Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park - 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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The song in this video was written by Lehrer as early as 1952 or 1953 (may be even earlier), years before an Austrian version appeared, for which Lehrer did not get any credit. Sometimes Lehrer himself would cover other people's songs, but they were always credited. "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park" is a true Tom Lehrer original. Use the link below to read more about the Kreisler/Lehrer discussion:

http://home.broadpark.no/~emeyn/tl/kreisler.html

Some people have written messages to this channel, angered because of the posting of this song. They are "friends of all animals", which basically means that they didn't get it.

Lehrer said that he is OK with "The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel" on YouTube, 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/

(The National) Audobon Society is here:

http://www.audubon.org/

© 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

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[Paganforge]

@6funswede, I can't thank you enough for these videos. Knowing that Mr. Lehrer approves makes it all the more fun!

[6funswede]

@Paganforge, thank you, yes, when this forgotten and extremely rare recording first appeared on YouTube in 2007, Lehrer decided that he did not want to stop it. In 2010 Shout Factory! in the United States released the concert on a DVD, and -- to me -- The Tom Lehrer Collection is still the Christmas gift of all time.

[Undeadjester410]

@6funswede Does it mean anything that I have Tom Lehrer's Record Disc?

[6funswede]

@Undeadjester410, anyone who have Tom Lehrer´s stuff is my favorites :-)

[Cafeeine]

@6funswede Hey again. I just wanted to thank you again for putting these up. I got the Tom Lehrer Collection, which I wouldn't have if these vids hadn't turned me on to Lehrer.

[6funswede]

@Cafeeine, thank you for getting the collection. I am NOT Lehrer´s promoter or anything like that, I´m just a fan. But the more people who buy The Tom Lehrer Collection -- with this TV-performance included -- the longer his satirical gems will survive :-)

[GoblinKnightLeo]

@adequatelg2s I've found that bad ideologies do more damage in the hands of the pious than in the hands of the cynical.

[gigsing]

I woz lookin' for "Druggin' Doves In The Dell" and found this. 

[keepbeingPhat]

He should write another song for seagulls.

[TheUltimateGinge3148]

60 people got poisoned by the pigeons

[grindermonkey23]

60 viewers are pigeons....

[slaterwyatt]

lolololololol



[AwkwardAssassin]

Like if CanadianRainwater brought you here with the Doctor.

[thaer12345]

what a stud, would kiss him tenderly and whisper sweet nothings in his ear

no homo

[LadyofTalent]

@95bhoy It's a shame you don't appreciate Lehrer. Maybe it's Bieber time?