I recommend the whole movie "All You Need is Cash". It is a brilliant, and hilarious take on the Beatles. Its only about an hour long and every song in it is really good. My favorites include: Cheese and Onions (Yellow Submarine) Let's Be Natural (Dear Prudence) With a Girl Like You (If I Fell) Ouch! (Help!) Doubleback Alley (Penny Lane) They also made several songs that weren't in the movie that are also worth checking out.
CHEESE AND ONIONS ! (Great animated video with it). The video for Piggy In The Middle would make more sense for you if you watched The Beatles film, Magical Mystery Tour. Also, The Rutles movie is an absolute must see for Beatles fans, it's hilarious with fantastic songs.
The whole Rutles project grew out of Eric Idle's post Monty Python series with Neil Innes called RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION. Eventually Innes had masterminded two TV movies and several albums and even a tour as The Rutles. Innes died not that long ago. Man was a musical genius!
The show All You Need is Cash was broadcast on NBC when I was in high school. All my friends loved it and we really enjoyed talking about it the next school day (and probably a few after that). George was in it and played a reporter covering the Rutles. John Belushi and Paul Simon talked about the genius of the Rutles. Mick Jagger also made an appearance recounting the famous Rutles/Stones rivalry. Great show. Check it out.
Neil Innes, who was a member of The Bonzo Dog Dooh Dah Band wrote the songs. Ricky Fataar, who became a Beach Boy in the future, also played on the songs.
Neil Innes wrote all of the Rutles songs, apparently just by going off his memory of what the Beatles hits sounded like. "Number One" is great, but "Goose-Step Mama" is fantastic-"You've got nothing to eins, zwei, drei, vier!"
i just watched the rutles tv special a couple of months ago. forget spinal tap, THIS is the ultimate rockumentary mockumentary. "cheese and onions" is one of my favorites from the soundtrack. all their songs twist beatles classics masterfully. when eric idle hosted SNL in the mid 70s they did a short film about the rutles. SNL producer lorne michaels then gave idle the funds to make a full blown tv special since the BBC wouldn't.
I agree, I always enjoyed the Rutles much more than I ever did Spinal Tap. Also Cheese and Onions is great. I did want to request it instead but it was just so short
Their "I Must Be in Love" is the perfect early Beatles-style track, with jangly guitars and soaring melodies. Always loved it. Cool "A Hard Day's Night" style video as well.
Before Spinal Tap, there was The Rutles. Check out the full movie. It's hilarious. There is a great interview with the real Mick Jagger about their rivalry with The Rutles.
Neil Innes was a founding member of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, which was like the Monty Python music band of the 1960s. He was also the head minstrel in Monty Python's Holy Grail movie and was an all-around musical genius.
Before the show came out, they played it on the radio here, and were so close to the Fabs. I thought, how did I miss this tune? The All You Need is Cash show here had a cast of most the original SNL cast. George Harrison, who was good friends with Eric Idle of Monty Python, actually appeared in a cameo. He also was a consultant on the music. You should watch it. I think Mick Jagger was in it as well. Loads of fun.
George Harrison participated on the TV special on The Rutles. John was sent a tape copy (which he later stole) and he sent a letter to Neil on being careful on being sued by their manager Allen Klein. Ringo loved it, but Paul apparently wasn't fond of the TV show.
The more you learn about the Beatles, the more you’ll appreciate the “All You Need Is Cash” film - it’s absolutely packed with thousands of little jokes and quotes that if you know the original references are absolutely genius. From how long it took to make their first album, to having the George character played by an Indian guy and portraying Yoko Ono as Hitler.. it’s full of laughs.
In 1967 there was no Rutles. But the Bonzo Dog Do-Dah Band were in a movie called Magical Mystery Tour. Which a bunch of college kids watched over the Christmas break. These college kids thought this film showed where comedy should go. These kids became comedy writers and formed something called Monty Python’s Flying Circus After their television went off the guys worked on other shows such as Faulty Towers . The Rutles started out as a send up send up of documentaries of a subject that you get a few people talking about things they were not part of and create a “ news” piece. A segment was shown on Saturday Night Live in roughly 1977 of a long haired man wearing wire rimmed glasses playing a white piano, dressed all in white and no announcement of who it was. Playing a song called Cheese and Onions”.
This is crazy. I was in the car all day yesterday, driving home from NC, and listening to Pandora. About an hour from home, I got Piggy in the Middle, the only Rutles song all day, and really in a week or so.😎
Gotta watch the movie. When this appeared we thought it was the funniest thing ever. The "Tragical History Tour" had us on the floor laughing. Great sh..! Rock on L33.
