Tom Lehrer - Who's Next - oldest Wikipedia version - 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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The channel now has a NEW version of this song with Tom Lehrer's verbal intro and no Wikipedia quotes. Visit the channel's front page. This version is the earliest posted version from 2007.

"Who's Next" is unfortunately still a hot topic today. Iran will maybe have the bomb ready before South Africa? The Wikipedia list of states with nuclear weapons will no doubt continue to grow.

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. 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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[Namantos]

I wonder how many hate-messages he got back then :/

totally love him!

[6funswede]

@Namantos, well, truth be told, not that many. The reason, of course, was that Lehrer was never invited to do prime-time radio or TV shows in the United States. But I can assure you that for the first two years on YouTube (2007-2009) there were quite a few "not-so-nice" messages, because suddenly Lehrer's songs were easy to find for people who don't exactly love his stuff. None of these messages were forwarded to Lehrer, because he is not interested in "fan mail".

[0Edward0Cullen0]

@Namantos Why would he get hate messages?!

[6funswede]

@0Edward0Cullen0, ask the people who wrote them, i.e. people in the U.S. who hates "Send the Marines" or "The Vatican Rag" or "Wernher von Braun". Click on the (stupid) user name "6funswede" and watch/hear the songs yourself.

[notsotupelohoney]

Thanks for posting this, 6funswede. I will be purchasing the dvd for my grandchildren. Brilliant observations like Tom Lehrer's must be passed down.

[notsotupelohoney]

@isisorion1

I was going to remind us, Americans, that he was on tv. I was a child, 9 yo, and that was my favorite show at the time, though I don't remember any specific story, song, or person.

6funswede was in Europe so probably didn't know that Lehrer was on American tv. Alan Alda was also on TW3 which was a US version of the British show. Lasted just one season here, I believe.

[isisorion1]

@6funswede -- Maybe I'm getting older, but I am sure that I first saw Tom Lehrer on That Was the Week that Was when I was a teenager. And I loved his sardonic wit so relevant to the time. The issues remain but no satirist can compare to Lehrer.

[plasticspastic201]

what a wanker. pistonheads is SHIT

[Ryphius]

@DrEthanAsia1

Taking wild guess I would say thats gotta be Israel.

[DrEthanAsia1]

Who was he referring to when he said 'just to use on you know who'? I'm too stupid for Lehrer.

[romanlegions]

@jimmy2k4o Well~, I see that your views clashes greatly with mine, especially on the 9/11 debate. But since I just emerged from a previous flame war, I don't want to get involve in another one just as quickly. So i bid you good night.

[jimmy2k4o]

@romanlegions with people who haven't done any proper research into it and can't wait to label me a parranoid conspiracy wacko, frankly for them the idea that they are behind it seem to be too much for some people to handle so they don't even open their minds a fraction of a mm to take a real look at the evidence or the logical reason why 9/11 actually worked in the bush administrations favor....

[jimmy2k4o]

@romanlegions also mate when i said how america is a war hungry nation and frankly a rather immoral one also i was meaning their government not their citizenry so the protests don't really matter to my point even tho i do respect them, search on youtube "boston legal speech on america" a clip i think perfectly encompasses how immoral and sometimes evil america can be, alos if you don't believe what i said about 9/11 please don't start a debate with me about it i've got into so many with

[jimmy2k4o]

@romanlegions With all do respect mate Wallace and Robert the bruce put an end to all the theft rape and murder that English soldiers were doing north of the border wallace was a great man stood up for his country whne they were being oppressed, also you may say the wars america enters into was just reactions, not quite the attack in the gulf of tonkin which started the vietnam war has turned out to be fiction and don't even get me started on how 9/11 was clearly an act of the U.S goverment