Discography

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The Rutland Weekend Songbook (1976)

The Rutland Weekend Songbook / Eric Idle & Neil Innes

Main article: The Rutland Weekend Songbook

BBC Records (UK) / Passport Records (US)

Saturday: (side 1 )

  1. “L’Amour Perdu”
  2. Gibberish
  3. Wash With Mother (“Front Loader”)
  4. “Say Sorry Again”
  5. The Rutles in “Rutles For Sale”. (“I Must Be In Love”)
  6. 24 Hours In Tunbridge Wells (“Tunbridge Wells Medley”)
  7. The Fabulous Bingo Brothers (“Once We Had A Donkey”)
  8. In Concrete (“Concrete Jungle Boy”)
  9. “The Children of Rock-N-Roll”
  10. Startime (“Stoop Solo”)
  11. “Song O’The Insurance Salesmen”
  12. Closedown

Sunday: (side 2)

  1. “Testing”
  2. “I Give Myself To You”
  3. “Communist Cooking”
  4. Johnny Cash Live At Mrs. Fletchers (“Stuck In Mrs. Fletchers”)
  5. The Old Gay Whistle Test (“Protest Song”)
  6. “Accountancy Shanty”
  7. “Football”
  8. “Boring”
  9. Goodafternoon (“L’Amour Perdu Cha-Cha-Cha”)
  10. Disco (“Hard To Get”)
  11. Closedown (“The Song O’The Continuity Announcers”)

Rutles Notes:

  • Side 1, track 5: The first released Rutles recording. (This version has slightly different lyrics from the 1978 version.)
  • Liner notes mis-credit “Kevin” as a Rutle instead of “Barry.” (This marks the only appearance of “Kevin” in the Rutles canon, although it could be stated that “Kevin” is more of a parody of Pete Best)
  • The original “Rutles” Musicians are: Roger Rettig and Billy Bremner on guitars, Brian Hodgson on bass, Neil Innes on piano, and John Halsey on drums. (This group was also known as “Fatso.”)
  • Side 1, Track 9: This song is credited as “Ron Lennon,” and it is the nucleus of what will later become The Rutles song “Good Times Roll”.
  • Album reissued on C.D. in the 1990s with two bonus tracks: “Protest Song” (Uncensored) & “I Must Be In Love” (Minus screaming fans.)

The Rutles (1978)

Main article: The Rutles (album)

A soundtrack album entitled The Rutles containing 14 tongue-in-cheek pastiches of Beatles songs was also released. The CD reissue included the 6 other songs featured on the soundtrack that were not included in the vinyl LP.

The cover art of the album suggested the existence of a number of other Rutles albums including Tragical History Tour and Let It Rot.

The album contains send-ups of Beatles numbers such as “Ouch!” (“Help!”), “Good Times Roll” (“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”), “Love Life” (“All You Need is Love”), “Cheese and Onions” (“A Day in the Life”), “Piggy in the Middle” (“I Am the Walrus”), “Doubleback Alley” (“Penny Lane”) and “Get Up And Go” (CD reissue only – “Get Back”).

The Rutles 7″ Singles (1978)

“I Must Be In Love” + “Cheese And Onions ” / “With A Girl Like You”

WEA Records / UK only release / 1978 / K17125

Side 1: “I Must Be In Love”

Side 2: “Cheese And Onions” / “With A Girl Like You”

  • Released with picture sleeve.
  • Two versions of the sleeve were printed. One has the correct title for “With A Girl Like You,” and the other has the title incorrectly listed as “A Girl Like You.” The title is always correct on the record label itself.
  • All three songs same as album versions.

“Let’s Be Natural” b/w “Piggy In the Middle”

WEA Records / UK only release / 1978 / K17180

Side 1: “Let’s Be Natural”

Side 2: “Piggy In the Middle”

  • Issued in a standard paper sleeve.
  • Both songs same as album versions.

“I Must Be In Love” b/w “Doubleback Alley”

WEA Records / Japan / 1978 / P-200-W

Warner Bros. Records / US / 1978 / WBS 8560

Side 1: “I Must Be In Love”

Side 2: “Doubleback Alley”

  • Japanese release issued in picture sleeve featuring rare colour photo from “I Must Be In Love” video.
  • Both songs same as album versions.
  • The US promo single has stereo and mono versions of “I Must Be In Love.”

