The Tom Lehrer Collection is Tom Lehrer's first hits collection, containing highlights from across his 40-year-long recording career. Fans are treated to material from his live albums for Reprise (An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer and Revisited), That Was the Year That Was, early-'70s material recorded for The Electric Company, radio performances, a rare 1960 single and more. This collection also contains his first DVD, featuring a slew of unreleased performances, including a complete 1967 Oslo concert, animated clips from The Electric Company, and other TV performances. Tom Lehrer is a preeminent musical comedian who achieved notoriety and great success in the '50s and '60s. He left show business for a career as a math professor but rewarded his loyal fans with occasional albums, appeared on national television shows such as The Electric Company, and even composed and performed new material for the Garrison Keillor's The American Radio Company.
Disc 1: CD
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 (A Song For World War III)
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 (The Hound Song)
21. S-N (Snore, Sniff, And Sneeze)
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
Disc 2: DVD
Live in Oslo, 1967
1. National Brotherhood Week
2. When You Are Old And Gray
3. MLF Lullaby
4. Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
5. So Long Mom (A Song for World War III) [?]
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
Bonus Videos
13. I Got It From Agnes (1980)
14. Poisoning Pigeons In The Park (1998)
15. Four animated clips from The Electric Company:
L-Y
Silent E
O-U (The Hound Song);
S-N (Snore, Sniff, And Sneeze)
16. The Derivative Song (1997)
17. That’s Mathematics (1997)