What are your summer camp memories? Can you relate to Allan Sherman's classic "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah"? The song was released on this day in 1963— the voice of thousands of children pleading with their parents to "take me home"! | CBC Music

On this day in Music History - August 10, 1963 Comedian Allan Sherman releases "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadda", a comedy bit set to the music from Ponchielli's "Dance Of The Hearts" that first appeared on his album "My Son the Nut". Sherman wrote the song about his son's real life experience at a summer camp called Camp Champlain, at which he wanted desperately to come home and then later pleaded to go back to. The record would climb to number two on Billboard's Hot 100, and in 2020, was selected by