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1975 single by Monty Python
"Lumberjack Song"
Single by Monty Python
B-side
"Spam Song"
Released
14 November 1975
Recorded
3 October 1975 at the Work House, London
Genre
Comedy
Label
Charisma
Songwriter(s)
Michael Palin Terry Jones Fred Tomlinson
Producer(s)
George Harrison
Monty Python singles chronology
"Monty Python's Tiny Black Round Thing" (1974)
"Lumberjack Song" (1975)
"Python On Song" (1976)
"The Lumberjack Song" is a comedy song by the comedy troupe Monty Python. The song was written and composed by Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Fred Tomlinson.[1][2][3]
It first appeared in the ninth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, "The Ant: An Introduction" on BBC1 on 14 December 1969. The song has since been performed in several forms, including film, stage, and LP, each time started from a different skit. At an NPR interview in 2007, Palin stated that the scene and the whole song were created in about 15 minutes, concluding a day's work, when the Python crew was stuck and unable to come up with a conclusion to the barbershop sketch that preceded it.
On 14 November 1975, "The Lumberjack Song" was released as a single in the UK, on Charisma Records, backed with "Spam Song".[4] The A-side, produced by Python devotee George Harrison,[5] was recorded at the Work House studio in London on 3 October 1975 and mixed at Harrison's Friar Park home the following day. A year later this single was reissued on 19 November 1976 as the first half of the double single release Python On Song. This version of the song has never been released on CD, although a remix containing alternate vocal takes from the session was included on the compilation album Monty Python Sings.
^Monty Python Sings CD booklet. 1989 Virgin Records
^"Fred Tomlinson, singer on Monty Python – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 2 August 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
^Slotnik, Daniel E. (4 August 2016). "Fred Tomlinson, Singer Who Led a 'Monty Python' Troupe, Dies at 88". New York Times. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
^Harry Castleman & Walter J. Podrazik, All Together Now: The First Complete Beatles Discography 1961–1975, Ballantine Books (New York, NY, 1976), p. 372.
^The Editors of Rolling Stone, Harrison, Rolling Stone Press/Simon & Schuster (New York, NY, 2002), p. 194.
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