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	Tom Lehrer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An increased proportion of his output became overtly political, or at least topical, on subjects such as pollution ("Pollution"), Vatican II ("The Vatican Rag"), race relations ("National Brotherhood Week"), American militarism ("Send the Marines") and nuclear proliferation ("Who's Next?").
		Lehrer has stated that he doubts his songs had an impact on those not already critical of the establishment: "I don't think this kind of thing has an impact on the unconverted, frankly.
		Lehrer earned his BA in mathematics (Magna Cum Laude) from Harvard University in 1947, when he was eighteen.
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	An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer is an album recorded by Tom Lehrer, the well-known satirist and Harvard lecturer.
		The lyrics are a recitation of the names of all the chemical elements that were known at the time of writing, up to number 102, nobelium.
		To the tune of a traditional tango, that generally asks the singer's dancing partner to "consume you in a kiss of fire", the lyrics form a love note to the sadistic inflicter of such glorious pain.
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	Tom Lehrer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tom Lehrer's father was a tie manufacturer and led a normal childhood by his own admission.
		Lehrer's first public performance was in the fall of 1952, at a nightclub called Alpini's Rendezvous in Boston, for $15 a night.
		Lehrer was able to get a great deal with a recording studio in Boston, where he set up a recording session plus the LP pressings and the printing of the jackets.
	www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/appendix/Composers/L/TomLehrer.html (599 words)

	CMT.com : Tom Lehrer : Biography
		Lehrer was born April 9, 1928; even as a child, he frequently parodied popular songs of the day, and also learned to play piano.
		Lehrer's subsequent returns to show business were brief -- in 1972 he wrote a dozen tunes for the children's program The Electric Company, updated older material for a 1980 musical stage show dubbed Tomfoolery (produced by Cameron Mackintosh of Cats fame), and some years later agreed to write occasionally for Garrison Keillor.
		Lehrer continued to teach mathematics at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and at age 72 witnessed Rhino Records' 2000 reissue of his complete recorded works in the form of a three-CD box set titled The Remains of Tom Lehrer.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/lehrer_tom/bio.jhtml (604 words)

	An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer @ Bright Tom Lehrer Days
		The Audubon Society is an American group who look out for animal-kind, similar to the RSPCA (Royal Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals).
		An M-1 is one of the earlest assault rifles.
		An entrenching tool is a collapsible shovel, which will easily fit into a pack.
	www.casualhacker.net /tom.lehrer/evening-comments.html (473 words)

	An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tom Lehrer was the most brilliant song satirist of the 20th century.
		Lehrer's fl humor and commentary always makes me laugh when I pop this disc into my player, and as an added bonus, this is a live disc, so we are treated to Lehrer's monologues as well as his songs, which are usually just as funny as his songs, if not more so.
		One reason why the great songs of Tom Lehrer hold up after all these decades is that some of the issues they cover have not gone away.
	www.abmbirds.com /reviews/B000002KO8 (286 words)

	village voice > music > Tom Lehrer The Remains of Tom Lehrer by Frank Kogan
		Lehrer's shtick is to take a Viennese waltz or a love song or a folk song and lampoon it, to take a sentimental style and turn it into something slimy and gross.
		Anyway, Tom Lehrer had arrived at the same conclusion a couple of decades earlier and had come up with a funnier and more complex response.
		Lehrer recorded two studio LPs back in the 1950s and also a live version of the second one, and then at the turn of the decade did the first one over again, this time live in front of an audience—songs in the exact same order but with between-song patter.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0037/kogan.shtml (1618 words)

	TOM'S FOOLERY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lehrer's childish delight at the advent of this show is sin sharp contrast to his otherwise jaundiced view of everything.
		Even though my kindly aunt snatched back the record with a proprietary vehemence that has unsettled me to this day, I have never forgotten those jolly tunes with their cheerful, unbiased sentiments.
		Tom, swept up in the enthusiasm engendered in creating this great musical spectacle, graciously volunteered to break his time honored code of only working when absolutely necessary, by polishing up the script and lyrics so that they gleam as squalidly today as when he first wrote them.
	www.tomlehrer.org /tomlehrer/story.html (592 words)

	An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
		Lehrer’s cause, if he had one, when he was writing was purely to find humour and fun in all elements of the world.
		"Tom Lehrer has had a profound impact on the world of satire…; He showed the world that it could look at itself and laugh, he was never afraid to satirise an issue but it was always in fun, never in anger… the only thing that he came out in favour of was "smut" or pornography."
		Lehrer’s view on changing the world can probably be summed up by comparing a quote from "AEWW Tom Lehrer" with quotes from two other figures well known for their social commentary.
	www.miguel.org.uk /lehrer.html (1137 words)

	Ink 19 :: Tom Lehrer
		Lehrer is closer to that party cut-up that can also pound the ivories like a maniac, singing, joking and downing copious amounts of alcohol without missing a single note.
		Lehrer's musical talents are complemented by his astounding language skills and an eagle-eye view of society -- his songs hardly sound dated, even thirty years after they were recorded.
		Lehrer, a Harvard boy, stumbled into the limelight with Songs by Tom Lehrer in 1953, a bona-fide DIY hit recorded for $15 and self-released by Lehrer in his college days.
	www.ink19.com /issues/september2000/wetInk/musicLM/tomLehrer.html (428 words)

