Typecasting country artists as flipping between sounding sad and nostalgic paints a limited picture that leaves out the ever-presence of humor within the genre. By the 1960s, Nashville reigned as ...

As anyone who has ever tried to write a funny song knows well, it’s not easy. It’s a task often destined to failure, primarily because songs are designed to last, to be listened to repeatedly, for ...

Tom Lehrer, the sardonic singer-songwriter-pianist who rose to national fame after his dark, tartly funny topical songs were used on the comedic ‘60s TV news show "That Was the Week That Was," has ...

So often, music is about serious matters. Whether window-rattling rock or emotional ballads, most popular songs are about heartbreak, love or some other earnest endeavor. But what about the funny ...

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Tom Lehrer, a mathematician who became an influential musical satirist during the 1950s and ’60s, has died at age 97. Friends discovered him deceased at his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home on Saturday, ...