RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION SONGBOOK - Eric Idle & Neil Innes

YEAR: 1976

LABEL: Passport Records

TRACK LISTING: L'Amour Perdu, Gibberish, Front Loader, Say Sorry Again, I Must Be In Love, Twenty Four Hours in Tunbridge Wells, The Fabulous Bingo Brothers, Concrete Jungle Boy, The Children of Rock and Roll, Stoop Solo, The Song O' the Insurance Men, Testing, I Give Myself To You, Communist Cooking, Johnny Cash Live at Mrs. Fletcher's, Protest Song, Accountancy Shanty, Football, Boring, L'Amour Perdu Cha Cha Cha, The Hard To Get, The Song O' the Continuity Announcers

IMPRESSIONS: For a Pythonoholic like myself, nothing could excite me more than discovering something by one of the Pythons I never knew existed. This is the reaction I got when I stumbled across this album in the comedy bin at that oh so seventies record store Sound Odyssey in the Cherry Hill Mall. You know, the one with the purple shag carpets covering the floors AND the walls! This was circa 1977 and I never even knew the RWTV show existed -- and sadly the show has STILL never aired in this country or been available in any form other than this album. Which makes it all the more precious. Eric Idle was the most musical Python and Neil Innes was a former member of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band so RWTV was extremely music-filled; however there were also a good many sketches a la Python as well.

MY FAVOURITE TRACKS: L'Amour Perdu, Gibberish, Front Loader, Say Sorry Again, I Must Be In Love, Twenty Four Hours in Tunbridge Wells, The Fabulous Bingo Brothers, The Song O' the Insurance Men, Testing, Communist Cooking, Johnny Cash Live at Mrs. Fletcher's, Protest Song, Accountancy Shanty, Football, Boring, L'Amour Perdu Cha Cha Cha, The Song O' the Continuity Announcers

FACT SHEET: THE RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION SONGBOOK is an album based on the TV series "RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION" created by Eric Idle (after the end of "MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS") and sometimes-Python guest Neil Innes. RWTV was the first appearance of the Beatles parody THE RUTLES which would go on to become a full-length motion picture.