Secret Code by Allan Sherman

Allan Sherman explains his secret to an unsuspecting audience.

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Music

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• allan
• sherman
• secret
• code

[Cyallaire]

I think he was a victim of the tobacco industry. He's one of my all time favorite songwriters. I hadn't heard the Secret Code before, and it was great to see the image of him singing it. Thanks for posting this.

[grunditgnome]

He was such a genius.

[lmiddleman]

Never heard this before. Shades of his performance in the animated Cat In The Hat, "Calculatus Eliminatus".

[noochinator]

No code to anything actual -- it's just a parody of the great old song "Secret Love."

[TheEnzio64]

Does this code actually go to anything? I feel like I'm missing part of a larger joke...

[SunnyLovetts]

I'm new too his talents, but he has an interesting approach on reality.

[merle572]

My Dad used to listen to Allen Sherman and Stan Freburg (sp),I learned about comedy and laughing because of my old man,thank god we also listened to Johnathan winters,Phil Silvers,etc

[librarybob1958]

Allan Sherman (1924 - 1973) was a genius at what he did, and what he did, he did better than anyone else.

I'm definitely one of these people who believe that, had he not died while preparing his first new album in six years, could have comeback. A country still in the barbed coils of Watergate, and with an adnavced case of collective battle fatigue from eight years in Vietnam, would have been ready to embrace him, again, as the comic genius he was.

[madamerotten]

The best! I wish we still had him.

[wingnutofcoolness]

One favorite of mine that younger people wont get is"The Lets All Call Up A T & T And Protest To The Presidents March". As kids we wore out our Allan Sherman records.

[tripjet999]

@Cyallaire

Yes, he was effectively murdered by the tobacco pushers and their ILLEGAL (yes, still illegal to poison people, no matter how slowly you do it!) weapon of mass destruction. BAN THE TOBACCO DRUG, NOW!