@@ThatCoalSoul. It’s absolutely true. I’ve just looked it up and they quote the “earliest evidence for the word is from 1967 in the writing of V. Stanshall”. I liked Viv. Met him once and he was lovely to talk to - a really nice guy.
I just learned about this song maybe 20 minutes ago. Spotify pulled it up completely at random. I was listening while working late at night, so it took until I heard "Adolf Hitler on vibes" to notice something was off and Google the song name and lyrics. Instant classic. I've already sent it to a friend.
This is a good test of whether you might get on with someone, if they can drink a coffee without it going up their nose listening to it for the first time, , then probably not.
still absolutely brilliant after all these years, love "...Roy Rogers on Trigger...". followed by the sound of a horse 'emptying it's bladder' profusely..!! JEAN E ARSE!!
I saw the Bonzos in the summer of 1969 at the Fillmore West in Frisco. they played one set in the middle of the show for the Byrds and I can't remember who else. I'm starting to forget but I'll always remember the Bonzos. It was a few years after that I heard The Intro and Outro on KSAN jive 95 FM. I never get tired of listening to it ! Remember the BDB were the musicians for the New Vaudeville Band performing Winchester Cathedral in 1965.
I love how it mixes up dimensions and narrative types, you have real-life historical figures mixed in with entertainers, politicians, science-fiction and comics characters, etc.
Well, with the same last name as Keith's, no wonder! Why not just go all the way and call yourself Vivian Moon? Viv and Keith were best friends and fellow pranksters, you know!
Neil Innes performed with the Pythons, I have seen him as part of the barber shop quartet signing Sit On My Face. Some people say he was the 7th Python
Everyone, I've grooved on this piece for decades, but only recently learned there's a term for the type of repeating musical figure as laid down here by Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell (on bass guitar) and Neil Innes (on piano). If this is also new to you, it's called a "vamp" or, more formally, an "ostinato." See Wikipedia. BTW -- really wild, General!
That actually is Eric Clapton on ukelele. He and Viv were classmates at art school before either got into music full time and kept in close contact over the years. I recall Eric saying in an interview he wished he could join the Bonzos just to get away from the 'Clapton is god' rhetoric that was getting out of hand and have some fun on stage.
This one always used to corpse me every time - but now to see the video of all the characters appearing at their precise moments, and some of the text comments laid over the top - well, I was reduced to hysterics with tears rolling down my cheeks well before the end! Brilliantly well done - thank you!
Oi de diddley oi de diddley oi de day, ah sure & O'Rafferty's goat... (apologies for the stage Irishman stereotype - don't blame me; he made a career out nof it)
Agreed. I am American and when I first heard this decades ago on the Doctor Demento show I didn't get most of the British references. I still fell out of my chair laughing.
This is the edited version. In the original release it also had "And Now Just Arriving, Quintin Hogg on piggy-grunt" He, for some odd reason, took exception to this and spoke to a few people he knew resulting in them having to go back into the studio to rerecord it.The unedited version is on the vinyl double album, The History of the Bonzos. Quintin Hogg was Lord Hailsham and an MP at the time.
For some reason, Charles deGaulle's contribution on the accordion has always tickled me most of all. The light-hearted melody he plays was completely out of line with his dour public persona.
I think that the point with Gen de Gaulle is that his music was so essentially french and in no way aligned with the music that everyone else was playing. Art imitating life again.....
First time I've heard this in 40 years - I messaged a mate of mine earlier and said "That's nice Max" ...and I immediately went on here after prompting myself from nowhere.
@@johnconlon9652 He was an American televangelist. He was the son of Herbert Armstrong who founded the Worldwide Church of God. He was on TV a lot in the 60s.
Ted and his The World Tomorrow ad ran on Radio Luxembourg in the early 60s. As did: The time by my Ever Right Watch, The Big O show (Oriel Record Co!!!) and of course Horace Bachelor at KEYNSHAM. My favourite icons of the time, in addition to the above would be Balham, Gateway to the South, Alfred E Numan - What me worry and Snibbo - Cures blocked drains to Flu.
