Tom Lehrer - Pollution - with intro
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Enable 480p and use the arrow icon! "Pollution" is now REPUBLISHED to celebrate a lot of video views for the first version(s) published to TH-cam. Why? Well, to offer the song in slightly better (unpolluted) quality, that's why. The old version is still on the channel. Again, Lehrer was ahead of his time. Pollution was not a hot topic in the sixties. This song will not become outdated, which of course is very sad.
In 2008 Lehrer really said "OK" to "The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel", as long as the performance is not altered and as long as it's free in the TH-cam flash video format.
Click on the user name and visit the channel's front page. The channel is Lehrer only. And here is a link to the channel's support page:
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© Tom Lehrer
Recording date: September 11th 1967
Format: Ampex Quadruplex PAL 4:3
Status: A very rare recording
Storage: Sony Digital Betacam
2009 TH-cam Source: 720 X 576 mp4 with H.264 compression
Production and preservation: The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation - the NRK, Norway. More here:
www.nrk.no/info...
Tom will not be offended because he NEVER spends time reading comments under the videos on TH-cam. As for his status, Lehrer is a lifelong bachelor who - according to himself - just "skipped a few divorces" :-)
Legend
I did the same thing.
Amazing
Smart guy.
He won't learn that I love him then. Thanks for the tunes! 😊
Lehrer used to tweak the lyrics to customize them for his local audiences. For instance, I remember a version of this which he performed for a Bay Area, California audience, in which (at 2:11) instead of "throw out your breakfast garbage and I've got a hunch, the folks downstream will drink it for lunch," he sang, "the breakfast garbage you throw into the Bay, they'll drink for lunch in San Jose."
I have a phonograph record of that Bay-Area version.
+David Burton that's cool
+David Burton great trivia!!! i love all things tom lehrer
I had one for the South Bay area in Los Angeles County: "The breakfast garbage that you throw into the sea/They drink at lunch in east P. V."
The version with a san Jose is the only one ive ever heard.
Lehrer how do you keep being insanely relevant almost 60 years later?
People, people never change.
Gigas0101 because good satire never dies.
Yes he bashed people, but he bashed everyone.
Plus he did his satire in a world where people weren't giant softies who had to have "Safe Places" in colleges.
Guess the classics never die
>.
- Tom Lehrer
Terrible infrastructure and ineffective government
I lived in NYC in the late 60’s and early 70’s. The air was horrible. I used to take 3 showers a day. Then we got the Clean Air act. The improvement was incredible.
Lehrer absolutely nailed the eternal controversies in his songs. So glad he did.
Yeah, I also love "International Brotherhood Week" and "The Vatican Rag".
It’s silly really to think of the past as some arcane totally alien land. Especially when it’s a time period that still has survivors (one of which remains Tom Lehrer himself as I type this). Tom’s humour would have been relevant before his time and will likely outlive us all.
@@carolynzaremba5469 *national
1965: "Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air"
2020: "Wear a gas mask and a veil, you can breathe so long as you don't inhale"
@@HeyJinx I wear a mask, it was a joke about Corona which I accept as a fact and not some hoax to kill and eat children.
@@brandondavidson4085 Wait, I'm supposed to kill them first. Ffs can't do anything right 🙄
and very soon there will be lots of nasty stuff in the air and water from climate change
Yeah, I also love how he smiles when he's playing.
He looks like a fun guy.
Sheer genius! Have loved him for decades! Sadly, his material is as timely now as it was then!
We used to listen to this album endlessly when living in Italy in the 1960s when my father was stationed there. The songs were so well written and funny that I still recall most of the songs and the lyrics now more than 50 years later.
That’s an interesting anecdote! How old are you?
Tom Lehrer is like School House Rock for sardonic adults.
He wrote and sang two songs for the reading show 'The Electric Company'. 'Silently E' and 'ly'.
@@christopherharmon2433 pretty sure he wrote all of the songs, and performed more than that. I can think of Sniff, Snore, Sneeze
It's like Schoolhouse Rock for cringe redditors.
@@RabbiHerschelim devistated.
I'm listening to this channel today to commemorate Mr Lehrer's 86th birthday. The man's songs are totally amazing and still timely after 50 years.