	SoundtrackNet : The Remains of Tom Lehrer (Disc 1) Soundtrack
		By the mid 1960s, Lehrer was known as one of the funniest - and brashest - musical satirists on the scene.
		As Lehrer is a mathematician, his take on "New Math" is quite enjoyable - even more enjoyable when you actually get to see the equation he's working on (which is conveniently included in the booklet).
		Inside the 80-page hardcover booklet is a history of Tom Lehrer, the original liner notes from the original albums (with annotations by Lehrer in 1999), and all of the lyrics to all of the songs.
	www.soundtrack.net /soundtracks/database?id=2495 (1181 words)

	Tom Lehrer - The Remains of Tom Lehrer (2000)
		The Remains Of Tom Lehrer is as good a reason as any, since this 3-CD box set of the complete recordings of the finest musical comedian since Spike Jones (who, when you think about it, was really more of a comic musician) didn't duplicate anything in my collection that wasn't analog.
		Lehrer also seems to have really, really hated folk music, which was (not entirely coincidentally) peaking in popularity at precisely this time as well.
		Lehrer is a master of restraint as well, structuring his lyrics so as to never telegraph the joke, so that when it comes, its power is devastating (notice, for example, how the verses describing his fellow grunts in "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be Soldier" don't really betray their comic nature until the punchline).
	www.spacecityrock.com /marc/albums/lehrer.html (955 words)

	Tom Lehrer
		Lehrer contributed songs to the now classic NBC-TV show "That Was the Week That Was" (TW3) from 1963-1965, culminating in the album That Was the Year That Was.
		Lehrer's retrospective collection, The Remains Of Tom Lehrer, was released in 2000, but he retired from public performances in 1967 and has performed only rarely since.
		To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0409a-almanac.htm (478 words)

	Tom Lehrer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By the early 1960s Lehrer had retired from touring (which he intensely disliked) and was employed as the resident songwriter for That Was The Week That Was, a satirical TV show.
		An increased proportion of his output became overtly political, or at least topical, on subjects such as pollution ("Pollution"), Vatican II ("The Vatican Rag"), race relations ("National Brotherhood Week"), and nuclear proliferation ("Who's Next?").
		While Lehrer hated rock and roll —referring to it as "children's records" in the intro to "Oedipus Rex"— his literate satiric style clearly influenced Frank Zappa.
	www.free-download-soft.com /info/note-taking.html (565 words)

	Tom Lehrer: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer (RJO's Reviews)
		Tom Lehrer’s brilliant satires were originally recorded in the 1950s and 1960s, but their words and music are as fresh today as ever.
		Lehrer’s timing is exquisite, and many of his rhymes are unlike anything else in the language (“When the air becomes uranious / We will all go simultaneous”).
		Even the spoken commentary between the songs (this is a live recording) is brilliant.
	rjohara.net /reviews/lehrer.html (229 words)

	Tom Lehrer
		I'm sure that you'll all agree without any hesitation that Tom Lehrer is the most brilliant creative genius that America has produced in almost 200 years, so perhaps a few words of biographical background might not be amiss.
		Even before he came to Harvard, however, he was well known in academic circles for his masterly translation into Latin of The Wizard of Oz, which remains even today the standard Latin version of that work.
		Tom Lehrer is a comedian who has found a large group of fans all over the world, but embarrassingly few good webpages.
	www.nku.edu /~longa/public_html/heros/lehrer (777 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Remains of Tom Lehrer [Best of] [Box set] [Import]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tom Lehrer was never a popular favourite in his native country: in the States, Lehrer was--and is--a cult artist, appealing to Ivy Leaguers and Wallace Shawn-era New York readers.
		Lehrer's métier is to use classic song styles (waltzes, tangoes, traditional folk tunes) and twist them to his needs; he sings them (relatively) straight, but with vaudeville timing, taking pot shots at the left, right and centre.
		Lehrer is at his finest when creating a melody that is pleasant and enjoyable and then putting in lyrics that horrify the listener.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004SWBH (746 words)

	LEHRER, Tom : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His songs were performed for friends in private at first, then on own 10]im[ LPs Songs By Tom Lehrer, More Of Tom Lehrer, later That Was The Year That Was '65, An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer '66 on Reprise: his total output.
		Stopped writing in the late '60s because even he could not laugh at Vietnam; he said he saw nothing funny in Watergate either.
		He wrote two songs for children's TV show The Electric Company '72; Tomfoolery '80 was a London musical revue based on his work; Too Many Songs By Tom Lehrer '81 was complete published collection of words and music.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/l/L46.HTM (259 words)

