Tom Lehrer - The Masochism Tango - with intro - 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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Enable 480p and use the arrow icon! "The Masochism Tango" is now REPUBLISHED to celebrate a lot of video views for the first version published to YouTube. Why? Well, to offer the song in slightly better quality. The old version is still on the channel. This song is a typical Tom Lehrer original comment and it 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 available here:

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

In 2008 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 the channel's 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
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_the_nrk/1.3698504

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[APPLESAUCE50]

When was this?

[6funswede]

@APPLESAUCE50, click the show-more - link under the video window.

[MelpomeneRose]

I grew up singing Leher (my mother is a pianist and has his songbooks and I actually study voice...I sing mostly opera now, but Leher has such a huge place in my heart), I was singing this on the playground in fourth grade (at Catholic school, no less!)...Yeah. I wasn't a terribly popular child^.^ Thanks so much for this! It's a great opportunity to see him perform, when all I knew was the songbooks. Thanks again!

[6funswede]

@MelpomeneRose, your thanks should go to Lehrer who opted NOT to roast me when these clips appeared in 2007. By now The Tom Lehrer Collection (CD/DVD) is out. Assuming that you have a lot of Lehrer´s songs already, I still want to say that the collection also has a DVD with this priceless performance uninterrupted. A perfect $14 gift to your worst enemy :-)

[nycbigbear]

It's a pity he retired because the Church was offended by his Vatican Rag (He was a devout Catholic)

He was a math professor

[6funswede]

@nycbigbear, is it okay if I ask you to click on my user name 6funswede? If you do, please scroll down the channel page to find the "everything you need to know" link to the left. On that next page, make sure to read some of the interviews with Tom Lehrer :-)

[Inuaang27]

Hi 6funswede, if you don't remember, I had asked you a couple of months ago if this song had an intro. You then responded to me, which I didn't expect. What I really didn't expect is that you would re-post the video with the intro. I know I'm not significant enough to be the only reason why you would post this, but I still wanted to thank you for doing so. Thank you.

[MissGuideMe]

ouch, he is delicious!

[TeeGeeFan]

@BlackFlameSupremacy He is an atheist, even though he's claimed the position arrogant before.

[HeathersAVPM]

To anyone who doesn't know, Masochism is when you find pleasure in your own pain, sadism is when you find pleasure in causing someone else pain...a surprising amount of people think it's the same thing;)

[LuvBug00990]

@mysterioso2006 *smirk* what percentage of masochists do you think look up this song in the first place?

But it's also my anthem, which my boyfriend still makes fun of me for.

[kirriereoch]

I once threw cation to the wind, but regrettably (for myself), the wind threw it back. Wind, ehat a fudge!

[Minyaa82]

SEXY.... :P

[mysterioso2006]

The anthem of masochists like me everywhere! :P

[bobthebackwardsock]

Tom Lehrer, why are you so awesome?

[mabarry3]

This song just isn't the same without seeing the video, the body language, the eye expressions, etc. It just makes the song that much, like when he says "...But much more for the touch of your *whips* dear."

[Trixxie1965]

Hahahaha