opening credits “Additional Music” is credited to “DeWolfe.” Who or what is DeWolfe?
DeWolfe Music Publishing is a company which produces public-domain music records. Their music was used by the Pythons on several albums and the Grail film for the simple reason that it was cheap. Some of it is quite good. The original Grail score was a traditional medieval effort by Neil Innes, but it didn’t have the bombastic, epic sense that the movie really needed, so much of it was replaced. The main (coconut) theme from the Grail was lifted from a DeWolfe record but was only partially used in the film. It was finally heard in full 20 years later in the Grail CD-ROM game and is now posted at PythoNET. Q: John Cleese was the most famous of the team even before Python started. How the heck did that happen? A: Mostly thanks to the radio show “I’m Sorry, I’ll Read that Again,” which had a huge fan following for reasons still unknown to those who participated in it. Cleese himself was baffled by the show. He created a great series, “At Last the 1948 Show,” starring Marty Feldman, Graham
