One Hippopotami (Allan Sherman)
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- Опубліковано 20 гру 2007
- Though best known for his comedy recording of "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh", here is my tribute to the late great Allan Sherman's song "One Hippopotami".
Note: The production is an example of 1960's comedy recordings, and is presented here for educational purposes only. The video includes credited portions of a copy of an Allan Sherman recording titled "One Hippopotami". It is an educational demonstration of the comedy song parody recording styles of the 1960s. Images have been added in order to highlight phrases and enhance the educational experience of any student of the history of classic comedy recordings. Therefore, as the spirit and intent of this posting is in tribute to 1960s comedy recordings, as well as being an educational tool for demonstration purposes only, this production's posting on UA-cam, meets with the requirements of the Fair Use copyright clause. If the posting of this video on my channel has resulted in an increase in sales of Allan Sherman's recordings, I will neither seek nor accept, from the recording's copyright holder, any compensation for effecting an increase in their profits as a result of their conversion of my video into a promotional tool for their benefit, as my channel is strictly Not For Profit and does not benefit me in any way. - Комедії
I always felt this had the single best punchline of any comedic song.
What really makes this genius is the way he belts out the payoff lines as triumphantly as if he was in a Hollywood musical. It's a perfect parody of what was in style back then, and that only makes it funnier today, because he's being so earnest about something that's been dated for half a century.
This guy didn't get enough rewards for his work. He was the first comedian to make me laugh just by making a face.
Brilliant lyricist! I was a teen when Hello Muddah came out in the 60's. We love it! I've been a fan ever since. Yes, he died too young but they say he died while making his guests laugh.
You did a stellar job with the video. Loved it! And of course Allan Sherman definitely was a genius.
Thanks for taking time to leave the kind comment Marilyn.
@@cputb1 Love the illustrations!
A GREAT TALENT!
...Allan was my hero in the 60s!!! Weird Al was my hero in the 80s & 90s...
Allan Sherman had the clearest voice I've ever heard.
The man had talent!
He's voice is something unique!
he was a crazy guy. died too young,
This is awesome. I was brought up on Sherman and then shared it with my kids.
+coffeeiv my mom MADE me love it. by MAKING me listen to it : )
My dad raised me on this stuff. I am a better person for it.
My vinyl recording of this back in the 70's must've had a colony of water bears living inside the groove right where the lyrics go "on a bus" because I never could make out what the hell Allan was singing there. I grew up with my best guess being "One hippopotami cannot get out of us" which never quite made sense to me. It is a huge relief that I have finally heard the accurate lyric before I die. Thank you. Now, please, I must go - Louie and I have a bus to catch - and BTW we can fit on it with room to spare!
Great tribute to Allen. And the visuals were VERY helpful!
Wonderful job! Thanks for putting visuals to my (arguably) favorite Allan Sherman song!
With all the Allen Sherman my mom shared with us when we were kids, she somehow missed this one. Thanks for sharing this.
Great job! I love it. I have never heard this song before.
This is one of the greatest songs ever recorded. Thanks for the vid.
Aw, this is just great. One of Allan's most inventive parodies. Thanks for putting it up and adding the video.
There's no more great creative comedic genius today. That great comedy of the past isn't here today and I miss it, so like many older farts, just live in the past.
Look up "The Yellow River Boys," very funny parody of down south rock
"When Ben Casey meets Kildare it's called a pair of docs!" Lol!
One of my favorites. Thanks for posting.
I LOVED ALLAN SHERMAN SINCE I GOT HIS ALBUM, MY SON THE NUT BACK IN LATE 1963! I WAS 10 YEARS OLD.I WAS SAD HE PASSED AWAY IN THE EARLY 1970'S.😢 THANKS FOR SHARING! R.K.3/24/2023.
Simply wonderful!
That was great! Loved Allen Sherman since I was a kid. Thanks for the memories.
Was into him from the age of 4 ; still love it, and your video rocks !!!
Very nicely done! I recently received a collection of Allan Sherman's work on CD and I have been in heaven listening to these songs I have not heard since childhood and some I have never heard before at all. THANK YOU for keeping this kind of humor and artistry alive so creatively!
My mom bought me "My Son The Folk Singer" in '68! I HAVE BEEN A FAN EVER SINCE!
Great job!
"A half of pair of scissors is a single sciss!" Lol!
LOVED IT!!!!!!!
thanks, enjoyed listing, this guy was great, my mother had 2 or three of his albums while I was growing up.
