My Musical Evolution – Part 153 Space Mountain When Mozart Was My Age He Had Been Dead for Two Years

Tom Lehrer’s That Was The Year That Was is a good example of why I wish I would have spent more time in researching and organizing before I started this project in January. I almost completely forgot about this record. I was just kind of reflecting on Space Mountain and suddenly it popped into my mind.

I had never heard of Tom Lehrer before. One of the Kitchen Sisters, Jason bought this album that summer and shared it with us. I thought it was brilliant, it had that sort of vaudeville like musical sensibility combined with very witty lyrics. Sure the topics included are quite dated it was recorded in 1965 but it still has some great songs and Tom Lehrer’s delivery is inspiring.

I made a copy then and hung onto it until I bought in on Compact Disc in the early 1990’s. I gave that copy to Adam and just a few years ago I bought it again as welll as a few of his other works.

I never saw or heard from Jason after leaving the mountain that summer. I wonder what ever became of him. Maybe Adam knows.

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