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Ron Fowler

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Dec 12, 2009, 2:01:45 PM12/12/09
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Has anyone heard any of the following "lost" Rutles songs? Tragical
History Tour, The Fool on the Pill, Lying, Blue Gay Way, Your Mother
Should Go, I Am the Waitress, Hello Get Lost, W.C. Fields Forever, Denny
Lane, Abie You're a Rich Man, All You Need is Lunch, Rut Me Do, Twist
and Rut, Please Rut Me, Sgt. Rutters Only Darts Club Band, Let it Rot,
Yellow Submarine Sandwich? I've only got one album of theirs, sort of a
"best of", I'd like to get the originals, but they're hard to find.
Maybe I should look for the remasters at my local cd shop, although I've
been told no man can serve two remasters. Guess I'll have to shop
around.

richforman

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Dec 12, 2009, 3:11:28 PM12/12/09
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I'll guess you're kidding and that you know those aren't real songs.
But! There is a second Rutles album besides the one that everybody
knows, released in the 90's called Archaeology, an enjoyable listen.
What's interesting is that the songs on that album were done by Neil
Innes as real, regular songs, not Beatles parodies like the ones from
the original TV special and album, and were repurposed as Rutles songs
for this release.

richforman

Friitz

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Dec 12, 2009, 5:34:56 PM12/12/09
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"richforman" <rfor...@msn.com> schreef in bericht
news:40c19ff1-3237-49ca...@k9g2000vbl.googlegroups.com...

richforman

There was also a single connected to the second album, with Shangri-La and
Joe Public from the album, and Baby S'il Vous Plait and It's Looking Good as
non album tracks.

Fritz

Allyn Gibson

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Dec 12, 2009, 10:14:49 PM12/12/09
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On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:34:56 +0100, "Friitz" <ef_...@tip.nl> wrote:

>There was also a single connected to the second album, with Shangri-La and
>Joe Public from the album, and Baby S'il Vous Plait and It's Looking Good as
>non album tracks.

Innes has recently released a song entitled "Imitation Song" which he
calls "Ron Nasty's final song."

http://www.innesbookofrecords.com/

Allyn

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Dec 12, 2009, 10:13:21 PM12/12/09
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On Dec 12, 5:34 pm, "Friitz" <ef_...@tip.nl> wrote:
> "richforman" <rforma...@msn.com> schreef in berichtnews:40c19ff1-3237-49ca...@k9g2000vbl.googlegroups.com...

And there is supposedly a bootleg with some alternate takes, outtakes,
etc.

globular

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Dec 13, 2009, 3:45:16 AM12/13/09
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They might only have gone as far as the titles.
But I haven't heard a lot of Rutles songs.
There is only the original album from the 70s, and the Rutles Archeology
from the 90s as far as I know.

Dr. Strangemonde

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Dec 13, 2009, 7:18:54 AM12/13/09
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On Dec 13, 2:45 am, globular <s...@there.invalid> wrote:

> They might only have gone as far as the titles.
> But I haven't heard a lot of Rutles songs.
> There is only the original album from the 70s, and the Rutles Archeology
> from the 90s as far as I know.

The Japanese edition of Archaeology has 4 bonus tracks...

- Dr S

Ron Fowler

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Dec 14, 2009, 2:29:23 AM12/14/09
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I've got one Rutles single, I Must Be in Love (from their 1965 film
"Ouch!"), on Warner Bros records - same as the album I have. Odd, I
thought they were on Capital Records in the US, at least until the
formation of Rutle Corps in 1968.

Dr. Strangemonde

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Dec 14, 2009, 3:17:45 PM12/14/09
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Maybe you're thinking of the Dung Beatles, who were signed to
Crapitall Records in the US and Parlothrone Records in the UK (apart
from the soundtrack to "A Hard Day's Shite" which came out on United
Fartists). There were notable differences between their UK and US
releases -- for instance, the album that was called "Whiff The Dung
Beatles" in Europe was retitled "Buy All Music And Merchandise Put Out
By The Dung Beatles Over The Next Forty Years" by Crapitall, and the
British version included several tracks not on the American one, like
"Please Mr. Post Bran" and "Devil In Her Fart".

But somewhat more seriously... according to the Rutland Dirty Weekend
Book, the Prefab Four were originally on Turnip Records, for whom they
released a single called "Twist and Rut"/"Let It Rut". IIRC, the
original vinyl issue of the Rutles' "All You Need Is Cash" soundtrack
LP (from whence your single was issued) was on WB, but the record's
labels were designed to look like a banana-based parody of Apple
Records.

Likewise, the National Lampoon LP that included the classic "Tragical
History Tour" was released on "Banana Records". And while we're at it,
the infamous Yoko Ono/Freddy Mercury tribute band Tater Totz issued
their albums "Alien Sleestaks From Brazil (unfinished music vol. 3)"
and "Sgt. Shonen's Exploding Plastic Eastman Band Request MonoStereo"
on Gasatanka Records, a knock-off of the 1970s hitmaking label
Casablanca Records.

- Dr Strangemonde

Ron Fowler

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Dec 15, 2009, 1:44:13 AM12/15/09
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Thanks for the info, Dr. Has "Let it Rot" ever come out on dvd? I always
enjoyed the rooftop concert, especially "Get Up and Go".

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