Tom Lehrer: Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer (1997)

Tom Lehrer: Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer (1997)
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A collection of just about everything the reclusive master of social and political satire has ever recorded! Includes his ultrarare 1953 debut album, Songs By Tom Lehrer, the equally hard-to-find 1959 release More Of Tom Lehrer, plus rare cuts and a previously unreleased 1996 recording of “I Got It From Agnes.” Also features a booklet containing Dr. Demento-penned liner notes and an exclusive interview with Lehrer himself!

From Amazon.com:
“In the wake of the '80s comedy boom that made casual obscenity and bodily functions safe for TV, a listen to these '50s classics from a piano-playing Harvard grad student with a thin singing voice sounds tame if not quaint. Yet Lehrer's first two self-produced albums, among the first generation of comedy LPs, remain beloved gems of musical parody, and noteworthy for their original success in an era when their topics were strictly taboo for broadcast media. He kids cold war paranoia ("We Will All Go Together When We Go"), sends up then-hip folk revivalists with a cheerful murder ballad ("The Irish Ballad"), and gets laughs out of incest ("Oedipus Rex"), drugs ("The Old Dope Peddler"), and racism ("I Wanna Go Back to Dixie"). Closer to Gilbert & Sullivan (whom he in fact raids for one melody) than Def Comedy Jams, Lehrer can still raise a modern frisson when he plays necrophilia as romance ("I hold your hand in mine dear, I press it to my lips/ I take a healthy bite from your dainty fingertips...").”
--Sam Sutherland

Tracklist:
From Songs by Tom Lehrer:
1. Fight Fiercely, Harvard
2. The Old Dope Peddler
3. Be Prepared
4. The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
5. I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
6. Lobachevsky
7. The Irish Ballad
8. The Hunting Song
9. My Home Town
10. When You Are Old And Gray
11. I Hold Your Hand In Mine
12. The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
From More of Tom Lehrer:
13. Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
14. Bright College Days
15. A Christmas Carol
16. The Elements
17. Oedipus Rex
18. In Old Mexico
19. Clementine
20. It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier
21. She's My Girl
22. The Masochism Tango
23. We Will All Go Together When We Go
Orchestrated Editions:
24. Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
25. The Masochism Tango
26. The Hunting Song
27. We Will All Go Together When We Go
And If That's Not Bad Enough:
28. I Got It From Agnes

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