looked like this or better, then the times would not seem so primitive.

[@maryslucero5281]

I Rember this Song I love it I Am 61 konw

[@blackholeentry3489]

I certainly remember this, and I guess, at 83, I'm the most eldest here.

[@tamaralinekar2904]

Love it 😂 an now still love it 😂 😊

[@debbyhotton8880]

love it

[@tinalfrazier9641]

I remember hearing this as a kid. I’ve never seen this video before.

[@Nigelrathbone1]

I remember listening to a record of this brought in by a classmate during naptime in kindergarten in 1965. I didn't get any of the jokes. I didn't know why the other kids thought it was funny.

[@louismatassa8489]

⛺⛺⛺⛺⛺ a total classic 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@ciderfan823]

What an eventful day!

[@markhannigan7791]

Thanks for the laugh!

[@robertmatthews2009]

I've had the 45 of this since it came out. The 'B' side is 'Here's to the Crabgrass.' Also good.