The Remains of Tom Lehrer (2000)

About this title: Rhino's three-disc box set The Remains of Tom Lehrer presents 75 tracks from the satirist's four decade career. The first disc concentrates on Lehrer's studio output, including pieces from his 1953 debut Songs by Tom Lehrer and his 1959 album More of Tom Lehrer, as well as a 1996 version of "I Got It from Agnes" and "That's Mathematics," a previously unreleased track from 1993. Disc two gathers his '59 performances at MIT and Harvard, captured on the albums Tom Lehrer Revisited and An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer (which offered many of the same selections as their studio predecessors). The ... read more

Tracks:

1. Fight Fiercely, Harvard [Lehrer]
2. The Old Dope Peddler [Lehrer]
3. Be Prepared [Lehrer]
4. The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be [Lehrer]
5. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie [Lehrer]
6. Lobachevsky [Lehrer]
7. The Irish Ballad [Lehrer]
8. The Hunting Song [Lehrer]
9. My Home Town [Lehrer]
10. When You Are Old and Gray [Lehrer]
11. I Hold Your Hand in Mine [Lehrer]
12. The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz [Lehrer]
13. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park [Lehrer]
14. Bright College Days [Lehrer]
15. A Christmas Carol [Lehrer]
16. The Elements [Lehrer]
17. Oedipus Rex [Lehrer]
18. In Old Mexico [Lehrer]
19. Clementine [Lehrer]
20. It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier [Lehrer]
21. She's My Girl [Lehrer]
22. The Masochism Tango [Lehrer]
23. We Will All Go Together When We Go [Lehrer]
24. I Got It from Agnes [Lehrer]
25. That's Mathematics [Lehrer]
26. Introduction [Lehrer]
27. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie [Lehrer]
28. The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be [Lehrer]
29. The Old Dope Peddler [Lehrer]
30. Fight Fiercely, Harvard [Lehrer]
31. Lobachevsky [Lehrer]
32. The Irish Ballad [Lehrer]
33. The Hunting Song [Lehrer]
34. My Home Town [Lehrer]
35. When You Are Old and Gray [Lehrer]
36. The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz [Lehrer]
37. I Hold Your Hand in Mine [Lehrer]
38. Be Prepared [Lehrer]
39. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park [Lehrer]
40. Bright College Days [Lehrer]
41. A Christmas Carol [Lehrer]
42. The Elements [Lehrer]
43. Oedipus Rex [Lehrer]
44. In Old Mexico [Lehrer]
45. Clementine [Lehrer]
46. It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier [Lehrer]
47. She's My Girl [Lehrer]
48. The Masochism Tango [Lehrer]
49. We Will All Go Together When We Go [Lehrer]
50. National Brotherhood Week [Lehrer]
51. MLF Lullaby [Lehrer]
52. George Murphy [Lehrer]
53. The Folk Song Army [Lehrer]
54. Smut [Lehrer]
55. Send the Marines [Lehrer]
56. Pollution [Lehrer]
57. So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III) [Lehrer]
58. Whatever Became of Hubert? [Lehrer]
59. New Math [Lehrer]
60. Alma [Lehrer]
61. Who's Next? [Lehrer]
62. Wernher Von Braun [Lehrer]
63. The Vatican Rag [Lehrer]
64. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park [Lehrer]
65. The Masochism Tango [Lehrer]
66. The Hunting Song [Lehrer]
67. We Will All Go Together When We Go [Lehrer]
68. L-Y [Lehrer]
69. Silent E [Lehrer]
70. O-U (The Hound Song) [Public Domain]
71. S-N (Snore, Sniff, and Sneeze) [Lehrer]
72. N Apostrophe T [Lehrer]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.