
The Very Best Of Tom Lehrer, Victor Borge, Flanders & Swann
Literate, ever-topical and endlessly inventive, these masters of musical humour still sound every bit as funny a generation or more later.
Literate, ever-topical and endlessly inventive, these masters of musical humour still sound every bit as funny a generation or more later in a 3 CD collection that cherry-picks the best moments from their respective recording careers.
57 classic moments, including: Tom Lehrer: Poisoning Pigeons In The Park • Be Prepared • Lobachevsky • The Old Dope Pedlar • Elements • Victor Borge: Phonetic Punctuation • Inflationary Language • Trees • Blue Danube Waltz • A Mozart Opera • Flanders & Swann: A Transport of Delight • The Gasman Cometh • The Gnu Song • Madeira M’Dear? • The Hippopotamus Song and many more…
Disc 1
1. A Transport Of Delight
2. Song Of Reproduction
3. The Gnu Song
4. Design For Living
5. Je Suis Le Tenebreux
6. Songs For Our Time: Philological Waltz; Satellite Moon; A Happy Song
7. A Song Of The Weather
8. The Reluctant Cannibal
9. Greensleeves
10. Misalliance
11. Kokoraki
12. Too Many Cookers
13. Vanessa
14. Tried By The Centre Court
15. The Youth Of The Heart
16. Madeira M'Dear
17. The Hippopotamus Song
Disc 2
1. Be Prepared
2. The Old Dope Peddler
3. Fight Fiercely, Harvard
4. I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
5. The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
6. Lobachevsky
7. The Hunting Song
8. The Irish Ballad
9. My Home Town
10. When You Are Old And Gray
11. I Hold Your Hand In Mine
12. The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
13. The Elements
14. Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
15. Bright College Days
16. A Christmas Carol
17. Oedipus Rex
18. Clementine
19. In Old Mexico
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
Disc 3
1. Inflationary Language
2. Phonetic Punctation
3. Family Background
4. Comedy In Music
5. Tea For Two
6. Malaguena
7. Star Dust
8. Nola
9. Trees
10. One Fine Day
11. Tales From The Vienna Woods
12. The Third Man, Theme
13. Nocturne
14. The Blue Danube
15. 'Minute' Waltz
16. Liebestraum
17. Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart
Literate, ever-topical and endlessly inventive, these masters of musical humour still sound every bit as funny a generation or more later in a 3 CD collection that cherry-picks the best moments from their respective recording careers.
57 classic moments, including: Tom Lehrer: Poisoning Pigeons In The Park • Be Prepared • Lobachevsky • The Old Dope Pedlar • Elements • Victor Borge: Phonetic Punctuation • Inflationary Language • Trees • Blue Danube Waltz • A Mozart Opera • Flanders & Swann: A Transport of Delight • The Gasman Cometh • The Gnu Song • Madeira M’Dear? • The Hippopotamus Song and many more…
Disc 1
1. A Transport Of Delight
2. Song Of Reproduction
3. The Gnu Song
4. Design For Living
5. Je Suis Le Tenebreux
6. Songs For Our Time: Philological Waltz; Satellite Moon; A Happy Song
7. A Song Of The Weather
8. The Reluctant Cannibal
9. Greensleeves
10. Misalliance
11. Kokoraki
12. Too Many Cookers
13. Vanessa
14. Tried By The Centre Court
15. The Youth Of The Heart
16. Madeira M'Dear
17. The Hippopotamus Song
Disc 2
1. Be Prepared
2. The Old Dope Peddler
3. Fight Fiercely, Harvard
4. I Wanna Go Back To Dixie
5. The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
6. Lobachevsky
7. The Hunting Song
8. The Irish Ballad
9. My Home Town
10. When You Are Old And Gray
11. I Hold Your Hand In Mine
12. The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
13. The Elements
14. Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
15. Bright College Days
16. A Christmas Carol
17. Oedipus Rex
18. Clementine
19. In Old Mexico
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
Disc 3
1. Inflationary Language
2. Phonetic Punctation
3. Family Background
4. Comedy In Music
5. Tea For Two
6. Malaguena
7. Star Dust
8. Nola
9. Trees
10. One Fine Day
11. Tales From The Vienna Woods
12. The Third Man, Theme
13. Nocturne
14. The Blue Danube
15. 'Minute' Waltz
16. Liebestraum
17. Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart