Today I am sad. I learned that Tom Lehrer passed away recently. I have loved his songs for decades. He passed away a few days ago at the age of 97 on 26th July in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Here’s a brief introduction (edited from an AI answer.)
Tom Lehrer was an American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician. Born in New York City to a secular Jewish family in April 1928, he was considered a child prodigy and entered Harvard College at the age of 15. As a mathematics undergraduate student at Harvard College, he began to write comic songs to entertain his friends.
He recorded pithy and humorous songs that often parodied popular musical forms, though they usually had original melodies. Lehrer’s early performances dealt with non-topical subjects and black humor in songs such as “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”. In the 1960s, he produced songs about timely social and political issues.
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