Trapeze Catalogue Home / Shop / Trapeze Catalogue / Tom Lehrer Collection 1953-60 Tom Lehrer Collection 1953-60 Tom Lehrer Collection 1953-60 £12.00 Stock Status: In Stock Add to your Wish List Information Specifications The 1950s saw the emergence of a new and more adventurous strand of political and social satire evidenced in books and newspapers, on stage and on radio, and especially on the burgeoning new medium of TV, but it also found its expression in music, and one of the most individual and celebrated musical satirists of the time was Tom Lehrer. A mathematician and academic by profession, he recorded a 10” LP of his first collection of songs in 1953 “Songs Of Tom Lehrer”, which gradually brought him to public attention, following it several years later in 1959 with a ‘Live’ LP of new material “An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer” which was also recorded in a studio environment that year as “More of Tom Lehrer”. In 1960 a further ‘live’ album including material from his first album was released as “Tom Lehrer Revisited”, the US version comprising a side recorded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a side recorded in Australia. The Decca UK release comprised the same songs drawn entirely from the MIT concert. This 2-CD collection comprises the complete content of all four LPs, using the Decca UK version of the last of those. It’s a comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining anthology of his best-known repertoire with studio and ‘live’ versions of his hilariously irreverent and off-the-wall compositions. Disc 1 Track Title Artist 1 Fight Fiercely, Harvard Tom Lehrer 2 The Old Dope Peddler Tom Lehrer 3 Be Prepared Tom Lehrer 4 The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be Tom Lehrer 5 I Wanna Go Back to Dixie Tom Lehrer 6 Lobachevsky Tom Lehrer 7 The Irish Ballad Tom Lehrer 8 The Hunting Song Tom Lehrer 9 My Home Town Tom Lehrer 10 When You Are Old and Gray Tom Lehrer 11 I Hold Your Hand in Mine Tom Lehrer 12 The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz Tom Lehrer 13 Poisoning Pigeons in the Park (live) Tom Lehrer 14 Bright College Days (live) Tom Lehrer 15 A Christmas Carol (live) Tom Lehrer 16 The Elements (live) Tom Lehrer 17 Oedipus Rex (live) Tom Lehrer 18 In Old Mexico (live) Tom Lehrer 19 Clementine (live) Tom Lehrer 20 It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier (live) Tom Lehrer 21 She's My Girl (live) Tom Lehrer 22 The Masochism Tango (live) Tom Lehrer 23 We Will All Go Together When We Go (live) Tom Lehrer Disc 2 Track Title Artist 1 Poisoning Pigeons in the Park Tom Lehrer 2 Bright College Days Tom Lehrer 3 A Christmas Carol Tom Lehrer 4 The Elements Tom Lehrer 5 Oedipus Rex Tom Lehrer 6 In Old Mexico Tom Lehrer 7 Clementine Tom Lehrer 8 It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier Tom Lehrer 9 She's My Girl Tom Lehrer 10 The Masochism Tango Tom Lehrer 11 We Will All Go Together When We Go Tom Lehrer 12 Introduction (live) Tom Lehrer 13 I Wanna Go Back to Dixie (live) Tom Lehrer 14 The Wild West is Where I Want to Be (live) Tom Lehrer 15 The Old Dope Peddler (live) Tom Lehrer 16 Fight Fiercely, Harvard (live) Tom Lehrer 17 Lobachevsky (live) Tom Lehrer 18 The Irish Ballad (live) Tom Lehrer 19 The Hunting Song (live) Tom Lehrer 20 My Home Town (live) Tom Lehrer 21 When You are Old and Grey (live) Tom Lehrer 22 The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz (live) Tom Lehrer 23 I Hold Your Hand in Mine (live) Tom Lehrer 24 Be Prepared (live) Tom Lehrer EAN: 824046314927 Discs: 2 Run Time: 140 mins Release: January 2016 Artist: Tom Lehrer Brand: Acrobat Product Code: ADDCD3149 Weight: 0.12kg
