My Son, the Nut


My Son, the Nut is the third album by Allan Sherman, released by Warner Bros. Records in 1963. The album held the top spot on the Billboard 200 for nearly two months, from August 31 to October 25, 1963. It stayed on the charts for 140 weeks and sold 1.2 million copies. My Son, the Nut was also the last comedy album to hit #1 on the Billboard 200 for over half a century, until "Weird Al" Yankovic's Mandatory Fun in 2014.
Unlike Sherman's first two albums My Son, the Folk Singer and My Son, the Celebrity, which had been filled with in-jokes about Jewish culture, the parodies on this album were more generic.

Track listing

Side one
  1. "You Went the Wrong Way, Old King Louie"
  2. "Automation"
  3. "I See Bones"
  4. "Hungarian Goulash No 5"
  5. "Headaches"
  6. "Here's to the Crabgrass"
Side two
  2. "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter from Camp)"
  3. "One Hippopotami"
  4. "Rat Fink"
  5. "You're Getting to Be a Rabbit with Me"
  6. "Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue"
  7. "Hail to Thee, Fat Person"