Anyone else find it funny how most of his songs are educational, and his last name is Lehrer, which is the German word for Teacher?

@rafayshahid1731

9 жыл бұрын

I do

@matthewbornhorst5655

8 жыл бұрын

Most of his songs are satirical, there are really only one or two songs that are educational, but he is a professor at UC Santa Clara I think

@ae5704

4 жыл бұрын

Most? He has a song named Masochism Tango

@thekarlkeeper8727

4 жыл бұрын

??? Isn’t he American?

@maskofice9432

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed most of his songs are educational. I certainly learned a lot from Be Prepared and Lobachevsky.

he enunciates so well that the auto subtitles are nearly accurate

@amazing763

6 жыл бұрын

Rghit. Smoe of us mrerly mubmle. Hdar to tarnsrcibe.

@GStreetEntertainment

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah pretty good for most, but damn I burst in laughter at 1:34 "Nazi nazi can rodeo McClure coca-cola copper tungsten sodium these" WTF :D

@reidwelch8419

5 жыл бұрын

omos prefrect

@Quintinohthree

4 жыл бұрын

@@GStreetEntertainment I turned on subtitles just before this bit and was odly surprised.

@gdj6298

3 жыл бұрын

@@amazing763 Youm grot dat righft

My grade 9 science teacher gave us the option to either write the chemistry test, or memorize this song. He had been working at the school for 20+ years, and many students had attempted to memorize the song in the 2 weeks notice he had givin, but no one had done it to that point. My friend and I both attempted that song, and with tireless hours of memorization, I actually manged to get the song down, present it in front of the class, and receive a 100% in the chemistry unit. I can't remember if my friend was successful, but all I know is with the amount of time I spent learning this song, I probably could've just studied for the test, and gotten 100%😂

@beachdog67

2 жыл бұрын

LOL

@tessat338

2 жыл бұрын

Will you now ever forget the periodic table of elements? A song is a great way of learning them permanently, where as by simply studying, you would have remembered them for the test but they would have drained out of your brain as other information replaced them. I've learned the 50 US states in alphabetical order from Ray Charles' "50 Nifty United States", the Preamble to the Constitution from School House Rock, and enough philosophers to pass my University PHIL 101 exam from Monty Python's "Philosophers' Song"

@johndemeritt3460

Жыл бұрын

@@tessat338, did you remember to quote them singing, "Socrates himself is permanently pissed"?

@tessat338

Жыл бұрын

@@johndemeritt3460 Of course, but Socrates wasn't hard to remember. It was Kant, Heidegger, Hume, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Wittgenstein, Schlegel, Hobbs and Mill. That song is brilliant for keeping track of all those similar names.

@johndemeritt3460

Жыл бұрын

@@tessat338, fair enough . . . I've had more exposure to all those German philosophers than I ever expected in the 10+ years I've been pursuing a PhD in Sociology. You'd be surprised how fast a PhD can run!

I kinda love the line “these are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard” because Tom Lehrer was actually incredibly brilliant and both studied and taught math at Harvard

@marthamagee4526

3 жыл бұрын

YES, YES, YES AND YES.

@carolsimon9203

Жыл бұрын

One of my fave lines. Always comes to mind when shops claim that they've never heard of an item I've bought for years. A family fave riposte to yes we have no bananas.

@Sam-cy3lp

Жыл бұрын

He's still alive..!

@antronargaiv3283

Жыл бұрын

"Haaaahvahd", please.

@FuckTheYoutubeUsernameChange

Жыл бұрын

it's very funny because "Lehrer" literally means "teacher" in german

There's Earth and air and fire and water.

@proximacentauri2684

5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@larawabsie

5 жыл бұрын

Da dadaladada... DUN DUN

@jamesmoconnell

4 жыл бұрын

@@larawabsie Not any elements: Da, dadaladada, or DUN.

@jamesmoconnell

4 жыл бұрын

Shave and a Haircut: Two Bits!

@brycew.5296

4 жыл бұрын

Quibblish I died

that crowd knows how to clap.

@FlowersInHisHair

10 жыл бұрын

It's... spooky.

@Alfwin

6 жыл бұрын

Denmark, even.

@DieFlabbergast

6 жыл бұрын

Do the Germans do this, too?

