Tom Lehrer: The Vatican Rag
This clip features a rare Tom Lehrer error! It’s got to be tough when you flub your own lyrics on live national television. Watch for it in the Vatican Rag:
It’s odd watching these clips. I’m used to listening to the concert recordings which have more raucous audience responses. This song in particular I always thought got a much heartier laugh than I would have expected. Making fun of the church must have been less of a standard comic enterprise back then. I should dig up the concert recording and compare.
The Vatican Rag was previously seen/heard in the Picket Fences clips.
October 20th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
You must be a young scamp, sonny.
Our Tom had quite a history of being BANNED for his sacrilege!
And “shocking poor taste”…!
BTW, I’ve got all his vinyls, and the Remains of Tom Lehrer is loaded onto my hard drive. Someday I hope to afford the actual CD box set, because the little hardcover book that comes in it is a necessity to any Lehrer fan!
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October 24th, 2007 at 2:12 am
I doan’ know if I can address you like the other olde “bastard.” I became a fan of Tom Lehrer when I heard a recording on the Dr. Demento show in 1981, about six years after I cam stateside. But I can state that the man was arguably on a par with Lenny Bruce.
In any case, like Lenny Bruce and early Monty Python LPs, I suggest one get what one can, lest the humourless universe of today’s vacuous pop culture suck it all into a black hole.
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