Allan Sherman’s novelty song, ‘Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh’ (A Letter from Camp), was released #onthisday in 1963, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Top 100 chart. The satirical song got its melody from the ‘Dance of the Hours’ from Ponchielli’s opera ‘La Gioconda’. Here is an excerpt of that melody performed by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra under Ondrej Lenárd. 🎵 LISTEN to the full track here: https://Naxos.lnk.to/DanceHoursFA . . . #LightClassics #DanceMusic #BalletMusic #OperaClassics #

Allan Sherman and Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits This is a fun clip from Fanfare, a musical variety series shown during the summer of 1965 featuring Sherman and Herman. Here Allan Sherman does "the American version" of one of Herman's Hermits songs, and gives Peter Noone "the English version" of one of Allan's songs. | When a song takes you back in time