Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week - When You Are Old and Gray - with intro
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15 жыл бұрынTom Lehrer on public domain (2020):
tomlehrersongs.com/
www.amazon.com/Tom-Lehrer-Coll...
Use the above link and get the uninterrupted Lehrer TV-performance and The Tom Lehrer Collection from Amazon.com.
Recording date: September 11th 1967
Format: Ampex Quadruplex PAL 4:3
Status: A very rare recording
Storage: Sony Digital Betacam
Production and preservation: The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation - the NRK, Norway. More here:
www.nrk.no/informasjon/about_t...
@queenalice7483 3 жыл бұрын
To give a little context to "and everyone hates the Jews" he's Jewish.. I think that makes it funnier tbh
@TheRealEvilkitten3 3 жыл бұрын
that's just how we roll lmao. makes it easier to deal with everyone running us out all the time...
@casvandijck9338 2 жыл бұрын
To give even more context, he's atheist, which makes the entire religion thing ridiculous.
@WilliamRWarrenJr 2 жыл бұрын
I wasted my *"QUARANTINEWHILE"* by not learning "The Elements" (it's like the Periodic Table but it's got a beat and you can dance to it!) P.S. It's out of date.
@casvandijck9338 2 жыл бұрын
@@WilliamRWarrenJr If you have the money, you can commission an updated one by hiring a pianist and singer (or a two-for-one kind of person) and writing the updated lyrics yourself - the rhyming has already been done by the scientists who named the newer elements anyway.
@indiomoustafa2047 2 жыл бұрын
Because its true. Lmfao
@danitiwa 13 жыл бұрын
Tom Lehrer, is like Weird Al's classy, original, great uncle.
@56packmanable 4 жыл бұрын
Except Tom wrote all his own songs, except for "the Elements Song"
@ronaldomadrebien7045 4 жыл бұрын
Discusdream ............delicious comedy😎
@tsarmischievous 3 жыл бұрын
And Tom Lehrer has a different feel. However, I won’t disagree with you
@Mrcaptainmorgan93 3 жыл бұрын
I was thinking that Tom leherr is definitely in a influence to bo Burnham.... I have no proof but still lol
@mr.antique5407 3 жыл бұрын
That would be Allan Sherman
@eoinoconnell6598 8 жыл бұрын
I want to hear his private collection that he dare not publish.
@nihal2055 5 жыл бұрын
YEAHHHHH
@KCSutherland 8 жыл бұрын
I was not aware so many words ended with "ility"...
@WolfgangBrozart 12 жыл бұрын
No matter how many times I hear his songs, I can never believe they were sung in the 60's. These would be controversial today lol.
@rdwals889 6 жыл бұрын
Nonprophet It was controversial back then as well. That’s part of the joke.
@squiglemcsquigle8414 3 жыл бұрын
he was banned for his songs....... bit more than controversial back then
@juanig4198 3 жыл бұрын
the difference is that he would be arrested for this on the 60´s ,nowdays he just would be cancelled on twitter
@libertariantranslator1929 3 жыл бұрын
He sang these things at coffehouses near Harvard in the 1940s. I used to have a stack of his early releases too heavy to move between countries.
@jessovenden 3 жыл бұрын
The 40s I think.
@CaptainLumpyDog 7 жыл бұрын
All this AND a brilliant mathematician to boot!
@margueritejohnson6407 4 жыл бұрын
Like Lewis Carroll -- Alice in Wonderland. and Through the Looking Glass and an Oxford professor of maths! The story goes that Queen Victoria was very taken with the first Alice, so she wrote to him and asked him to send her his next book. He did, but it was a very erudite and obscure book on..........maths. I believe that she, once again, was not amused!
@nikkischoessow4847 3 жыл бұрын
I bet he plays chess too
@6funswede 15 жыл бұрын
Oh, it's Lehrer who should be thanked, he is the cool guy here, making it safe for an enthusiast to share out some American comedy history on video (in reasonable quality).
@scattysafari7742 8 жыл бұрын
I always had a bit of crush on him.
@CaptainLumpyDog 7 жыл бұрын
ScattySafari He's still alive and lives in Cambridge, MA. Go get 'em!
@kateholland4980 7 жыл бұрын
me too
@BagelFrog 5 жыл бұрын
ScattySafari haven’t we all??
@leemumbray-williams2440 4 жыл бұрын
Tom’s gorgeous and such a lovely person to be with, but sadly I keep inviting him to join me for coffee and he never arrives!
