Songs & More Songs By Tom Lehrer

Artist: Tom Lehrer
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 081227277628
EAN: 0081227277628
ASIN: B00000340N

Release Date: 1997-05-06

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Tracks:

Fight Fiercely, Harvard
The Old Dope Peddler
Be Prepared
The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
Lobachevsky
The Irish Ballad
The Hunting Song
My Home Town
When You Are Old And Gray
I Hold Your Hand In Mine
The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
Bright College Days
A Christmas Carol
The Elements
Oedipus Rex
In Old Mexico
Clementine
It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier
She's My Girl
The Masochism Tango
We Will All Go Together When We Go
Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
The Masochism Tango
The Hunting Song
We Will All Go Together When We Go
I Got It From Agnes

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Customer Reviews:

Should have bought this earlier.......2006-02-25

I had some old tapes of Tom Lehrer, which got lost or damaged, and were replaced by this one CD. I wish I'd bought it earlier. Of course the sad thing is to hear what he sings about and remember the times, and realize he stopped writing songs and performing in part because the world was getting just a little too scary even for him, and really difficult to make fun of.

Tom Lehrer, satirist........2005-10-14

I have been listening to Tom Leher for years, on LP records and, twice, in person. He is the most talented satirist going, since Gilbert and Sullivan. This CD is a gem.

If I could give it ten stars, I would........2005-10-13

This is quite possibly the best music written, along with Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. The songs are not out dated at all, as one actually could wish in some cases. The world is still the hysterical place Tom Lehrer described.

On this album Tom Lehrer flawlessly demonstrates how really good music depends on text and melody, and text and melody alone. I can't really understand how people have dared writing music since this was first published as everything else pales in comparishion.

Good Clean and Memorable Satire.......2005-09-05

When Tom Lehrer started identifying our cultural foibles and poking fun at people who had entirely too much influence in our lives, he helped us all to deal more effectively with the mistakes and challenges of a military-industrial complex gone terribly wrong.
His humor lightened the load of uncountable, free-thinking Americans, and demonstrated the value of contemplating the world around us, and trying to make a diference in the lives of our neighbors.

Blast from the past.......2005-09-03

I first discovered Tom Lehrer in the seventies, listening to the ABC (that's Australian Broadcasting Commission) where Monday and Tuesday nights were comedy nights. Mostly British stuff from the BBC with a leavening of ex-colonial humour. I am a big fan of Gilbert and Sullivan and I found that Tom Lehrer had the same ability as W.S. Gilbert to skewer all that is pompous, vain and ridiculous in society with wit and charm. Despite the parochial and topical nature of some of his work - as an Aussie I was only ever vaguely aware of Hubert Humphrey and had/still have no idea who George Murphy is/was - Tom Lehrer's humour still has resonance today. Pretentious celebs, pornography and pollution are still issues today and, hello, could this be a better time to revisit "Send the Marines".

This complilation contains most of his recorded output, in studio versions. I already own "That Was The Year That Was", "Tom Lehrer Revisited" and "An Evening Wasted" and the latter two CDs are certainly enhanced by the inclusion of Mr Lehrer's witty repartee with the live audience but this CD completes my collection with, in particular, "The Elements", "Oedipus Rex", "It Make a Fellow Proud To be A Soldier" and "I Got It From Agnes". After hearing the studio version of "My Home Town" I am now inclined to accept that the "missing" line may, indeed, have been written that way.

If you are looking for the definitive Tom Lehrer collection, this is it.

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