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

[David Lennick]

I googled "Jubilee" and "Jake's song"..don't know if I would have found it any 
other way.

dl

On 12/9/2011 4:35 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>
> Never saw that before! Eln Shoymen?? That's a riot. Gives me something to prowl around for.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>
>> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 16:06:03 -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"
>>
>> 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
>>>