Monty Python - Monty Python's Previous Record [VINYL]

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The 2nd Monty Python LP recorded for Charisma Records was the first of their collaborations with sound engineer Andre Jacquemin, as well as musician Neil Innes of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. \u201cWhat Andre was doing with music and sound effects was incredible,\u201d said Michael Palin. \u201cAlthough he was only about 17 at the time, it was clear to me, as an old timer of 28, that we needed Andre for the Python records. I asked him if he wanted to help me make an album. Thankfully, he said \u2018Yes\u2019\u201d.\r
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The majority of the recordings were sketches written and performed for the third and final series of \u2018Monty Python\u2019s Flying Circus\u2019, broadcast at the end of 1972. Classic television Python, destined for \u2018Monty Python\u2019s Previous Record\u2019 including John\u2019s lupin-obsessed highwayman, Dennis Moore, Eric\u2019s wealth-obsessed host of \u2018The Money Programme\u2019 and Mike\u2019s customer service-obsessed client in the Argument Clinic. The Happy Valley Fairy Tale had originally been written for \u2018Monty Python\u2019s Fliegender Zirkus\u2019, a special episode for German television. This particular sketch, as far as the record version was concerned, also allowed a Python to utter the \u2018f word\u2019 word for the first time.\r
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Jacquemin was under no illusions. This second Python effort was a big deal. \u201cI knew it was an important project, not least for me,\u201d he recounts, \u201cso I booked Radio Luxembourg in Hertford Street. Alan Bailey was working there at the time. I knew I\u2019d be in safe hands if Alan was looking after the recording side. It was important for me to work with someone I knew and I still rate him as one of our best engineers. Then we just recorded it. It was a great experience\u201d.\r
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As with the previous album \u2018Another Monty Python Record\u2019 the very nature of vinyl is all part of the joke. The very first thing you hear is Terry J. screaming \u201cNot this record!\u201d several times, before the needle is thankfully scratched away from his manic ranting. Once again, side one ends with Mike signalling that it\u2019s now time to flip your platter. Here it is in reaction to Eric\u2019s relentless holidaymaker sharing his never-ending gripes about the perils of package holidays. Mike\u2019s anguished \u201cFor God\u2019s sake, take it off!\u201d brings relief as the needle is forcefully removed from the groove.\r
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Clearly, Python had found their man of sound and he had hit the floor running. It had a clarity and depth and cleverness that just worked and, suggests Andre, \u201cI saved them lots of money! We pulled the whole album in, top to tail, for a total cost of 10 thousand pounds. All of a sudden I was this guru who could save them money and take the worry of organising the recordings out of their hands. The fools still think I know what I\u2019m doing!\u201d