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** As mentioned above, he also strongly disliked touring.
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** As mentioned above, he also strongly disliked touring.touring, noting that in his later tours his mind would constantly wander while he performed, and on a few occasions he flat-out forgot lyrics, which he took as a sign that he was burned out on live performing.
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* PricklyPorcupine
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** Some do, however, hold out hope, that if PBS makes another educational children's show a-la Series/TheElectricCompany1971 or [[Series/SquareOneTV Square One Television]], Lehrer might agree to contribute a few [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal televisual tutorial tunes for tots]].
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** Some do, however, hold out hope, that if PBS makes another educational children's show a-la Series/TheElectricCompany1971 or [[Series/SquareOneTV Square One Television]], Lehrer might agree to contribute a few [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal televisual tutorial tunes for tots]].tots.
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** He has also developed a different perspective now on "When You Are Old and Gray".
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** He has He's also developed a different perspective now on "When You Are Old and Gray".
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** Since they were based on current events, the songs on ''Music/ThatWasTheYearThatWas'' are this to varying degrees. His song intros provide most of the background, but the lyrics still slip in references here-and-there that might not be so obvious to modern listeners, like the mention of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clark_(sheriff) Sheriff Jim Clark]] (the orchestrator of the Bloody Sunday attacks in Selma, Alabama) in "National Brotherhood Week".
** "New Math" fits this twice over. The "new math" the song is poking fun at faced massive backlash and was quickly abandoned. Moreover, the one part of it that Lehrer chose to specifically pick apart for the song just so happened to be the one part of "new math" that actually stuck around, leaving most modern listeners to have no idea why he's presenting a perfectly normal subtraction problem [[ItWillNeverCatchOn in a tone that suggests you're supposed to find it silly]].
** The version of "That's Mathematics" featured on ''The Remains of Tom Lehrer'' box set edits out the verse about Andrew Wiles solving UsefulNotes/FermatsLastTheorem to avoid this.
** "We'll All Go Together When We Go" has some depressingly-timeless GallowsHumor regarding [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt what would happen to us]] in the event of a full nuclear war, albeit such worries being at the forefront is marked at being of a time when [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar there was a valid reason to worry it could happen any day]]. What truly marks it as a song from the '50s, though, is the line that we would become "nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak". A listener when the song was new would be hit by how truly destructive nuclear weapons are with that line; a modern listener would just be surprised to learn that the world population only broke three billion in 1960.
** Since they were based on current events, the songs on ''Music/ThatWasTheYearThatWas'' are this to varying degrees. His song intros provide most of the background, but the lyrics still slip in references here-and-there that might not be so obvious to modern listeners, like the mention of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clark_(sheriff) Sheriff Jim Clark]] (the orchestrator of the Bloody Sunday attacks in Selma, Alabama) in "National Brotherhood Week".
** "New Math" fits this twice over. The "new math" the song is poking fun at faced massive backlash and was quickly abandoned. Moreover, the one part of it that Lehrer chose to specifically pick apart for the song just so happened to be the one part of "new math" that actually stuck around, leaving most modern listeners to have no idea why he's presenting a perfectly normal subtraction problem [[ItWillNeverCatchOn in a tone that suggests you're supposed to find it silly]].
** The version of "That's Mathematics" featured on ''The Remains of Tom Lehrer'' box set edits out the verse about Andrew Wiles solving UsefulNotes/FermatsLastTheorem to avoid this.
** "We'll All Go Together When We Go" has some depressingly-timeless GallowsHumor regarding [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt what would happen to us]] in the event of a full nuclear war, albeit such worries being at the forefront is marked at being of a time when [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar there was a valid reason to worry it could happen any day]]. What truly marks it as a song from the '50s, though, is the line that we would become "nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak". A listener when the song was new would be hit by how truly destructive nuclear weapons are with that line; a modern listener would just be surprised to learn that the world population only broke three billion in 1960.
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** Since they were based on current events, the songs on ''Music/ThatWasTheYearThatWas'' are this to varying degrees. His song intros provide most of the background, but the lyrics still slip in references here-and-there that might not be so obvious to modern listeners, like the mention of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clark_(sheriff) Sheriff Jim Clark]] (the orchestrator of the Bloody Sunday attacks in Selma, Alabama) in "National Brotherhood Week".
** "New Math" fits this twice over. The "new math" the song is poking fun at faced massive backlash and was quickly abandoned. Moreover, the one part of it that Lehrer chose to specifically pick apart for the song just so happened to be the one part of "new math" that actually stuck around, leaving most modern listeners to have no idea why he's presenting a perfectly normal subtraction problem [[ItWillNeverCatchOn in a tone that suggests you're supposed to find it silly]].
** The version of "That's Mathematics" featured on ''The Remains of Tom Lehrer'' box set edits out the verse about Andrew Wiles solving UsefulNotes/FermatsLastTheorem to avoid this.