SO GLAD you’re starting The Rutles journey! The second album is called “Archeology“ (spoofing The Beatles Anthology) and is more a love letter to The Beatles than a comic spoof. Neil Innes first met the Beatles when recording with The Bonzos in an adjacent studio and the first he heard was George working out the piano chords to “I Want To Tell You”. Check out “Eine Kleine Middle Klasse Music” if you want the ultimate Lennon doppelgänger song.
Neil Innes came on Saturday Night Live back in the 70's in full Lennon garb with a Yoko lookalike sitting at a white piano doing "Cheese And Onions". The place went insane.
It helps to know a fair amount of Beatles history (maybe watch Anthology first), so you get the inside jokes in the 2 Rutles movies. Python's Eric Idle had help from Lorne Michaels (after Idle took an early Rutles clip to SNL), and SNL cast members took part. George had a small part, and John and Yoko loved it - even though she was portrayed as Hitler's daughter. Neil Innes did great John Lennon-like vocals, ("Cheese And Onions" is very "Imagine"-like), and the songs represent the various stages of the Beatles' music. They got people like Jagger and Bowie to talk about the imaginary group.
Pure genius, that joke! 😄👍 I'd first known Ricky Fataar as Bonnie Raitt's drummer and couldn't believe it was the same guy, when I saw that name in the movie's credits! 😄
Yes! The absolute best Beatles cover band ever - and they never recorded a Beatle tune! Lennon supposedly absolutely loved the Rutles. When he got the video of the Rutles TV special to approve, he refused to return it! He also advised them not to put Get Up and Go on the soundtrack album because it was so close to Get Back he said the copyright owners at the time would sue the producers.
I filmed a whole day with the Rutles in Toronto promoting their Archeology album. They did a rooftop concert that ended with the Police shutdown..shutdown
Eric Idle (of Monty Python fame) and Neil Innes (pronounced like Tennis but starting with the I in fish) got together and created the Ruttles (pronounced like scuttles) as a sketch, then a full mockumentary titled "All You Need Is Cash". It is on UA-cam in full and is worth seeking out.
Ricky Fataar from The Rutles, who played the character Stig O'Hara (analogous to George Harrison), was a member of The Beach Boys from 1972 to 1974 and played on their studio albums Carl and the Passions - "So Tough", Holland and their 1973 live album The Beach Boys in Concert (and was a guest on two tracks from the album 15 Big Ones). From The Rutles, try the song "Let's Be Natural" which has a musical connection to "Dear Prudence" !😉
I'm fairly certain that's George's Magical Mystery Tour guitar that's seen in this video. This video was filmed in 1978, but was presented as being shot in 1968.
"I know you know what you know, but you should know by now that you're not me". The whole movie is worth your time. Some of the songs are as good as anything The Beatles ever put out.
Neil Innes (pronounced in-ess) was a founding member of the legendary Bonzo Dog Doo-Da Band, and they are definitely worth checking out. The Bonzos appeared in the actual Magical Mystery Tour film.
Rootles?!?! The clue to the pronunciation is Eric Idle's "Rutland Weekend Television" (which Neil Innes wrote the music for). The name was chosen because boundary changes meant that Rutland, the smallest county in England, no longer existed. (It was later re-instated).
Rutland is (or was) the smallest county in the UK. When the Python team stopped making the Monty Python's Flying Circus TV show, they each went off and, with varying degrees of success, made their own shows. Eric Idle's project was called Rutland Weekend Television, and one episode featured a sketch about a group called The Rutles, an obvious spoof of the Beatles. That in turn led to a spin-off mockumentary about the group, which parodied The Beatles' entire career, and featured several songs by Neil Innes. I believe Innes has since written parodies of pretty much every song on almost every Beatles album, and every one captures the sound of the original with frightening accuracy. Well worth searching "The Rutles" on UA-cam and going down that rabbit hole.
Omg thank you so much for doing the rutles!!! So freaking good! Music by neil innes of monty python fame. He did a beautiful job capturing the style of the Beatles ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Pronounced, RUTTLES, just FYI. The Rutles, originated on Eric Idle's program (from Monty Python), "Rutland Weekend Television", a comedy sketch show Idle developed on the BBC. The whole thing was Eric Idle's idea, who put it together with Neil Innes. They made an entire mockumentary film in the 70's (a documentary that parodied the Beatles story) that was produced by Lorne Michaels, that you can watch anywhere. It's well known. Neil Innes wrote all of the music, he was a musical and comedy genius.
Yiu should definitely watch the whole film, its a pastiche of The Beatles story. You can tell that Eric Idle and Neil Innes were Beatles fans and George Harrison appears alongside other famous stars, its hilarious and the songs are fantastic.
You really do need to see the mockumentary, whether you react to it or not. Hilarious, done with that sarcastic flair that only Monty Python can provide.
The Rutles 'Archaeology' (1996) is a really great follow up from the first album. I bought both as they were released and still play them because they hold up well. After Neil Innes and The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, where else should he go? The Rutles!