@ezekielmartin4323

5 жыл бұрын

I think it might be an issue with the audio. It might be leaving out some of the levels?

@TrackpadTimmy

5 жыл бұрын

no, they just clapped like that

Look. Tom Lerher is a genius. Without him, we wouldn't have Weird Al, and we also wouldn't have the Vatican Rag, arguably, his greatest song.

@deadpig3613

3 жыл бұрын

Lehrer

@zevfarkas5120

3 жыл бұрын

Genuflect when you say that!

@beardedslavbrew615

2 жыл бұрын

Allan Sherman too

@MisterMalleable

2 жыл бұрын

Or the Masochism Tango!

@parodyceo7061

Жыл бұрын

Tim Minchin also has a clear lehrer vibe too, he inspired a lot of people

Fun fact: Tom Lehrer is 80% lungs

@shosty575

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙏🙏🙏🙏

@sui11106

4 жыл бұрын

He gotten the lung extensions.

@MiGujack3

4 жыл бұрын

Eminem too lol

@personalRCH

4 жыл бұрын

Give him helium and he'll float?

@cappyal6448

4 жыл бұрын

how does he talk that fast

AHH!! just LOVED that last bit!! "There's Earth and Air and Fire and Water."

@jenjen949

9 жыл бұрын

!!!!!

@aurelia8028

4 жыл бұрын

That's how you get nerds to laugh :P

@thejoyofsoxmovie7211

3 жыл бұрын

It's not on the album version, so this is actually the first time I've heard Aristotle's version. Only 50 years later!

@inesdeerausquin5658

3 жыл бұрын

That's priceless 😂😂😂 I hadn't heard that bit either.

@LosOjosCar

2 жыл бұрын

@@thejoyofsoxmovie7211 Same!😆

I’ve never understood how Tom can sing this from memory! It amazes me how he memorised the entire list of elements but he is word perfect as he sings it!

@marthamagee4526

3 жыл бұрын

BRILLIANCE.

@david2869

Жыл бұрын

It just takes practice and listening over and over.

@victorcelna3028

Жыл бұрын

...and plays the piano to accompany himself. Without looking at the keys.

@hallowhimself

Жыл бұрын

erm, actually, it wasn’t word perfect because he replaced sulfur with gold 🤓🤓

@nbewarwe

11 ай бұрын

@@hallowhimself He also forgot lawrencium

"There's Gold in Californium" Did he predict the California Gold Rush 118 years after it happened?

@TexBest84

7 жыл бұрын

Actually he made a miastake in this performance: he just said gold instead of sulfur. In fact he said gold two times...

@carolynzaremba5469

4 жыл бұрын

He said "gold AND Californium". Californium is an element.

@makismakiavelis5718

3 жыл бұрын

Your comment was so stupid but why did I laugh so hard? 😄

@donaldpomaville3743

3 жыл бұрын

@Bee Sixteen there weren’t 118 elements discovered back then

@marthamagee4526

3 жыл бұрын

@Bee Sixteen It's called cleverness!

I memorized this and sang it for my science class when I was in sixth grade. I got many astonished looks, along with some pretty handsome extra credit ;)

@CaptainCancer69

9 жыл бұрын

TrekkerLLAP same here only in 5th grade

@TrekkerLLAP

9 жыл бұрын

pj shomo Nice! :)

@CaptainCancer69

9 жыл бұрын

thx

@CaptainCancer69

9 жыл бұрын

lol

@Ayumi-km4xi

9 жыл бұрын

TrekkerLLAP how did you do it? i want extra credit too lmao

There's Earth and air and fire and water. Good Show Aristotle!!!

@irismasterson3841

4 жыл бұрын

Water? H2O?

@circleo1992

2 жыл бұрын

By the way, Aristotle didn’t believe the atoms existed at all. Instead, he believed that all matter is composed of some sort of a mixture of those four elements.

I always give my chemistry students an opportunity to earn extra credit by memorizing this song. When they come to me at the end of the year to tell me it's impossible, I play a video of my daughter singing this for her 5th grade talent show! Also, I loved the tribute to Aristotle!

@iracknads

Жыл бұрын

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~Aristotle~

@G6JPG

10 ай бұрын

Not sure I'd call it a "tribute"! But fun adding it, anyway.