	Ink Nineteen: Tom Lehrer
		Tom Lehrer enjoyed some cult status as a socio-political satirist in the late 1950s and '60s, using his clean voice and ragtime/old Broadway show tune piano playing style to lampoon the silliness of the time.
		He is truly one of the great iconoclasts of his generation, predating Mark Russell and even Randy Newman with his acerbic wit.
		While it features such classic Lehrer musings as "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" and "The Masochism Tango" (both piano and full-orchestra versions), the lack of live performances keeps the listener from fully appreciating the man where he is most comfortable.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/97_12/wet_ink/music_l_o/068_tom_lehrer_nf.html (321 words)

	Tom Lehrer
		This document is an effort to gather all of the significant lyrical changes that have been evident in these various recordings and publications.
		Tom said that the TW3 people would often cut his best lines from the songs, so he decided to do this record to put the songs back the way they belonged.
		Tom was kind enough to give copies of these to Dr. Demento during an interview in 1991, and they have been heard on his show.
	www.tomlehrer.org /tomlehrer/lehrer00.html (5303 words)

	[minstrels] The Elements -- Tom Lehrer
		Lehrer mentions this explicitly ("I thought it would be an interesting idea to st-- adapt") in the patter accompanying the song, on 'Tom Lehrer Revisited' - which I was listening to just this morning, hence the choice of poem.
		From: Daniel Marsh To answer Stephen, in the liner notes for the Tom Lehrer album in which this appeared ("An Evening ^Wasted with Tom Lehrer,") they mention that at the time of the release of the album, there had been new elements discovered, so it was already out of date.
		From: Sean D Coyle Tom Lerher is the man. i have a lot of his material.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/490.html (1324 words)

	Whatever Happened To: Tom Lehrer
		Tom Lehrer is perhaps one of the most unique pioneers of the "cult following" phenomenon: By day a mild-mannered Harvard University professor of mathematics, by night a singer-songwriter of scathing comedic parody as yet unmatched in cleverness and musicality.
		See references below for more lengthy accounts of Tom's career, but in a nutshell, he was teaching math at Harvard in the early 50's and composing satirical parodies on the piano.
		He later became the in-house composer for the NBC news satire That Was the Week That Was in the early 60's and in the 70's he wrote a number of songs for the children's favorite TV series The Electric Company.
	www.weht.net /WEHT/Tom_Lehrer.html (260 words)

	Music CD: That Was the Year That Was. Tom Lehrer Tracks: National Brotherhood Week, MLF Lullaby, George Murphy, The ...
		Tom Lehrer Tracks: National Brotherhood Week, MLF Lullaby, George Murphy, The Folk Song Army, Smut, Send The Marines, Pollution, So Long, Mom (A Song For World War III), Whatever Became Of Hubert?, New Math, Alma, Who's Next?, Wehrner Von Braun, The Vatican Rag.
		Someone I met a few years ago was writing an in-depth interview with Tom Lehrer and asked why he had stopped writing his satirical ditties, what with all of the grist for his mental and musical mill happening around us.
		Harvard-educated mathematician by trade and sociopolitical humorist and satirist by avocation, ivory tickler Tom Lehrer sang irreverent ditties that both outraged and delighted listeners during his on-again, off-again heyday of public performance in the late 1950s through the 1970s.
	www.musicolympus.com /cd-store/B000002KO7/That_Was_the_Year_That_Was_-_Tom_Lehrer.html (1387 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Tom Lehrer is Still Alive?
		Even after his biggest hit, the 1965 album That Was the Year that Was, he quickly returned to academic life rather than cash in with concert tours.
		That's no surprise Lehrer's sense of rhyme and rhythm is as acute as the best Broadway songwriters and, for 25 years, he taught a course on the American musical, alongside mathematics.
		Tom Lehrer was interviewed in one of the newspapers here recently and I didn't think "Tom Lehrer wants to vapourise George W. Bush?", rather "Tom Lehrer is still alive?"...
	blogcritics.org /archives/2003/03/09/134232.php (1824 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Tom Lehrer in Concert: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		What was risqué in 1959 is still funny now, as Lehrer indulges his everyday passions for murder, drug abuse and necrophilia in a Noel Coward piano style in front of an appreciative audience of middle-class Americans for whom the newfangled rock'n'roll was (as Lehrer puts it) "for children".
		Lehrer sells himself, and the humour crosses all ages: a CD bought for my father-in-law at Christmas went down so well that another had to be acquired for his 10-year old grand-daugher...
		Tom Lehrer was a pioneer in the music form known as Classical-Comedy.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000026FOX (1067 words)

	Amazon.com: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer: Music: Tom Lehrer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lehrer, ever the king of jolly vitriol, recorded these still potent parodies in the '50s--and the best of them, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park," "The Masochism Tango," and "The Elements" (which joins science with Gilbert & Sullivan) remain both nasty and striking.
		Even though these tunes were written in 1959, they haven't dated, and still remain as fresh and funny today as they were 46 years ago.
		I enjoy Lehrer's dry sense of humor and it is entertaining to try to decifer what Lehrer is saying(as in the song The Elements, has to wait till I took chemistry to figure out what all he was saying!).
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