I am firm believer that Tom Lehrer is a time traveler.
No need; nothing ever changes anyway
Lots of things change. People... are fundamentally the same.
I discovered Tom thanks to a friend in high school in the late 60s. I've loved him ever since. Poisoning Pigeons In the Park is a favorite; and The Elements. Only a Harvard professor would work long enough to make a song, grouping the rhyming elements.
I believe that most present day listeners to Poisoning Pigeons don't know the context. Boston was actually doing this with poisoned bait!
The elements were grouped as rhymes? I once said, "If you call me a Nazi, I won't even frown, because my name is ... and I don't rhyme." I still manage to keep an advertisement from 2013 as my You Tube username.
www.fanfiction.net/s/10524433/3
Although Chapter Four is more funny. That's when Mickey Mouse gets in a fight. As you may expect, he's not good at fighting, and ends up with duck poop on his head, then falls off a roof. I hate to give away the story, but I was laughing just typing that.
I discovered Tom Thanks to Thomas Benjamin Wild who covered The Masochism Tango.
- I worked in Ford's River Rouge complex. When I went to my car to drive home, it was often covered with metal dust.
- Some years later, I worked in downtown high-rise. Looking out the window on a sunny day, the air was orange.
- But pollution is not just industrial: Lake Erie is polluted by agricultural run-off transported by multiple rivers. Many beaches are therefore "Look but don't touch."
Just a reminder that in 1967 this really was nothing new... well said, Tom Lehrer!
93 and still kicking ass!
Born April 9, 1928, and still going 9 Apr 2024.
Thank you. This song is now back in 4:3, and (soon) with a HQ-button. This is comedy history. Spread the word :-)
Comedy became history when he retired.
Both a beautiful speaking and singing voice...
Now this is standup comedy.
walter bishop No man, he's sitting - not standing up😉😂❤
walter bishop At its best. Only better. :-)))
Bastardized later by Mark Russell
If the piano were taller, that could be literal.
Wishing a happy 90th birthday to you Tom.
Wonderful. He was/is ahead of his time :-)
Irene Haralabatos no, the majority of the singers used racism
@@codehorse8843 The majority. He even made fun of racism in National Brotherhood Week
It's amazing that this recording is ~ 50 years old. I was introduced to Tom Leher 55 years ago.
and now it's 60 yo old
This is the Bo Burman of another era
A few steps ahead of his time. Tango.
We listened to this in 6th grade Science class because one of the boys said "THIS IS MY JAM" 😂
I have read the comments and cant say it any better. Awesome, timeless, and no one else comes close.
Born 50 years after he stopped but still find him funny lol
Genius
Decades ahead of his time
Not really…pollution was a bad concern at the time…rivers would catch fire, smog was common…
The situation nowadays is, in some ways, even worse, but it was bad then
You tell them, 6funswede! Tom Lehrer is one of the musical satire geniuses of the last century!
I love this song, it's one of my favourites! It's very sad that it's true though.
It *_used to be_* almost true. It hasn't been in a very long time.
*_We finished the job_* of cleaning up pollution in America. With the exception of some isolated toxic waste sites, almost everything significantly polluted in 1960 is *_now very clean._*
The "pollution" people fret about now is mostly only detectable with sensitive instruments. The water & air pollution problems that Lehrer parodied killed fish, darkened the sky, and literally *_stank._*
Most of the fretting about "pollution" now is about things which *_nobody_* even considered to *_be_* pollution, in 1960.
The propagandists for parasitic "renewable energy" industries have even got most young people thinking of carbon dioxide as a pollutant, now! That's insane, because objective scientific evidence shows that CO2 emissions are beneficial, not harmful.
Listen to the man who took over Einstein's job, the man who was, by general consensus, America's most distinguished living scientist, until his death a few months ago:
_“…non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide as a sustainer of wildlife and crop plants are enormously beneficial… possibly harmful climatic effects of carbon dioxide have been greatly exaggerated, and …the benefits clearly outweigh the possible damage.”_ *Freeman Dyson*
Learn more here:
tinyurl.com/learnmore4
what a great guy, love his stuff.
if the hoods don't get you the monoxide will xD
IDWpresents The hoods might just get us yet
+T.W. Elliott Be careful when crossing the road,good luck.
