Tom Lehrer RIP

RIP. A truly great satirical.

He was so clever and very funny.
Songs like Pollution are still very relevant toda, unfortunately.

The Vatican Rag springs to mind. 😂

How we adored him in the 60s! Clever. unassuming. Very funny. Much American entertainment tended to be low quality, but he was very different.

Yes he was amusing. He was 97 I believe, RIP.

Back in the Dark Ages, my elder sister had an LP of his hilarious songs. What possibly tickled me even more, though, was what was printed on the back of the sleeve: ‘To clean record, use a fairly dry Martini.’ 😂

He graduated from Harvard aged only 19 - not many people manage that feat

He was so funny and clever. We lack the like of him now

He was viciously funny with a laser wit that cut to the core.

He had a special brand of black humour. I remember laughing out loud at "Poisoning the Pigeons in the Park" and then thinking I shouldn't have.

I loved him, so clever and so funny. He was the sound track of my youth, along with Joan Baez.

Two legends from my childhood gone in one week. RIP tom and Cleo.

I honestly cannot remember him at all. I don't know why, I just had a listen on Youtube and it rings no bells at all.

I too had a recording of his songs. So clever and irreverent. Many favourites but the one which springs to mind " I hold your hand in mine dear, I press it to my lips, I take a healthy bite from your dainty fingertips.......until they come to get me I'll hold your hand in mine" Really! Gruesome but all the verses funny.

I just love the. Vatican Rag ...

Iam64

He was so funny and clever. We lack the like of him now

He belonged to the American Elite if Satirists like Mort Sahl.

Hugely intelligent.

Great loss

Gogo84

I too had a recording of his songs. So clever and irreverent. Many favourites but the one which springs to mind " I hold your hand in mine dear, I press it to my lips, I take a healthy bite from your dainty fingertips.......until they come to get me I'll hold your hand in mine" Really! Gruesome but all the verses funny.

Tbh I think some of his stuff was somewhat stomach churning.
That song goes on, ‘I don’t know why I do it, or why you had to die, as every time I do it I get bloodstains on my tie’.
I prefer the Alan Sherman songs, remember Camp Granada?

I played one of his songs on YouTube a couple of weeks ago.

'Poisoning Pigeons in the Park'
Not as it sounds, it was written when Brooklyn Council (I think) proposed doing just that!

RIP Tom Lehrer, Genius.
You will be missed but not forgotten.

Magenta8

He had a special brand of black humour. I remember laughing out loud at "Poisoning the Pigeons in the Park" and then thinking I shouldn't have.

Oh, looking at our garden I often remember that song and at 5am this morning I was tempted 😁

Who? Never heard of him

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My parents and I loved him. So clever and so funny. Of course these days the Elements song would have to be rather longer, with all the weird ones they keep creating.

From the liner notes to An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer, "If, after hearing my songs," he says, wistfully, "just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while."

I don’t think he went on with his recordings after the first, he became a professor of Maths for all his working life. Can you imagine what an amazing and entertaining teacher he would have been?

Magenta8

He had a special brand of black humour. I remember laughing out loud at "Poisoning the Pigeons in the Park" and then thinking I shouldn't have.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY
I thought of that a few weeks ago.