@aliski768 4 жыл бұрын
@@leemumbray-williams2440 i know your pain bro XD
@sambaker6996 10 жыл бұрын
Fifty years later and still a hundred times better than any other Musician.
@joseftrumpeldor6240 10 жыл бұрын
Parodist, not musician.
@jaysarf 9 жыл бұрын
There's Tim Minchin! :)
@scyllachaos5723 9 жыл бұрын
There is a man who is very like TOM Lehrer in style and simplicity working now called ROY ZIMMERMAN enjoy! He is incredible too.
@scyllachaos5723 9 жыл бұрын
TIM IS AMAZING....no for you ROY ZIMMERMAN
@r.pizzamonkey7379 8 жыл бұрын
+Josef Trumpeldor he did write the music, they are original tunes
@normandtroll1 7 жыл бұрын
I have only just discovered this man. Absolutely amazing. Thanks to my dad.
@peoplesrepublicofunitedear2337 3 жыл бұрын
I too discovered him in 2018.❤
@nbenefiel 11 ай бұрын
He was a favorite of my dad’s.
@RootlessNZ 21 күн бұрын
He taught mathematics at Harvard too.
@gamers.digest 2 жыл бұрын
So finally I found where Weird Al and Bo Burnham got their inspirations to their style
@ThSkBj 10 жыл бұрын
YuriHabadakas: Norwegian audiences are hard to warm up. They usually need some time, and even then you don't get a huge response - even if they like you and get your jokes. And that's today. I don't think people back then were less closed up than we are now.
@ArisztidZ 14 жыл бұрын
Thank YOU and everyone who keeps this music alive to torment and educate the next generation. I mean, being made to think is so difficult. I had all of his original LPs until they were stolen. :P
@edwardseymour21 7 жыл бұрын
Tom Lehrer...and a few others...got some of through the traumas of the mid-sixties and early seventies with a modicum of suavity and grace...hail to thee, very,very clever and pointed spirit...
@indymagicmonthly23 11 жыл бұрын
I still have the 45 RPM of Poisoning Pigeons in the Park b/w The Masochism Tango. It's one of my most precious possessions.
@hazelbourget8347 8 жыл бұрын
"...and everyone hates the jews." :'D he really got humor man.
@vulpesinculta3238 8 жыл бұрын
Jews have a great self-depreciating sense of humour.
@CaptainLumpyDog 7 жыл бұрын
Hazel Bourget If we can't laugh at ourselves, who CAN we laugh at???
@clemwilliams8406 4 жыл бұрын
Tom Lehrer’s joke is that he is, of course, Jewish!
@queenalice7483 4 жыл бұрын
Best part is he's Jewish lol
@TheRealEvilkitten3 3 жыл бұрын
we have a long tradition of bullying ourselves
@margueritejohnson6407 4 жыл бұрын
Apart from his intelligence, wit and musicality, he was really attractive, especially his wicked smiles
@tangogrrl Жыл бұрын
Thank you, Dr. Demento, on KMET in Hollywood Los Angeles! or I never would have heard of Tom Lehrer, this brilliant satirist who is now 94! He recorded in the 1950s and 1960s. How anyone can play piano with such ease and facility, while singing something so darn funny simultaneously gets my respect. Like the Vatican Rag.
@hmead141 10 жыл бұрын
If you listen to his performances in America people are laughing and cheering, its a completely different vibe
@xxNiNJaTaCOxx 10 жыл бұрын
The thing is, if I were performing, I think polite laughter would be a lot less distracting, and would make it a lot easier to perform. It's still a positive vibe, I would definitely prefer this kind of vibe if I were performing. But that's just me. :P
@mckavitt 6 жыл бұрын
Henry Mead To be expected, esp at this period, good sir.
@mckavitt 6 жыл бұрын
Ninja Taco From listening to his recordings before Live US audiences, he LOVED the happy noise all right. :-)))
@margueritejohnson6407 4 жыл бұрын
It’s easier to hear all the lyrics with a quiet audience as many American and British audiences knew all the words and tended to laugh in anticipation.
@leemumbray-williams2440 4 жыл бұрын
I’m always so impressed that my dear friend Tom Lehrer can play the piano so brilliantly without needing to look at the pian keyboard!
@sarahadler8041 3 жыл бұрын
My grandchildren love going to the park and singing the famous pigeon song!
@colinkueny 14 жыл бұрын
Growing up this was the kind of entertainment I enjoyed during my formative years.
