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The Remains Of Tom Lehrer
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80-page hardback booklet with liner notes, photos and lyrics. Some tracks recorded in mono: tracks 1.01 to 1.23, 2.14 to 2.24. CD3 in stereo. Tracks 1.01 to 1.12 recorded at Trans-Radio Recordings, Boston, MA, 1/22/53. Tracks 1.13 to 1.23 recorded at RCA Victor Studios, New York, NY, 7/8/59. Track 1.24 recorded at Sound Techniques, Boston, MA, 10/8/96. Track 1.25 recorded at WGBH Studios, Allston, MA, 11/2/93. Previously unreleased. Track 2.01 to 2.13 recorded at Kresge Auditorium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 11/23/59 & 11/24/59. Tracks 2.14 to 2.24 recorded at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 3/20/59 & 3/21/59. Tracks 3.01 to 3.14 recorded at the hungry i, San Francisco, CA, 7/26/65 - 7/31/65. Tracks 3.15 to 3.18 recorded at RCA Victor Studios, New York, NY, 1/21/60. Tracks 3.19 to 3.22 recorded at Media Sound Studios, New York, NY (1971-1972). From the Children's Television Workshop series "The Electric Company". Tracks 3.21 and 3.22 previously unreleased. Tracks 3.23 to 3.25 recorded at Sound On Sound Recording, New York, NY, 10/26/99. Music for "The Elements" based on The Major-General's Song from The Pirates of Penzance. Music for "O-U (The Hound Song)" based on "Caro Nome" from "Rigoletto." The songs on this record are copyright 1952, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1964, 1965, 1971, 1972, 1980, 1990 & 1999 by Tom Lehrer, and he is welcome to them. Published by Maelstrom Music (ASCAP). This compilation ©2000 Warner Bros. Records Inc. & Rhino Entertainment Company. Credits for known orchestra members for tracks 3.15 to 3.18 and 3.23 to 3.25 included in booklet. "If you do not like these songs, then you will certainly not care that the words and music of most of them are available in "Too Many Songs By Tom Lehrer", published by Pantheon Books, New York."
Tracklist
Disc 1: Studio Recordings With Piano
Songs By Tom Lehrer (1953)
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
More Of Tom Lehrer (1959)
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
Recent Recordings
I Got It From Agnes
That's Mathematics
Disc 2: Live Performances
Tom Lehrer Revisited (1960)
Introduction
I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
The Old Dope Peddler
Fight Fiercely, Harvard
Lobachevsky
The Irish Ballad
The Hunting Song
My Home Town
When You Are Old And Gray
The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
I Hold Your Hand In Mine
Be Prepared
An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer (1959)
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
Disc 3: More Live Performances + Studio Recordings With Orchestra
That Was The Year That Was (1965)
National Brotherhood Week
MLF Lullaby
George Murphy
The Folk Song Army
Smut
Send The Marines
Pollution
So Long Mom (A Song For World War III)
Whatever Became Of Hubert?
New Math
Alma
Who's Next?
Wernher Von Braun
The Vatican Rag
The Richard Hayman Sessions (1960)
Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
The Masochism Tango
The Hunting Song
We Will All Go Together When We Go
The Joe Raposo Sessions (For The Electric Company) (1971-72)
L-Y
Silent E
O-U (The Hound Song)
S-N (Snore, Sniff, And Sneeze)
The Rob Fisher Sessions (New Recordings, 1999)
N Apostrophe T
Selling Out
(I'm Spending) Hanukkah In Santa Monica