Some performer that might have something to do with Twitzid is called monoxide
God folks be like "soft gen z" but they don't realize that like a LOT of gen z thinks his humor is funny cause it's still relatable. Like the golden gens satire hits well with gen z humor
Yup. And the “snowflakes” too…I know a non-binary person who likes his stuff!
@@waytoobiased transsexual here who loves tom lehrer! nice to know i’m in good company :)
d'you really need to say "be like"? it isn't cool anymore, haven't you heard? Tom Lehrer spoke & sang real language.
@@nilcarborundum7001 what's real language? Is there an exact classification of the ever evolving creation we use to express ourselves. Is real language only old language we are use to? If that is the case isn't all old language, not real language.
Also why does the way one person speak such a bother, I find the concept presented here quite interesting. The fact a little comments slightly 'improper language' bothered you enough to present this opinion has peaked my interest. Didnt your parents scold you for how you spoke like you do here?
@@nilcarborundum7001 also I'm not very interested in being cool. Cringe culture is dead, and I'm like 20 ish so I'm just being my own thing now tbh. But thx for the comment, I'm killing time before bed.
And this is why we need the EPA.
You can say that again!
Tom, thank you so much for sharing your genius with us for free. He's got to be one of the best satirist ever. I wonder how he discovered this wonderful talent!
System of a down most deffinetly got inspired by his singing style and lyrics.
This song itself was probably inspired by the song, America, from the musical, West Side Story.
Was literally just thinking this. Especially clear when you listen to Serj's solo stuff!
@@SaltpeterTaffy when was West Side Story written
I love the music and his razor sharp wit. Hilarious!
Decades ..... and I mean decades not even today
..... way beyond his time
I mean, pollution was a problem at that time, too
Ooooh ok. Hes that generations bo burnham. Cool
Stunning intellectual gymnastics free your mind in your own lunch time.
Somebody play this to governor Rick Snyder
Tom was a beacon in my childhood.
2:11 I prefer "The breakfast garbage that they throw out in Troy, they drink for lunch at Perth Amboy!"
+David T. Smith ...and no! this ain't a marketing ploy!! (:
Yes! I grew up in NYC, and that's the version I was trying to remember just now.
I adore Tom Lehrer. 1967 was a year after I graduated from high school. He was very popular with us back then.
#FlintWaterCrisis
oh, theirs still problems with it. Don't forget about Flint
Hey I am a Flinter, and I must say I am offended.
It was hardly water at the time.
You can barely call it water now.
Marty Feldman sang this on his British TV series, and he had been head writer on THE FROST REPORT when Tom Lehrer was a semi-regular on it.
He is the best. He always was the best. He will always be the best--at composing, singing, and presenting satire.
I have to listen to Tom Lehrer at least a couple of times per year.He never gets out-dated! This recording must be from the time he was in Oslo, - fiords and such😀
(Greetings from a Norwegian fan)
i learned this song when i was a teen... but it is very actual
Happy 90th, Tom.
Love this song! You Tube just went away while I watched. Hmm.....
Outstanding!
No, not all all. I first saw this man on TV in Scandinavia when I was twelve years old. The videotape from that performance was forgotten for fourty years, but then...
Thanks for uploading it. I was thinking of this song a couple months ago. I remember my album had San Jose on it.
Damn the time travelers who left me behind; or ahead?..
i lived there this song is all FACTS
Best comedy ever...seriously. 😏
This song is meaningful😊
There were several versions for one verse. The one recorded at the hungry i in San Francisco referred to the breakfast garbage thrown in the Bay being drunk at lunch in San Jose.
That's the one I heard when cassette tapes were still functional. But I recently saw some at Walmart.
love this guy
Certified Ohio moment
yup
watching this while nor cal is on fire 🤠
The problem with Greta Thunberg is that she’s right
Beautiful song 10
Flew in from outa state for the gig.
00:19 to skip the unnecessary
How prophetic...
I'v had a crush on him since I a child, he's dreamy...
What a pianist! Off-rhymes w satir-ist :-)))
Fireicee1, yes, I do. But I also want to make sure that Tom Lehrer can spend his time quiet-LY, because that's he wants to do. Leave Lehrer alone, but enjoy the songs and keep them alive!
