PowerFlarm Update for the Seniors Contest in Florida

On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:09:03 -0800, herbkilian wrote:

Mike, there's a whole wide world outside of the US of A and guess what,
your Tom Lehrer did not make it on the TV screens everywhere. As
Asterix said to fittingly in the French comic: Ils sont fous, les
Americains.

....however I doubt that anybody in the English-speaking world or Europe
who went through University in the mid/late 60s wouldn't know "We Will
All Go Together When We Go".

TV was irrelevant: in some circles Lehrer LPs circulated alongside those
by Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and, for light relief, Flanders & Swann
(remember the Hippopotamus Song?).


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I went to college in the USA in the late 60s and early 70s and I had to
look up Lehrer yesterday. Never heard of him. Never thought much of
Dylan, either.

On 2/26/2015 3:51 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:09:03 -0800, herbkilian wrote:

Mike, there's a whole wide world outside of the US of A and guess what,
your Tom Lehrer did not make it on the TV screens everywhere. As
Asterix said to fittingly in the French comic: Ils sont fous, les
Americains.

...however I doubt that anybody in the English-speaking world or Europe
who went through University in the mid/late 60s wouldn't know "We Will
All Go Together When We Go".

TV was irrelevant: in some circles Lehrer LPs circulated alongside those
by Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and, for light relief, Flanders & Swann
(remember the Hippopotamus Song?).



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Dan Marotta

At 22:51 26 February 2015, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:09:03 -0800, herbkilian wrote:

Mike, there's a whole wide world outside of the US of A and guess what,
your Tom Lehrer did not make it on the TV screens everywhere. As
Asterix said to fittingly in the French comic: Ils sont fous, les
Americains.

....however I doubt that anybody in the English-speaking world or Europe
who went through University in the mid/late 60s wouldn't know "We Will
All Go Together When We Go".

Try:
http://www.casualhacker.net/tom.lehrer/evening.html#go

I think a lot of his work was published in the 50's.

On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:47:03 +0000, Tim Newport-Peace wrote:

At 22:51 26 February 2015, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:09:03 -0800, herbkilian wrote:

Mike, there's a whole wide world outside of the US of A and guess
what,
your Tom Lehrer did not make it on the TV screens everywhere. As
Asterix said to fittingly in the French comic: Ils sont fous, les
Americains.

....however I doubt that anybody in the English-speaking world or Europe
who went through University in the mid/late 60s wouldn't know "We Will
All Go Together When We Go".

Try:
http://www.casualhacker.net/tom.lehrer/evening.html#go

I think a lot of his work was published in the 50's.

Yep. He only put out a few albums but back in the day I'd heard even
fewer of his songs "We Will all go...", The Elements, Masochism Tango was
about it. Recently I got a CD copy of his 'in Concert' album and I must
say the majority of the songs on it are fairly unmemorable: the
aforementioned ones are the standouts. Just goes to show that Woody
Guthrie was a much better song writer though I'm told that many Americans
only know one of his (This Land is Your Land). Can that be true or is it
just a tissue of sex, lies and videotape?


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