Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band -Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold

[69coolchris]

This has got to be the maddest music ever!!!! I Love It :)

[stevedabigdrumma]

these guys are amazing, you need to play to be able to see how hard it is to do this

[TMOvids]

Love the inventive clarinet solo

[emayes8]

OMG I loved this band back in the 70s havent heard this stuff for ages, found a cd on Amazon. Gonna have a Bonzo fest this week

[charvesa]

they were the opening act the first time I saw the Grateful Dead in Boston AND were responsible for the line in the Dead's "Trucking": "A DooDah man once told me 'you've got to make a stand..." Viv Stanshall's remark to a bewildered Jerry Garcia, whom had just witnessed this opening act

[charvesa]

they were the opening act the fiorst time I saw the Grateful Dead in Boston AND were responsible for the line in the Dead's "Trucking": "A DooDah man once told me 'you've got to make a stand..." Viv Stanshall's remark to a bewildered Jerry Garcia, whom had just witnessed this opening act

[Topgeneral3070]

By the time I've played this song out I will have played it another 18,000 views

[Topgeneral3070]

rofl I love this song!

[Pentan797]

This should be played as the 'hold music' on the Samaritans phone line. I'm a great believer that this song can save lives.

[irkibby]

Utter cllattering magnificence. I seriously doubt anything like this would turn up in the music shops today? It would be shunned for being "crap"/ a real real shame

[UkDave3856]

Apparently they did this after going down the pub and coming up with the idea to all play each others instruments. It was done in one take first time.

[TheMrAsmodeus]

they might not have been the most competant band in the world but you've got to know how to play-to make something so bad sound so bloody good.hilarious.rip viv the world is a duller place without you.

[bkeay100]

@TheMrAsmodeus

My apologies sir, They were the most competent band in the world!

especially when you consider their contemporaries .This is 1969 !!!

The Beatles would have been "holding hands" and" love love me do" had they not fallen under the influence of the Bonzos. If you don t believe me, ask Mc Cartney

[strangeones4]

@bkeay100 The Beatles had made their Sgt. Pepper period by the time they knew of the Bonzos. What the Bonzos did for the Beatles was offer parody songs such as "Your Mother Should Know", and almost half of the songs on the White Album. Then there's Ringo's "Octopuss's Garden" from Abbey Road. Yet the Bonzo's were not around for "Yellow Submarine" in 1966, so maybe the influence is there, but not as strong as you think. IMHO, "Happiness..", "Piggies", " WDWDITR", "Honey Pie", were Bonzo infl.

[strangeones4]

@strangeones4 "Bungalow Bill", and "Don't Pass Me By" need to be included.

[Mindermaniac]

@strangeones4 The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band appeared in the Beatles movie Magical Mystery Tour and sang their song "Death Cab For Cutie" - now a band name for another band . ....Paul McCartney and Gud Dudgeon produced their biggest hit single written by Neil Innes called I'm The Urban Spaceman" #5 on the UK charts in 1968.

[strangeones4]

@Mindermaniac I know, that's why I'm well aware of the connection. They influenced each other. After the Bealtes broke up, Neil Innes was writing John Lennon-esque songs for the Bonzos. Innes was perfect to play the Rutles "John".

[sturdle]

bet they loved Spike Jones....and he would have loved them.......

[MrFrontallobotomy]

YOU SMELL

[potstillbill]

As I write this, zero dislikes. Too fuckin' right.

[thestoryplease]

This medicine! This is Art! This is the world! This is insanity! This is Truth!

(and to think they got all that on a little piece of vinyl)

[skinnyblink7]

Yeah...thanks dad, now I know why I'm so fucked up.

[Thedeoradude]

this is my new themesong

[kerryhr]

@gyphia - not quite sure why you are making that point to me. I was being critical of someone saying that it was bad

[kerryhr]

@gyphia - not quite sure why you are making that point to me. I was being critical of someone saying that it was bad

@chrishove123 - Crap musicians? Maybe even The Quarrymen got bad reviews in their "early days", but if Paul McCartney asked them to perform in Magical Mystery Tour", they can't have been bad, and I think he knows what he is talking about! Viv Stanshall RIP, and Neil Innes would have something to say

[WoodRatGirl]

@kerryhr

Just ignore them, afterall you did own them with your replies ;)

[ifyouwantblood100]

i wish my local pub had this song on its jukebox

[bobgreen623]

Absolute total bastard classic

[chrishove123]

@Gyphia Actually if you read their history they admit they were crap musicians and even worse at studio production. There is a review of them playing a club in their early days and getting things wrong. They would just laugh and take the piss out of themselves. They knew their limitations but could pull it all off with great elan and bravado. I love this band and have done since I was a kid listening to them in the 60s.

