The song scored #2 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 list for three weeks beginning on August 24, 1963. It was kept from #1 by both "Fingertips" by "Little" Stevie Wonder and "My Boyfriend's Back" by The Angels. Sherman wrote a new 'back at Camp Granada' version, "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! 64", for a May 27, 1964, performance on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". Sherman began that version by giving a camp whistle, followed by his spelling Granada's name, and then sticks out his tongue. In that version, the narrator is back at camp, recovering from his compound fracture, where some things, like the food have improved, "because the little black things in it are not moving". However, no one knows where his bunk, trunk, or the skunk is. The narrator wishes that the showers, that have thin doors, were moved indoors. The narrator takes swimming lessons from an overweight woman. ("A Whale in a Bikini"). Lenny Bruce was scheduled to entertain there at the camp. The narrator loves the camp, missing the poker games, and requesting ungletine. The narrator is taking care of his once homesick younger brother, who is immature. ("He's like all of us except his bed is wetter") This version was released as a single in 1964. Sherman wrote a third version for, and acted in, a 1965 TV commercial for a board game about Camp Granada, a "real rotten camp". The original version also reached #9 on the Pop-Standard Singles chart.