@KensNotReal 7 жыл бұрын
The original Bo Burnham
@CaptainLumpyDog 7 жыл бұрын
Danielle Stryker Infinitely more talented than that other fellow.
@yoyobanana9183 7 жыл бұрын
Danielle Stryker bo Burnham is still good tho
@tejaswoman 3 жыл бұрын
The who???
@QuinnF97 3 жыл бұрын
YES!! I was just thinking this last night!
@6funswede 14 жыл бұрын
whitekudu, if this is all it takes to be considered "left wing" I think the world is a scary place. To us Norwegians both the Democrats and the Republicans are very conservative. But many people don't get it, because this is NOT about politics, it's about comedy!
@leemumbray-williams2440 4 жыл бұрын
Love this song and love watching performances by the great Tom Lehrer, the greatest pianist ever seen and a brilliant lyricist!
@leemumbray-williams2440 5 жыл бұрын
Hi Cailin, not just “pretty handsome” - Tom is gorgeous! Such a lovely personality too. He used to share our house with my husband and me and I really miss him now he’s not here any more.....
@egbertsouce3895 8 жыл бұрын
Lyrics were changed somewhere along the way. Heard this on vinyl 50 years ago and first chorus had "Lena Horne and Sheriff Clarke are dancing cheek to cheek." Either way, did not kill in Norway, back in the day!
@112428 7 жыл бұрын
He frequently switched lyrics for the local audience and city he would play it in.
@agentwashingtub9167 5 жыл бұрын
@@112428 Or to better reflect current events
@6B8RX 4 жыл бұрын
I hope that he's working on a sequel to his classic album "That Was the Year that Was". For 2020, it would be "That Was the Year that Wasn't".
@leemumbray-williams2440 5 жыл бұрын
The wonderful thing about all the songs you will see/hear on this site is that Tom Lehrer wrote all of them so they are all original and he owns the copyright to them all. To see his fingers rippling over the keyboard as he plays is a joy! I feel lucky and privileged to have known him for so many years.....
@berenicebauer72 4 жыл бұрын
And it's very relevant in 2020.
@alephnole7009 4 жыл бұрын
i cant even.
@mountainmango 14 жыл бұрын
A timeless genius.
@Demo12345 10 ай бұрын
What I would give to get the entire complete live recording. This is spectacular and I would love to watch the entire special.
@andrewbuckley1675 8 ай бұрын
It’s sold on DVD in a box set
@gregoryjones1839 5 жыл бұрын
this guy helped me make it laughing through high school
@Ieishdragyn Жыл бұрын
That’s where I was introduced to him!
@6funswede 14 жыл бұрын
ArisztidZ, thanks. If you really want to scare your friends and enemies, tell them about the live videos on The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel :-)
@6funswede 14 жыл бұрын
Some ppl have been annoyed because of the never-ending intro and end credits on the HQ-versions of Lehrer's songs. They have a point, but if they want this concert uninterrupted they should get the fab DVD, out in the U.S. on April 13.
@Randomis3rist 11 жыл бұрын
so good we need more good performers like Tom, good songs about science and society and lets work to have more songs like poisoning Pigeons in the park!
@Inquisitorpink 13 жыл бұрын
One of the sexiest men on the planet.
@TheTAddington 11 жыл бұрын
used to listen to him in the early 60's when i was just a wee pup..........50 years later......i still find him just as pertinent nowadays as he was then. i can appreciate his humor WAY more now!!
@azazel7599 Жыл бұрын
Incredible man my grandfather taught with him at UCLA
@stereorapier7919 3 жыл бұрын
Heard this for the first time like 3 years ago and haven't listened to it much since. Judt listened tl it again and now that I know who Wallace was I can't help but chuckle at the line of Miss Wallace.
@triplea657aaa 5 жыл бұрын
We could really use national brotherhood week again....
@gabrielleoyen9997 Жыл бұрын
I was there! Students' club in Oslo 1968.
@Geplion 11 жыл бұрын
It is now my life goal to dance the Viennese waltz at the age of 65 with someone to "When you are old and grey"
@GuillemotWatcher 12 жыл бұрын
@6funswede Norsk folk er slik høflig. Thank you for the upload, Tom's satire is timeless, but he spoiled my golf last Sunday. I couldn't get 'National Brotherhood Week' out of my head. It's impossible to focus when you're laughing inside.
@JasonRoggasch 9 жыл бұрын
Mark Russell saw this as a young man and said "Hey i can do that much much worse"
@UnrelatedArchives 15 жыл бұрын
Conspicuously republished on my birthday, isn't that nice? Including the full introduction to the show as well. This is a lovely gift! Thanks a lot...
