The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief

The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief
The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief
Studio album by Monty Python
Released 1973
Recorded September 1973
Genre Comedy
Length 41:11
Label Charisma / Arista
Monty Python chronology
Monty Python's Previous Record
(1972)
The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief
(1973)
Monty Python Live at Drury Lane
(1974)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[1]

Free Record Given Away with the Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief, later shortened to simply The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief, is the fourth album by the comedy group Monty Python, released in 1973.

Contents

Cover and Packaging

The initial pressings were packaged with a real tie and handkerchief and distributed to menswear stores, the concept being that the record was merely a 'free gift' in the manner of plastic dinosaurs with breakfast cereals. It is also notable for its inner sleeve art, which is visible through a cutaway hole in the album's outer sleeve. It appears to be a simple Terry Gilliam artwork of a tie and handkerchief, but when the inner sleeve is pulled out, it reveals that the tie and handkerchief are actually on a dead man hanging rather graphically from a gallows. Later releases of the album would just have the picture of the clothing on the front cover, and removed the inner sleeve and the unusual hidden artwork.

Double Grooves

The album's original LP edition (on Charisma Records in the U.K., catalog no. CAS 1080, released 1973, and on Arista Records in the U.S., catalog no. AL 4039, released 1975) is particularly notable in that it was mastered with two concentric grooves on side two, so that different material would be played depending on where the stylus was put down on the record's surface. For this reason it is sometimes referred to as a "three-sided" record. The cutting was carried out by George "Porky" Peckham. To further confuse the listener, both sides of the LP are labelled "FREE RECORD Given away with the Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief - Side 2" - only the matrix numbers identify which are the first and second sides.

The album did not have a track listing, so that this feature would come as a complete surprise to the listener, who might on a second listening hear material he or she had never heard before, creating genuine confusion.

Track listing

The following sketches are from the TV series: "Church Police", "Bruces/Philosopher's Song (minus The Philosophers Song)", "Cheese Shop", "Mrs. Niggerbaiter Explodes", "Boxing Tonight", "Oscar Wilde", and "Buying a Cat". The remainder are exclusive to this album.

Side One: Single-Groove

  1. "Church Police"
  2. "Elephantoplasty"
  3. "Novel Writing"
  4. "Word Association"
  5. "Bruces/Philosopher's Song"
  6. "The Adventures of Ralph Mellish/Hot Dogs and Knickers"
  7. "Cheese Shop sketch"
  8. "Wasp Club/Tiger Talk"
  9. "Great Actors"

Side Two: Groove One

One or the other of these two series of tracks will play, depending on which groove the stylus is cued on.

  1. "The Background to History"
  2. "First World War Noises"
  3. "Boxing Tonight (Fight Of The Century)"

Side Two: Groove Two

The second series of tracks is referred to as "Side 3":

  1. "Minister for Overseas Development (aka Mrs. Niggerbaiter explodes)"
  2. "Oscar Wilde and Friends"
  3. "Buying A Cat (aka Taking in the Terrier)"
  4. "Phone-In"

2006 Bonus Tracks

  1. Psychopath
  2. TelePrompter Football Results
  3. Radio Tuning Radio 4: Announcer Graham Chapman / Radio Time Announcer Terry Jones
  4. Radio Shop

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