Bonzo Dog Band - Tadpoles

Review by Juan Carlos Muñoz

Tadpoles, the fourth studio album by the British comedy rock group Bonzo Dog Band, was released in 1969 to mixed reviews. While some critics praised the album's eclectic mix of musical styles and irreverent humor, others found it unfocused and disjointed.

The album opens with the playful "Mr. Slater's Parrot," a jaunty tune featuring the band's signature blend of brass and percussion. The album then takes a darker turn with "I'm the Urban Spaceman," a satirical take on the commercialization of space travel that was written by Neil Innes and produced by Paul McCartney.

Other standout tracks include the jazzy "Tubas in the Moonlight," the psychedelic "Shirt," and the trippy "We Are Normal." The album closes with the epic "The End of the Show," a nine-minute medley that serves as a fitting finale to the band's most experimental album to date.

Artist: Bonzo Dog Band
Album: Tadpoles

1969

Rating: 4.32

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Tracks

Track	Duration	Preview
The Monster Mash
Ali Baba's Camel
I'm The Urban Spaceman
Tubas in the Moonlight	02:23
Canyons of Your Mind	03:00
Monster Mash
Calling All Workers
Boo! (Previously Unreleased)	3:16
The Craig Torso Christmas Show
Look At Me I'm Wonderful
We Were Wrong
Ali-Baba's Camel	03:30
The Last Waltz
Shirt
The Lady Is A Tramp
By a Waterfall	03:10
Hunting Tigers Out in "Indiah"	03:06
The Craig Torso Christmas Show (Medley)	7:14
By A Waterfall (Footlight Parade)
Boo!
Tubas In The Moonlight
Doctor Jazz	2:41
Hunting Tigers Out In "Indiah"	3:04
Dr. Jazz
Hunting Tigers Out In "Indiah”	3:05
Canyons Of Your Mind
By A Waterfall
Laughing Blues
Ready-Mades	3:09
Ali-Baba's Camel	3:30
Hunting Tigers Out In "India"	3:09
Mr. Apollo
Hunting Tigers Out In 'Indiah'
Readymades

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The Bonzo Dog Band - The Monster Mash (Studio version) Audio

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - I'm The Urban Spaceman (1968)

'Ali Baba's Camel' by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

The Bonzo Dog Band - Shirt

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Edsel Records
Imperial
One Way Records , CEMA Special Markets
Liberty
Liberty, EMI

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Role	Company
Manufactured By	U.A. Records, Limited
Distributed By	U.A. Records, Limited
Recorded At	Trident Studios
Phonographic Copyright (p)	CEMA Special Markets
Copyright (c)	CEMA Special Markets
Manufactured For	CEMA Special Markets
Pressed By	Disque Americ
Record Company	Imperial Records
Published By	Cecil Lennox
Licensed From	EMI Records
Marketed By	EMI
Made By	www.mediamotion.com

Credits

Role	Credit
Producer	Gus Dudgeon
Design	Ian Butcher, Vivian Stanshall
Photography By	Barrie Wentzell
Artwork By	Ian Butcher, Vivian Stanshall
Lacquer Cut By	Porky
Coordinator	Tim Chacksfield
Engineer	Bernie Andrews (tracks: 12 to 14, 16)
Liner Notes	Neil Innes
Cover	Ian Butcher, Vivian Stanshall
Photography	Barrie Wentzell
Translated By	宮治ひろみ

