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340 Note: All titles of works without an author are assumed to be Sherman’s and are designated by type of work. Adams, Jack, 49 African Americans, 151–52, 160 “Aha!—A Drama in Sex Acts (Printer’s Error)” (playlet), 45 albums. See individual album titles Allan in Wonderland (album), 190–93 Allan Sherman Enterprises, 195 Allan Sherman Live!!! (album), 223–24 Allen, Steve, 40, 77, 122–23, 124–25, 153, 162, 250 Allen, Woody, 95, 187, 199–200, 201–2, 252–53 “All My Laughter” (lyrics), 238 “Al ’n Yetta” (parody), 173 America (Stewart), 256–57 Americanism. See assimilation vs. ethnic identity anger, comedy as expression of, 6, 43 Anshe Emet synagogue, 37, 61–62 Anti-Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith, 13, 104, 158 anti-Semitism, 17, 35, 105, 119, 158 Army enlistment, Sherman’s short, 49 assimilation vs. ethnic identity: balance for Jewish entertainers (1960s), 186–87; Christianized musicals created by Jews, 90, 92–93; early 20th-century push for assimilation, 104–5; and immigrant Index / 341 experience, xiii, 12–14, 105; Jewish struggle with, xiii, 12–14, 82, 156; and Jewish suburbanization, 93–94, 178; in Los Angeles, 22; and New York Jewishness, 60; and Percy Coplon, 17; Rose’s assimilation, 15–16, 19, 20, 29; Sherman’s last essay on, 245; Sherman’s ridiculing of assimilation, 99–100; Sherman’s tightrope walk between, 3–4 “Ballad of Harry Lewis, The” (parody), xii, 129, 140, 157 Bass, Ben/Sam. See Segal, Dave Beatles phenomenon, 189–90 Belafonte, Harry, 128–29, 161 Bell, Daniel, 118 Bellow, Saul, xiii, 11–12, 13, 136–37, 156–57, 178, 187 Benny, Jack, 105, 154 Bergler, Edmund, 182 Berlin, Irving, 41, 51, 134–35 Berman, Shelly, 101–2 Bernstein, Leonard, 119, 120, 138 Best of Allan Sherman, The (album), 253–54 “Bewitched” (parody), 84, 91 “Big Bad Jim” (parody), 115–16 Bikel, Theodore, 129, 130 Billboard, 145–46, 170 Birmingham, Alabama, 16–17, 24, 38–39 blacks, 151–52, 160 Bobrick, Sam, 209 Borge, Victor, 75, 80 Boston Pops concert, 200, 201, 202–3 Broadway musical, Sherman’s, 48, 66, 226, 232–33, 234, 236–37 “Bronx Birdwatcher, The” (parody), 173 Brooks, Mel, 77, 85–86, 165, 212, 252, 253 Brougham, John, 146–47 Bruce, Lenny, 89–90, 101 Burtson, Bud, 59 Busch, Lou, 107, 116, 127–28, 148, 223, 238–39 “Bye Bye Blumberg” (parody), 204–5 Caesar, Sid, 70, 85–86 Cahn, Sammy, 148 “Call Me” (parody), 227 Camp Granada Game, 195 Camp Ojibwa, Wisconsin, 54 “Campus Scout” column, 35–36, 40–41, 42, 45, 50 Capp, Al, 216 Carlin, George, 252 Carnegie Hall, 153, 154 Carp, Jacob, 15 Carr, Joe “Fingers.” See Busch, Lou Carroll, Pat, 131 Carson, Johnny, 171, 181, 182, 183 “Catastrophe” (poem), 4 Catskill Mountain resorts, 186–87 Chackes, Alexander (brother-in-law), 56 Chackes, Dolores “Dee” (wife), 54, 55–57, 60–62. See also Golden, Dee; Sherman, Dolores Chackes, Emanuel (father-in-law), 56 Chackes, Theresa (née Silberstein) (mother-in-law), 56 “Change Partners” (Sherman parody), 98 Charles, Ray, 78, 87, 97 Charley Weaver Show (TV show), 106 Chaseman, Joel, 125 Chicago, Illinois, 2–3, 10–13, 19, 24–26, 30, 37–38, 195 [3.94.102.228] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:31 GMT) 342 / Index “Chi Chi” (parody), 167–68 Chi Chi club, 167–68 childhood: damage to Sherman from, 7, 22–32, 182–85; Sherman’s comic contrasts with adulthood, 137, 173–74, 177; Sherman’s idealization of, 23, 80, 109, 180, 182–83, 192–93, 218–19, 228, 243 “Chim Chim Cheree” (Sherman’s parody), 220 “Chopped Liver” (parody), 117, 133 “Civilians of 1943, The” (poem), 51–52 civil rights movement, 219 classical music, Sherman’s inventive use of, 175 Clorfene, Bruce, 34, 35, 38, 40, 44–45, 46, 49, 52, 54 Cohen, Elliot, 63 Cole, Louise Goldstein, 38 Colgate Comedy Hour (TV show), 233 college years: academic and behavior problems, 50, 53–54; choosing a school, 34–35; Dee Chackes, 54, 55–57; deflating pretension, 42; Jewish caricature issue in Satyr, 46–47; Mirth of a Nation, 53; name change and father, 38–39; Nothing Ventured, 48– 49; sexual proclivities, 41–42, 44–46; and short Army enlistment, 49; Sigma Alpha Mu, 43–44; song parodies, 41, 42–43, 47–48, 50–52, 54–55; writing for Daily Illini, 33–34, 35–36, 39, 40– 41, 42, 45, 50, 53 comedy: as expression of anger, 6, 43; hard-driving shift after Sherman, 251–52; and...