Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album
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| Studio album by Monty Python | ||||
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6 October 1980 (UK) 7 October 1980 (US) |
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| Recorded | 9 January - 5 May 1980 at Redwood Recording Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Comedy | |||
| Length | 46:23 | |||
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Charisma (UK) Arista (US) |
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| Producer | Eric Idle | |||
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6 October 1980 (UK)
Charisma (UK)
Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (or simply Contractual Obligation Album) is the final studio album released by Monty Python in 1980. As the title suggests, the album was put together to complete a contract with Charisma Records. The material recorded for the album was drawn from a variety of sources, including songs and sketches that dated back to the 1960s pre-Python shows I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, The Frost Report, At Last The 1948 Show and How To Irritate People as well as material from Eric Idle's post-Python series Rutland Weekend Television. The group also reworked material written but discarded from early drafts of Life Of Brian as well as the initial scripts for what would eventually become The Meaning Of Life.
The group had not recorded an all-studio album since Matching Tie and Handkerchief in 1973 and were initially unenthusiastic about returning to the recording studio. Fresh from co-producing the Life Of Brian soundtrack album, Eric Idle oversaw the sessions which resulted in over half the album consisting of songs. Beginning in January 1980, the group recorded reams of unused material during the sessions, much of which found it's way on to the unreleased outtakes album Hastily Cobbled Together For A Fast Buck, although the compilations The Final Rip Off (1987) and Monty Python Sings (1989) contained previously unreleased material from the sessions. In 2006 further unreleased tracks from the sessions were added to the special edition CDs of Another Monty Python Record, Matching Tie And Handkerchief and the Contractual Obligation album itself. In 2014 three further tracks were added to the expanded Monty Python Sings (Again).
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