An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer

by Tom Lehrer

An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1959
  • Label: Lehrer
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 42:24
  • Community rating: 3.97/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded in front of a highly receptive audience, this wildly popular performance flawlessly blends brilliant academic intellect with macabre, highly satirical humor. The delightfully cheerful piano accompaniment provides a perfect, deeply ironic contrast to the incredibly dark and wonderfully subversive lyrical content.

Genres

Descriptors: parody, satirical, political, melodic, theatrical

Tracklist

  1. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park (2:39)
  2. Bright College Days (3:03)
  3. A Christmas Carol (2:38)
  4. The Elements (2:18)
  5. Oedipus Rex (3:43)
  6. In Old Mexico (6:35)
  7. Clementine (4:41)
  8. It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier (4:50)
  9. She's My Girl (2:52)
  10. The Masochism Tango (3:30)
  11. We Will All Go Together When We Go (5:30)

Credits

  • TOm Lehrer - primary artist, written-by
  • Sir Arthur Sullivan - written-by [music]

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