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| | Tom Lehrer Annotated Song Lyrics |
 | | Studio recordings of tracks 2-13 of Tom Lehrer Revisited can be found on the 1953 album Songs by Tom Lehrer, and the 1996 album Songs and More Songs by Tom Lehrer from Rhino Records. | | | Three Tom Lehrer albums, all recorded before a live audience, are available from Reprise records. | | | Studio recordings of all tracks from An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer can be found on the 1959 album More Songs by Tom Lehrer, and the 1996 album Songs and More Songs by Tom Lehrer |
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| | Tom Lehrer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Songs and More Songs By Tom Lehrer (1997) | | | With a cult hit, he embarked on a series of concert tours and released a second album, which came in two versions: More Songs by Tom Lehrer was studio-recorded, and An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer was recorded live in concert. | | | A selection of these songs was released in the album That Was The Year That Was. |
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| | Tom Lehrer |
| | The 1966 re-recording of _Songs By Tom Lehrer_ on Warner/Reprise Records. | | | The _More Of Tom Lehrer_ album, Lehrer Records, 1959. | | | Because that album is the equivalent of the _Tom Lehrer Revisited_ album, except that all of the performances are from his spring, 1960 tour of Australia. |
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| | SoundtrackNet : The Remains of Tom Lehrer (Disc 1) |
| | Inside the 80-page hardcover booklet is a history of Tom Lehrer, the original liner notes from the original albums (with annotations by Lehrer in 1999), and all of the lyrics to all of the songs. | | | Considering that the latter song was recorded in 1997, it's amazing to note that Lehrer sounds the same nearly 40 years after the first recording of his songs. | | | Entitled "The Remains of Tom Lehrer", this 3-disc album contains every studio and live recording of Lehrer that has ever existed. |
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| | village voice > music > Tom Lehrer The Remains of Tom Lehrer by Frank Kogan |
| | Lehrer's shtick is to take a Viennese waltz or a love song or a folk song and lampoon it, to take a sentimental style and turn it into something slimy and gross. | | | Lehrer recorded two studio LPs back in the 1950s and also a live version of the second one, and then at the turn of the decade did the first one over again, this time live in front of an audience—songs in the exact same order but with between-song patter. | | | I doubt that he or anyone listening to him is moved by his music to consider why Irish girls murder their families. |
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| | The Physical Revue, by Tom Lehrer |
| | These are the earliest recordings made of Tom Lehrer, almost* the only recordings of Lehrer songs with contrapuntal words (i.e. | | | The microphone for these recordings was not close to the performers, and the recording was made with a wire recorder. | | | Background image: covers from some of Tom Lehrer's albums |
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http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/lehrer/physrev.htm
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| | Tom Lehrer MP3 Downloads - Tom Lehrer Music Downloads - Tom Lehrer Music Videos |
| | Tom Lehrer was one of comedy's great paradoxes -- a respected Harvard mathematics professor by day, he also ranked among the foremost song satirists of the postwar era, recording vicious, twisted parodies of popular musical trends which proved highly influential on the "sick comedy" revolution of the 1960s. | | | The humor and wit that made Tom Lehrer and Shel Silverstein popular in the 1960s is resurrected through the songs of John Forster. | | | Tom Lehrer is perhaps the most original songwriter of all time and in my opinion certainly the funniest. |
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| | [minstrels] The Elements -- Tom Lehrer |
| | From: Daniel Marsh To answer Stephen, in the liner notes for the Tom Lehrer album in which this appeared ("An Evening ^Wasted with Tom Lehrer,") they mention that at the time of the release of the album, there had been new elements discovered, so it was already out of date. | | | Lehrer mentions this explicitly ("I thought it would be an interesting idea to st-- adapt") in the patter accompanying the song, on 'Tom Lehrer Revisited' - which I was listening to just this morning, hence the choice of poem. | | | Finally, in 1959 he recorded a follow-up, More of Tom Lehrer, featuring "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" and "The Masochism Tango; " the same collection of songs were also recorded during a live performance at Harvard, and issued simultaneously as An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer. |
