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Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh

"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)" is the Grammy-winning novelty song

Novelty song

A novelty song is a comical or nonsensical song, performed principally for its Comedy. Humorous songs, or those containing humorous elements, are not necessarily novelty songs....
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letters Allan Sherman

Allan Sherman

Allan Sherman was a Jewish United States musician, parody, satire and television producer....
received from his son attending Camp Champlain, New York

New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. The song is a parody

Parody

A parody , in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, or author, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation....
that complains about Camp Granada

Camp Granada

Camp Granada is a 1965 children's board game by Milton Bradley based on Allan Sherman's popular 1963 novelty song Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh....
and is set to the tune of Ponchielli

Amilcare Ponchielli

Amilcare Ponchielli was an Italian composer, largely of operas....
's Dance of the Hours

Dance of the Hours

Dance of the Hours is a ballet from the opera La Gioconda composed by Amilcare Ponchielli .The ballet was used in the Walt Disney animated film Fantasia , albeit with ballet-dancing hippopotamus , ostriches, alligators and elephants....
. 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

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
for three weeks beginning August 24, 1963, Sherman wrote a new "back at Camp Granada" version, , for a May 27, 1964 performance on the The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a late-night Talk/Chat show hosted by Johnny Carson under the The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992....
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"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)" is the Grammy-winning novelty song

Novelty song

A novelty song is a comical or nonsensical song, performed principally for its Comedy. Humorous songs, or those containing humorous elements, are not necessarily novelty songs....
based on Kvetch

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Sorry, no overview for this topic
letters Allan Sherman

Allan Sherman

Allan Sherman was a Jewish United States musician, parody, satire and television producer....
received from his son attending Camp Champlain, New York

New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. The song is a parody

Parody

Camp Granada

Camp Granada is a 1965 children's board game by Milton Bradley based on Allan Sherman's popular 1963 novelty song Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh....
and is set to the tune of Ponchielli

Amilcare Ponchielli

Amilcare Ponchielli was an Italian composer, largely of operas....
's Dance of the Hours

Dance of the Hours

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

Billboard Hot 100

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a late-night Talk/Chat show hosted by Johnny Carson under the The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992....
. Sherman wrote a third version for, and appeared in, a 1965 TV commercial for a board game about Camp Granada

Camp Granada

Camp Granada is a 1965 children's board game by Milton Bradley based on Allan Sherman's popular 1963 novelty song Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh....
, a "real rotten camp."

Variations of the song include translations in Swedish

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic languages language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the ?land islands....
("Brev från kolonien" by Cornelis Vreeswijk

Cornelis Vreeswijk

Cornelis Vreeswijk , was a singer-songwriter, poet and actor born in IJmuiden in the Netherlands emigrated to Sweden with his parents in 1949, at the age of twelve....
), Finnish

Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by Finnish people outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden....
, Norwegian

Norwegian language

Norwegian is a North Germanic languages language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. It is also spoken as a second language among Norwegian-Americans in the United States of America, especially in the central northern states....
("Brev fra leier'n" by Birgit Strøm), and . A rather sinister version in Hebrew was written by Hanoch Levin

Hanoch Levin

Hanoch Levin , was a prominent Israeli dramatist. He was also a theater director, an author and a poet, but he was best known for his plays....
in 1966 (???? ?? ???????, sung by Tsippi Shavit).

In addition to the Grammy Award

Grammy Awards of 1964

The 6th Grammy Awards were held in 1964. They recognized accomplishments by musicians for the year 1963....
, the song is #8 on the list of . The song has been played numerous times on the "Dr. Demento

Dr. Demento

Dr. Demento is the stage name of Barret Eugene Hansen , a radio disc jockey specializing in novelty songs and pop music parodies. He created the persona in 1970 while working at Los Angeles, California station KPPC ....
Show" and is featured on the Rhino Records compilation album, Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection.