RIP Tom Lehrer (1928-2025)

[robphy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/27/entertainment/tom-lehrer-death

Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/27/835453983/tom-lehrer-musical-satirist-dead

Tom Lehrer, a popular musical satirist who rose to fame in the 1950s and '60s before returning to a career teaching math, has died at age 97.

Lehrer died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Mass., his friend David Herder confirmed to NPR.

He was remembered across the entertainment industry on Sunday, including by "Weird Al" Yankovic, who called Lehrer a "living musical hero" in a social media post on Sunday.

When Lehrer wasn't teaching college-level math, he was sitting at a piano making people laugh — and worry — about the world. His targets included politics, nuclear destruction, and even social harmony.

Tom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967 (from The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel )
https://tomlehrersongs.com/the-elements/

(- Daniel Radcliffe sings "The Elements" - The Graham Norton Show - Series 8 Episode 4 - BBC
- The Big Bang Theory S03E18 The Elements )


The Professor's Song Tom Lehrer
( https://tomlehrersongs.com/category/music-not-by-tom/physical/
- https://tomlehrersongs.com/the-derivative-song-dy-dx/
- https://tomlehrersongs.com/theres-a-delta-for-every-epsilon/
- ...)


Tom Lehrer on The Doctor Demento Show

( - https://dmdb.org/lehrer/
- https://dmdb.org/discographies/lehrer.disco.html )

Tom Lehrer - interview (excerpt) with a young and promising mathematician and satirist


(2013) Tom Lehrer 85th Birthday Interview
(excerpt from https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/104334?m=false )

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_by_Tom_Lehrer

The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel (collection on YouTube)

https://tomlehrersongs.com/

I, Tom Lehrer, individually and as trustee of the Tom Lehrer Trust 2007, hereby grant the following permissions:
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In short, I no longer retain any rights to any of my songs.
So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money.

NOTICE:
THIS WEBSITE WILL BE SHUT DOWN AT SOME DATE IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, SO IF YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD ANYTHING, DON’T WAIT TOO LONG.

Tom Lehrer
November 26, 2022

 

[phinds]

R.I.P. indeed

 

[gmax137]

 

[DennisN]

A legend. Rest in peace.