Personnel includes: Tom Lehrer (vocals, piano); Jay Berliner (guitar, banjo).

Producers include: Joe Raposo, Rob Fisher, James Stagliano, Tom Lehrer, Jimmy Hilliard.

Compilation producers: Tom Lehrer, David McLees, Barry "Dr. Demento" Hansen, Bill Inglot.

Engineers include: Don Geis, Ray Hall, Cynthia Daniels.

Recorded between 1953 & 1999. Includes liner notes by Tom Lehrer & Dr. Demento.

Digitally remastered by Bill Inglot & Dan Hersch (DigiPrep).

THE REMAINS OF TOM LEHRER was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes.

Rhino's three-disc box set The Remains of Tom Lehrer presents 75 tracks from the satirist's four decade career. The first disc concentrates on Lehrer's studio output, including pieces from his 1953 debut Songs by Tom Lehrer and his 1959 album More of Tom Lehrer, as well as a 1996 version of "I Got It from Agnes" and "That's Mathematics," a previously unreleased track from 1993. Disc two gathers his '59 performances at MIT and Harvard, captured on the albums Tom Lehrer Revisited and An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer (which offered many of the same selections as their studio predecessors). The third disc is a mix of live and studio tracks, including the material from the album That Was the Year That Was, songs written for PBS's The Electric Company in 1971-72, orchestral versions of songs conducted by Richard Hayman in 1960, and four new songs, including "Selling Out" and "(I'm Spending Hanukkah) In Santa Monica." Song-by-song notes by Lehrer, rare photos, and an essay by Dr. Demento add an extra depth to The Remains of Tom Lehrer making it the ultimate collection of his irreverent social commentary. ~ Heather Phares

Mojo (Publisher) (8/00, p.115) - "...Lehrer's songs...now sound like beautifully-barbed satirical ice-picks, jabs to the heart of Eisenhower's Nuke-age apple-pie America."