Love the video, great job!!
"And if you have two goose, that makes one geese. A pair of mouse is mice, a pair of moose is meese."
"A parallelogram is just a crazy square!"
Still hilarious all these years after first listening to my grandpa's records 30 years ago. Thanks for making this video. If you have any "guilt" about spreading the Allan Sherman word, just go buy his 6 CD boxset they put out on Rhino a couple of years ago. It has crazy stuff you've never heard before and is well worth it.
Thanks for helping bring back the memories I have of my parents . I come here a lot when i`m down , it always put`s a smile on the face . I know If Allan Sherman could see this he would approve of the way you did this video .
A masterpiece of humor in both audio and video. Great coordination, cputb1. There should be an award for this.
feels so great to laugh out loud...try it!
totally agree
I've loved this song for years. You are to be cheered loudly for making such a great video!
This is a really adorable video.
This is one of my favorite songs. Bravo!
EXCELLENT VIDEO AND A GREAT SONG AND ONE OF MY FAVORITES FROM ALLAN SHERMAN! R.I.P. ALLAN SHERMAN! THANKS FOR SHARING! R.K. 3/17/2021.
So good! still...always.
Oh a total BRAVO! :::applause::: I haven't had these thoughts in years...I'd love to hear "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" My Mom use to play that a lot. Left my face with a huge smile, Great Job CP!
Haven't heard that song in AGES, well done of the images. :-) Thanks
Great stuff. the first time I remember hearing Allan Sherman was when I was about 11. He had an album, "My Son the Folksinger." Great songs like Harvey and Sheila and My Zelda. The younger generation has Weird Al. It was Allan Sherman for us. I was telling my kids about "One Hippopotami just the other day. Can't believe I found it here! "When you go to the delicatessen store, don't buy the liverwurst." It's been here since October first and today is the 31st of May!
Brilliant.
"It's a single scizz!" Lol!
Pair of docs. Love it!
An awesome talent that left a wonderful legacy of humor and thoughts that make you go hummmm. Thank you cputb1. Thank you Allan I love my single siz....:-)
Glad to do it for you. You deserve it. I noticed as I scrolled down to find me, that one Ny...99 made reference to "Pop hates the Beatles"
Actually that clip "I hate the Beatles" is part of a routine Al did on the Dean Martin Show, and the clip is on youtube! And, also available, there is Allan singing his "crazy downtown".
in response to Petula's Downtown.
You keep me laughin Gary
Bravo! while I love looking at old footage of Allan singing his songs, I have to admit it's more fun watching the brilliant visuals you have so skillfully blended in. It is as if this his how the master himself would have presented his work if he were still alive today to upload to youtube. Very well done!
He was freaking brilliant.
This is sublime!
I like it. Two thumbs up.
Hehehehe, we had all his albums when I was a kid. I had "Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue" in my head all afternoon.
Wow, I've never heard of this. Great video!
Wow! Thank you 54rein. You made my week!
Thanks for bchecking it out bspechtful.
Pope James: Nice work. Clearly this took some effort, and your visuals are right in line with Allan's sense of humor!
Tusen Tack 6funswede!
Wow. What a great voice
Thank you so much for this video. It's visible on my own channel, but I love American comedy songs. Your video was good fun too. Keep it in here, and take care! :-)
Thanks for taking a look.
Well done!
Thanks for taking a look!!!!!!
Great stuff love it
Good one CP!
Nice video CP. Great work on the visuals. I vaguely remember this song. I think my dad had an LP with 'it' on the playlist. Your clips deffinitely made it more pallatable the second time around.
My little Jolie loved it too.
J.C.
LOL...This is hilarious! Love it
Many Thankses!
Allan Sherman worked on " I've Got. Secret" creating conundrums for the panel to play out.
@generalTiffnay - Thanks general T! You put a smile on my day. And it needed one, hahaha.
Thank you JP.
My Mom was no Allan Sherman fan, but when she heard the line "What is half a pair of scissors?--That's a single sciz!" she broke up! :D
Well thank you PCSongman! Very kind of you to leave a comment.
This is epic.
That is hilarious! Funniest song I've ever heard in my life!
"Singulars and plurals are so different! Bless my soul!" LOL-cubed!
Nice job making this video.. The pictures apply to each word and are timed just right.
