Intro and Outro

[Mike Weaver]

>Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 15:12:17 PST
>From: <MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu>
>Subject: Re: More Feetlebaum than you needed/wanted to know

>My request: Will some equally erudite person now post the complete Bonzo
Dog >Band *Outro* lyrics 

Your wish oh mastahh...  Tho erudition is a quality of anyone who can
identify all the references,  not I who merely transcribes. 

*The Intro and the Outro*  off  >Gorilla <,  the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's
first album.  It was also the flip side of their first single *The
Equestrian Statue* which was a parody of the Beatles (Penny Lane?).  They
dropped the Doo Dah a couple of years later.


Hi nice to be with you happy you could stick around,  like to introduce
Legs Larry Smith, drums,  and Sam Spoons, rhythm poles 
and Vernon Dudley Bowhey-Knowle, bass guitar, and Neil Innes piano.
Come in Rodney Slater on the saxophone, with Roger Ruskin Spear on tenor sax
Hi Vivien Stanshall, trumpet
Big hello to big John Wayne, xylophone, and Robert Morley guitar
Billy Butlin, spoons, and looking very relaxed Adolph Hitler on vibes, (nice)
Princess Anne on sousaphone,  (mmm)
Introducing Liberace, clarinet
with Garner Ted Armstrong on vocals "Be doodie oodie oo bee bah doowah doowee"
Lord Snooty and his pals tap dancing 
In the groove with Harold Wilson on violin
and Franklin McCormack on harmonica
Over there Eric Clapton, ukelele,  (hi Eric)
On my left Sir Kenneth Clark, bass sax,  (great honour sir) 
and specially flown in for us the session's gorilla on vox humana
Nice to see Incredible Shrinking Man on euphonium
Drop out with Peter Scott on duck call
Eriponulayly(???) Casanova on horns,  (yeah)
Digging General De Gaulle on accordian - really wild, General  (Thank you sir) 
Roy Rogers on Trigger
Tune in Wildman of Borneo on bongos
Count Basie Orchestra on triangle,  (thankyou)
Great to hear the Rawlinsons on trombone
Back from his recent operation Dan Druff, harp
and representing the flower people Quasimodo on bells
Wonderful to hear Brainiac on banjo
We welcome Val Doonican as himself- "Hello there", " Hello there"
Very appealing Max Jaffa,  (mmmm that's nice Max)
What a team, Zebra Kid and Horace Bachelor on percussion,  "Hello there"
A great favourite and wonderful performer for all of us here,
J Arthur Rank on gong,  "Hello there".

There you are - can't get the word(s) before Casanova- anyone else know?
While we are on trivial pursuits  rather than mythical quests  is there a
G&S buff out there who can tell me anything about that lesser known opera
which featured among others Scrotum the wrinkled retainer and Baron Tostoff
the ruined Pole - characters Viv Stanshall incorporated into his Sir Henry
at Rawlinson's End - thereby by way of Geli Tripping making a tenuous
connection between this thread and TP.
                                  
                                           
Mike Weaver (pic at gn.apc.org)