Does the name Allan Sherman sound familiar? Every summer, after school lets out, hordes of kids leave home for sleep-away camp. For many children, it’s their first time away from home, and they go ...

"Overweight Sensation" tracks the meteoric rise and tragic fall of the humorist whose song parodies have influenced generations. By Alex Ben Block Overweight Sensation by Mark Cohen Book Cover - P ...

Trina Williamson Jackson grew up listening to Dr. Demento's weekly syndicated radio show, a compilation of comedy, parody and novelty records. So she knew all about Allan Sherman, whose hijacking of ...

A few decades before "Weird Al" Yankovic recorded his first pop song parody while studying architecture in California, one of his inspirations, parodist Allan Sherman, was making history and heading ...