Friday on my Mind 237: Like I Do / Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)
Posted in 1960s, Friday On My Mind, Music at 12:00 on 13 December 2024
A bit of a change this week. Two for the price of one; both adapted from Dance of the Hours from the opera La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli.
First a straightforward use of the tune with love song lyrics. I did not know until I looked this up that it had first been recorded by Nancy Sinatra in 1962. In the UK Maureen Evans had a hit with it a year later.
Maureen Evans: Like I Do
Also in 1963 comic Allan Sherman released a novelty single setting the tune to his own lyrics, a satirising of the US summer camp experience after receiving letters from his son about Camp Champlain in New York. This is I believe a colourised clip.
Allan Sherman: Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)
Tags: Amilcare Ponchielli, Dance of the Hours, Friday On My Mind, Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp), La Gioconda, Like I Do, Maureen Evans, Nancy Sinatra
