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
Revisited (Tom Lehrer album) Revisited (Tom Lehrer album) Revisited is a 1960 album by Tom Lehrer, consisting of live recordings of all the songs from 1953's "Songs by Tom Lehrer". The CD reissue of the album contains two additional tracks that Lehrer wrote and performed for the PBS television show "The Electric Company" (and produced and conducted by Joe Raposo). On the original Lehrer Records release of "Revisited", tracks 1–6 (side 1) were recorded live on November 23 & 24, 1959, in Kresge Auditorium at MIT in Cambridge, MA, while tracks 7–13 (side 2) were recorded live at two concerts during Lehrer's tour of