[78-L] from Allan Sherman's "A Gift of Laughter"

[Michael Biel]

Since this record WAS really released (!!!) what grounds would Sherman
have for suing Jubilee??  The album was successfully taken off the
market -- did the Brothers Warner make them an offer they couldn't
refuse?  Did a horse go missing?

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com   


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Subject: Re: [78-L] from Allan Sherman's "A Gift of Laughter"
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, December 09, 2011 4:06 pm
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

Mebbe dis'll conwince you already?

http://faujsa.fau.edu/jsa/discography.php?jsa_num=504906-A

Feh!

dl

On 12/9/2011 3:57 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> I think Sherman's book also discusses the Jubilee album (which I also
> have). I think he says they were demos that were not otherwise
> released. Unless dl can come up with a 78, if they were released they
> were probably recorded more recently than the 78 era and might have only
> been on a 45.
>
> I was a great fan of I've Got A Secret when I was a kid, and Leah also
> fell in love with the series when it was aired on Game Show Network.
> She recorded every episode GSN aired. Sherman can be seen briefly for a
> few seconds in the shot of the crew on the 5th anniversary program.
> Coincidentally, GSN is about to bring it back again this coming Monday,
> I believe at 3 or 3:30 AM. Because they are no longer airing episodes
> that had been sponsored by cigarettes, the shows will all date from the
> 1960s which are probably all from after Alan Sherman was fired. (By the
> way Spelchek loves the Sherman letter.)
>
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [78-L] from Allan Sherman's "A Gift of Laughter"
> From: Cary Ginell<soundthink at live.com>
> Date: Fri, December 09, 2011 1:41 pm
> To:<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>
>
> Do you have any? There were only two sides that I know of, which were
> featured on the 12" Jubilee compilation LP "More Folk Songs" - issued in
> 1964 to capitalize on his "Hello Muddah" fame. There were only two
> Sherman songs on it "Jake's Song" and "A Satchel& a Seck." Were there
> more? The only other thing of interest on that record was Fyvush
> Finkel's shameless appropriation of Victor Borge with "Yiddish
> Punctuation."
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>
>> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:23:15 -0500
>> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] from Allan Sherman's "A Gift of Laughter"
>>
>> That still breaks me up. And Allan did make 78s (for Jubilee).
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 12/9/2011 1:18 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>>>
>>> Forgive the non-78 intrusion, but thought I'd post a humorous aside from my favorite autobiography, Allan Sherman's "A Gift of Laughter."
>>>
>>> Cary Ginell
>>>
>>>
>>> As the program became more popular and the quantity of mail (and memos) increased, I needed a secretary desperately. For some reason, Goodson and Todman did not want to assign me a secretary.
>>>
>>> On January 31, 1955, I dispatched this memo:
>>> to: MARK GOODSON
>>> from: ALLAN SHERMAN
>>> subject: I'VE GOT A SECRET Secretary
>>>
>>> As soon as you have some time, I would like to outline to you the reasons why we could make a profitable use of a secretary in the I'VE GOT A SECRET office.
>>>
>>> May we discuss this further at your earliest convenience?
>>>
>>> I did not get any answer from Mark. I did not get a secretary. To dramatize the issue, I myself typed the next memo:
>>>
>>> date: XXX Ferb 2, 195555
>>> to: Makr Goodson, biltooDMan GLI Ftem
>>> from: a;ejt Shermaikye
>>> subject: Sechrotary***we don't need 1
>>> i agrEE wiht you felloes that we don't need a secritery here in the IVEG OT ASE CRED offs. we canget along foNe wihtout one; IdonT mined ansring the lettrse myselfff ½ ½ aslo we will save lots of $$$$$ that weigh %%% iwill also take fone cals, openM#le;;; and mak appointems but pleas donexpectc me to gro a boss00m.
>>>
>>> Resp¼@(&fuly,
>>> Aln Shmurnnnnnnnnn
>
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