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That Was the Year That Was (Music)

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That Was the Year That Was (Music)	comment	That Was the Year That Was is a 1965 Live Album (recorded at the hungry i in San Francisco) by humorous singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer, featuring songs he had written during a stint on the American incarnation of the satirical current affairs show That Was the Week That Was. Most of the songs on the album, as well as a few of Lehrer's older songs, were performed on that show by their resident performers; "The Folk Song Army", "Smut", "Alma", "Wernher von Braun" and "The Vatican Rag" were not featured on TW3.This was the only Lehrer album not to be originally issued on his own label; it was released by Reprise Records. As part of the deal to issue the album, Reprise also got the rights to Lehrer's back catalog; in 1966, they reissued An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer and had Lehrer rerecord Songs by Tom Lehrer in stereo.Track listSide One "National Brotherhood Week" "MLF Lullaby" "George Murphy" "The Folk Song Army" "Smut" "Send the Marines" "Pollution"Side Two "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)" "Whatever Became of Hubert?" "New Math" "Alma" "Who's Next?" "Wernher von Braun" "The Vatican Rag"
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_16d8476f	type	Protest Song
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_16d8476f	comment	Protest Song: Parodied in "The Folk Song Army". Lehrer believed that protest songs were utterly useless and was fond of reminding people of how effective the satirical cabaret shows of Weimar Germany were against the Nazis. He did several songs satirizing political issues of the day, such as nuclear proliferation, and senator and former Hollywood star George R. Murphy's racist remarks during an interview and other such things, but these were more Gallows Humor than protests.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_1e52d870	type	Dance Sensation
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_1e52d870	comment	Dance Sensation: "The Vatican Rag" is a satirical example. After "Vatican II" showed up, Lehrer suggested that a dance craze in the name of the Vatican was a good way to spread the message.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_1fc3d0a8	type	Captain Obvious Aesop
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_1fc3d0a8	comment	"Folk Song Army" mocks protest folk songs, which Lehrer deemed useless and guilty of blatantly obvious messages.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: "Wernher von Braun" is about the career of a German scientist who built missiles for the Nazis during World War II with the excuse that what he really wanted to build was space rockets but nobody would give him funding for that (and then after the war was rewarded for his work blowing up parts of England by being hired by the American space program).
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_26e5c183	type	Polluted Wasteland
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_26e5c183	comment	Polluted Wasteland: The whole topic of "Pollution", which is a reversal of how Americans going overseas would be warned not to drink the water there, and how foreigners coming to America should prepare for it.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_27daa62b	type	Carry the One
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_27daa62b	comment	Carry the One: In "New Math", Lehrer describes a traditional way of doing a subtraction problem: "Three from two is nine, carry the one..." but claims that in the New Math approach to mathematics teaching that was then in vogue, "the idea is to know what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer." As a result, he does the problem over again, with different carrying of the one...to get the same answer, of course, but he does it so fast that it's hard to follow.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel is considered a controversial figure these days, partly because of her own self-confessed antisemiticnote Even though two of her husbands were Jewish and pro-Fascist beliefs, and partly because she proved to be an Unreliable Narrator in her role as the caretaker of Gustav Mahler's legacy.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_4141c9e5	type	Short-Lived, Big Impact
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_4141c9e5	comment	Short-Lived, Big Impact: invoked The introduction to "Alma" discusses this. In particular, he mentions Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, noting that, by the time he was 37 (as Lehrer was at the time of the album's release), Mozart had been dead for two years.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: Lampshaded by Lehrer during "New Math", when, while doing the problem in Base 8, he goes to the sixty-fours:
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_44cdd259	type	War Is Glorious
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_44cdd259	comment	War Is Glorious: Done, tongue firmly in cheek, in "So Long Mom (A Song for World War III)". The subject of the song apparently looks forward to "getting the Commies" and invoking some agonizing holocaust on his enemies.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_48ab4d58	type	The Short War
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_48ab4d58	comment	The Short War: "So Long Mom" envisages that World War III will be one, thanks to the presence of nuclear weapons.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_5a268981	type	Three Chords and the Truth
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_5a268981	comment	Three Chords and the Truth: He has a dig at this trope in the spoken intro to "Folk Song Army": Then he does it again in the song itself, where he also pokes fun at the lyrical version:
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_6454966e	type	World War III
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_6454966e	comment	World War III: "So Long Mom" is a parody of jingoistic World War II songs, updated for the next Big One. It also assumes the war will be over very quickly.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: He references Wernher von Braun's Nazi past:
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_6aa5bcb8	type	Vice President Who?
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_6aa5bcb8	comment	Vice President Who?: The theme of "Whatever Became of Hubert?", regarding Lyndon Johnson's VP Hubert Humphrey.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_6d3dbe0e	type	Midword Rhyme
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_6d3dbe0e	comment	Midword Rhyme: "Smut".
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_71a34999	type	Painful Rhyme
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_71a34999	comment	Painful Rhyme: Lampshaded in "The Folk Song Army":
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_7d44b017	type	Balance of Power
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_7d44b017	comment	Balance of Power: "Who's Next?" mentions this by name. "First we got the bomb", because the United States developed the nuclear bomb first. But then Russia got the bomb, but Lehrer assures is that it's okay "'cause the balance of power's maintained that way".
