By Jingo It's British Rubbish

By Jingo It's British Rubbish

ASIN: B00004SSGT

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
A Trad Jazz Album with a Comedic Twist. Featuring the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, the Temperance Seven, the Alberts, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan. Liner Notes by Neil Innes. Running Time 74 Minutes.

Tracks:

Morse Code Melody - The Alberts
Samara - The Temperance Seven
Ali Baba's Camel - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Everybody Loves My Baby - The Temperance Seven
On Her Doorstep Last Night - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Hard Hearted Hannah - The Temperance Seven
Sleepy Valley - The Alberts
Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Vo-Do-Do-Do-De-O Blues - The Temperance Seven
I'm Going To Bring A Watermelon To My Girl Tonight - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
You Gotta Go Now - Spike Milligan & The Massed Alberts
You're Driving Me Crazy - The Temperance Seven
Dr. Jazz - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Pasadena - The Temperance Seven
By A Waterfall - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Kaiser Drag - The Temperance Seven
My Brother Makes The Noises For The Talkies - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Ukelele Lady - Peter Sellers/The Temperance Seven
Blaze Away - The Alberts
Runnin' Wild - The Temperance Seven
Jollity Farm - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Thanks For The Melody - The Temperance Seven
Laughing Blues - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
T.C.P. (That Certain Party) - The Temperance Seven
Hunting Tigers Out In Indiah - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Goodbye Dolly Gray - The Alberts

Average customer rating:

By Jingo It Certainly Isn't British Rubbish!
Jazz? Art? Comedy? Lunacy?.......Trad Jazz it ain't....
Lively music, but it's not comedy
Haven't stopped smiling since it arrived!
There's a farm called Misery, but of that we'll have none

By Jingo It's British Rubbish
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Manufacturer: Hux Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004SSGT
Release Date: 2003-07-28

Tracks:

Morse Code Melody - The Alberts
Samara - The Temperance Seven
Ali Baba's Camel - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Everybody Loves My Baby - The Temperance Seven
On Her Doorstep Last Night - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Hard Hearted Hannah - The Temperance Seven
Sleepy Valley - The Alberts
Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Vo-Do-Do-Do-De-O Blues - The Temperance Seven
I'm Going To Bring A Watermelon To My Girl Tonight - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
You Gotta Go Now - Spike Milligan & The Massed Alberts
You're Driving Me Crazy - The Temperance Seven
Dr. Jazz - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Pasadena - The Temperance Seven
By A Waterfall - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Kaiser Drag - The Temperance Seven
My Brother Makes The Noises For The Talkies - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Ukelele Lady - Peter Sellers/The Temperance Seven
Blaze Away - The Alberts
Runnin' Wild - The Temperance Seven
Jollity Farm - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Thanks For The Melody - The Temperance Seven
Laughing Blues - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
T.C.P. (That Certain Party) - The Temperance Seven
Hunting Tigers Out In Indiah - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Goodbye Dolly Gray - The Alberts

Product Description

1. Morse Code Melody - The Alberts
2. Samara - The Temperance Seven
3. Ali Baba's Camel - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
4. Everybody Loves My Baby - The Temperance Seven
5. On Her Doorstep Last Night - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
6. Hard Hearted Hannan - The Temperance Seven
7. Sleepy Valley - The Alberts
8. Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
9. Vo-Do-Do-Do-De-O Blues - The Temperance Seven
10. I'm Going To Bring A Watermelon To My Girl Tonight - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
11. You Gotta Go Oow - Spike Millgan/The Massed Albert
12. You're Driving Me Crazy - The Temperance Seven
13. Dr. Jazz - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
14. Pasadena - The Temperance Seven
15. By A Waterfall - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
16. Kaiser Drag - The Temperance Seven
17. My Brother Makes The Noises For The Talkies - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
18. Ukelele Lady - Peter Sellers/The Temperance Seven
19. Blame Away - The Alberts
20. Runnin' Wild - The Temperance Seven
21. Jollity Farm - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
22. Thanks For The Melody - The Temperance Seven
23. Laughing Blues - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
24. T.C.P. (That Certain Party) - The Temperence Seven
25. Hunting Tigers Out In Indian - The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
26. Goodbey Dolly Gray - The Alberts

