November 30 - Allan Sherman (The Musical Birthday Series, 2nd Annual Cycle)

Allan Sherman (30 November 1924 – 20 November 1973) had a short career in the early 1960s singing enormously successful comic song parodies.

[For last year's limerick on Carl Loewe click here.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Choices

At the start of his career, Allan Sherman,

Took barely one gig to determine

That a song that is funny

Makes rather more money

Than a hymn, an oration, or sermon.

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Well Chosen

When singing of old Camp Granada,

With rhymes such as muddah and fadduh,

It’s no casus belli

To use Ponchielli

Instead of a Mozart sonata.

 

 

 

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