Oh my goodness, I remember checking his records out of the library when I was a kid and playing them endlessly! I'm sure it drove my parents nuts, but was probably a nice break from the John Denver albums they were otherwise subjected to. Since it was after most of Leher's songs were topical, it gave me a good reason to learn some recent history. When I was in high school, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" was a popular recital piece among certain of my friends . . .

According to Wikipedia (which is never wrong!) he last taught at the University of California in Santa Cruz.