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Monica," Tom Lehrer sings out.
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singing and piano playing
master satirist of America's
social and political foibles in
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vations still resonating in an
age when "irreverence has
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of the maestro's entire
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for songs by Lehrer than anyone excep
"Weird Al" Yankovic), and sheds some
light on Lehrer's beginnings.
"Thomas Andrew Lehrer was born
April 9, 1928, in Manhattan," the
introduction notes. "His parents were
ethnically, but not religiously, Jewish."
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