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

By Jingo It Certainly Isn't British Rubbish!.......2007-05-16

I came upon this CD by accident, it being mentioned on the sleeve of a CD called: 'Songs The Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us', which has a lot of the original versions of songs later covered by the 'Bonzos'.
'By Jingo It's British Rubbish' features the 'Bonzos' along with The Alberts, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, to name but a few.
Lets not forget that these musicians were not thrown together like some 1960s 'beat combo', these guys could really play, especially The Temperance Seven who made the music charts in the UK several times. They tweaked and polished the old musical arrangements without losing any of their old charm. These songs were known as 'Novelty Foxtrots' in the 1920s and 30s and were given the bonkers 'Trad Jazz' treatment by the 'Bonzos' and other bands.
Viv Stanshall of the 'Bonzos', as you can imagine, is as well as being one of England's great eccentrics, is in great form as the quintessential English crooner - though really playing it for laughs. Particular favourites include: 'On her doorstep last night' and 'Jollity Farm'.
I thoroughly enjoyed this compilation - so don your smoking jacket, light a cigar and prepare to chuckle!

VOH DOH DE OH DOH!

Jazz? Art? Comedy? Lunacy?.......Trad Jazz it ain't...........2006-03-16

Largely featuring the Alberts and two better-known bands that emerged from their world,(The Bonzos and the Temperance Seven), this is a truly great album. In some ways, the bands are all different: the Bonzos are famously pythonesque; the Alberts utterly anarchic; the Temerance Seven are probably the best musicians, best recorded, and stiffest upper lips.

The music is where the common threads emerge: 1920's white jazz (a La early cartoon etc. soundtracks - all plinking banjoleles, muted cornets and baritone saxes ) forms the basis for lunatic improvisations and surreal lyrics invariably delivered by a lounge-lizard in a Woosteresque upper class drawl. The results are strangely catchy and you'll find yourself singing something like "Pasadena" in public, to the embarrassment of your loved ones.

It's far too deliberately stiff and archaic to be typical of the jazz of the Ball/Barber/Bilk 1960's trad boom, but - because of the anarchic surrealism - has remained much more listenable.

Favourite tracks are the absolutely loony Alberts/Spike Milligan collaboration "You've got to say aah" and the Bonzo's irreplaceable "Hunting Tigers Down in India". For me the least best was Peter Sellers' strangely muted attempt at "Ukulele Lady". Most underrated thing on the whole album is "Whispering" Paul McDowell's immaculate vocals for the Temps.....

Buy it, love it, convert others, get moer of this stuff released

Lively music, but it's not comedy.......2005-01-08

The music reminds me of the background music on old black-and-white Warner Brothers or Disney cartoons. Fun and lively, but not the Comedy music I was expecting. One of the performers was the writer of the music for many Monty Python skits.

Haven't stopped smiling since it arrived!.......2003-07-17

I was familiar with much of this material thanks to a Bonzos/Alberts/Temperence Seven compilation I bought 20-some years ago, but it's great to hear it all again, and with such nice sound.

I have to say, though, that the newly-found Bonzo song has made me smile for days! I can't praise it enough! The one song (brief and loosely-played as it is) is worth the price of the CD to me, and that's remarkable!

There's a farm called Misery, but of that we'll have none.......2001-05-11

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band started their career in offbeat trad jazz before branching off into areas of rock, blues, and the just plain wonderfully weird for weird's sake. Those who sing the praises, and rightly so, of the Bonzo Dog Band and particularly that trad jazz sound, would do well to add this CD to their collection. The chief reason to own this is that it's a darned good bit of fun. Neil Innes explains in the liner notes that the music of the The Alberts and The Temperance Seven (actually eight wonderful musicians) was the jumping off point for the birth of the Bonzo Dog Band. Indeed. Hearing the opening number, Morse Code Melody, performed by the Alberts one can easily imagine the much-missed Vivian Stanshall having a go at the same song in a similar singing/commenting way.

Here you'll hear the best of the Bonzo Dog Band's trad jazz sound, including one additional little gem, On Her Doorstep Last Night, which was previously unreleased. Now that all manner of Bonzo recordings are available again on CD in various reissued incarnations, one wonders how this charming little tune got missed in all the collections. If you're a Bonzo Dog Band fan (and why are you reading this at all if you're not), it's a must-have CD for this reason.

But it's not the only reason to own this CD. If you like the Bonzos you're going to like what you hear from The Temperance Seven and the Alberts. Morse Code Melody, Sahara, Blame Away -- these all sit nicely alongside Bonzo favorites like By a Waterfall, Ali Baba's Camel and Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold. And good luck trying to find other CDs by The Alberts and The Temperance Seven. After hearing this CD, you'll wish there were more by these groups, and one can only hope that a renewed interest, much like the one the Bonzos are enjoying, will prompt more reissues.

The title of the CD, taken from comments made at the end of the Alberts Morse Code Melody, is most certainly a misnomer. If this is rubbish, one needs to root around in the dustbin more often.

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