My Son, the Celebrity is a musical comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 album by Allan Sherman

Allan Sherman

Allan Sherman was an American comedy writer and television producer who became famous as a song parodist in the early 1960s. His first album, My Son, the Folk Singer , became the fastest-selling record album up to that time...

, released in the United States by Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...

 in January 1963.

The album was the second of three straight albums by Sherman to reach #1 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

 album charts

Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

. It reached #1 on Billboard's Top 150 Best Selling LPs (Monaural) chart for the week ending March 9, 1963. It was released less than three months after My Son, the Folk Singer

My Son, the Folk Singer

My Son, the Folk Singer is an album by Allan Sherman [monophonic W-1475/stereophonic WS-1475], released by Warner Bros. Records in 1962. On the album sleeve, the title appears directly below the words "Allan Sherman's mother presents."- Side One :...

, which reached #1 on the same chart in December 1962.

My Son, the Celebrity followed the same template as My Son, the Folk Singer

My Son, the Folk Singer

My Son, the Folk Singer is an album by Allan Sherman [monophonic W-1475/stereophonic WS-1475], released by Warner Bros. Records in 1962. On the album sleeve, the title appears directly below the words "Allan Sherman's mother presents."- Side One :...

, mixing comic parodies of popular songs with cultural references and Jewish humor. Lou Busch

Lou Busch

Louis Ferdinand Busch was a music producer, musician and songwriter who was best known for performing as a pianist under the nickname Joe "Fingers" Carr.-Biography:...

 once again provided orchestration.

Side One

1. "Al 'N Yetta" ("Alouette
   Alouette (song)
   "Alouette" is a popular French Canadian children's song originating in France about plucking the feathers from a lark. Although it is in French, it is well-known among speakers of other languages; in this way it is similar to "Frère Jacques"...
   
   ")
2. "Barry Is The Baby's Name" / "Horowitz" / "Get On The Garden Freeway" ("Mary Is a Grand Old Name", "Harrigan
   Harrigan (song)
   "Harrigan" is a song written by George M. Cohan for the 1907 Broadway musical, Fifty Miles From Boston. It celebrates, and to some extent mocks, his own Irish heritage....
   
   ", "Give My Regards to Broadway
   Give My Regards to Broadway
   "Give My Regards to Broadway" is a song written by George M. Cohan for his musical play Little Johnny Jones ....
   
   ")
3. "Mexican Hat Dance
   Jarabe tapatío
   The Jarabe Tapatío dance in its standardized form was first choreographed by the Mexican, in the early twentieth century to celebrate a government-sponsored fiesta that commemorated the successful end of the Mexican Revolution....
   
   "
4. "The Bronx Bird Watcher" ("Willow, tit-willow (On a tree by a river)")
5. "The Let's All Call Up A.T.&T. And Protest To The President March"
6. "Harvey And Sheila" ("Hava Nagila
   Hava Nagila
   "Hava Nagila" is a Hebrew folk song that has become a staple of band performers at Jewish weddings and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs.-History:...
   
   ")

Side Two

1. "Won't You Come Home, Disraeli" ("Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey
   Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey
   " Bill Bailey", originally titled "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?" is a popular song published in 1902. It is commonly referred to as simply "Bill Bailey"....
   
   ")
2. "No One's Perfect" (to the tune of a well-known Alma Mater
   Alma mater
   Alma mater , pronounced ), was used in ancient Rome as a title for various mother goddesses, especially Ceres or Cybele, and in Christianity for the Virgin Mary.-General term:...
   
   , "Far above Cayuga's Waters")
3. "When I Was a Lad" (to the tune of the same name from H.M.S. Pinafore
   H.M.S. Pinafore
   H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical...
   
   )
4. "Me" ("Torna a Surriento
   Torna a Surriento
   “Torna a Surriento” is a Neapolitan song said to have been composed in 1902 by Ernesto De Curtis to words by his brother, Giambattista. The song was copyrighted officially in 1905; it has since become wildly popular, and has been sung by performers as diverse as Beniamino Gigli, Elvis Presley,...
   
   ")
5. "Shticks Of One And A Half A Dozen Of The Other" (medley)

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position	Weeks	Dates
1963	Billboard's Top 150 Best Selling LPs (Monaural) Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	1	1	March 9, 1963
1963	Billboard's Top 50 Best Selling LPs (Stereo) Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	4	2	February 9-16, 1963