Thursday, July 7, 2011

CAMP GRANADA

 

Hope this brings back some memories.

Sherman HelloMuddah

"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)" is the Grammy-winning novelty song based on letters of complaint Allan Sherman received from his son Robert while attending Camp Champlain in Westport, New York. The song is a parody that complains about the fictional "Camp Granada" and is set to the tune of Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours". The title is taken from the first lines:

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

After the song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks beginning August 24, 1963, Sherman wrote a new "back at Camp Granada" version, Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh!, for a May 27, 1964 performance on the The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Sherman wrote a third version for, and appeared in, a 1965 TV commercial for a board game about Camp Granada, a "real rotten camp."

The song won a 1964 Grammy Award for comedy.

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Camp Granada is a 1965 children's board game by Milton Bradley Company based on Allan Sherman's popular 1963 novelty song Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh. Campers take turns driving a breakdown-prone bus to gather ICKY animals from various summer camp locations to be the first to leave the real rotten camp for home. The game board depicts spikes on the diving board, an octopus in the swimming hole, and a lover's leap into a volcano.

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