Most of the Rutles canon is straight piss take of the Beatles, but Innes' output evolved into genuinely good songs. My favourite video accompanies "Get Up and Go" their seminal rooftop performance, but as a Lennon fan you should listen to "Questionnaire" and brace for the sting in its tail...
Hey Lee, Happy New Year from Ned and Janet in Spain. We have loved this amazing parody since it's original broadcast. Neil Innes was in the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band who were in The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour doing the song " Death Cab For Cutie". They and the Beatles had the same sense of humor and love of old records. Drummer John "Admiral " Halsey was a great band called Patto with the amazing guitarist Ollie Halsall who is on a lot of the Rutles tracks.
@@JayCross Where Does A Dream Begin is one of our favorites. On the Rutland Weekend TV series Neil wrote an astounding amount of songs. He also wrote solo albums like How Sweet To Be A Idiot. I got to see Monty Python in 1975 at NY City Center and Neil did a painfully good Bob Dylan parody with a screeeeching harmonica. Sadly Eric decided that the Rutles was solely his, leading to a bitter legal battle that bankrupted Mr Innes. I'll never forgive Eric for doing that to Neil as well as releasing crap Rutles rehash films to cash in.
You stumbled on somethawesome here, The Rutles aren't just a Beatles phenomenon, they're a parody phenomenon. Neil Innes is the musical genius behind the music, Eric Idle of the Pythons the comedy. There are at least a couple albums of top-notch Beatlesesque songs, and a couple of films/docus. The first Rutles album, give it a spin, I played it more thsn the Beatles back then, it's late 70s, none of it was nade in the 60s, though Neil Innes was having success then with the Bonzo Dog DooDah Band...
The Rutles--a legend who will last a lifetime. The whole album is amazing. Neil Innes actually lost the copyright rights to the songs because they were so close to the Beatles, even though they are really different. George tried off and on to get them back for him, though.
My friend got the original soundtrack LP back around 1979 and we were so disappointed that it didn’t include Get Up and Go. I later read that they did that because John Lennon warned Neil Innis that it might be a little too close to the “Get Back” and that ATV the music publisher may come after them as a result so they didn’t take the chance.
Watch the movie although it is more satisfying if you are well versed in Beatles history. George even makes an appearance in it as a reporter. The cast is populated by Monty Python and SNL members.
The full 'Rutles: All you Need is Cash' (a Beatles satire) is in on UA-cam ua-cam.com/video/sEwySvgfwLE/v-deo.html Neil Innes of the 'Bonzo Do-Dah Band is the musical genius behind the music (The Bonzo's appear in the Beatles 'Magical Mystery Tour'.)
It really is worth trying to find the whole film. ‘ All you need is cash’. The songs are amazing as they really do sound like they are real Beatles songs until you listen to the lyrics. Not great quality but there is a copy on YT ua-cam.com/video/sEwySvgfwLE/v-deo.htmlsi=w_didcISaZlrERQo but maybe better to try to find a copy of the DVD to enjoy it fully.
I watched this for the first time in a really long time a couple of days ago on youTube and it was decent enough just that there was about a minute of silence at one point.
There is a second Rutles mockumentary that Eric Idle did, it's called "Cant Buy Me Lunch" , which came out on DVD. It was done many years later in 2002 and well worth seeing.
The film (All you need is Cash) from which this clip is an excerpt and the album (The Rutles) were produced in 1978. Nice Beatles parody, in which George Harrison himself plays a small role as an interviewer. He interviews an employee of the Rutles company, which is being robbed by all sorts of people. One of them ends up grabbing Harrison's microphone... The scene refers to the Beatles' attempt, to set up their own business, where they wanted to give all the artists a chance, who had previously been rejected by others. Of course, this went completely wrong, despite a good start, because the Beatles released Hey Jude and the smash hit Those Were the Days by Mary Hopkin, produced by Paul McCartney.
The individual Beatles (especially George) loved this sacrilegious send up of the whole Beatle's story and experience. Only Peython's Eric Idle (a pal of George) could pull this off without pissing off the millions of Beatle's fans out there. They say satirizing and imitating are the sincerest forms of flattery.
@@TheHogsEarReport McCartney took a bit more convincing. According to Neil Innes, one of the band’s creators, he was very upset when he first saw the movie. That being said, his attitude to the group eventually changed, especially when he learnt that another one of the creators, Eric Idle, grew up near Liverpool. It’s reported that when speaking to his wife about The Rutles, McCartney said, “Hey Linda, it’s okay, he’s a scouse, he’s one of us.” Funny isn't it, People hear so many things usually not true
@@genegarrett3372 According to Neil, they were at a party and Paul admitted that he had been upset, but that he knew he shouldn't be because he understood that it came from a place of love. So it seems that there was a bit of a disconnect between Paul's intellectual and emotional responses to it that he needed to reconcile for himself. As for the Linda story, I had heard it was the other way around, that she had used Eric's background to bring Paul around.
