Tom Lehrer - So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III) - 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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"So Long, Mom (A Song for WW III)" speaks for itself, but it is nice that you can be on TV just because you are a soldier :-)

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

Category:

Comedy

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• Tom
• Lehrer
• so
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• mom
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• for
• world
• III

[wiwcepfan23]

6funswede is Lehrer in disguise, i say

[6funswede]

@wiwcepfan23, no. I can tell you the truth: I am 55 years old and from Scandinavia, and I haven´t got a clue about how to behave myself.

[mabarry3]

I wonder if Tom (who I think is 82) watches these videos and I wonder what he thinks so many years later.

[6funswede]

@mabarry3, I can tell you the truth: although Lehrer doesn't sit around and watch himself on YouTube, he is aware of what's going on. He thinks it's kind of funny that a lot of people are playing the old video recorded performance on YouTube, and he appreciates them even more if they buy the new CD/DVD, which is less than $15. You know, Lehrer has NEVER promoted himself. But the truth is that the new CD/DVD is a bargain and also the Christmas gift of the year 2010.

[colocoug]

One of the most brilliant and pointed U.S. satirists of the 20th century. Wonderful!

[6funswede]

@colocoug, thank you so much :-)

[AchtungAffen]

On the beach, bitches...

[fabfaruk]

@6funswede AMEN!!!

[lolmaker777]

it is treu if they start dropping the bom in a WW it will be over in a few hours...

[omegapoint777]

@ledzeppelin4ever1975

I doubt it. Gunpowder is easy to make. Millions will die but the knowledge of basic chemistry and metal forging will survive.

[ledzeppelin4ever1975]

Remember we do not know what weapons WW III will be fought with, but it's guaranteed WW IV will be fought with sticks and stones...

[migkillertwo]

They wanted to be a LITTLE subtle with their humor. any subtle, dark humor would have gone out the window if they included satires about nuclear war.

[GoblinKnightLeo]

@earlpwns8 Actually, "We Will All Go Together" would have been better, but this would ahve been great.

[Joypadjunkginger]

@ClaireGruber that's kinda scary ^^ considering the song is about pilots and rubble :O