Tom Lehrer The Tom Lehrer Collection

• Fight Fiercely, Harvard
• Lobachevsky
• The Irish Ballad
• When You Are Old And Gray
• Be Prepared
• The Elements
• We Will All Go Together When We Go
• National Brotherhood Week
• Pollution
• So Long, Mom (A Song For World War III)
• New Math
• Who’s Next?
• Smut
• Wernher von Braun
• The Vatican Rag
• I Got It From Agnes
• That’s Mathematics
• L-Y
• Silent E
• O-U (The Hound Song)
• S-N (Snore, Sniff, And Sneeze)
• N Apostrophe T
• Selling Out
• (I’m Spending) Hanukkah In Santa Monica
• Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
• The Masochism Tango

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Lehrer is a musical satirist who was popular with both the Dr. Demento and NPR crowds a few generations ago, with his songs “Masochism Tango” and “The Elements” being among his most popular. This release should help bring his brand of “Tom-foolery” (as he calls it) to new, younger listeners. It will be a two-CD and one-DVD package that will span the HarvardCollege graduate’s 40-year career (Lehrer is now in his 80s). It will include selections from his popular live albums for Reprise Records, early-‘70s material recorded for the old TV show “The Electric Company,” a rare 1960s single and some radio performances. The DVD will feature unreleased performances, TV spots, and a complete 1967 concert performed in Oslo.

Abstract by Tony Sclafani