Comments on: Monty Python on iTunes

By: Smed

Smed — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:23:51 +0000

Ah, thanks Dr. Geek. Yeah, I think it probably was the convergence. But I’m sure that PBS station managers sure saw the impact of the records when they started broadcasting the shows!

And now…a massage from the Swedish Prime Minister…

By: Dave3

Dave3 — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:31:16 +0000

For some reason my iPod loves to slip ‘Eric The Half A Bee’ in there, usually in-between a nice Soundgarden and Mazzy Star tune.

I’m a complete Monty Python fanatic. I remember once when I was a pre-teen I spent an entire weekend memorizing the greatest name in German Baroque music

‘Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern schplenden schlitt crasscrenbon…’

I snagged it off of PBS with my tape recorder (the ’70s version of Napster!) and listened to it over an over.

it’s…

By: Dr. Geek

Dr. Geek — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:26:03 +0000

This is great news… early Python material on record is always a good thing. I’m not sure how much these record spurred PBS to take on the show, though. According to an article in the Daily Llama (http://www.dailyllama.com/news/2006/llama311. html), Ron Devillier (of Devillier-Donegan Enterprises, that logo we saw after the show for years) saw the show in Canada and brought it to the PBS station he managed (KERA, in Dallas, TX). Once it was successful there, he shopped it around to other PBS stations. Perhaps it was the availability of the albums that gave station managers something to listen to as a demo. Anyway, there was some great early footage from 4 of the 6 Pythons at KERA pledge drive in 1975 that was discovered and put on the web by The Sound Of Young America in March 2006: http://www.maximumfun.org/blog/2006/03/unearth ed-monty-python-footage-from.html
Pretty cool stuff in my book!

By: Halo Askew

Halo Askew — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:54:29 +0000

I have a couple cassettes of Monty Python that I found on clearance at the mall in the 80’s. One of my favorites is “Farewell to John Denver” — I’ll never forget the line “You came on my pillow”. HA! Hey, check out this Python link I just found: http://orangecow.org/pythonet/audio/audio.html