For those unfamiliar with the wit and satire of mathematics professor and troubador Tom Lehrer, you haven’t lived until you’ve heard the following pieces:
Tom Lehrer: “The Element Song” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2cfju6GTNs
Sung to the tune of “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General” from the light opera The Pirates Of Penzance by Gilbert & Sullivan.
I have no idea why, but “My Darling Clementine”, along with “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound Of Music, is actually one of the first songs I *ever* learnt from my mother! I always thought it was such a strange choice of song to introduce a child to in faraway India! (I was singing along when it came on the screen, even though it was meant to be creepy!)
@pickleddragon,
Wow, “Clementine” is a pretty wild introduction to antique American popular music for a young child in India. On the other hand, many Mother Goose nursery rhymes from England also have gruesome roots, such as “Ring Around the Rosie,” which refers to the “posies” (patches of subcutaneous bleeding) of the Black Death, IIRC.
Did you catch the nice instrumental version transposed into a minor key? I don’t recall which episode it was in, but it caught my ear. I think it may have been played on piano.
You might be interested in this classic Hindi film song from a classic Bollywood movie which lifted its chorus line from ‘Clementine’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlAOZrst6fQ
The song also has excellent lyrics (an insightful, dark commentary on urban life), which someone has generously provided a rough translation of about 15 comments in on the YT page.
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PakalanaPikake
July 4, 2020 at 11:22 PM
IT’S OKAY TO NOT BE OKAY, Ep. 5
Tom Lehrer: “Clementine” (live concert, 1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5u4n64g2G0
Variations in the styles of Cole Porter, Mozart, (MORE)
PakalanaPikake
July 4, 2020 at 11:23 PM
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With variations in the styles of Cole Porter, Mozart, Thelonious Monk, and Gilbert & Sullivan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_My_Darling%2C_Clementine#Tom_Lehrer_version
For those unfamiliar with the wit and satire of mathematics professor and troubador Tom Lehrer, you haven’t lived until you’ve heard the following pieces:
Tom Lehrer: “The Masochism Tango”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TytGOeiW0aE
Why to I get the feeling this could be Ko Moon-young’s theme song?!
Tom Lehrer: “Poisoning Pigeons In The Park” (live, 1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-eIgFJg4w
Shhhh! Don’t give Ko Moon-young any ideas!
Tom Lehrer: “The Element Song”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2cfju6GTNs
Sung to the tune of “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General” from the light opera The Pirates Of Penzance by Gilbert & Sullivan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer
pickleddragon
July 4, 2020 at 11:29 PM
I have no idea why, but “My Darling Clementine”, along with “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound Of Music, is actually one of the first songs I *ever* learnt from my mother! I always thought it was such a strange choice of song to introduce a child to in faraway India! (I was singing along when it came on the screen, even though it was meant to be creepy!)
PakalanaPikake
August 7, 2020 at 1:53 AM
@pickleddragon,
Wow, “Clementine” is a pretty wild introduction to antique American popular music for a young child in India. On the other hand, many Mother Goose nursery rhymes from England also have gruesome roots, such as “Ring Around the Rosie,” which refers to the “posies” (patches of subcutaneous bleeding) of the Black Death, IIRC.
Did you catch the nice instrumental version transposed into a minor key? I don’t recall which episode it was in, but it caught my ear. I think it may have been played on piano.
pickleddragon
August 7, 2020 at 6:08 AM
@pakalanapikake long time!
You might be interested in this classic Hindi film song from a classic Bollywood movie which lifted its chorus line from ‘Clementine’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlAOZrst6fQ
The song also has excellent lyrics (an insightful, dark commentary on urban life), which someone has generously provided a rough translation of about 15 comments in on the YT page.