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"'''Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)'''" is the Grammy-winning [[novelty song]] based on [[Kvetch]] letters [[Allan Sherman]] received from his son attending Camp Champlain, [[New York]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.petabit.com/steve/LATimes_Granada.html| title = The Boy in Camp Granada| work=Lifestyle|accessdate = 2008-02-09| date = August 16, 2003| author=Paul Lieberman|publisher = LA Times}}<br> |
"'''Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)'''" is the Grammy-winning [[novelty song]] based on [[Kvetch]] letters [[Allan Sherman]] received from his son attending Camp Champlain, [[New York]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.petabit.com/steve/LATimes_Granada.html| title = The Boy in Camp Granada| work=Lifestyle|accessdate = 2008-02-09| date = August 16, 2003| author=Paul Lieberman|publisher = LA Times}}<br> |
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'''NOTE''': Sherman's son, Robert (born 1949) was kicked out of Camp Champlain.</ref> The song is a [[parody]] that complains about [[Camp Granada |
'''NOTE''': Sherman's son, Robert (born 1949) was kicked out of Camp Champlain.</ref> The song is a [[parody]] that complains about [[Camp Granada]] and is set to the tune of [[Amilcare Ponchielli|Ponchielli]]'s [[Dance of the Hours]]. The title is taken from the first lines:[[Image:Campgranadagame.jpg|left|thumb|[[Camp Granada]] board game based on [[Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh]]]] |
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<blockquote>''Hello Muddah<br />Hello Fadduh<br />Here I am at<br />Camp Granada<br />Camp is very<br />entertaining<br />And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining''.</blockquote> |
<blockquote>''Hello Muddah<br />Hello Fadduh<br />Here I am at<br />Camp Granada<br />Camp is very<br />entertaining<br />And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining''.</blockquote> |
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"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)" is the Grammy-winning novelty song based on Kvetch letters Allan Sherman received from his son attending Camp Champlain, New York.[1] The song is a parody that complains about 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."[2]
Variations of the song include translations in Swedish ("Brev från kolonien" by Cornelis Vreeswijk), Finnish, Norwegian ("Brev fra leier'n" by Birgit Strøm), Esperanto and Dutch. A rather sinister version in Hebrew was written by Hanoch Levin in 1966 (מכתב מן הקייטנה, sung by Tsippi Shavit).
In addition to the Grammy Award, the song is #8 on the list of 100 Greatest Novelty Songs. The song has been played numerous times on the "Dr. Demento Show" and is featured on the Rhino Records compilation album, Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection.
References and Notes
- ^ Paul Lieberman (August 16, 2003). "The Boy in Camp Granada". Lifestyle. LA Times. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
NOTE: Sherman's son, Robert (born 1949) was kicked out of Camp Champlain. - ^ "LikeTelevision - Camp Granada by Milton Bradley". liketelevision ...only better. LikeTelevision. Retrieved 2008-02-09.