“Who is Tom Glazer, you ask? He was a silly folk singer who wrote and recorded the classic song ‘On Top of Spaghetti’.” Okay, I didn’t know both that he died last week and that he wrote the song until today. But I did recognize this delightful ditty of his:

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where Hydrogen is built into Helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

My good friend Rich put it on a tape that he made and now it is forever etched into my memory. Here is a low bandwidth mp3 to listen to.

You can find more MP3s of Glazer’s work (written by Lou Singer and Hy Zaret) at http://www.acme.com/jef/science_songs/.