Contents: Embarrassment* / A Bedtime Book* / England 1747 - Dennis Moore / Money Programme / Dennis Moore Continues / Australian Table Wines* / Argument Clinic / Putting Budgies Down / Eric the Half a Bee / Travel Agency / Radio Quiz Game* / A Massage* / Silly Noises Quiz* / Miss Anne Elk / We Love the Yangtse* / How-to-Do-It Lessons / A Minute Passed* / Eclipse of the Sun* / Alistair Cooke* / Wonderful World of Sounds* / A Fairy Tale*
(* denotes material not available in any other Python movies or TV episodes)
Review: Much like Another Monty Python Record, this one is most comprised of familiar TV sketches, but unlike the previous album, there's even more new material here to make it worth your listening. To cite just one example, "Eric the Half a Bee" ends radically differently from the TV version, with John Cleese, in a rare musical outing, singing an ode to his favorite pet. Other "new" highlights include "Eclipse of the Sun" (featuring that Python favorite: unctuous, verbose announcers who overshadow their subject), and Michael Palin's over-the-top hosting of "Wonderful World of Sounds." The closer, "A Fairy Tale," was written solely by Cleese and his then-wife and frequent Python actress Connie Booth; it almost presages Cleese's future role in the anti-fairy tale Shrek 2. Acres of great stuff here.
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