Tom Lehrer - The MLF Lullaby - now on DVD

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Use the above link and get the uninterrupted Lehrer TV-performance and The Tom Lehrer Collection from Amazon.com.

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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 "The MLF Lullaby" was republished in 4:3 HQ in August 2009. This is the old version. The song is a comment on an American proposal to produce a fleet of submarines and warships, each manned by international NATO crews, and armed with multiple nuclear-armed Polaris ballistic missiles. The proposal was floated by the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. You should search for MLF and read about that on Wikipedia.

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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• Lehrer
• MLF
• Lullaby
• multi-lateral
• force
• musical
• satire
• songs
• satirical
• genius
• comedy

[EABray0]

The crowd in these videos is always such a downer! They barely laugh :C

[6funswede]

@EABray0, you know, some of them did actually laugh, but there were no mikes on the audiences in those days. That said, some of Lehrer´s brilliant jokes would have gotten a lot more laughs in an English-speaking country, that´s for sure :-)

[joaormedeiros]

"...we taught then a lesson in 1918 and they hardly bothered us since then" - lolololololol

[6funswede]

@joaormedeiros, yes, that was a good one (as always with Lehrer).

[youtert]

I wonder how many young people clicked on this and expected to hear a song about MILFs.

[Fiddlemaster56]

I thought it was MILF too and I'm 29. :D

[thenutintheushanka18]

@Chrinik Exactly. One must also remember that almost none of the sides in WWII actually liked each other. Italy and Germany almost went to war with each other in 1934, and Germany officially supported China in their war with Japan up until 1939. Dollfuss(authoritarian ruler of Austria from 1932-34) believed that Nazism was too close to Stalinism, and proposed an Austro-Italian-Spanish fascist alliance against Germany and the USSR. The war could have turned out in a very different way.

[Chrinik]

@thenutintheushanka18

Well, either Hitler attacked first, or Stalin would have...Problem is, both situations weren´t very good to begin with but attacking russia out of nowhere had better chances off success at that time then a brawl with the soviet invasion forces.

It dragged on for too long, winter hit, supply lines cut and the rest is history.

[manthasagittarius1]

@UglySean What.

[pugnut403]

Awesome song!

Lehrer was always funny and insightful....

[datingfree1a1]

I like This Short Video

[TheSpiralDownward]

@UglySean

Multi Lateral Force, which was an early non-communist counterweight to the Warsaw Pact.

[thenutintheushanka18]

@Saiaton At that time, Germany and the USSR were in a nonagression pact. It was typical totalitarian backstabbing ("We have always been at war with Eastasia."), and Germany and USSR were on fairly "good" terms after dividing Russia, it was only when Germany invaded Russia that Stalin got mad. I'm not saying that they were buddy-buddy, but they, like many nations, at least pretended to be for their own lusts for power.

[UglySean]

MLF? It's like MILF? Or what?