The song "Pollution" was republished in 4:3 HQ in August 2009. This is the old version, still here. Again, Lehrer was ahead of his time. Pollution was not a hot topic in the sixties. But if Lehrer thought the world was polluted many years ago, I really wonder what he thinks today.
Lehrer said "OK" to"The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel", as long as the performance is not altered and as long as it's free in the YouTube flash video format. Do NOT ask for any video originals, ever again.
Click on the Lehrer icon and visit the channel's front page. The channel is Lehrer only. And here is a link to a NEW channel support page:
Recording date: September 10th 1967 Format: Ampex Quadruplex PAL 4:3 Status: A very rare recording Storage: Sony Digital Betacam
Sometimes when this video is played back the technical audio/video quality is even worse than the average YouTube crap. It wasn't like that when published in 2007. Has it become worse? I don't know. Please try to add &fmt=6 to the page address and reload the page. You might get a better playback. This video will be republished later.
Production and preservation: The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation - the NRK, Norway. More here:
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Not everything's black and white man, and doing the right thing has no political agenda. Cleaning up your own mess of pollution is not liberal or conservative, it's humanitarian.
It just occurred to me, that the beliefs of the 50's and 60's of which he espoused, morphed into the Liberal beliefs of today. In fact environmentalism has become a religion and hating America is commonplace.
Just keep in mind, this was wrote in the early 1960's. Things were JUST cleaned up around there, the cities were VERY VERY polluted in the early 1900's and late 1800's.
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Imma stop before I start a twilight discussion/debate/flame war on a 1960s music video
america is im pretty sure he lives here cuz
he said come to our city