The Rutles: Doubleback Alley

[tlatosmd]

Don't get me wrong, I love *BOTH* The Beatles and The Rutles, but this is the only time that Neil Innes even outdid Paul's original...

[TheNamron55]

This was first released in 1959

[EarlWire7]

Neil Innes did some amazing work on The Rutles. Anyone can do a straight parody, but Innes did the music more in the style of The Beatles, instead of a beat-for-beat spoof. Thats why songs like Doubleback Alley stands on their own; Its really solid music.

[criddskovich]

Rutles were not made, they were evolved, Barry Wom still lives and works in a pub in cambridge,u.k.

[criddskovich]

Choon!



[mddbassdude727]

i actually find this better than the original..

[theFishy70]

This comment section is so full of inability to recognize sarcasm.

[Cheessa]

"Plenty to do in Doubleback Alley

Play peek-a-boo with Saccharine Sally

Bouncing a ball against the wall

showing her drawers you come indoors

her dad would call"

Wish this was my childhood.

[helicopterparents]

i like it !!

[helicopterparents]

i love it !!



[seerauberjohnny]

Me and my mates used to pretend that the Rutles were the real band and the Beatles were the pastiche.Ah 'happy smiling faces if I flog my memory'-bit of a cheeky dig there over Paul's tendency to romanticize squalor (see also Ray Davies,Lionel Bart etc )

[Beatlesfanize]

WonderFull !!!! 

[akikowolf]

Hello Getlost haha. That made me laugh when I read that.

[AndyCWilson]

Neil Innes is now on a world tour. Check out his web site for tickets! 

[gim22l]

I can hear when I'm 64 by The beatle

[Fireperv]

This song just is wonderful, Innes make you almost remember this as a hit from way back when, the production would make George Martin proud, not simply parody but real affection for it's origin .

[Billinois78]

I'm reading the fake song titles on this cover. I was laughing so hard!

"Your Mother Should Go", "Hello Get Lost", "W.C. Fields Forever". hahahaha

[blackwelderadam]

@Billinois78 I like "I Am the Waitress!" Lol!

[DerekBayRoberts1]

@blackwelderadam

That would be "Piggy in The Middle".

[gsf67]

Neil Innes is a genius. I have seen him perfom live, brilliant

[DerekBayRoberts1]

I wonder which was a real group the Rutles or the Monkees.

[magolivia1]

do you mean the monkees or the beatles?

p.s. the monkees where real.

[DerekBayRoberts1]

@magolivia1 What i meant was The Monkees were manufactured in a similar way The Rutles were, only for differant reasons.

[HardAssEnterprises]

@DerekBayRoberts1 Both of them.

[raymondlang]

@blackwerx

Neil Innes..and he's still a genius!!

[pbrick6301]

I distinctly remember this song came out a few months before Penny Lane, which is further proof that the Beatles were thiefs.

[SgtRuttersClubBand]

@pbrick6301

Penny Lane Single - 1967

The Rutles Album - 1978

[PogieJoe]

@SgtRuttersClubBand They were joking, kind sir/maddam!

[Antobhrin]

@SgtRuttersClubBand i think it was a joke

[ullapoolposse]

@SgtRuttersClubBand I think he's being ironic. Well done on completely missing the point

[Nalinho]

@SgtRuttersClubBand Missed the irony then?

By the way - TUNE!!

[ambershade]

@SgtRuttersClubBand He was joking I think, but both songs are great!

[mpharris88]

@pbrick6301 Slight sense of humour failure there from the original poster - or was it *super-duper-double-irony*?

[vlopresto]

@Ranjeeb You mean the Rutles, right?

[ToastmachineIdiot]

This is one of my favourite Rutles tunes.

I happen to have the original Rutles LP! The All You Need Is Cash documentary is also hilarious!

[xXimrealynotokayXx]

I love this song! I love Neil <3