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Other Tom Lehrer Songs

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These songs which are not on this album were listed as though they were.

  1. "I Wanna Go Back to Dixie"
  2. "The Wild West is Where I want to be"
  3. "The Old Dope Peddler"
  4. "Fight fiercely Harvard"
  5. "Lobachevsky"
  6. "The Irish ballad"
  7. "The hunting song"
  8. "My home town"
  9. "When you are old and grey"
  10. "The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz"
  11. "I hold your hand in mine"
  12. "Be Prepared (song)"

They are track 2 through 13 on Tom Lehrer Revisited.

Track 1 is an introduction and track 14 an 15 are from The Electric Company television show.

  • L-Y
  • Silent E

Song highlights for "The Old Dope Peddler" moved to Tom Lehrer Revisited. -- WCFrancis 19:44, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Elements

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Is it really necessary to cite "Sullivan" as the source of the music for this piece in the tracklisting? The fact that the lyrics are set to a Gilbert and Sullivan tune is explained at length in this article as well as in the main article for The Elements (Song). It makes the tracklisting seem inconsistent ("Clementine" isn't cited as "Montrose, arr. by Tom Lehrer", is it?).

Although now that I think about it, there would be plenty of humorous value if we WERE to cite "Clemetine" as "Montrose, arr. by Porter, Random Italian Composer, Miscellaneous Beat Poet and Gilbert & Sullivan."

I'll have to consider that. But in all seriousness, I'm getting rid of the Sullivan reference for now. (7 August 2007, 63.95.36.13)

Sources

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All detail about the songs was deleted. I agree there were plenty of fluff and opinion statements, but it's still important to show the sources of the songs, since much of the point of the songs is their interplay with these sources. For example Poisoning Pigeons in the Park sounds simply macabre fantasy, until one knows that was actual US government practice at the time. I put in the sources which I had time to find and leave it to other editors to provide more. Numbersinstitute (talk) 22:50, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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