We were just talking about him the other day...
Always fun to listen to his songs! At least we didn’t all go together when he did.
Oh man. I haven’t internalized Ozzy yet. Dammit. Love Lehrer.
I had recently read about him and his “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park.”
Sounds like he would have been truly fun to know.
RIP.
I enjoyed his musical satire from when I was a little kid watching TW3, and bought a box collection of his originals and concerts a few years ago. Somehow it never seems to get old. But obviously, he did.
RIP Tom, well done.
'I'll look for you when the war is over, an hour and a half from now'
🎶Tom’s ghost was given up?
I should track him down
We have an appointment!
…Says Wernher von Braun🎶
Never heard of him. Wow what a talented pianist. Thanks for posting.
At the FReeper Canteen on New Years Eve, I did a Lehrer retrospective. This is a great loss.
We’ve lost one of the greats, America’s favorite wise-ass.
Tom Lehrer was a gem- his funny musical numbers are wonderful and gloriously pointed.
His talent was immense yet despite the liberal slant to his stuff, he refused to go along with the pro-enemy Left during Vietnam and for that and a lot of laughs, I salute him.
I had no idea he was still alive.
“Be prepared! Be prepared! Don’t solicit for your sister, it’s not very nice. Unless she gives you a percentage of her price!”
My parents had one of his albums. My brother and I found it when we were young teenagers many years after it had been out and were delighted with it.
Turns out a lot of our friends’ parents had it too.
My mom came upon some of us playing and laughing to “National Brotherhood Week,” “Pollution” and those songs one day after school and was OK with it but cautioned us not to repeat those lyrics in school or while out and about.
R.I.P., Tom.
Here’s his most requested song:
https://youtu.be/I9C2v1oLXQo?si=292gfZScmvIIcsoy
Most requested to not play, that is.
LOVED HIM. Years ago, John Backus of FORTRAN and Backus-Naur fame got his team together after work to watch a lot of my Tom Lehrer videos. Good memory.
NCIS - The Elements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlk2ZY-0Gn4
Starsky and Hutch - Fight Fiercely Harvard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRq9yUTsKOo
Star Trek - New Math
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgE0HQtxpTc
Get Smart - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgWsWvxzJa0
Simon and Simon - Old Mexico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJNUYTNe9SM
Blakes 7 - We’ll All Go Together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMixeJSlBNQ
Star Trek - Proud to be a Soldier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UuGXSNSdy4
Blakes 7 - Old Dope Peddlar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_vS0iyTxTU
The Professionals - Send the Marines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca1iQ-ZJ6Mw
The Professionals - Hunting Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz9Z3Iud89A
Get Smart - Pollution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKFwMhy7lpw
Starsky and Hutch - Vatican Rag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxRVaWTW_wo
Blakes 7 - Be Prepared
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiAlbkTstwo
Blakes 7 - Masochism Tango
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O1tfNmnNNs
Starsky and Hutch - Be Prepared
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UemjhMIA4AA
Man from Uncle - So Long Mom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGrNCn4roe0
Mixed - Old and Grey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SbIZ2_SxHI
Get Smart - LY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjTiGCSizhI
Blakes 7 - Poisoning Pidgeons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sktz70MACQ
The Professionals - Be Prepared
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDYShSoK4JM
Cadfael - The Old Dope Peddler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6SnV20UB-o
Farscape - Oedipus Rex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ9NzIkm9SE
Blakes 7 - Fight Fiercely Harvard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc-RHm3Tq8M
Farscape - New Math
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNCPnPQK06k
Due South - Masochism Tango
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdTqeruRdis
I do remember him but I don’t know where I would’ve seen him but I’m pretty sure I did see him on some tv shows. Can’t find it on the net though.
Those days, even though if was leftist stuff, somehow are far more intelligent, intellectual, than what we have now.
Somehow makes me think of guys like William F. Buckley.
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park!
Unfunny and juvenile after the third hearing. But he made some people feel smart and hip, and I guess they cherished him for that.