Keynsham (album)
Keynsham is the fourth album by the Bonzo Dog Band. It was released in 1969 on Liberty Records.
| Keynsham | ||||
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| Released | November 1969 | |||
| Recorded | Trident Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Comedy rock, psychedelic pop, music hall | |||
| Length | 38:19 | |||
| Label | Liberty LBS 83290 (also Sunset SLS 50375) Imperial Records | |||
| Producer | Neil Innes, Vivian Stanshall | |||
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The album title is a reference to Horace Batchelor, a football pools predictor from Keynsham who regularly advertised his service on pop music radio broadcasts in the early 1960s. In advertisements Batchelor would spell out the town's name when reading his postal address. The album starts with a line taken from Batchelor's radio advertisement "I have personally won over..."
In 2007 the album was re-issued on CD by EMI with five bonus tracks. These bonus tracks were not performed by the Bonzo Dog Band. Instead they are actually taken from later solo single releases from the group members. The solo tracks are performed by Vivian Stanshall & Kilgaron, Neil Innes, Roger Ruskin Spear, and Topo D. Bil (a pseudonym of "Legs" Larry Smith.)