In January of 1965, on the day before Lyndon Johnson was sworn in for his full term as president, I saw a great special on TV. It was called Allan Sherman's Funnyland and it starred Allan Sherman and his guests Lorne Greene, Jack Gilford and Angie Dickinson. As I've written here, I loved Allan Sherman when I was a kid. I still do in many ways.
In that pre-VCR era, I recorded the audio of the show (which aired but once) on my reel-to-reel tape recorder and played it over and over and over. At some point, I lost that tape but it almost didn't matter: I had the show committed to memory. A few years ago, someone sent me a DVD of it so I could see and hear it again…and I still thought it was a pretty good special. Someone has posted a couple of chunks of it on YouTube and here's one. I'll post another one tomorrow…
