As a kid, I was a huge fan of Allan Sherman, song parody author extraordinaire. I collected all his albums and can still sing, from memory, almost all of his songs in a voice even worse than his. And of course he inspired me to start writing my own song parodies, which has led to occasionally writing lyrics for songs on TV shows I work on.
I never got to meet the man. The closest I came were a few brief conversations with his son, who was two years ahead of me at University High. Though Robert Sherman went on to a career in the TV business, our paths have somehow never crossed.
So I was quite interested to read this article, which is about how Robbie's trips to summer camp inspired his father's million-selling hit, "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh." You may enjoy it even though you didn't go to high school with the guy.