Did anyone else also noticed that he said gold instead of sulphur... Doesn't matter really...Legendary song 🔥

OMG!! THIS!!!! My science teacher in school once played this song on repeat for a whole hour long lesson and I never knew what or who it was, I have nothing to describe the hate and love I feel for this song 😁 That teacher was a brilliant but evil genius 🤣

I learned/memorized this on a bet from my 8th grade science teacher. Turns out he was joking about providing a prize to anyone who memorized it (and could keep up with Lehrer) but I did it, and true to his word, he did provide a prize. And showed me off to other teachers. I used the song as a camp fire act at boy scouts until it became tired and I retired it when I was a Junior in High School, also known as 11th grade, or when I was 16 for those outside the US education system. But it is burned into my mind. I will not, can not forget it.

@Maria-jq3zv

17 сағат бұрын

My eighth grade teacher did that with We Didn’t Start the Fire. I memorized the song, but he didn’t end up giving me my prize.

True Fun fact: Two elements are related to Copenhagen where this recording took place: 72 Hafnium discovered in Copenhagen (Hafnia in Latin) in 1923 by Coster and Hevesy 107 Bohrium is named after the Danish physicist Niels Bohr was born and lived in Copenhagen. He got the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohrium has not been found in nature and was first created in 1981. So it is not in the performed song. Extra: Lawrencium wasn't the newest element at the time of the recording while element number 104 was created in 1964 in The Sovjet Union and they named it Kurchatovium. In 1969 US scientists also created it but named i Rutherfordium. Both teams claimed the rights to the name so until it was settled the name Unnilquadrium (1 0 4 in Latin plus -rium) was used. In 1997 they agreed on Rutherfordium and the Sovjet got Dubnium for number 106 which is named after the Sovjet group Dubna who created it in 1968.

@BurhDenbruhplusburden

4 жыл бұрын

How did you know and why did you research about this?

@RabbiHerschel

2 жыл бұрын

Man, White ingenuity is just the coolest thing ever.

@thecoloroctet1365

2 жыл бұрын

@@RabbiHerschel *human ingenuity

@RabbiHerschel

2 жыл бұрын

@@thecoloroctet1365 which of the scientific discoveries in the comment to which I replied was made by non-Whites?

@johndemeritt3460

Жыл бұрын

@@RabbiHerschel, it matters why?

I memorized this song for fun in two years ago and I still know it

@clairemorrisdobie9977

7 жыл бұрын

Applause for you. I listened to this song hundreds of times, decades ago. Was always fascinated by his genius and I know the words to most of his other parodies but never mastered this one. Just like to watch him pull it off!

@anamade3182

7 жыл бұрын

Claire Dobie I hope u master it its really funny to sing it to your friends . they look at you like WHATTT!!

@jaycarberry-white6730

7 жыл бұрын

I can... didn't try to put I listened to it so often it's stuck In my voice so when I recite them all I hear him singing it in my head. That's how I remember it

@jaycarberry-white6730

7 жыл бұрын

*head not voice

@StabYoureIt

6 жыл бұрын

Just practice :^)

Damn the things Better Call Saul makes you look up......

@landerathb8661

5 жыл бұрын

Right!! Lol. Knew there'd be someone else here!

@geneleboy6816

5 жыл бұрын

thanks craig

@PimpMatt0

5 жыл бұрын

I'm taking chem this semester so this is actually useful.

The next time scientists find a new element, they need to name it Lehrerium.

@user-hg2ih8hf7x

Ай бұрын

Hear, hear!

I finally got my hands on the sheet music. It says 'play as fast as possible.' Never saw that tempo marking before but now I get it. I need to be as fast as possible and then twice as fast as that plus another really fucking fast. This guy...wow.

"How to be originaly funny without ANY kind of cursing whatsoever"

@justmeish1997

9 жыл бұрын

True that

@jadeshiota784

9 жыл бұрын

Yep

@ricardobitterman1404

9 жыл бұрын

Philip Alexander Hassialis Sometimes he manages to be extremely dark though

@PhilipAlexanderHassialis

8 жыл бұрын

+Ricardo Bitterman Part of the charm - plus, there are ways to be dark without being offensive or sarcastic. It's one thing for an artist to goad you gently to look at the deepest parts of the human psyche and another to yank you from your hair and force feed you a mirror.

