Tom Lehrer Singing "Wernher von Braun"! (Video Presented Without Commercial Interruption)

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix



Published on Dec 1, 2008 by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel.

The Tom Lehrer Collection.

If you live in the United States you can also buy the collection from Shout! Factory, using the above link.

Tom Lehrer at Itunes.

The song Wernher von Braun, written well before 1964 and recorded to Ampex video in 1967, was originally published on The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel in July of 2007. The original 4:3-version is still on YouTube. This converted version is just an experiment, but if you watch this copy, you will get to hear Tom Lehrer's spoken intro.

Try to click under the video window for higher playback quality or add &fmt=18 to the url to manually alter the playback resolution. It will not change too much though, because of the test conversion to wide screen.

To make this song even more spot on, Lehrer used eight bars from the well-known German national anthem "Das Lied der Deutschen" as a song intro :-)

Check out more about the German national anthem here:

[The Pretend Encylopedia].

Tom Lehrer has accepted the publishing of the songs on The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel. Click on the user name to visit the channel front page. The channel is Lehrer only.

For more, use this link.

© Tom Lehrer

Recording date: September 11th 1967

Format: Ampex Quadruplex PAL 4:3

Status: A very rare recording

Storage: Sony Digital Betacam

Wernher von Braun:

[Wernher von Braun at [The Pretend Encylopedia].

Production and preservation: The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation - the NRK, Norway. More here:

NRK.