The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3767   Message #2703412
Posted By: Don Firth
18-Aug-09 - 08:18 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Camp Granada (Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah)
Subject: RE: Origins: Camp Granada (Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah)
I first heard "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" on an Allan Sherman record in the early 1960s (a friend of mine had it). Until I read it in this thread, I had never hear of it being attributed to Spike Jones. I would need extraordinary proof to convince me that it was actually written by Spike Jones because it is so much the kind of thing that Allan Sherman did.

Another song about "Granada" that was mentioned above, and for which Megan provided an English language version is a sort of pop-classic song that was written by Agustin Lara, and just about every operatic tenor and his pet chicken have take a shot at it. Here's Spanish tenor Placido Domingo giving it his all:

Granada, by Agustin Lara.

Don Firth