“Ging Gang Goolie” b/w “Mr. Sheene”

EMI Records / UK only release / 1978 / EMI 2852

Side 1: “Ging Gang Goolie”

Side 2: “Mr. Sheene”

  • Never released on an official Rutles album.
  • Eric Idle’s first time playing on a Rutles related recording.
  • Released by Dirk (McQuickly) and Stig (O’Hara).
  • Ron Nasty (Neil Innes) and Barry Wom (John Halsey) were not apart of this recording.

The Rutles 12″ EP (1978)

Promotional Warner Bros. faux-Beatles Rutles five-song 33 1⁄3 RPM 12-inch (PRO-E-723) complete with recreated Lads-in-Nehru-suits portrait in the same fashion and pose as the real Beatles’ portrait released on the sleeve of the Capitol 45 rpm release “I Want to Hold Your Hand” b/w “I Saw Her Standing There” (Capitol 5112). The unnamed Rutle Corps Records label (peeled banana in the centre) boasted five tracks and was pressed in translucent yellow vinyl:

Side 1

  1. “I Must Be In Love” – 2:04 (“A Hard Day’s Night”/ “Can’t Buy Me Love”)
  2. “Doubleback Alley” – 2:54 (“Penny Lane”)
  3. “With A Girl Like You” – 1:50 (“If I Fell”)

Side 2

  1. “Another Day” – 2:09 (“Martha My Dear”)
  2. “Let’s Be Natural” – 3:23 (“Dear Prudence”)

The Rutles Archaeology (1996)

Main article: The Rutles Archaeology

Three of the five musicians who had created the soundtrack for the 1978 film—Innes, Halsey and Fataar—reunited in 1996 and recorded a second album, Archaeology, a send-up of The Beatles Anthology albums. The fourth ‘real’ Rutle, Ollie Halsall, died in Spain in 1992. Original Rutles bassist Andy Brown did not participate in the reunion. Eric Idle was invited to participate, but he declined. Accordingly, photos of the three ‘surviving’ Rutles parodied those of the then three surviving Beatles in the Anthology series.

Like the Anthology project that it lampooned, it featured tracks ostensibly from all periods of the Rutles career, sequenced to reflect the fictional band’s chronology. Several of the songs were actually old Innes standards that were dusted off and given the ‘Rutles’ treatment. The reunion was blessed by George Harrison, who encouraged them to proceed. When approached, he told Innes, “Sure. It’s all part of the soup”. Innes related that encounter in interviews he gave in 1996,and again in 2013.

Eric Idle Sings Monty Python (2000)

Eric Idle Sings Monty Python (Live) / Eric Idle

Restless Records / CD only release / 01877-73730-2

  • Track 16 is the only track with Rutles content, Idle sings “I Must Be In Love” (First recording of Idle vocalising a Rutles song.)
  • Eric is introduced as “Sir Dirk McQuickly” with a “History of The Rutles” introduction by Peter Crabbe
  • In the CD booklet, the lyric page for this song is torn out.
  • This CD is the sole release featuring the notorious “Lennon / McCartney / Innes” song credit

Rutles Highway Revisited (A tribute to The Rutles)

A 20-track album of Rutles covers released by Shimmy Disc on 8 December 1993.

  1. “Cheese & Onions” – Galaxie 500
  2. “Hold My Hand” – The Pussywillows
  3. “Number One” – Bongos, Bass & Bob
  4. “Good Times Roll” – Lida Husik
  5. “Another Day” – Dogbowl
  6. “Piggy In The Middle” – Das Damen
  7. “I Must Be In Love” – Syd Straw and Marc Ribot
  8. “Nevertheless” – Joey Arias
  9. “Let’s Be Natural” – When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water
  10. “Between Us” – Unrest
  11. “Ouch!” – Peter Stampfel and The Bottlecaps
  12. “Blue Suede Schubert” – The Tinklers
  13. “Living In Hope” – Tuli Kupferberg
  14. “Baby Let Me Be” – Daniel Johnston
  15. “It’s Looking Good” – Uncle Wiggly
  16. “Goose Step Mama” – Shonen Knife
  17. “Get Up And Go” – Jellyfish Kiss
  18. “Doubleback Alley” – King Missile
  19. “With A Girl Like You” – Paleface
  20. “Love Life” – Bongwater
  • The album title is a parody of Bob Dylan’s album, Highway 61 Revisited
  • The album cover image is a parody of The Rolling Stones album Their Satanic Majesties Request

