Monty Python's Previous Record was the third album

Album

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 by Monty Python

Monty Python

Monty Python was a British surreal comedy group who created their influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series...

, released in 1972. When packaged in 1994's The Instant Monty Python CD Collection

The Instant Monty Python CD Collection

The Instant Monty Python CD Collection is a box set released in 1994 of six CDs containing eight albums by the Monty Python troupe.It contained a small booklet of reprinted material from album sleeves and previous Python books.-Track listing:...

 the order of some of the sketches was changed. It was later re-released on CD

Compact Disc

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 in 1997, and eventually released as a 2006 special edition, containing eleven extra tracks, and the original album's sequence was the same as issued in the 1994 box set.

The album contains sketches from the third series of Flying Circus

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python’s Flying Circus is a BBC TV sketch comedy series. The shows were composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines...

as well as new material. The Tale of Happy Valley is actually an edited version of A Fairy Tale from the second German show

Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus

Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus consisted of two 45-minute Monty Python German television comedy specials produced by WDR for West German television...

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The original vinyl release included a separate 45rpm flexi-disc entitled 'Teach Yourself Heath', whose sleeve was a picture of a smiling Edward Heath

Edward Heath

Sir Edward Richard George "Ted" Heath, KG, MBE, PC was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and as Leader of the Conservative Party ....

 (then Prime Minister).

Side one

1. Embarrassment/Book At Bedtime
2. Dennis Moore
3. Money Programme
4. Dennis Moore Continues
5. Australian Table Wines
6. Argument Clinic
7. Putting Budgies Down
8. Eric the Half-a-Bee
   Eric the Half-a-Bee
   "Eric the Half-a-Bee" is a song by the British comedy troupe Monty Python. It first appeared on the LP Monty Python's Previous Record but is also on Monty Python Sings and The Final Rip Off 2-CD set...
   
   
9. Travel Agency

Side two

1. Radio Quiz Game
2. A Massage/City Noises Quiz
3. Miss Anne Elk
   Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses
   "Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses" is a sketch from the thirty-first Monty Python's Flying Circus episode, "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition"....
   
   
4. We Love the Yangtze
5. How-To-Do-It Lessons
6. A Minute Passed
7. Eclipse of the Sun
8. Alistair Cooke
   Alistair Cooke
   Alfred Alistair Cooke KBE was a British/American journalist, television personality and broadcaster. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke's America, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theater from 1971 to 1992...
   
   
9. Wonderful World of Sounds
10. The Tale of Happy Valley

1994/2006 Track Listing

1. Not This Record!
2. Embarrassment
3. A Book at Bedtime
4. Dennis Moore
5. Money Programme
6. Money Song
7. Dennis Moore Continues
8. Dennis Moore Theme
9. Australian Table Wines
10. Dennis Moore Theme Part 2
11. Argument Clinic
12. How-To-Do-It Lessons
13. Dennis Moore Theme Part 3
14. Putting Budgies Down
15. Personal Freedom
16. Dennis Moore Theme Part 4
17. Fish Licence
18. Eric the Half-a-Bee Song
19. Radio Quiz Game
20. Travel Agency
21. A Massage
22. Silly Noises Quiz
23. Miss Anne Elk
24. Yangtze Kiang
25. We Love the Yangtze
26. A Massage Part 2
27. A Minute Passed
28. Eclipse of the Sun
29. Alistair Cooke
30. Wonderful World of Sounds
31. Certified Stiff
32. A Massage Part 3
33. The Tale of Happy Valley

2006 Bonus Tracks

1. Baxter's
2. Meteorology
3. Blood, Devastation, War & Horror
4. The Great Debate
5. Mortuary Visit
6. Flying Fox Of The Yard
7. Is There
8. Teach Yourself Heath
9. The Book Ad
10. Big Red Bowl
11. Pepperpots (Part 2)
12. Pellagra