Tom Lehrer - When You Are Old And Gray - 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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Lehrer did have a healthy perspective on marriage and aging. And he is right, as always. Just listen to "When You Are Old And Gray". This is true Lehrer wisdom of life, and it is good fun too :-)

Now, is it true that some YouTube videos deteriorate over time? The last time this video was checked it had a stuttering playback. If this happens to you, add the code &fmt=18 to the page url or select the alternative version ("National Brotherhood Week" and "When You Are Old And Gray" double video).

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, no other YouTube ego's. 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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[mabarry3]

I wonder if Tom, 82, has reached senility and has a loss of mobility combined with an awful debility and lessened utility, and there's a strong possibilty that he's lost his virility and his wife her fertility and desirrrrrrability, and in all probability they didn't act with agility so they've lost the ability and also facility, and then this liability of toal sterility will lead to not only hostility but a big sense of futility... Thumbs up if you agree :)

[6funswede]

@mabarry3, ha ha, I still enjoy this comment, although "no" is the right answer. Lehrer, able to predict the worst, from (increased) pollution to "the rise of China" (in "Wernher von Braun), missed that one. I believe he is mobile, not senile and he has no "lessened utility" and he certainly has ability. I don´t know about virility, though. Maybe he got that one right :-)

[mabarry3]

@6funswede I'm glad you still enjoy the comment, although since then I've learned he doesn't even have a wife. What would he need that virility for anyway?

[6funswede]

@mabarry3, in my (foreign Scandinavian) world, virility is not just about sex, relationships, flatulence and genitalia, it is also about a loud "YES" to life :-)

[shaiza143]

gutes video hab heute n einsamkeits anfall

[ellandelachapelle]

Hahaha.he was always over the limit! (but hit our deepest fears. And shameful thoughts.)

[himemr]

Lol this song describes my entire week.

[javakogan]

I woke up this morning with this song in my head. Thank you for posting and brightening my day!

[MrTrenchcoatguy]

@6funswede

Virility derives from the Latin 'vir' which means 'man'. Therefore, virility is 'manliness', though usually meant in the sexual manner (as in, ability to reproduce, being attractive).

Mind you, loving life is quite manly. :D

[alisonsdragonfly]

Fuckin cool

[ParadoxicalParody]

A real believer in true love. But I still love his music.

[DocuzanQuitomos]

I like the music of Tom Lehrer, but in this video it was particularly funny watching it with the option of audio transcription (I know it's an experimental feature, but that's what made it funny :P).

During the song the transcription only made 3 almost acurate quotes of the actual lyrics, the remaining of the song came up with funny and nonsensical phrases like "My soldiers saw a handyman" (instead of "I told you so in May" XD).

[silentscreams389]

cute

[crazypianolady]

So bittersweet and beautiful.

[TheKimAB]

Husk at øve - når den ene part ikke kan/vil mere - enten alene eller i byen, det kan være en befrielse for den anden