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| | Tom Lehrer |
| | Tom Lehrer, the college math instructor whose songs (like "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" and "The Old Dope Peddler") are the musical equivalents of Edward Gorey illustrations. | | | The three-CD set is somewhat redundant in that the first disc contains Lehrer’s two 1950s studio albums, while the second has Lehrer’s two 1959 live albums… of the exact same songs found on the first disc. | | | The third CD is Lehrer’s 1965 That Was The Year That Was album, featuring his most covered song, "Pollution" ("They got smog and sewage and mud/ Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud") and his most controversial song, the now-quaint "Vatican Rag" ("Two, four, six, eight/ Time to transubstantiate!"). |
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| | Ink 19 :: Tom Lehrer |
| | Lehrer, a Harvard boy, stumbled into the limelight with Songs by Tom Lehrer in 1953, a bona-fide DIY hit recorded for $15 and self-released by Lehrer in his college days. | | | Lehrer's musical talents are complemented by his astounding language skills and an eagle-eye view of society -- his songs hardly sound dated, even thirty years after they were recorded. | | | Instead, this 3-CD box set (with extensive hardbound liner notes) compiles all -- all -- of Tom Lehrer's musical output, including his two studio albums from the '50s and one from the '60s, a couple of live recordings, and a handful of sessions. |
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http://www.ink19.com/issues/september2000/wetInk/musicLM/tomLehrer.html
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| | Amazon.com: The Remains of Tom Lehrer: Music: Tom Lehrer |
| | Tom Lehrer is one of the greatest anomalies in popular music: he burst on the scene for a dozen years with five albums (two of which where essentially live versions of studio recordings), then retired into academia, not performing in public for decades. | | | I first became acquainted with Tom Lehrer's musical repertoire in high school, via a tape that was a copy of a tape that was made by running a cassette recorder in the same room where an ancient and worn record was playing. | | | Songs & More Songs By Tom Lehrer ~ Tom Lehrer |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004SWBH?v=glance
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| | Whatever Happened To: Tom Lehrer |
| | Rhino Records released The Remains of Tom Lehrer in 2000. | | | See references below for more lengthy accounts of Tom's career, but in a nutshell, he was teaching math at Harvard in the early 50's and composing satirical parodies on the piano. | | | These began to get a following so he eventually spent $15 on studio time and recorded Songs by Tom Lehrer and had 300 copies pressed at his own expense. |
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| | Tom Lehrer (Cosmik Debris Magazine article) |
| | Lehrer's brand of wit is still potent, as heard in the perennial Doctor Demento Funny Five winner, "The Masochism Tango," which takes the mock abuse of that dance to its logical extreme but does it so well that one might think Lehrer is actually into that sort of thing. | | | Now comes a new 3-CD set, The Remains of Tom Lehrer, which compiles all those songs in all the various forms that Tom released plus a few hitherto-unreleased works, including a couple of brand new recordings. | | | Likewise the song "Smut" sounds heartfelt but when asked how he really feels about it, Tom says, "That song was really about freedom of speech and hypocrisy." As he says in the song's intro monologue, "Dirty books are fun!" yet the ACLU and others fight around that point instead of confronting it directly. |
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| | Tom Lehrer : The Remains of Tom Lehrer - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
| | The first disc concentrates on Lehrer's studio output, including pieces from his 1953 debut Songs by Tom Lehrer and his 1959 album More of Tom Lehrer, as well as a 1996 version of "I Got It from Agnes" and "That's Mathematics," a previously unreleased track from 1993. | | | Tom Lehrer : The Remains of Tom Lehrer | | | Disc two gathers his '59 performances at MIT and Harvard, captured on the albums Tom Lehrer Revisited and An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer (which offered many of the same selections as their studio predecessors). |
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| | Tom Lehrer : Oldies.com |
| | Lehrer was a song satirist who also recorded a number of albums during the 50s and 60s. | | | They enjoyed his songs, so Lehrer recorded a dozen of them in 1953 and had 400 copies pressed on a 10-inch album, on his own Lehrer label. | | | Having trained on piano, he began to perform song satires of his own for colleagues at the college. |
