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Although probably best known to modern audiences as the singer of "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter From Camp Granada)", Allan Sherman was a prodigious talent who started working in the entertainment industry in the late 1940s and kept going strong until his death from emphysema in 1973.

Although probably best known to modern audiences as the singer of "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter From Camp Granada)", '''Allan Sherman''' was a prodigious talent who started working in the entertainment industry in the late 1940s and kept going strong until his death from emphysema in 1973.

In the course of his career, Sherman turned his hand to ~~scriptwriting~~, creating, producing and even acting (including a turn as the voice of [[The Cat in the Hat]] in the 1971 TV adaptation of the famous [[Dr. Seuss]] book).

In the course of his career, Sherman turned his hand to screenwriting, creating, producing and even acting (including a turn as the voice of [[The Cat in the Hat]] in the 1971 TV adaptation of the famous [[Dr. Seuss]] book).

With [[Fame|Albert Hague]] he cowrote the 1969 Broadway musical ''[[wikipedia:The Fig Leaves Are Falling|The Fig Leaves Are Falling]],'' which is notable for two things: the Broadway debut of [[David Cassidy]] (later of ''[[The Partridge Family]]''), and closing after only four performances. He hosted ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' on several occasions, including the night [[Bill Cosby]] made his first appearance on the show; he would later be credited as co-producer on Cosby's first three albums for Warner Bros. Records.

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