This video was a take off of the Beatles I Am The Walrus parodying the clip from the film Magical Mystery Tour. The Rutles made a film titled Meet The Rutles which was a parody of the Beatles story with songs like Ouch (Help)-George Harrison appears in the film. The song I Must Be In Love is pure 1964 Beatles. Actually the Rutles movie came out in 1978-the Tragical History Tour (Magical Mystery Tour by the Beatle the Rutles were paroyding) came out in 1968.
For another sound-a-like spoof on John Lennon, hear the 1972 National Lampoon Radio Hour's "Magical Misery Tour" sung by Tony Hendra. This is sung from the viewpoint of a resentful post Beatle primal scream influenced Lennon. Some lines are "I was the walrus, Paul wasn't the walrus - I was just saying that to be nice", "I'm a genius - I can make a guitar speak ! " etc. There are a lot of "f" words.
"I know you know what you know, but you should know by now that you're not me." is a tragic unexpected foreshadowing of Mark David Chapman's assassinations of Lennon.
If you haven't listened to Eric Idle's songs, you should. Look for them in collections of songs from Monty Python. Perhaps start with "Always look on the Bright Side of Life".
From their 'Tragical History Tour' album 😂 Do watch the 'All You Need Is Cash' movie some time, Lee! 😉👍 And Happy New Year to you and yours and all the very best for 2025! 😀🙌💚🌈☀️🎵🍀🦋🌻
You have got to watch the movie. Monty Python / SNL colab Rutles all you need is cash. Parody of the the BeaTles George has a cameo in it Brilliant !!!!
That was frickin' hilarious, man. I need to watch more. What else should we watch by them??
I recommend the whole movie "All You Need is Cash". It is a brilliant, and hilarious take on the Beatles. Its only about an hour long and every song in it is really good.
My favorites include:
Cheese and Onions (Yellow Submarine)
Let's Be Natural (Dear Prudence)
With a Girl Like You (If I Fell)
Ouch! (Help!)
Doubleback Alley (Penny Lane)
They also made several songs that weren't in the movie that are also worth checking out.
CHEESE AND ONIONS ! (Great animated video with it). The video for Piggy In The Middle would make more sense for you if you watched The Beatles film, Magical Mystery Tour. Also, The Rutles movie is an absolute must see for Beatles fans, it's hilarious with fantastic songs.
Also check out the movie Walk Hard it has some great Dylan spoofs. Those tracks are on UA-cam
There's a video for the song Shanri La, a Rutles spoof of Hey Jude.
Yes, do any, all tracks are good. On pronunciation - Neil Innes is "in-ness" and Rutles is "ruttles".
The "Rut" les... like, " I'm feeling down, I'm in a rut." The Rutles. Love your reaction videos. 😂
The whole Rutles project grew out of Eric Idle's post Monty Python series with Neil Innes called RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION. Eventually Innes had masterminded two TV movies and several albums and even a tour as The Rutles. Innes died not that long ago. Man was a musical genius!
Cheese and Onions is a good one! I also love Get Up and Go! They are hilarious!
The show All You Need is Cash was broadcast on NBC when I was in high school. All my friends loved it and we really enjoyed talking about it the next school day (and probably a few after that). George was in it and played a reporter covering the Rutles. John Belushi and Paul Simon talked about the genius of the Rutles. Mick Jagger also made an appearance recounting the famous Rutles/Stones rivalry. Great show. Check it out.
George Harrison financed a great part of the movie The Life Of Brian of Monty Python. When they asked why, George replied: "I wanna see the movie."
Neil Innes, who was a member of The Bonzo Dog Dooh Dah Band wrote the songs. Ricky Fataar, who became a Beach Boy in the future, also played on the songs.
Neil Innes wrote all of the Rutles songs, apparently just by going off his memory of what the Beatles hits sounded like. "Number One" is great, but "Goose-Step Mama" is fantastic-"You've got nothing to eins, zwei, drei, vier!"
i just watched the rutles tv special a couple of months ago. forget spinal tap, THIS is the ultimate rockumentary mockumentary. "cheese and onions" is one of my favorites from the soundtrack. all their songs twist beatles classics masterfully. when eric idle hosted SNL in the mid 70s they did a short film about the rutles. SNL producer lorne michaels then gave idle the funds to make a full blown tv special since the BBC wouldn't.
I agree, I always enjoyed the Rutles much more than I ever did Spinal Tap. Also Cheese and Onions is great. I did want to request it instead but it was just so short
I have always thought
in the back of my mind
cheese and onions. 😮
Classic!!
c-h-e-e-s-e-a-n-d-o-n-i-o-n-s-oh-yeah....
