There never was a time like the 1950s — not even during the 1950s. Not if you have in mind the decade of conformity, of moms ...

A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often maddeningly cheerful.

Tom Lehrer songs included “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park,” “The Old Dope Peddler,” “Be Prepared” and “The Vatican Rag,” in ...

The influential comic stylist and mathematician rose to fame lampooning mainstream American mores in the 1950s and 1960s, ...

It’s very flattering that people remember the songs and have kept them alive all these years,” Mr. Lehrer told The Boston ...

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Tom Lehrer, the American singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician, died at the age of 97 on July 26, 2025, at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

More than a decade ago, the Australian pop-punk boy band 5 Seconds of Summer emerged as charming genre-revivalists. The 2014 ...

Ooh, eeh, ooh aah aah/Ting tang, wallawalla bing bang!” They just don’t write lyrics like those anymore. Perhaps for good reason but, that snippet is from a No. 1 hit in 1958.