RUTLAND JOHN - When THE RUTLES spoofed Elton John (1976)
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2022
- Neil Innes & Fatso (a pre-Rutles incarnation of The Rutles) parody Elton John. "Godfrey Daniel" was originally broadcast on RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION, November 1976. Includes appearances of three future Rutles: Eric Idle (aka Dirk McQuickly) at 0:03; Neil Innes (aka Ron Nasty) from 0:05; and John Halsey (aka Barry Wom) in the "Fatso" barbershop quartet from 2:46. John Halsey also plays drums on "Godfrey Daniel" as the drummer of Fatso. Only Ricky Fatar (aka Stig O'Hara) is absent from this pre-Rutles clip.
LYRICS:
A million miles from The Old Routine,
a midnight candle burned.
I believe in believing.
I'm deeply concerned.
Walking down the runway,
through the pouring rain.
Stretching out my arms like
a supersonic plane
Godfrey Daniel.
He ain't done nothin' wrong!
Let him go back to Ohio
or wherever he belongs.
If all the trees were candles
(And who's to say they're not?)
The world would be a birthday cake,
and we could eat the lot.
But too many cooks can spoil the broth,
and a stitch in time saves nine.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush,
and I'll never change my mind.
Godfrey Daniel.
He ain't done nothin' wrong!
Let him go back to Ohio
or wherever he belongs.
A tightrope walker has a balanced mind
As well as arms and legs.
But why do chickens cross the road,
not to mention laying eggs?
I guess I'll never know
or truly understand.
Anyhow, it's not just doorknobs
that come off in your hand.
Godfrey Daniel.
He ain't done nothin' wrong!
Let him go back to Ohio
or wherever he belongs.
Godfrey Daniel.
He ain't done nothin' wrong!
Let him go back to Ohio
or wherever he belongs. 
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Wow, I just noticed.... at the start of this video performance (just after Eric Idle's cameo), Rutland John is sitting on a rock and striking the pose of Auguste Rodin's pensive male-nude sculpture "The Thinker."
Neil Innes was a genius!
Before A.I.!
Without a doubt
“It’s not just door knobs that come off in your hand.” 😂😂😂
@@CasperLCat yes
@@CasperLCat I think it is.
Either that or I just have a dirty mind. Lol
I caught that too 😂😂
Is he parodying a particular song or just 🍆💦?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Let's be real, this is as good as a real Elton John song
Never could hear Elton John’s “genius” myself.
This is Elton without without Bernie Taupin basically. 😂
@@-Thunder Good point. Elton admitted he couldn't write lyrics to save his life. Taupin' s lyrics may have been ' obscure' but they lent themselves to melody!
Even realer, I enjoy most Rutles songs as much if not more than any of those other guys' tunes...
@@scalpod Neil Innes definitely had a gift for capturing the sound of bands - I sometimes find myself wondering whether a song is a Rutles or Beatles one, when it pops up in my head :) I was lucky enough to see The Rutles live once, a very enjoyable (and funny) experience.
The fantastic Neil Innes! Can't mistake that voice and talent for imitating styles of music. Brilliant!
I was buying all those Rutles and Rutland weekend TV albums years ago.
I guessed right
Pure genius.
should'â been benny hill
Total genius
Neil Innes, unsung genius. Bonzo Dog Doo Dash Band. Monty Python. Rutland Weekend Television. Ron Nasty of, The Rutles and the brilliantly clever, Innes Book Of Records. A legend in his own lunchtime.
Not to mention one of Sir Robin's minstrels
More like : a legend in his own lunchbox ...... ( ? ) .......................... DAVE™🛑
And wrote the theme to the Raggy Dolls.
RIP Ron Nasty
Spoofing Elton, but sounding a lot like John Lennon in some passages.
capturing the Elton John vibe aside, the composition is seriously legit. the lyrics - comedy gold
It's difficult to surmount, "I like traffic lights" but I think this comes close!
“If all the trees were candles
And who’s to say they’re not?”
…is so like a Bernie Taupin lyric of that era. Brilliant parody.
Neil really was a clever old thing
Critics and scholars never analyze Elton's lyrics. For a good reason. 😎
@@Pikestnt Neil is part of a generation that was built differently
@@GlennTillema I like traffic lights...😂
I've never see this before. Neil Innes at his best. ❤
Me too! So glad these are being uploaded. Classic Innes lyrics 🤩🎶🎤
@@buddyneher9359look for clips on RUclips from the BBC’s (when they actually knew a good song from a terrible song as in Eurovision), for The Innes Book of Records for a stack of great, original songs from Neil👍🏻 He was also one of the Rutles.
2;01 "Anyhow it's not just door knobs that come off in your hand". Is he parodying a particular song, being unspeakably filthy, or just weird?
Be sure to watch the Rutles.... Its music history or what if maybe or not.
Same.
