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20 Jan 19 - 07:49 PM (#3972498) Subject: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: keberoxu Correct me, please, if this is mistaken. But Tom Lehrer's 90th birthday appears to have been last April, so it came and went WITHOUT a Mudcat thread. Better late than never, AND he's still alive, yes? |
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20 Jan 19 - 08:18 PM (#3972507) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: Rapparee I haven't heard otherwise. |
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20 Jan 19 - 11:38 PM (#3972527) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: Mrrzy An awful debility |
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20 Jan 19 - 11:40 PM (#3972528) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: Mrrzy And this Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire Andrew Robinson celebrates the high notes in the mathematician’s inimitable musical oeuvre. |
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22 Jan 19 - 03:26 AM (#3972763) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: Will Fly One of my heroes - I played his songs incessantly when I got hold of vinyl recordings by him. As I recall, the live album was even more joyous than the studio stuff. I've heard one or two of his songs performed in folk clubs, but usually with the wrong chords. In his case, nothing compares with the original. Some of my favourite extracts: "Soon we'll be out, amid the cold world's strife, Soon we'll be sliding down the razorblade of life..." "The mariachis would serenade, And would not shut up 'til they were paid. We ate, we drank, and we were merry, And we got typhoid and dysentery." |
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22 Jan 19 - 03:30 AM (#3972764) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: Leadfingers I cant help wondering if he has continued writing , and after he finally leaves us a Tom Lehrer In Memoriam song book may be produced ! |
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22 Jan 19 - 03:46 AM (#3972767) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: Mr Red Strange he remains silent on the subject of Trump. Perhaps the Kissinger quote is, on the Twitler scale, barely a move of the needle. Kissinger's Nobel Peace prize killed his muse. |
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22 Jan 19 - 06:31 AM (#3972803) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: John MacKenzie My hero. Unique, side splittingly funny, and a master of internal rhyme. |
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23 Jan 19 - 01:41 PM (#3973124) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: keberoxu When asked in an interview which satirical songwriters he enjoys, Tom Lehrer name-checked John Forster and his song "Fusion." Now appearing on its very own Mudcat thread. I would link this thread to that thread if my word-processing skills were up to it, but my attempts to make such links usually meet with failure. Lyr Add: Fusion (John Forster) Link added for you. ---mudelf |
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24 Jan 19 - 10:57 AM (#3973287) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: Charley Noble I believe that Lehrer gave up satire when he realized that the things going on in the world were even more bizarre than his songs. Case in point would be the current President... Charlie Ipcar |
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24 Jan 19 - 12:55 PM (#3973322) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: Stilly River Sage Humorists are struggling to stay ahead of the news. Case in point, Andy Borowitz, whose satire in The New Yorker are routinely mistaken as news stories. Sometimes he's only days ahead of actual events. Perhaps a Go Fund Me account could raise enough cash to tempt Lehrer into writing one more anthem - for the upcoming election. |
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24 Jan 19 - 01:16 PM (#3973327) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: GUEST,Roger Somehow I don't think Toms primary motivation would be cash. Roger |
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24 Jan 19 - 06:29 PM (#3973363) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: Stilly River Sage A ridiculously high amount would show such desperation I think it might tweak his interest. :) |
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25 Jan 19 - 02:11 PM (#3973500) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: GUEST I wonder what he'd make of Trump and the dreaded Brexit!! Roger |
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27 Jan 19 - 05:53 AM (#3973661) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: Mr Red Looking at the Youtube videos, I can help thinking that the ultimate irony is that he looks like a youthful Henry Kissinger. And it was the Kissinger Nobel prize he cited as his reason that his satire could not compete with the absurdities of real events. So he stopped writing his songs. Whaddayareckon? |
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27 Jan 19 - 08:32 AM (#3973687) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: Jack Campin "I often feel like a resident of Pompeii who has been asked for some humorous comments about lava." - Lehrer in 2002 |
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27 Jan 19 - 09:38 AM (#3973695) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: Stilly River Sage Borrow a tune from a Fred Astaire musical or something from Gershwin and give us a song called "The Pyroclastic Quickstep." |
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27 Jan 19 - 10:43 AM (#3973697) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: Mrrzy When the movie came out I heard he said he hated his work... Was a conservative and such. He liked the rhymes [merry - dysentery, cut subt(le)] but not the content. |
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27 Jan 19 - 06:44 PM (#3973764) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: GUEST,Gerry In one of his interviews, Lehrer said he preferred giving his age in Celsius, which would make him 32. |
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29 Jan 19 - 10:49 AM (#3973982) Subject: RE: Tom Lehrer makes it to 90 years From: Mrrzy Ooh I gotta start doing that. |