THE RUTLES - Number One (1962)

[harrymannjr10001]

4 people don't know what comedy is if it hit them in it's face.

[alexinitalics]

can someone tell me which Beatles song this is a parody of? thanks

[thebeatgoeson50]

@alexinitalics Twist and Shout

[MSJCPoetry]

And from their abum, Shabby Road, Manuel's Silver Hamper.

[LOCOMOTIONNUMBER1]

The best thing since Schubert.

[ImOnlySleeping420]

I Like Their Hit "Im Only Chiefing" and lets not forget "A Day in My Wife" lol

[TheShitsinger]

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[Pophead365]

I want to drink tea..........and eat biscuits :-D

[LeamingtonSteve]

when they claimed Jesus was better than them burned their records.

[TheIzabel11]

Recently I watched The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (TABM) with my folks. And I said to them, "Hey that guy looks like Paul McCartney!" My parents laughed and said well not really. Later I found my dad's old Rutle CD and I burned it. Then I found out the guy I thought looked like Paul, Eric Idle, actually played Paul in The Rutles. I WAS SO RIGHT!

[elsesinaloa]

¡¡Gran Ironía!! Y Nasty tiene un parecido a Alvaro Henriquez jajajaja

[elsesinaloa]

¡¡Gran Ironía!! 

[pbrick6301]

I had lunch w/ wilt chamberlain earlier today & the rutles are his favorite group.

[deividpaulfk]

Twist and shout!! jaja

[FabFM]

You're all SHEEP! The Rutles are well over-rated. Leggy Mountbaten proved any crap sells. For goodness sake, these so called "talents" had to spend a whole 20 minutes (sometimes more) to make an album. Some talent! Try listening to real bands who come up with masterpieces before they even write or sing anything. The '60s was the start of the downfall of pop music and we can only blame that on the Rutles, a band who even played their own instruments!

[HytekFred]

@FabFM Am sending Ron Decline to see your mother. Naughty boy, go to your room and listen to Gene Vincent or Brian Setzer

[xbex12]

the drummers my gran-dad

[OlaNaTungee6]

eric is AWESOME!

[Hemulen40]

Huh Number one and a Half ?

[LedgeUK]

Please Please Please Tell me that KestrelCloud is on the wind up

[Kestrelcloud]

the Rutles were okay, but there's something off about them. i'm not sure what. it's sort of scary, really. four guys, suits, one main singer, 2 background singers, a drummer, a name that sort of rhymes with the Beatles. I wonder if The Beatles knew about these creeps.

[CristinaSantos1986]

Look @ 1:11.. Isn't that Katy Perry with the pink blouse and huge gold necklace :D

[SuperJackburton1]

Seriously, these songs are brilliant parody or not!!!!

[Allandrover]

Eric Idle looks like George Harrison at 0:08 - 0:13

[Lennonkaa]

Eric Idle, he really looks like Paul, the same moves and eyebrowes :P LOVE THIS MOVIE!

[glueforall]

1:21....MORE COWBELL !

[kcirdrab]

When you listen to this you realise how easy a lot of what the Fabs did was!

[dejahthoris]

I LOVE THE Rutles!!! Woooo!!

[fguka]

who the hell is this?

[Notebooked]

Gotta love Leggy Mountbatten getting into a fight with...someone. Oh Terrence Baylor.

[dullsvillain]

Eric is my Idol

[viceisthename]

Twist And Shout!

[nw8000]

I can’t believe the Beatles stole their act!!!!!!!!!! No wonder they had all there records burned at the stake lol

[ookkonaaoulusta]

Was it not the Nasty, in this comedy, like Lennon who was murdered, I have nothing against Lennon.

[frenchfry01]

lol i loved George Harrison's cameo as the reporter.

[julitopaz]

eirc idle plays the bass? thas ist a Monthy python parody? AMAZING

[zurapDOR]

Leppo, the Fifth Rutle' that got lost in Hamburg, were no other than the legendary guitarist Ollie Halsall. Like Neil Innes (Doo Dah Dog Band) was referded to as the "seventh" Python.

George Harrison says:-They filled that empty space for me; after 1968, 1969, they really kept me going, you know. What should have happened is that the Bonzos and the Beatles should have turned into one great Rutle band with all the Pythons and had a laugh. Instad, we had to laugh on the other side of our face."

