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''Another Monty Python Record'' is the second album produced by the
Monty Python Monty Python (also collectively known as the Pythons) were a British comedy troupe who created the sketch comedy television show '' Monty Python's Flying Circus'', which first aired on the BBC in 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four ...
comedy group, released in 1971. Dissatisfied with their
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BBC debut album released the previous year, the group took full control of the follow-up, which would be the first release of a six-album deal with
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in the UK. Most of the material is from the second
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series of ''
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'', with a few newly written pieces. One track, "Stake Your Claim", is an English-language version of a sketch from the team's first German episode.


Background

The production, with its innovative use of stereo and sound effects, was handled by
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and
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and proved a technical challenge. According to Jones: "We had this horrendous time because we were recording in this rather
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recording studio. We were very keen to use the stereo and everything, but what we hadn't realised was that the guy who was doing the recording, who I think was out of his head most of the time, had not been making any notes. We'd end up with tapes and tapes of material with no idea of where anything was on the tapes. That was a bitter experience." The sleeve was designed by
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, from an idea by Terry Jones. Packaged as a classical music recording ("Beethoven - Symphony No. 2 In D Major"), the cover was defaced by the Pythons to serve as their own record jacket. (The "serious" liner notes on the back also bear a Pythonesque stamp: the biography of
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quickly turns into a commentary on Beethoven's
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tennis debut.) Included with the original vinyl LP were three card inserts printed with detailed instructions, scripts and cut-out props for the "Be A Great Actor" sketch on side 2. Due to the limitations of the vinyl format, the original 1971 UK release had many sketches edited down while others, such as "
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" and "Penguin On The TV", were omitted altogether causing a re-sequencing of the "Royal Festival Hall Concert" and "Spam" sketches. This truncated version was used for all UK cassette releases until 1994. When the album was released in the US in 1972 to coincide with the US release of ''
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'', the full unedited version was used. This longer edit was used for all CD releases in both the UK and US. As well as featuring a pared down track list, the original UK vinyl enjoyed two subtly different releases. Initial pressings were issued on the pink "famous Charisma label" (erroneously listing the release year as 1970) with subsequent pressings replacing this with the "Mad Hatter" label design (correcting the year to 1971). Both editions featured a trick continuous runout groove at the end of Side 1 where the sound of a record scratch is followed by Michael Palin's exclamation of "Sorry squire! I scratched the record" repeated ad infinitum, at least until the listener chooses to lift the stylus off the vinyl. The album marked the group's first chart success, reaching No.26 in the
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. A 7" single, the Pythons' first, combining Spam Song/The Concert (CB.192) was issued in the UK on 8 September 1972, almost a year after the album's release. Later pressings were issued in a picture sleeve featuring a still from the "
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" sketch from ''
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''. The 2006 CD reissue features four bonus tracks, although these date from the 1980 '' Contractual Obligation Album'' sessions. The 2014 LP reissue by Virgin Records (both as a single disc and as part of the ''Monty Python's Total Rubbish'' boxset) contains the longer US version.


Track listing: Original UK vinyl and cassette version


Side one

# Introductions #
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(Part 1) # Gumby Cherry Orchard # Contradiction # Architect's Sketch #
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(Part 2) # Royal Festival Hall Concert # Ethel The Frog


Side two

# Death of Mary, Queen of Scots #
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(Part 3) # Comfy Chair # Famous Person Quiz # Be a Great Actor # Neville Shunt # Camp Judges # Stake Your Claim #
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# Camp Judges (Part 2) #
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(Part 4)


Track listing: US version, worldwide CD version


Side one

# Introductions #
Spanish Inquisition The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition ( es, Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition ( es, Inquisición española), was established in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs, King Ferdinand ...
(Part 1) #
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# Gumby Cherry Orchard # Contradiction # Architect's Sketch #
Spanish Inquisition The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition ( es, Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition ( es, Inquisición española), was established in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs, King Ferdinand ...
(Part 2) # Ethel The Frog


