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Undiscovered Lehrer

Nov 24, 2023
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I've posted a lot of videos here of the wonderful Tom Lehrer, including some rare material that he wrote and performed for his fellow professors at the University of California, Santa Cruz which fortunately got privately recorded. (Lehrer had taught political science at MIT, and later went to UCSC to teach mathematics -- and even also taught a class in musical theater.)  But a couple weeks ago, my pal Mark Evanier had a rarity on his site -- a TV performance by Lehrer with a song I'd never heard before.  And it's a lot of fun.


The number is in the spirit of his song "New Math."  He was appearing in England on one of David Frost's TV shows (I don't know which one, nor does Mark), and he performed a song he wrote for the occasion.  He explains how to convert the old British pounds/shillings system to the new decimal currency, like in the United States, that they were going to be changing to in 1971.


You can find the song here on Mark's website.


And as a bonus, for the folks who like to compare, here is that aforementioned song, "New Math," from his great albums ​That Was the Year That Was.



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