My parents had That Was The Year That Was when I was a kid in the '60s, along with a stack of Bill Cosby, Smothers Brothers, and Bob Newhart albums. Great stuff.
Tom Lehrer will be 95 this year and he donated all the rights to his songs to the public domain. It would have been quite an experience to have had him as a professor.
You know how, when you start typing something into google, you start seeing the most searched items? I had to "google" something this morning. The first two letters were AL. I typed in A-L. The #3 most-popular search that appeared starting with A-L was Alas Babylon...
I grew up with a Tom Lehrer fan in the house - my Dad. Had the great experience of watching Tom Foolery - basically a stage play with a bunch of his songs - the final night of the Alcazar Theater in San Francisco. The Alcazar was to be torn down for condos. Dad came out for a week to visit me while I was stationed at Ft Ord in 1982. So Long Mom, along with Vatican Rag and National Brotherhood Week still play in my head as well as Dad laughing out loud to these songs.
Good satire that lasts is a rare thing. TL nailed it.
Re: Unknown above: I saw Tomfoolery in Boston and the fellow that performed it did a fantastic job. How anyone could do The Elements Song with clarity, speed and diction is beyond me. A great mind and talent that is absent anywhere else, it seems, these days.
My parents had That Was The Year That Was when I was a kid in the '60s, along with a stack of Bill Cosby, Smothers Brothers, and Bob Newhart albums. Great stuff.
ReplyDeleteTom Lehrer will be 95 this year and he donated all the rights to his songs to the public domain. It would have been quite an experience to have had him as a professor.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I think I needed that this morning.
ReplyDeleteYou know how, when you start typing something into google, you start seeing the most searched items? I had to "google" something this morning. The first two letters were AL. I typed in A-L. The #3 most-popular search that appeared starting with A-L was Alas Babylon...
ReplyDeleteI grew up with a Tom Lehrer fan in the house - my Dad. Had the great experience of watching Tom Foolery - basically a stage play with a bunch of his songs - the final night of the Alcazar Theater in San Francisco. The Alcazar was to be torn down for condos. Dad came out for a week to visit me while I was stationed at Ft Ord in 1982. So Long Mom, along with Vatican Rag and National Brotherhood Week still play in my head as well as Dad laughing out loud to these songs.
ReplyDeleteGood satire that lasts is a rare thing. TL nailed it.
Re: Unknown above: I saw Tomfoolery in Boston and the fellow that performed it did a fantastic job. How anyone could do The Elements Song with clarity, speed and diction is beyond me. A great mind and talent that is absent anywhere else, it seems, these days.
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