cgconville@watrose.UUCP (cgconville) (11/23/84)
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A recently pulled out an old album called Meet the Rutles. Apparently it
was based on an NBC television special called 'All You Need Is Cash'. This
Beatles spoof featured Monty Python's Eric Idle, among others. Several
friends of mine have picked up on the music and want to see the special. Does
anyone know if it has been repeated on a regular basis? There has to be some
way of catching it on the tube! Who knows, maybe there's even a fan club!!!
"CG" Conville (University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario)
"Why stop now, just when I'm hating it?"
-- Marvin the Paranoid Androidlauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (11/23/84)
I have access to a copy of the original NBC broadcast of that presentation. It was also presented, in a very slightly altered form (a few "dirty" words were included) in a cable version that made the cable TV rounds about a year or so ago. Maybe at my next Usenix videotape film fest we'll see what we can do. It's hilarious, by the way -- a cross-fertilization by Monty Python and the original "Saturday Night Live" cast. --Lauren--
jpg@sdchema.UUCP (Jerry Greenberg) (11/27/84)
> A recently pulled out an old album called Meet the Rutles. Apparently it > was based on an NBC television special called 'All You Need Is Cash'. This > Beatles spoof featured Monty Python's Eric Idle, among others. Several > friends of mine have picked up on the music and want to see the special. Does > anyone know if it has been repeated on a regular basis? There has to be some > way of catching it on the tube! Who knows, maybe there's even a fan club!!! I saw a video tape catalog that had it listed. Jerry Greenberg
msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) (11/27/84)
The Ruttles came out of a show Eric Idle did for the BBC called
"Rutland Weekend Television". This was a satire on a small TV station
and its offerings including music programs - hence the Ruttles.
Eric, as station announcer, would take you through a weekend's
programming in twenty-five minutes.
The origin of the show's name is a long story for anyone not from
Britain. Suffice it to say that Rutland is the smallest county
in England and the company which provides London's commercial
TV programming on weekends is London Weekend Television.
--
From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
msc@qubix.UUCP, qubix!msc@decwrl.ARPA
...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!qubix!msc, ...{amd,ihnp4,ittvax}!qubix!msc"Paul W. Benjamin" <Benjamin%PCO@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA> (12/03/84)
> A recently pulled out an old album called Meet the Rutles. Apparently it > was based on an NBC television special called 'All You Need Is Cash'. This > Beatles spoof featured Monty Python's Eric Idle, among others. Several > friends of mine have picked up on the music and want to see the special. Does > anyone know if it has been repeated on a regular basis? There has to be some > way of catching it on the tube! Who knows, maybe there's even a fan club!!! It being shown on The Movie Channel this month, including (I think) tomorrow night, 12/04. Consult local listings.
marcos@sdchema.UUCP (David A. Pearlman) (12/21/85)
Hey there netland! Anybody still remember the Rutles movie, aired on
network T.V. (yes-sir-ee-bob!) back in 1977? More importantly,
has anyone ever seen this movie for rent anywhere? I remember seeing
an advertisement a couple of years ago offering the video (from
Mike Nesmith's (hey, hey we're the...) video marketing division,
I think), but I've never seen it for rent anywhere.
BTW, for those unfamiliar with the Rutles, they were an oft-overlooked
English group who were big in the '60's, and had absolutely no
influence on the music of such luminaries as Mick Jagger and
Paul Simon :-). A real delight, if you can find it, is the bootlegged
jam session between the Rutles and the Masked Marauders. Dynamite! :-)
David ("Dr. DAP") Pearlmandave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) (12/27/85)
In article <517@sdchema.sdchema.UUCP> marcos@sdchema.UUCP (David A. Pearlman) writes: >Hey there netland! Anybody still remember the Rutles movie, aired on >network T.V. (yes-sir-ee-bob!) back in 1977? I saw it a month or so ago. A truly delightful satire. The songs were so true to the Beatles style it seemed as if they were written by McCartney and Lennon. But they were true musical ripoffs in the best sense of the word. Really worth studying musicologically, as they brought out the different characteristics that made the Beatle's music, and pointed them out with clever musical hyperbole. Even the drummer in the ripoff group had Ringo's distinct early style nailed. This is a classic that every Beatles fan or student must see. I have not seen it advertised for rent, but I'll check at my local video hangout next time I'm there. The movie runs on independent stations occasionally in the U. S.; the last time it ran here in Memphis was on the anniversary of the murder of John Lennon. Talk about bad programming taste! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Kirby ( ...!ihnp4!akgub!cylixd!dave)
showard@udenva.UUCP (showard) (01/02/86)
