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The Last Lost Lehrer

By On 15 April 2012 · Leave a Comment

We close out our Tom Lehrer Birthday Week extravaganza today with one more song. This one is from the 1977 Summer Sales Meeting, and requires a little background explanation. The OneStep was, as you probably remember, Polaroid’s little plastic-bodied camera, hugely popular and decorated with a rainbow stripe. The Handle was its competitor […]

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More (Polaroid) Songs by Tom Lehrer

By On 11 April 2012 · Leave a Comment

As promised in Monday’s post, here’s another Tom Lehrer song. This one (or rather two, because there are once again long and short versions) was written for the 1977 Summer sales meeting, and it’s pretty self-explanatory, at least if you’re old enough to recognize the TV-show titles. The only cultural references that many will […]

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Tom Lehrer’s Polaroid Songs

By On 9 April 2012 · 3 Comments

It’s Tom Lehrer’s 84th birthday! To celebrate the master satirist of his generation, we in Polaroidland are posting three Lehrer songs, last performed more than three decades ago and never before seen outside Polaroid circles.

Background first. For those of you who don’t know of him: In the early fifties, Tom Lehrer was […]

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