Monty Python's Flying Circus (album)
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| Monty Python's Flying Circus | ||
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| Studio album by Monty Python | ||
| Released | 1970 | |
| Recorded | 1970 | |
| Genre | Comedy | |
| Length | 53:13 | |
| Label | BBC | |
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| Monty Python chronology | ||
| Monty Python's Flying Circus (1970) |
Another Monty Python Record (1971) |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus was the first album produced by the Monty Python troupe. It was released in both the UK and the US in 1970, with the US version featuring a back cover slightly different from the original UK version. The album featured new versions of sketches from the Monty Python's Flying Circus television series.
Next to the television show itself, it was the first piece of media the Pythons released. It is noted that Terry Gilliam was not included as a member of Python on the album's cast listing (nor does he appear on the album since his contributions at the time were still strictly in animation) and Graham Chapman's name is misspelled "Grahame".
It is the only Python studio album to have a laughter track, having been recorded in one day in front of a live audience at Camden Town Hall. Eric Idle stated in the book The Pythons, "They were a particularly dead audience."
The copyright to the record is still owned by the BBC, making it one of the few pieces of material the Pythons themselves do not own. This is also the reason why it did not gain a 2006 special edition release. The Pythons felt disenchanted by the BBC's album producing methods, and for their remaining albums sought very different approaches.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Side one
- "Flying Sheep"
- "Television Interviews/Arthur Frampton"
- "Trade Description Act/Whizzo Chocolates"
- "Nudge, Nudge"
- "The Mouse Problem"
- "Buying A Bed"
- "Interesting People"
- "The Barber/Lumberjack Song"
- "Interviews/Sir Edward Ross"
[edit] Side two
- Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson
- Children's Stories
- The Visitors
- The North Minehead By-Election
- The Cinema/Albatross!
- Me Doctor
- Pet Shop (Dead Parrot)
- Self-Defence
[edit] Distribution Information
- LP: (1970) BBC Records REB 73M (UK)
- LP: (1970) Pye Records 12116 (U.S.)
- LP: (1970) BBC Records BBC-22073 (UK)
- CS: (1970) BBC Records REMC 73 (UK)
- CD: (1985) BBC/Audio Visual International BBCCD73 (UK)
- LP: (1986) Warner Brothers Records 88375 (ISBN 0-87188-375-9) (U.S.)
- CS: (1994) BBC Enterprises, Ltd. ZBBC 1508 ISBN 0-563-39481-1 (UK) (Canned Laughter series)
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