The Remains of Tom Lehrer

Summary

The Remains of Tom Lehrer is a box set containing all the songs from musical satirist Tom Lehrer's previous albums along with previously unreleased songs and his works featured on the public television show The Electric Company. Some of the songs from his debut album, Songs by Tom Lehrer, were re-recorded for the CD. The box set was released in 2000 and also includes a booklet with an introduction by Dr. Demento, pictures of various album covers and song books, reprints of the Mad magazine, prints of some of his songs, an extensive question-and-answer session and other information.

The Remains of Tom Lehrer
Box set by
Released2000
GenreComedy songs

In 2020, Lehrer donated all of his lyrics and music written by him to the public domain.[1][2] He followed this on November 1, 2022 with all recording and performing rights of any kind, making all of his music that he has originally composed or performed free for anyone to use.[3]

Track listing edit

Disc 1 edit

  1. Fight Fiercely, Harvard
  2. The Old Dope Peddler
  3. Be Prepared
  4. The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
  5. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
  6. Lobachevsky
  7. The Irish Ballad
  8. The Hunting Song
  9. My Home Town
  10. When You Are Old and Gray
  11. I Hold Your Hand in Mine
  12. The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
  13. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
  14. Bright College Days
  15. A Christmas Carol
  16. The Elements
  17. Oedipus Rex
  18. In Old Mexico
  19. Clementine
  20. It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier
  21. She's My Girl
  22. The Masochism Tango
  23. We Will All Go Together When We Go
  24. I Got It from Agnes
  25. That's Mathematics

Disc 2 edit

  1. Introduction
  2. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
  3. The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
  4. The Old Dope Peddler
  5. Fight Fiercely, Harvard
  6. Lobachevsky
  7. The Irish Ballad
  8. The Hunting Song
  9. My Home Town
  10. When You Are Old and Gray
  11. The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
  12. I Hold Your Hand in Mine
  13. Be Prepared
  14. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
  15. Bright College Days
  16. A Christmas Carol
  17. The Elements
  18. Oedipus Rex
  19. In Old Mexico
  20. Clementine
  21. It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier
  22. She's My Girl
  23. The Masochism Tango
  24. We Will All Go Together When We Go


Disc 3 edit

  1. National Brotherhood Week
  2. MLF Lullaby
  3. George Murphy
  4. The Folk Song Army
  5. Smut
  6. Send The Marines
  7. Pollution
  8. So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)
  9. Whatever Became Of Hubert?
  10. New Math
  11. Alma
  12. Who's Next?
  13. Wernher von Braun
  14. The Vatican Rag
  15. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
  16. The Masochism Tango
  17. The Hunting Song
  18. We Will All Go Together When We Go
  19. L-Y
  20. Silent E
  21. O-U (The Hound Song)
  22. S-N (Snore, Sniff, And Sneeze)
  23. N Apostrophe T
  24. Selling Out
  25. (I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica

References edit

  1. ^ Sanderson, David (October 22, 2020). "Copyright-busting website is invitation to have a laugh with Tom Lehrer". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Archived from the original on October 22, 2020. Retrieved October 22, 2020.
  2. ^ Ho, Justin (21 October 2020). "Satirist Tom Lehrer has put his songs into the public domain". Marketplace. Archived from the original on October 24, 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Tom Lehrer Songs". Tom Lehrer. 2022-11-01. Retrieved 2022-12-16.

External links edit

  • Discography of Tom Lehrer
  • A Conversation with Tom Lehrer: the full text Archived 2021-03-07 at the Wayback Machine