| The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse | ||||
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| Studio album by Bonzo Dog Band | ||||
| Released | November, 1968 | |||
| Genre | Comedy rock Psychedelic pop Avant-garde |
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| Label | Liberty Records (UK) Imperial Records (US) |
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| Producer | Gus Dudgeon Gerry Bron |
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| Allmusic | link |
| Robert Christgau | B[1] |
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The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse is the second album by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. By this time the band had changed their name to "The Bonzo Dog Band", dropping out the "Doo-Dah". The American version of this album was retitled Urban Spaceman and added their U.K. hit single "I'm the Urban Spaceman". The phrase "the doughnut in granny's greenhouse" is British slang for lavatory.
In 2007 the U.K. version was re-issued by EMI on CD with 5 bonus tracks.
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"The noises of your body are a part of this record." Can be found on the booklet that came with the gatefold edition.
Interestingly, for a band well known for their pastiches - The Rutles for instance was a project by Neil Innes - the cover for this album is remarkably similar to that of The Incredible String Band's "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" released in March the same year.
The chorus of "We Are Normal" features the lyric "We are normal and we want our freedom", a reference to the lyric of "The Red Telephone", a song by American band, Love, on their 1967 album "Forever Changes".
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