BONZO DOG DOO DAH BAND - GORILLA - 1967

1967 CLASSIC Gorilla = Dedicated to Kong who must have been a great bloke

First Published: October 1967
LP / UK: Liberty LBL83056(mono) LBS83056(stereo), US: Imperial LP-12370
reissue info see below
CD / UK: Cornology (The Intro), Four Bonzo Dog Originals, BGO CD82, US (CA): One Way S21-17370

Side 1
Side 2

COOL BRITANNIA (Trad. Stanshall/Innes)
Someone letta Freak-Out?
What do you think Reader?

THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE (Innes)
Inspired by Sartre’s Nausea

JOLLITY FARM (Les Sarony)
All the little pigs they grunt and howl; grunt howl,
grunt howl.

I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO (Doug Cross)

LOOK OUT, THERE’S A MONSTER COMING (Stanshall)
Herald the new age of Robots.
A plastoplastic pictopicture. Heil Humanoid.

JAZZ, DELICIOUS HOT, DISGUSTING COLD
(Stanshall, Innes, Ash, Nowell, Spear, Slater, Smith)
“….in them days, Sure I played for Al Capone…. well….
er….his brother Bottles actually (does he) Shooting?
What shooting? I was just blowing, man. All over, Illinois with Willi Windbeutel’s Normal Band, remember Rudi? Chicago, Jock Strap & his band “Lippo” Memmi’s Byzantine Six. I was the greatest even then. Just blowing, having a ball, what a gas, just blowing, blowing, blowing….”

DEATH-CAB FOR CUTIE (Stanshall/ Innes) Starring God.

NARCISSUS (Ethelbert Nevin OP. 13., No. 4.) A comma.

1,5,6,9,12&13 S.Bron Music Co. Ltd. THE INTRO AND THE OUTRO (Stanshall)
In which we are introduced.
Roger discovers the jazz in his navel & we leave it there.

MICKEY’S SON AND DAUGHTER (Lisbonna and Connor)
Nudity furnace. The electric smile. One always gets requests to do something with this number.

BIG SHOT (Stanshall)
The ultimate in adult comics.
The mythological trash world revisited. The American Paper-back. A dissertation.

MUSIC FOR THE HEAD BALLET (Innes)
“….and fling your head thru’ the legs, balance, relax, again, d-e-e-p breath, and…. vanish.”

PIGGY BANK LOVE (Innes)
Sounds Or-castrated. A teen- style rocker. Nice to hear something indecent for a change.

I’M BORED (Stanshall) So what? A heavy meal. fruit and Veg. A poem in porridge.

THE SOUNDS OF MUSIC (Roger and Hammerstein)
Did you know the Mrs. Nora Mitchell of Dagenham, Essex can make a crash-helmet out of a bra in only 2 mins. 35 secs? I’ve seen it 437 times, I’ve seen it 532 times, I’ve seen it, I’ve….

2,7,11&14 Mann Music publishers Ltd.
3 Lawrence Wright Music Ltd. 4&10 Dash Music Co. Ltd.
8 Non Copyright 15 Williamson
Dada is normal, normal is nice

BONZO DOG DOO DAH BAND – GORILLA – 1967 FULL LP