Tom Lehrer, An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer (1959)
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I bought a lot of Tom Lehrer CDs but all because of this one – this was the one I heard first, and it tells the story of his talent – if you hate this, no point looking, or listening further. He was a Harvard lecturer, a maths wiz, he would go to create the music for The Electric Company. But as a musi…
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