@jamesleone3299

8 жыл бұрын

+Philip Alexander Hassialis idiot being funny shouldn't EVER require cursing...

Now, he is 92 years old such a talented man :)

@iracknads

Жыл бұрын

He's about to see his second Great Depression in just one lifetime!

@oliviadaly4795

7 ай бұрын

95 now 😊

I sincerely hope that someday I will memorize this correctly and actually sing it without getting tongue-tied. So jealous of Tom, that genius.

Yes, he is a VERY delightful man!

Here is the funniest man if the 20th century.

@clairemorrisdobie9977

10 жыл бұрын

So agree. Funny, brilliant, super-talented, and his bio is amazing.

@magicaljew2108

6 жыл бұрын

He was a part of the 19th century

@austinholt8987

5 жыл бұрын

Bernie Sanderzzz no he wasn’t

@busbyyy7426

5 жыл бұрын

Bernie Sanderzzz 19th century is 1800s. So if this was filmed in 1967 he would be in his 70s. Does he look 70?

@gavincarter167

4 жыл бұрын

If the 20th century what?

Dude, this guy invented rapping. Yet, educational.

@lomax343

8 жыл бұрын

+Christy Newhouse (ProxyQueenGrace04) This song was sung to the tune of I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General, so if this is rapping, so was the Gilbert & Sullivan original - though it was called a Patter Song back then.

@comradedobler3407

8 жыл бұрын

+Christy Newhouse (ProxyQueenGrace04) No. This has a discernible melody, unlike rap, which is more like poetry, not really music as I see it.

@MultiHadex

8 жыл бұрын

No he didn't.

@quartzium837

7 жыл бұрын

MultiHadex IT was meant as a joke...

@EnderBossZz

6 жыл бұрын

I got this song from the tv show NCIS xD

Tom Lehrer is absolutely brilliant! The album to listen to is " THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS". Run Don't Walk!

It's set to the tune of I'm The Model of A Modern Major General from The Pirates of Penzance.

@carolynzaremba5469

4 жыл бұрын

I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General.

How does he remember all the words AND play the piano at the same time, its just brilliant!!😊👍👏

@TheloniousCube

Жыл бұрын

Actually, the two types of memorization reinforce one another. Pro-Tip: if you're trying to memorize a speech, move and make gestures while reciting out loud - getting muscle-memory involved will speed the process

Tom Lehrer is a national treasure. I first heard this song in 1969, when I was taking high school chemistry. It resulted in my listening to the other songs on the record album (yes, I'm old), and so began my attraction to Lehrer's work. My kids (and I hope, their kids) like him as well...I made sure of that. He's proof that math teachers can also be rock stars.

I've had this memorized for decades.

You gotta love this song.... it's just amazing and it's brilliant to hear him singing it live (and a fair bit faster than most recordings!). Yeah sure there was the repeat gold but whatever, I can't just not love it. Between him himself and the song he's written this video is one of my all time favourites!

@DoomFinger511

2 жыл бұрын

I had to go back and listen after I read this, you were right, he did say Gold twice!

@stevealdrich2472

2 жыл бұрын

He used gold again where the online lyrics show sulfer. It is amazing.

@dhfreedma

6 ай бұрын

I assume it's intentional--he actually says "gold in californium," which I'm guessing is a jokey reference to the California gold rush that he was slipping in to see who noticed, or just to amuse himself. If he were going to actually flub an element in this song, it wouldn't be sulfur.

I memorized this and learned it on the piano. This song is amazing.

I love that Sheldon Cooper, in Big Bang Theory, sang it at his award ceremony. Drunk. 😹From creation in 1959 to a 2009 tv show. I think Tom Lehrer is and always will be a classic. ‘That Was the Week That Was’, 1964, is still pertinent today, which is kinda scary. We should be better than that by now. 😿

@johndemeritt3460

Жыл бұрын

. . . Annnnd we will all go together when we go . . .Every Hottentot and every Eskimo. Need I say more?

@Krzyszczynski

10 ай бұрын

@@johndemeritt3460 I think both those terms are regarded as non-PC nowadays ....

