Monty Python's Previous Record
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| Studio album by Monty Python | ||||
| Released | 8 December 1972 (UK) 1973 (US) | |||
| Recorded | 12-13 October 1972 at Radio Luxembourg Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Comedy | |||
| Length | 45:23 | |||
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Charisma (UK) Buddah (US) |
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| Producer | Andre Jacquemin Michael Palin Terry Jones Alan Bailey |
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Charisma (UK)
Monty Python's Previous Record is the third album by Monty Python. Released in 1972, it marked the group's first collaborations with regular sound engineer Andre Jacquemin and musician Neil Innes. Among the proposed ideas for the record were a 'B' side consisting of four concentric tracks, all starting at different places on the first groove, so that the listener could get any of one of four different versions of the 'B' side". When this proved impossible, a three-sided 'B' side was attempted. But as Jacquemin later explained, "That's why you hear 'and now a massage from the Swedish Prime Minister' three times on it. Each groove was going to start with that, but unfortunately, the three grooves ran into each other towards the centre of the record. In the end, we cut all the bits together for a standard, single-groove side." A year later, a less ambitious version of the same idea, with just two concentric tracks, would be used on the next Monty Python LP, The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief.
The album contains many sketches from the third series of Flying Circus, one (Fish Licence) from the second as well as an abridged version of The Tale of Happy Valley from the second German show. The oldest sketch on the album, Eric Idle's "Radio Quiz Game", dates back to I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again where it was performed by Graeme Garden - Idle having subsequently performed the sketch himself on Do Not Adjust Your Set. The rest of the material was specially written for the album.
The original British vinyl release included a separate 45rpm flexi-disc entitled Teach Yourself Heath, whose sleeve was a picture of a smiling Edward Heath (then Prime Minister).
The album was trailed a month earlier on 17 November 1972 by the 7" single Eric The Half-A-Bee/Yangtse Song (CB.200), credited to "Monty Python With Niel (sic) Innes". These were alternate mono mixes of two tracks which would appear in stereo on the album. The latter song had an added karaoke section with additional linking from Michael Palin.
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