Songs By Tom Lehrer

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Songs By Tom Lehrer
Songs By Tom Lehrer cover
Studio album by Tom Lehrer
Released 1953
Recorded  ?
Genre Satire
Length 37:13
Label Lehrer Records
Producer(s) Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer chronology
Songs by Tom Lehrer
(1953)
An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
(1959)


Songs by Tom Lehrer was Tom Lehrer's debut album. The original release was an issue of 400 copies, produced at his own expense in the (then) new 10" LP record format. Costing $15 in January, 1953, they first sold for $3.50, and later $3.95. Later releases were issued in 12" LP format. Songs on this album were re-recorded and/or included in later albums and finally the box set The Remains of Tom Lehrer.

[edit] Track listing

Side 1:

  1. "Fight Fiercely, Harvard"
  2. "The Old Dope Peddler"
  3. "Be Prepared"
  4. "The Wild West"
  5. "I wanna Go Back To Dixie"
  6. "Lobachevsky"

Side 2:

  1. "The Irish Ballad"
  2. "The Hunting Song"
  3. "My Home Town"
  4. "When You Are Old and Gray"
  5. "I Hold Your Hand in Mine"
  6. "The Wiemer Schitzel Waltz"

[edit] Sources

http://www.paul-lehrman.com/insider/1997/12insiderfulltext.html