@johndemeritt3460

10 ай бұрын

@@Krzyszczynski, I'm pretty sure you're right about Hottentots, but if I recall correctly (and with narcolepsy as my constant and unwelcome companion, I'm never sure), the indigenous people of Alaska identify as Eskimos, while the First Nations people of the far north of Canada and the indigenous people of Greenland identify as Inuit. Either way, I'll gladly defer to them. But I'm loathe to change Lehrer's original lyrics, in part because they work in the context of the song and because they are a historical artifact of the times.

The first time I heard this song was when I was 3 and at the dinner table I’ve always loved chemistry 🧪 and physics. It’s been six years and I still love this song I hope I will be able to learn the periodic table by 2020

@Beccatriestostudy

4 жыл бұрын

Lampost Cheeseburger hi, I’m from the future. You will have lots of spare time to learn in 2020.

@jaybyxmack4700

3 жыл бұрын

2020 has been a helluva ride. Hope you learned it by now.

@aida8291

3 жыл бұрын

did you learn it????

There's a wonderfully subtle joke hidden in here: the notes he plays JUST before singing are the same as played by Grumpy on the organ before each verse of "A Silly Song"!

I can sing the og version "There's Earth and air and fire and water"

My late Dad (RIP) often sang 2 Tom Lehrer songs at parties, but not this one, (although had he known of it's existence, he would have given it his best shot!) His two were "The Irish ballad" and "I hold your hand in mine, dear"

I'm in eighth grade and my science teacher made it so if we memorize the periodic table song we get an automatic A in the class I tried but I failed😜

@tiliger5878

3 жыл бұрын

guess i'm 4 years late (your probably in 12th grade but idc) but uh 8th grade am i right?

This song helped me for the Exam. THANK YOU! TOM LEHRER!

I love being able to watch/hear him yet again! He was such a nerdy guy in the 60s... a little different by the 90s. Fabulous - wish I'd had him as one of my teachers!!

I think the next official IUPAC name ought to be Lehrium ...

@sidtheshuckle

3 жыл бұрын

RIP this hasn’t aged well

@ChaosGremlin-co3or

2 жыл бұрын

@@sidtheshuckle Why, what happened?

@sidtheshuckle

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChaosGremlin-co3or well the periodic table finished soo… but then again he could be joking

@fitwesdaily

2 жыл бұрын

I believe scientists are working on elements from the island of stability now.

@patrickweyland-smith1023

2 жыл бұрын

Luckily the synthesis of further elements is ongoing research within the scientific community, so who knows. Maybe one day a Lehrium

He is an absolutely brilliant performer. I'm hooked.

it's my great life goal to be able to sing this song.

I haven't heard this in years. It's incredible. And the best part is the Aristotle elements. So clover!

Happy 92nd Birthday, Tom Lehrer.

At 0:40 he messed up Protactinium. Also, at 1:24 he said Gold again instead of Sulfur. Still awesome to see him actually singing it!

@samshrem6983

9 жыл бұрын

Nice catch

@princeicio

9 жыл бұрын

Does it matter? this doesn't make any sense BTW, unless you're studying chemistry

@anti0918

9 жыл бұрын

princeicio What doesn't make any sense? The interest in learning the lyrics? I was studying chemistry at the time.

@helenarooke9793

9 жыл бұрын

I noticed too... I was just about to comment saying the same thing! :)

@lsobrien

9 жыл бұрын

princeicio What are you talking about? Are you intentionally trying to be a jerk? Good work, anti918. Interesting stuff.

Theirs earth and air and fire and water.

@puffy4712

9 жыл бұрын

Well. Yeah. But this one are the chemical ones ._.

@ProCreateful

9 жыл бұрын

Freddy Fuuuzbear Maybe you should watch the whole video?

@rodneygreenberg3840

9 жыл бұрын

martinshoosterman No not THEIRS. THERE'S, which is short for THERE IS. Tom Lehrer took a dim view of bad spellers.

@martinshoosterman

9 жыл бұрын

...

@ThunderRayGun

9 жыл бұрын

martinshoosterman He had the correct grammar, what are you talking about?

There's earth and air and fire and water. Tom Lehrer is a genius.

I like how he starts with my favorite element, antimony.

@marthamagee4526

3 жыл бұрын

HaHa.

