My Son, the Celebrity

My Son, the Celebrity
Studio album by Allan Sherman
Released	January 1963
Genre	Comedy
Label	Warner Bros.
Allan Sherman chronology
My Son, the Folk Singer (1962) My Son, the Celebrity (1963) My Son, the Nut (1963)

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My Son, the Celebrity is a musical comedy album by Allan Sherman, released in the United States by Warner Bros. in January 1963.

The album was the second of three straight albums by Sherman to reach #1 on the Billboard album charts. It reached #1 on Billboard's Top 150 Best Selling LPs (Monaural) chart for the week ending March 9, 1963. It was released less than three months after My Son, the Folk Singer, which reached #1 on the same chart in December 1962.^[2]

My Son, the Celebrity followed the same template as My Son, the Folk Singer, mixing comic parodies of popular songs with cultural references and Jewish humor. Lou Busch once again provided orchestration.

Track listing

Side One

1. "Al 'N Yetta" ("Alouette")
2. "Barry Is The Baby's Name" / "Horowitz" / "Get On The Garden Freeway" ("Mary Is a Grand Old Name", "Harrigan", "Give My Regards to Broadway")
3. "Mexican Hat Dance"
4. "The Bronx Bird Watcher" ("Willow, tit-willow (On a tree by a river)")
5. "The Let's All Call Up A.T.&T. And Protest To The President March"
6. "Harvey And Sheila" ("Hava Nagila")

Side Two

1. "Won't You Come Home, Disraeli" ("Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey")
2. "No One's Perfect" (to the tune of a well-known Alma Mater, "Far above Cayuga's Waters")
3. "When I Was a Lad" (to the tune of the same name from H.M.S. Pinafore)
4. "Me" ("Torna a Surriento")
5. "Shticks Of One And A Half A Dozen Of The Other" (medley)

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position	Weeks	Dates
1963	Billboard's Top 150 Best Selling LPs (Monaural)	1	1	March 9, 1963
1963	Billboard's Top 50 Best Selling LPs (Stereo)	4	2	February 9-16, 1963

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ "My Son, the Celebrity". AllMusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r488248. Retrieved 2010-05-21. 

Preceded by Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music by Ray Charles

Billboard's Top 150 Best Selling LPs (Monaural) #1 album (stereo) week ending March 9, 1963

Succeeded by Days of Wine and Roses by Andy Williams