Friday, September 15, 2006

 

Tom Lehrer !!!!


Mid 50's I heard some songs by Tom Lehrer. Great songs ! I discovered he was a mathemathic professor on a US university.
Maybe I was just one of the few in my country who bought his records.
On another site I saw a great posting of first 2 LP's (1953 and 1959).
So there's no need to clean and rip my own LP's. In the comments I will give you the details.

When I was at school I was pretty good in mathematics and chemistry (the last 2 years I got mostly A- or 9's).
When Tom Lehrer is singing 'The Elements' I remember I did knew all of them but also all the 'info behind it' (I had the whole 'elements table card' in my head).
A superb video animation is made by US Dallas man Mike Stanfill some years ago : Elements song by Tom Lehrer
Quote by Mike :
I have long admired the satiric talents of Tom Lehrer and it just seemed natural to put the words and music of his "Elements" song into Flash format. This is by far my most popular Flash animation but I know it's all due to Mr Lehrer's spritely creation. I'm pleased to say that this animation was shown after the presentation of the Chemistry Awards at Harvard's IG Nobel Awards in October of 2002.

When there was an exam probe the others had to use the whole hour, I only needed 10 minutes. Don't consider me super intelligant, it was hard labour !

The last pre-exam probe I was again ready in 10 minutes with the 10 questions. Sadly I made a substraction error in the first question which influenced the results of the other 9 questions although my thinking/resolving was allright. I got from my teacher only a 2. Man, was I angry at him. Could kill him, so childish ! A week later he explained to me he did that to let me know/learn not to be satisfied too quickly not only on the exam but also later on in my life.
So a great educational teacher he was !!!
And did I study university mathematics ?? No, the same teacher told me to do a quite different thing. And again he was right I must admit now. I would have gone mad I think. Maybe became a genius but a crazy genius.
Nowadays I'm glad I had the chance to contribute to society in another way..... :-)

Back to the music and Tom Lehrer. Some more interesting songs on these LP's are are Poisoning Pigeons In The Park or We Will All Go Together When We Go. I can go on !!!

Sadly TL didn't made a lot of LP's/songs. He preferred a university career on Harvard. Well that was his choice !

From time to time I play his LP's (nowadays not available anymore). If you like these try to get Tom Lehrer's live LP's ! They are even more great !

If you are interested look at the comments as I already said.

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# posted by JeansMusicBlog @ 00:30
Comments:
Link :

http://rapidshare.de/files/33048751/TL-songsby-mp3s.rar

Tracks :

From Songs by Tom Lehrer:
1. Fight Fiercely, Harvard
2. The Old Dope Peddler
3. Be Prepared
4. The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
5. I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
6. Lobachevsky
7. The Irish Ballad
8. The Hunting Song
9. My Home Town
10. When You Are Old And Gray
11. I Hold Your Hand In Mine
12. The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
From More of Tom Lehrer:
13. Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
14. Bright College Days
15. A Christmas Carol
16. The Elements
17. Oedipus Rex
18. In Old Mexico
19. Clementine
20. It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier
21. She's My Girl
22. The Masochism Tango
23. We Will All Go Together When We Go
Orchestrated Editions:
24. Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
25. The Masochism Tango
26. The Hunting Song
27. We Will All Go Together When We Go
And If That's Not Bad Enough:
28. I Got It From Agnes

Pass for all downloads: wonderful@stuff
# posted by Blogger JeansMusicBlog : Friday, 15 September 2006 at 01:07:00 CEST
 
Hi Jean!

I also love Tom Lehrer. He is great. Great to listen to when you want to laugh!

P.S. I just noticed your comment about your son's heart surgery. Glad all went well. :))
# posted by Blogger nomwl1 : Wednesday, 20 September 2006 at 04:36:00 CEST
 
In fact, the entirety of tom Lehrer's recorded output was available as recently as 2004, in the box set "The Remains of Tom Lehrer".
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : Friday, 22 September 2006 at 15:38:00 CEST
 
the link is dead - i would love to hear it!
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : Saturday, 23 September 2006 at 19:34:00 CEST
 
Barbara, as I wrote, it was someone else's link. So he/she has the credits !

But ONLY for you here's another link :

http://r*p*dshare.de/files/34207191/LT-S_MSbTL_JD.zip

Please fill in yourself the correct letters a & i.

Hope you/anyone else like it.
As nomwl1 said : if you like humor, this is it !
Please, let us know !
# posted by Blogger JeansMusicBlog : Sunday, 24 September 2006 at 00:44:00 CEST
 
Please, let us know !

Thanks for the new link. I've been looking for some of those wonderful songs ever since I lost my original 10" (yup, size is not a typo) "LP" close to 30 years ago.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : Tuesday, 26 September 2006 at 06:05:00 CEST
 
I hope every reader of this topic has taken a look of that great video animation by Mike Stanfill.

If you didn't you have really missed something !!
# posted by Blogger JeansMusicBlog : Wednesday, 8 November 2006 at 00:45:00 CET
 
JeanD just came acrossed your blog.WONDERFUL STUFF.Sad to say this link has been killed again,would love to hear lp. THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR MUSIC.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : Friday, 1 December 2006 at 01:52:00 CET
 
The old link has expired, so here's a new link.

Copy and paste into ONE link :
htt
AND
p://rapi
AND
dshare.com/files/29504319/L_T-S_MSbTL_JD.rar

Pass : JD_070504


When you see this in Google cache (or similar) you have to go to my Blog and the comments otherwise you cannot copy/paste this link !!
# posted by Blogger JeansMusicBlog : Friday, 4 May 2007 at 22:29:00 CEST
 
good
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : Thursday, 5 February 2009 at 11:01:00 CET
 
Wonderful Tom Lehrer! I had a 10" album of his in the 1960s — "Songs by Tom Lehrer" it might have been called. Back in Belgium, I now have a CD with all that stuff and some more to boot. Lots of favourites, but am particularly partial to "I'll Hold Your Hand In Mine."

David (Spain)
# posted by Blogger David : Thursday, 11 November 2010 at 21:53:00 CET
 
Me too !
# posted by Blogger JeansMusicBlog : Friday, 12 November 2010 at 11:25:00 CET
 
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