You Tube has a couple of gems: rare vintage videos of one of the greatest song satire composers/performers in concert.Tom Lehrer was popular in the 1950s and 1960s (he abandoned his performing career) but WAY ahead of his time. Except for a few dated topical references, these songs hold up.
This is my first time SEEING Lehrer perform…and as an entertainer myself I am struck by his showmanship. Here are videos showing him performing two of his best songs:
National Brotherhood Week:
And perhaps more famous, Pollution:
If you’re a young TMV reader who wants to hear more, most of his stuff holds up quite well. The definitive collection of his works is this:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.