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"Teach Yourself Heath" is the name of a one-sided 33rpm flexi-disc by Monty Python[1] which was given away free with issue 27 of ZigZag magazine in December 1972 and also included inside initial copies of their third album Monty Python's Previous Record.

"Teach Yourself Heath"
Single by Monty Python
ReleasedDecember 1972 (with ZigZag)
Genre
  • Comedy
LabelPython Productions
Monty Python singles chronology
"Eric The Half A Bee"
(1972)
"Teach Yourself Heath"
(1972)
"Monty Python's Tiny Black Round Thing"
(1974)

Billed as "Home Tutor Language Course, Number 14 - An invaluable introduction for Beginners to the Theory and Practice of Heath", the track is introduced by Michael Palin after which Eric Idle is heard teaching the listener how to mimic the speech patterns of the then British prime minister Edward Heath. Real extracts of Heath's voice are used to demonstrate.

As Palin explained to Time Out: "Eric and I spent a day listening to Heath's speeches; at a certain point I went to sleep...I feel the record hasn't done justice to the boredom and inanity of those party political speeches. If it is funny, thank Mr Heath for that. It's all him..."[2]

The track was released on CD in 2006 as part of the bonus tracks on the special edition release of Monty Python's Previous Record


Faux record titles


The single's back cover lists the following entries in the Home Tutor Language Course series:


References


  1. "Monty Python - Teach Yourself Heath (Record One)". Discogs.
  2. "And Now For Something Completely Different: The Recorded Works Of Monty Python", Record Collector, No.193, September 1995





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