"I refuse to help Israel's war effort because I'm as sorry for a wounded Arab as I am for a wounded Israeli. People fundamentally are all the same and I can't discriminate. People should have no greater concern for the suffering of one race than they have for any other. I believe in, and want to help as far as I can, to understand mankind and what ever color, creed, religion, or nationality. And I think this sort of philosophy, however broad and general it sounds, is the only basic one that the leaders of the world can work from to attain world peace."
-- Brian Epstein

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* Of course Brian was the 5th ~ The Beatles were unable to exist without him *
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Am I the only one in the world who would have totally given up ever seeing The Beatles become famous ~ if it meant Brian would have been okay? :(

Shabbat Shmooze ~ I Heart Allan Sherman	02:46 pm

EPPYLOVER SAYS:
Allan Sherman is much, MUCH more than just "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (Camp Grenada)"...!
I myself am proud to have owned, since forever, and on glorious original vinyl,
the LP's My Son The Folk Singer, My Son The Celebrity, and My Son The Nut

The Parody’s Over:
Whither Our Era’s Mickey Katz
or Allan Sherman?
Essay

By David Kaufmann
Tue. Jan 08, 2008

In the 11 months since it was released on YouTube, Leah Kauffman’s parody of Justin Timberlake, “My Box in a Box,” has been viewed more than 4 million times. Her “I’ve Got a Crush…on Obama” — out since June 2007 — has been hit close to 5 million times.

Like Kauffman, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, “Reno 911” and “The Simpsons,” bless them, have done what they can to restore parody to its once prominent position in American comedy.

Nevertheless, their welcome success cannot hide the fact that at the movies, on television and on the radio, parody is just not as big as it was. While there is a lot of funny stuff going around these days, there just isn’t as much good, old-fashioned parody.

Especially Jewish parody. ( I’m sensitive to this because... )the sanctioned tumult, the wild rumpus of anarchism, which, as Gershom Scholem claimed, lies at the very heart of Judaism.

David Kaufmann teaches literature at George Mason University.

The Jewish Daily Forward
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Allan Sherman mini-bio and discography

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