Monty Python's Previous Record

Monty Python's Previous Record is the third album by Monty Python, released in 1972. According to Michael Palin in his Diaries 1969–1979, "Among the new ideas for the record were a 'B' side consisting of four concentric tracks, all starting at different places on the first groove, so that the listener could get any of one of four different versions of the 'B' side". Although this proved impractical on the available equipment, a less ambitious version of the same idea, with just two concentric tracks, would be used on the next Monty Python LP, The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief.

Contents

• Side one
• Side two
• 19942006 Track listing
• 2006 Bonus tracks
• References

When packaged in 1994's The Instant Monty Python CD Collection the order of some of the sketches was changed. It was later re-released on CD in 1997, and eventually released as a 2006 special edition, containing eleven extra tracks, and the original album's sequence was the same as issued in the 1994 box set.

The album contains sketches from the third series of Flying Circus as well as new material. The Tale of Happy Valley is actually an edited version of A Fairy Tale from the second German show.

The track "Wonderful World of Sound" features the earliest known citation of the phrase "something for the weekend", a euphemistic reference to condoms used by barbers when offering them to their clientele.

The original British vinyl release included a separate 45rpm flexi-disc entitled 'Teach Yourself Heath', whose sleeve was a picture of a smiling Edward Heath (then Prime Minister).