Lehrer and Berryman

[jacey]

green_knight has just discovered Tom Lehrer and I've been a huge fan ever since I borrowed a ten inch record from my Uncle Bob in the early 1960s. (Yes you're right it's not typical chidren's fare!)

So see green_knight's journal for youtube links to Lehrer, but below are a couple of youtube links to my friends Lou and Peter Berryman. There is a connection. Bear with me.

We first met Lou and Peter on our (Artisan's) first Canadian tour in 1994 and we hit it off immediately, both musically and personally. Lou and Peter are from Madison, Wisconsin, and they write and perform some of the wackiest songs. Peter writes the words and Lou the music. A few years ago they were playing in the town where Tom Lehrer lives and as he'd always been their hero, too, they sent him an invitation to their concert... hardly daring to hope that he'd come. He not only came, but after the show introduced himself and gave them the quote of a lifetime: 'If I were still writing songs today, I'd like to be writing songs like Lou and Peter Berryman.'

Wow!

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