Song "Camp Granada"

[SactoTeddyBear]

Hey! Club Members and Friends, does anyone remember a Song called "Camp Granada" that a Comedian/Actor Sang?

The first part of the Song goes something like this.

"Hello Mother, Hello Father," here I am in Camp Granada...etc...

I was watching a Paid Commercial Show real early Thursday Morning about the Dean Martin Show and they had the person who Sang this Song in a background shot. The Comedian/Actor also had a Comedy person that he did Skits as,called "Maudie Fricket" and he would be dresses in Drag and had a Gray Hairpiece that he would were as that person.

The Comedian/Actor in question also kind of looks like Dom De Louise {sp} but it isn't Dom De Louise...

I would gratefully appreciate any and all info from those who "Remember When" Sit-Coms and maybe even any Movies that this person was in.

Peace and Kind Regards, Steve
SactoTeddyBear0503...

 

[112561]

Alan Sherman and Jonathan Winters

Alan Sherman sang "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" and Jonathan winters did "Maudie Frickert/Fricket" whoever, never saw it printed out. They were extremely funny comedians in their time.

 

[turquoisedude]

I think....

It was a comedian called Allan Sherman. I remember the song well!

 

[aquarius1984]

This song always amuses me from The Simpsons.

to quote....

In 1995, the Simpsons featured this song in the episode Marge Be Not Proud. Bart Simpson uses the Camp Granada tape to replace the tape in the answering machine, prompting Homer to, after the first two lines, ask Marge if they'd sent Lisa to Camp Grenada.

Aways brings a smile to my face

 

[danemodsandy]

It's Called:

"Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter from Camp). It was a huge hit in Summer, 1963. The tune is "stolen" from a piece of very popular classical music, Amilcare Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours."

Sherman was a comedian who specialised in parody lyrics to standard songs. Here's an example, where he took Harry Belafonte's calypso hit, "Mary Ann," and put new, comic lyrics to it:

"All day, all night, Cary Grant
That's all I hear from my wife
Is Cary Grant

What can he do that I can't?
Big star, big deal, Cary Grant!"

Or this one, to the tune of "Polly-Wolly-Doodle":

Oh, I diet all day
And I diet all night
It's enough to drive me bats!
Got no gravy or potatoes
'Cause the whole refrigerator's
Full of polyunsaturated fats!
Fare thee well, Metrecal
And the others of that ilk!
Let the diet start tomorrow
For today I'll drown my sorrow
In a double malted milk!"

And my personal favourite, based on "Down by the Riverside":

"When you go to the delicatessen store
Don't buy the liverwurst!
Don't buy the liverwurst!
Don't buy the liverwurst!
It'll make your insides awful sore
Don't buy the liverwurst!
Don't buy the liverwurst!
Oh, buy the corned beef if you must
The pickled herring you can trust
And the lox puts you in orbit A-OK!
But that big hunk of liverwurst
Has been here since September first
And today is the twenty-third of May!"

The lyrics to "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" are:

"Hello Mudda,
hello Fadda,
Here I am at
Camp Granada.
Camp is very
entertaining,
And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining.

I went hiking
with Joe Spivy;
He developed
poison ivy.
You remember
Lenard Skinner;
He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner.

All the counselors
hate the waiters,
And the lake has
alligators,
And the head coach
wants no sissies,
So he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

Now I don't want
that this should scare you,
But my bunkmate
has malaria.
You remember
Jeffery Hardy,
They're about to organize a searching party.

Take me home, oh
Mudda, Fadda,
Take me home, I
hate Granada!
Don't leave me
out in the forest,
Where I might get eaten by a bear.

Take me home,
I promise I will not make noise,
Or mess the house
with other boys,
O please don't
make me stay,
I've been here one whole day.

Dearest Father,
Darling Mother,
How's my precious
little brudda?
Let me come home
if you miss me,
I would even let Aunt Bertha hug and kiss me.

Wait a minute,
it stopped hailing,
Guys are swimming,
guys are sailing.
Playing baseball,
gee that's betta,
Mudda, Fadda kindly disregard this letta!"

 

[tomturbomatic]

The album was My Son the Folksinger (with a hard "G" so you should get the pronunciation right). The song ruined the Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda for me, well this song and the piece in Fantasia with the Hippos.

I went hiking with Joe Spivey; he developed poison ivy.

I noticed even as a kid that all of the names were uh, familiar, like family.

 

[danemodsandy]

Tom:

The lines:

"And the head coach
wants no sissies,
So he reads to us from something called Ulysses."

