Tom Lehrer, Songs & More Songs By Tom Lehrer - 1h 3m 45s

Tracks & Durations

1. Fight Fiercely, Harvard	1:25
2. The Old Dope Peddler	1:26
3. Be Prepared	1:32
4. The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be	2:03
5. I Wanna Go Back To Dixie	1:53
6. Lobachevsky	3:11
7. The Irish Ballad	3:01
8. The Hunting Song	1:18
9. My Home Town	2:39
10. When You Are Old And Gray	1:52
11. I Hold Your Hand In Mine	1:27
12. The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz	1:55
13. Poisoning Pigeons In The Park	2:13
14. Bright College Days	2:06
15. A Christmas Carol	1:43
16. The Elements	1:26
17. Oedipus Rex	1:39
18. In Old Mexico	4:08
19. Clementine	4:18
20. It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier	2:40
21. She's My Girl	1:48
22. The Masochism Tango	3:02
23. We Will All Go Together When We Go	3:28
24. Poisoning Pigeons In The Park	2:08
25. The Masochism Tango	2:55
26. The Hunting Song	1:49
27. We Will All Go Together When We Go	2:41
28. I Got It From Agnes	1:44

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Review

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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