Monty Python's Previous Record

Monty Python's Previous Record
Studio album by Monty Python
Released	December 1972
Recorded	1972
Genre	Comedy
Length	45:23
Label	Charisma / Arista
Monty Python chronology
Another Monty Python Record (1971) Monty Python's Previous Record (1972) The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief (1973)

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Monty Python's Previous Record is the third album by Monty Python, released in 1972. According to Michael Palin in his Diaries 1969–1979. "Among the new 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". Although this proved impractical on the available equipment, 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.

When packaged in 1994's The Instant Monty Python CD Collection the order of some of the sketches was changed. It was later re-released on CD in 1997, and eventually released as a 2006 special edition, containing eleven extra tracks, and the original album's sequence was the same as issued in the 1994 box set.

The album contains sketches from the third series of Flying Circus as well as new material. The Tale of Happy Valley is actually an edited version of A Fairy Tale from the second German show.

The track "Wonderful World of Sound" features the earliest known citation of the phrase "something for the weekend".^[2]

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).

Track listing

Side one

1. Embarrassment/Book At Bedtime (2:55)
2. England 1747 - Dennis Moore (1:00)
3. Money Programme (1:55)
4. Dennis Moore Continues (1:10)
5. Australian Table Wines (1:45)
6. Argument Clinic (3:40)
7. Putting Budgies Down and so forth (1:40)
8. Eric the Half-a-Bee (4:55)
9. Travel Agency (3:56)

Side two

1. Radio Quiz Game (1:30)
2. A Massage/Silly Noises Quiz (1:30)
3. Miss Anne Elk (2:50)
4. We Love the Yangtze (2:40)
5. How-To-Do-It Lessons (1:05)
6. A Minute Passed (1:20)
7. Eclipse of the Sun/Alistair Cooke (2:25)
8. Wonderful World of Sounds (2:30)
9. A Fairy Tale (6:45)

1994/2006 Track listing

1. Not This Record!
2. Embarrassment
3. A Book at Bedtime
4. Dennis Moore
5. Money Programme
6. Money Song
7. Dennis Moore Continues
8. Dennis Moore Theme
9. Australian Table Wines
10. Dennis Moore Theme Part 2
11. Argument Clinic
12. How-To-Do-It Lessons
13. Dennis Moore Theme Part 3
14. Putting Budgies Down
15. Personal Freedom
16. Dennis Moore Theme Part 4
17. Fish Licence
18. Eric the Half-a-Bee Song
19. Radio Quiz Game
20. Travel Agency
21. A Massage
22. Silly Noises Quiz
23. Miss Anne Elk
24. Yangtze Kiang
25. We Love the Yangtze
26. A Massage Part 2
27. A Minute Passed
28. Eclipse of the Sun
29. Alistair Cooke
30. Wonderful World of Sounds
31. Certified Stiff
32. A Massage Part 3
33. The Tale of Happy Valley

2006 Bonus tracks

1. Baxter's
2. Meteorology
3. Blood, Devastation, War & Horror
4. The Great Debate
5. Mortuary Visit
6. Flying Fox Of The Yard
7. Is There
8. Teach Yourself Heath
9. The Book Ad
10. Big Red Bowl
11. Pepperpots (Part 2)
12. Pellagra

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