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Tom Lehrer - The Masochism Tango - now on DVD

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Uploaded by on Oct 1, 2007

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 Masochism Tango" was republished in a 4:3 HQ-version in August 2009. The song is a typical Tom Lehrer original comment and this song will live forever. It really is a timeless gem!

In 1998 Lehrer hosted a radio show on BBC Radio 2, stating that he was inspired to write "The Masochism Tango" after hearing Tony Martin singing a song called "Kiss of Fire". You can hear Lehrer talking about the song here:

http://home.broadpark.no/~emeyn/tl/radio2.html

There is a YouTube version of "Kiss of Fire" with Frankie Laine here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H-rW_Fp3oA

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.

Click on the user name and visit the channel's front page. The channel is Lehrer only. 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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  • Tom is nothing less than genius. Check out his Wikipedia entry sometime. The guy rubbed frontal lobes with some of the 20th century's greatest minds and held his own.IMHO was one of them. Los Alamos, Yale, Harvard, the NSA. Polymath. A term I do not use lightly.

  • @DrLeroyGreen, of course I appreciated this comment very very much! Thank you!

  • This guy is a rhyming master!

  • @Vlogphobia, yes, and one of the greatest one at that, although Lehrer would say that Sondheim is much better. Thank you for appreciating the songs!

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  • @thaer12345, that´s Tom Lehrer, the linguist. He is saying "unnskyld", which is "excuse me" in Danish and Norwegian.

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  • i like this song and i think his talking about his wife...Lol

  • Oh gosh I love this! I love the lyrics! :D Tom is hilarious! Beautiful man!

  • @ThePantherproof I can vouch for the fact that we do. :)

  • Wth he looks like KassemG!!

  • @emochick12650 I do too. I still have welts from Thanks Giving. Ooooo. make it hurt so good, baby! LOL!

  • @ThePantherproof Of COURSE we do! What do you think, we're prudes? ;-)

  • //buys DVD IMMEDIATELY

  • I remember finding this song when I was young and naive and and listening to it with my mother without listening to it afterward. Talk about awkward ;D

  • I love every line of this song... I wish I had met him

  • @ThePantherproof well, I cant speak for all of us, but i quite do

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