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Die-cut cover, inner picture sleeve
White, pink and black Imperial labels.
Text around rim of labels reads: "Manufactured and distributed by UA Records Limited," indicating a Canadian pressing.
℗1970
Comes in US made sleeve.
Die-cut cover revealing eyes & musical notations in the heads of band members that visually interacts as the inner sleeve is removed.
"Rhino" Rodney Slater appears by kind permission of "The Beano"
("The Beano" was a popular UK children's comic of the time).
Track A6 from the UK release of this LP, "I'm The Urban Spaceman," is replaced by B-side "Ready-Mades" on North American releases.
Recorded at Trident Studios.
℗© 1993 CEMA Special Markets
Manufactured by CEMA Special Markets, a division of Capitol Records, Inc.
Label design is slightly different from other versions and includes the words "...visual sound STEREO" at the top.
This version was sold new with the die-cut cover but no printed inner sleeve.
This version replaces I'm the Urban Spaceman with the b-side Readymades
Die-cut cover revealing eyes & musical notations in the heads of band members that visually interacts as the insert is removed. Insert printed Red & Ultramarine line & half-tone on a thick card 2-sided cover insert (that features nine Liberty/UA releases on the back, in Black & White half-tone, under the title "Heavy").
Cover: "TADPOLES" sub-title;
Tackle the toons you tapped your tootsies to on Thames TV's "Do Not Adjust Your Set".
Liberty/UA Records, Mortimer House, 37/41 Mortimer Street, London W1
Vinyl (blue label with dark blue quadrant) in unlined, un-punched white bag, overprinted "Made In England".
Almost identical to the following Damont pressing: Tadpoles
Vinyl has black label with text in silvery gray with dutch text around the rim of the label. Sleeve and inner were imported from from UK.
Printed in the EU
Sub-titled: Tackle the toons you tapped your tootsies to on Thames TV's "Do Not Adjust Your Set".
Includes a 16 page glossy colour booklet with details by Neil Innes about all tracks.
Originally released on Liberty, Aug 1969.
Bonus tracks:
12 to 14 recorded for the Top Gear Show on BBC Radio 1, first transmission 13 Apr 1969.
15 recorded for the Dave Lee Travis Show on BBC Radio 1, first transmission 21 Dec 1969.
16 recorded for the Top Gear Show on BBC Radio 1, first transmission 17 Dec 1967.
Catalogue appears as 0946 3 87891 2 3 on the disc and booklet.
Sub-titled: Tackle the toons you tapped your tootsies to on Thames TV's "Do Not Adjust Your Set"
Includes a 16 page colour booklet. Made and printed in the EU.
℗ & © 2007 EMI Records Ltd.
12 previously unreleased.
13 side B of Mr. Apollo single.
14 recorded for the Top Gear Show on BBC Radio 1, first transmission 13 Apr 1969.
Another version of this album exists where (on the labels) the Imperial logo is a different design and the notation appearing along the edge of each label reads: "A Division Of Liberty Records, Inc., Los Angeles, California."
Another version exists (issued without a printed inner sleeve and with the phrase "...visual sound Stereo" added to the labels).
The die-cut jacket and inner sleeve (with printing on only one side) are designed to function together. When the sleeve is slowly withdrawn from the jacket Vivian Stanshall (center) has his eyes replaced by small red and blue illustrations, the eyes of “Legs” Larry Smith (left) move about and Neil Innes (right) has musical notation pass across his forehead (the U.K. release features the same arrangement except that the images comprising Vivian Stanshall’s left and right “eyes” are reversed). The back of the jacket displays (left to right) Dennis Cowan, Roger Ruskin-Spear and Rodney Slater.
Research Craft pressing indicated by 2.875" pressing ring and Bert-Co. label fonts.
First pressing - Imperial label logo includes "A Product Of Liberty Records" and label rimtext reads "A Division Of Liberty Records Inc.".
Another version exists with the tagline omitted from the Imperial logo and rimtext reads: “Liberty/UA, Inc., Los Angeles, California.”
Red & Blue inner sleeve works in conjunction with die-cut cover.
Writing credits taken from cover.
© Liberty/UA, Inc., Los Angeles, Calif. • Printed in U.S.A.
Imperial Records
Entertainment from Transamerica Corporation
Recorded at Trident Studios
A1: Cecil Lennox
A2, A3, A6, B4, B6: - BMI
A4: International Msic Inc.- Melrose Music Corp. - ASCAP
A5: Garpax Music Inc. - BMI
B1: Francis, Day & Hunter, Inc. - ASCAP
B3: Feldman & Co.
A Division Of Liberty Records, Inc., Los Angeles, California
Tracks 4, 8, 14, 15 & 16 are mono.
Mini LP style packaging includes an outer die-cut gimmix cardboard jacket (with two-sided inner slider), an inner transparent plastic sleeve, a foldout 28-panel insert in English and Japanese and an OBI.
Printed and made in Japan.
Includes a 16 page colour booklet.

