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"I'm the Urban Spaceman" was the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's most successful single, released in 1968. It reached #5 in the UK charts. It reached #5 in the UK charts. The song was written by Neil Innes —who won an Ivor Novello Award in 1968 for the song—and produced by Paul McCartney under the pseudonym "Apollo C. Vermouth".
The track 11 Moustachioed Daughters is a darkly comic (and remarkably detailed) evocation of the traditional Witches' Sabbath [5] and features lyrics referencing the traditional hallucinogenic flying ointment prepared from Atropa belladonna (and other Solanaceous plants - including the fabled mandrake, said to shriek when uprooted). [6]
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as the Bonzo Dog Band or the Bonzos) was created by a group of British art-school students in the 1960s. [1] Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz and psychedelia with surreal humour and avant-garde art, the Bonzos came to public attention through appearances in the Beatles' 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour and the 1968 ITV comedy show Do Not Adjust ...
The US version of the album had a track list slightly different from that of the UK version: the US version removed "I'm the Urban Spaceman" and added "Readymades" the B-side of their follow-up single "Mr. Apollo". The UK version was reissued on vinyl by Sunset Records in the early 1970s, re-titled I'm the Urban Spaceman.
"The Intro and The Outro" is a recording by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. [1] [2] It appears on their debut album, Gorilla (1967).It is not so much a song as a comic monologue in which the speaker introduces the musicians who ostensibly appear on the recording.
Neil James Innes (/ ˈ ɪ n ɪ s /; 9 December 1944 – 29 December 2019) was an English writer, comedian and musician.He first came to prominence in the comedy rock group the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later became a frequent collaborator with the Monty Python troupe on their BBC television series and films, and is often called the "seventh Python" along with performer Carol Cleveland.
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During the late 1960s, The Scaffold and The Bonzo Dog Band had each already achieved a respectable measure of success independently of each other in the UK, through their regular appearances on television and radio and their respective chart successes in 1968 with 'Lily The Pink' and 'The Urban Spaceman'.