God, that man is so hot
Excellent and amazing!
“The world is changing
the planet’s heatin’ up”
- Bo Burnham, 2021
I love that kind of high
Zeyev, yes, that's true, and Lehrer sometimes changed the lyrics just a little bit :-) Today I uploaded 4 new versions which will (eventually) play in HQ. Spread the word about this rare comedy history :-)
welcome to west virginia
After flint Michigan, it's not fun.
I disagree it just keep getting funnier
The Flint water crisis was not an environmental pollution problem. Rather, it was a problem with a liberal Democrat city government, running a municipal water supply, and poisoning the citizens by their gross incompetence. Read the report:
www.michigan.gov/documents/snyder/FWATF_FINAL_REPORT_21March2016_517805_7.pdf
*_We finished the job_* of cleaning up pollution in America. American cities don't dump their garbage in the ocean anymore, and American factories don't vent toxic emissions into the air anymore. With the exception of some isolated toxic waste sites, almost everything significantly polluted in 1960 in America is *_now very clean._*
The "pollution" people fret about now is mostly only detectable with sensitive instruments. The water & air pollution problems that Lehrer parodied killed fish, darkened the sky, and literally *_stank._*
Most of the fretting about "pollution" now is about things which *_nobody_* even considered to *_be_* pollution, in 1960. The propagandists for parasitic "renewable energy" industries have even got most young people thinking of carbon dioxide as a pollutant, now! That's insane, because objective scientific evidence shows that CO2 emissions are beneficial, not harmful.
Listen to the man who took over Einstein's job, the man who was, by general consensus, America's most distinguished living scientist, until his death a few months ago:
_“…non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide as a sustainer of wildlife and crop plants are enormously beneficial… possibly harmful climatic effects of carbon dioxide have been greatly exaggerated, and …the benefits clearly outweigh the possible damage.”_ *Freeman Dyson*
Learn more here:
tinyurl.com/learnmore4
he's so pretty.
Ralph Nader in the 60s worked to limit industrial emissions, among other things.
Two words: Flint Michigan.
missed a comma
@@waytoobiased Where?
@@i_what9584 After Flint
@@waytoobiased No, where did I ask?
Based pfp
How come we knew all this 60 years ago and did virtually nothing!
Irene, if you think we "did virtually nothing" cleaning up pollution in the U.S. in the last 60 years, you obviously haven't *_been_* in the U.S. the last 60 years. Nobody sane who was actually here could believe that.
By 1960 standards, the American air and water are *_absolutely pristine,_* now. *_We finished the job_* of cleaning up pollution in America. With the exception of some isolated toxic waste sites, almost everything significantly polluted in 1960 is *_now very clean._*
You've been duped by leftist propaganda. You need to learn that the heirs of Herr Goebbels who dominate left-leaning institutions are *_liars._*
The "pollution" you fret about is mostly only detectable with sensitive instruments. The water & air pollution problems that Lehrer parodied killed fish, darkened the sky, and literally *_stank._*
Most of the fretting about "pollution" now is about things which *_nobody_* even considered to *_be_* pollution, in 1960.
The propagandists have even got most young people thinking of carbon dioxide as a pollutant, now! That's insane, because objective scientific evidence shows that CO2 emissions are beneficial, not harmful.
Listen to the man who took over Einstein's job, the man who was, by general consensus, America's most distinguished living scientist, until his death a few months ago:
_“…non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide as a sustainer of wildlife and crop plants are enormously beneficial… possibly harmful climatic effects of carbon dioxide have been greatly exaggerated, and …the benefits clearly outweigh the possible damage.”_ *Freeman Dyson*
Learn more here:
tinyurl.com/learnmore4
We tried but Corp America screwed things up.
@Weary Student , it's always been that way.
Remember the lyrics? _"Old black water, keep on rollin', Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shinin' on me?"_ Why do you think that water is black?
It's black because it's filthy! It's full of muck.
In fact, Old Man River carries so much muck downstream that It's changed the Louisiana coastline. The Mississippi Delta is made up of muck, carried down the Mississippi River, and settled out into the Gulf of Mexico.
