![]() In 1961, he produced a daytime game show for Al Singer Productions called Your Surprise Package, which aired on CBS with host George Fenneman. Sherman also produced a short-lived 1954 game show, What's Going On?, which was technologically ambitious, with studio guests interacting with multiple live cameras in remote locations. However, the episode in question, featuring a demonstration of childhood games by Tony Curtis, does not run short and in fact Morgan ends it abruptly and says they’ve run out of time. ![]() In his autobiography, A Gift of Laughter, Sherman writes that he was fired from I've Got a Secret in 1958, after guest host Henry Morgan was left short of scripted material by seven minutes, and that Morgan filled the time by berating Sherman on-air. Although the resultant melee made a good story, it did not necessarily make for good TV. The boys were invited to come up onstage to collect their prize. He once released 100 rabbits onstage as an Easter surprise for the Madison Square Boys Club, whose members were seated in the studio. As producer of I've Got a Secret, which was broadcast live, he showed a fondness for large-scale stunts that teetered on the brink of disaster. However, differences occurred between Sherman and anyone who was in a position to try to restrain his creativity. Sherman was reported to be warm and kindhearted to all who worked for him. Rather than paying him for the concept, Mark Goodson- Bill Todman Productions made Sherman the show's producer. Television producer Mark Goodson adapted Sherman's idea into I've Got a Secret, which ran on CBS from 1952 to 1967. Sherman devised a game show he intended to call I Know a Secret. He was expelled for breaking into the Sigma Delta Tau sorority house with his girlfriend and future wife, Dolores "Dee" Chackes. He later attended the University of Illinois, where he earned mostly "C" grades and contributed a humor column to The Daily Illini, the college newspaper. ![]() For his High School years, he attended Fairfax High School in Los Angeles where he graduated in 1941. Because his parents frequently moved to new residences, he attended 21 public schools in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Miami. His parents divorced when he was seven, and he adopted his mother's maiden name. Percy was an auto mechanic and race car driver from Birmingham, Alabama who suffered from obesity (he weighed over 350 pounds) and died while attempting a 100-day diet. Sherman was born on November 30, 1924, in Chicago, Illinois, to Percy Copelon and Rose Sherman. His biggest hit was " Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh", a comic song in which a boy describes his summer camp experiences to the tune of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours. His first album, My Son, the Folk Singer (1962), became the fastest-selling record album up to that time. Allan Sherman (born Allan Copelon or Allan Gerald Copelon November 30, 1924 – November 20, 1973) was an American musician, satirist and television producer who became known as a song parodist in the early 1960s.
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