[fosseseptique]

genius..how do I make this a ringtone (iphone)?

[9mej]

hello old boy lets have a glass of ginger beer and some cavior sandwiches and a good old bit of the bonzo band what do you say mr Apollo mr slaters parot says hello to all Bonzo fans

[Punorss]

If my brothers are reading this....Play this song as you lower me in the ground or otherwise i'll haunt you bastards1

[konspiracykid]

this is so funny....when it comes down to playing badly for comedic effect, only les dawson comes close

[jayfest]

I use this song as my wake-up alarm on my phone. If this can't wake me up, I'm dead.

[dharmaseed]

Damn bloody good idea!!

[9mej]

i think it is i have not had the chance yet but it will come

[thestoryplease]

The human condition in a tune - in or off beat - insane but catchy - the Jesus, Krishna, Moses, God a-mighty Buddha best - rave on Bonzo Dawgs!

[Barnsider]

If you were lucky enough to go to a pub in the 70's where they advertised 'jazz' on Sunday lunchtime you probably heard something like this. This is indeed a masterpiece, it takes a really good musician to sound this bad - or good. Thanks for putting this out there.

[kerryhr]

@Barnsider bad?????

[Funnhaus]

were these guys kind of the english Mothers of Invention

[dazseaton]

class. just how jazz is but shouldn't be. complete piss take. so bad its brilliant!!!!! my fave band and my ringtone.

[blutoblut]

Even more fun when it was 'new'. As you say, a complete piss take.

[thestoryplease]

That's a great guitar player. Got his Gibson Fender Delux sounding just like a banjo. I'd like to see Jimima Page do THAT!

Ooh-ya! Ooh-ya! Ooh-ya!

[insideahorse]

this is one of my favourites by these lads. I want to make a cartoon of it, it would be just perfect

[jennilou68]

OMG! Their name matches their sound! Are they all drunk?? I have heard many a drunken jam session descend into this. lol. Particularly like the loss of beat in the middle and everyone plays on the on-beat. lol. it is what it is. nothing more. lol

[s0nnyb0y143]

It's a joke about the fact they they started out as a jazz band. It's meant to be bad.

[jesper2610]

Great upload. Very very funny :-)

[Rick777x2]

I never realised this was Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band! Loved them for years, this song is at the end of Bottom: Guest House Paradiso as well, classic!

[VanWhistler]

I only watched that film for this song after spotting it in the trailer. Was miffed to have sat through that tripe just for one song right at the very end.

[bobilleg74]

Is it true they'd played eachothers instruments on this track?

By the way, it is a clarinet solo and not oboe.

[sacraficialangel7]

it sounds like it...

[domitype]

@bobilleg74 They were/are multi-instrumentalists and familiar with brass & woodwinds. Some of their siblings and friends were members of "The Temperance 7" that did old-time jazz and novelty music, so they were very familiar with the style.

British jazz drummer Lennie Hastings was famous for the "OOH YAH!; OOH YAH!; OOH YAH!" bit that the Bonzos parodied here.

[skinnyblink7]

Now this is what I grew up on!!! I knew I rebel in some way or another.....

[ELGROOVER]

~ Dedicated to Kong who must have been a great bloke ~

As recommended by Excellent Garments - "They fit like a glove and wear like iron."

Accept no substitute - Get your "NEW CYCLOPS collectors monocle" here! To see it is to believe it, to hear it crunch underfoot is to know its sound ,-)

[123456nfsuc]

wierdest band on the earth!

maybe thats what makes them so good

[Punorss]

I want this playing at my funeral as I am put in the ground. FANTASTIC!

[gothicgeezer333]

haha good ideaXD

[9mej]

the bonzo dog band are the ultimate experssion of english eccentricitey i love them

[rpm9]

There's an oboe solo? I can never get past the trombone solo before I have to stop so I can breath.

[Punorss]

Oh yes, Please believe me. (I was in hospital for a week but) I got as far as the oboe! I have heard people say there is a drum solo towards the end but I think that if I heard that it would be the end of me!

[Punorss]

Fantastic! I love the oboe solo.

[stone5r]

sadly this is too close to english trad bands for comfort. it stil makes me laugh