[78-L] Tom Lehrer question (borderline ^)

[Michael Shoshani]

On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 22:50 -0400, David Lennick wrote:

> By yiminy..wonder why they didn't use the stereo master for "More of" on Rhino, 
> unless it was no longer playable? There's no reference to mono or stereo that I 
> can see anywhere on "Songs & More Songs By..". There IS one stereo track, and 
> that's "I Got It From Agnes".

Jeff Morris, whose discography you referenced, actually asked both
Lehrer (with whom he was conducting weekly telephone interviews) and
producer Bill Inglot to let him help with the Songs & More Songs CD
project, because he figured that perhaps he might persuade TL to bring
the stereo master out of storage so it could be used. 

I forget whether Jeff has a pressing of the stereo LP, but it seems as
though Tom Lehrer didn't care one way or the other. For all I know it's
a similar setup to the ghastly Reprise remake of his first album, which
had the piano on one speaker and Lehrer's disembodied voice on the
other....