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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 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 song became one of the Bonzo Dog Band's better-known numbers when it was featured in the Beatles' 1967 television film Magical Mystery Tour.Performed in a stage routine by the Bonzos, it accompanied a striptease act, performed by Jan Carson of the Raymond Revuebar, who was enthusiastically ogled by club customers including John Lennon and George Harrison.
In 1969, Smith was the first member of the Bonzo Dog Band to release a record outside of the group, albeit as part of another 'group'. Under the pseudonym 'Topo D. Bill', a one-off musical collective that included Keith Moon of The Who, Chris Squire and Tony Kaye from Yes and fellow Bonzo Roger Ruskin Spear, Smith released a non-comedic cover version of Jim Pepper's song 'Witchi Tai To' as a ...
He was a founder member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. The band was officially formed on 25 September 1962, at Slater’s home at 164c Rosendale Road, West Dulwich, when Vivian Stanshall and Rodney met and quickly bonded, after being introduced by Slater's flatmate Tom Parkinson. At the time, Slater was already playing in a traditional jazz ...
Pour l'Amour Des Chiens (French: For the Love of Dogs) is the first all new studio album by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band in 35 years, and their sixth album overall. It was released on 12 December 2007, produced by Mickey Simmonds and Neil Innes, by Storming Music Company.
Cornology is a 1992 compilation box set, issued by EMI Records, of the complete recorded output of The Bonzo Dog Band, previously issued on the Parlophone, Liberty and United Artists labels. The three CDs each have subtitles. Volume One is titled The Intro and contains the albums Gorilla and The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse.
"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.