@@mollieking7432 Did you have to spell it out?
@@myeckwaters It's a line from the song - they spell it out. It always cracks me up.
Other recommended tracks from The Rutles album All You Need Is Cash: Cheese And Onions, I Must Be In Love 'n Number One.
Their "I Must Be in Love" is the perfect early Beatles-style track, with jangly guitars and soaring melodies. Always loved it. Cool "A Hard Day's Night" style video as well.
Yeah, that's a great track.
Before Spinal Tap, there was The Rutles. Check out the full movie. It's hilarious. There is a great interview with the real Mick Jagger about their rivalry with The Rutles.
Neil Innes was a founding member of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, which was like the Monty Python music band of the 1960s. He was also the head minstrel in Monty Python's Holy Grail movie and was an all-around musical genius.
Before the show came out, they played it on the radio here, and were so close to the Fabs. I thought, how did I miss this tune? The All You Need is Cash show here had a cast of most the original SNL cast. George Harrison, who was good friends with Eric Idle of Monty Python, actually appeared in a cameo. He also was a consultant on the music. You should watch it. I think Mick Jagger was in it as well. Loads of fun.
Yep, Jagger's in it as himself 😊
Cheese and Onion is my fav! So happy someone is finally reacting to The Rutles. I've been dropping hints in the comments.
Get Up and Go, and Blue Suede Schubert are my favorites from the album.
The special was called "All You Need Is Cash". It came out in '78. It aired in SNL's time spot. "I Must Be In Love" is a great early Beatles spoof.
The Rutles were masterminded by Eric Idle (Monty Python) and Neil Innes (Bonzo Doo Da Dog Band).
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
@@kentclark6420 Right you are, the dog was a stray.
George Harrison participated on the TV special on The Rutles. John was sent a tape copy (which he later stole) and he sent a letter to Neil on being careful on being sued by their manager Allen Klein. Ringo loved it, but Paul apparently wasn't fond of the TV show.
Piggy in the Middle = I am the walrus ( so great parody) and all you need is cash :)
The more you learn about the Beatles, the more you’ll appreciate the “All You Need Is Cash” film - it’s absolutely packed with thousands of little jokes and quotes that if you know the original references are absolutely genius. From how long it took to make their first album, to having the George character played by an Indian guy and portraying Yoko Ono as Hitler.. it’s full of laughs.
In 1967 there was no Rutles. But the Bonzo Dog Do-Dah Band were in a movie called Magical Mystery Tour. Which a bunch of college kids watched over the Christmas break. These college kids thought this film showed where comedy should go. These kids became comedy writers and formed something called Monty Python’s Flying Circus After their television went off the guys worked on other shows such as Faulty Towers . The Rutles started out as a send up send up of documentaries of a subject that you get a few people talking about things they were not part of and create a “ news” piece. A segment was shown on Saturday Night Live in roughly 1977 of a long haired man wearing wire rimmed glasses playing a white piano, dressed all in white and no announcement of who it was. Playing a song called Cheese and Onions”.
This is crazy. I was in the car all day yesterday, driving home from NC, and listening to Pandora. About an hour from home, I got Piggy in the Middle, the only Rutles song all day, and really in a week or so.😎
Gotta watch the movie. When this appeared we thought it was the funniest thing ever. The "Tragical History Tour" had us on the floor laughing. Great sh..! Rock on L33.
"Four Oxford history professors on a hitch-hiking tour of tea shops in the Rutland area" 😄
SO GLAD you’re starting The Rutles journey! The second album is called “Archeology“ (spoofing The Beatles Anthology) and is more a love letter to The Beatles than a comic spoof. Neil Innes first met the Beatles when recording with The Bonzos in an adjacent studio and the first he heard was George working out the piano chords to “I Want To Tell You”. Check out “Eine Kleine Middle Klasse Music” if you want the ultimate Lennon doppelgänger song.
The best Beatles parody!!! Listen to one of the records.
Neil Innes came on Saturday Night Live back in the 70's in full Lennon garb with a Yoko lookalike sitting at a white piano doing "Cheese And Onions".
The place went insane.
It helps to know a fair amount of Beatles history (maybe watch Anthology first), so you get the inside jokes in the 2 Rutles movies. Python's Eric Idle had help from Lorne Michaels (after Idle took an early Rutles clip to SNL), and SNL cast members took part. George had a small part, and John and Yoko loved it - even though she was portrayed as Hitler's daughter. Neil Innes did great John Lennon-like vocals, ("Cheese And Onions" is very "Imagine"-like), and the songs represent the various stages of the Beatles' music. They got people like Jagger and Bowie to talk about the imaginary group.
