[Dixielandjazz] Stan Freberg

[Pat Ladd]

Hi,
I have Lehrers music in front of me.Named Too many songs by Tom Lehrer (and 
not enough drawing by Ronald Searle).
The blurb mentions 3 record albums. Songs by Tom Lehrer, An evening wasted 
with Ton lehrer and That was the week that was.. and a stage show called 
Tomfoolery `spawned in London in 1980.`
The book was published in UK in 1981. Poisoning Pigeons states Words and 
Music by Tom Lehrer.

Cheers

Pat
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Callaghan" <meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com>
To: "Pat Ladd" <pj.ladd at btinternet.com>
Cc: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Stan Freberg


> 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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