Evanier on the Monty Python records

news from Mark Evanier has some interesting tidbits on the Python LPs, of which I owned a few: "We don't think of the Python guys as audio/record comedians but there was a time when some did, at least in Los Angeles. The first few Python records got to L.A. at least a year and a half before the Monty Python's Flying Circus show appeared on the local PBS outlet...and this was a year after the PBS stations in other cities were running them. We had a couple of record shops in Southern California that imported Another Monty Python Record and Monty Python's Previous Record and copies just flew off the shelves. Some were even purchased, taken home and played. I had friends who fell in love with the 'Spam' routine and began chanting its tune incessantly, long before they ever actually saw it performed or even knew it had started as a sketch on a TV programme."