https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24833683#24834514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24833683#24834514 > As a souvenir for [his graduate student friends

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24833683#24834514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24833683#24834514 > As a souvenir for [his graduate student friends], Lehrer decided in 1953 to make a record of the songs he had written at Harvard. He recorded Songs by Tom Lehrer in one session at Trans Radio studios in Boston on a 10-inch LP.. bought the rights to the record from Trans Radio, and began selling it by mail order.. By 1954.. he had sold 10,000 records.. By the end of the decade, he had sold 370,000 records.