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| | G&S Discography: Tom Lehrer's "Elements" & "Clementine" |
| | This album included Lehrer's spoken introductions to the songs and became the best-known recording of the material. | | | Mono LP An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer, composite live recording; same tracks as More of Tom Lehrer, but includes spoken introductions not found on the studio version. | | | Tom Lehrer's career as a songwriter and performer was basically over after 1965. |
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| | Conversation with Tom Lehrer |
| | Lehrer's first two self-produced albums, along with various bonus tracks, are on a new CD from Rhino Records, and it was because of this record's release that Lehrer, who normally keeps a very low profile, agreed to a series of interviews with various publications, of which mine was one of the last. | | | The re-release of "Songs of Tom Lehrer" had an orange cover which was done by Eric Martin who did the TWTYTW cover. | | | The CD [on Reprise] didn't come out until 1990, so for 25 years that was the "Songs by Tom Lehrer" was available. |
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| | Stop clapping, this is serious - smh.com.au |
| | The speaker is Tom Lehrer, arguably the most famous living satirical songwriter. | | | Boredom wasn't the only reason Lehrer gave up the industry that made him famous and, thanks to a very canny business sense, surprisingly wealthy (his first album was recorded for just $15 and sold more than 370,000 copies on his own label). | | | That's no surprise Lehrer's sense of rhyme and rhythm is as acute as the best Broadway songwriters and, for 25 years, he taught a course on the American musical, alongside mathematics. |
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/28/1046407753895.html
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| | Tom Lehrer: The Political Musician That Wasn't |
| | Lehrer in fact has a certain amount of disdain for songs (and songwriters) that aspire to change the world, i.e. | | | Lehrer began his serious efforts at song writing in his undergraduate days, parodying in both lyrics and style the popular music of the day. | | | Although Lehrer richly embellishes his songs when he's at the piano, the chord progressions he uses are simple enough to be played by even a mediocre guitar player. |
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| | Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer - liners |
| | Also on this CD are all of Lehrer's hard-to-find 1960 recordings with full orchestra, including one track never before released in any form and a brand-new Lehrer performance of one of his most famous (or infamous) songs, "I Got It From Agnes," which he's never before recorded commercially. | | | Tom Lehrer is the most brilliant song satirist ever recorded. | | | More Of Tom Lehrer was recorded on July 8, 1959. |
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| | Tom Lehrer - Pollution - Last.fm |
| | Of all 7,138 people that have listened to songs by Tom Lehrer, this represents 13.7%. | | | 981 people have listened to Pollution by Tom Lehrer. | | | Music > Tom Lehrer > That Was the Year that Was > Pollution |
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| | Tom Lehrer |
| | Rhino Records just released a new CD with tons of Tom's songs, including a new one plus some orchestrated versions of old songs. | | | There's going to be an on-line chat session with Tom Lehrer June 17, 6 pm PT, organised by Rhino Records. | | | He is generally acknowledged to be the dean of living American composers, and is currently working on a musical comedy based on the life of Adolf Hitler. |
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| | St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Tom Lehrer |
| | The Lehrer song which caused the most controversy was "The Vatican Rag." Here, he sings irreverently about the Catholic sacraments. | | | In 1953&; Lehrer decided to put out a record of the various songs with which he had been entertaining people around Cambridge. | | | One item on the repertoire was a Lehrer composition: a song which listed the elements (not necessarily in order) to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan& "Modern Major General." "The Elements" would later find appreciative audiences beyond Harvard. |
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| | Open Directory - Arts: People: L: Lehrer, Tom |
| | Songs and More Songs by Tom Lehrer - Liner notes from the album on Rhino Records. | | | Tom Lehrer Song Lyrics - Collection of lyrics with MIDI accompaniments, footnotes, links, and images. | | | Internet Archive: Tom Lehrer - Video of a 1997 performance of five mathematics-related songs. |
