Big Mama Thornton had an incredible impact on rock and roll with the 1953 single 'Hound Dog', but the record's B-side was just as groundbreaking in its day.

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Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, ...

LOS ANGELES — Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage ... though he did some writing and performing on the side. Lehrer said he was never comfortable appearing in ...

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Tom Lehrer, a popular song satirist in the Fifties and Sixities, lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching maths at Harvard ...