Gorilla is the debut album by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band are a band created by a group of British art-school denizens of the 1960s...

, originally released by Liberty Records

Liberty Records

Liberty Records was a United States-based record label. It was started by chairman Simon Waronker in 1955 with Al Bennett as president and Theodore Keep as chief engineer. It was reactivated in 2001 in the United Kingdom and had two previous revivals.-1950s:...

 in 1967. In 2007 EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

 re-issued the album on CD with 7 bonus tracks.

The album includes "Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold" which savagely parodied their early "trad" jazz roots and featured some of the most deliberately inept jazz playing ever recorded—the record company only allowed two hours of studio time per track, so it was completed in a single take to allow for the far more complex "The Intro and the Outro" in which every member of the band was introduced and played a solo, starting with genuine band members, before including such improbable members as John Wayne

John Wayne

Marion Mitchell Morrison , better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and became an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height...

 on xylophone

Xylophone

The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets...

, Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

 on vibes

Vibraphone

The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family....

, and J. Arthur Rank on gong

Gong

A gong is an East and South East Asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat metal disc which is hit with a mallet....

. Other "members" were Val Doonican

Val Doonican

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, Horace Batchelor

Horace Batchelor

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, and Lord Snooty and His Pals

Lord Snooty

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.

The album was also issued in the US on Imperial as LP-9370 (mono) and LP-12370 (stereo), but minus the track "Big Shot". The original issue of the album had the same booklet issued with the UK album.
The album was recorded on a four-track

Multitrack recording

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 tape recorder, as was typical for 1967. Due to the limited number of tracks, most of the non-band "personnel" on "The Intro and the Outro" are simply faded in and out, and few notice they are absent in the later stages of the track.

Side one

1. "Cool Britannia" - 1:00
2. "The Equestrian Statue" - 2:49
3. "Jollity Farm" - 2:29
4. "I Left My Heart in San Francisco
   I Left My Heart in San Francisco
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   " - 1:04
5. "Look Out There's a Monster Coming" - 2:55
6. "Jazz (Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold)" - 3:11
7. "Death Cab for Cutie
   Death Cab for Cutie (song)
   "Death Cab for Cutie" is a song composed by Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes and performed by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. It was included on their 1967 album Gorilla.-Content:...
   
   " - 2:56
8. "Narcissus" - 0:27

Side two

1. "The Intro and the Outro
   The Intro and the Outro
   The Intro and The Outro is a recording by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. It appears on their debut album, Gorilla . It is not so much a song as a comic monologue, in which the speaker introduces the musicians who ostensibly appear on the recording, and the track fades out before the emcee completes...
   
   " - 3:04
2. "Mickey's Son and Daughter" - 2:43
3. "Big Shot" - 3:31
4. "Music for the Head Ballet" - 1:45
5. "Piggy Bank Love" - 3:04
6. "I'm Bored" - 3:06
7. "The Sound of Music
   The Sound of Music
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   " - 1:21

Bonus tracks on 2007 CD re-issue

1. "My Brother Makes the Noises For the Talkies"
2. "I'm Gonna Bring a Watermelon To My Girl Tonight"
3. "Ali Baba's Camel" (previously unreleased, early version)
4. "On Her Doorstep Last Night"
5. "Alley Oop
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   "
6. "Button Up Your Overcoat"
7. "The Craig Torso Show" (I Remember You / With a Little Help From My Friends / I Left My Heart In San Francisco / Oh Carol)