[78-L] Tom Lehrer

[David Lennick]

"More of Tom Lehrer" DOES exist on ten-inch though, on English Decca LF 1323.

And I still have one Lehrer item that doesn't seem to turn up, even on the 
Lehrer site below, although it was pressed..a 7-inch Australian recording of 
his "Censorship" speech in Adelaide. Pressed by Australian EMI, matrices 7XS 
7268/9. (No I don't own the disc.)

http://php.indiana.edu/~jbmorris/FAQ/lehrer.disco.html

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> From: dialjazz at verizon.net
> 
> Geoffrey Wheeler wrote:
> 
> 
>>> Anybody have any idea how scarce Tom Lehrer’s 10-inch album, “Songs by 
>>> Tom Lehrer” released in 1953 is? 
> Steve Ramm wrote:
>> No very. I see them at yard sales all the time.
> 
> Neither of you are specific enough.  In general, yes it is very common.  
> Between Leah and myself we have at least a dozen copies.  BUT, as dl 
> starts to explain, the question had to be more specific.
> 
> David Lennick wrote:
> 
>>> Apparently the only rare edition is the first one, which gives
> 
>  >> Lehrer's home address on the back. dl
> 
> 
> Even this is not specific enough.  When the album first came out it was 
> on Transradio, which was the name of the Boston recording studio it was 
> recorded in.  The first 400 copies had his home address for obtaining 
> more copies.  A friend of mine near Phila has long had a copy of this 
> version, and last year Leah found a copy for $1 at Amoeba's in Los 
> Angeles.  All later copies use a P.O. box address.  The next several 
> pressings were also on Transradio.  All of the Transradio copies can 
> usually be determined by a darker red printing of the flames.  We've 
> found three or four of these and have seen many others.  When the label 
> name was changed to Lehrer records the flames on the cover got a lighter 
> red color.  It is these copies that are all over the place, but some of 
> the masters have handscribed matrix numbers.  All seem to be RCA 
> Rockaway, N.J. pressings. 
> 
>>  There was a 2nd 10in one called "More Songs by Tom Lehrer" that shows up less often.]  S
>>
>>   
> 
> The reason why it shows up less often is that it does not exist as a 
> 10-incher.  By the time he recorded the second set of songs he had 
> already reissued the fiirst set as a 12-incher.  The live album "An 
> Evening Wasted" and the studio album of the second set cam out together, 
> both only as 12-inchers.  Likewise, when he did the first set of songs 
> with an audience "Revisited", it also came out as a 12-incher. 
> 
> We've discussed the stereo situation here in the past, but briefly both 
> of the second set of songs came out in mono and stereo.  When Reprise 
> reissued the audience recording of the second set, An Evening Wasted" 
> Lehrer edited out some of the applause he felt was excessive from the 
> mono tape.  Reprise used this tape in fake stereo for their issue.  
> Therefore, the only real stereo versions in unedited form are the 
> original -- and VERY rare -- Lehrer LP, the mire common English Decca, 
> and the still available BRITISH CD -- NOT the American one. The American 
> CD is in two versions, both edited.  I think it first was fake stereo 
> but then they electronically edited a stereo master to match.   
> Revisited was mono only and exists in three versions.  The American 
> version has one side recorded in the U.S. and one in Australia.  The 
> British LP and the current U.S. CD has both sides recorded in the U.S., 
> and there is a very rare Australian LP with both sides recorded in 
> Australia.  (This stereo section is from memory and might not be 
> perfect.  see the on-line discography referenced thru Demento's site.)
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com