In 2015 he did an interview for BBC and said that he never said this quote, and he “hung up his piano” several years before this event :P He also said that he likes it when people spread gossip about him tho
"then I might/mite - mind you I said might/mite - give it to you" Not sure what he says here but to me it sounds like he might intentionally say "mite" here and refer to scabies. Scabies isn't technically an STD but that's one way to infect someone. It mainly transfers via skin-to-skin contact.
Saying her "daddy gives her everything" could be saying that Edith has a Sugar Daddy -- if you don't know, a Sugar Daddy is, it's basically an rich, older man that pays and/or gives lavish gifts to a younger person, usually a women, for their companionship and/or sexual favours.
.@@thedogesl - It goes back a darned sight further than that. He first wrote and started performing it at live shows and concerts in the fifties. It was just never released on a record until the late '90s.
@@billscheitzach601 Yeah, I know when Lehrer started and ended his brief career in Show Biz, thanks. I was referring to this performance, which I assume dates from the late 1990s since Lehrer's own recording dates from 1996 (in "Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer" on Rhino). You are correct that Lehrer wrote it in 1952 or 1953 but never released it publicly before that because he thought it a bit too risqué. It was included in the 1980 revue "Tomfoolery" (with which I am intimately familiar, having performed in it back in 2009).
@@billydelacey He stopped singing it when AIDS started making the rounds, apparently. He didn't want to seem like he was making light of a disease that was killing so many people so fast. It was never about HIV, and he deliberately avoided that association. As for other STDs, it's easier to make fun, because they are far less deadly. Many of them are even treatable with a relatively simple round of antibiotics! But then AIDS came along and suddenly STDs became a lot less amusing to joke about.
@@billydelacey Could have been something like chlamydia. Not a horrible deadly disease but can be a source of local gossip like "who gave it to whom". One can't get AIDS "every spring". YOU don't be stupid.
My favorite Tom Lehrer line is “political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel peace prize”
In 2015 he did an interview for BBC and said that he never said this quote, and he “hung up his piano” several years before this event :P
He also said that he likes it when people spread gossip about him tho
@@alexsysoev7774your own comment makes it so i dont know whether to beleive you
He makes syphillis sound so appealing!
His songs are hilarious and incredibly well written, but it's really his facial expressions that pull it all together.
Didn't know it was more than of that present and that it was darker humor haha
STD song? :D
"then I might/mite - mind you I said might/mite - give it to you"
Not sure what he says here but to me it sounds like he might intentionally say "mite" here and refer to scabies.
Scabies isn't technically an STD but that's one way to infect someone. It mainly transfers via skin-to-skin contact.
Cold sores. Kissing the Blarney stone.
Herpes ;)
What a sweet song about true friendship
The first time I ever heard this song I was like 12 and the whole sexual aspect completely went over my head.
Gawd, HOW we need The Master now! He'd be overwhelmed by the sheer mass of material available for Stinging, Singing Satire!
I love how the whole sexual thing fly's over your head the first time you hear it
After hearing this the aspca got involved.
Was it passed down to edith from her dad or is it another Oedipus Rex?
Saying her "daddy gives her everything" could be saying that Edith has a Sugar Daddy -- if you don't know, a Sugar Daddy is, it's basically an rich, older man that pays and/or gives lavish gifts to a younger person, usually a women, for their companionship and/or sexual favours.
@@Im_Just_A_Fungi ahhh! I never thought of it like that
Sorry louise, i didnt mean to :(
Never up o
This is about spreading COVID isn’t it? Haha 😂
Course it is, dear.
From the late 1990s, so no.
.@@thedogesl - It goes back a darned sight further than that. He first wrote and started performing it at live shows and concerts in the fifties. It was just never released on a record until the late '90s.
@@billscheitzach601 Yeah, I know when Lehrer started and ended his brief career in Show Biz, thanks. I was referring to this performance, which I assume dates from the late 1990s since Lehrer's own recording dates from 1996 (in "Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer" on Rhino). You are correct that Lehrer wrote it in 1952 or 1953 but never released it publicly before that because he thought it a bit too risqué. It was included in the 1980 revue "Tomfoolery" (with which I am intimately familiar, having performed in it back in 2009).
@@thedogeslthis was from an episode of Parkinson in 1980
He's talking about HIV.
Recorded in 1953. Had to be an STD, but not that one. Nothing funny about that disease.
@@garyferguson1105 But there's something funny about other diseases?? Don't be stupid.
@@billydelacey He stopped singing it when AIDS started making the rounds, apparently. He didn't want to seem like he was making light of a disease that was killing so many people so fast. It was never about HIV, and he deliberately avoided that association.
As for other STDs, it's easier to make fun, because they are far less deadly. Many of them are even treatable with a relatively simple round of antibiotics! But then AIDS came along and suddenly STDs became a lot less amusing to joke about.
He explicitly said that when he wrote the song ‘ of course that was before anyone heard of aids’
@@billydelacey Could have been something like chlamydia. Not a horrible deadly disease but can be a source of local gossip like "who gave it to whom". One can't get AIDS "every spring". YOU don't be stupid.