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Mentioned in Tom Lehrer threads as a charming example of Lehrer's song reaching a new audience.
Daniel Radcliffe performs his party trick on The Graham Norton Show: singing Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements', the periodic table song, from memory. It is a two-minute talk-show clip.
“introducing Tom Lehrer to a crowd who didn't know him” (HN, 2024)
We all know the Daniel Radcliffe story, right? (He performed The Elements from memory on a UK talk show, which was allegedly what got him hired to play Weird Al in his 'biopic' - [this video] )
Radcliffe performed The Elements from memory on talk show
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