Monty Python - Monty Python's Flying Circus - Reissue
BBC Records And Tapes  (1970)
Non-Music, Comedy

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#1037

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Vinyl    17 tracks  (50:07) 
United Kingdom 
    SIDE ONE:            
   01   Flying Sheep             02:50
   02   Television Interviews             02:01
   03   Trade Description Act             03:28
   04   Nudge Nudge             01:43
   05   The Mouse Problem             03:14
   06   Buying A Bed             03:56
   07   Interesting People             03:18
   08   Barber, The             01:43
   09   Interviews             03:17
    SIDE TWO:            
   10   More Television Interviews             02:21
   11   Children's Stories             01:13
   12   The Visitors             03:49
   13   The Cinema             04:01
   14   The North Minehead Bye-Election             01:51
   15   Me, Doctor             00:58
   16   Pet Shop             04:22
   17   Self Defence             06:02
Personal Details
Purchase Date 7/30/2020
Store eBay
Location Home
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Details
Catalog BBC-22073
Packaging LP Jacket
Spars DDD
Sound Stereo
RPM 33
User Defined
Classification: Monty Python
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Companies, etc.

Copyright (c) – BBC
Distributed By – Gillette-Madison Co.

Credits

Chorus – The Fred Tomlinson Singers
Design [Sleeve] – Terry Gilliam
Effects [Extra Sound Effects] – Harry Morris*
Liner Notes – Ian McNaughton
Music By [Incidental Music] – Anthony Foster
Performer [With] – Carol Cleveland, Eric Idle, Grahame Chapman*, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones
Producer – Ian McNaughton

Notes
From the BBC Television Series

Electronically Enhanced Stereo

Monty Python's Flying Circus is the first album produced by the Monty Python troupe, released in both the UK and US in 1970, with the US version featuring a back cover slightly different from the original UK version. It features newly recorded versions of sketches from the first Monty Python's Flying Circus television series.

Next to the television show itself, the album 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 (in spite of his brief appearance in the sketch "The Visitors") and Graham Chapman's name is misspelled "Grahame".

The album was recorded on a single day, 2 May 1970, in front of a live audience at the Camden Theatre in London.[1] Recalling the rather muted response, Eric Idle would later claim "they were a particularly dead audience."[2]

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. One of the tracks makes specific mention to the album being in stereo, and Chapman demonstrates it by walking from one speaker to another. The effect was totally lost as the album was recorded in mono, which the Pythons did not know at the time. They felt disenchanted by the BBC's album producing methods, and for their remaining albums sought very different approaches.