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About Bonzo Dog Band

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The Bonzo Dog Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Bonzo Dog Dada Band and, colloquially, as "The Bonzos") are a band created by a group of British art-school denizens of the 1960s. Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz, psychedelic rock, and avant-garde art, the Bonzos came to the attention of a broader British public through a children's television programme, "Do Not Adjust Your Set". After three reunions (in 1972, 1988 and 2006) a conflict arose with , which led to the spinoff . The core members of the group for most of the band's career were: * (19431995): trumpet, lead vocals * (b. 1944): piano, guitar, lead vocals * Rodney "Rhino" Desborough Slater (b. 1944): saxophone * (b. 1943): tenor sax and various contraptions * (b. 1944): drums However, the band's onstage line-up varied, sometimes on a weekly basis, and they also invited a number of guest musicians into the recording studio. Additional members of various duration include: Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell, Martin "Sam Spoons" Ash, "Happy" Wally Wilks, Tom Parkinson, Chris Jennings, Claude Abbo, Trevor Brown, Tom Hedge, , , , , Leon Williams, John Parry, Raymond Lewitt, Sydney "Big Sid" Nicholls, James "Jim Strobes" Chambers, Bob Kerr, Dave Clague, Joel Druckman, "Borneo" Fred Munt, Chalky Chalkey, Dennis Cowan, , , Anthony 'Bubs' White, Andy Roberts, Dave Richards, Pete Currie, Dick Parry, Hughie Flint and Glen Colson. Stanshall and Innes were the band's principal songwriters. After the band's demise, both became founding members of along with the members of .

Name Vars

Bonzo Dog
Bonzo Dog (Doo Dah) Band
Bonzo Dog (Doo-Dah) Band
Bonzo Dog (Doo/Dah) Band
Bonzo Dog Band
Bonzo Dog Do Da Band
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Bonzo Dog Doo/Dah Band
Bonzo's Dog Band
Bonzos
The Bonzo Dog Band
The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

Members

Neil Innes
Ian Wallace
Vivian Stanshall
Rodney Slater
Dave Richards
Roger Ruskin Spear
\"Legs\" Larry Smith
Dennis Cowan
Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell
Martin Ash
Bob Kerr
Ray Lewitt
John \"Pazz\" Parry
Sid Nicholls
Lenny Williams

Summary by Juan Carlos Muñoz

Tadpoles is a fascinating snapshot of the Bonzo Dog Band's unique blend of humor, music, and social commentary. While it may not be their most accessible album, it is certainly their most adventurous and ambitious. Fans of the band and lovers of offbeat 60s music will find much to enjoy here.

Comments

theplantbasedbabe 2023-04-13

here too there is a barrage of demented hits but with typical English wisdom and humor, which pass from the exoticism of hunting tigers in indiah or ali baba's camel, the very retro flavor of by a waterfall, dr jazz and laughing blues or tubas in the moonlight, then moving on to a more contemporary satire in terms of sounds like monster mash, mr apollo and canyons of your mind.

teodormoesby 2023-04-12

Is that really the "shirt event" or they really meant "the shit event"? Their British accent kind of makes me question that... :) :) :)

heathermarlene 2023-04-12

Love it

universetech95 2023-04-11

Great

kmjohnson2124 2023-04-11

Wish there was video of this.

oriannep 2023-04-11

ℹ've never told anyone this ... but that bit about "Just the Name of the Shop" marred me for a lifetime & perverted my view of Humanity forever ?

dorukdestan 2023-04-10

The melody starting at 2:29 is really Sleepwalk, isn't it?

flytravels383 2023-04-10

I'm sure I saw the video of this and I can't find it anywhere.

danielferreira81 2023-04-10

Good grief! ?

lindseyofthewild 2023-04-09

1:10 "Where it is"
There's a county somewhere in Texas called Schertz (pronounced as "shirts")

beautyhereandthere 2023-04-08

I wish he was here. miss him terribly. why are all the best people pushing up daisies?

sarulenzhang 2023-04-08

"just the name of the shop".....lol! Absolute classic, so camp, so fun n so ahead of of their time. I love listening to the Bonzo's, they alwaz make me smile, think of great friends n brilliant times!?✌??