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Songs & More Songs By Tom Lehrer (CD)

By: Tom Lehrer (Artist)

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1   Fight Fiercely, Harvard Buy
2   Old Dope Peddler  
3   Be Prepared Buy
4   Wild West Is Where I Want to Be  
5   I Wanna Go Back to Dixie Buy
6   Lobachevsky Buy
7   Irish Ballad  
8   Hunting Song  
9   My Home Town Buy
10   When You Are Old and Gray [Medley]  
11   I Hold Your Hand in Mine [Medley]  
12   Wiener Schnitzel Waltz [Medley]  
13   Poisoning Pigeons in the Park [Medley]  
14   Bright College Days Buy
15   Christmas Carol  
16   Elements  
17   Oedipus Rex Buy
18   In Old Mexico Buy
19   Clementine Buy
20   It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier Buy
21   She's My Girl  
22   Masochism Tango  
23   We Will All Go Together When We Go Buy
24   Poisoning Pigeons in the Park Buy
25   Masochism Tango  
26   Hunting Song  
27   We Will All Go Together When We Go Buy

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Album Description

Tom Lehrer continues to teach musical theater and math at UC Santa Cruz. This compact disc makes available his ultra-rare 1953 debut album which was the biggest-selling comedy record of the 1950s. Includes such devastating satiric classics as "The Masochism Tango," "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park," "A Christmas Carol," and "We''ll All Go Together When We Go."
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Media Type: CD
Artist: LEHRER,TOM
Title: SONGS & MORE SONGS BY TOM LEHR
Street Release Date: 05/06/1997
Domestic
Genre: COMEDY

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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

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