Tom Lehrer
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Life
Born: 1928
Biography
American mathematician, singer-songwriter, and satirist. His recordings and printed songs have been popular since the early 1950s. Many of his songs were written by him; others were adapted from various sources. Most of the lyrics to his songs are also by him. On his website (as of 3 August 2024), the following notice appears:
| DISCLAIMER STATEMENT |
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| I, Tom Lehrer, individually and as trustee of the Tom Lehrer Trust 2007, hereby grant the following permissions: |
| All copyrights to lyrics or music written or composed by me have been permanently and irrevocably relinquished, and therefore such songs are now in the public domain. All of my songs that have never been copyrighted, having been available for free for so long, are now also in the public domain. In other words, I have abandoned, surrendered and disclaimed all right, title and interest in and to my work and have injected any and all copyrights into the public domain. |
| The permission granted includes all lyrics which I have written to music by others, although the music to such parodies, if copyrighted by their composers, are of course not included without permission of their copyright owners. The translated songs on this website may be found on YouTube in their original languages. |
| Performing and recording rights to all of my songs are included in this permission. Translation rights are also included. |
| In particular, permission is hereby granted to anyone to set any of these lyrics to their own music, or to set any of this music to their own lyrics, and to publish or perform their parodies or distortions of these songs without payment or fear of legal action. |
| Some recording, movie, and television rights to songs written by me are merely licensed non-exclusively by me to recording, movie, or TV companies. All such rights are now released herewith and therefore do not require any permission from me or from Maelstrom Music, which is merely me in another hat, nor from the recording, movie, or TV companies involved. |
| In short, I no longer retain any rights to any of my songs. |
| So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money. |
| NOTICE: THIS WEBSITE WILL BE SHUT DOWN AT SOME DATE IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, SO IF YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD ANYTHING, DON’T WAIT TOO LONG. |
| Tom Lehrer |
| November 26, 2022 |
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List of works available at CPDL
- Alma
- Oedipus Rex
- Poisoning pigeons in the park
- She's my girl
- The Elements
- The Masochism Tango
- A Christmas Carol
Settings of text by Tom Lehrer
- Alma (Tom Lehrer)
- Oedipus Rex (Tom Lehrer)
- Poisoning pigeons in the park (Tom Lehrer)
- She's my girl (Tom Lehrer)
- The Masochism Tango (Tom Lehrer)
- A Christmas Carol (Tom Lehrer)
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Recordings
- 1953 – Songs by Tom Lehrer – record, 12 songs
- 1959 – An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer – record, 11 songs
- 1959 – More of Tom Lehrer – record, 11 songs
- 1960 – Tom Lehrer Revisited – 12-inch record, 12 songs
- 1965 – That Was the Year that Was – 12-inch record, 14 songs
- 1971 – Tom Lehrer Revisited – Compact Disc, 14 songs
Publications
- 1981 – Too many songs by Tom Lehrer, with not enough drawings by Ronald Searle. Pantheon Books, New York. 159 pp.