Summer may be over, but there are discs left over to talk about

COMIC CAPERS: Oi, the yucks I've been having, digging into the collected works of Allan Sherman, the musical humorist star of the '60s, now being celebrated with multiple CD reissues on the Collector's Choice label. His first and biggest album hit was with the Jewish-schtickler "My Son, the Folk Singer" (B), redoing the "Streets of Loredo" as "The Streets of Miami" and "Frere Jacques" as "Sarah Jackman." But everyone can connect with "My Son, the Nut" (A), from whence sprang "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter From Camp)," his computer kvetch "Automation" and the wacky "You Went the Wrong Way, Old King Louie" that's still a fave of "Kids' Corner" radio host Kathy O'Connell and her brood. Other rib-ticklers (especially if you know the old tunes he's referencing) are found on the Sherman sets "My Son, The Celebrity" and "For Swingin' Livers Only."

VIDEO CLIPS: Musician-turned-photographer Henry Diltz leads us into the hills of Laurel Canyon to celebrate "Legends of the Canyon" (Image Entertainment DVD, B), a celebration of the Southern California folk-rock revolution of the late 1960s and early '70s. Along with Diltz's old stills and home movies, we get fresh flashbacks from David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Michelle Phillips (of the Mamas and the Papas), Van Dyke Parks and America's Gerry Beckley.

I used to play the dickens out of the Barclay James Harvest synth-pop song "Mockingbird" in my WMMR DJ-ing days. But after watching the new DVD of their 1980 "Berlin: A Concert for the People" (Eagle Vision, B-), I'm reminded why the group didn't achieve the same success as sonic contemporaries like the Moody Blues and Supertramp. Simply put, BJH didn't have the depth of catalog, and their lyrics were sometimes insipid.

But one other tune called "Titles," included here in the "bonus" videos section, is also a grabber - their tribute to the Beatles expressed almost entirely with Fab Four lyrics and tune allusions.