Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer is a reissue of 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...

's two studio albums (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...

and More of Tom Lehrer

More of Tom Lehrer

More of Tom Lehrer was the second studio album recorded by musical satirist Tom Lehrer. The LP contains the same songs as the live album An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, which was recorded and released earlier in the same year...

), combined with other studio sessions and a newly-recorded version of "I Got It From Agnes". "Agnes" was a song from Lehrer's early live repertoire which he "polished up" for the Cameron Mackintosh

Cameron Mackintosh

Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh is a British theatrical producer notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals. At the height of his success in 1990, he was described as being "the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world" by the New York...

-produced musical revue Tom Foolery

Tom Foolery

Tom Foolery is a musical revue based on lyrics and music that Tom Lehrer first performed in the 1950s and 1960s.Devised and produced by Cameron Mackintosh, it premiered in London at the Criterion Theatre, directed by Gillian Lynne, on 5 June 1980, where it had a successful run...

in 1981, but which Lehrer himself never professionally recorded until 1996. The booklet notes include an essay 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....

 and the original sleeve notes from the LP releases.

The material from Songs and More of... were the original versions self-issued on Lehrer Records, the 1966 Reprise rerecording of Songs not considered for the reissue. Although More of... was originally released in both monophonic and stereo versions, the producers of the reissue opted for the mono mix.

Track listing

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.	Poisoning Pigeons in the Park (orchestrated version)
25.	The Masochism Tango (orchestrated version)
26.	The Hunting Song (orchestrated version)
27.	We Will All Go Together When We Go (orchestrated version; previously unreleased)
28.	I Got It from Agnes (previously unreleased)

Session notes

The orchestral versions on tracks 24–27 were from a January 21, 1960 session with accompaniment conducted by Richard Hayman

Richard Hayman

Richard Hayman is an American arranger, harmonica player, and conductor.Hayman started out as a player and arranger for the Borrah Minnevitch Harmonica Rascals before becoming an arranger for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during the early 1940s. He did arrangements for the MGM films Girl Crazy,...

. Tracks 24 and 25 were originally issued as a single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

on Capricorn Records, while track 25 was first issued on the 1997 Rhino compilation Dr. Demento's 25th Anniversary Collection. Track 28 was recorded on October 8, 1996.