Eric Idle and Neil Innes got considerable input from George Harrison before writing the script.
Eric Idle who is playing Paul was one of the original Monty Python performers and close friend of George Harrison.
These guys were able to do a mockumentory and write similar genre of the Beatles catalog. It’s oddly enjoyable and funny as hell!
Ya gotta see the whole movie! It's on UA-cam!
Fav joke, casting an Indian guy as Stig O'hara, the George Harrison parody.
Pure genius, that joke! 😄👍
I'd first known Ricky Fataar as Bonnie Raitt's drummer and couldn't believe it was the same guy, when I saw that name in the movie's credits! 😄
@@mightyV444 He was also a Beach Boy!😀
@Kieop - Yes! 😀 And the Beach Boys' _current_ drummer is John Stamos, the actor! 😀
Yes! The absolute best Beatles cover band ever - and they never recorded a Beatle tune! Lennon supposedly absolutely loved the Rutles. When he got the video of the Rutles TV special to approve, he refused to return it! He also advised them not to put Get Up and Go on the soundtrack album because it was so close to Get Back he said the copyright owners at the time would sue the producers.
I filmed a whole day with the Rutles in Toronto promoting their Archeology album. They did a rooftop concert that ended with the Police shutdown..shutdown
Finally! The Pre-Fab Four. Awesome
"Ouch!" is a great one too.
Eric Idle (of Monty Python fame) and Neil Innes (pronounced like Tennis but starting with the I in fish) got together and created the Ruttles (pronounced like scuttles) as a sketch, then a full mockumentary titled "All You Need Is Cash". It is on UA-cam in full and is worth seeking out.
Ricky Fataar from The Rutles, who played the character Stig O'Hara (analogous to George Harrison), was a member of The Beach Boys from 1972 to 1974 and played on their studio albums Carl and the Passions - "So Tough", Holland and their 1973 live album The Beach Boys in Concert (and was a guest on two tracks from the album 15 Big Ones).
From The Rutles, try the song "Let's Be Natural" which has a musical connection to "Dear Prudence" !😉
I love “Let’s Be Natural!”❤
@@moodybluepoet 👍Me too !
Yeah Let's Be Natural is easily one of my favorites
Ricky Fataar has also been Bonnie Raitt's drummer for quite a long time! 😀
"All You Need Is Cash" is available on UA-cam. I tried to post a link here, but apparently that is not allowed.
I'm fairly certain that's George's Magical Mystery Tour guitar that's seen in this video. This video was filmed in 1978, but was presented as being shot in 1968.
"I know you know what you know, but you should know by now that you're not me". The whole movie is worth your time. Some of the songs are as good as anything The Beatles ever put out.
Neil Innes (pronounced in-ess) was a founding member of the legendary Bonzo Dog Doo-Da Band, and they are definitely worth checking out. The Bonzos appeared in the actual Magical Mystery Tour film.
My Pink Half of the Drainpipe.
@@tinicum54 The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse is definitely my favourite Bonzos album.
Loved the Ruttles! And on this side of the pond, we have "This is Spinal Tap"!
Rootles?!?! The clue to the pronunciation is Eric Idle's "Rutland Weekend Television" (which Neil Innes wrote the music for). The name was chosen because boundary changes meant that Rutland, the smallest county in England, no longer existed. (It was later re-instated).
I did not expect this to come on my feed today haha
Rutland is (or was) the smallest county in the UK. When the Python team stopped making the Monty Python's Flying Circus TV show, they each went off and, with varying degrees of success, made their own shows. Eric Idle's project was called Rutland Weekend Television, and one episode featured a sketch about a group called The Rutles, an obvious spoof of the Beatles. That in turn led to a spin-off mockumentary about the group, which parodied The Beatles' entire career, and featured several songs by Neil Innes.
I believe Innes has since written parodies of pretty much every song on almost every Beatles album, and every one captures the sound of the original with frightening accuracy. Well worth searching "The Rutles" on UA-cam and going down that rabbit hole.
Love it, do more. Great laugh : )
Thanks Dan, we need more of this. Funny stuff by The Rutles.
Neil Innis was in the Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band and they performed their song Death Cab for Cutie in the Magical Mystery Tour film.
Omg thank you so much for doing the rutles!!! So freaking good! Music by neil innes of monty python fame. He did a beautiful job capturing the style of the Beatles ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Erm, no, he was not a member of Monty Python. That was Eric Idle.
@@thescrewfly He wasn't officially a member but he did collaborate with them a lot
It must be the trousers...😜
Or the trouser-press.