Live + Raw (2014)

  1. “Hold My Hand”
  2. “Good Times Roll”
  3. “Questionnaire”
  4. “I Must Be In Love”
  5. “Another Day”
  6. “Living In Hope”
  7. “Piggy In The Middle”
  8. “Love Life”
  9. “Cheese And Onions”
  10. “Doubleback Alley”
  11. “Eine Kleine Middle Klasse Musik”
  12. “Hey Mister”
  13. “Easy Listening”
  14. “Imitation Song”
  • All tracks recorded live.

Bootlegs

Bootlegs include Hard Days Rut!, The Last Tea Party Tapes, This is the Savage Young Rutles, Sweet Rutle Tracks, Rutles To Let, Sgt. Rutters Only Darts Club Band, Rutland’s Rare Rutles Revisited, and Yesterday’s Leftovers. Much of the material on these releases comes from 1978 rehearsal tapes, or from the Rutland Weekend Television soundtrack LP, as well as a lot of rare Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and Neil Innes solo material.

  • Also of note: “Cheese & Onions”—the version heard on Saturday Night Live—made its way onto several Beatles bootleg albums, as an unreleased John Lennon demo. See: “Indian Rope Trick. The Echoes of a Dream” (side 2, track 5), for one.
  • “Get Up & Go” also appeared on a bootleg as an “Unreleased Beatles Track” on the album, “Tanks For the Mammaries”.

Hard Day’s Rut!

All tracks by The Rutles, otherwise noted.

  1. “I Want To Be With You” [Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band]
  2. “Backbreaker” [GRIMMS]
  3. “Front Loader” [Unknown]
  4. “Say Sorry Again” [Neil Innes and Fatso]
  5. “I Must Be In Love” [Neil Innes and Fatso]
  6. “Concrete Jungle Boy” [Neil Innes and Fatso]
  7. “The Children Of Rock and Roll” [Neil Innes and Fatso]
  8. “Baby S’il Vous Plait”
  9. “It’s Looking Good” (demo)
  10. “Hold My Hand”
  11. “Number One”
  12. “Love Life”
  13. “I Must Be In Love”
  14. “Lullaby”
  15. “My Little Ukulele”
  16. “The Knicker Elastic King” (demo)
  17. “Ready Mades” [Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band]
  18. “Testing” [Neil Innes and Fatso]
  19. “When I’m With You” [Unknown]
  20. “Live At Mrs. Fletcher’s” [Unknown]
  21. “Protest Song” [Neil Innes]
  22. “The Bride Stripped Bare By Bachelors” [Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band]
  23. “Doubleback Alley”
  24. “Plenty of Time”
  25. “Boring” [Neil Innes and Fatso]
  26. “Worst Is Yet To Come” [Unknown]
  27. “Womble Bashers Of Walthomstowe” [GRIMMS]
  28. “Slaves of Freedom” [Neil Innes and Fatso]
  29. “We’ve Arrived (And To Prove It We’re Here)”
  30. “Now She’s Left You”

