Alan Lewis: #1950smusic #1960smusic #broadcast #comedy #democrats #music #musicfeed #musicnews #sesamestreet #television #thatwastheweekthatwas #tomlehrer #tw3 #twtwtw #uspol #uspolitics #vaticanrag :
TOM LEHRER, 97
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Tom Lehrer, Influential Satirist Whose Topical Songs Poked and Prodded America in the ’50s and ’60s, Dies at 97
When I was a kid, my Catholic friends got tremendous joy out of Tom Lehrer's "Vatican Rag." So please, in Lehrer's honor, Genuflect, genuflect, genuflect.....
"That Was the Week That Was" was so huge at the time it is hard to remember that it only aired in 1962 and 1963. Tom Lehrer might echo words from its closing theme,
That was the week that was
It's over, let it go
Oh, what a week it was
That was the week that was
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