It can be a battle for parents to send their reluctant young campers off to their first summer camp. (Just as it was in this #2 hit by Allan Sherman in August, 1963.)

A few years before—in 1959—the boys from Camp Kookamonga had a battle of their own to fight in a song that peaked at number fourteen on the Hot 100. But that camp song was actually the second "battle" tune of the year to chart. To top it off, both songs were written to the same folk melody.