Bootleg Tom Lehrer performance
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Bootleg Tom Lehrer performance from a McGovern presidential candidate fundraiser, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, 1972.
Recorded by my dad on his Radio Shack Realistic cassette recorder located under the seat.
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I love newly discovered Tom Lehrer media. Thanks so much for digitizing this for us all to hear!
Its wonderful to find some new Tom Lehrer Media!!!!
Right-o !
2:52 National Brotherhood Week
5:15 Whener Von Braun
8:18 So Long Mom
10:58 Be Prepared
12:46 Poisoning Pigeons
16:12 Silent E
18:08 Silent E (early)
19:44 Hound Song
21:40 Who’s Next
24:10 Pollution
26:52 The Vatican Rag
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It's fun to hear him playing an electric piano.
This is very precious, thank you so much! I love how warm and fuzzy the electric piano is too, really nice contrast from how Lehrer usually sounds.
A 1972 joke about Ronald Reagan getting control over nuclear war is kinda wild. This is the first version of this song I’ve ever hear that calls that out.
The normal lyric is about Alabama getting the bomb.
He jokes about being hailed a prophet by making the worst case predictions, but this one is oddly specific
OMG THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS!!!!!
Beautiful archival piece, thank you very much! o/
This makes you think how many other TL performances are lost because theu haven't been digitised. Also the keyboard sounds weird.
He was playing an electric keyboard I think
@@TLS0ngs it was an electric keyboard I've just never heard them make that sound before
I bet he's playing an electric piano.
In one of his relatively recent interviews, he said that he did only about 120 shows during his career.
This is not very much.
The fact that we have recordings of more than a couple of these performances is already a miracle.
@@quogeko9045 It's a Rhodes piano. Electroacoustic really (it's basically made from amplified tuning forks). They're a mainstay of huge quantities of music of the 60s and 70s. Really wonderful hearing it in Tom Lehrer's hands after, say, Riders on the Storm or Get Back.