Godfrey Daniel - Neil Innes (HD)

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  • Опубліковано 13 лют 2020
  • Godfrey Daniel from ‘The Innes Book of Records’.
    Original broadcast date: 5th October 1981.
    “Anyhow, it’s not just doorknobs that come off in your hand”
    A song first featured by Neil on Rutland Weekend Television in 1976. Nick Cabaret takes on the songwriting style of Elton John and Bernie Taupin and wins hands down! After the dirty outlaw blows up the saloon, Nick comes in, sits down at the piano and plays his song joined by the pantomime animals from the ‘Cat Meat Conga’ clip.
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  • @Tysto
    @Tysto Місяць тому +35

    I'm gonna perform this at the local open mic and say it's an Elton John deep cut, and NO ONE will question it.

  • @cattathat
    @cattathat День тому

    Neil Innes!!! R.I.P

  • @slimjim4239
    @slimjim4239 10 місяців тому +42

    the best song elton john never wrote

    • @marguskiis7711
      @marguskiis7711 8 місяців тому +3

      It was Elton John parody in Rutland TV show,

    • @slimjim4239
      @slimjim4239 5 місяців тому

      i know@@marguskiis7711

  • @ariesmercurio1869
    @ariesmercurio1869 6 місяців тому +17

    Most underrated artist ever

  • @paulhoughton5164
    @paulhoughton5164 25 днів тому +5

    Why have I never seen or heard this before??? This is incredibly good and extremely funny

  • @bloodorigin
    @bloodorigin Місяць тому +6

    This is my new favorite song

  • @pauljacques9697
    @pauljacques9697 3 роки тому +11

    Nick Cabaret remains enshrined in my childhood memories.

  • @mattygungawalk
    @mattygungawalk 4 роки тому +20

    Ha! Loved this as a kid and always assumed it to be ‘God Free Daniel’

    • @imoldgreggboosh3467
      @imoldgreggboosh3467 2 роки тому +11

      W C Fields would mutter 'Godfrey Daniel' in place of saying 'God Dammit.'

    • @JJMMWGDuPree
      @JJMMWGDuPree 5 днів тому

      Even after I bought the record...

  • @pauljacques2133
    @pauljacques2133 2 роки тому +9

    The most beautiful song in the world.

  • @kevinsands7639
    @kevinsands7639 Рік тому +5

    Must be his greatest song ever, "All of them are great with some hidden meanings. I just keep playing this over and over. There's something of the night in this song.

  • @Tmanaz480
    @Tmanaz480 Місяць тому +5

    "I believe in believin'..."

  • @Tmanaz480
    @Tmanaz480 Місяць тому +3

    This song is actually closer to the story of the "real" story than Bernie Taupin's "Daniel." Bernie said it was inspired by a news story of a Viet Nam Vet that had a hard time returning to his old life in rural Texas due to his neighbors attitudes. Neil's chorus seems to evoke that situation.

  • @haraldgriefbacon1373
    @haraldgriefbacon1373 Місяць тому +13

    A hilarious send up of the mindless, pretentious attempts at profundity which infect many rock songs. Savage. And yet, the style parody is so spot on, you can listen superficially and just ignore it all. Bravo! What a great talent Neil innes was.

  • @raulgalets
    @raulgalets Місяць тому +4

    interview with a vampire is lit

  • @greg55666
    @greg55666 Місяць тому +16

    The fantastic thing about Neil Innes is that his music is actually really good, and at the same time hilarious. How sweet to be an idiot.

  • @fredfat1606
    @fredfat1606 4 роки тому +6

    touching

  • @petercampbell8694
    @petercampbell8694 Місяць тому +1

    Keep singing this song! 😳😳😳😳

  • @birdthompson
    @birdthompson Місяць тому +15

    just saw the other version of the vid, with Elton wearing margarita glasses!!

  • @exapnomapcase
    @exapnomapcase 4 роки тому +7

    Thank god(frey) for your HD version ;)

  • @marguskiis7711
    @marguskiis7711 8 місяців тому +7

    It was Elton John parody in Rutland TV show.

  • @JonasPlanck
    @JonasPlanck 6 місяців тому +8

    The UA-cam algorithm has incorrectly classified this as "country music" because of the coconut sound at the beginning.

    • @rexnemo
      @rexnemo 5 місяців тому +1

      Well it was made in a country possibly Britain . Does that count ?😼

    • @JonasPlanck
      @JonasPlanck 4 місяці тому +6

      @@rexnemo Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?

