Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – The History Of The Bonzos
(United Artists Records 1974 UAD60071)
Matrix No’s: A3/B2/A2/B3 – UK Pressing
Double Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from some light pops/crackles)
Gatefold Sleeve & Booklet in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
– some slight wear to edges/corners
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Band) are a band created by a group of British art-school denizens of the 1960s. Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz, psychedelic rock, and avant-garde art, the Bonzos came to the attention of a broader British public through a 1968 ITV comedy show, Do Not Adjust Your Set.
- Vivian Stanshall (1943–1995): trumpet, lead vocals
- Neil Innes (b. 1944): piano, guitar, lead vocals
- Rodney “Rhino” Desborough Slater (b. 1944): saxophone
- Roger Ruskin Spear (b. 1943): tenor sax and various contraptions
- “Legs” Larry Smith (b. 1944): drums
The History of the Bonzos is a 2-disk vinyl album with 35 tracks recorded between 1967 and 1972 by The Bonzo Dog Band and the solo projects of its members, compiled by Andrew Lauder (who was head of Liberty/UA’s A&R). It was released in 1974.
Track listing
Track listing as given on the original vinyl album cover, UK issue:
| Side 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 1. | “The Intro and The Outro” | Viv Stanshall | 3:06 |
| 2. | “Rockaliser Baby” | Stanshall, Neil Innes | 3:27 |
| 3. | “Sport (The Odd Boy)” | Stanshall | 3:32 |
| 4. | “Noises for the Leg” | Stanshall | 2:15 |
| 5. | “King of Scurf” | Innes | 4:56 |
| 6. | “Labio Dental Fricative” (Performed by Vivian Stanshall & The Sean Head Showband) | Stanshall | 3:07 |
| 7. | “Hello Mabel” | Innes | 2:45 |
| 8. | “Look at Me, I’m Wonderful” | Stanshall | 1:45 |
| Total length: | 24:53 | ||
| Side 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 1. | “Canyons of Your Mind” | Stanshall | 2:45 |
| 2. | “Jollity Farm” | Leslie Sarony | 2:23 |
| 3. | “You Done My Brain In” | Innes | 1:40 |
| 4. | “My Pink Half of the Drainpipe” | Stanshall, Innes | 3:30 |
| 5. | “Mr Apollo” | Stanshall, Innes | 4:18 |
| 6. | “Hunting Tigers Out in Indiah” | Robert Hargreaves, Stanley Damerell, Tolchard Evans | 3:05 |
| 7. | “Suspicion” (Performed by Vivian Stanshall & His Gargantuan Chums) | Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman | 3:30 |
| 8. | “Mr Slater’s Parrot” | Stanshall | 2:18 |
| 9. | “Laughing Blues” | Mike Bradley | 3:35 |
| 10. | “Narcissus” | Ethelbert Nevin | 0:20 |
| Total length: | 27:34 | ||
| Side 3 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 1. | “I’m the Urban Spaceman” | Innes | 2:23 |
| 2. | “Bad Blood” | Stanshall | 5:10 |
| 3. | “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” | George Cory, Douglass Cross | 1:02 |
| 4. | “Tent” | Stanshall | 3:20 |
| 5. | “Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?” | Stanshall | 2:48 |
| 6. | “9 – 5 Pollution Blues” (Performed by The World) | Innes | 4:20 |
| 7. | “Big Shot” | Stanshall | 3:22 |
| 8. | “Release Me” (Performed by Roger Ruskin Spear & His Giant Kinetic Wardrobe) | Eddie Miller, Robert Yount, James Pebworth (as Dub Williams) | 2:50 |
| Total length: | 25:15 | ||
| Side 4 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 1. | “We Are Normal” | Stanshall, Innes | 4:50 |
| 2. | “The Sound of Music” | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II | 1:02 |
| 3. | “Kama-Sutra” | Stanshall, Innes | 0:39 |
| 4. | “Rhinocratic Oaths” | Stanshall, Innes | 3:23 |
| 5. | “Shirt” | Roger Ruskin Spear | 4:29 |
| 6. | “Mickey’s Son and Daughter” | Edward Lisbona, Tommy Connor | 2:39 |
| 7. | “Blind Date” (Performed by Vivian Stanshall & biG Grunt) | Stanshall | 3:05 |
| 8. | “Trouser Press” | Spear | 2:17 |
| 9. | “Slush” | Innes | 2:20 |
| Total length: | 24:44 | ||
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