Are such a direct reference to "family" that I'm still amazed Sherman got away with it. If more parents had been better-educated, he wouldn't've.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Sorry, I was thinking family like Jewish, but the thing about Ulysses was pretty blatant. That's OK though, only the smart people got the joke, not the ignorant troublemakers. Many of them probably did not even know Ulysses from mythology. Remember Edith Hamilton?

 

[112561]

Allan Sherman's Wikipedia Bio

Considering this is on Wiki, it's still pretty good.

Allan Sherman - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[danemodsandy]

Tom:

The reason I was amazed about those lines was that there were more well-rounded people around in '63 than I see today. My dad was not college-educated (Mom was), but he was well-read, conversant with current events and knowledgeable enough to help any of his kids with any of their homework, in an age that didn't have the Internet yet. You wouldn't be as likely to find that today. We had the Encyclopedia Britannica (painfully paid for at so much a month, I'm sure), dictionaries, and shelves of classics from Twain to D.H. Lawrence.

Different time.

 

[SactoTeddyBear]

"WOW" What a lot of:

"Old-Timers" as well as "New-Timers" and already getting some great replies. Thank You one and all and also for all of the extra info shared for not only myself, but for others too.

I had forgotten the Slang way of pronouncing certain names, so I just did my basic remembering of who the beginning went and I figured that whomever was able to help out with the Comedian/Actors name would know the rest.

Now however, I'm confused about did Jonathan Winters actually Sing the Song, or was it Alan Sherman originally and perhaps the only one of those 2-Men?

Peace and Kind Regards, Steve
SactoTeddyBear0503...

 

[tomturbomatic]

Sandy, another factor in most of the country was that this song was on Top 40 stations and the more up tight adults did not listen to that music. Kids often had to listen to the stations on their transistor radios because their parents would not let "that kind of music" be played on a radio in the house.

Oh, yes books were important to many families. We had the World Book and both Britannicas and almost everything that Time-Life offered because we could not get to the public library during the week because mom did not drive. We also got lots of magazines--oh those appliance ads in the 50s and 60s.

 

[112561]

Allan Sherman sang the song "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah," and many others. Jonathan Winters was never known as any kind of singer. LOL

 

[sudsmaster]

I remember that song well when it came out.

But I could never quite understand the complaining. To me, getting out of the city to a summer camp would have been heaven.

 

[ronhic]

Here we go

something funny...

 

[jeffg]

Sherman did a lot of stuff that was edgy for the time. My favorite is a song called Sir Greenbaum's Madrigal. It's about a Jewish knight (funny because the whole Camelot/Knights of the Round Table thing was Christian, not Jewish).

Anyway here are the lyrics:

Sir Greenbaum's Madrigal
(Allan Sherman)

In Sherwood Forest
There dwelt a knight
Who was known
As the righteous
Sir Greenbaum

And many dragons
Had felt the might
Of the smite
Of the righteous
Sir Greenbaum

I chanced upon him one morn
When he'd recently rescued a maiden fair
"Why, why art thou so forlorn?
Sir Greenbaum, is thy heart heavy laden?"

Said he, "Forsooth
'Tis a sorry plight
That engendered my attitude bluish"
Said he, "I don't wanna be a knight
That's no job for a boy who is Jewish"

All day with the mighty sword
And the mighty steed and the mighty lance
All day with that heavy shield
And a pair of aluminum pants

All day with the slaying and slewing
And smiting and smoting like Robin Hood
Oh, wouldst I could kick the habit
And give up smoting for good

And so he said to the other knights,
"You may have my possessions and my goods;
For I am moving to Shaker Heights
Where I've got some connections in dry goods"

Farewell to the dragon's paw
And the other swashbuckling games and sports
I'll work for my father-in-law
When I marry
Miss Guinevere Schwartz!"

 

[ptcruiser51]

My two cents of trivia

There was also a board game put out called "Camp Granada", following the song's popularity. Allan Sherman appeared in the TV commercials advertising it.

 

[nurdlinger]

Steve,

If you want a good idea of what Jonathan Winters was like, watch the old movie "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". He plays the moving van driver.

 

[abcomatic]

Classical music tune for Hello Mudda

HI all, The classic music tune for Hello Mudda is really "The Dance of the Hours." If any of you have ever seen the movie Fantasia, there is a section in the movie that has a hyppopotumus dressed in a tu tu dancing to the music. Have fun. Gary