Had their reunion concert with guests. Regulars on Rediffusion Do Not Adjust Your Set which was a pre Monty Python sketch show. It also starred David Jason.
I first heard this song on a late night radio show back in 1981. I was 11 then and hadn't heard who half of those people were (Adolf Hitler on the vibes). I ended up getting a greatest hits CD a couple of decades later and was not disappointed. Great job on putting faces to most of the names, but being Canadian, I'm still not familiar with some of those people.
this was a wonderful send up of lounge acts. still one of my favorites from the bonzo dogs and their doodah blend (joke). what scares me is that i know most of the british references but i'm not a brit. i'm from Barnsley. thanks for the video.
I would love to see a performance of "Shirt". Roger's electric shirt collar solo had to be very painful. Assuming from the sounds of pain, it was played like a xylophone, using mallets for striking.
I love to Boogie on a Saturday night. I don't have any interest any other time, just a Saturday night. I used to quite like to do the Jitterbug on a Tuesday afternoon, but my lovely wife, (An enthusiastic little filly from the north), missed her regular rogering down among the croquet hoops, so I had to give it up.
@@lauraokeefe2698 Good for you! I still do the Spelling Bee every day (have to get QB!) and I was a bit surprised to realise it's been nearly two years since I started. I gave up reading the comments quite a while ago (they became a much less friendly place) but it's nice to know someone's spreading enlightenment there.
@@jgstringer, always pleased to encounter another Bee enthusiast! And you'll be glad to know that the comments these days are mostly friendly and supportive, although inevitably there are a few cranks. Anyway, I hope I've enlightened a few of them by following in your path and giving them the link to this beloved Bonzo work.
Imagining Princess Anne enthusiastically playing a sousaphone is what keeps me from ending it all.
LOL!!
🤣
I agree
Chuckle
Very relaxed Adolf Hitler on vibes
Interesting fact: the Oxford English Dictionary cites this song's title as the first use of the word "outro".
Is that really true?
I do know that sound crews have been using it for nearly ever.
@@ThatCoalSoul. It’s absolutely true. I’ve just looked it up and they quote the “earliest evidence for the word is from 1967 in the writing of V. Stanshall”. I liked Viv. Met him once and he was lovely to talk to - a really nice guy.
The killer for me is the repetition of the Val Doonican "Hello there" bit.
Introducing Obi-Wan Kenobi as Himself... 🙂
This has been my go-to "I need a good laugh" song for more than 50 years! Just brilliant.
Me too
I just learned about this song maybe 20 minutes ago. Spotify pulled it up completely at random. I was listening while working late at night, so it took until I heard "Adolf Hitler on vibes" to notice something was off and Google the song name and lyrics.
Instant classic. I've already sent it to a friend.
First time I've heard in 50+ years. Incredibly easy to find on CZcams. Thank you! Roy Rogers on Trigger. You betcha!
I've known this by heart for 50 years.
Me too! Always good to meet a fellow loony.
Farewell Neil Innes. They don't make them like that any more.
Fifty years later, and it still kills me
John Wayne's mastery of xylophone is rarely acknowledged! Rest easy spaceman Neill Innes...
This is a good test of whether you might get on with someone, if they can drink a coffee without it going up their nose listening to it for the first time, , then probably not.
The day I don’t love this is when I know I am dead. Great job on video. Thank you. Well done.
still absolutely brilliant after all these years, love "...Roy Rogers on Trigger...". followed by the sound of a horse 'emptying it's bladder' profusely..!!
JEAN E ARSE!!
.... into a milk bottle!
This still just kills me. Heard it at a friends house in the 70's, they were a warm up band for Frank Zappa.
That's a joke in itself, it should have been the other way round.
Frank definitely appreciated humour in his and others music, so although I didn’t know this, it doesn’t surprise me.
“looking very relaxed”. So funny!