    • @air_cooled_andy
      @air_cooled_andy Місяць тому +1

      😆

  • @klbax63
    @klbax63 2 місяці тому +3

    Neil could really turn a phrase or phrase a turn

  • @veganman2945
    @veganman2945 Місяць тому +1

    This is the way politicians now speak.

  • @jeffthevideoguy23
    @jeffthevideoguy23 Місяць тому +3

    I thought it was "God Free Daniel"

  • @TheCackles68
    @TheCackles68 22 дні тому +1

    Tim Finns twin

  • @salvadorealiberto
    @salvadorealiberto Місяць тому +3

    Neil's act can be so subtle that I wonder if I am reading into it sometimes. Example, this hair style and shake on the shoulders is VERY Elton 1977 and 1979 at 0:36.

  • @unchattytwit
    @unchattytwit Місяць тому

    Better version of song and video than the in costume EJ impersonation. Classic.

    • @CC-xu2yz
      @CC-xu2yz Місяць тому

      Maybe, but the cocktail glass glasses rule.

  • @DoctorBeatle01
    @DoctorBeatle01 4 місяці тому

    Let it rot

  • @fredfat3128
    @fredfat3128 2 роки тому +4

    touching and most songs arent

  • @6ecko
    @6ecko Місяць тому

    PARKLIFE!

  • @Pikestnt
    @Pikestnt Місяць тому

    Anyone got the chords/music?
    I know they’re fairly simple but I’m even simpler ☹️

    • @dereknolin5986
      @dereknolin5986 Місяць тому +1

      Key of Cm/Eb
      [Intro]: |Cm | G7/B |Ab Bb | Eb G7/D |
      [Verse]: |Cm | G7/B | Eb/Bb | F7/A | Ab | Eb/G | Ab Bb | Eb Eb G7/D |(repeat)
      [Chorus]: |Cm | G7/B | Eb | F | Eb G7/D | Cm F7(hold two extra beats) | Ab Bb | Eb G7/D |
      [Repeat Intro ]
      [Verse 2]
      [Chorus 2]
      [Intro]
      [Verse 3]
      [Chorus 3]
      [Chorus 4] (hold on "wrong")
      [Outro]: |Cm | G7/B |Ab Bb | Eb |
      I think this is pretty much right. I think technically after the first chorus the G7/B is just a G7 in all the other choruses. Hope that helps you.

    • @Pikestnt
      @Pikestnt Місяць тому +2

      @@dereknolin5986
      Oh Derek - You absolute star!
      I’ll have a bash (And I use the term literally) at that when I get in from work. 🎹
      Many, many thanks 👍

    • @dereknolin5986
      @dereknolin5986 Місяць тому

      @@Pikestnt I just stumbled across this song yesterday for the first time, and I really like it. I think there's more to it than just making fun of Elton John. I'm actually a gigging keyboard player, and I might have to break this one out to play and sing next time I do a bar gig or something, especially now that I took the time to chart the chords! I hope you learn it!

    • @Pikestnt
      @Pikestnt Місяць тому +2

      Yes, it stands on its own as a good tune and very plausibly by Elton John. Some of the lyrics are deliberately silly (and I can’t help singing “Stormy Daniels”) but definitely one to add to a set list
      Thanks again
      Chris

  • @0211571
    @0211571 4 місяці тому +5

    Innes was a genius that proved to me Elton John was overrated.

  • @jjpopnfresh6822
    @jjpopnfresh6822 5 днів тому

    Billy Joel never sounded so good

  • @ih8paper
    @ih8paper Місяць тому

    Elton Bowie.

  • @SergeiTeplo
    @SergeiTeplo 4 дні тому

    Laugh beneath the tears. Talant

  • @SergeiTeplo
    @SergeiTeplo 16 днів тому

    Get Up And Go

    • @JJMMWGDuPree
      @JJMMWGDuPree 5 днів тому +1

      Lennon advised Innes never to let Paul hear that song.

    • @SergeiTeplo
      @SergeiTeplo 5 днів тому

      @@JJMMWGDuPree I read that Lennon warned Innes that "Get Up And Go" was similar to "Get Back" like an argument and holded copy of film "All you Need is Cash" in his privarte collection. How it's true I don't know)

    • @JJMMWGDuPree
      @JJMMWGDuPree 5 днів тому

      @@SergeiTeplo This is another of those things that we'll never really know for sure. I was quoting from an interview with Neil Innes.