Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)

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"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter from Camp)" is a novelty song recorded by Allan Sherman released in 1963. The melody is taken from the ballet Dance of the Hours from the opera La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli, while the lyrics were written by Sherman and Lou Busch. The lyrics are in the form of a letter written by a boy to his parents expressing dissatisfaction with summer camp. Sherman wrote the song after letters of complaint which he received from his son Robert Sherman who was attending Camp Champlain, in Westport, New York. The song was a major success and earned a Grammy Award. In 2019, "Hello Muddah" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The song's mention of "Leonard Skinner", a boy at the camp who "got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner", was an inspiration for the name of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, although the band's name was also...

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