Tom Lehrer - Tchaikovsky (and Other Russians) - a rap video lecture in 34 seconds!

Open this description and meet the challenge! Can you do your version of this song?

Use the mp3 links here! But first, print out the lyrics, you're going to need them:

http://lyrics.wikia.com/Danny_Kaye:Tschaikowsky_%28And_Other_Russians%29

You can also find the lyrics here:

http://www.songtexte.com/songtext/danny-kaye/tchaikovsky-and-other-russians-2...

Now, click on the link below and do the rap together with Tom Lehrer:

http://home.broadpark.no/~emeyn/youtubefun/rapwithlehrer.mp3

Wanna go solo? Click on the link below and do the rap WITHOUT Tom Lehrer:

http://home.broadpark.no/~emeyn/youtubefun/rapwithoutlehrer.mp3

Can you perform the consonants like Lehrer can? Go on, don't be shy! You've got the links to the lyrics and the audio files! Put your own version on YouTube!

This video was uploaded to celebrate Tom Lehrer's first ever full concert DVD. That's a part of the collection from Shout! Factory. True, Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehrer is a comedian and satirist, but also a fabulous university lecturer, mathematician and professor. Even if you're not a student at the UCSC you'll now get this lecture for free!

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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DISCLAIMER: This video is just titillating the converted and it's NOT an "official trailer". The 2010 release of The Tom Lehrer Collection is © Shout! Factory and the songs on YouTube are © 2011 Tom Lehrer.

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[ShadowinaCave]

Friggin' awful idea to add the doof doof.

[6funswede]

@ShadowinaCave, that´s maybe true, but I´m trying to cover myself. Don´t blame Tom Lehrer, because he is totally innocent. I don´t think he likes drum machines at all.

[MosMidnight]

his pronounciation and accents in the words are wrong, actually

[6funswede]

@MosMidnight, I believe Lehrer´s pronounciation is very similar to the version recorded by Danny Kaye, also available on YouTube.

[mabarry3]

The worst part is 6funswede had to find out how to SPELL all of those names (and I'm not questioning ANY...).

[mabarry3]

When did Tom sing a ... rap?

[4ingP]

And Ananiev...

[sadhustar]

Moniuszko is Polish!

[smiesznypol]

Moniuszko was not a Russian:(

[Clemsault]

what was that music at the end? I liked it.

[Londonrainwaters]

He forgot Kuryakin!!!!

[AYchip]

@mabarry3 I'm questioning the fact that he spelt them with the Latin alphabet, when most Eastern Bloc countries use Cyrillics. This is particularly pertinent as there are many contradictory transliterations of most Russian names - I have seen a score by "Petr Illich Tschaikowsky", which is painfully wrong (my own transliteration would be "Pyotr Ily'ich Tchaikovskiy", but the Tch could arguably be a Ch instead. Much better to write Пётр Ильич Чайковский! Cool vid though.

[Mirkwoodelves]

@MarkNie1

The list includes a bunch of composers who are Americans of Russian descent, and even ones from the Ukraine and Poland.

[IOwnedThatPwner]

I have memorized this song, but Danny Kaye's version. Now I need a camera to record it for proof.