One hippopotami cannot get on a bus,
Because one hippopotami is two hippopotamus
And if you have two goose, that makes one geese
A pair of mouse is mice A pair of moose is meese
A paranoia is a bunch of mental blocks
And when Ben Casey meets Kildaire, that's called a paradox
When two minks fall in love, with all their heart and soul,
You'll find the plural of two minks is one mink stole
Singulars and plurals are so different, bless my soul
Has it ever occurred to you that the plural of half is whole?
A bunch of tooth is teeth a group of foot is feet
And two canaries make a pair, they call it a parakeet
A paramecium is not a pair
A parallelogram is just a crazy square
Nobody knows just what a paraphernalia is
And what is half a pair of scissors, but a single sciz?
With someone you adore, if you should find romance,
You'll pant, and pant once more, and that's a pair of pants!
I just listened to the entire song...
BARS
Sorry for missing this. I didn't get a notification that you had posted a comment, and WoW what a comment it is!
Thanks for stopping by DoubleDutchBuwst!
Thanks for chiming in Mr Chinheaven! And the view. Appreciate it!
I sang this song for a theater audition; but I changed the doctor line to "And when Hawkeye and Trapper John teamed up/You had a paradox."
I am so jealous, fantastic video, wish I had the skills and programs to make them like that. I have everyone of Allen Shermans records and made one video of Call Me, but yours is so much better. Please make more!
I just watched "The Cat in the Hat" last week. In the credits I was surprised to learn that Sherman didn't help write the lyrics, they are pure Dr. Seuss. I felt like a "Credunkulous Shmunk!"
It took DECADES for me to realize that this is a parody of "What Kind of Fool Am I," probably because even though Allan Sherman was nobody's idea of a singer, he always got the notes right--and in this song, he doesn't. I've hypothesized that he couldn't get the rights, so he sang different notes on purpose.Contrary to what's written earlier, he didn't create "What's My Line." He DID co-create "I've Got a Secret." However, after he achieved fame, he appeared on WML as a guest panelist. Dorothy Kilgallen introduced him as "my son, the folk singer" (his nickname, from the first album), and people all over the country who didn't get the reference wondered, "Is Dorothy Kilgallen Allan Sherman's mother?" (A good trick--if she were, she'd have given birth at the age of 11.)
Thanks! I was searching to see what song it was based on. I could just hear Nat King Cole singing it but could not hear the original words in my head! Driving me nuts!
This is one of his most brilliant efforts, and that is saying something, but I too never realized it is based on What Kind of Fool Am I, so thanks for that. Yah he got sued several times for his parodies. He had no idea he was infringing or whatever they called it. Sad, as he still could be bringing joy as he did to my childhood. A brilliant man who eventually wrote the lyrics to a Broadway show The Fig Leaves Are Falling, and although it bombed, many greats recorded a song from the show, Did I Ever Really Live? Sad as the lyrics to the other songs are fantastic too. A genius who is still appreciated. I hope he in some way knows.
It sounded like Nat King Cole to me too. At first I thought it sounded like "When I Fall in Love".
It sounded a bit like 'Unforgettable' to me, at the beginning.
@@strooomon I read somewhere he did "Crazy Downtown" (a parody of Petula Clark's "Downtown") he paid the royalties for the song, but it was so expensive, he never did that again, going back to using music in the public domain.
Wow, thank you sir.
The plural of half is whole, genius😂👍
Very nice video very apropos to the song. I was wondering what you were going to do about a paraphanalia
Favorite line: "and that's a single siz!"
Yep, a lot of good stuff in his catalogue.
Wow, thank you Kind67!
Thanks mechanicalmagician! I just use PowerDirector 6 (I think it currently retails for around 89 bucks), and PhotoImpression4 (10 bucks), and MS Paint.
And then I just kept goofing around with it here and there till it felt done, hahaha.
There's trial versions available of those programs. You might want to give 'em a test drive.
Thanks again! Very kind of you.
Thanks!
- Power Director 6
- Microsoft Paint
- PhotoImpression 4
Thanks for checking out the vid!
Thanks Iberelson!
Hey, thanks for the comment!
And thanks for stopping by. I've got a couple of other A. Sherman bits on here somewhere. Hope you check 'em out.
English teachers need to show this to their students these days
You are missing a period at the end of your sentence. (-1 punctuation)
Maybe there was some legal/copyright issue and he couldn't use the actual tune of "What Kind of Fool Am I". It's obviously based on the song, the tune is quite different, even though the rhythm and rhyme scheme is similar.
Thanks NYCity99!
Thanks for checking it out and commenting.
I appreciate it!
brilliant
on one of his lps steve allen wrote the liner notes lauding his talent