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"Don't Laugh at Me" is a song written by Allen Shamblin and Steve Seskin, and recorded by American country music artist Mark Wills. It was released in July 1998 as the second single from album Wish You Were Here. Like "I Do (Cherish You)" before it, "Don't Laugh at Me" was a number 2 hit on the Billboard country charts.
Of the eight songs he chose, four were performed by Wisdom himself (including his favourite, 'Don't Laugh at Me 'Cos I'm a Fool'), while a fifth was a duet with Joyce Grenfell. [65] The 2011 film My Week with Marilyn features impersonator Glenn Michael Ford playing Norman Wisdom in a background scene.
Don't Laugh at Me was a hit for Mark Wills and was later recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary resulting in a school program designed to teach children tolerance and prevent bullying in the playground. His biggest song, " I Can't Make You Love Me ," was co-written with Mike Reid and was a hit for Bonnie Raitt .
Released on May 5, 1998, on Mercury Nashville Records, the album produced four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, all of which made top 10: "I Do (Cherish You)", "Don't Laugh at Me
Seskin also is known for performing at schools in support of the Operation Respect/Don't Laugh at Me project, [2] [3] named after "Don't Laugh at Me," a song he wrote with Allen Shamblin that was recorded by Mark Wills [4] and Peter, Paul and Mary, among others. Seskin splits his time between touring, Nashville and Northern California.
Mark Wills (born Daryl Mark Williams; August 8, 1973) [3] is an American country music artist. Signed to Mercury Records between 1996 and 2003, he released five studio albums for the label – Mark Wills, Wish You Were Here, Permanently, Loving Every Minute, and And the Crowd Goes Wild – as well as a greatest hits package.
"Laugh at Me' was written after Sonny Bono was refused entrance to Montoni's Restaurant in Hollywood because of his "hippie attire". The song begins with Sonny saying, "I never thought I'd cut a record by myself but I got somethin' I wanna say. I want to say it for Cher and I hope I say it for a lot of people."
The project began as a result of Yarrow and his daughter Bethany and his son Christopher having heard the song "Don't Laugh at Me" (written by Steve Seskin and Allen Shamblin) at the Kerrville Folk Festival. [41] [42] [43] In March 2008, Yarrow told Reuters: Operation Respect has been my main and all-consuming work for the past 10 years.