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Following up on the previous post: Here's Allan Sherman on a 1967 Ed Sullivan Show. By this time in his career, he'd lost a lot of weight and ditched the "Jewish" part of his act, the glasses, the crewcut and his wife of 21 years.

Refused permission to parody Mr. Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night," Sherman instead did an original soundalike song and in live appearances, he interspersed numbers like this one (off his ninth and final album) with attempts to sing serious tunes, many of his own authorship. Audiences who wanted the little fat guy singing the kind of tunes that made him famous were disappointed but it ain't a bad song…