@6funswede 14 жыл бұрын
Tom Lehrer was universe-bending, because he is out on DVD on April 2010. Yup, this performance, but in much better quality ;D
@mbj057 12 жыл бұрын
I love this, absolutely fantastic :P
@montydaniels1054 4 жыл бұрын
I liked his song about math. Some o his songs were really stretching it considering it was in the 60's, like National Brotherhood Week.... Thanks for uploading them...
@nealhurwitz 8 жыл бұрын
of course this is the kind of guy that Horace Mann and Harvard produce!!! :) Love him!
@edwardw6622 8 жыл бұрын
I don't think those institutions produced him, he was who he was before then.
@206BenJammin 8 жыл бұрын
a true Mensch!
@johanwestin3030 3 ай бұрын
Fuming with rage that i onlh just now learned of his existence.
@marshafinelt-brook4616 2 жыл бұрын
Still current! Sadly
@swolby9230 6 жыл бұрын
I love this guy!
@MegaJakeroo 12 жыл бұрын
I'm a Jewish kid, and Tom Lehrer is my IDOL. He's a genius comedian. I'm writing a song called "The GOP Dance" and am thinking of putting it up on my channel. To Lehrer!
@heidifarinas3283 Ай бұрын
Im a jewish kid too, but I have a question, it is very common that in other communities people mostly laugh with each other of how almost every one hate us jews?
@heidifarinas3283 Ай бұрын
I just realize that that comment is 12 years old XD
@MrShoe321 8 жыл бұрын
I need to learn an instrument.
@thepablorz 8 жыл бұрын
Yes, you really should.
@swolby9230 6 жыл бұрын
I need to play the piano again.
@leemumbray-williams2440 4 жыл бұрын
If you can ever play the piano as well as Tom Lehrer can, it will be a miracle!
@chappernoddle7374 5 жыл бұрын
Who disliked?and why this man is a genius
@JasonRoggasch 9 жыл бұрын
BRILLIANT MAN AND HILARIOUS
@libertariantranslator1929 3 жыл бұрын
My family, like the David Dodge family, sang these with all the words in my childhood. His suggestion for American references is reminiscent of Richard Feynman's ""note to foreign readers" elucidations.
@aswimmer98 11 жыл бұрын
You don't understand an American reference???? Don't worry, just call the American embassy
@__8120 3 жыл бұрын
Hey this was posted in my birthday!
@nealhurwitz 8 жыл бұрын
love him!!!
@unclelouie3828 4 жыл бұрын
He's Brilliant.
@YuriHabadakas 10 жыл бұрын
All the jokes are totally going over the head of this audience... I wonder how many phone calls the embassy got :)
@unematrix 4 жыл бұрын
What makes you say that? They are laughing at the jokes. They get it. This isn't the USA where people start screaming and clapping for 10 minutes at every tiny joke. This is how the rest of the world laughs.
@rob585 3 жыл бұрын
@@unematrix Please, that is only in crappy talent shows like American Idol or in laff tracks in TV shows. Americans are people too, who react in human ways.
@isabell.etkind9765 3 жыл бұрын
@@unematrix Tom Lehrer was a math professor at Harvard before he started publicizing these songs.
@6funswede 14 жыл бұрын
Yes, I agree. Tom Lehrer was a good-looking satirist as well as a clever satirist :-)
@6funswede 14 жыл бұрын
This video is now out on DVD. Please read the updated video description or visit the channel page!
@nickdryad 4 жыл бұрын
The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel what’s a DVD?
@livedandletdie 3 жыл бұрын
National Brotherhood Week is the most based song in the world.
@6funswede 14 жыл бұрын
@dannycraft24, that's a very good question. The only thing I know is that people read books in the days when this song was written. Thanks for watching the song. Click the Lehrer icon to enjoy the whole 1967 performance :-)
@Rajsaday1 3 жыл бұрын
Nothing has changed!!
@6funswede 14 жыл бұрын
@ThirteenthMuse, you know, the man to thank here is Tom Lehrer, not me. Even after the Shout! Factory release I got a message through his gatekeepers, stating that he is still OK with "6funswede's" Lehrer channel.
@VisuNews Жыл бұрын
Lehrer is Bo Burnham for the boomer crowd. (I'm 41 and have been a fan since I was like 8.)
