TracksFight Fiercely Harvard, The Old Dope Peddler, Be Prepared, The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be, I Wanna Go Back to Dixie, Lobachevsky, The Irish Ballad, The Hunting Song, My Home Town, When You Are Old and Gray, I Hold Your Hand in Mine, The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz, Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, Bright College Days, A Christmas Carol, The Elements, Oedipus Rex, In Old Mexico, Clementine, It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier, She's My Girl, The Masochism Tango, We Will All Go Together When We Go, Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, The Masochism Tango, The Hunting Song, We Will All Go Together When We Go, I Got It from Agnes
NotesBorn in 1928, this NYC native began writing song parodies for parties as a student at Harvard (which he entered at age 15). After cutting 3 hugely popular LPs (and a few additional sides), Lehrer retired from showbiz in the mid-'60's. With more than an hour's worth of irreverent (and still timely) musical satire, this album contains 28 very hard-to-find tracks including Tom's ultra-rare 1953 debut album, Songs By Tom Lehrer (the biggest selling humorous music album of the '50's), plus a new 1996 recording of "I Got It from Agnes," only available here.