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Off the Beaten Track
Tom Lehrer was born April 9, 1928. This year he gets a unique birthday present, sort of. Four days after cake day, on April 13, 2010, the Shout Factory will issue a CD/DVD collection, priced as a single CD.
Disc 1 is the CD. Track list:
1) Fight Fiercely, Harvard
2) Lobachevsky
3) The Irish Ballad
4) When You Are Old And Gray
5) Be Prepared
6) The Elements
7)We Will All Go Together When We Go
8) National Brotherhood Week
9) Pollution
10) So Long, Mom
11) New Math
12) Who's Next
13) Smut
14) Wernher von Braun
15) The Vatican Rag
16) I Got It From Agnes
17) That's Mathematics
18) L-Y
19) Silent E
20) O-U
21) S-N
22) N Apostrophe T
23) Selling Out
24) I'm Spending Hanukkah In Santa Monica
25) Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
26) The Masochism Tango.
All of Disc 1 were previously issued on CD - The boxed set "The Remains of Tom Lehrer" (Rhino 2000), now out of print. What's EXCITING and NEW is Disc 2, the DVD. The DVD contains never before issued live concert footage from Oslo from 1967, of the following songs:
1) National Brotherhood Week
2) When You Are Old And Gray
3) MLF Lullaby
4) Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
5) So Long, Mom
6) Pollution
7) The Masochism Tango
8) Send The Marines
9) Who's Next
10) Wernher von Braun
11) The Vatican Rag
12) We Will All Go Together When We Go
13) I Got It From Agnes
14) Four animated clips from The Electric Company
15) The Derivative Song
16) That's Mathematics.
If you're a fan of Tom Lehrer, who claims his piano is a folk instrument ("just make believe I'm playing an 88 string guitar"), this will be a great addition to your collection. And, perhaps he will gain new fans, even though the material is dated, it's still classic. More information can be found at www.shoutfactory.com/newreleases.aspx
