Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)
1963 novelty song by Allan Sherman / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter from Camp)" is a novelty song recorded by Allan Sherman released in 1963. The melody is taken from the ballet Dance of the Hours from the opera La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli, while the lyrics were written by Sherman and Lou Busch.
"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter from Camp)" | ||||
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Single by Allan Sherman | ||||
from the album My Son, the Nut | ||||
B-side | "(Rag Mop) Rat Fink" | |||
Released | August 1963 | |||
Genre | Novelty song | |||
Length | 2:47 | |||
Label | Warner Bros. Records | |||
Songwriter(s) | Amilcare Ponchielli, Allan Sherman, Lou Busch | |||
Producer(s) | Jimmy Hilliard | |||
Allan Sherman singles chronology | ||||
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Allan based the lyrics on letters of complaint which he received from his son Robert who was attending Camp Champlain, a summer camp in Westport, New York.[1]
In 2020, the song was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[2] The song's mention of "Leonard Skinner", a boy at the camp who "got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner", was an inspiration for the name of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, although the band's name was also inspired by a physical education instructor of the same name.[3]