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~ Tom Lehrer
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  • Audio CD (6 May 1997)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Rhino
  • ASIN: B00000340N
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 12,120 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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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
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Amazon.co.uk Review

In the wake of the 1980s 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

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5.0 out of 5 stars A "Must Have" for every lover of musical satire!, 5 Jun 2000
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Desipte owning all three of Mr Lehrers analogue recordings, buying this CD was an unavoidable compulsion! The passage of time has served merely to enhance the genius of this old master of muscial satire.

If you are over 45 and you enjoyed Michael Flanders & Donald Swann or Gerard Hoffnung, then this CD is DEFINITELY for you. Once you have heard this CD, you will probably want to buy the latest Lehrer re-creation: "The Remains of Tom Lehrer" apparently on Rhino records, but alas not yet available in UK.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, 27 Nov 1999
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The New York Times commented that "Lehrer's muse in not inhibited by such factors as taste" and the acerbic nature of his lyrics have not dimmed over the thirty years since the music was originally written. His songs are hysterically funny and the wit as caustic as ever.

All I can suggest is; buy it, play it and see.

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Benchmark humour that encapsulates US society in song, 5 Mar 2002
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Tom Lehrer prepared me for a career as a semiconductor engineer. Without his wry view of 1950s USA I would have had more difficulty in surviving the vicissitudes of silicon valley and beyond in the 70s 80s and 90s.

For some 40-odd years a knowledge of his work has served me as a touchstone - Americans who know his songs are uniformly easier to work with!

Buy it, it is still relevant to a scary degree, especially in the era of George Dubbya Bush.

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