This song really is a show off for all Tom Lehrer's talents and it will stay with us as long as multi racial societies exists on this earth. No, as long as there are people on this earth :-) If you visit the channel front page, you can also watch another version of the song with Lehrer's intro.
Yes, 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
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Cassius Clay and Mrs. Wallace are mentioned in this song, but were not mentioned in the original recording. The two people mentioned in the original recording were:
Lena Horne, born 1917, was a mulatto lounge singer, active in the 1960's, who became the first black American movie star when she signed a contract with MGM in 1942. Sheriff Jim Clark of Selma, Alabama, was responsible for several violent arrests of Civil Rights protestors, over the wishes of Selma mayor Joseph Smitherman, who wanted to bring industry to the town, and didn't want the negative publicity that violence would bring.
Production and preservation: The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation - the NRK, Norway. More here:
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I disagree...the cause of hate and evil is...well, we are humans who are capable of higher thought. Animals do not know of "hate" or "evil". And religion may currently be the source of much of it these days, it won't go away with its disappearance.
And presenting a negative stereotype of Jews above is simply reinforcement of that.
Do you know what affirmative action is? the US government makes asians have a harder time getting into a college because they think that they have an "advantage" (being born smarter or some stupid bullshit like that) and let african americans get into college easier because "to make up for them being traditionally discriminated in the past" So if an asian gets say an 95% and an american gets an 90%, the american gets in, and the same for "white americans" to african americansAnd this is real too
I turned this on, and the at the very first line my sis just completely cracking up, and then RIGHT when she stopped laughing, it said, "Lena Horne and Sheriff Clarke are dancing cheek to cheek." she started cracking up again.
YouTube is able to give us these "marvellous" new channels, but seems incapable to manage the comments in the right order. My first comment was meant for sidchuownz. :-)
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And presenting a negative stereotype of Jews above is simply reinforcement of that.
the US government makes asians have a harder time getting into a college because they think that they have an "advantage" (being born smarter or some stupid bullshit like that) and let african americans get into college easier because "to make up for them being traditionally discriminated in the past"
So if an asian gets say an 95% and an american gets an 90%, the american gets in, and the same for "white americans" to african americansAnd this is real too
If people would stop whining and overcome what obstacles are put in front of them, perhaps we might all get along better.
And frankly, colleges are hot and heavy to fill up with more "minorities" anyway.
In fact, it's probably much more of a disadvantage to be a Caucasian than anything else...
Though I'm sort of at a loss what this has to do with the song.