An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer The lyrics of "The Elements" are a recitation of the names of all the chemical elements that were known at the time of writing, up to number 102, nobelium. It can be found on his albums "Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer" as well as "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer". The song is sung to the tune of Sir Arthur Sullivan's "Major General's Song" ("I am the very model of a modern major-general...") from "The Pirates of Penzance". Since that time, 16 more have been discovered. At his concert in Copenhagen (1967), Lehrer admitted, "I like to play
Songs by Tom Lehrer LP format. The songs from "Songs by Tom Lehrer" were rerecorded for the 1960 live album "Revisited". "Songs by Tom Lehrer" was re-released alongside Lehrer's second album, "More of Tom Lehrer", as part of "Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer" in 1997 and as part of the 2000 box set "The Remains of Tom Lehrer". In 1966, following the success of "That Was the Year That Was", Reprise Records reissued several of Lehrer's previous LPs, but the company was dissatisfied with the technical quality of the original "Songs" album and persuaded Lehrer to make a new stereo recording of