- 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.
- Hosted an episode of "The Tonight Show" with the first appearance of a 25 year old Bill Cosby.
- Served in the United States Army for only a few months in World War II, when he was discharged as medically unfit. The cause, reportedly, was an allergy to Brazil nuts.
- Allan Sherman passed away on November 20, 1973, only ten days before what would have been his 49th birthday on November 30.
- Attended University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign with Arte Johnson (Laugh-In).
- Author of two books, "A Gift of Laughter", an autobiography published in 1964, and "The Rape of the APE" (American Puritan Ethic), a critically praised comic history of the sexual revolution published in 1973, a few months before his death.
- Said to be one of then-President John F. Kennedy's favorite comedians. Kennedy could frequently be heard singing Sherman's parodies.
- Father of Robert Sherman.
- Sherman was his mother's maiden name.
- Co-wrote his first (and last) Broadway musical with Albert Hague in 1969. A satire on the so-called sexual revolution titled "The Fig Leaves Are Falling", it was directed by Broadway legend George Abbott and starred Barry Nelson, Dorothy Loudon and David Cassidy. It was the latter's Broadway debut, more than a year before he won fame on The Partridge Family (1970). The show itself ran exactly four performances.
- Began his public career as a song parodist by recording two songs for the small Jubilee Records label, "Jake's Song", based on the Bing and Gary Crosby hit "Sam's Song", and "A Satchel and a Seck", based on "A Bushel and a Peck" from "Guys and Dolls". The recording went nowhere upon its initial release in 1951, but when it was re-released in 1962, following the success of "My Son the Folk-Singer," it sold moderately well. It was said that Sherman was not particularly proud of this early effort.
- In or around 1957, while he was still a television producer, Sherman prepared a full-length Jewish-American parody of "My Fair Lady", then the hottest show on Broadway, but was never able to record it because of copyright considerations. The parody included such song titles as "With a Little Bit of Lox" (based on "With a Little Bit of Luck") and "I've Got the Customers to Face" (based on "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face").
- Although Sherman was credited as co-producer on Bill Cosby's first three albums on Warner Brothers Records, Cosby later admitted that Sherman's involvement was minimal at best but was emphasized on the album covers in order to boost sales.
- Had been a comedy writer for other comedians including Joe E. Lewis and Jackie Gleason.
- Attended the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, but was expelled for breaking into a campus sorority house.
- Following his sudden death, he was interred at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.
- Parents are Percy Copelon and Rose Sherman.
- In 1963, he wrote new English lyrics for the French song "C'est si bon" (written in 1947 by Henri Betti and André Hornez) for his album "My Son, The Nut". The title song became "I See Bones". The original English lyrics were written by Jerry Seelen in 1949.
- Attended University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign with Sheldon Keller.
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