Missing elements: 104 - Rutherfordium 105 - Dubnium 106 - Seaborgium 107 - Bohrium 108 - Hassium 109 - Meitnerium 110 - Darmstadtium 111 - Roentgenium 112 - Copernicium 113 - Nihonium 114 - Flerovium 115 - Moscovium 116 - Livermorium 117 - Tennessine 118 - Oganesson

@TaiFerret

7 жыл бұрын

And Sulphur.

@ckmishn3664

7 жыл бұрын

irussianboi Yes, it's an update not a correction, they are some of the "many others but they haven't been discovered."

my science teacher said that if he memorised this and are able to sing it that he'll give us a butt-load of king sized candy bars

I just love Tom Lehrer. While some of his language is definitely outdated, the spirit of his songs are very joyfully satirical, and he is to this day hilarious.

It was soooo great to hear this song again. Wonderful to SEE it for the first time.

Hadn't heard the earlier version of the song before. Lehrer and his musical satires have been a fresh air of relief. If only he were still composing today at 92 (April 2020) - he'd no doubt write a brilliant satire of our leader's butched response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

@antronargaiv3283

Жыл бұрын

Meh. Some of his old songs are still perfectly applicable today. Which is either impressive, or depressing, or both.

Eminem should learn from this guy.

@helina8415

8 жыл бұрын

hahahha yeah😂

@denizbluemusic

6 жыл бұрын

In my country (Turkey), a rapper named "Ceza" made a rap about the elements and he basically listed them in the way Tom Lehrer did

@giorgiofunel3125

6 жыл бұрын

Dat noble gases

@MarthaRoseMoore415

6 жыл бұрын

EMINEM is one of a handful of MCs who don't need help, there are dozens of others, however, who would benefit handsomely from exposure to Mr. Lehrer.

@jeanparke9373

5 жыл бұрын

Well Eminem and Lehrer are actually good friends!

Well mr Tom life was much simpler back in 1967

@finnsmith5299

7 жыл бұрын

peaky.

@damianoledda5497

7 жыл бұрын

Imagine Dragons what do you think about him and why he left?? intimidations? fear of anyone?

@CaptainLumpyDog

7 жыл бұрын

Damiano Ledda He claims to have retired from humor when Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize, because once that happened 'Political satire became obsolete.'

@neonguy1232

7 жыл бұрын

Imagine Dragons yep

I have this song on one of Dr. Demento's radio show weird music CD compilations.This is for the original version. The Elements (live) - 1959 - "Tom Lehrer was one of comedy's great paradoxes --- a respected Harvard mathematics professor by day, he also was among the foremost song satirist of the postwar era. Mike Kadas a music collector from Portland, Oregon 97214

Holy crap. My awesome chem teacher showed us this song, with images superimposed over his singing. It's so much more impressive seeing him do it live, even with the small mishap through the middle. And the ending with Aristotle's version was hilarious.

Happy Birthday Mr Lehrer!

When he sang the song live he still sounds just like the soundtrack.

@marthamagee4526

3 жыл бұрын

100% GENUINENESS.

I was introduced to this by my science teacher and I'm using this to help me for my upcoming yearly science test!

THAT END THO

YES! This man is such a genius, I love everything he did.

@marthamagee4526

3 жыл бұрын

GENIUS!

There were 102 elements in the Periodic table in 1960. There are now 122. A BRILLIANT SONG AND SOOO DIFFICULT TO SING. He'd need another verse!! LOL Love Mr Lehrer and he was a significant song writer of my youth and still.

I remembered seeing someone do this song, at theatre 501 upstages on Battersea Park Road. Such a cracking song if the singing has got the right tempo and vocal strength. Without breaking out in laughter.

Best and fastest (non-sped-up) version on youtube.

They played this for my science class and I was thinking "Holy shit, I recognize this guy and his voice" Turns out he sings Masochism Tango as well. The more you know.

@johndemeritt3460

Жыл бұрын

One of my "Go to" favorites of Lehrer's collection! Right up there with "The Old Dope Peddler" and "My Home Town"!

I'm impressed that he could do what he did from memory!

Tom Lehrer turned 95 three days ago. This man will never die.

"There was an earlier version of this song..... Earth, air, fire and water!"

