Tom Lehrer - Tom Lehrer Discovers Australia (and Vice Versa) (1960)

[@AussieKim42]

Happy 96th birthday Tom Lehrer! ❤️

[@LockeRobsta]

Born too late to see this amazing performer live but born in the age of KZbin, where his content can be enjoyed.

[@TheHutchy01]

There's something even funnier about the bit where he talks about being a spy now that we know he was at the NSA, and it's actually true.

[@qwmx]

He's attractive, charismatic, secretive, intelligent. Being a spy suits him. He's America's own James Bond!😂

[@Marlyjade]

Endowed with 12 incredibly agile fingers. I know Im gonna be in for a wild life

[@MURDERPILLOW.]

Jealous

[@jasonlarson9272]

I was born in 1977 and loved tom lehrer since i was a kid. I think i first heard him on doctor dementos sunday night radio show as a kid, me and my brother never missed it. Tom lehrer is so clever and funny. There is nothing better then someone who can make you laugh and think at the same time. Thats why tim lehrer and George Carlin are personal favorites of mine. It's amazing how funny i still think these songs are i have heard them countless times of the years and they never lose their charm. Tom lehrer is the greatest and always will be, thanks very much for the upload.

[@helenem4586]

Total genius. I well remember my father roaring with laughter as he listened to Tom Lehrer back in the late fifties/early sixties, and I had memorised most of his songs by age 12. Thanks for posting this concert, which I hadn't heard before. I note with some pride that the Australian audience was completely in tune with him.

[@TheMimifur]

As a child in the 1960s I laughed along with my parents... then I grew up and really really laughed! Now I cry a lot as many of Tom's predictions have come true and no one listened....

[@judyjurek9334]

Still have him on old records and one of his songs as my phone ring tone. Brilliant man!! Never be another like him.

[@KandaJE]

I found my mom's 10" 'Songs by' way back in 1972, fell in love and insisted on the latest LP for Xmas every year after! I memorized every song except The Elements, but what I did get memorized came in handy in High School! When I did "New Math" in 6th grade math class as my "presentation" on base 8 math, the teacher laughed and gave me an A+!

[@jmwoods190]

I've been listening to his fine songs since I was 11, sang "I Hold Your Hand in Mine" for my 9th grade English speech exam, and my teacher gave me full marks for it. I later sang part of "In Old Mexico" for my 10th grade speech exam and also got an A for it.

[@peterr7321]

I had my first Tom Leher album in 1964. Still listen to it. Leher belongs in Washington DC, somewhere!

[@neilcollis7720]

Need Tom now.

[@rsr789]

He's still with us, but long retired...

[@greatglimbus]

Well i don’t have him on me sorry to say

[@MrKlemps]

He is, exactly today 4/9/24, 96. Lives in Santa Cruz, California.

[@qwmx]

​@@MrKlemps Cambridge. He lives in Cambridge. Liik up his fan mail, it's stil accurate (verified with google maps and a relatively recent picture of him in front of his house).

[@MrKlemps]

I know the house. He lived next door to the composer Arthur Berger who was my thesis advisor. He used to spend summers in Cambridge (and the remainder in Santa Cruz where he taught for 40 years). I thought in recent years he had confined himself to S.C. All internet mentions of his birthday (4/28) had him in S.C.

[@DodderingOldMan]

Man, I wish I'd been there for this... sadly it was 20 years before I was born :P Good to know he's still around, though!

[@TheMimifur]

A joy to find this....

[@greatglimbus]

Happy birthday tom

[@bobwoww8384]

Tom Lerher is indeed one of few brilliant, creative geniuses of the last 200yrs🌹 Overjoyed to have discovered him today🌈🎶😄🎉🌹

[@rsr789]

Congratulations to Mr. Lehrer for correctly predicting Mel Brooks' 'The Producers'. 🤣

[@adoreslaurel]

He even took time out to take note of our pronunciations, Maths instead of Math.

[@jaycee330]

And rewrite the line to make the rhyme match.

[@Agapy8888]

I wish this was on video.

[@JWerthan]

Genius.

[@bjarnenilsson80]

You tell'em Tom, this is ahlarious

[@qwmx]

RSL of tomorrow, "Return Service League" the organisation which our veterans join.

[@jaycee330]

Basically, the Aus version of the VA.

[@geraldsachs1325]

black humour to its peak.

[@qwmx]

Wait, this guy did stand up skits aside from singing?

[@geraniaceae4470]

He did his monologues from the piano bench before singing. They frequently had nothing to do the songs.

[@Agapy8888]

Football equally useless