Tom Lehrer/ My Favorite Minstrel

I'm a big Tom Lehrer fan!

Because my mind often wanders off on it's own, especially when I'm doing something boring at work, a Tom Lehrer song occasionally pops in, much to the amusement of my younger co-workers. Poisoning Pigeons caused some concern. (they're a bit straight - these young-uns) They're amazed at my store of odd songs (Flanders and Swann sneak in a bit, as well!).

I don't hear anything like them around these days - or perhaps there is, and I don't recognise it (sounding much like a real fuddy-duddy! )

Margo- ( You can add me to your fuddy-duddy association ) I think that some of today's music is much more "in your face" and angry. Although Tom Lehrer sang about serious issues, he did it in a good natured way.

(Sometime when I am feeling a little frisky, I'll sing "When You are Old and Grey" to my husband.)

:wink:

I love Tom Lehrer! I recently bought 2 CD's.

My folks used to go to his concerts when they were dating. I guess that explains a lot about my brother and me.

There's antimony, arsenic, and nitrogen and rhenium ...

First we got the bomb, and that was good
'cause we love peace and motherhood
then Russia got the bomb, but that's okay
'cause the balance of power's maintained that way
who's next?...

Get in line in that processional
step into that small confessional
there the guy who's got religion'll
tell you if your sin's original...

C'mon chaps, fight for Harvard's glorious name
won't it be peachy if we win the game?
Oh, goody!
Hurl that spheroid down the field
and fight! Fight! Fight! ...

Hollywood's often tried to mix
show business with politics
from Helen Geoheghan
to Ronald Reagan? ...

etc. :-D

Hee hee - I still love poisoning pigeons in the park the best - though we'll all go together when we go, every Hottentot and every Eskimo is pretty damn fine....and SOOOOOOO apropos...it's deja vu all over again - as MASH said, it is the same war, they just take it different places.....

TOM! We neeeeeeeed you!

dlowan- You are SO right. Tom had his finger on the pulse, without jabbing you in the eye!

Here, lets separate the kiddies from the fogies . . . who remembers seein' ol' Tom live on TWTWTW?

when it's fiesta time
in guadalajara
then i long to be back once again
in old mexico
where we lived for today
never giving a thought for tomarra
to the strumming of guitars in a hundred grubby bars
i would whisper, "te amo."

so much funnier than that hack russell. btw, i'm pretty sure he's still a prof., now splitting his time between harvard (not my alma mater) and the university of california, santa cruz (my alma mater, where he produces informal book-in-hand travesties of various musicals). seriously considered taking his (very remedial) math course there just for the experience.



TWTWT -- what?

"That Was The Week That Was" -- a topical humor program that pre-dated "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in" and all such programs which succeeded it. Tom Lehrer made his national debut playing piano and singing his own songs on this program. I could maybe to look it up, but, basically, late 50's early 60's?

Wasn't the live Lehrer album from '64? If so, well, I was 2 then, and only at the end of that year.

Showin' my age again . . .

heeheeheeheeheeheeheehee

okbye

Too whit too whooooo?

everbody . . . nobody . . . anybody who thinks about it . . .

Hmmmmmmmmm.......

Shows you how aged I am. I first "got into" Lehrer in 1959, when he cut his first album. Here's the link to TWTWTW:


Link to TWTWTW


"About a maid I'll sing a song, sing rickity, tickity tin......"

ha!

i ache for the touch of your lips, dear
but much more for the touch of your whips, dear
you can raise welts
like nobody welse
as we dance to the masochism tango

Patio pooch! Some latkes for ye!

I hold your hand in mine, dear, I press it to my lips
I take a healthy bite from your dainty fingertips
my joy would be complete, dear, if you were only here
but still I keep your hand as a precious souvenir

(ooh, that's a good 'un.)

I always will remember
'twas a year ago December
I went out to shoot some deer
On a morning bright and clear
I went and shot the maximum the game laws would allow
Two game wardens, seven hunters and a cow.