Friday on my Mind 181: I’m the Urban Spaceman
Posted in 1960s, Friday On My Mind, Music at 12:00 on 2 August 2019
A piece of one-off absurdism from 1968. One-off in the sense that the Bonzo Dog (Doo-Dah) Band didn’t trouble the charts again. The brackets I put in the name are because the band changed it – dropping the Doo-Dah (which had originally been Dada) – at around the time Urban Spaceman was released.
Yes, they were bonkers, but in a Monty Pythonish way. There was something in the air in Britain in the late sixties.
The song’s writer Neil Innes was a genius as his later work with The Rutles and The Innes Book of Records proved.
I remember a TV appearance where Viv Stanshall “played” the last musical phrase of Spaceman on a hose-pipe, while whirling it around his head.
The recording was produced by one Apollo C Vermouth (otherwise known as Paul McCartney.)
The Bonzo Dog Band: I’m the Urban Spaceman
Tags: Apollo C Vermouth, Bonzo Dog Band, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Monty Python, Neil Innes, Paul McCartney, The Innes Book of Records, The Rutles
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