From The Michael Parkinson Show in England, 4 Oct 1980. A super rare video of the master singing one of his lesser known songs. This goes out with thanks to 6funswede for sharing his Tom Lehrer treasure trove with us!
Possibly the greatest of the Brill Building classics. Someone put this up awhile back but it disappeared, so here it is again. Robert Goulet was just goofing around but Steve Allen put down rock and roll every chance he could. Well, he's gone now and Mary Weiss is still singing. So there.
This clip gives us a rare and wonderful look at Spike Jones hilarity, with the added delight of seeing Mickey Katz (the short, bald guy playing clarinet) goofing around with the band and even doing his trademark "glugg-glugg". Mickey went on from there to write his Yiddish parodies and the rest is history,
Actress and singer Annie Ross set some hipster jive to a Wardell Grey sax solo and Twisted became a jazz classic. Along with fellow singers Dave Lambert and Jon Hendricks (who sit this one out) the trio Lambert Hendricks and Ross recorded a number of hit albums in the early 60s and is generally regarded as the greatest Jazz vocal group of all time.
Could this be one of the greatest parodies of all time? Compare the beginning to Harry Belafonte's recording of Hava Nagila and you'll see that Sherman was inspired by the original Belafonte version. Hey, it's BETTER than the original IMO. I did the video myself. No big deal, but I hope you enjoy it.
The greatest comedy duo of all time? It depends whether you go for brainy (Nichols and May) or bawdy (Reiner and Brooks). This classic early 60s Nichols and May sketch about a guy losing his last dime in the payphone is beyond brilliant. (Thanks to BettyByte for digging up the lost footage...I re-synced the audio and added the missing first part from the record.)
One of the best of the Borsht Belt comics of the 1960s. He did a lot of 'insult humor', which inspired many imitators such as Don Rickles, but Jack E. Leonard did it better.
Ah, Kinky...one of the greatest musical satirists of the past half-century...if you like this - and what's not to like? - then buy the DVD "Proud to Be an Asshole from El Paso" at http://www.kinkyfrie dman.com/
Here is the great Don McLean performing his follow-up single to American Pie. The song expresses his frustrations in dealing with instant super-stardom after the fluke success of American Pie in 1972, and he sings the hell out of it.
Whoever originally put this video together did a great job, but the audio was out of sync, so I fixed that, and changed a few slides, so I hope y'all like it. It's a modern classic by the great Tom Lehrer.
Dan can put his finger on the absurdities of life possibly better than anyone, but he's been flying under everybody's radar for a long time. Recorded in Germany, Spring 2007, I think.
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