Here is another song by Neil Innes, an obscure one penned by - TopicsExpress



          

Here is another song by Neil Innes, an obscure one penned by himself and co-conspirator Vivian Stanshall back in the days when they were members of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Im the Urban Spaceman was the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Bands most successful single, released in 1968. It reached #5 in the UK charts. The song was written by Neil Innes and produced by Paul McCartney and Gus Dudgeon (under the pseudonym Apollo C. Vermouth) The B-side was written by Vivian Stanshall. Innes won an Ivor Novello Award in 1968 for writing Im the Urban Spaceman. A well-known staging of the song involves Innes performing solo while a female tap dancer performs an enthusiastic but apparently under-rehearsed routine around him. This skit originally appeared in a 1975 edition of Rutland Weekend Television, with Lyn Ashley as the dancer, and was more famously revived in the 1982 film Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl with Carol Cleveland taking over the role!
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 02:29:19 +0000

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