Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Allan Sherman Sings "Smog Gets in Your Eyes"

Allan Sherman dominated the world of song parody during the 1960s and recorded eight albums, starting with My Son the Folksinger.  

Listening to or reading his lyrics is a crash course in pop culture of the 1960s, with Sherman taking satiric swipes at summer camp, psychiatry, fad diets, Hadassah ladies, school dropouts, and upward mobility.

The popularity of his parodies got him many guest appearances on TV variety shows. In this video clip, Sherman prefaces his rendition of Smog Gets in Your Eyes, a take-off on Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach's song Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, with a joke on how the California city of Van Nuys got its name.

Enjoy!

 

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