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The Bonzo Dog Band - The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse (Full Stereo Album) (1968)

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This album is available at: http://www.amazon.com/Doughnut-Granny... The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Band) was a band created by a group of British art-school sudents of the 1960s. Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz and psychedelic pop with surreal humour and avant-garde art, the Bonzos came to the attention of a broader British public through a 1968 ITV comedy show, Do Not Adjust Your Set. The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse is the second album by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. By this time the band had changed their name to "The Bonzo Dog Band", dropping out the "Doo-Dah". The American version of this album was retitled Urban Spaceman and added their U.K. hit single "I'm the Urban Spaceman". The phrase "the doughnut in granny's greenhouse" is obscure British slang for lavatory. In 2007, the U.K. version was re-issued by EMI on CD with 5 bonus tracks. The chorus of "We Are Normal" features the lyric "We are n …...more
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The Bonzo Dog Band - The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse (Full Stereo Album) (1968)
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This album is available at: http://www.amazon.com/Doughnut-Granny... The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Band) was a band created by a group of British art-school sudents of the 1960s. Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz and psychedelic pop with surreal humour and avant-garde art, the Bonzos came to the attention of a broader British public through a 1968 ITV comedy show, Do Not Adjust Your Set. The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse is the second album by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. By this time the band had changed their name to "The Bonzo Dog Band", dropping out the "Doo-Dah". The American version of this album was retitled Urban Spaceman and added their U.K. hit single "I'm the Urban Spaceman". The phrase "the doughnut in granny's greenhouse" is obscure British slang for lavatory. In 2007, the U.K. version was re-issued by EMI on CD with 5 bonus tracks. The chorus of "We Are Normal" features the lyric "We are normal and we want our freedom", a reference to a line from the 1963 play "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade," or "Marat/Sade" a line also quoted in "The Red Telephone", a song by American band, Love, on their 1967 album "Forever Changes". 1. We Are Normal 0:00 2. Postcard 4:49 3. Beautiful Zelda 9:12 4. Can Blue Men Sing the Whites? 11:37 5. Hello Mabel 14:27 6. Kama Sutra 17:13 7. Humanoid Boogie 17:54 8. Trouser Press 20:58 9. My Pink Half of the Drainpipe 23:17 10. Rockaliser Baby 26:51 11. Rhinocratic Oaths 30:23 12. 11 Mustachioed Daughters 33:45 Bonus Tracks: 13. Blue Suede Shoes 38:45 14. Bang Bang 40:23 15. Alley Oop (Girls Version) 43:03 16. Canyons of Your Mind (Single Version) 45:35 17. Mr. Apollo (German Version) 48:37 Personnel: Vivian Stanshall -- trumpet, lead vocals Neil Innes -- piano, guitar, lead vocals Rodney "Rhino" Desborough Slater -- saxophone Roger Ruskin Spear -- tenor sax and various contraptions "Legs" Larry Smith -- drums Dave Clague -- bass, coronet, and fuzz guitar on "Humanoid Boogie" Joel Druckman -- bass, voice at the end of "Trouser Press", and interviewer on "We Are Normal"

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