@@PIPEHEAD Oh yeah, I was gonna get on here and say that myself. The Bonzo's humor was far superior to that of the always infantile Zappa.
@@oleggorky906Apparently, Frank Zappa and Viv Stanshall became friends and often had long telephone conversations - I can only imagine how they went.
I saw the Bonzos in the summer of 1969 at the Fillmore West in Frisco. they played one set in the middle of the show for the Byrds and I can't remember who else. I'm starting to forget but I'll always remember the Bonzos. It was a few years after that I heard The Intro and Outro on KSAN jive 95 FM. I never get tired of listening to it ! Remember the BDB were the musicians for the New Vaudeville Band performing Winchester Cathedral in 1965.
I love how it mixes up dimensions and narrative types, you have real-life historical figures mixed in with entertainers, politicians, science-fiction and comics characters, etc.
A bit like the cover of Sgt. Pepper I’d say.
One of the greatest bands of all time! Saw them open for The Who n 1969, I was 14 yrs old, bean a basket case ever since!
Well, with the same last name as Keith's, no wonder! Why not just go all the way and call yourself Vivian Moon? Viv and Keith were best friends and fellow pranksters, you know!
You’re so lucky. That must have been one extraordinary show!
Holy moly They definitely gave the phythons a run for the money shere comic lunacy a genious in every song thank god I fount the bonzos.
Neil Innes performed with the Pythons, I have seen him as part of the barber shop quartet signing Sit On My Face. Some people say he was the 7th Python
Outstanding what recording engineers did with (4) track machines in those days. Absolute madness - love it!!!!
Everyone, I've grooved on this piece for decades, but only recently learned there's a term for the type of repeating musical figure as laid down here by Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell (on bass guitar) and Neil Innes (on piano). If this is also new to you, it's called a "vamp" or, more formally, an "ostinato." See Wikipedia. BTW -- really wild, General!
.....thank you sir.
That actually is Eric Clapton on ukelele. He and Viv were classmates at art school before either got into music full time and kept in close contact over the years. I recall Eric saying in an interview he wished he could join the Bonzos just to get away from the 'Clapton is god' rhetoric that was getting out of hand and have some fun on stage.
Who cares, Clapton is a scumbag
I saw the Bongo Dog Band @ Fillmore West in 1969. They were a opening act and put on quite a theatrical show.
So I prefer the Bonzos - EC is featured on one Bonzo tune....
@@NormAppleton Like so many in the 60s, dark memories of WW11, so I understand.
Cool info...thanks.
Val Doonicans 'HOOOORLOW' always cracks me up
This one always used to corpse me every time - but now to see the video of all the characters appearing at their precise moments, and some of the text comments laid over the top - well, I was reduced to hysterics with tears rolling down my cheeks well before the end! Brilliantly well done - thank you!
Agree with Ken, Neil Innes was a very underrated genius.
And Viv Stansall ...and the rest!
I sense Hashish was involved here.
RIP Val Doonican. Your cameo here is easily amongst your greatest work.
hello there
Hello there!
My favourite. Hello there !
Oi de diddley oi de diddley oi de day, ah sure & O'Rafferty's goat...
(apologies for the stage Irishman stereotype - don't blame me; he made a career out nof it)
@@WORKERS.DREADNOUGHT it's Mc Ginty's goat 🐐
Saw them in 1969/70 . I reckon one of the best bands ever!. At the end of every number they all swapped instruments.
Brilliant in a word.
Brilliant! If you don't get it, you were not there.
According to Tom Rush, if you can remember those days, you weren't really there.
@@nigelrg1 but I was there...
@@christopherellis2663 Then you're caught in a Catch-22. If you can rember that ... :-)
I get it but definitely wasn't there...
I wasn't there. By a long way. Best I can do is appreciate it
2:31 - Brainiac on banjo
I always loved that line.
