(Dubiously) educational songs

Subject: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: LeTenebreux
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 12:23 PM

Examples:

First and Second Law (Flanders and Swann)
The Elements, New Math (Tom Lehrer)
Oliver Cromwell, Galaxy Song (Monty Python)
The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas, James K. Polk (TMBG)

More???

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Melissa
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 12:28 PM

The Smallest Thing that's Known to Man

(sorry, can't remember offhand who sings it)

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 12:32 PM

D'OH, a deer...

RAY, a DROP of golden sun? Since when is light liquid?

FA, a long long place to run, but only if you come from some area that doesn't pronounce its R's

SOL, is actually another name for that golden sun, not a needle pulling thread

LA, a note to follow sol? See "d'oh"

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 01:09 PM

Amphioxus

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 01:12 PM

DO-RE-MI-FA-SO-LA-TI-DO
No?

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 01:20 PM

Yes, but "mi/me" IS a name I call myself (the polite version anyway) and you can interpret "ti/tea" as being a drink with jam & bread so I just left them uncontradicted -

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 01:22 PM

And - where I learned it anyway - they do say "sol" and not "so" (as in Tonic Sol-Fa).

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Folkiedave
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 01:31 PM

D'OH (s) , a beer...a Mexican beer

RAY, A man who buys me beer,

ME, A man I buy beer for

FA, A long way to the bar,

SO, I think I'll have a beer,

LA, la la la la la,

TEE No thanks I'll have a beer.

And that brings us back to Do.......

Educational - not half.

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 01:33 PM

ROTFLMAO

WOW Folkie Dave that's nothing short of brilliant! Have to buy you one sometime...

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 01:57 PM

Bet me to it Dave. If Homer Simpson sings "SO", so it must be.
LOL

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: M.Ted
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 02:03 PM

Let me know when you write anything better, Bonnie.

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Micca
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 02:06 PM

The Philosophers Song??

Emannuel Kant was a realpiss ant who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger, was a boozy bugger who could think you under the table
David Hume could out consume Schopenaur and Heigel
and Wittengenstein was a beery swine who was just as schlosshed as Schlegel

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Cats
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 02:47 PM

Folkiedave try 'la ger, No I said a beer'.

I had my students singing 'Senex Macdonaldus' during an Ofsted inspection once. The inspector couldn't understand what it had to do with Roman History!

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: GUEST,Vicki Kelsey (guest)
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 03:17 PM

Don't forget "Oor Hamlet" by Adam Mc Naughtan (See digitrad). It may not fit in this thread, though, since it actually IS educational, being a very accurate synopsis of the play.
                                 Vicki

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 03:21 PM

Who cares? It's brilliant. Thanks for that, Vicki -

http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=4520

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Rog Peek
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 03:46 PM

The Elements by Tom Lehrer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNfx0FO4hzs

Rog

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: oldhippie
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 04:12 PM

"What Did You Learn In School Today?" - Tom Paxton

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 04:24 PM

There was a parody of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" entitled "The Demi Said to Me," wherein the twelve items are a chemistry student's memories. It appeared in an old volume of "Sing Out!"

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 04:26 PM

Wasn't the song originally (as sung by Albion Morris, IIRC) Sol, a beer, a Mexican beer? More original, because Sol actually was a beer - the one with a wedge of lime in the neck....?

When I say "originally" I mean the original parody of the Julie Andrews Sound of Music version....

Kitty

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 05:51 PM

One hippopotami
Cannot get on a bus
Because one hippopotami
Is two hippopotamus

There's a science song archive at
http://www.science-groove.org/MASSIVE/all_songs_title.php

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Melissa
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 10:22 PM

Magellan (Animaniacs)
Shoulders of Freaks (Henry Phillips)

the one about a 'little atom of clorine'
"unsuspecting chlorine felt a magnetic pull
looked down and her outside shell was full
Sodium cried 'what a gas, be my bride..
and I'll change your name from Chlorine to Chloride"

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Melissa
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 12:31 AM

A shooting Star is Not a Star (TMBG?)

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 06:06 PM

Not a whole song, but a lyric I always got a laugh out of, in one of the numbers from the show Carousel ("You're A Queer One, Julie Jordan"). Early on in the story the main female character Julie and her friend Carrie are gossiping, and Carrie's doing her best to get Julie to say whether she fancies Billy (main male character). But Julie refuses to be drawn, prompting this song, in which Carrie reproaches her:

Carrie:
You're a queer one, Julie Jordan
You won't ever tell a body what you think
You're as tight-lipped as an oyster
And as silent as an old Sahara spink!

[spoken]

Julie: Sphinx.

Carrie: What?

Julie: You spell it with an X.

Carrie: That's only when there's more than one.

Julie: Oh.


Love it!!!

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 12 Apr 08 - 04:31 PM

NACL (SODIUM CHLORIDE) was written by Kate McGarrigle and recorded by Kate & Anna McGarrigle on their album "The McGarrigle Hour."

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Bert
Date: 12 Apr 08 - 04:39 PM

Exponential Blarney

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: GUEST,The Mole Catcher's unplugged Apprentice
Date: 12 Apr 08 - 04:46 PM

(Dubiously) music education song

Guide to Britten - Flanders and Swann

(Dubiously) biology education songs

anything from the Bestiary of Flanders and Swann

Charlotte R

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Padre
Date: 12 Apr 08 - 09:06 PM

Try Harold Baum's 'The Biochemist's Songbook, with the likes of this:

*** The Michaelis Anthem *** (tune: The Red Flag)

        The substrate changed by an enzyme
        Initially, in unit time
        Varies, if not in excess
        With substrate concentration, [S]
        If enzyme concentration's low
        And reaction back from product's slow
        Then if we choose a steady state
        Velocity and [S] relate.

        This relationship can be derived
        As Briggs and Haldane first contrived:
        The unbound enzyme, [E], we guess
        Is [E0]         (total), less [ES]
        k1[S][E] gives [ES] formation
        and k2[ES], dissociation
        And [ES] gives the product, P,
        At a rate that's [ES] times k3

        When [ES] is at the steady state
        These terms are all seen to relate
        ([E0] less [ES]) times k1[S]
        Equals (k2 + k3) times [ES]
        Now the maximum velocity
        is k3[E0], (or big V)
        These terms can be manipulated
        If one more definition's stated

        Define as Km (just for fun)
        (k2 + k3) on k1
        And note that v (velocity)
        Is always [ES] times k3
        Then rearranging these equations
        We get the final rate equation
        V times [S] on Km + [S]
        is v (initial) - more or less

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 03:18 AM

Con 'Fada' O'Driscoll's 'Ben Hur' - included on the disc which accompanies the book 'The Spoons Murder and other Mysteries' is well worth seeking out. Also included is Con's take on 'King Lear'.
My own favourite - not a song, is the wonderful plummy toned BBC lady (can't remember her name) carefully, and quite seriously instructing a group of children how to 'play with their balls' - classic!
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 04:01 AM

If you'e at all dubious - the science of the Universe song is here explained. Pretty good for a bloke who's made his living by dressing as a woman or wearing a silly moustache!

LTS

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: BB
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 05:53 PM

I can't read nor write,
But it don't really matter,
'Cos I comes from Honiton,
And I can drive a tractor.

Subject: RE: (Dubiously) educational songs
From: topical tom
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 05:46 PM

I don't know if this qualifies as "educational" but I remember hearing as a young boy a song with these lyrics:

            Mother, may I go out to swim?
            Yes, my darling daughter.
            Just hang your clothes upon a limb
            But don't go near the water.

   I don't know if this was really a song or simply a nonsense verse.