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1 Musical style  





2 Recording  





3 Sleeve notes (Stanshall)  





4 Track listing  



4.1  Side one  





4.2  Side two  







5 US version  





6 Bonus tracks on 2007 CD reissue  





7 Personnel  



7.1  Musicians  



7.1.1  Additional musicians  







7.2  Technical  







8 References  














Gorilla (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band album)






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Gorilla
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1967
Genre
  • satire
  • trad jazz
  • music hall
  • psychedelic pop
  • Length35:25
    LabelLiberty
    BGO Records (Reissue)
    ProducerGerry Bron, Lyn Birkbeck
    Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band chronology
    Gorilla
    (1967)
    The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse
    (1968)
    British reissue
    Sunset SLS 50160
    Professional ratings
    Review scores
    SourceRating
    Allmusic[1]
    Rolling StonePositive [2]
    Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]

    Gorilla is the debut album by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, originally released by Liberty Records, LBL 83056, in 1967. In 2007, EMI reissued the album on CD with seven bonus tracks.

    Musical style[edit]

    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.[4]

    In "The Intro and the Outro" every member of the band was introduced and played a solo, starting with genuine band members,[5] before including such improbable members as John Wayneonxylophone, Adolf Hitleronvibes, and J. Arthur Rankongong. 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").

    Recording[edit]

    The album was recorded on a four-track tape recorder, as was typical for the UK in 1967. Due to the limited number of tracks, most of the non-band "personnel" on "The Intro and the Outro" are simply faded in and out, and few notice they are absent in the later stages of the track.

    Sleeve notes (Stanshall)[edit]

    "Dedicated to Kong who must have been a great bloke."

    Track listing[edit]

    Side one[edit]

    1. "Cool Britannia" (Vivian Stanshall, Neil Innes) – 1:00
    2. "The Equestrian Statue" (Innes) – 2:49
    3. "Jollity Farm" (Leslie Sarony) – 2:29
    4. "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" (George Cory. Douglass Cross) – 1:04
    5. "Look Out, There's a Monster Coming" (Stanshall) – 2:55
    6. "Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold" (Bonzo Dog Band) – 3:11
    7. "Death Cab for Cutie" (Stanshall, Innes) – 2:56
    8. "Narcissus" (Ethelbert Nevin) – 0:27

    Side two[edit]

    1. "The Intro and the Outro" (Stanshall) – 3:04
    2. "Mickey's Son and Daughter" (Eddie Lisbonna, Tommy Connor) – 2:43
    3. "Big Shot" (Stanshall) – 3:31
    4. "Music for the Head Ballet" (Innes) – 1:45
    5. "Piggy Bank Love" (Innes) – 3:04
    6. "I'm Bored" (Stanshall) – 3:06
    7. "The Sound of Music" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 1:21

    US version[edit]

    The album was issued in the US on Imperial as LP-9370 (mono) and LP-12370 (stereo), but minus the track "Big Shot". The original issue of the album had the same booklet issued with the UK album.

    Bonus tracks on 2007 CD reissue[edit]

    1. "My Brother Makes the Noises for the Talkies"
    2. "I'm Gonna Bring a Watermelon to My Girl Tonight"
    3. "Ali Baba's Camel" (previously unreleased, early version)
    4. "On Her Doorstep Last Night" (Hargreaves, Damerell, Tilsley)
    5. "Alley Oop"
    6. "Button Up Your Overcoat"
    7. "The Craig Torso Show" (I Remember You/With a Little Help from My Friends/I Left My Heart in San Francisco/Oh Carol)

    Personnel[edit]

    Musicians[edit]

    Additional musicians[edit]

    Technical[edit]

    References[edit]

  • ^ Hansen, Barret (11 May 1968). "Review: Gorilla". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
  • ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0857125958.
  • ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Anarchy Must Be Organised". Bbc.co.uk. 12 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  • ^ "'The Intro and The Outro', a song by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band". BBC. 14 February 2005.
  • ^ Jack Malvern (16 June 2007). "It's the latest craze and it means ukulele lovers must wait for their ship to come in". The Times. Retrieved 11 March 2010. George Harrison and Eric Clapton both admired Formby and Clapton played the ukulele in The Intro and the Outro, a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

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