Sheldon Allman (June 8, 1924 – January 22, 2002) was an American-Canadian actor, singer, and songwriter.
Allman was born in Chicago, Illinois He began his singing career with the Royal National Guard during his World War II service with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He moved to Los Angeles in 1949, in order to attend the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. After it, he appeared in 12 films, including such notable films as Nevada Smith, The Sons of Katie Elder, Hud and In Cold Blood. His co-stars included, respectively, Steve McQueen, John Wayne and Paul Newman. He also made appearances in numerous TV series during the 1960s and 1970s.
On television, Allman provided the voice of Big H in CB Bears on CBS[5] and played Norm Miller in Harris Against the World on NBC. He provided music on the game show Three for the Money on NBC and he was the singing voice for TV’s Mister Ed, for which he also wrote and recorded “The Pretty Little Filly with the Ponytail” and “The Empty Feedbag Blues”. Mr. Allman wrote longer versions of these songs, but never recorded the longer versions. He was the lyricist for the theme song to George of the Jungle. Additionally, Allman worked with Stan Worth, co-writer of the “George of the Jungle” theme, to create music for a number of game shows by Stefan Hatos-Monty Hall Productions, including the 1970s versions of Let’s Make a Deal, Masquerade Party and It Pays to be Ignorant.
In 1960, Allman released Folk Songs for the 21st Century, an album of novelty songs all revolving around science-fiction themes. The tongue-in-cheek material, which Allman wrote and arranged himself, included titles such as “Crawl Out Through The Fallout” and “Radioactive Mama.” “Crawl Out Through The Fallout” is used in the video game Fallout 4.
In addition, Allman co-wrote two comedy horror-themed stage musicals with Bobby Pickett, composer of the hit novelty song, “Monster Mash.” The musicals were I’m Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You’ll Have to Spend the Night and its sequel, Frankenstein Unbound, the former of which was made into the 1995 film, Monster Mash.
On January 22, 2002, Allman died of heart failure at his home in Culver City, California, at age 77. His interment is in Culver City’s Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery. (wikipedia)
A time capsule of atomic-age country, radioactive rockabilly, and other-worldly melodies! Sheldon Allman (the singing voice of Mr. Ed!) brings you this bunker full of plutonium-charged songs about space and destruction. Features “Crawl Out Through The Fallout” as heard in the award winning video game Fallout 4! Modern Harmonic proudly resurrects this wonderfully mystifying LP! A true creative treasure, the Chicago born and Canada raised Sheldon Allman was a graduate of the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. Known well as an actor, Sheldon also composed and sung the theme song for 60’s cartoon cult classic George Of The Jungle. Additionally, as the singing voice of Mr. Ed, he released a 45 of “Pretty Little Filly” and “The Empty Feedbag Blues.” Most rare and coveted of his musical treasures was Folk Songs For The 21st Century, a concept album with a twisted futuristic outer space take on the atom craze. As an actor, Allman has over 50 credits to his name including films Hud!, In Cold Blood, and various roles on anything from Little House On The Prairie to the Twilight Zone. (press release)
The label of a re-issue in green vinyl:
This is an album of science fiction comedy songs by Sheldon Allman. Despite the title of the album, these aren’t all “folk songs”. There are a few folk songs, but there is also rock and roll, jazz and even opera. The best known song nowadays is “Crawl Out Through The Fallout”, due to its inclusion in the video game Fallout 4. That’s a great song, but the other songs are funny, too. They are about what people in 1960 imagined the future would be like. Of course, all those predictions about life in the 21st Century ended up being wrong, but these novelty songs are still amusing. (Johnny Heering)
It is good that folk music in this century does not sound like that !
Personnel:
Sheldon Allman (vocals)
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a bunch of unknown studio musicians
Tracklist:
01. Radioactive Mama 1.52
02. Rocket To The Moon 1.38
03. Univac And The Humanoid 3.10
04. Space Opera 1.25
05. Girl In The 4th Dimension 1.57
06. Change 1.55
07. It Conquered The World 2.16
08. Crawl Out Through The Fallout 2.27
09. Schizophrenic Baby 1.49
10. Big Brother 2.25
11. Extra Sensory Perception 1.28
12. Free Fall 2.02
13. X Square Plus 2 2.34
14. Walking On The Ground 2.40
All songs written by Sheldon Allman
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