A measure of how great this was:Even if you didn't know who half the people introduced were,it was still hilarious 😆
Agreed. I am American and when I first heard this decades ago on the Doctor Demento show I didn't get most of the British references. I still fell out of my chair laughing.
The Count Basie Orchestra on Triangle (DING!)
That's MY favorite
And mine.
Thank You
@Susan Moran Thank you
Even after 57 years, this is still f....g awesome
Adolf could really play those vibes..... nice!
All of their songs have been brilliant, but this one was the first one I ever heard, so it will always be my favourite.
Viv Stanshall : A genuine eccentric
Nah .. he was sane ...it was the rest of that were zany
@@Bowser1948 eccentric doesn't necessarily equate to being insane.
I've no idea why; I always laugh more at "Garner Ted Armstrong" than the rest
It’s so completely out of left field.
@@chasbodaniels1744 Who knew who he was in England?
This is the edited version. In the original release it also had "And Now Just Arriving, Quintin Hogg on piggy-grunt" He, for some odd reason, took exception to this and spoke to a few people he knew resulting in them having to go back into the studio to rerecord it.The unedited version is on the vinyl double album, The History of the Bonzos.
Quintin Hogg was Lord Hailsham and an MP at the time.
+Jam Jar wow, did not know that....now I want to look for that album...it's not on the version on the Cd box set or the original vinyl album
Jam Jar Spotify has both versions, fyi
I didn't know this! Thanks for the info.
Amazing - didn't think this could get any funnier but your photos add a whole extra dimension! Thank you for posting!
This is more or less the most brilliant thing ever. :)
Really wild general ..thank you sir
For some reason, Charles deGaulle's contribution on the accordion has always tickled me most of all. The light-hearted melody he plays was completely out of line with his dour public persona.
I think that the point with Gen de Gaulle is that his music was so essentially french and in no way aligned with the music that everyone else was playing. Art imitating life again.....
Lord, how great to hear this again! I used to play it on radio a zillion years ago...
I’m old enough to remember nearly all the “extra band members” in this great jazz parody.
First time I've heard this in 40 years - I messaged a mate of mine earlier and said "That's nice Max"
...and I immediately went on here after prompting myself from nowhere.
Absolute genius. This is the 3rd time on the row I've played it.
And Tubular bells. A wonderful transition; Mike Oldfield knew what he was doing.
Viv always reckoned that he never got paid for his 'introductions' on the Tubular Bells LP... .
Saw them when a student at Edinburgh University in 1971; hilarious and superb musicians! Felt myself lucky to witness genius in vivo.
RIP, Neil Innes. Or, Hallo there to Val Doonican.
My guitar teacher opened for him here in the U.S. several years ago. Said he was a great guy and they had lots of fun.
Brilliant collage of images and of course great music! Thank you.
Eric clapton of Ukulele, LOL "Hi eric!"
Best of all apparently it was Clapton on ukelele!
Thanks for adding the pics!
The Garner Ted Armstrong one really cracks me up. Did most people in England even know who he was?
No! I don't to this day.
@@johnconlon9652 He was an American televangelist. He was the son of Herbert Armstrong who founded the Worldwide Church of God. He was on TV a lot in the 60s.
Ted and his The World Tomorrow ad ran on Radio Luxembourg in the early 60s. As did: The time by my Ever Right Watch, The Big O show (Oriel Record Co!!!) and of course Horace Bachelor at KEYNSHAM.
My favourite icons of the time, in addition to the above would be Balham, Gateway to the South, Alfred E Numan - What me worry and Snibbo - Cures blocked drains to Flu.
@@squirrels103 The mighty Horace and his Infradraw Method !
Fun fact: it actually is Eric Clapton on ukulele.
I've heard that as well.
Priceless even today. Great collage a worthy stand-in for lack of live performance. "Thank You."
When Lord Clark was only a knight. I grieve that I can not share this with the young without preparing them multiple history lessons.
Always loved this.
Had their reunion concert with guests. Regulars on Rediffusion Do Not Adjust Your Set which was a pre Monty Python sketch show. It also starred David Jason.