Pronounced, RUTTLES, just FYI. The Rutles, originated on Eric Idle's program (from Monty Python), "Rutland Weekend Television", a comedy sketch show Idle developed on the BBC. The whole thing was Eric Idle's idea, who put it together with Neil Innes. They made an entire mockumentary film in the 70's (a documentary that parodied the Beatles story) that was produced by Lorne Michaels, that you can watch anywhere. It's well known. Neil Innes wrote all of the music, he was a musical and comedy genius.
This is a great example of only being able to spoof something well if you truly love and understand it.
Ricky Faatar played with the Beach Boys
And Bonnie Raitt! 🙂
Yiu should definitely watch the whole film, its a pastiche of The Beatles story. You can tell that Eric Idle and Neil Innes were Beatles fans and George Harrison appears alongside other famous stars, its hilarious and the songs are fantastic.
Spoof documentary supported by George" All you need is cash"
You really do need to see the mockumentary, whether you react to it or not. Hilarious, done with that sarcastic flair that only Monty Python can provide.
if I remember right, wasn't George Harrison in the movie?
The Rutles 'Archaeology' (1996) is a really great follow up from the first album. I bought both as they were released and still play them because they hold up well.
After Neil Innes and The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, where else should he go? The Rutles!
Get Up and Go is excellent, complete with rooftop performance video!
Most of the Rutles canon is straight piss take of the Beatles, but Innes' output evolved into genuinely good songs.
My favourite video accompanies "Get Up and Go" their seminal rooftop performance, but as a Lennon fan you should listen to "Questionnaire" and brace for the sting in its tail...
Get to know the band Klaatu; it was a Canadian group that was long suspected to be a pseudonym for the Beatles. But their music was really good!!!
All You Need is Cash is worth the watch. TV friendly
Yes: Rutles; when im younger i like watching they movie and listening musick...
If your going down this rabbit hole, please do a Spinal Tap reaction. Guaranteed its an 11/10 reaction!!!
Spinal Tap, for sure
Innes is said like finish without the f and h.
Nice guy. We shared a joke a month before he died. He was also in Magical Mystery Tour, so...
Hey Lee, Happy New Year from Ned and Janet in Spain. We have loved this amazing parody since it's original broadcast. Neil Innes was in the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band who were in The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour doing the song " Death Cab For Cutie". They and the Beatles had the same sense of humor and love of old records. Drummer John "Admiral " Halsey was a great band called Patto with the amazing guitarist Ollie Halsall who is on a lot of the Rutles tracks.
Innes and Eric Idle collaborated on many Monty Python songs as well.
@@JayCross Where Does A Dream Begin is one of our favorites. On the Rutland Weekend TV series Neil wrote an astounding amount of songs. He also wrote solo albums like How Sweet To Be A Idiot. I got to see Monty Python in 1975 at NY City Center and Neil did a painfully good Bob Dylan parody with a screeeeching harmonica. Sadly Eric decided that the Rutles was solely his, leading to a bitter legal battle that bankrupted Mr Innes. I'll never forgive Eric for doing that to Neil as well as releasing crap Rutles rehash films to cash in.
You stumbled on somethawesome here, The Rutles aren't just a Beatles phenomenon, they're a parody phenomenon. Neil Innes is the musical genius behind the music, Eric Idle of the Pythons the comedy. There are at least a couple albums of top-notch Beatlesesque songs, and a couple of films/docus. The first Rutles album, give it a spin, I played it more thsn the Beatles back then, it's late 70s, none of it was nade in the 60s, though Neil Innes was having success then with the Bonzo Dog DooDah Band...
The Rutles--a legend who will last a lifetime. The whole album is amazing. Neil Innes actually lost the copyright rights to the songs because they were so close to the Beatles, even though they are really different. George tried off and on to get them back for him, though.
🎶 Ouch ! 🎶
My friend got the original soundtrack LP back around 1979 and we were so disappointed that it didn’t include Get Up and Go. I later read that they did that because John Lennon warned Neil Innis that it might be a little too close to the “Get Back” and that ATV the music publisher may come after them as a result so they didn’t take the chance.
Pronounced rut as in the ruts. Neil Innes and Eric Idle mates of George.
The Rutles rhymes with Buttholes
Watch the movie although it is more satisfying if you are well versed in Beatles history. George even makes an appearance in it as a reporter.
The cast is populated by Monty Python and SNL members.
Watch the movie as well. George is briefly in it lol
Lee, it's 'Ruttles', not 'Rootles'. Based on Eric Idle's 'Rutland Weekend Television'. Rutland is the smallest county in England.
The full 'Rutles: All you Need is Cash' (a Beatles satire) is in on UA-cam
ua-cam.com/video/sEwySvgfwLE/v-deo.html
Neil Innes of the 'Bonzo Do-Dah Band is the musical genius behind the music
(The Bonzo's appear in the Beatles 'Magical Mystery Tour'.)
