Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - 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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Want to hear Lehrer's INTRO? A HQ version was posted on the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11. Click this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio

To make this song even more spot on, Lehrer used eight bars from the well-known German national anthem "Das Lied der Deutschen" as a song intro :-)

Check out more about the German national anthem here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandlied

The publishing: Lehrer has accepted "The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel" on YouTube. He said OK as long as the performance is not altered and as long as it's free in the YouTube flash video format.

If you click on the user name you should know that the channel is Tom Lehrer only, with twelve songs on video from a 1967 performance. 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

Von Braun on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

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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[martyn580]

why dont songs like this appear on MTV?

[clapp62]

Michael Neufeld stated it best by noting that... " it is comforting to pigeon hole him as either white or black, because then one does not have to deal with his ambiguity and complexity, or the ambiguity and complexity of the moral and political choices offered to scientists and engineers in the modern era. One thing is, however, clear: the foundation of his remarkable career as an engineer manager and space visionary was his romantic ambition to explore space, if possible personally.

[UnwantedStudios3]

@TnseWlms cause his V2's crippled or killed them

[ianphiliphodge]

Was Wernher von Braun a bad guy?

A scientist who only cares for his or her research  is a fool. Scientists who know their work is to be used for evil yet willingly continue are themselves, by definition, evil.

[UnshavenStatue]

"und I'm learning Chinese, says Werner von Braun!" Man, not only was he funny, but he has a remarkable ability to see into the future it would seem.

[britboyal]

@TnseWlms von Braun pioneered the Nazi V1 and V2 rockets which were used to bomb London during WWII

[TnseWlms]

So why are London pensioners indebted to Werner von Braun?

[deeppurple28]

@jamesefarkas That was a Man with a Dream!

[Goatie65]

Von Braun is still part of the public conscious and will stay so long after Lehrer is long dead and forgotten. Von Braun has left humanity an enormous legacy through his contributions to space flight. Unfortunately, Von Braun was born into a Germany in turmoil and became involved in his profession where he had little power to dictate where his work would be used. For Lehrer to take a cheap shot at him in this song really only diminishes Lehrer who I had long forgotten until I saw this

[Undeadjester410]

@VivaRenata haha I'm only 16 darling ;) although. People do tell me i'm an old soul <3

[VivaRenata]

@Undeadjester410 Mortacci tuo, vecchio stronzo ....

[VivaRenata]

And all of you above don't need to "sell" the genius that is Tom Lehrer! I am so old that I grew up with him and my father owns both of the Tom Lehrer songbooks. Continue to share his social criticism but stop trying to make money from his contribution to society. Though I love pigeons, that I mainly meet in Italy, I would really like to poison you, whoever you are.