The Remains of Tom Lehrer
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The Remains of Tom Lehrer was, as the title suggests, the presumed final album by musical satirist Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehrer is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, mathematician and polymath. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater...

. Released in 2000, The Remains of Tom Lehrer is a box set that consists of all the songs from Lehrer's previous albums along with previously unreleased songs and his works featured in The Electric Company
The Electric Company
The Electric Company is an educational American children's television series that was produced by the Children's Television Workshop for PBS in the United States. PBS broadcast 780 episodes over the course of its six seasons from October 25, 1971 to April 15, 1977...

. Some of the songs from his debut album, Songs By Tom Lehrer
Songs By Tom Lehrer
-Production and release history:Songs by Tom Lehrer was recorded in a single one hour session on January 22, 1953 at the TransRadio studio in Boston for the total studio cost of $15. The first pressing was an issue of 400 copies, produced at Lehrer's own expense in the 10" LP record format. Records...

, were re-recorded for the CD. The box set also includes a booklet with an introduction by Dr. Demento
Dr. Demento
Barret Eugene Hansen , better known as Dr. Demento, is a radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present....

, pictures of various album covers and song books, reprints of the Mad magazine prints of some of his songs, an extensive question-and-answer session and other information.

Disc 1

Track Song Title
1. Fight Fiercely, Harvard
Fight Fiercely, Harvard
"Fight Fiercely, Harvard" is a satirical college fight song written and originally performed by Tom Lehrer and dedicated to his alma mater, Harvard University...

2. The Old Dope Peddler
3. Be Prepared
4. The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
5. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
6. Lobachevsky
Lobachevsky (song)
Lobachevsky is a humorous song by Tom Lehrer, referring to the mathematician Nikolai Lobachevsky. In the introduction, Lehrer describes the song as an adaptation of a routine by Danny Kaye, and claims that the secret of success in mathematics is to plagiarize...

7. The Irish Ballad
8. The Hunting Song
9. My Home Town
10. When You Are Old and Gray
11. I Hold Your Hand in Mine
12. The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
13. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
14. Bright College Days
15. A Christmas Carol
16. The Elements
17. Oedipus Rex
18. In Old Mexico
19. Clementine
20. It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier
21. She's My Girl
22. The Masochism Tango
23. We Will All Go Together When We Go
24. I Got It from Agnes
25. That's Mathematics

Disc 2

Track Song Title
1. Introduction
2. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
3. The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
4. The Old Dope Peddler
5. Fight Fiercely, Harvard
6. Lobachevsky
7. The Irish Ballad
8. The Hunting Song
9. My Home Town
10. When You Are Old and Gray
11. The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
12. I Hold Your Hand in Mine
13. Be Prepared
14. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
15. Bright College Days
16. A Christmas Carol
17. The Elements
18. Oedipus Rex
19. In Old Mexico
20. Clementine
21. It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier
22. She's My Girl
23. The Masochism Tango
24. We Will All Go Together When We Go

Disc 3

Track Song Title
1. National Brotherhood Week
2. MLF Lullaby
3. George Murphy
4. The Folk Song Army
5. Smut
6. Send The Marines
7. Pollution
8. So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)
9. Whatever Became Of Hubert?
10. New math
11. Alma
12. Who's Next?
13. Wernher von Braun
14. The Vatican Rag
15. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
16. The Masochism Tango
17. The Hunting Song
18. We Will All Go Together When We Go
19. L-Y
20. Silent E
21. O-U (The Hound Song)
22. S-N (Snore, Sniff, And Sneeze)
23. N Apostrophe T
24. Selling Out
25. (I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica

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