[fifteenmoo]

I wish I could have seen The Rutles live. Oh well, Im just going to sit in a dark room. Play their music on full blast, and eat a massive cheese and onion sandwich.

[MrFlashBazbo]

A legend to last a lunchtime. My Mum was a big Rutles fan. She saw them at the Cavern. Had a lock of Stig's Pubes..I've seen 'em!

[onwebcameron]

@Gyphia

Thanks, Yeah, I stand corrected on that, someone stole my album, so I couldn't check : ( Idle didn't write any songs this time but wrote and directed.

'All You Need Is Cash' is the programme's title.

[ProgDrummerQ]

George Harrison helped big time with the project

[BernardMonk]

Good collection!

[JapaninArmeija]

If you listen to the soundtrack album you hear how these early Rutles songs have been mixed into the silly Capitol stereo, like the old US versions of the Beatles records.

That was amusing for me at least.

[nightcrawler511]

this cnt be 1962 bcuz there like a beatle tribute band the beatle werent really big untill 63

[UtsniatheMightyOne]

@nightcrawler511 i thought that's why they were called the Prefab Four, because they were supposed to be big before the Beatles

[onwebcameron]

@UtsniatheMightyOne

I think it's more 'prefab' referring to prefabricated housing, (like low quality mass produced housing built after the war on estates in the UK, mostly now knocked down), known as 'prefabs'. The Beatles were known as the Fab Four, so the Rutles are the Prefab Four, so less cool.

[LordPrick]

Oh... I Had A Limited Edition Vinyl Off Of "Terripean Frong Records" Label Of "The Quids", A BRILLIANT, But Short Lived Pop-Band Of 5 Boys From Leeds,GB. The 1964 Album, Their ONLY Album "Pink Bobbies" Had The #1 Hit Single In Britain For Two Weeks(!!) With The Name Of "Ooh- Laa Lamp I Lit", Which Was A Big Smash With The Oxford Crowd At The Time. "Pink Bobbies" Songs Were: 1- Ooh- Laa Lamp I Lit 2- The Sweater Is For You 3- Plum Pudding 4- She Knew My Name 5-Ashbury Park 6- Raspberry Johnson

[Symeon94]

Their songs are good for a fake band!!

[Floridaboy7777]

i dont get it.... who are the rutles?? does that guy have a hofner bass???

[Floridaboy7777]

i dont get it.... who are the rutles??

[onwebcameron]

@Floridaboy7777

1)

'The Rutles' were created as a TV comedy special spin off from 'Rutland Weekend TV', (an Eric Idle project after Monty Python), it is a parody in documentary style of The Beatles. The Songs and performances were by Eric Idle and Neil Innes, (musician/humorist formerly of surreal comedy group, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band', also a friend of John Lennon's and additional Python, notably in 'Mony Python and The Holey Grail').

[onwebcameron]

@Floridaboy7777

2)

The fact it was such a good spoof was down to Idle and Innes's brilliant song writing talent, and accuracy of detail, an album was released too at the time.

The programme was ground breaking in its high attention to detail and very high production values, especially for TV comedy in the UK at the time.

George Harrison appeared in it as a heavily disguised interviewer. The songs are so good that I once fooled younger people at work into believing one was Oasis's latest hit.

[onwebcameron]

@onwebcameron

I have to add that I think Innes is superior to Oasis in song writing talent and originality, even here where he knowingly parodies The Beatles, unlike Oasis who parodied The Beatles, Slade and the Glitter Band, among others, yet claimed all the credit.

Check out Innes' own stuff and 'The Innes Book of Records' links on here.

Ahead of it's time in television comedy and witty music.

[katiuskams]

The Rutles are a LIVING LEGEND !!! a legend that will live after all the living legends have died !!! HELL YEAH!!

[midnighttilldawn]

Rumour has it they were going to release Number Two...but the whole band got constipated and couldn't do it.

[stratman123]

The guitar riff starting around :28 can be heard note for note in Heart's old classic "Crazy on You" in the solo at the end around the 4 minute mark.

IS THERE NO BAND THAT HASN'T BEEN INFLUENCED BY THE RUTLES!???

[shookrunner]

The Rutles are the best band ever!

[calimar28]

Early Rutles = Rutlemania!