Great song, great video. Thanks for posting.
really wild general
That line has always cracked me up ... I don’t see deGaulle ever being the least bit hip or wild.
I first heard this song on a late night radio show back in 1981. I was 11 then and hadn't heard who half of those people were (Adolf Hitler on the vibes).
I ended up getting a greatest hits CD a couple of decades later and was not disappointed.
Great job on putting faces to most of the names, but being Canadian, I'm still not familiar with some of those people.
Found this on my spotify discover weekly, glad I did.
fkn brilliant!
I've never heard this before. I clearly missed out.
Liberace really loved to blow that clarinet.
Mmmm that’s nice Max!
Absolute. Genius.
Top video dude.
I heartily endorse this introductory offer!
this was a wonderful send up of lounge acts. still one of my favorites from the bonzo dogs and their doodah blend (joke). what scares me is that i know most of the british references but i'm not a brit. i'm from Barnsley. thanks for the video.
Not Barnsley, South Yorkshire then?
@@portcullis5622 Did they declare independence? 🤔
@@Jamie_Pritchard Well, it used to be known as The People's Republic of South Yorkshire!
That was psychedelic beyond imagination
RIP Neil Innes.
90% of all people mentioned in the song were still alive at the time of recording. 😂
Excellent video! Well done for getting them all, well almost.
I have just revisited this great track- such fun, boys and girls!
I would love to see a performance of "Shirt". Roger's electric shirt collar solo had to be very painful. Assuming from the sounds of pain, it was played like a xylophone, using mallets for striking.
Shirt...where it is?
@@alexmarshall4331 I don't know where it is.
Soo unique intro and outro memories that well not forget thanks for sharing the picture
Lovely.
LOVE the vocals! Hot bebop at its finest!
Saw them at Michigan State Fair in 1969. The crowd went delirious!
And- last but not least, William 'Billy' Shears on 'taking the piss'???!!!!
"very relaxed"
I'd totally forgotten Horace Spatula till tonight.. RIP NEIL
I believe it was actually Horace Batchelor.
Where was the spatula invented?
Keynsham.
Brilliant!!
Man, John Wayne could really wail on the xylophone....
Most Excellent💥
Lord snooty and his pals tap dancing always reminds me of Jacob Rees Mogg and the ga g.
"Roy Rogers on Trigger."
Mmmm, that's nice Max
RIP Neil...
Love it !!!
I love to Boogie on a Saturday night. I don't have any interest any other time, just a Saturday night. I used to quite like to do the Jitterbug on a Tuesday afternoon, but my lovely wife, (An enthusiastic little filly from the north), missed her regular rogering down among the croquet hoops, so I had to give it up.
Vivian Stanshall introduced the instruments and did a discriptive tour on Tubular Bells.
And the curious thing is of course , you can just imagine it happening .
Classic. Greetings if my NYT Spelling Bee link brought you here!
Ha! "Outro" appeared in the Bee again yesterday (9/24/22), and I provided a link to this place for the folks who were disputing "outro."
@@lauraokeefe2698 Good for you! I still do the Spelling Bee every day (have to get QB!) and I was a bit surprised to realise it's been nearly two years since I started. I gave up reading the comments quite a while ago (they became a much less friendly place) but it's nice to know someone's spreading enlightenment there.
@@jgstringer, always pleased to encounter another Bee enthusiast! And you'll be glad to know that the comments these days are mostly friendly and supportive, although inevitably there are a few cranks. Anyway, I hope I've enlightened a few of them by following in your path and giving them the link to this beloved Bonzo work.
Wonderful.
lovely stuff.
RIP Neil Innes
saw them live once at Market and Van Ness
RIP, Neil.
I like Harold Wilson on the fiddle
He always was.😂
love the intro outtro
Regular riff in a few MST3K eps & Frank & Trace, too ("looking very relaxed, Adolph Hitler")
Featuring your actual Eric Clapton on uke