Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag - now on DVD

http://www.amazon.com/Tom-Lehrer-Collection-CD-DVD/dp/B0039TD73G/ref=sr_1_3?i...

Use the above link and get the uninterrupted Lehrer TV-performance and The Tom Lehrer Collection from Amazon.com.

http://www.shoutfactorystore.com/prod.aspx?pfid=5257149

If you live in the United States you can also buy the collection from Shout! Factory, using the above link.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/tom-lehrer/id293867859

Use the above link to buy Tom Lehrer's songs on iTunes.

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Over the years a lot of people have been offended by this song, also on YouTube.

Now you can read Tom Lehrer's own introduction to the song, played by The Music Show in Australia when he was interviewed on the telephone a few years ago:

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Another big news story of the year (1965) concerned the Ecumenical Council in Rome, known as Vatican II. Among the things they did, in an attempt to make the church more commercial, was to introduce the vernacular into portions of the mass to replace Latin, and to widen somewhat the range of music permissible in the liturgy. But I feel that if they really want to sell the product in this secular age, what they ought to do is to re-do some of the liturgical music in popular song forms. I have a modest example here. It's called The Vatican Rag...

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Lehrer said "OK" to "The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel" on YouTube, as long as the performance is not altered and as long as it's free in the YouTube flash video format.

Click on the user name and visit the channel's front page. The channel is Lehrer only. And here is a link to a NEW channel support page:

http://home.broadpark.no/~emeyn/tl/

© 2011 Tom Lehrer

Recording date: September 11th 1967
Format: Ampex Quadruplex PAL 4:3
Status: A very rare recording
Storage: Sony Digital Betacam
Production and preservation: The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation - the NRK, Norway. More here:

http://www.nrk.no/informasjon/about_the_nrk/1.3698504

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[NassimHarameinVedas]

bought the album/dvd from amazon, its awesome!

[6funswede]

@NassimHarameinVedas, I love it when people buy Lehrer' s songs because then they will be taken care of ;-)

[casestudyification]

"Ave Maria- gee it's good to see ya!!" Is Tom Lehrer still living? I always wanted to get him to sign an album.

[6funswede]

@casestudyification, yes, Lehrer is alive and well. Play the YouTube video "Tom Lehrer talks" and you will understand why he does not sign albums, give autographs or why he does not promote the 2010 release of The Tom Lehrer Collection (CD/DVD). Thank you for watching Lehrer live on video :-)

[billwalkerable]

So sorry it doesn't have text. I'm deaf. Bummer !

[6funswede]

@billwalkerable, just google for the words "bright Tom Lehrer days" and then check out the lyrics to the album "That Was The Year That Was" :-)

[XtraordinaryBeing]

religion will always be a great joke

[thevampirefrog06]

With the new translation coming out, we need a Vatican Rag: Part 2.

[Frogiful]

he forgot the coffee and donuts.

[Charliecomet82]

Tom Lehrer--the wisest Jew since Solomon!

[nerdwonder]

Wow. Talk about ahead of his time!

[neonshoji]

I've just fallen in love with an elderly Jew. This guy is as hilarious as he is brilliant!

[PhysicsProf1]

@Lathuvan Stay away from all of it....it's nothing but superstitious nonsense and you will lead a happier, healthier guilt-free life. When truths are told instead of concluded, what you have is a cult.....not scientific evidence.

[PhysicsProf1]

@casestudyification Yes he is and is living in the vicinity of UC Santa Cruz.....where he's oftimes seen.

[sallieparker]

tiresome, tiresome, tiresome...these characters feel they have absolute license, but criticize them just a little and it's, oy oi'm bein' poisakooted!

[oniyaajila]

I would have loved to attend one of his classes - unfortunately, Harvard wasn't in my cards.

[Lathuvan]

@JRNipper Gods Word doesn't change, but the interpretation of His words does. And with respect to interpretation, protestants have been all over the place. If I'd want to become protestant, how would I know which interpretation might be right? At least the catholics chose one interpretation and stuck to it.