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UD does little other than sing …

Tom Lehrer songs – every single one of them – so it’s hard for her to know which to feature here. But there’s one she sings more than all the others, so…

Margaret Soltan, July 27, 2025 8:55PM
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4 Responses to “UD does little other than sing …”

  1. Dmitry Says:

    In 2020 at age 92 he updated The Elements with another stanza with sixteen more that had been discovered – and it flows beautifully. What a legend. RIP.

    https://tomlehrersongs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Elements-103-to-118-.docx

    via https://tomlehrersongs.com/the-elements/

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    His intellectual/creative longevity makes me think of GB Shaw – similar long productive life.

  3. Stephen Karlson Says:

    Apparently around 1995 he did a riff on academic culture that invoked Ted Kaczynski and Andrew Wiles and made mock of the introduction of math into social science. Pretty on point. Reason‘s Tom Lehrer tribute includes a link to it.

    Mr Lehrer also understood something the late show hosts on the legacy networks didn’t, which is that getting Too Earnest kills the fun. R.I.P.

  4. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Stephen: Yup. Earnest wasn’t in his playbook. I’ll go check the Reason piece.

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