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| | Technorati Tag: tom lehrer |
| | Tom Lehrer CDs at Laugh.com Get value and genuine service on comedy CDs and DVDs at George Carlin's Laugh.com. | | | Tom Lehrer at Amazon.com Shop Amazon.com for low prices on a vast selection of new and used music. | | | Tom Lehrer Boxed Set Sold Here Offering a great three-CD set of almost everything Tom Lehrer has ever recorded and more, with notes by Dr. Demento. |
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| | Tom Lehrer -- brief biography |
| | There is a wonderful biography, with many quotes from Lehrer, in the 3-CD set "The Remains of Tom Lehrer" (see below). | | | Not only does it include virtually all his songs, all the lyrics, all his wonderful original liner notes, and several songs not available on any other albums, but it also has a great biography (with many quotes from Lehrer) and comic-strip illustrations of two of his songs from Mad Magazine. | | | Many of his songs ("I Hold Your Hand in Mine" is my favorite example) are based on a macabre black humor that has been almost absent from the scene since he stopped recording. |
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| | Tom Lehrer: Is He Still Alive? MetaFilter |
| | I grew up listening to Lehrer; some of my earliest (and fondest) memories are of listening to his songs with my father and brothers. | | | My first introduction to Lehrer was when my dad got out 'Send the Marines' on vinyl, and played it the morning the Panama invasion was announced... | | | Some of Lehrer's lyrics are here, (scroll down a bit). |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Remains of Tom Lehrer [Box set]: Music |
| | Tom Lehrer in Concert; Audio CD ~ Tom Lehrer (Artist) | | | After having listened to Tom Lehrer, you'll find it difficult to be so entertained by comedians today, many of whom seem to think standing on stage and swearing is funny. | | | Customers who bought music by Tom Lehrer also bought music by these artists: |
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| | sfweekly.com News Tom Lehrer |
| | While political songwriters from Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs to Leon Rossellson strove to be his equal, none was as consistently biting or genuinely hilarious; Lehrer created a body of work that serves as a thinking person's history of the stultifying politics and cultural pitfalls of the pre-hippie era. | | | Tom Lehrer may be the most influential musical satirist of the past century. | | | This lavish new three-CD set collects those records and everything else Lehrer released, including several live albums, singles, and rarities from the '70s children's show The Electric Company. |
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http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2000-10-11/music3.html
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| | Internet Archive: Details: Tom Lehrer |
| | A great version of "That's Mathematics!" is given -- it has original melody by Lehrer, as he explained that the tune he originally used for a parody was denied authorization -- and a verse referencing the solution of Fermat's Last Theorum that was found in the mid-nineties. | | | I still have the albums and for a long time now I figured I must be the only one who still enjoyed Lehrer's unique sense of humor. | | | For more information on Tom Lehrer, visit the Tom Lehrer Community at: http://www.livejournal.com/community/tomlehrer/ |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Tom Lehrer in Concert: Music |
| | Lehrer sells himself, and the humour crosses all ages: a CD bought for my father-in-law at Christmas went down so well that another had to be acquired for his 10-year old grand-daugher... | | | The self-taught musician made a total of five CDs the most commonly known are "Tom Lehrer In Concert" and "That Was The Year That was." Tom Lehrer in concert covers many topics including the four, which I will review. | | | Tom Lehrer takes frequently used song topics, (the most obvious being love) and adds his own refreshing and amusing slant to them. |
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| | Music Therapy: Tom Lehrer |
| | Two LPs I first discovered in my parents' collection, "Songs by Tom Lehrer" and "That Was the Year that Was," contain the lion's share of his compelling work. | | | The second, recorded live in San Francisco in 1965 to capitalize on the notoriety Lehrer's songs achieved on the TV show "That Was the Week that Was," remains vital even after much of its "topical" subject matter has faded from view. | | | The first, a 10-inch, 22-minute collection recorded in 1953 at the extravagant cost of $15, is in some ways the most impressive, as the youthful math wizard's transgressive sensibility takes on American mores in the dark days of McCarthyism. |