Side two

# Death of Mary, Queen of Scots # Penguin on the TV #
Spanish Inquisition The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition ( es, Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition ( es, Inquisición española), was established in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs, King Ferdinand ...
(Part 3) # Comfy Chair # Famous Person Quiz # Be a Great Actor # Neville Shunt # Royal Festival Hall Concert #
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# Camp Judges # Stake Your Claim #
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# Camp Judges (Part 2) #
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#
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(Part 4)


2006 CD bonus tracks

#Treadmill Lager #Bishop at Home #Courtroom Sketch #Freelance Undertaker


Personnel

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Graham Chapman Graham Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was a British actor, comedian and writer. He was one of the six members of the surreal comedy group Monty Python. He portrayed authority figures such as The Colonel and the lead role in two P ...
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John Cleese John Marwood Cleese ( ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and ...
*
Terry Gilliam Terrence Vance Gilliam (; born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, comedian, animator, actor and former member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam has directed 13 feature films, including ''Time Bandits'' (1981), ''B ...
*
Eric Idle Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English actor, comedian, musician and writer. Idle was a member of the British surreal comedy group Monty Python and the parody rock band The Rutles, and is the writer of the music and lyrics for the Broadwa ...
*
Terry Jones Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 – 21 January 2020) was a Welsh comedian, director, historian, actor, writer and member of the Monty Python comedy team. After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English, Jones and ...
*
Michael Palin Sir Michael Edward Palin (; born 5 May 1943) is an English actor, comedian, writer, television presenter, and public speaker. He was a member of the Monty Python comedy group. Since 1980, he has made a number of travel documentaries. Palin w ...


Additional performers

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Carol Cleveland Carol Cleveland (born 13 January 1942) is a British-American actress and comedian, particularly known for her work with Monty Python. Early life Born in East Sheen, London, she moved to the United States with her mother and U.S. Air Force step ...
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The Fred Tomlinson Singers Frederick Tomlinson (18 December 1927 – 17 July 2016) was a British singer, songwriter and composer. He founded the Fred Tomlinson Singers, who sang the music featured on '' Monty Python's Flying Circus'', ''The Two Ronnies'' and other British ...


Music credits

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, arr. A.W. Sheriff) # Fanfare Opening (D. Laren) # Formal Presentation (K. Papworth) # Contesana Padawana (
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) # Man of Power (J. Trombey) # Gold Lame (K. Papworth) # Southern Breeze (A. Mawer) # Spam Song (Terry Jones, Michael Palin & Fred Tomlinson) # Bahama Parakeet (A. Mawer) # House of Fashion (Stanley Black) # Circus Tumble (K. Papworth) # Fanfare A (Major J Howe) # Mystery Drums (P. Knight) # Mystery Place (P. Knight) # Ode to Edward (J. Trombey) # In Step With Johann (R. Wale) #
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Distribution information

*LP: (1971) Charisma CAS 1049 (UK) *Cassette: (1971) Charisma ZCCAS 1049 (UK) *LP: (1972) Charisma CAS 1049 (US, distributed by Buddah) (with different running-order and material) *LP: (1972) Philips 6369 913 (Aust) (with different running-order and material) *LP: (1975) Charisma CAS 1049 (UK, distributed by Phonogram) *Cassette: (1975) Charisma CASMC 1049 (UK, distributed by Phonogram) *LP: (1988) Charisma CHC 79 (UK, distributed by Virgin) (budget price) *CD: (1989) Charisma CASCD 1049 ("Another Monty Python CD") (UK, distributed by Virgin) *LP: (19**) Virgin MP501 (UK) *CD: (1994) Virgin VCCD 001 (UK) ("Another Monty Python CD" version 2, re-issue) *LP: (2014) Virgin Records MPYTHONLP2 (UK, US version of album) (Boxset ''Monty Python's Total Rubbish'')


References

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