Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - with intro

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Enable 480p and use the arrow icon! "Wernher von Braun" is now REPUBLISHED for the third time to celebrate a lot of video views for the first versions published to YouTube. Why? Well, to offer the song in (even) slightly better quality. Use HQ if possible and play back the video on a single YouTube page to get a bigger video window. The older versions will stay on the channel.

The song "Wernher von Braun", written well before 1964 -- and years before the landing on the Moon itself -- was recorded to Ampex video in Oslo, Norway, in 1967. The song was originally published on The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel in July of 2007 and was, in fact, the channel's first video. The original 4:3-version is still on YouTube, as is an experimental 16:9 converted version. But in reality you should use THIS version, which preserves the original 4:3 aspect ratio and is a great leap forward in terms of technical quality. Of course this version also includes Tom Lehrer's spoken intro.

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/Deutschl...

Wikipedia on Wernher von Braun:

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

In 2008 Lehrer really 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 the channel's support page:

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

For more, use this link:

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

© Tom Lehrer

Recording date: September 11th 1967
Format: Ampex Quadruplex PAL 4:3
Status: A very rare recording
Storage: Sony Digital Betacam
2009 YouTube Source: 720 X 576 mp4 with H.264 compression
Production and preservation: The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation - the NRK, Norway. More here:

http://www.nrk.no/informasjon/about_t...

• Category

  Comedy

[uetzel]

how come he is so damn hot?

i would have let him do nasty things to me >:3

[6funswede]

@uetzel, the answer is very simple: Tom Lehrer was -- and still is -- ahead of his time. He will remain hot for the next 250 years.

[Take That You Fiend!]

"That's not my department" is a good philosophy. (-:

[2000Maedchen]

I don't know if he has any grandchildren, but it sure would be awkward if ever they read this :D

[1brewski2]

Harvard was where he worked. The rest is mythical. Listen to his song "Fight Fiercely Harvard." It's right here on the net. You're spot on on Russell. He admits it.

[ZenJrTheI937]

Huh, you should mosey on to his song on smut.

[capvid88]

The story goes that Tom Lehrer was originally a mathematics professor at M.I.T. He taught his classes in a big auditorium with a stage and a piano, and one day he started trying out his songs on his "class" audiences. They loved it and he quickly became such a hit that the University told him he had to make a choice in careers. So guess which one he chose? And by the way, Mark Russell basically stole his act.

[I3rigand]

I dunno I sort of like Wernher von Braun, but then, I kind of have a thing for NASA

[TeaReesa26]

Thank goodness, I thought I was the only one.

Although on that note, back off. I call dibs once I build that time machine.

[loneranger86]

This song is particularly funny to me because when I worked at the Air Force Weapons Lab in the early '70s and I would call the White Sands missile range, the phone would invariably be answered by someone with a heavy German accent.

[Brenden H.]

If you turn on Transcribe Audio, it gets a lot of word correct. Unheard of, amirite?

[jrg8008]

If it were little Izrahell that had a space program, this kike wouldn't have complained.