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@PaulWay oh no, and I am even finding out a week late 😭.
I am glad he made it this far - and made his work available to ask through the public domain.
Maybe that #TomLeher bot I mooted at the start of this year should gain some priority.
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Wikipedia has an entry with a bit to say
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_the_Spanish_Civil_War
#TomLeher has a point though, that singing songs can too easily be mistaken for politically significant
I’ve often felt like cultural work was enough, but if it doesn’t inspire action people might be misleading themselves about its importance
“Governments love anti-war songs”
by #EugeneChadbourne
https://youtu.be/L-_t5Wzh6ks
EpikurasThis post was started almost a year ago when #TonyBennett died months before I joined #Mastodon. It was about the #Reids, my favorite neighborhood family and the bros who became my closest friends back when I was an otherwise lonely #BurbanBoomerBoy. D was 2 days older than my sibling & R was a grade ahead of me with similar tastes in entertainment. I shared my #BillCosby albums with him and he introduced me to the music of #TomLeher. I lost touch with him after I started college and last heard that he had settled in #Bemidji where he matriculated.
R was a huge fan of Tiny Tim and loved imitating his falsetto singing, sometimes in pancake makeup with a ukulele. He once told me that he won a very special prize out of thousands of contestants in the #Chicagoland area. A personal home visit from #MartinMull who arrived in a limo was the grand prize in some promotion for one of his early albums. R told me about it afterwards and played me a few tracks from the records he had.
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My mom expressed her discomfort at the time, when I played the 10” album over and over and over
I did not understand why
Possibly because I did not understand, at age six, what sweet nostalgic songs like “The old dope peddler“ were about 🤔
#TomLeher #vinyl
Tom Lehrer - 02 - The Old Dope Peddler
Tom Lehrer Puts His Songs into the Public Domain & Makes Them Free to Download (for a Limited Time)
Deck the halls with hunks of holly / Fill the cup and don't say 'when.'' So sings musical satirist Tom Lehrer on his hit 1959 album An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer — which was recorded in March of that year, not that it stopped him from taking an out-of-season jab at the holidays.
Matthew BogartTom Lehrer (94), who's mentioned as Richards favorite musician in my Incredible Doom Vol. 1, made his entire catalogue copyright free at a few weeks ago. Many of his recordings are available for free for a limited time on his website.
His song "I Hold Your Hand In Mine" was the first song I decided to memorize as a kid.
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