In the early 1980's, when I was a graduate student at the University of Southern California, Townsend Hoopes, Undersecretary of the Air Force under President Johnson, a disarmament advocate, and co-chairman of Americans For SALT, remarked that one of my professors,
Dr. William R. Van Cleave, belonged to "a band of nuclear theoreticians." Van Cleave, a hardliner on defense and security issues who headed the USC Defense and Strategic Studies program and opposed the SALT II agreement, responded by writing "A Band of Nuclear Theoreticians Are We," a song which lampooned Hoopes to the tune of “Three Little Maids From School Are We.”
LOL - I know you know from our participation on the weekend video threads that I've already seen these. I like Shirley Henderson's rendition better than Valerie Masterson's version because it is more down to earth and approachable.
Shirley Henderson — "The sun whose rays are all ablaze" in "Topsy Turvy"
Shirley Henderson's delivery is as if she really feels the emotion she sings of. Masterson's delivery is more operatic and precise and therefore does not touch me.