Released January 1963 Length 35:03 Artist Allan Sherman Label Warner Bros. Records | Recorded November 30, 1962 My Son, the Celebrity
(1963) My Son, the Nut
(1963) Release date January 1963 Genres Comedy, Comedy music | |
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Similar My Son - the Folk Singer, My Son - the Nut, For Swingin' Livers On, Allan in Wonderland, My Son - the Box |
My Son, the Celebrity is a musical comedy album by Allan Sherman, released in the United States by Warner Bros. in January 1963.
Contents
The album was the second of three straight albums by Sherman to reach #1 on the Billboard album charts. It reached #1 on Billboard's Top 150 Best Selling LPs (Monaural) chart for the week ending March 9, 1963. It was released less than three months after My Son, the Folk Singer, which reached #1 on the same chart in December 1962.
My Son, the Celebrity followed the same template as My Son, the Folk Singer, mixing comic parodies of popular songs with cultural references and Jewish humor. Lou Busch once again provided orchestration.
Side One
- "Al 'n' Yetta" ("Alouette")
- "Barry is the Baby's Name" / "Horowitz" / "Get on the Garden Freeway" ("Mary is a Grand Old Name", "Harrigan", "Give My Regards to Broadway")
- "Mexican Hat Dance"
- "The Bronx Bird Watcher" ("Willow, tit-willow (On a tree by a river)")
- "The Let's All Call Up A.T.&T. and Protest to the President March"
- "Harvey and Sheila" ("Hava Nagila")
Side Two
- "Won't You Come Home, Disraeli" ("Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey")
- "No One's Perfect" (to the tune of a well-known Alma Mater, "Far Above Cayuga's Waters")
- "When I Was a Lad" (to the tune of the same name from H.M.S. Pinafore)
- "Me" ("Torna a Surriento")
- "Shticks of One and a Half a Dozen of the Other" (medley)
Songs
As with My Son, The Folk Singer, almost all the songs on the album contain some Jewish reference, or at least a main character or characters with apparently Jewish names.