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	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 (391 words)

	Tom Lehrer
		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 (594 words)

	Tom Lehrer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Andrew (Tom) Lehrer (born April 9, 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician.
		Lehrer earned his BA in mathematics (Magna Cum Laude) from Harvard University in 1947, when he was 18.
		Lehrer claims to have invented the Jello shot during his stint in the US Army as a means of circumventing liquor restrictions on army bases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Lehrer (1538 words)

	Stop clapping, this is serious - smh.com.au
		Tom Lehrer is still feisty and funny, but the king of sophisticated satire tells Tony Davis there's no place for his style of humour now: the world just wouldn't get it.
		Lehrer is that rarest of beasts a performer who was never seduced by the roar of the crowd and who rejected show business well before it had a chance to do the same to him.
		Lehrer's decision to give a rare interview was at least partly motivated by his desire to talk about his Australian tour of early 1960, during which he was banned, censored, mentioned in several houses of parliament and threatened with arrest.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/02/28/1046407753895.html (2438 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Remains of Tom Lehrer: Music: Tom Lehrer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		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.
		Tom Lehrer hasn't written a song since 1990 and hasn't performed in public since 1967, but, despite having only written some 50 or so songs, he is undeniably the best musical satirist of all time.
	www.amazon.ca /Remains-Tom-Lehrer/dp/B00004SWBH (1102 words)

	Tom Lehrer: The Political Musician That Wasn't
		Tom Lehrer: A man with strong political ideals and the wit to express them in humorous songs, whose core audience of college students would be the next generation of American leaders and thinkers.
		Over the years, Lehrer has "been amused at the number of scientists who have enjoyed the song without realizing it was about them."[12] Lehrer himself hid behind this insulation when he was writing songs.
		Tom Lehrer had all the ingredients necessary to become a leader of the political folksong movement.
	www.casualhacker.net /tom.lehrer/jmazner/lehrhtml.html (5029 words)

	Music Therapy: Tom Lehrer
		Yet Tom Lehrer, now in his seventies, remains an inspiration for satirists everywhere, thanks to the spoofs and send-ups he composed during the '50s and '60s.
		Lehrer certainly cranked out his share of engaging trifles (like the cheerfully murderous "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park," a Demento staple), but much of his work is surprisingly trenchant, especially given the era during which it was composed.
		Lehrer may have retreated to the classroom for the most part (though he has reemerged somewhat to publicize the box set), but his work stands as testimony to what can happen when a bracing intellect allows itself a flight of fancy.
	www.mashmagazine.com /00july/julymusic.html (684 words)

	Tom Lehrer \| The A.V. Club
		Tom Lehrer's creative legacy is far greater than the size of his catalog: The 72-year-old singer, pianist, teacher, mathematician, and political satirist influenced countless humorists and remains a staple on Dr. Demento's radio show, but his body of work consists of only a few dozen different songs.
		Since 1972, Lehrer has refrained from performing--he officially retired in 1967 but made a few appearances over the next five years--choosing instead to focus on his work teaching mathematics and a course in the American musical at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
		I knew it was a long shot: Lehrer treasures his anonymity so much that he has never allowed publicity photos to be taken for his albums, and he’s successfully managed to avoid the spotlight for more than three decades.
	avclub.com /content/node/22863 (3041 words)

	Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer - liners
		Also on this CD are all of Lehrer's hard-to-find 1960 recordings with full orchestra, including one track never before released in any form and a brand-new Lehrer performance of one of his most famous (or infamous) songs, "I Got It From Agnes," which he's never before recorded commercially.
		Tom Lehrer was born (April 9, 1928) and raised in New York City.
		Tom Lehrer, longtime exponent of the derrière-garde in American music, is an entirely mythical figure, a figment of his parents' warped imagination.
	www.rhino.com /features/liners/72776lin.lasso (3367 words)

	SoundtrackNet : The Remains of Tom Lehrer (Disc 1) Soundtrack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		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
		Because that album is the equivalent of the _Tom Lehrer Revisited_ album, except that all of the performances are from his spring, 1960 tour of Australia.
		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)

	Amazon.com: The Remains of Tom Lehrer: Music: Tom Lehrer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Tom Lehrer is one of the greatest anomalies in popular music: he burst on the scene for a dozen years with five albums (two of which where essentially live versions of studio recordings), then retired into academia, not performing in public for decades.
		I first became acquainted with Tom Lehrer's musical repertoire in high school, via a tape that was a copy of a tape that was made by running a cassette recorder in the same room where an ancient and worn record was playing.
		Tom Lehrer songs are a mainstay of my nonexistent social life, being pulled out whenever the situation demands, or despairs.
	www.amazon.com /Remains-Tom-Lehrer/dp/B00004SWBH (1270 words)

