That Was the Year That Was

by Tom Lehrer

That Was the Year That Was cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1965
  • Label: Reprise
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 37:10
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded live at the hungry i in San Francisco, this critically acclaimed set features the mathematician-turned-songwriter delivering biting, piano-driven musical satire. The acutely topical songs skewer Cold War paranoia, nuclear proliferation, racism, and religious hypocrisy with sophisticated rhyme schemes and cheerful, upbeat vaudevillian melodies. It stands as a brilliant, razor-sharp time capsule of mid-1960s American political anxieties and countercultural humor.

Genres

Descriptors: parody, satirical, acoustic, political, pastiche

Tracklist

  1. National Brotherhood Week (2:35)
  2. MLF Lullaby (2:24)
  3. George Murphy (2:08)
  4. The Folk Song Army (2:11)
  5. Smut (3:14)
  6. Send The Marines (1:45)
  7. Pollution (2:16)
  8. So Long, Mom (A Song For World War III) (2:23)
  9. Whatever Became Of Hubert? (2:12)
  10. New Math (4:28)
  11. Alma (5:27)
  12. Who's Next? (1:59)
  13. Wernher Von Braun (1:46)
  14. The Vatican Rag (2:14)

Credits

  • TOm Lehrer - primary artist, words by, music by, vocals, piano
  • Eric Martin - design [cover design]
  • Don Geis - engineer [recording engineer]
  • Jimmy Hilliard - producer

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