Sheldon Allman

Sheldon Allman June 8 1924 January 22 2002 was an AmericanCanadian 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 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 costars 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 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 TVs 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 versionscitation needed He was the lyricist for the theme song to George of the Jungle Additionally Allman worked with Stan Worth cowriter of the George of the Jungle theme to create music for a number of game shows by Stefan HatosMonty Hall Productions including the 1970s versions of Lets 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 sciencefiction themes The tongueincheek 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 and the 2024 TV adaptation Fallout during the closing credits of season 1 episode one