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The music is based on the 1876 Ponchielli opera "Dance Of The Hours."Sherman wrote the lyrics, which are a comical letter from a boy at camp.

Sherman was a writer on The Steve Allen Show and created the game show I've Got a Secret. He went on to record comedy albums. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England)

This was used in commercials for Downy fabric softener. The letter from camp explained how he missed home because the pillow cases weren't washed in Downy.

This played at the end of the 1993 movie Indian Summer while Stick Coder (Sam Raimi) sat looking at the camera and the credits ran. The movie is about adults returning to a camp "Tamakwa" they attended as kids. The movie stars Matt Craven, who also played a camp counselor in training (CIT) in the 1979 movie Meatballs, which is also about camp. (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington)

Comments:

Great memory from the old days.
- Reed, New Ulm, MN

This music was also used in 1962 on a Maureen Evans song,"Like I Do". Nice song. I don't think Ms Evans ever scored again. Only thing is I think of Allen Sherman everytime I hear it!
- Gilbert, Brownsville, TX

Allan Sherman was the voice of the Cat in the Hat (Cartoon based on Dr. Seus books).
- Lalah, Wasilla, AK

Although I never went to camp as a kid (that was way back in the early 1950s), I have been told about how bad it was. It's probably much nicer now because they probably don't have ex-drill sergeants running the place with warmed-up moist dog food as "chow" in the "mess hall".
- Darrell, Eugene

This was also parodied in a commercial for Advantage flea control products in which a young puppy sings thanking mom for sending some Advantage in her last care package to puppy camp.
- Patrick, Tallapoosa, GA

Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh is a true comedy classic. It's the song that put Allan Sherman on the map after his successful album My Son the Folksinger.
- Howard, St. Louis Park, MN

you cant forget that Sam Raimi directed Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness, theyre always overlooked
- Danny, Sydney, Australia

This is The Simpsons song! Good ole simpsons
- Madeline, Melbourne, Australia

he he he this is on the simpsons, when bart steals the video game, & he changes the answering machine tape to this... "marge, is lisa on camp?"
- Kat, Sydney, Australia

Sam Raimi, (Spiderman, Spiderman 2, director) who plays the character Stick Coder also attended this camp (Camp Tamakwa) as a child.
- Mike, Mountlake Terrace, Washington