@@alyciagoode4115 "over the years" is the key phrase. Of course there's still some fertilizer runoff, but nobody is dumping heavy metals and untreated sewage into the river, anymore, and they haven't in a long time.
We did things about that, the problem we have now is even worse, but at least it’s a DIFFERENT problem
April 21 - happy earth day to all you tree huggers!
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Yes, this is true. As a matter of fact, I would not risk what I have done if it was not for the fact that Lehrer is one-of-a-kind. Winston Churchills biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, wrote that Tom Lehrer is the greatest satirist who ever lived. To me, that is totally true. Click on my user name and enjoy "All you need to know".
good song
My science 6th grade teacher would love this song 😅
It's so amazing hoe up to date his songs are
HAPPY 107TH BIRTHDAY RACHEL CARSON!!!
27 May 2014
Rachel Carson isn't the only one who is now dead because she lived. She also has on her hands a large share of the responsibility for the blood of *_about 100 million_* pregnant women and children under the age of five, who died needlessly, because of her now discredited DDT hoax.
junksciencearchive.com/malaria_clock.html
1 person is like a lamb to the slaughter.
He sings "lambs to the slaughter".
oh god the cc's fish gotta swim birds gotta blah 1:20
So talented
am i the only one who finds him attractive ?
The PM2.5 is currently in three digits, so this is relatable again
What do Flint residents think of this song?
someone should make Gov. Rick Snyder SING this in the local town hall...or down by the river!!
It is bizarre that some people want to blame Flint's water crisis on Gov. Snyder, who had no responsibility for it at all. That's Democrat propaganda, trying to blame a Republican governor for a problem caused entirely by Democrats.
The Flint water crisis was not even an environmental pollution problem. Rather, it was a problem with a liberal Democrat city government, mismanaging a municipal water supply, and poisoning the citizens by their gross incompetence. Read the report:
www.michigan.gov/documents/snyder/FWATF_FINAL_REPORT_21March2016_517805_7.pdf
*_America finished the job_* of cleaning up air and water pollution. American cities don't dump their garbage in the ocean anymore, and American factories don't vent toxic emissions into the air anymore. Even automobile exhaust is now almost pollution-free. With the exception of some isolated toxic waste sites, almost everything significantly polluted in 1960 in America is *_now very clean._*
The "pollution" which people fret about now is mostly only detectable with sensitive instruments. The water & air pollution problems that Lehrer parodied killed fish, darkened the sky, and literally *_stank._*
Most of the fretting about "pollution" now is about things which *_nobody_* even considered to *_be_* pollution, in 1960. The propagandists for parasitic "renewable energy" industries have even got most young people thinking of carbon dioxide as a pollutant, now! That's insane, because objective scientific evidence shows that CO2 emissions are beneficial, not harmful.
Listen to the man who took over Einstein's job, the man who was, by general consensus, America's most distinguished living scientist, until his death a few months ago:
_“…non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide as a sustainer of wildlife and crop plants are enormously beneficial… possibly harmful climatic effects of carbon dioxide have been greatly exaggerated, and …the benefits clearly outweigh the possible damage.”_ *Freeman Dyson*
Learn more here:
tinyurl.com/learnmore4
Fantastic! Just found this man, where have you been
what the hell he's cute
not sure how i feel bout the fact ur right tho
Flint Michigan would like to know your location.
The Flint water crisis was not an environmental pollution problem. Rather, it was a problem with a liberal Democrat city government, running a municipal water supply, and poisoning the citizens by their gross incompetence. Read the report:
www.michigan.gov/documents/snyder/FWATF_FINAL_REPORT_21March2016_517805_7.pdf
This video is now out on DVD. Please read the updated video description or visit the channel page!
Flint Michigan, are you listening?
WAIT WAIT WAIT Tom Lehrer wasn't right was he?
+Michael “Fishbits” Hraba Hmmmmm
How many people don't realize that the governor of Michigan is not the only person who could've prevented the Flint Water Crisis? Our government isn't a dictatorship, there are a lot more people in the government who should've prevented this.
The issue is that once the problem became public knowledge, he treated it as a public relations problem rather than a health problem, and tried to make it go away rather than risk having to raise taxes.