[stratman123]

Does anyone have the bootleg of them doing "Obi-Wan-Kano-bi-Da" off of there "Pasty" album?

P.S. I read that after Ron's girlfriend got pregnant, he came up with the name for their next album-"Rubber's Hole". Is this true?

[stratman123]

Let's never forget their No.1 rivals in the '60's-The Gathering Moss, with such hits as: "Let's Shag Your Wife Together" "As Beers Go Bye Bye" "(I Can't Vet No) Sadist Faction" "Deep Knee Squat Flash" "Wild Divorces" "Under My Bum" "Can't You See Me Buzzing?" "Let It Scab" "Time Ain't on My Side" "Sympathy for the Lawyer" and my personal favorite- "You Can't Always Get Rid of What You Don't Want"- It's not "Hippy Rock", it's "Herpie Rock"!

[Blendeture]

0:42 funniest ever

[BeachFender]

what is that part of the song?

[BeachFender]

what is that part of the song from*?

[andantinowithaswager]

i bet if they were an actual band in the sixties in stead of the beatles, they'd be world famous.

[WileERobby]

Their follow-up single "Number Two" was never released... rumor has it, they only got as far as "Number One-and-a-Half" ...

[stratman123]

My favorite Rutles single has always been "Hurt Back" with the flip-side "I Warned You (She's Quite Heavy)"!

[Spoothead12]

@stratman123 "Hurt Back"....Don't you mean "Get Up and Go"?

[midnighttilldawn]

Actually I thought this song ..Number One..was a pile of..Number Two.

[matt4270]

I spoke with Leggy on the "tele" just yesterday, and he is taking hardcore legal action against Apple Corps, partnered with Billy Gates for copyright such and such! They plan to pick apart the company and pretty much make a club sandwich out of it!

[CristinaSantos1986]

OMGOSH! I LOVE THE RUTLES!!! XD

[mnrogge]

Jesus, they dressed like the Beatles, had the Beatles hair, stood on stage like them, could they copy them anymore then they did???

[Sebastifariaan]

It's a pisstake of the beatles.

[Wallij15]

You're a fucking idiot, if you knew anything the whole film and the band was a homage in a way to the original band.

[gsf67]

They were supposed to. This was a parody, a satire on the beatles.

[yellowpepper9]

...have you ever heard the word "parody"?

[judithhr]

This track was produced by the famed Bruce Dickenson, yes THE Bruce Dickenson.  He has a fever for the cowbell.

[TheChessencrakers]

Neil Innes was sued by the Beatles' Apple Corps. to have Lennon/McCartney added as a credit toward the "sound-alike" Rutles/Beatles songs.

[youatron]

what song is this imitating. by the Beatles

[khaloodz212]

they r imitating twist and shout.. lol

[beatlesguitarcovers]

twist and shout

[paulipips999]

These fellas will get to the Toppermost of the Poppermost . Mak Shau boys Mak Shau !

[portsml]

Barry always beat everything hard! There was so much truth to the saying that, "...success was only a drum beat away.."

[stratman123]

Barry beatin' that cowbell like it owes him money!

[WallyPlumstead]

The Rutles - dynamic, high power, awesome beyond compare... and they never forgot their fans and all the little people. I remember reading a fanzine of how The Rutles played at the opening of a four stool fish an' chips place, "Capn Salty's Grotto". That just shows you how down to earth these lads were. True class!

(hey! those "baby Rutles" at 1:01 are boss-a-riffic!)

[ZeropointZero70]

There will never be another Rutles! They did so much in only a lunchtime! LOL!

[WileERobby]

Why are people mentioning those Rutle-wannabe's ? Dirk, Stig, Nasty & Barry are the tops !!

[portsml]

I loved the Rutles, but the sol work was great too, and my favourite was Dirk McQuicly's solo album "Ewe" and also "Band on a Long Walk". Seminal works of art, and proved Dirk's endearing longevity beyond the cloistered cocoon of the Rutles.

[frostytheaussie]

Ron Nasty had some good solo stufff too. "Last Tuesday in Boston" was fab.

[BlueDiscProductions]

When You Find the Girl of Your Dreams in the Arms of Some Scotsmen From Hull by Barry is quite good.

