He's a mensch? Not only found the paper but when looking at the title I see it's "Allan Sherman". It may or may not be an "affected" spelling but according to the article he had a passion for doing things his way, a passion which subsided after his three albums ran out his skein of ambition.

Spelling the name correctly opened up the opportunity to view the article online and hence use the url. As to my spelling, I'd better tighten up or my second career as amanuensis will be stuck where I pile things.