The Rutles - Plenty Of Time (Unreleased)

This song is taken from a Rutles rehearsal. It has a "Abbey Road-era" sound, specificly "Because" and "You never give me your money".

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Music

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• rutles
• rare
• unreleased
• neil
• innes
• abbey
• road
• shabby
• 1969
• beatles
• because
• parody
• satire
• bootleg

[BeatlesNRutlesBootle]

Neil Innes did release this song but not as a Rutles song, only as a Neil Innes song. He tried it with the Rutles and didn't think it's good as a Rutles song so he decided to remove it from the list.

[AdequateFinch]

Innes is a bleedin' genius! I mean this guy is definitely from the same musical gene pool as Lennon/McCartney. That's why his so-called forgeries are brilliant in their own right.

[fredthejunkman]

this is so cool. would love to hear the finished version.

[webbrmkvc]

A little Golden Slumbers in there.

[tonygiangreco]

@tonygiangreco

*Here, There, And Everywhere, and I Got A Feeling.

[tonygiangreco]

I think this would've made a great Rutles song. It kinda sounds like Here, There, And Everywhere if you ask me.

[1234cottagedoor]

This is a lovely song waiting for a different treatment: which it gets in the Innes Book of Records, video clip recently posted.

Innes is a real one-off, I don't know anyone else who brings this particular mix of comedy, satire, surrealism and spot-on parody to his song-writing. And when he wants he can be genuinely moving: think "Kenny and Lisa" or "Time to Kill". Genius indeed. 7th Python? Maybe, the CV bears that out: but he doesn't have the vicious nihilism of the others. He's too nice!

[jzerony]

@BeatlesNRutlesBootle Wisely too... I mean it's a nice Innes song, but I agree it doesn't really sound like it'd fit in with the rest of the Rutles catalog. Although Neil can make almost anything sound Rutely.... case in point, if you dig deep enough you'll find earlier versions of ShangriLa that don't sound very Rutles-like - but Neil took it and Rutled it up pretty damn good! Met Neil briefly at a Beatlefest once - you couldn't meet a nicer guy!

[SecretTimeWarp]

@Miracle490d Well, both of those albums are rarities collections - "Sgt. Rutter" has a live performance, movie audio and the rare Dirk & Stig 45; "Hard Days Rut" has a few Rutle demos, and mostly Neil Innes stuff - Bonzo Dog Band, Grimms, and I think the Womble Bashers.

[Miracle490d]

@SecretTimeWarp I thought Hard days Rut and other titles on the Rutles album was just gag names of albums that didn't exist. I'll have to look for the Rutles more now that I know there is more than two albums. Are there other songs or versions on these? I know a Beatle Bootleg collector, so I've got to hear alot that's not on the general market. "Bad to me" was a Beatle song they sold, they only recorded a demo. I'm looking though you had an instrumental interlude before the middle8 was made.

[SecretTimeWarp]

Am I correct in thinking that John Halsey would've played drums on the GRIMMS version as well?

[SecretTimeWarp]

@Miracle490d Sure, there's a ton (usually repeating the same material) - "Short and Curlies" is the best one, I think. There's also "Hard Day's Rut", "Sgt. Rutter", "Sweet Rutle Tracks", "Rutland's Rare Rutles Revisited", "Dirk Is Deaf", "Yesterday's Leftovers", "The Savage Young Rutles", and a few others.

[AndyCWilson]

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