Not to be confused with the songwriter, parodist and television producer Allan Sherman (1924-1973). For the football player and coach, see Allie Sherman. Al Sherman (September 7, 1897 - September 16, 1973) was an important American Tin Pan Alley songwriter from the first half of the twentieth century. Sherman is a link in a long chain of musical Sherman family members. Early life Al Sherman was born into a musical family in Czarist Russia. Father Samuel Sherman fled a Cossack pogrom in 1903, settling in Prague which was then part of Austria-Hungary. Luck turned for Samuel and he landed a job as concertmaster, first violinist and sometimes court composer in the Royal Court of Emperor Franz Josef. Within a short time, Samuel was able to send for his family to live with him in Prague. As a young boy, Al would stand in the wings to hear his father play for the Bohemian Empero

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