@ernesthill4017 2 жыл бұрын
This kind of witty, intelligent entertainment would never fly today, sadly 😥
@KingBobDole 15 жыл бұрын
Is Lehrer still alive? That'd be too bad if he wasn't. He was really ahead of his time and an amazing artist.
@Heckishretching Жыл бұрын
He is 93 or smh
@SyedTalhaTechnical Жыл бұрын
@@Heckishretching thank you for replying 14 years later xd
@6funswede 15 жыл бұрын
I love you too :-)
@Marlene55M 14 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@Cthlhu4President 13 жыл бұрын
I first found out about Tom Lehrer with the elements song on NCIS
@lefdee 2 жыл бұрын
He’s funny and all but his piano playing is amazing. When people used to do things, they did them well
@pearlashley101 6 жыл бұрын
=) love his lyrics =)
@yesyoucanquilt 14 жыл бұрын
@2Mal13 Tom Lehrer together with Jon Stewart would be so incredibly awesome...
@6funswede 15 жыл бұрын
KingBobDole, yes, he is. Lehrer retired from his work as a mathematician and university lecturer in 200,1 and is living quiet-LY in the United States.
@JanoschNr1 2 ай бұрын
You deserve what you tollerate
@erede007 14 жыл бұрын
Oh my god great idea Jonathon Coultan + Tom lehrer
@tejaswoman 3 жыл бұрын
Never asked him, never seen him mention it in any of his write-ups, but I would still guarantee you JoCo grew up on Lehrer.
@labibbidabibbadum 2 жыл бұрын
Funny to imagine a Norwegian satirist singing fast, biting, ironic wordplay in Norwegian in America and finding an audience.
@ian-duh 13 жыл бұрын
@danitiwa So true. Weird Al does cite him as an influence, actually.
@sarahhobaugh9297 6 жыл бұрын
his music shouldn't be this relevant...
@cemalley1273 5 жыл бұрын
"If you predict the worst, you'll be hailed as a prophet" - Tom Lehrer himself
@6funswede 13 жыл бұрын
@ScattySafari, I really enjoyed this comment :-) Thank you!
@6funswede 14 жыл бұрын
randomstick43, thanks. Click on the Tom Lehrer icon, visit the channel's front page, check the whole HQ main playlist and tell your friends about this rare stuff :-)
@leemumbray-williams2440 5 жыл бұрын
National Brotherhood Week caused some problems in my household. Not only are many of my granddaughter’s school friends Muslim but also she is of a Jewish family so “everyone hates the Jews” did not go down well with her! We told her not to take it personally, that Tom would not know that her granddad is Jewish but that the man she has always known as “Uncle Tom” is himself Jewish!
@0RedTree0 15 жыл бұрын
i love you 6funswede!!!!! *subs and favs*
@tejaswoman 3 жыл бұрын
FYI and FWIW, the link to the Norwegian information, the last link in the description if I recall correctly, no longer works all these years later.
@6funswede 14 жыл бұрын
@CpRegiment, oh man, did I love this comment? Yes!
@6funswede 14 жыл бұрын
ArisztidZ, thanks!
@6funswede 14 жыл бұрын
Quizli, yes it was :-)
@helensearle1896 11 жыл бұрын
I love the Yeats reference. 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep... I'll ditch you. Just saying.'
@leemumbray-williams2440 4 жыл бұрын
I finally managed to buy a copy of Tom Lehrer’s CD “That Was The Year That Was”, which he recorded at the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco. It’s brilliant, as all Tom’s music is, and I’m so pleased that the copy I ordered quite a while ago has finally arrived! It will embarrass Tom though, when he finds that not only do I now have several copies of that CD but also 2 copies of his boxed set, The Remains of Tom Lehrer. Horrible title! The
@Chimbo65 15 жыл бұрын
Yes,I believe he is in his ealy eigthies
@leemumbray-williams2440 5 жыл бұрын
My granddaughter, part Jewish herself, hated hearing the line “Everybody hates the Jews”. I pointed out to her that the man she has always known as “Uncle Tom” is himself Jewish, which cheered her up a little...
@AcidOllie 2 жыл бұрын
Daniel Radcliffe brought me here.
@chopkins57 14 жыл бұрын
@erede007 Thank God Tom Lehrer is retired so this can't happen. Millions of geeks (myself included) would die from joy and an overload of pure awesome.
@6funswede 14 жыл бұрын
What? OK, that's funny. Click the Tom Lehrer icon, find the (whole) HQ main playlist and send the playlist url to friends, enemies and teachers :-)
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