Keynsham (album)

Keynsham
Studio album by
Bonzo Dog Band
ReleasedNovember 1969
RecordedTrident Studios, London
GenreComedy rock, psychedelic pop, music hall
Length38:19
LabelLiberty LBS 83290 (also Sunset SLS 50375)
Imperial Records[1]
ProducerNeil Innes, Vivian Stanshall[2]
Bonzo Dog Band chronology
Tadpoles
(1969) 		Keynsham
(1969) 		Let's Make Up And Be Friendly
(1972)
American Cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide[5]

Keynsham is the fourth album by the Bonzo Dog Band.[6] It was released in 1969 on Liberty Records.[4]

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.[7] 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.)

  1. ^ Popoff, Martin (8 September 2009). "Goldmine Record Album Price Guide". Penguin – via Google Books.
  2. ^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 142.
  3. ^ "Keynsham - The Bonzo Dog Band | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  4. ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. pp. 750–751.
  5. ^ The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1983. p. 51.
  6. ^ "The Bonzo Dog Band | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  7. ^ Tow, Stephen (15 February 2020). "London, Reign Over Me: How England's Capital Built Classic Rock". Rowman & Littlefield – via Google Books.