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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

https://variety.com/2025/music/obituaries-people-news/tom-lehrer-dead-satirist-topical-singer-songwriter-1236471506/

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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Tom Lehrer Dead: Influential Musical Satirist of '50s and '60s Was 97

Tom Lehrer, an influential musical satirist who came to fame with songs addressing topical events in the '50s and '60s, has died at age 97.

Variety

#TW3 #ThatWasTheWeekThatWas #60sTV

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Kenneth Cope with the rest of the TW3 team.

...and in 2024, thanks to Jeopardy, I finally understand yet another reference in a (1965) Tom Lehrer song I committed to memory as a child.

#jeopardy #jeopardymasters #tomlehrer #tomlehrersongs #georgemurphy #thatwastheyearthatwas #thatwastheweekthatwas