[Dixielandjazz] Stan Freberg

[Harry Callaghan]

Don

While Lehrer released his first album in 1954 which contained the famous and
slightly risque boy scout song, "Be Prepred".  It was not until his followup
LP, "More of Tom Lehrer" that he first recorded "Pigeons"

I remember he kinda shook things up at whatever Massachusetts college he was
teaching at due to the controversial nature of the debut album, but I
believe things had calmed down five years later.or he might even have
retired from teaching.by then.

I've never seen the second album but once had the first which I remember as
a 10" Lp with a red cover issued on his own Lehrer label.

Tides,
HC




On 7/10/10, Don Kirkman <donsno2 at charter.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:27:01 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >Hi All,
>
> >Freberg is maybe a bit off-topic for DJML, but it seems someone on the
> list knows the answer to even the most obscure questions, so here goes:
>
> >Freberg had a popular record (not sure if "hit" would describe it) with
> Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, which from memory was a Freberg composition.
> So far so good, but I used to play in a band with Scottish bassist, Lindsay
> Cooper (now sadly gone), who had lived and worked for years in Switzerland,
> and was married to a Swiss lady. One night in the band bus coming back from
> an out of town gig and after numerous tastes since we weren't driving,
> Lindsay started singing Viennese sentimental songs in German, then went into
> "Wann wir vergiften Tauben im Park." I assumed it was a straight translation
> of the Freberg song, but Lindsay insisted it had originally been written by
> a Viennese singer of comic satirical songs and he had heard it on an ancient
> 78 in his mother in law's house. He told me the singer's name, but it didn't
> ring any bells.
>
> >So come on folks, does anyone know who it might have been and whether his
> version came first and was borrowed by Freberg, or vice versa?
>
> >Cheers,
>
> >Ken Mathieson
> >www.classicjazzorchestra.org.uk
>
> A lot of German Google hits attribute "Poisoning Pigeons" to Georg
> Kreisler, who recorded it as early as 1962.  I don't know the timing
> for Lehrer.  For a good assortment of performances, including Kreisler
> and Lehrer, there's always YouTube:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5m41YVpBJ8
> --
> Don Kirkman
> donsno2 at charter.net
>
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