In 1962, an outta-work TV producer-writer named Allan Sherman recorded an album of song parodies for Warner Brothers Records and quickly went from being broke to being very rich and famous. Very few records have had the immediate success of My Son, The Folk Singer and very few of them were comedy records. Sadly, Mr. Sherman's success did not last. He had a number of failures and a self-destructive streak. He was almost forgotten by 1970 and dead by '73.
I was a tremendous fan of his work even though when I was in high school, he sorta/kinda threatened to sue me — a story I've told several times on this site, here for instance. I still like listening to his recordings even though a lot of the comedy in them is quite dated.
Here he is on some TV show, singing one of the bigger hits from that first record, "Sarah Jackman." The lady in the duet is Christine Nelson, who was on the record with him. Most of the lyrics were rewritten for this TV appearance on the assumption, I assume, that everyone had heard the original record too many times by then…