long lost Tom Lehrer song!

[acroyear]

From a performance in the UK in 1980...btw, he's still alive, last I checked. He never formally recorded the song, but it did appear in Tom Foolery and so might be on the long out of print record of that.

Update, it's on the extra material of disc 1 of The Remains Of..., along with the other rarity That's Mathematics.

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[jmthane.livejournal.com]

Actually, he did formally record the song. In 1997. It appears on the 3 CD set The Remains of Tom Lehrer, released in 2000 and (what a surprise) not currently in print.

(I, of course, have that set, as well as TomFoolery.)

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

crap i was looking at the wrong place. i forgot that they put stuff not on the first two studio albums (from '58 and '59) onto disc 1. i was looking at disc 3 since that had the rest of the stuff not originally on those early albums (like the electric company material).

[jmthane.livejournal.com]

Happens.

The song was also released (and my guess is recorded for) the single CD release of Songs and More Songs by Tom Lehrer, which is still available. (http://www.amazon.com/Songs-More-Tom-Lehrer/dp/samples/B00000340N/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1)

[slycreations.livejournal.com]

The musical score and lyrics are also in his songbook: Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer.