This album is a distillation of two of Mr. Lehrer's earlier studio works. Although i prefer his "live" albums this is a fabuloys collection of 28 of his best works. A bargain!

Track Listing

1. Fight Fiercely, Harvard
2. Old Dope Peddler
3. Be Prepared
4. Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
5. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
6. Lobachevsky
7. Irish Ballad
8. Hunting Song
9. My Home Town
10. When You Are Old and Gray [Medley]
11. I Hold Your Hand in Mine [Medley]
12. Wiener Schnitzel Waltz [Medley]
13. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park [Medley]
14. Bright College Days
15. Christmas Carol
16. 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. Masochism Tango
23. We Will All Go Together When We Go
24. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
25. Masochism Tango
26. Hunting Song
27. We Will All Go Together When We Go
28. I Got It from Agnes

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1886 in Music
• Brand: Tom
• Released on: 1997-05-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

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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