Monty Python Sings No.35 in the UK album chart. Monty Python Sings Monty Python Sings is a compilation album of comedy songs by the Monty Python team. Released in 1989 to celebrate their 20th anniversary, it contains popular songs from their previous albums and films. The album contained two previously unreleased tracks; "Oliver Cromwell" (first performed by John Cleese on the 1960s radio series "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again)" was recorded during sessions for "Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album" in 1980 while a studio recording of Terry Gilliam's live standard "I've Got Two Legs" was recorded in 1974 for the Drury Lane
Monty Python performers collaborated with their stunts to perform a combined set of acts. Differing, somewhat confusing accounts are given of the origins of the Python name, although the members agree that its only "significance" was that they thought it sounded funny. In the 1998 documentary "Live at Aspen" during the US Comedy Arts Festival, where the troupe was awarded the AFI Star Award by the American Film Institute, the group implied that "Monty" was selected (Eric Idle's idea) as a gently mocking tribute to Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, a legendary British general of World War II; requiring a "slippery-sounding" surname, they