Songs by Tom Lehrer [Import]

Tom Lehrer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 17, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Hallmark UK
• ASIN: B001PMRJXI
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #140,623 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

UK reissue of the 1953 debut album from the song satirist (and longtime comedy favorite). 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. He also pressed up four hundred copies which were sold to friends around the university. Then word of mouth began to take over, and mail orders began arriving from all across the United States.... Hallmark. 2009.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Unnecessary pirate reissue, April 13, 2009

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This review is from: Songs by Tom Lehrer (Audio CD)

This is an unnecessary (but legal) pirate issue of the original 1953 Transradio/Lehrer Records studio recordings of the first set of songs. If you must have these original studio recordings (instead of what I feel are the superior concert recordings with intros and audience reactions) you would be much better off with getting a copy of the authorized reissue on Rhino/WEA "Songs and More Songs by Tom Lehrer". Only slightly more expensive, it contains BOTH sets of songs (although Rhino didn't use the stereo master tape that exists of the studio recordings of the second set of songs.) The Rhino CD also contains the four recordings Lehrer made with an orchestral accompaniment and his recently recorded "missing" song "I Got It From Agnes".