[holmsatlarge]

Ron Nasty WAS the Rutles!!Dirk was there just to hold the extra guitar!When You Find The Girl Of Your Dreams In The Arms Of Some Scotsman From Hull was written for Frank Sinatra,but he didn`t have the pipes for it,

[portsml]

When they said that "you are my second to none", the whole world changed and the Rutles reached everyone through this mystic verse. genius, only ever matched by Michaelangelo or Leanardo DiCaprio, the famous actor.

[belisariusorb]

The Beatles were sad soundalikes of The Rutles - never to have that Rutland sound, they would languish in obli-o-blada-blivion until rescued by the pop pundits.

[yosoynumerouno1]

@belisariusorb

I am glad someone appreciates the Rutles and realizes that the Beatles were phonies

[nightcrawler511]

@belisariusorb but the beatles were better

[brianpadraic]

@belisariusorb Beatles just ripped off the Rutles and the Monkeys.

[NastyAlex827]

@belisariusorb fuck you th beatles were way better than these fagot asses

[PauloSlumano]

@NastyAlex827 Not that bright, are you sunshine?

[Hessenkittel]

@PauloSlumano Had no time for school

[theonlyantony]

@belisariusorb Very true. i think the Rutles are the most underrated beat combo in Beatland! Leggy Mountbatten was ruined by tea! But weren't we all !

[Paulgr]

someone needs to post the clip "i must be in love". it was on youtube but they removed it :(

[PrudenceNumberNine]

I love Eric as Paul!

[Edhallick]

Nobodys ever done a better Lennon vocal than Neil Innes. I mean f**k me but the dude sounds exactly like him.

[thesmokingpope]

very true

[junkie4vids]

The unique pedigree of the Rutles carried over into their solo careers. Dirk McQuigley, with his wife, Lydia, released an awesome album titled "Stag", which featured great hits like " Too Many Steeples". Barry's best solo song was clearly "I Don't Groan Easy". How can anyone forget Stig's great album "Oil Rigs Not Gas". Nasty's best album was "SPF 9 Cream". Incredible musical careers.

[portsml]

The Rutland sound was so unique. I think the BEatles tried, but without Leggy, Stig and Nasty on their team...well, the rest is history really. Sure, they had suits, but the Rutles had that sound. Ask Mick, he knew they could never catch the wave, the Rutle-wave. Will anyone ever?

[zuzukyd]

I dont think so u_u

[matt4270]

Ya don't fuck with Leggy!

[mariobro1993]

sounds like something the beatles would sing!

[WalkingPencil]

The Beatles tried, but they could never quite capture that Rutland sound!

[nikkioliveira]

ahahaha numberrrrrr onnnnnneeeee

[usisguy]

oops it they Leggy Monbaton and Dick Jaws start fighting at 1:14.

[tripper85]

brian should have done the same. as far as beatles song royalties goes, they were getting paid next to nothing, as in the orinigal contract b4 they became famous till brian's death.

[usisguy]

If you watch Leggy Monbaton and Dick Jaws fighting in the background around 1:25, very funny!

[crinkleman123]

la bamba!

[FabFM]

twist and shout, la bamba!

[disgrl4]

Eric Idle's a genius. :-)

[dubb1995]

Apparently Lennon loved the film and McCartney hated it...pretty much says it all.

[FabFM]

It certainly speaks volumes. A man who hates this film is much worse than a man who beat his first wife and negletced his first son for years!

[whotles]

Damn this song has a really good key change.

[87SaL87]

I can't stop singing this...haha...

Eric is adorable! x

[stubbyguy]

they are even better than the real beatles!!

[gbraae]

The real who????

;)

[stubbyguy]

they are even better than the real beatles!

[TheGooseMann]

They even have cowbell!

[WizardGlik]

Bounty Leggbatten indeed!

[tlcjr1972]

This clip and song is cool.

[BlueDiscProductions]

The film version of this song is way clearer than the album version :(

[KickazzRedhead]

so good to see Leggy kicking some butt in the background! LOL! :)

[polytheneted]

Ha, ha,...John Lennon could be very funny and cutting...

[musicistheproblem]

John was def a standout. My fav of the bealtes. He was the most sarcastic

[andantinowithaswager]

when brian epstien was writing his book " a cellar full of noise" john said he should call it "queer jew" or " a cellar full of boys"

[jonbeatlesfan]

No... Brian asked John for two words that described him instead of his own name and that's what John said. At least that's what the SHOUT book said.

