The Remains Of Tom Lehrer

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Album Info

Release Date: 2005-23

Labels: Rhino Records, Warner Archives

80-page hardback booklet with liner notes, photos and lyrics.

Some tracks recorded in mono: tracks 1.01 to 1.23, 2.14 to 2.24. CD3 in stereo.

Tracks 1.01 to 1.12 recorded at Trans-Radio Recordings, Boston, MA, 1/22/53.
Tracks 1.13 to 1.23 recorded at RCA Victor Studios, New York, NY, 7/8/59.
Track 1.24 recorded at Sound Techniques, Boston, MA, 10/8/96.
Track 1.25 recorded at WGBH Studios, Allston, MA, 11/2/93. Previously unreleased.
Track 2.01 to 2.13 recorded at Kresge Auditorium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 11/23/59 & 11/24/59.
Tracks 2.14 to 2.24 recorded at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 3/20/59 & 3/21/59.
Tracks 3.01 to 3.14 recorded at the hungry i, San Francisco, CA, 7/26/65 - 7/31/65.
Tracks 3.15 to 3.18 recorded at RCA Victor Studios, New York, NY, 1/21/60.
Tracks 3.19 to 3.22 recorded at Media Sound Studios, New York, NY (1971-1972). From the Children's Television Workshop series "The Electric Company". Tracks 3.21 and 3.22 previously unreleased.
Tracks 3.23 to 3.25 recorded at Sound On Sound Recording, New York, NY, 10/26/99.

Music for "The Elements" based on The Major-General's Song from The Pirates of Penzance.
Music for "O-U (The Hound Song)" based on "Caro Nome" from "Rigoletto."

The songs on this record are copyright 1952, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1964, 1965, 1971, 1972, 1980, 1990 & 1999 by Tom Lehrer, and he is welcome to them.

Published by Maelstrom Music (ASCAP).

This compilation ©2000 Warner Bros. Records Inc. & Rhino Entertainment Company.

Credits for known orchestra members for tracks 3.15 to 3.18 and 3.23 to 3.25 included in booklet.

"If you do not like these songs, then you will certainly not care that the words and music of most of them are available in "Too Many Songs By Tom Lehrer", published by Pantheon Books, New York."