"And Thulium and Thallium"!!! HAHA! THAT MAKES ME LAUGH! Also, I watched the video at school, on that website he has the video on, and he can do it sooooo fast in this version.

For those interested, the tune is that of "Modern Mayor General".

Over a decade ago when I was in 11th grade chemistry, the super cool teacher said if anybody can sing the elements song in front of the class they don't have to take the final. Nobody took her up on the offer.

That is faster than the version on vinyl. Presto troppo, actually.

@thejoyofsoxmovie7211

3 жыл бұрын

Plus it has Aristotle's version!

In this live performance, he makes a mistake, Mr. Tom Lehrer says gold twice and forgets sulfur 1st gold: 0:39, second gold: 1:24. The second gold that he says is supposed to be sulfur, trust me, I know all the elements up to date and I know the lyrics to this song.

I wish we had more people like this man. A true academic.

My father was a high school Physics teacher and he used to play Tom Lehrer for his students! They always loved it!

I feel like a genius, I noticed a mistake he made. In this version he accidentally says gold twice and forgot sulfur.

Person saying effects at the end of medical commercial: I can speak the fastest! ImpulseSV under pressure: No, I can! Tom Lehrer: AMATEURS!

@marthamagee4526

3 жыл бұрын

🙌🏾

Seen this countless times, but I just noticed that even singing this fast he was able to roll his R in rubidium.

My junior high science teacher would play Tom Lehrer for us. Everyone should have teachers like Mr. Gibson.

in the 4th to last sentence he sang: "Gold, Californium, Fermium, Berkelium" but it must be "Sulphur, Californium, Fermium, Berkelium"

@orcdooom

10 жыл бұрын

It is

@aurelia8028

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I noticed it too. It's the only one he got wrong xD

@d.e.p.-j.7106

4 жыл бұрын

Testing you

@katieroberts7012

4 жыл бұрын

Meh

And after lawrencium, came 15 more...

@deet0109mapping

8 жыл бұрын

and yet another...

@hydroxenon9364

8 жыл бұрын

rutherfordium dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium meitnerium darmstadtium roentgenium copernicium nihonium flerovium moscovium livermorium tennessine oganesson

@waluigitime1780

7 жыл бұрын

+HydroXenon93 You forgot Vibranium and Adamantium

@mcswell2001

7 жыл бұрын

How about Unobtanium?

@amazing763

6 жыл бұрын

mcswell2001 - I've got some right here. Don't let it slip through your fingers. Oops. Well, maybe next time.

Our teacher showed us the song when we were first year high school... memories

lmao i did this song in front of my whole year in yr 7, and now again on the last year of yr 11. Time really flies

I love this version! It's so raw and imperfect.

@RatPfink66

4 ай бұрын

Yep, tossed out sulfur and added more gold. Can you blame him?

Who' s here after listening ADAH SHARMA 💞🙌🇮🇳

The inimitable Tom Lehrer. Thank you so much.

'Best version you will ever see on youtube', not a false word in that. Great video:)

Genius... decades ahead of his time

@iracknads

Жыл бұрын

He listed the ingredients of chem trails before anyone knew there was such a thing! 😛

@thegameranch5935

Жыл бұрын

Well, that was a modified version of another song kzread.info/dash/bejne/mqCIy9WCj6u5l9o.html Theres a bunch of versions for this song, theres one for fucking mass effect

I'm literally performing this later in the school talent show. First I need to learn how to play I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major General on piano :D

@simonmasters3295

Жыл бұрын

Bravo! Did you get to do it?

I've always wanted to see this performed live. Thanks so much for sharing it! (bum-babumbum-bumbum)

We were introduced to this song at school in Chemistry class ! It was featured in an educational film we watched ! Incidentally I love Aristotle's 'Earth, Air, Fire + Water' version !

I'm 16 and I knew this song before hearing Daniel Radcliffe sing it. It's sad that many people don't know or appreciate the brilliant work of Tom Lehrer.

@iracknads

Жыл бұрын

Who the heck is Daniel Radcliffe?!?

This man is a genius!!

The 24 "dislikes" are probably people who failed chemistry and maybe worse, Humanities majors. I dream this song in my sleep because I love it so much.

This is awesome. I’ve memorized most of it.