This Time, Allan Sherman’s Mother Proudly Presents: My Son, the Celebrity

“The people on the cover of this album are Genuine People” Allan Sherman says in the liner notes. Quoted from Allan, “From left to right, they are:

• My Genuine Daughter, Nancy, age ten, in a rented riding habit.
• My Genuine Son, Robbie, age thirteen, holding a rented polo mallet aloft, pointing it at the sky, not at any people, because he is observing our family motto, ‘With Mallets Toward None’.
• My Genuine Wife, Dee, in a borrowed mink polo coat.
• Our Genuine Maid, Maxine, who, among other wonderful things, knows Where Everything Is in our house.
• Our Genuine Beagle, Jackson B. Sherman, who, so help me, once buried a bagel.
• In the background, Maxine’s Genuine Husband, Leroy, is sitting in our Genuine Lincoln, on which there is a Genuine Chattel Mortgage.”