Bonzo Dog Band - Bootleg Recordings

Credits

Bootleg/Live Recording Links

Live 1968

Contributed by Bob Kruse: The label is blue on the A side and red on B. The text on the label: Wizardo Rekords Collector's Special Recordings. 300 Series. All Rights Paid. Made in Holland. The record itself is a marvellous translucent pale blue with a red, black, green and white marbling (for want of a better, sloppier description) pattern radiating from the center outwards.

1. Shirt
2. I'm The Urban Spaceman
3. In Biology/Quiz Show/We Own Your Brain
4. Canyons of Your Mind
5. Hello Mabel
6. The Bride Stripped Bare By "Bachelors"
7. Ready Mades
8. Trouser Press
9. Canyons of Your Mind
10. Death Cab For Cutie
11. Help!

Tommy Recorded Live At the Rainbow

[No date] TAKRL 2956

(featuring The London Symphony Orchestra, The English Chamber Choir, David Essex, Marsha Hunt, Elkie Brooke, Roger Chapman, Graham Bell, Roger Daltrey, Bill Oddie, Merry Clayton, Vivian Stanshall, Roy Wood, Jon Pertwee)

Loose Caboose

In Allen Meinungs Angelegenheiten Sind Unsere Feinde Verruckt - Twenty-one Tasty Toones Individually And Collectively

[No date] [no recording label] TAKRL 1922 (disc labels blank except for side numbers)

Edited and assembled by Deek himself

1. Button Up Your Overcoat
2. Shirt (*live)
3. Hello, Mabel (*live)
4. Fiddle About /Tommy's Holiday Camp (*Tommy)
5. The Young Ones (by Vivian Stanshall and Kilgaron)
6. Oo-Chuck-A-Mao-Mao (by Neil Innes)
7. I'm Gonna Bring A Watermelon To My Girl Tonight
8. Alley Oop
9. What Noise Annoys A Noisy Oyster (by Neil Innes)
10. Death Cab For Cutie (from the film Magical Mystery Tour)
11. My Brother Makes the Noises For the Talkies
12. Da Story of Da Bonzo Itself (*live)
13. Ready-Mades (*live)
14. Canyons Of Your Mind (*live)
15. Trouser Freak (by Roger Ruskin Spear)
16. Trouser Press (by Roger Ruskin Spear)
17. Dropout (by Roger Ruskin Spear)
18. Paper Round (by Vivian Stanshall and the Sean Head Showband)
19. Are You Havin' Any Fun? (by Vivian Stanshall and Kilgaron)
20. I'm The Urban Spaceman (*live)

* Live, probably from the Do Not Adjust Your Set TV series

* Credited on the record insert as:

"Vivian Stanshall as Uncle Ernie with the London Symphony Orchestra from Tommy"

This is from the Rainbow orchestral version. The official orchestral version has Ringo Starr as Uncle Ernie and Ken Russell's film version has Keith Moon playing the part.

Urban Spacemen Do Exist! The Mad Mad Mad World of the Bonzo Dog Band

1995? Gold Standard, GOLD S.-95009

B.D.B. only printed on disc

Tracks 1-14 recorded on the BBC television show Colour Me Pop, 21 December 1968

Tracks 15-21 [sic] recorded at the Paradiso Club, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 25 August 1969

Booklet blurb

1. We Are Normal
   On CD:Normal

   My Pink Half Of The Drainpipe

   On CD:Pink Moon

   Humanoid Boogie

   On CD:The Boogie

   Rhinocratic Oath

   On CD:Oath

   Vivian Schnorbarstein Speaks

   On CD:Vivian's Talk

   11 Mustachioed Daughters

   On CD:Eleven

   A Lost Cause

   On CD:Lost Tape

   Hello Mabel

   On CD:Mabel I Love

   Legs Lift Off/Look At 'Em, E's Wonderful

   On CD:My Legs

   Canyons Of Your Mind

   On CD:My Mind

   Urban Spaceman

   On CD:Spacemen

   Yarn To A Human Carpet/Rhinocratic Oath

   On CD:Carpet

   Mr. Apollo

   On CD:Mr. Popolo

   The Outro

   On CD:Outch

   Can Blue Men Sing The Whites?

   On CD:Blue Man

   Look At Me, I'm Wonderful/Ready Mades/Laughing Blues

   On CD:I'm Wonderful

   Hello Mabel

   On CD: Mabel I Love

   Pub Ruckus

   On CD: The Pub

   Urban Spaceman

   On CD: Spaceman

   Tent

   On CD: My Tent

   Rockalise R Baby

   On CD: My Baby

   [goodbye from the band]

   On CD: B-R-A Society

Booklet back cover CD back cover

Meet the Bonzos

Tendolar TDR-019 (no date but probably 1998)

Back label header: "BONZO'S DOG BAND - Rarities - STEREO SOUNDBOARD RECORDING, TENDOLAR LABEL PRESENTS" and the pic with the motorcycle from "Urban Spacemen DO EXIST!!"

Info and tracks listing as printed, with mistakes...

Tracks 1-4: Live at the BBC

Identical to the tracks on the Peel Sessions

Tracks 5-6: Reunion Single from 1992

Tracks 7,22: Neil Innes' 'The World'

Track 8: Roger Ruskin Spear Solo

Track 9: Viv Stanshall's Gargantuan Chums

Track 10: Viv Stanshall's Big Grunt

Track 11,17,19: Viv Stanshall Solo Singles

Track 12-13: Bonzo's Under the Name ' Topo D Band'

Track 12 is identical to Oo-Chuck-A-Mao-Mao from the Grimms album Rockin' Duck
Track 13 is Neil Innes' What Noise Annoys A Noisy Oyster

Track 14-16: BBC sessions? Outtakes?

Track 14 is The Bride Stripped Bare by "Bachelors"
Track 16 is a very different version of Trouser Press which eventually becomes more like the one we all know and love

Track 18: Viv Stanshall and the Sean Head Band

Track 20-21: Rare Rutles Cuts

Tracks 20 and 21 are from the Japanese Archaeology

1. We're Gonna Bring It On Home
2. Monster Mash
3. Sofa Head
4. Tent
5. No Matter Who You Vote for, the Government Always Gets in
6. Them
7. 9 to 5 Pollution Blues
8. Release Me
9. Suspicion
10. Blind Date
11. The Young Ones
12. Witch Tai to
13. Jam
14. Bride Date
15. Canyons of You Mind
16. Trouser Press
17. Drop-Out!
18. Paper Round
19. Are You Havin Any Fun???
20. Lullaby
21. My Little Ukelale
22. Angelina

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