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Tom Lehrer - Songs By Tom Lehrer album flac Performer: Tom Lehrer
Title: Songs By Tom Lehrer
Style: Novelty, Parody
Released: 1958
Country: US
MP3 album: 1682 mb
FLAC album: 1409 mb
Rating: 4.4
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Genre: Pop / Screen and stage

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.

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.

Songs by Tom Lehrer was the first album to provide what was offered by its specific title. In 1966, after the success of Lehrer’s live album That Was the Year That Was, Reprise Records reissued several of Lehrer’s previous albums. Dissatisfied with the audio quality of the original Songs by, they persuaded him to re-record the songs. Lehrer also made some lyrical changes that he later regretted. This re-release has never been released on CD. The re-release of Songs by has a different track listing than the original presented here. Songs by Tom Lehrer Q&A.

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Something of a reluctant performer, retiring from touring less than 10 years after commencing his career, Tom Lehrer achieved a degree of popularity even he could not have envisaged. It was whilst studying mathematics at Harvard University that he began writing comic songs, usually for the entertainment of his fellow students, but such was the reaction he decided it was worth spending a little money to record Songs By Tom Lehrer professionally

Tom Lehrer, born as Thomas Andrew Lehrer, is an American singer-songwriter and mathematician. He is known for his dark humour and satire. As a singer he often parodied popular songs and wrote controversial lyrics dealing with the social and political issues of his times. As a child, he used to receive classical piano lessons but gradually his interest shifted towards pop music. Thus, he recorded his first album, ‘Songs by Tom Lehrer’ under his own label Lehrer Records in 1953. Lehrer was a comic paradox who successfully managed two seemingly unrelated careers-one as a mathematician, the other as a musician.

Artists Tom Lehrer More of Tom Lehrer. More of Tom Lehrer Tom Lehrer. This album has an average beat per minute of 123 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 120/126 BPM). See its BPM profile at the bottom of the page. Tracklist More of Tom Lehrer.

Tracklist

A1 The Old Dope Peddler
A2 Be Prepared
A3 The Wild West
A4 I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
A5 Fight Fiercely, Harvard
A6 Lobachevsky
B1 The Irish Ballad
B2 The Hunting Song
B3 My Home Town
Three Love Songs
B4 When You Are Old And Gray
B5 I Hold Your Hand In Mine
B6 The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz

Credits

  • Design [Cover Design] – Janine Sterner
  • Lyrics By, Music By, Vocals, Piano – Tom Lehrer

Notes

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."

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
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
LF 1311, LF.1311 Tom Lehrer Songs By Tom Lehrer ‎(10") Decca, Decca LF 1311, LF.1311 UK 1958