** "We'll All Go Together When We Go" has some depressingly-timeless GallowsHumor regarding [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt what would happen to us]] in the event of a full nuclear war, albeit such worries being at the forefront is marked at being of a time when [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar there was a valid reason to worry it could happen any day]]. What truly marks it as a song from the '50s, though, is the line that we would become "nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak". A listener when the song was new would be hit by how truly destructive nuclear weapons are with that line; a modern listener would just be surprised to learn that the world population only broke three billion in 1960.
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* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: He's been falsely proclaimed dead by so many news articles that he keeps a scrapbook of newspaper and magazine clippings naming him "the late Tom Lehrer."
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* MeaningfulName: A RealLife example. ''Lehrer'' is German for 'teacher'.
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* BigNameFan: Creator/DanielRadcliffe is a huge fan of his works and can recite the entirety of "The Elements" from memory.
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** "We'll All Go Together When We Go" has some depressingly-timeless GallowsHumor regarding [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt what would happen to us]] in the event of a full nuclear war, albeit such worries being at the forefront is marked at being of a time when [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar there was a valid reason to worry it could happen any day]]. What truly marks it as a song from the '50s, though, is the line that we would become "nearly three billion hunks of well-done steak". A listener when the song was new would be hit by how truly destructive nuclear weapons are with that line; a modern listener would just be surprised to learn that the world population only broke three billion in 1960.
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** The version of "That's Mathematics" featured on ''The Remains of Tom Lehrer'' box set edits out the verse about Andrew Wiles solving UsefulNotes/FermatsLastTheorem to avoid this.
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** "New Math" fits this twice over. The "new math" the song is poking fun at faced massive backlash and very was quickly abandoned. Moreover, the one part of it that Lehrer chose to specifically pick apart for the song just so happened to be the one part of "new math" that actually stuck around, leaving most modern listeners to have no idea why he's presenting a perfectly normal subtraction problem [[ItWillNeverCatchOn in a tone that suggests you're supposed to find it silly]].
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** "New Math" fits this twice over. The "new math" the song is poking fun at faced massive backlash and very was quickly abandoned. Moreover, the one part of it that Lehrer chose to specifically pick apart for the song just so happened to be the one part of "new math" that actually stuck around, leaving most modern listeners to have no idea why he's presenting a perfectly normal subtraction problem [[ItWillNeverCatchOn in a tone that suggests you're supposed to find it silly]].
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* TheRestOfTheNuclearClubUsefulNotes/TheRestOfTheNuclearClub
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** "New Math" fits this twice over. The "new math" the song is poking fun at faced massive backlash and very was quickly abandoned. Moreover, the one part of it that Lehrer chose to specifically pick apart for the song just so happened to be the one part of "new math" that actually stuck around, leaving most modern listeners to have no idea why he's presenting a perfectly normal subtraction problem in a tone that suggests you're supposed to find it silly.
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** "New Math" fits this twice over. The "new math" the song is poking fun at faced massive backlash and very was quickly abandoned. Moreover, the one part of it that Lehrer chose to specifically pick apart for the song just so happened to be the one part of "new math" that actually stuck around, leaving most modern listeners to have no idea why he's presenting a perfectly normal subtraction problem [[ItWillNeverCatchOn in a tone that suggests you're supposed to find it silly.
silly]].
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Since they were based on current events, the songs on ''That Was The Year That Was'' are this to varying degrees. His song intros provide most of the background, but the lyrics still slip in references here-and-there that might not be so obvious to modern listeners, like the mention of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clark_(sheriff) Sheriff Jim Clark]] (the orchestrator of the Bloody Sunday attacks in Selma, Alabama) in "National Brotherhood Week".
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** Since they were based on current events, the songs on''That Was The Year That Was'' ''Music/ThatWasTheYearThatWas'' are this to varying degrees. His song intros provide most of the background, but the lyrics still slip in references here-and-there that might not be so obvious to modern listeners, like the mention of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clark_(sheriff) Sheriff Jim Clark]] (the orchestrator of the Bloody Sunday attacks in Selma, Alabama) in "National Brotherhood Week".
** "New Math" fits this twice over. The "new math" the song is poking fun at faced massive backlash and very was quickly abandoned. Moreover, the one part of it that Lehrer chose to specifically pick apart for the song just so happened to be the one part of "new math" that actually stuck around, leaving most modern listeners to have no idea why he's presenting a perfectly normal subtraction problem in a tone that suggests you're supposed to find it silly.
** Since they were based on current events, the songs on
** "New Math" fits this twice over. The "new math" the song is poking fun at faced massive backlash and very was quickly abandoned. Moreover, the one part of it that Lehrer chose to specifically pick apart for the song just so happened to be the one part of "new math" that actually stuck around, leaving most modern listeners to have no idea why he's presenting a perfectly normal subtraction problem in a tone that suggests you're supposed to find it silly.
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* His own page, oddly enough
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* [[Music/TomLehrer His own page, oddly enoughenough]]
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-->'''Lehrer:''' I don't want to satirize [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush George [W.] Bush]] and his puppeteers. I want to ''vaporize'' them.
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