The evening before Lyndon Johnson was sworn in for his full term as president (January, 1965), NBC aired a great special called Allan Sherman's Funnyland. It starred (of course) Allan Sherman and his guests included Lorne Greene, Jack Gilford and Angie Dickinson.
Since no one had gotten around yet to inventing the VCR or the DVR or anything that would record both video and audio off the TV, I recorded the latter on my Webcor reel-to-reel tape recorder and played it over and over and over. A few years ago, I managed to obtain a DVD of the show and it really was as good as I always remembered. Here's a number from it…
