Brilliant
YouTube is an amazing place. Here's something I ran into just by chance--Ouch!, a Rutles tribute band. The idea is so great they don't even have to be good, but they are.
Check out "I Must Be In Love," the song that made The Rutles, or "Hold My Hand," the one that broke them in America. And as you'd expect, Ouch! does a bang-up mob with "Ouch!"
posted by LAGuy @ 1:35 AM
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Just saw it at your recommendation--fabulous! I hadn't thought about them in years. Somewhere in the Vinyl Vault at my parents' I have the Rutles debut album (was there a second?). I remember singing "I Must Be in Love" with an over-the-top Liverpudlian accent for a school talent show with 3 of my best friends. In my small town, nobody "got it" and some said we "didn't sound very much like the Beatles" (duh--we're all girls). No wonder I never went back after college....
There actually was a second Rutles album. The first one--the one we all know--was released in the late 70s along with the TV special.
Then, in the 90s, the same time the Beatles' Anthology collections were put out, the Rutles "discovered" some old tracks of their own and put out Archaeology.
I met Neil Innes--the Rutles main songwriter and singer--a few years ago. His original fame came from the Bonzo Dog Band in the 60s, so he's been around. He hooked up with Monty Python in the 70s, but actually knew The Beatles--in fact, the Bonzo Dog Band appears in Magical Mystery Tour.
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