How did this whole thread start? Oh yes, Rick Fielding's comments about Mark Russell. The fact that nobody hasmentioned Russell since thr first three postings might be used as a relative indication of the value of the collected works of the two. . . Lehrer's songs, I suspect will last for a very long time; Russell's will last as long as most topical songs do. I still remember an English professor telling me that many of the poets that Pope satirized in the Dunciad are ONLY remembered for having been mentioned there. . . I was singong the songs on the first record (the 10" with the red border of flames) before my voice changed and I suspect that i could still sing them all, in the order they are on the record. Imprinting lasts a LONG time. I must admit that I generally update Lobachevsky and use a current movie star to play the hypotenuse. I'm grateful to Tom Lehrer for another reason too; I doubt I would ever have discovered non-Euclidean geometry without that song!