The Last Tea Party Tapes

  1. “I Must Be In Love (Live)”
  2. “With A Girl Like You (Live)”
  3. “Ouch! (Live)”
  4. “Another Day (Live)”
  5. “Hold My Hand (Live)”
  6. “Now She’s Left You (Rat Keller 1962)”
  7. “Blue Suede Schubert (Rat Keller 1962)”
  8. “I Must Be In Love (Rehearsal)”
  9. “It’s Looking Good (Rehearsal)”
  10. “Piggy In The Middle (Take 5)”
  11. “Let’s Be Natural (Rehearsal)”
  12. “Good Times Roll (Edit Piece 3)”
  13. “Baby S’il Vous Plait”
  14. “The Short Blues”
  15. “Bonsoir A Revoir”
  16. “The Missing Rutles Song”
  17. “Lullaby”
  18. “Fallen Arch Angel”
  19. “Questionnaire (Early Demo)”
  20. “Get Up And Go (Take 16)”
  • Track 1 is from “Eric Idle Sings Monty Python”.
  • Tracks 6 and 7 are from Neil Innes’ “Innes Book of Records” TV show.
  • Track 15 is a french version of the Beatles’ song “Hello Goodbye”.
  • Track 16 is an acoustic demo of “We’ve Arrived (And To Prove It We’re Here)”.
  • Track 18 is from Rutland Weekend Television.

This is the Savage Young Rutles

  1. “Baby Let Me Be”
  2. “Blue Suede Schubert”
  3. “Between Us”
  4. “It’s Looking Good”
  5. “Goose-Step Mama”
  6. “I Must Be In Love”
  7. “We’ve Arrived (And To Prove It We’re Here)”
  8. “Now She’s Left You”
  9. “Number One”
  10. “Love Life”
  11. “Good Times Roll”
  12. “Doubleback Alley”
  13. “Piggy In The Middle”
  14. “Let’s Be Natural”
  15. “Get Up And Go”
  16. “Living In Hope”
  17. “Plenty Of Time”
  • Tracks 7 and 8 are featured on “Archaeology”.
  • Track 17 was originally a GRIMMS song.
  • Track 10 features the “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” Theme Song as an Intro.

Sweet Rutle Tracks

  • This album has the same track list as “This Is The Save Young Rutles”, just in a different order.

Rutles To Let

  1. “Goose-Step Mama (Take 1)”
  2. “Now She’s Left You (Take 1)”
  3. “Number One (Takes 1-2)”
  4. “Baby Let Me Be (Takes 2-3)”
  5. “Blue Suede Schubert (Take 1)”
  6. “Hold My Hand”
  7. “With A Girl Like You (Live)”
  8. “Baby S’il Vous Plait (Take 1)”
  9. “Hold My Hand (Live)”
  10. “I Must Be In Love (Take 3)”
  11. “Between Us (Takes 1-2)”
  12. “I Must Be In Love (Live)”
  13. “Living In Hope (Take 2)”
  14. “It’s Looking Good (Take 1)”
  15. “It’s Looking Good (Live)”
  16. “The Song O’ The Continuity Announcers”
  17. “We’ve Got Plenty Of Time (Take 1)”
  18. “Testing”
  19. “Doubleback Alley (Take 2)”
  20. “Good Times Roll (Take 1)”
  21. “Good Times Roll”
  22. “Love Life (Takes 1-2)”
  23. “Piggy In The Middle (Take 6)”
  24. “My Little Ukelele”
  25. “Cheese And Onions (Take 4)”
  26. “We’ve Arrived! (And To Prove It We’re Here!) (Takes 1-2)”
  27. “Feet (From A Thousand Feet Of Film)”
  28. “Get Up And Go (Takes 236-237)”
  29. “Get Up And Go (Live)”
  30. “Today Is Our Wedding Day (Home Tape)”
  31. “Let’s Be Natural (Take 3)”
  32. “Shangri-La (Live)”
  33. “Cheese And Onions (Live)”
  34. “Lullaby (Home Tape)”

Sgt. Rutter’s Only Darts Club Band

  1. “Goose-Step Mama”
  2. “Between Us (From All You Need Is Cash)”
  3. “With A Girl Like You (Royal Command Performance)”
  4. “Hold My Hand (Ed Sullivan Show)”
  5. “I Must Be In Love”
  6. “Ouch!”
  7. “It’s Looking Good (Live)”
  8. “Love Life (From All You Need Is Cash)”
  9. “Piggy In The Middle (From All You Need Is Cash)”
  10. “Cheese And Onions (From All You Need Is Cash)”
  11. “Get Up And Go (From All You Need Is Cash)”
  12. “Doubleback Alley (Incomplete)”
  13. “Act Naturally (Backyard Tapes)”
  14. “Between Us (Backyard Tapes)”
  15. “We’ve Arrived! (And To Prove It We’re Here!) (Backyard Tapes)”
  16. “Hello Goodbye (Backyard Tapes)”
  17. “The Short Blues (Backyard Tapes)”
  18. “Cheese And Onions (Backyard Tapes)”
  19. “Cheese And Onions (On Saturday Night Live, April 1977)”
  20. “Another Day (Live)”
  21. “With A Girl Like You (Live)”
  22. “Ouch! (Live)”
  23. “Hold My Hand (Live)”
  24. “I Must Be In Love (Live)”
  25. “Good Times Roll (Acetate)”
  26. “Ging Gang Goolie”
  27. “Mr. Sheene”

