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

Cary Ginell soundthink at live.com
Fri Dec 9 13:36:05 PST 2011


Maybe because it was marketed as an Allan Sherman album when it was just an anthology with two Sherman tracks on it. 
 
Cary Ginell
 

> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 14:19:26 -0700
> Subject: Re: [78-L] from Allan Sherman's "A Gift of Laughter"
> 
> 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 
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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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