	Tom Lehrer the man, his myth and his music? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Next we will look at Tom Lehrer the myth, we will look at the effect Dr. Lehrer had on the genre of satire and though satire on the world and at some of the stories that have sprung up concerning Dr. Lehrer.
		Tom Lehrer has had a profound impact on the world of satire.
		Mark Russell political satirist for PBS recently stated that "Tom Lehrer is the greatest satirist who ever lived." Cartoonist Al Capp said in the introduction of The Tom Lehrer song book that "He (Tom Lehrer) is a disillusioned spirit, and let us all be grateful for that".
	home.teleport.com /~osh/leher.htm (1329 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.
		Tom Lehrer is a comedian who has found a large group of fans all over the world, but embarrassingly few good webpages.
		Tom Lehrer: The Political Musician That Wasn't -- A must-read for anybody interested in Tom.
	www.nku.edu /~longa/public_html/heros/lehrer/index.html (777 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Tom Lehrer in Concert: Music: Tom Lehrer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Tom Lehrer is completely brilliant, and these songs that kept my parents laughing in the 1950s are just as relevant and entertaining today.
		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 /Tom-Lehrer-Concert/dp/B000026FOX (1290 words)

	Tom Lehrer St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		One item on the repertoire was a Lehrer composition: a song which listed the elements (not necessarily in order) to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Modern Major General." "The Elements" would later find appreciative audiences beyond Harvard.
		Lehrer also wrote a parody poking fun at a sculpture on campus which had been designed by Walter Gropius.
		Next, Lehrer decided to return to graduate school--he was a graduate student at Harvard for a total of ten years and at Columbia for one year.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200709 (812 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)

	Tom Lehrer
		Tom Lehrer, in 1967: A song satirist with a gently whimsical voice.
		"Amazing," Lehrer says modestly of the enduring appeal of his songs, which first saw the light in informal performances in Cambridge, then on a 10-inch, self-released LP in 1953 and later in the best-selling 1965 album "That Was the Year That Was," and have now been embraced by at least three generations of devoted fans.
		Lehrer is not a recluse, though he resists all publicity unless he has something to sell, refuses television interviews (because he'd be asked to perform and then might be recognized in airports) and acknowledges having encouraged rumors that he was dead, in the vain hope of cutting down on his junk mail.
	www.mishalov.com /Tom_Lehrer.html (958 words)

	The Physical Revue, by Tom Lehrer
		Tom Lehrer, of course, became a very successful satirical songwriter -- one of the two or three most widely known during the 50s, 60s, and early 70s.
		These are the earliest recordings made of Tom Lehrer, almost* the only recordings of Lehrer songs with contrapuntal words (i.e.
		The microphone for these recordings was not close to the performers, and the recording was made with a wire recorder.
	www.haverford.edu /physics-astro/songs/lehrer/physrev.htm (281 words)

	Tom Lehrer -- brief biography
		This might be clear from the fact that he earned a Bachelor's in mathematics from Harvard by the age of 18, and a Master's degree by age 19.
		At the time of the shows, Lehrer was a graduate student in mathematics at Harvard.
		Lehrer has never shied away from controversy, or worried in the least about being politically incorrect.
	www.haverford.edu /physics-astro/songs/lehrer/lehrer.htm (687 words)

	Tom Lehrer Annotated Song Lyrics
		Three Tom Lehrer albums, all recorded before a live audience, are available from Reprise records.
		For those who don't know, Tom Lehrer is a schoolteacher who enjoyed a career during the 1950's and 1960's as a satirical songwriter.
		Studio recordings of tracks 2-13 of Tom Lehrer Revisited can be found on the 1953 album Songs by Tom Lehrer, and the 1996 album Songs and More Songs by Tom Lehrer from Rhino Records.
	members.aol.com /quentncree/lehrer (521 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 (273 words)

	Ink 19 :: 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.
		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.
		Like most humorists, Lehrer is just as funny -- if not funnier -- during song breaks as he is in song.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/97_12/wet_ink/music_l_o/068_tom_lehrer_nf.html (329 words)

	sfweekly.com \| News \| That Was the Wit That Was
		And as it turns out, he is a huge Lehrer fan, he says, stepping out to the Cannery courtyard for a cigarette after his show.
		A friend's father had a collection of Lehrer albums, but considered the material so adult that Proops was not allowed to listen without a permission note from his father.
		Proops acknowledges that he doesn't know if Lehrer is even still alive, though he'd heard the old comic went off to teach math at UC Santa Cruz.
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/2000-04-19/feature.html (889 words)

	sfweekly.com \| News \| Tom Lehrer
		Tom Lehrer may be the most influential musical satirist of the past century.
		On balance, Lehrer's catalog can appear rather slight, at least in comparison to his fame; some songs were rerecorded as many as three times, yet the repetition is hardly a drawback.
		While political songwriters from Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs to Leon Rossellson strove to be his equal, none was as consistently biting or genuinely hilarious; Lehrer created a body of work that serves as a thinking person's history of the stultifying politics and cultural pitfalls of the pre-hippie era.
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/2000-10-11/music3.html (377 words)

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