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In , Paul McCartney, under the pseudonym Apollo C. Vermouth, produced the most successful single for The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, &#;I&#;m the Urban Spaceman.&#;
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, formed by British art-school students in the early s, blended music hall, jazz, and pop with surreal humor and avant-garde art. In September , they were invited by Paul McCartney to participate in the Beatles&#; &#;Magical Mystery Tour.&#;
While sources such as &#;All Together Now&#; by Harry Castleman & Walter J. Podrazik () suggest the recording occurred in March , Paul was in India for most of that month, returning to London on March Neil Innes of The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band recalled in January that &#;[Paul] sat down on the piano and played &#;Hey Jude&#; all the way through. No one had heard it then. He&#;d only just written it.&#; However, &#;Hey Jude&#; was not written until June by Paul McCartney. Therefore, it is likely that the recording session took place around June or July
I’d like to go on record as saying that the record would have been nothing like [as successful] without Paul’s touch
Neil Innes &#; Member of The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band &#; From &#;Fab: intimate life of Paul McCartney&#; by Howard Sounes,
When Neil wrote it, I didn&#;t particularly
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I'm the Urban Spaceman
single by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
"I'm the Urban Spaceman" was the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's most successful single, released in It reached #5 in the UK charts. The song was written by Neil Innes—who won an Ivor Novello Award in for the song—and produced by Paul McCartney under the pseudonym "Apollo C. Vermouth".[1][2][3] The B-side was written by Vivian Stanshall. 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 edition of Rutland Weekend Television, with Lyn Ashley as the dancer, and was more famously revived in the film Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl with Carol Cleveland taking over the role.
Leeds indie rock band Cud performed an extremely fast version ( long) for a Peel Session. The recording appears on their albums Elvis Belt and BB Cudn't C.
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