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Hearing a news report this morning on the pope's visit to New York put this song in my head, and it's been mirthfully rolling around since. You know Tom Lehrer, right? Humorist, writer of satirical/topical songs in the '60s, contributor to the TV show That Was the Week That Was, mathematician (he taught at MIT). Among his several recordings is the live 1965 LP That Was the Year That Was. Emscee brought it home, and must have played it a lot because I still know all the w... MORE
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Because it's Hannukkah. And because you've never really lived until you've heard someone rhyme "Yom Kippur" with "Mississippi".
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A live performance by hilarious satirist and singer Tom Lehrer. If you like funny songs and don't know him - go get his discs. Now.
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I love Tom Lehrer. Found some videos on YouTube. There isn't one of him doing "The Vatican Rag" or "Poisoning Pigeons In the Park" but these are good.
So Long, Mom (A Song For WWIII)
National Brotherhood Week
Wernher von Braun
Pollution
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Way Way back when, Tom Lehrer wrote a song called The Old Dope Peddler, which, after saying that the titular characterGives the kids free samples,Because he knows full wellThat today's young innocent facesWill be tomorrow's clientele..." Well, here's an example off the web of doing well by doing good.... MORE
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Fantastic confluence of music and nerdiness!
I grew up listening to old Tom Lehrer records that belonged to my parents. He was a mathematician, musician, comedian and political satarist. He wrote for the Electric Company (Silent E, N-apostrophy-T) and for grownups (The Masochismn Tango, Lobachevsky, and one of my all time favorites, I'm Spending Hanukka in Santa Monica). I loved the puns, wit, intelligence and silliness in his music when I was a kid. Now, years later, I have his old office at a university in Camb... MORE
