Bill Moyers

November, 1964

my son, the gold mineRecently Playing Back a home recording he'd made three years ago—a time when no one but his mother considered him a balladeer—Allan Sherman heard not only several of his Yiddish-flavored folk-song parodies ("Gimme Jack Cohen and I Don't Care," "Sarah Jackman," et al.), but this remark as well: "There's no way in this life I can ever earn a nickel out of these songs." Fortunately for himself and an adulating public, Allan Sherman, nee Copelon (in...

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