In article <636@cylixd.UUCP> dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) writes: >In article <517@sdchema.sdchema.UUCP> marcos@sdchema.UUCP (David A. Pearlman) writes: >>Hey there netland! Anybody still remember the Rutles movie, aired on >>network T.V. (yes-sir-ee-bob!) back in 1977? > >I saw it a month or so ago. A truly delightful satire. The songs were >so true to the Beatles style it seemed as if they were written by >McCartney and Lennon. But they were true musical ripoffs in the best >sense of the word. Really worth studying musicologically, as they >brought out the different characteristics that made the Beatle's music, >and pointed them out with clever musical hyperbole. Even the drummer >in the ripoff group had Ringo's distinct early style nailed. This is a >classic that every Beatles fan or student must see. > And, every Beatles fan should buy (or tape) the album! It's on a Warner Bros. subsidiary label (I think) and is out of print, so get out to those used record stores. All the songs were written by Neil Innes, (of Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band fame, also did music at some Monty Python live shows) who has worked with the Beatles (the Bonzo ... Band was in "Magical Mystery Tour" as the band in the club) and later with Paul McCartney (who produced some Bonzo records in the 70s, shortly before the group died for being too intelligent in their humor). "I'm not the kind of guy who likes to play Big Brother But I've just seen your date outside, he's with another I saw you both come in and clearly you're not meant for him so Please, Please Hold My Hand." --Blore
marcos@sdchema.UUCP (David A. Pearlman) (01/06/86)
In article <1008@udenva.UUCP>, showard@udenva.UUCP (showard) writes: > In article <636@cylixd.UUCP> dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) writes: > >In article <517@sdchema.sdchema.UUCP> marcos@sdchema.UUCP (David A. Pearlman) writes: > >>Hey there netland! Anybody still remember the Rutles movie, aired on > >>network T.V. (yes-sir-ee-bob!) back in 1977? > >I saw it a month or so ago. A truly delightful satire. The songs were > >so true to the Beatles style it seemed as if they were written by > >McCartney and Lennon... > > And, every Beatles fan should buy (or tape) the album! It's on a Warner > Bros. subsidiary label (I think) and is out of print, so get out to those It was indeed issued on Warner's Brother records (not a subsidiary, unless you consider "Banana Records" (the Rutles' mythical record label) a subsidiary). And it is indeed out of print, as far as I know. However, there were oodles of these babies available as cut-outs around 1980 (I remember ordering several cartons of them for about $0.75 each from "Sounds Good" distributors back when I was managing my college bookstore's record department). So they should still be available *SOMEWHERE*. And, by all means get one if you're a fan of the Beatles...Not only are the parodies great, but the L.P. comes with a multi-page full-color booklet giving the full history of the Rutles. It even includes interviews with Paul Simon and Mick Jagger! A few other worthwhile goodies for collectors: A promotion-only 12" on yellow vinyl of a couple of the songs from the L.P. (with a nice picture sleeve); the press kit which came with review copies of the album (containing some great Beatles parody glossies, including one of the Beatles first Life magazine cover); and the album "The Rutland Dirty Weekend" by Eric Idle and Neil Innes (Passport/ABC records 1976(?), out of print). This album contains the first vinyl appearance of the Rutles (and is pretty funny overall...). > used record stores. All the songs were written by Neil Innes, (of Bonzo Dog > Doo Dah Band fame, also did music at some Monty Python live shows) who has > worked with the Beatles (the Bonzo ... Band was in "Magical Mystery Tour" as > the band in the club) and later with Paul McCartney (who produced some Bonzo > records in the 70s, shortly before the group died for being too intelligent in > their humor). Actually, the group worked with McCartney in the late '60's (1968, I believe). McCartney, in fact, wrote and produced the song "I'm the Urban Spaceman" for the Bonzos, which was a big hit in England. He did so under the pseudonym of Apollo C. Vermuth (sp?). A good retrospective of the Bonzo's, complete with excellent liner notes, is available: "History of the Bonzos". It's a two L.P. set, available on United Artists (now Capital). Neil Innes has also issued several solo albums, and been a member of the groups "The World" and "Grimms". David ("Dr. DAP") Pearlman "And all this science I don't understand... It's just my job five days a week." -- R. Dwight
marcos@sdchema.UUCP (David A. Pearlman) (01/06/86)
In article <524@sdchema.sdchema.UUCP>, marcos@sdchema.UUCP (David A. Pearlman) writes: > > Actually, the group worked with McCartney in the late '60's (1968, I believe). > McCartney, in fact, wrote and produced the song "I'm the Urban Spaceman" for ----- > the Bonzos, which was a big hit in England. He did so under the pseudonym > Apollo C. Vermuth (sp?) [...] > > David ("Dr. DAP") Pearlman Sorry, I got a little over-zealous there. He produced the song; I don't think he wrote it. --- DAP
ebm@ingres.ARPA (Grady Toss) (01/07/86)
In article <524@sdchema.sdchema.UUCP> David A. Pearlman writes: > Not only are the parodies great, but the L.P. comes with a multi-page > full-color booklet giving the full history of the Rutles. In fact, the stickers on the shrink wrap of the package said that the record was FREE with the purchase of the full-color booklet. ... gt