Released 1965 Length 37:11 | Recorded July 1965 Producer Jimmy Hilliard Release date 1965 | |
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That Was the Year That Was (1965) is a live album recorded at the hungry i in San Francisco, containing performances by Tom Lehrer of satiric topical songs he originally wrote for the NBC television series That Was The Week That Was, known informally as TW3 (1964–65). All of the songs related to items then in the news.
Contents
Track listing
Side one:
- "National Brotherhood Week" – 2:35
- "MLF Lullaby" – 2:25
- "George Murphy" – 2:08
- "The Folk Song Army" – 2:12
- "Smut" – 3:15
- "Send the Marines" – 1:46
- "Pollution" – 2:17
Side two:
- "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)" – 2:23
- "Whatever Became of Hubert?" – 2:13
- "New Math" – 4:28
- "Alma" – 5:27
- "Who's Next?" – 2:00
- "Wernher Von Braun" – 1:46
- "The Vatican Rag" – 2:14
Topics of songs
In 2003, former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix told a Swedish radio program that he did not think that the Iraq War, "in the way it was justified, was compatible with the UN Charter," then had the station play this song.
Songs
1National Brotherhood Week2:36
2MLF Lullaby2:25
3George Murphy2:09
References
That Was the Year That Was Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA