Bonzo Dog Band Gorilla PROMO LP Imperial LP-12370 + Booklet Intro and the Outro

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The Bonzo Dog Band  Gorilla LP - Imperial LP-12370  Promo First Pressing with Booklet
Condition: VG+ Vinyl and VG Cover. Enclosed booklet is Near Mint. Large "AUDITION COPY" stamp on front, meaning a promo copy. Stereo first pressing.
Gorilla is the debut album by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, originally released by Liberty Records in 1967. The album includes "Jazz, (Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold)" which savagely parodied their early "trad" jazz roots and featured some of the most deliberately inept jazz playing ever recorded—the record company only allowed two hours of studio time per track, so it was completed in a single take to allow for the far more complex "The Intro and the Outro". The band deliberately swapped instruments to increase the degree of incompetence.
In "The Intro and the Outro" every member of the band was introduced and played a solo, starting with genuine band members, before including such improbable members as John Wayne on xylophone, Adolf Hitler on vibes, and J. Arthur Rank on gong. Other 'band members' included Val Doonican, Horace Batchelor and Lord Snooty and His Pals. The versatility of the band is shown in the wide variety of styles parodied on the album: as well as trad jazz noted above, there is 1920s-style music ("Jollity Farm", "I'm Bored"), Beatles music of the "Penny Lane" era ("The Equestrian Statue"), lounge music ("San Francisco"), calypso ("Look Out There's a Monster Coming"), Elvis Presley ("Death-cab for Cutie"), Disney ("Mickey's Son and Daughter"), film noir ("Big Shot"), Wurlitzer ("Music for the Head Ballet"), and bubblegum ("Piggy Bank Love").
Track listing
Side one
"Cool Britannia" (Vivian Stanshall, Neil Innes) – 1:00 "The Equestrian Statue" (Innes) – 2:49 "Jollity Farm" (Leslie Sarony) – 2:29 "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" (George Cory. Douglass Cross) – 1:04 "Look Out, There's a Monster Coming" (Stanshall) – 2:55 "Jazz (Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold)" (Bonzo Dog Band) – 3:11 "Death-cab for Cutie" (Stanshall, Innes) – 2:56 "Narcissus" (Ethelbert Nevin) – 0:27
Side two
"The Intro and the Outro" (Stanshall) – 3:04 "Mickey's Son and Daughter" (Eddie Lisbonna, Tommy Connor) – 2:43 "Big Shot" (Stanshall) – 3:31 "Music for the Head Ballet" (Innes) – 1:45 "Piggy Bank Love" (Innes) – 3:04 "I'm Bored" (Stanshall) – 3:06 "The Sound of Music" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 1:21
Musicians Vivian Stanshall – vocals, trumpet, euphonium, tuba, ukulele Neil Innes – piano, harpsichord, guitar, backing vocals Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell – bass guitar, banjo, baritone saxophone, bass saxophone, whistle Rodney Slater – alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass saxophone, clarinet, trombone, bass clarinet Sam Spoons – double bass [string bass], percussion, spoons "Legs" Larry Smith – drums, tuba, tap dance Roger Ruskin Spear – saxophone
Additional musicians Eric Clapton – ukulele _____________________________________________
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