Sunday 20 April 2008

The Element Song: various versions

Got home at 2.30, after watching DJ Shadow + Cut Chemist at Luna Park
in the city... (http://au.youtube.com/results?search_query=dj+shadow+the+hard+sell) then checked my email... noticed a link about Tom Lehrer, who's famous for the Element Song, a crazy romp through the periodic table, sung to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's, "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" from Pirates of Penzance (thanks to Bob Funchess for the song title)

end result: just spent 30 minutes going through youtube, checking out
various versions of The Element Song.

Damn you Google blog!

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/heres-to-tom-lehrer-elemental-geek.html

(and he also did that song about "silent e" for Electric Company! OMG.)

my faves so far:

the original (audio only):



http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=WNfx0FO4hzs&NR=1



great version at a talent show:



http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=9cbgAELAX18&feature=related

sung by a 4-yr old (who kinda sounds like Martin Price from the Simpsons):



http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=QWkVO6Bp8VM&feature=related




showing the elements' location in the table:



http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=WNfx0FO4hzs&NR=1




this isn't a version.. but still interesting rapping with *some* of
those elements..




http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=pmTXtbRR7c0&feature=related

2 comments:

Bob Funchess said...

The tune is from the song "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" from Pirates of Penzance.

krangsquared said...

Thanks for the info Bob!