Certainly not - he's pretty obscure. As far as I know, his last (and best) record came out in 1963 or 1964, That Was the Year that Was. From that record, I take the liberty of presenting a sample of his style, "MLF Lullabye":
"leep, baby, sleep, in peace may you slumber, No danger lurks, your sleep to encumber, We've got the missiles, peace to determine, And one of the fingers on the button will be German.
Why shouldn't they have nuclear warheads? England says no, but they are all soreheads. I say a bygone should be a bygone, Let's make peace the way we did in Stanleyville and Saigon.
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean, But that couldn't happen again. We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen, And they've hardly bothered us since then.
So sleep well, my darling, the sandman can linger, We know our buddies won't give us the finger. Heil--hail--the Wehrmacht, I mean the Bundeswehr, Hail to our loyal ally! MLF Will scare Brezhnev, I hope he is half as scared as I."
He was less so during the 50s and 60s, when he played a mean piano and sang satyrical songs, when he wasn't teaching mathematics at (I think) some university in California.
If you're interested in such arcana, this site seems to have transcribed the entire record, including the between-song patter. (The record is depressingly relevant 40 years later.)
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Date: 2004-07-17 10:47 am (UTC)"leep, baby, sleep, in peace may you slumber,
No danger lurks, your sleep to encumber,
We've got the missiles, peace to determine,
And one of the fingers on the button will be German.
Why shouldn't they have nuclear warheads?
England says no, but they are all soreheads.
I say a bygone should be a bygone,
Let's make peace the way we did in Stanleyville and Saigon.
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean,
But that couldn't happen again.
We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen,
And they've hardly bothered us since then.
So sleep well, my darling, the sandman can linger,
We know our buddies won't give us the finger.
Heil--hail--the Wehrmacht, I mean the Bundeswehr,
Hail to our loyal ally!
MLF
Will scare Brezhnev,
I hope he is half as scared as I."
He was less so during the 50s and 60s, when he played a mean piano and sang satyrical songs, when he wasn't teaching mathematics at (I think) some university in California.
If you're interested in such arcana, this site seems to have transcribed the entire record, including the between-song patter. (The record is depressingly relevant 40 years later.)
Hmm. No wonder Laura thinks I'm a nerd.