[Dixielandjazz] Satire in song - Tom Lehrer

[Robert Ringwald]

 Jerry Gordon wrote regarding Tom Leher:

 > It's more parody than satire, but don't forget the wonderful Allen
> Sherman. Lots of his stuff on YouTube.
(snip)

Jerry, I believe you have the meanings of parody and satire mixed up.

Tom Lehrer is definitely satire and Sherman is mostly parody.

--Bob Ringwald




> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:30:06 EST Jtnt at aol.com writes:
>> Phil Wilking wrote:
>>
>> <<Amazon.com still has a collection of his songs in piano/vocal
>> version and
>> several CDs
>>
>> But, hard as it is for us middle aged types  to believe, there are
>> many now
>> who don't remember when he was a popular  entertainer/song writer in
>> the
>> 1950's and 60's.
>>
>> Here are some youtube  URLs for his performances. Hurry to get them
>> before
>> the PC police burn  them.>>
>>
>> First, thanks for putting us in the ranks of the "middle  aged"
>> :-)
>>
>> Second, for REAL fans, there's a LOT more of Lehrer here:
>>
>>
> _http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Atomic+bomb+Tom+Lehrer+We+wi
> ll+al
>>
> l+go+together+comedy+profecy+satire+song&search=related&v=frAEmhqdLFs&pag
> e=1_
>>
>>
> (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Atomic+bomb+Tom+Lehrer+We+wi
> ll+al
>>
> l+go+together+comedy+profecy+satire+song&search=related&v=frAEmhqdLFs&pag
> e=1)
>>
>>
>> Jack Thomas
>>
>
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