I'm sorry. This will be my 10th without my dad and our 19th without my husband's father.While wandering into Target today, I noticed all the Father's Day ads and displays, and I realized it's been 29 years since I had to think about buying a Father's Day gift and card for my dad. Makes me suddenly miss him a lot.
Aargh. Now you've put Tom Lehrer's "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" in my brain.Too late, the Audubon Society and PETA are on their way with picket signs.
Aargh. Now you've put Tom Lehrer's "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" in my brain.
"We've gained notoriety and caused much anxiety in the Audobon Society with our games
The call it impiety and lack of propriety and quite a variety of unpleasant names
But it's not against any religion
To want to dispose of a pigeon"
Then there's In Old Mexico:
(Rover was killed by a Pontiac, and it was done with such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the driver both ears and the tail --- But I digress.)
Your knowledge of Tom Lehr songs is impressive. How do you feel about PDQ Bach?
Aargh. Now you've put Tom Lehrer's "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" in my brain.
"We've gained notoriety and caused much anxiety in the Audobon Society with our games
The call it impiety and lack of propriety and quite a variety of unpleasant names
But it's not against any religion
To want to dispose of a pigeon"
Your knowledge of Tom Lehrer songs is impressive. How do you feel about PDQ Bach?
Did you know that he wrote an entirely different set of lyrics for the middle part that song for the revue "Tomfoolery"? It can be found in the book Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer (with not enough drawings by Ronald Searle. The pictures alone, few that they are, would be worth the price of the book.My favourite for rhyming, though, has got to be When You are Old and Gray. So ... many ... rhymes ... for the word "debility".![]()
I've never seen PDQ Bach in concert. There's a lot of stuff that never made it to the records, like the one where they're performing a piece scored with a jug of wine. Each note is lower than the previous one, which means that the performer had to drink some of it. As the notes get lower and lower, the performer gets higher and higher, so to speak. A the end of the piece, the performer falls off his chair. I suppose that the instrumentalist was Peter Schickele himself.My husband is originally from North Dakota and has been through Zap more than once. He went to a PDQ Bach event in a ND high school gymnasium back in the later 60s or early 70s. Peter Schickele made his entrance by swinging in on a rope and crashing onto the stage.
When I took voice lessons at the local college, I got permission to sing "Now is the Season" from The Stoned Guest as part of my obligatory convocation. Did it with a completely straight face. Audience reactions began with "stunned" and varied from "outraged" to "hysterical laughter with side dish of envy."
America was named for Amerigo Vespucci. Why did they use his first name, and not his last name?
Why are we not part of North Vespucci?
Did you know that he wrote an entirely different set of lyrics for the middle part that song for the revue "Tomfoolery"? It can be found in the book Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer (with not enough drawings by Ronald Searle. The pictures alone, few that they are, would be worth the price of the book.
A friend of mine in college, when asked what his major was, said "musical chemistry"
"What's that?" he'd be asked.
"Well,... there's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium..." (He was also the inventor of the Badik Banana Tester, the story of which I intend to write someday.)
BTW, Lehrer has released all his songs back into the wild... that is, to public domain, so anybody can use them without paying royalty fees. It would have been insane for anybody else to claim to have written them, since his writing talent was unmatched by anybody else's.
"I'm not making this up, you know."
We have the original album, a gift from an older friend who was cutting down on her possessions.
Too bad you aren't nearby. We could have a heck of a musical evening.