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"The Lumberjack Song" is a comedy song by the comedy troupe Monty Python. The song was written and composed by Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Fred Tomlinson. [1] [2] [3]It first appeared in the ninth episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, "The Ant: An Introduction" on BBC1 on 14 December 1969.
Python On Song is the name of a double pack of two 7" singles [1] released by Monty Python on 19 November 1976. The first record was a straight reissue of the previous year's release of the "Lumberjack Song"/"Spam Song" single.
The Vikings' Spam song is a parody of "The Viking Song" by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. This sketch has also been featured in several Monty Python videos including Parrot Sketch Not Included – 20 Years of Monty Python. A lead sheet for the song appears in Monty Python's Big Red Book. The DVD release of the episode contains a deliberate subtitling ...
"The Lumberjack Song" (S1, E9): The shop owner (Palin) sings about his desire to be a lumberjack, as well as his tendencies toward transvestism, the latter a revelation that both surprises and dismays his best girl (Booth) and the background singers (nine Canadian Mounties – five of whom are Chapman, Cleese, Idle, Jones and Gilliam), who ...
From Spam to Sperm – Monty Python's Greatest Hits – Pop rocker Meat Loaf hosts a documentary detailing the inspiration for the songs of Monty Python such as The Lumberjack Song, Eric the Half a Bee and Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. The documentary also discusses their albums and world sketch tours.
To celebrate the team's 50th anniversary, a double vinyl album set of Monty Python Sings (Again) was released on 4 October 2019, now including the Stephen Hawking version of "Galaxy Song," first released as a limited edition 7-inch single for Record Store Day on 18 April 2015.
Before the Flying Circus (DVD, 2008) Monty Python Conquers America (DVD, 2008) Movie Connections - Monty Python and the Holy Grail (BBC One, 2009) Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut) (DVD/Blu-ray, 2009) The Meaning of Monty Python (Blu-ray, 2013) Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar (BBC One, 2014)
Palin segued into a performance of "The Lumberjack Song" accompanied by the other Pythons as well as Python regulars Carol Cleveland and Neil Innes, with former Python collaborator and record producer André Jacquemin and comedian Sanjeev Bhaskar among the chorus of Mounties. Costume design was by longtime Python collaborator Hazel Pethig.