Tom Lehrer - Songs By Tom Lehrer album
Redirected from Songs By Tom Lehrer (album)). Songs by Tom Lehrer is the debut album of musical satirist Tom Lehrer, released in 1953 on his own label, Lehrer Records. In 2004 it was included into the National Recording Registry
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Tom Lehrer's 1953 debut album, Songs by Tom Lehrer, was a cheaply recorded (though the sound is reasonable) studio set in which the singing comedian accompanies himself on piano. In general, Lehrer's work has dated so that it sounds a bit fey and quaint in the light of bolder subsequent comedians (musical and otherwise). In addition, Lehrer would re-record all of these songs (and more than once), and the live versions on 1960s Tom Lehrer Revisited are less inhibited. Then the album was re-recorded, yet again, in the mid-'60s for Reprise in stereo, with a few minor lyric changes (. changing "reefers" to the more contemporary slang of "pot"); Lehrer later said he regretted the decision to do the stereo re-recording.
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Album Songs by Tom Lehrer. The Hunting Song Lyrics. SPOKEN LIVE INTRODUCTION ON "REVISTED": Almost every day during the hunting season you see at least one item in the newspapers about somebody who has shot somebody else, under the impression that he was a deer with a red hat perhaps, maybe a large flesh-colored squirrel.
Revisited is a 1960 album by Tom Lehrer, consisting of live recordings of all the songs from 1953's Songs by Tom Lehrer. The CD reissue of the album contains two additional tracks that Lehrer wrote and performed for the PBS television show The Electric Company (and produced and conducted by Joe Raposo). Introduction" – 3:27. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie" – 2:56. The Wild West is Where I Want to Be" – 2:31. The Old Dope Peddler" – 1:42. Fight Fiercely, Harvard" – 2:41.
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Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer is a reissue of musical satirist Tom Lehrer's two studio albums (Songs by Tom Lehrer and More of Tom Lehrer), combined with other studio sessions and a newly recorded version of "I Got It From Agnes". Agnes" was a song from Lehrer's early live repertoire which he "polished up" for the Cameron Mackintosh-produced musical revue Tom Foolery in 1981, but which Lehrer himself never professionally recorded until 1996
Tracklist Hide Credits
A1 | The Old Dope Peddler |
A2 | Be Prepared |
A3 | The Wild West |
A4a | I Wanna Go Back To Dixie |
A4b | SwaneeWritten-By – Gerswin*, Caesar* |
A5 | Fight Fiercely, Harvard |
A6 | Lobachevsky |
B1 | The Irish Ballad |
B2 | The Hunting Song |
B3 | My Home Town |
B4 | When You Are Old And Gray |
B5 | I Hold Your Hand In Mine |
B6 | The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz |
Companies, etc.
- Printed By – Robert Stace
Credits
- Lyrics By, Music By, Vocals, Piano – Tom Lehrer
Notes
This version: M/T tax code (Jan 1, 1963 - July 1, 1963)Track A4 title on cover: "I Wanna Go Back To Dixie".
Track A4 title on center label is split into two titles: "I Wanna Go Back To Dixie / Swanee" with Swanee copyright by Francis Day & Hunter. All other tracks M.C.P.S.
Alternate title: Songs By Tom Lehrer (His Lyrics, His Music, His So-Called Voice, And His Piano)
Quote back cover: "The songs on this record are copyright, 1952, 1953, by Tom Lehrer, and he is welcome to them."
On labels, above M.C.P.S.: "RECORDING FIRST PUBLISHED 1958"
On labels, above catalogue numbers (side 1) "(DRL 3937)" and (side 2) "(DRL 3938)" printed upside down.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Runout, side A stamped): DRL-3937-1A
- Matrix / Runout (Runout, side B stamped): DRL-3938-1A
- Other (Tax Code): M/T
- Rights Society: M.C.P.S.
- Rights Society: Francis, Day & Hunter
Other versions
Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
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TR 740 | Tom Lehrer | Songs By Tom Lehrer (10", Album) | Trans-Radio Recordings | TR 740 | US | 1953 |
RS-6216 | Tom Lehrer | Songs By Tom Lehrer (LP, RE) | Reprise Records | RS-6216 | US | 1966 |
TLEP-1 | Tom Lehrer | Songs By Tom Lehrer (2x7", EP) | Lehrer Records | TLEP-1 | US | 1953 |
LF 1311, LF.1311 | Tom Lehrer | Songs By Tom Lehrer (10", RP) | Decca, Decca | LF 1311, LF.1311 | UK | 1961 |
none | Tom Lehrer | Songs By Tom Lehrer (10", Mono, TP) | Decca | none | UK | 1958 |

Title: Songs By Tom Lehrer
Category: Pop
Country: US
Released: 1963
Rating: 4.6/5
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