We Are Most Amused - British TV Nostalgia

Label	Cat #	Released	Genre(s)	BRIT cert
Ronco	RTD 2067	January/November 1982	Comedy	Gold

Chart performance

19/12/81	26/12/81	02/01/82	09/01/82	16/01/82
62 (Charisma?)	30 (Charisma?)	30 (Charisma?)	49 (Charisma/Ronco?)	45 (Ronco)

23/01/82	30/01/82	06/02/82	13/02/82
55 (Ronco)	50 (57?) (Ronco)	92 (Ronco)	80 (Ronco)

Inner sleeve

Tracklisting

As is common with compilations such as this, not all tracks will be available (in isolation) on streaming music sites.

Disc 1	Disc 2
Side 1 (RTD 2067-A) NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS: 'Points Of View' THE GOONS: 'The Ying Tong Song' TONY HANCOCK: 'The Blood Donor' MONTY PYTHON: 'Massage From The Swedish Prime Minister' (not available in UK) MONTY PYTHON: 'The Pet Shop' (not available in UK) BILLY CONNOLLY: 'The Welly Boot Song' PETER USTINOV: 'The Driver's Meeting'	Side 3 (RTD 2067-C) BARRY HUMPHRIES: 'Les Patterson, The Australian Cultural Attache' DAME EDNA EVERAGE: 'Niceness' THE CAST OF FAWLTY TOWERS: 'The Health Inspector' FRANK CARSON: 'Excerpt From The Comedians' PETER SELLERS: 'Balham, Gateway To The South' MORECAMBE AND WISE: 'The Jeweller's Shop' GRIFF RHYS JONES AND COMPANY: 'The Party' NEIL INNES: 'The Protest Song'
Side 2 (RTD 2067-B) SPIKE MILLIGAN: 'Ingle Jingle Jangle Jong' (part of a medley on Muses With Milligan) ROY HUDD: 'The Society Wedding Stakes' ALAN BENNETT: 'Take A Pew' ROWAN ATKINSON: 'Best Man's Speech' (part of the 'Wedding' sketch) SPIKE MILLIGAN: 'Return To Sorrento' (part of a medley on Muses With Milligan) I'M SORRY, I'LL READ THAT AGAIN: 'The News In Welsh' MAX BOYCE: 'The Day They Dropped Gareth' ROWAN ATKINSON: 'Sir Marcus Browning M.P.'	Side 4 (RTD 2067-D) MONTY PYTHON: 'Yangtse Kiang' (not available in UK) JASPER CARROTT: 'The Nutter On The Bus' THE TWO RONNIES: 'The Restaurant' SPIKE MILLIGAN: 'Dr O'Dell' (part of a medley on Muses With Milligan) MIKE HARDING: 'Manuel' JOYCE GRENFELL: 'The Women's Institute' ('Useful And Acceptable Gifts') BENNY HILL: 'Harvest Of Love' *FRANK CARSON: 'Further Excerpts From The Comedians'

Disc 1

Disc 2

Side 1 (RTD 2067-A)

*NOT THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS: 'Points Of View'
THE GOONS: 'The Ying Tong Song'
TONY HANCOCK: 'The Blood Donor'
MONTY PYTHON: 'Massage From The Swedish Prime Minister' (not available in UK)
MONTY PYTHON: 'The Pet Shop' (not available in UK)
*BILLY CONNOLLY: 'The Welly Boot Song'
PETER USTINOV: 'The Driver's Meeting'

Side 3 (RTD 2067-C)

*BARRY HUMPHRIES: 'Les Patterson, The Australian Cultural Attache'
*DAME EDNA EVERAGE: 'Niceness'
*THE CAST OF FAWLTY TOWERS: 'The Health Inspector'
*FRANK CARSON: 'Excerpt From The Comedians'
PETER SELLERS: 'Balham, Gateway To The South'
*MORECAMBE AND WISE: 'The Jeweller's Shop'
*GRIFF RHYS JONES AND COMPANY: 'The Party'
NEIL INNES: 'The Protest Song'

Side 2 (RTD 2067-B)

SPIKE MILLIGAN: 'Ingle Jingle Jangle Jong' (part of a medley on Muses With Milligan)
ROY HUDD: 'The Society Wedding Stakes'
ALAN BENNETT: 'Take A Pew'
ROWAN ATKINSON: 'Best Man's Speech' (part of the 'Wedding' sketch)
SPIKE MILLIGAN: 'Return To Sorrento' (part of a medley on Muses With Milligan)
*I'M SORRY, I'LL READ THAT AGAIN: 'The News In Welsh'
*MAX BOYCE: 'The Day They Dropped Gareth'
ROWAN ATKINSON: 'Sir Marcus Browning M.P.'

Side 4 (RTD 2067-D)

MONTY PYTHON: 'Yangtse Kiang' (not available in UK)
*JASPER CARROTT: 'The Nutter On The Bus'
*THE TWO RONNIES: 'The Restaurant'
SPIKE MILLIGAN: 'Dr O'Dell' (part of a medley on Muses With Milligan)
MIKE HARDING: 'Manuel'
JOYCE GRENFELL: 'The Women's Institute' ('Useful And Acceptable Gifts')
BENNY HILL: 'Harvest Of Love'
*FRANK CARSON: 'Further Excerpts From The Comedians'

*Not available on Spotify

In the press

Music & Video Week (September 12, 1981)
An advert by Charisma Records stated that We Are Most Amused (CAS 1156) would be released in October 1981.

Daily Express (December 10, 1981)
Radio 1 DJ Anne Nightingale wrote: "ONE of the biggest sellers over Christmas will be WE ARE MOST AMUSED (Ronco), the comedy compilation album put together in aid of Prince Charles Trust Charities. Advance orders have already exceeded 150,000 and the double album should hit the Top Ten by next week. And although Prince Charles declined to write a sleeve-note, he is expected to host a party for the artists appearing in the New Year."

Hartlepool Mail (January 2, 1982)
Paul Screeton wrote that "More than 40 of the funniest men and women in Britain have generously contributed to this special album...and all the proceeds will go to benefit the nation's youth." "Here is humour to suit all types of person and a real family fun album to listen to (Charisma/Ronco)."

Sevenoaks Chronicle (January 9, 1982)
The album entered the chart compiled by the Sevenoaks branch of W H Smith at #10.

Record Business (January 11, 1982)
Ronco had started a three day (more likely three weeks?) national television advertisement campaign for We Are Most Amused ((4C)RTL 2067).

(Edinburgh) Evening News (January 23, 1982)
"WE ARE Most Amused (Ronco). A real giggle most of the way on a double album that carries some classic British comedy..."

Record Business (April 26, 1982)
Ronco's We Are Most Amused had achieved a Gold disc.

Record Business (November 22, 1982)
Ronco had started a two week national television advertisement campaign for We Are Most Amused ((4C)RTL 2067).