[andantinowithaswager]

sort of mean but sort of funny.

[ZeropointZero70]

That book by Phillip Norman is pretty accurate on most accounts but he lets his own bias towards events and how each Beatle was as a person get in the way at times. He has just put out another book on Lennon where he seems to take liberties with the actual truth of the matter. Not as bad as Geoffrey Guiliano's poison penned tome on each member. Sure, McCartney is a twat sometimes, but then so were John and George at times. Both have admitted as much in interviews. Why rehash old news?

[Rawego]

there is no better nor will there ever be a better song written about taking a whizzzz. NUMBER ONE!

[cubuff80]

"A Cellar Full of Goys" LOL!!!

[Rawego]

some of my best friends are Goys. not that there's anything wrong with it... :))

[HumGuitar]

What is a Goy?

[TheJMRshow]

a boy/girl?

[mdaquino]

a goy is a gentile, someone who isn't jewish

[gafasdelsol]

Ha ha ha!! Great line: "Teacher couldn't teach me / I had no time for school / No one there could reach me / But baby I'm no fool, no fool"!!

[gtaman056]

The rutles rule!

[dominiccarter77]

haha i love The Rutles Rikki Fataar(george) looks so young! Hes acually a great drummer too,play drums for The Beach Boys on their 72 hit album!

[JannoKlufs]

YOf course I dont talk about the main rif.... its in millions of spngs. but rather the one in 1:25 that goes du,dudu,dududu which is also quite a common chain of notes... I can't say a song right now that exactly follows this melody but I'm sure hundred or thousand does since it's such a basic scale run that I played even myself on my guitar hundreds of times. I never heard Herats or whatever their name might be, but I'm sure there is a lot more story behind the riff than 1976... :)

[stratman123]

Listen to the little guitar riff starting at 1;25. It's almost note for note the end of the guitar lead on Heart's song "Crazy On You"! Off Heart's debut album Dreamboat Annie in 1976, I guess Heart came up with the riff first. The Rutles "All You Need is Cash" came out in 1978.

[JannoKlufs]

Hey, you can find that riff in many songs... now and in the past... its a riff, not anything more. I think someone in the 20's probably came up with it... it's not like rocket science you know :)

[stratman123]

Not the Twist and Shout riff, the one starting at 1:25. Please list some of the many songs that feature this riff and chord progression, I'd love to check them out. I have extremely eclectic tastes in music and have been a musician for 31 years. I'm always up for learning something new. Just list some of your favorites that have this riff. Thanks!

[betazzo123]

but baby im no fool

[Rawego]

in a classic Beatles' style, WOW!

[beatjazzglam]

all you need is cash is awesome.

[reptomicus]

More COW BELL!

[abcgod123]

my favorite rutle is definetly dirk!

[dodgetheeruff]

Nasty was my favourite Rutle

[itaigalgal]

I think it is based on twist and shout...

[abcgod123]

no rely ... duh

[yellowpepper9]

right...the year suggests so too

[TypicalJoe1900]

Really? I never would've thought, because it didn't make me think of Twist and Shout at all when I first heard it.

[Amiyumi19]

Doesnt the The Guitar sounds are similar to La Bamba?

[28if]

You are pointing out that Twist and Shout and La Bamba have the same chord progression

[beatjazzglam]

yes i noticed that too. whenever it plays at the beginning [twist and shout] i want to start singing la bamba but i can't.

[shodhead]

If you guys like music, you should watch the whole movie "The Rutles." It's brilliant the way they changed the Beatles' songs just enough, but not too much. All musicians would love that movie.

[thenewbeatles]

you are 100 percent true that it is brillant how they changed the music the perfect amount. also i loved the movie since im a huge beatles fan and a musican

[shodhead]

The Rutles are the greatest band in history. I'm so happy Blind Lemon Pye inspired them to take Ruttlin' Orange Peel's songs back to England and record them.

[abcgod123]

are u serious about that blind lemon pye inspired them... but if you arent serious lol thats a good part in the movie

[huskyjerk]

Nice high-water pants on "George" at the end!

[laidout]

this song is SICK!@

[HumGuitar]

My favorite Rutles tune! I've heard that Eric Idle was laughing out loud when he started thinking of the idea to do the whole Rutles thing. Comedic genious! Neil Innes did a great job with all the songs as well!