Episode 30: Blood, Devastation, Death, War, and Horror

Episode 30: Blood, Devastation, Death, War, and Horror (1972)

• Droopy Draws (1970) Barry Stoller [1970 album “Selling Sounds” (De Wolfe DW/LP 3180)] (‘Blood, Devastation, Death, War, & Horror’)
• *Nude Organist Fanfare 5 (1972) Terry Jones [perf. Terry Jones] (Nude Organist)
• The Liberty Bell (1893) John Philip Sousa [perf. Band of the Grenadier Guards cond. Rodney Bashford, 1967 album “Sousa Marches” (Decca PFS 4134)] (Titles)
• Comedy Set: Variation 2 (1970) Reg Tilsley [1970 album “Theme and Variation - Tilsley Orchestral No. 8” (De Wolfe DW/LP 3174)] (Mrs. Scab beats the clock)
• Music-Hall Tab No. 1 (1969) Reg Wale [perf. London Studio Group, 1969 album “Looney Tunes” (De Wolfe DW/LP 3147)] (Pantomime horses)
• Walk Tall (1970) Keith Papworth [perf. International Studio Orchestra, 1970 album “Today’s World” (De Wolfe DW/LP 3170)] (Sea lions)
• The Rite of Spring: Augurs of Spring (1913) Igor Stravinsky [perf. L’Orchestra de la Suisse Romande cond. Ernest Ansermet, 1970 album “The Rite of Spring / Divertimento (The Fairy’s Kiss)” (Eclipse ECS 537)] (Limpets)
• Gong Sinister (1969) Archie Gunn (Walter Blumann) [1969 album “Dramatic Percussion Tracks / ‘Avant-Garde’” (Conroy BMLP 065)] (Ant vs. wolf)
• The Rite of Spring: Dance of the Earth (1913) Igor Stravinsky [perf. L’Orchestra de la Suisse Romande cond. Ernest Ansermet, 1970 album “The Rite of Spring / Divertimento (The Fairy’s Kiss)” (Eclipse ECS 537)] (Heinz Sielmann vs. Peter Scott vs. Jacques Cousteau)
• Waterbuck Kwela (1967) Sam Sklair [1967 album “The Spy Set” (Conroy BMLP 037)] (Honey bear)
• Coach ‘n’ Pair (1970) W. Merrick Farran [1970 album “Cartoon Capers” (KPM 1081)] (Pantomime horses)
• Camel Team (1970) W. Merrick Farran [1970 album “Cartoon Capers” (KPM 1081)] (Pantomime goose) 
• †Hearts and Flowers (Wintermärchen) (1891) Alphons Czibulka; arr. (1965) Walter Warren (Meyer de Wolfe) [perf. London Studio Orchestra cond. Hugh Granville, 1965 album “Hunting the Hare” (De Wolfe DW 2930)] (Terence Rattigan)
• Orb and Sceptre Coronation March (1953) Sir William Walton [perf. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Charles Groves, 1969 album “The Popular Music of William Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue” (Columbia TWO 272)] (Pantomime Princess Margaret)
• **Greensleeves (16th C.) trad. [hummed by Terry Gilliam] (Animated woman humming)
• Prairie Vista (1971) Dudley Simpson [perf. New Concert Orchestra, 1971 album (Boosey & Hawkes SBH 3028)] (‘The House-Hunters’)
• The Bright Lights (1970) Roger Webb [perf. Paul Dupont & His Orchestra, 1970 album “Music by Roger Webb” (Chappell LPC 1036)] (Names in lights)
• **It’s Not Unusual (1965) Les Reed, Gordon Mills, lyr. altered by Monty Python [sung by Graham Chapman] (“I’m not unusual, I'm just. . .”)
• Acrobatics (1967) Keith Papworth [perf. International Studio Orchestra cond. Jack Trombey, 1967 album “The Big Top” (De Wolfe DW/LP 3035)] (RSM as clown)
• The Windmill Song (1948) Henri Betti; arr. unknown [perf. Draaiorgel ‘De Sik’ 1968 album “Music of the Street Organ” (Ace of Clubs SCL 1249)] (‘The Bols Story’)
• Newsroom 1 (1969) Simon Campbell (Peter Hope & Eric Gosling) [perf. Lansdowne Light Orchestra, Inter-Art tape] (The news with Richard Baker)
• Beyond the Night (1968) Peter Reno (Peter Taylor & Cliff Twemlow) [perf. London Big Sound, 1968 album “Big City Story” (De Wolfe DW/LP 3070)] (‘Pantomime Horse Is a Secret Agent Film’)
• Love in Slow Motion (1969) Reg Tilsley [perf. International Studio Orchestra cond. Reg Tilsley, 1969 album “Tilsley Orchestral No. 5” (De Wolfe DW/LP 3124)] (Pantomime Horse and Simone in boat)
• Devil’s Galop (1944) Charles Williams [perf. Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra, 1944 album (Chappell C.208)] (Chase)
• Viet Theme (1964) Roger Roger [cond. Roger Roger, 1964 album “Scherzando Diabolette” (Chappell C.821)] (Rickshaws)
• Devil’s Galop (1944) Charles Williams [perf. Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra, 1944 album (Chappell C.208)] (Chase continues)
• The Liberty Bell (1893) John Philip Sousa [perf. Band of the Grenadier Guards cond. Rodney Bashford, 1967 album “Sousa Marches” (Decca PFS 4134)] (End credits)
• **Tonight (from ‘West Side Story’) (1957) Leonard Bernstein, lyr. Stephen Sondheim, altered by Monty Python [sung by Graham Chapman] (Deleted scene: “I’m getting pissed tonight!”)
• A Bit of Weird (1967) Johnnie Gray, Reg Tilsley [perf. London Big Sound, 1967 album “Z Patrol” (De Wolfe DW/LP 3049)] (Deleted scene: pantomime horses in dark alley)

†De Wolfe’s Flying Circus CD (DWCR 003) contains a different version of Hearts and Flowers, arr. (1971) Johnny Hawksworth [1971 album “Solo Sounds” (De Wolfe DW/LP 3221)]. This version does not appear in the episode.