That was a treat .. thank you
It really is worth trying to find the whole film. ‘ All you need is cash’. The songs are amazing as they really do sound like they are real Beatles songs until you listen to the lyrics. Not great quality but there is a copy on YT ua-cam.com/video/sEwySvgfwLE/v-deo.htmlsi=w_didcISaZlrERQo but maybe better to try to find a copy of the DVD to enjoy it fully.
I watched this for the first time in a really long time a couple of days ago on youTube and it was decent enough just that there was about a minute of silence at one point.
There is a second Rutles mockumentary that Eric Idle did, it's called "Cant Buy Me Lunch" , which came out on DVD. It was done many years later in 2002 and well worth seeing.
I think ive got a Rutles album somewhere in my collection
George mortgaged his home to finance that Monty Python film
The film (All you need is Cash) from which this clip is an excerpt and the album (The Rutles) were produced in 1978. Nice Beatles parody, in which George Harrison himself plays a small role as an interviewer. He interviews an employee of the Rutles company, which is being robbed by all sorts of people. One of them ends up grabbing Harrison's microphone... The scene refers to the Beatles' attempt, to set up their own business, where they wanted to give all the artists a chance, who had previously been rejected by others. Of course, this went completely wrong, despite a good start, because the Beatles released Hey Jude and the smash hit Those Were the Days by Mary Hopkin, produced by Paul McCartney.
It's basically a Monty Python offshoot that got carried away....several albums and tv specials.
Cheese and Onions is great, too! The Rutles are great!!
Check out 'All you need is cash', a parody film they did of the Beatles.
The Prefab Four!
The individual Beatles (especially George) loved this sacrilegious send up of the whole Beatle's story and experience. Only Peython's Eric Idle (a pal of George) could pull this off without pissing off the millions of Beatle's fans out there. They say satirizing and imitating are the sincerest forms of flattery.
George was in it too...hahaha. So was Mick Jagger
I've heard Paul didn't like it, and Ringo only liked half of it.
@@TheHogsEarReport McCartney took a bit more convincing. According to Neil Innes, one of the band’s creators, he was very upset when he first saw the movie. That being said, his attitude to the group eventually changed, especially when he learnt that another one of the creators, Eric Idle, grew up near Liverpool. It’s reported that when speaking to his wife about The Rutles, McCartney said, “Hey Linda, it’s okay, he’s a scouse, he’s one of us.” Funny isn't it, People hear so many things usually not true
@@genegarrett3372 According to Neil, they were at a party and Paul admitted that he had been upset, but that he knew he shouldn't be because he understood that it came from a place of love. So it seems that there was a bit of a disconnect between Paul's intellectual and emotional responses to it that he needed to reconcile for himself.
As for the Linda story, I had heard it was the other way around, that she had used Eric's background to bring Paul around.
Hold my hand, Yea Yea !!
My Rutles favourite! 😁👍
Maybe it’s just me but there’s just something about their trousers.
This video was a take off of the Beatles I Am The Walrus parodying the clip from the film Magical Mystery Tour. The Rutles made a film titled Meet The Rutles which was a parody of the Beatles story with songs like Ouch (Help)-George Harrison appears in the film. The song I Must Be In Love is pure 1964 Beatles. Actually the Rutles movie came out in 1978-the Tragical History Tour (Magical Mystery Tour by the Beatle the Rutles were paroyding) came out in 1968.
the film is actually called "All You Need is Cash"
The Rutles (1978).
For another sound-a-like spoof on John Lennon, hear the 1972 National Lampoon Radio Hour's "Magical Misery Tour" sung by Tony Hendra. This is sung from the viewpoint of a resentful post Beatle primal scream influenced Lennon. Some lines are "I was the walrus, Paul wasn't the walrus - I was just saying that to be nice", "I'm a genius - I can make a guitar speak ! " etc. There are a lot of "f" words.
"I know you know what you know, but you should know by now that you're not me." is a tragic unexpected foreshadowing of Mark David Chapman's assassinations of Lennon.
If you haven't listened to Eric Idle's songs, you should. Look for them in collections of songs from Monty Python. Perhaps start with "Always look on the Bright Side of Life".
Ron Nasty, Dirk McQuigley, Stig O’Hara and Barry Womb
The RuTles
And the drum kit's brand is Earwig, not Ludwig 😄
You have to do "Blue Suede Shubert". Genius.
From their 'Tragical History Tour' album 😂
Do watch the 'All You Need Is Cash' movie some time, Lee!
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And Happy New Year to you and yours and all the very best for 2025!
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All you need is cash! 😁
❤😂❤omg so fun!!🎉
I love the Rutles. I hope you check out "Cheese and Onions" next.
You have got to watch the movie.
Monty Python / SNL colab
Rutles all you need is cash.
Parody of the the BeaTles
George has a cameo in it
Brilliant !!!!