Rutland’s Rare Rutles Revisited

  1. “I Must Be In Love (Live)”
  2. “Hold My Hand (Rare TV Intro)”
  3. “Gibberish”
  4. “The Children Of Rock N Roll”
  5. “Cheese And Onions (Saturday Night Live)”
  6. “You Need Feet”
  7. “Rutle Corps (‘All You Need Is Cash’ George Harrison Interview)”
  8. “Rutles Women Part 1: Dirk Demoes With Martini”
  9. “Rutles Women Part 2: Ron And Chastity: Feet”
  10. “Press Conference Part 1”
  11. “Press Conference Part 2”
  12. “Press Conference Part 3”
  13. “Press Conference Part 4”
  14. “Testing”
  15. “Concert Introduction (Live At Rutlefest)”
  16. “Major Happy’s Up And Coming Once Upon A Good Time Band (Live At Rutlefest)”
  17. “Rendezvous (Live At Rutlefest)”
  18. “Joe Public (Live At Rutlefest)”
  19. “Cheese And Onions (Live At Rutlefest)”
  20. “I Must Be In Love (Live At Rutlefest)”
  21. “Hold My Hand (Live At Rutlefest)”
  22. “Shangri-La (Live At Rutlefest)”
  23. “We’ve Arrived! (And To Prove It We’re Here!) (Live At Rutlefest)”
  24. “Neighbours”
  25. “Lullaby”
  26. “The Song O’ The Continuity Announcers”

Yesterday’s Leftovers

  1. “I Must Be In Love [1]”
  2. “The Children Of Rock ‘N’ Roll”
  3. “I Must Be In Love [2]”
  4. “Cheese And Onions (SNL)”
  5. “Shangri-La (SNL)”
  6. “Hold My Hand”
  7. “Brian Thigh”
  8. “You Need Feet”
  9. “Dirk’s Love Song”
  10. “Lullaby”
  11. “Baby S’il Vous Plait”
  12. “My Little Ukulele”
  13. “Under My Skin”
  14. “Rut-A-Lot”
  15. “I Must Be In Love [3]”
  16. “Not Letting It Be”
  • Tracks 1-3 are from Rutland Weekend Television/The Rutland Weekend Songbook
  • Tracks 7-9 are from ‘All You Need Is Cash’
  • Tracks 10-14 are from ‘Archaeology’
  • Tracks 15 & 16 are from a radio interview with Neil Innes

Fake Albums by the Rutles that are Mentioned

“Please Rut Me”

“With The Rutles/Meet The Rutles”

“A Hard Day’s Rut”

“Rutles For Sale”

“Ouch!”

“Rutle Soul”

“The Triangular Album”

“Sgt. Rutter’s Only Darts Club Band”

“Tragical History Tour”

“The Shite Album”

“Yellow Submarine Sandwich”

“Shabby Road”

“Let It Rot”

“1”

“Finchley Road”

Fake Songs by the Rutles that are Mentioned

There were numerous times when people talked about songs that weren’t actually real.

The Rutland Weekend Dirty Book

“A Ticket to Rut”

The Rutland Weekend Songbook

“Can’t Buy Me Rut”

“My Sweet Rut”

“A Ticket to Rut”

All You Need Is Cash

“All You Need Is Cash”

“All You Need Is Lunch”

“Twist and Rut”

Can’t Buy Me Lunch

“Can’t Buy Me Lunch”

“The Lunch You Take, Is Equal To The Lunch You Make”