Saturday, November 17, 2007
Today referring to some older articles
Today 1944 Gene Clark (The Byrds) born (died 1991).
Check 2007_August_25 for Doug Dillard and Gene Clark's fantastic expedition.
Today 2006 Ruth Brown died (born 1928_january_12).
On 2007_January_20 you can find a nice Ruth Brown compilation.
Today 2006 Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).
My pages 2007_March_10, 2006_December_18, 16, 14 show some nice video's about the song The elements written by Tom Lehrer.
At 2006_September_15 you can find a great 2LP by the master Tom Lehrer himself including this (predicting) song The elements.
So, how true he is/was finishing this 1956 (...) song :
Check 2007_August_25 for Doug Dillard and Gene Clark's fantastic expedition.
Today 2006 Ruth Brown died (born 1928_january_12).
On 2007_January_20 you can find a nice Ruth Brown compilation.
Today 2006 Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).
My pages 2007_March_10, 2006_December_18, 16, 14 show some nice video's about the song The elements written by Tom Lehrer.
So, how true he is/was finishing this 1956 (...) song :
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Hah-vard
And there may be many others but they haven't been dis-cah-verd
And there may be many others but they haven't been dis-cah-verd
Labels: tom lehrer
Monday, December 18, 2006
Periodic table of the elements part 4 (dedicated)
I dedicate this last one to mrs Machteld M who (also) had some special interest in chemistry in the sixties.
Tom's studio recording again but this time 'karaoked' by Christy and Emily (they try to 'sing' .... uploaded by Christy herself 2006_nov_08).
Here's what they write themselves about this :
Elements by Tom Lehrer.
Attempted Mimicry by Emily [left] and Christy [right]
Notice that it was just attempted. This was not successful. But it was funny.
Sorry that we can't sing.
Oh, and Emily kind of just mumbles/hums through the part that she doesn't know or can't sing fast enough and Christy just sits there and stares at the lyrics.
Christy and Emily, I hope you pass your examination !!!
One of the best of this serie I think. More webcams should be used to do this. Sadly I don't have one.
I had really fun presenting you this little serie. It took me back to the early sixties again when life was less complicated compared to today.
Tom's studio recording again but this time 'karaoked' by Christy and Emily (they try to 'sing' .... uploaded by Christy herself 2006_nov_08).
Here's what they write themselves about this :
Elements by Tom Lehrer.
Attempted Mimicry by Emily [left] and Christy [right]
Notice that it was just attempted. This was not successful. But it was funny.
Sorry that we can't sing.
Oh, and Emily kind of just mumbles/hums through the part that she doesn't know or can't sing fast enough and Christy just sits there and stares at the lyrics.
Christy and Emily, I hope you pass your examination !!!
One of the best of this serie I think. More webcams should be used to do this. Sadly I don't have one.
I had really fun presenting you this little serie. It took me back to the early sixties again when life was less complicated compared to today.
Labels: tom lehrer
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Periodic table of the elements part 3
Do we have 'chemistry' together ?? :-)
This is a very nice cartoon flash animation.
But of course a real human being can do a better job !
So here's for ya Alfredo doing all the 112 elements (known at the time Tom Lehrer wrote this song) 'a capella'.
Just a question. Do you like this ?
This is a very nice cartoon flash animation.
But of course a real human being can do a better job !
So here's for ya Alfredo doing all the 112 elements (known at the time Tom Lehrer wrote this song) 'a capella'.
Just a question. Do you like this ?
Labels: tom lehrer
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Periodic table of the elements part 2
I found some more on Youtube which are worth to watch. So here we go again with this Tom Lehrer song !
BTW each clip is only 90 seconds so there's NO excuse NOT to watch !
A version with nice informative pic's.
This is a version with other nice pic's.
BTW each clip is only 90 seconds so there's NO excuse NOT to watch !
A version with nice informative pic's.
This is a version with other nice pic's.
Labels: tom lehrer
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Periodic table of the elements part 1
On 15 sep 2006 I posted the song The elements by Tom Lehrer in a flash animation by US Dallas man Mike Stanfill. Look at Tom Lehrer
I found some more on Youtube which are worth to listen/look to.
So here we go !
This is (partially) Tom's live version.
I must have been quite crazy (or maybe still am) in the sixties because I knew this table of elements (with all the positive/negative info) also out of head... :-)
This is Tom Lehrer's studio recording.
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium (inhale)
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium, and silicon, silver, and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium
and so on as you all will remember the periodic table so well ..... plus the end :
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Hah-vard.
And there may be many others but they haven't been dis-cah-verd.
I found some more on Youtube which are worth to listen/look to.
So here we go !
This is (partially) Tom's live version.
I must have been quite crazy (or maybe still am) in the sixties because I knew this table of elements (with all the positive/negative info) also out of head... :-)
This is Tom Lehrer's studio recording.
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium (inhale)
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium, and silicon, silver, and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium
and so on as you all will remember the periodic table so well ..... plus the end :
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Hah-vard.
And there may be many others but they haven't been dis-cah-verd.
Labels: tom lehrer
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.
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.
Labels: tom lehrer