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| | Tom Lehrer The A.V. Club |
| | Even though his lifelong recorded output was not what you would call voluminous, the undisputed brilliance of those songs has inspired hero worship among several generations of fans of satire and funny music. | | | That was one of the problems with the TV show That Was The Week That Was [on which Lehrer's songs appeared]. | | | Whether he's dealing in the darkly absurd ("Poisoning Pigeons In The Park") or the politically pointed ("Who's Next?"), Lehrer's snide delivery remains a constant throughout his music, virtually all of which has been compiled (along with three new songs) on Rhino's new three-disc box set, The Remains Of Tom Lehrer. |
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| | Tom Lehrer's ''The Elements'' (1959) |
| | Lyrics to and recordings of The Elements by Tom Lehrer. | | | In 1959, jack of all trades, Tom Lehrer wrote and sang this song naming all of the elements in front of a Harvard audience. | | | You've got to imagine the guys recording this song: early twenties, with seven-eights inch crewcut hair, plastic rimed glasses, sharp white shirts and loosened black ties. |
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| | sfweekly.com News That Was the Wit That Was |
| | A friend's father had a collection of Lehrer albums, but considered the material so adult that Proops was not allowed to listen without a permission note from his father. | | | In fact, one did -- a satirical pianist and songwriter named Tom Lehrer, who often played the hungry i in North Beach, and even recorded an album there. | | | Proops recalls his first memory of listening to Lehrer's records, at age 9 in his hometown of San Carlos. |
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| | AN EVENING (WASTED) WITH TOM LEHRER - 1. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park |
| | In 1998, Lehrer performed this song as part of a one-off show devoted to Sir Cameron Mackintosh, and substituted "sparrow" for "squirrel" | | | I'd like to take you now on wings of song as it were, and try and help you forget, perhaps, for a while, your drab wretched lives. | | | Click here to go to the next song on the album. |
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| | Tom Lehrer Discography at CD Universe |
| | SONGS & MORE SONGS BY TOM LEHRER contains the two albums SONGS BY TOM LEHRER and MORE OF TOM LEHRER on one CD. | | | Personnel includes: Tom Lehrer (vocals, piano); Jay Berliner (guitar, banjo). | | | In Search Of The Lost Chord (Deluxe Edition) |
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| | CD Baby: TOM LEHRER: The Elements (Video) |
| | Wherein, the rapid-fire stanzas of Lehrer's 1959 studio performance | | | professor Tom Lehrer, who by all rights could stay content with his | | | Weird science incarnate, combined with Broadway musical showtune comedy in an evergreen production -- literally, sheer chemistry. |
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| | Tom Lehrer Music Community |
| | I've updated the 'Tom Lehrer' archive with a few things, I've found 4 flash videos of Tom Lehrer songs (my fave is the poisoning pigeons one with the exploding sheep =P) Me ( | | | To be honest, the original flash animation is better, but this one has got some rarther clever animation bits with the drawing. | | | "For older viewers, Electric Company is a trove of good-natured silliness and ultra-catchy melodies such as Tom Lehrer's immoral ditty "Silent E" (featured here in its original version and as a karaoke sing-along). |
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| | Tom Lehrer Deposit #10 |
| | It is excerpted from the CD entitled "The Remains of TOM LEHRER, Disc 3, #10, NEW MATH [ISBN 0 7379-0133-0]. | | | This CD can be purchased in its entirety from your local CD music store or the online music purchase sites. | | | Thank you Tom, for showing us how to integrate the curve of life! |
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| | Comedy College: Lessons in Laughter - Tom Lehrer |
| | The Remains of Tom Lehrer, Rhino Records, 2000. | | | And more recently, he added a few light songs to the 3-disc boxed set of his work that Rhino Records issued. | | | Comedy College: Lessons in Laughter - Tom Lehrer |
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| | Amazon.com: The Tom Lehrer Song Book: Books: Tom Lehrer |
| | I bought the book, "Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer," by, none other than, Lom Lehrer. | | | This book only has 12 songs while the one I mentioned first has 34 songs and is much easier to read. | | | Amazon.com: The Tom Lehrer Song Book: Books: Tom Lehrer |
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