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_82518cf7	comment	"New Math" was supposed to make fun of the new (at the time) subtraction method, by using Motor Mouth to make it look as incomprehensible as possible. While New Math was mostly abandoned, the subtraction method he demonstrates in the song actually stuck around, and nowadays, kids are taught using that "new" method. Kids will now understand perfectly the incomprehensible "new" method, but struggle trying to understand the normal "old" method because Lehrer didn't bother explaining it too much (since he assumed people would be familiar with the method) and, as Lehrer himself points out, the "old" method wasn't actually meant to be understood.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_86daf505	type	Parental Bonus
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_86daf505	comment	Parental Bonus: While most of his songs are still funny, there are lines he says that are rather topical to the 1960s. An example would be when he mentions that Massachusetts is the only state with three senators; it's because Robert Kennedy (from Massachusetts) happened to be a New York senator at the time. "New Math" was supposed to make fun of the new (at the time) subtraction method, by using Motor Mouth to make it look as incomprehensible as possible. While New Math was mostly abandoned, the subtraction method he demonstrates in the song actually stuck around, and nowadays, kids are taught using that "new" method. Kids will now understand perfectly the incomprehensible "new" method, but struggle trying to understand the normal "old" method because Lehrer didn't bother explaining it too much (since he assumed people would be familiar with the method) and, as Lehrer himself points out, the "old" method wasn't actually meant to be understood.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_8b9c057e	type	Ethnic Menial Labor
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_8b9c057e	comment	Ethnic Menial Labor: Discussed in "George Murphy", in the context of insensitive comments the real Murphy had made about Mexican migrants.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_99c36bb5	type	Ironic Nursery Tune
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_99c36bb5	comment	Ironic Nursery Tune: "MLF Lullaby", a sweet nursery song about how you should rest easy and not worry about the fact that peace and the human race's continued existence depends on some really untrustworthy people.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_acbea71a	type	Cheap Heat
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_acbea71a	comment	Cheap Heat: Since That Was the Year That Was was recorded in San Francisco, he sings "the breakfast garbage that you throw into the bay, they drink at lunch in San Jose" in "Pollution" and gets an enthusiastic reaction from the crowd. The songbook Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer suggests that anyone singing the song should similarly localize that line.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: "MLF Lullaby", regarding a proposal that the USA and Germany (among other countries) join forces in a multilateral nuclear deterrent force:
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_aeff903	type	Educational Song
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_aeff903	comment	Educational Song: Parodied with "New Math", which purports to be an attempt to make the 'New Math' understandable, but is really trying to make it as confusing as possible. In the song, Lehrer does a simple math problem of 342 minus 173; he overexplains the problem first, then does the same problem in base 8 instead of base 10. The whole point of the song was that it was making math unnecessarily complicated in Lehrer's mind.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: "Wernher von Braun" is one long Take That to von Braun, and by extension to the people who employed him after the War. "Send the Marines" takes aim at American foreign policy. "Folk Song Army" mocks protest folk songs, which Lehrer deemed useless and guilty of blatantly obvious messages.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_b6dc59fd	type	Word, Schmord!
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_b6dc59fd	comment	Word, Schmord!: In "Wernher von Braun":
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: From the intro to "National Brotherhood Week":
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_ba753dc9	type	Wangst
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_ba753dc9	comment	Wangst: Discussed at the end of "Alma". Lehrer had little patience for dramas of the day around the lack of communication and all of the complaining about it.invoked
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_ba753dc9	featureApplicability	1.0
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_bf698238	type	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_bf698238	comment	When All You Have Is a Hammer…: "Send the Marines".
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_bf698238	featureApplicability	1.0
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_c3075178	type	Filth
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_c3075178	comment	Filth: The subject matter of "Smut".
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "Smut" has references to two classic works of erotic literature, Fanny Hill and Lady Chatterley's Lover. In the banter accompanying "New Math", Lehrer jokes that he's always wanted to write a mathematics textbook because he has a title he knows would sell a million copies: Tropic of Calculus.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_cb0743c0	type	Lame Pun Reaction
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_cb0743c0	comment	Lame Pun Reaction: Lehrer apologizes for his own pun in "Whatever Became of Hubert?":
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_ccb97ff2	type	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_ccb97ff2	comment	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: "The Folk Song Army".
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_d04d14a5	type	Everybody Hates Mathematics
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_d04d14a5	comment	Everybody Hates Mathematics: "New Math" pokes fun at this attitude, especially the result of the 1960s attempt to introduce set theory in elementary school. As Tom himself says, "The idea is to know what you are doing rather than to get the right answer!"
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_d70741ad	type	Doctor von Turncoat
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_d70741ad	comment	Doctor von Turncoat: "Wernher von Braun" portrays the title scientist as gleefully switching sides in the war and not caring who is using his rockets or for what purpose as long as he still gets funded.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: "So Long Mom" is a song about nuclear war set to a cheerful tune. The narrator is a pilot in World War III addressing his mother:
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_f5b7b990	type	Verbal Backspace
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_f5b7b990	comment	Verbal Backspace: "New Math" gets a gag out of a subtraction error:
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_f7bbd5b0	type	I Will Find You
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_f7bbd5b0	comment	I Will Find You: Given a suitably dark twist in "So Long Mom (A Song for World War III)":
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_f9844e26	type	TrophyHusband
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_f9844e26	comment	Trophy Husband: "Alma", a ballad dedicated to socialite Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel, whom he praises for managing to marry three of the greatest minds of the day and having the raciest obituary he had ever had the pleasure of reading.
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That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_fc39769d	type	Gunboat Diplomacy
That Was the Year That Was (Music) / int_fc39769d	comment	Gunboat Diplomacy: "Send the Marines" is all about the use of the Marines as soldiers who get sent in early "for Might Makes Right", and that the USA will keep sending the Marines "until somebody we like can be elected".
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That Was the Year That Was (Music)	hasFeature	Black Comedy Cannibalism / int_b5b13e5b
That Was the Year That Was (Music)	hasFeature	Credits Gag / int_b5b13e5b
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