Fucking brilliant
Amazing Neil Innes, he was so great. My favorite Rutle 😢
Neil was brilliant!
🎶😁🎶
@@kittenfuud such a loss. So funny and clever. Loved him.
The why did the chicken cross the road lyric got me. I think that captured Elton's ability to sing nonsense but make it sound poignant and sincere. And the glasses lol.
I actually think Bernie would appreciate that chicken line.
After all its not just doorknobs that come off in your hand....
Saw him impersonating Elton in 1974. Saw python live. Nothing will ever compare My dad and I did it together. Very fond and hillarious memory.
WOW !
WOW! So stylistically appropriate. And the wine glass eyeglasses tell the whole story of Elton in the crazy 70's
No they don't.
I remember seeing a tv clip of Elton performing from back then and he had on glasses that had wiper blades he could activate to go back & forth on the lenses 😂
I'm betting Elton had one of two reactions to this - either he smashed up his mansion in a fit of uncontrollable rage - or he couldn't stop pissing himself laughing. Theres no centre ground with Ol' Reg.
I'm pretty sure he has a sense of humor. Otherwise he would have been known as John Elton.
@@RayMusicman9I hope you will reply to this I knew a man named John Elton Arceneaux by his last name you know he’s Cajun
John Elton Arceneaux isn’t alive anymore he was a friend and I miss him he was from Louisiana…he had a T shirt that said I wasn’t born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could…I also hope you will reply to this
@@sherryhannah9262 I have replied to this.
@@sherryhannah9262 I have also replied to this. I was referencing a sketch Elton did with Rowan Atkinson, it's hilarious.
ruclips.net/user/shortsarWY1QeUIwI?si=TxPrVvk-KRChOAco
Neil Innes was a musical genius. His parodies were always dead on. I loved “Imitation Song,” his final Ron Nasty song. It both parodies “Imagine” and skewers social media culture.
He may have been accused of being confused, but he was average weight for his height. 😀
@@buddyneher9359 I had to suffer for my music, now it's your turn.
So you're saying Neil Innes was the precursor to Weird Al Yankovich ?
@@dunbarf2413 Weird Al did a great simulation of a DOORS song- " Craigslist"- that rivals what Neil does. But, mostly he just changes the lyrics to existing songs.
@@brucemarshall3446 Dare to be Stupid is Al's best by far as it is a spot on parody original that he composed
At this point, Elton sounded very-much like this. Great stuff!!!
True genius Neil Innes gone too soon and sorely missed!
Ok, this is PROOF that my phone is spying on me.
I haven’t even THOUGHT of The Rutles in years, but yesterday I mentioned them in a brief comment to one of my coworkers. I don’t think he heard me, and it was quickly forgotten. Now it pops up in my feed??? There is NO WAY that this is random chance.
I always feel like somebody’s watching me…
@@toddbuckler1617 most phones do, the microphone is enabled by Google most likely. This happens to me all the time, stuff shows up on utube the day after something was mentioned, generally. Just turn off location services and they just have your IP address not your real address - yet.
It's Al Gore Rhythm
Nothing to fear,we will continue to help you make the right choices in your journeys.👽
It's the batteries man, they is all linked and form chains of global communication, all leading back to... them, batteries and light bulbs, and maybe carpet too... 😑
One of my guilty secrets is prefering some of Neil's spoofs to the originals!
Nice call. Feels like a song from Caribou.
CHEESE AND ONIONS!! 🤘🤘
"Love Life"
@@PsychedelicGoo When he sings “Hold My Hand” out of tune at the end, I lose it
" Piggy in the Middle" is much better than " I Am the Walrus"!😅
" I have always thought in the back of my mind, cheese and onions"😂
How did I live without this video?
the gap in his teeth.... and the pants and boots are from TOMMY.... pinball wizard 😂😂😂👍
They are nothing like that ...they look like something Elton wore back then...but he wore GIANT LUMBERJACK BOOTS and white pants in TOMMY
@@gilwood7530tbh, they were fiberglass prop boots meant to look like the iconic Cherry Red boots by Doc Martens, not specifically lumberjack boots as such.
@@gilwood7530The boots in the movie Tommy worn by Elton John were called "Doc Martens" back in the 1970s. You can look that up on Wikipedia. or on The Who's official website.
Ya think?
Neil Innes, the one and only Urban Spaceman. ❤️
No he's not.
Never seen this,Neil Innes was a total legend RIP mate and thanks for all the music and laughs.
Brilliant spoof.
"Anyhow, it's not just doorknobs that come off in your hand." 2:03
🙌😂
Iv never seen this before, thanks for sharing. I had to google Godfrey Daniel...
"Godfrey Daniels! (sometimes plural, sometime singular) was a 'minced curse' for God dammit! favoured by the great screen comic, W C Fields."
@@olivervision definitely worth knowing
@olivervision As a long time fan of WC am ashamed I didn't spot the connection at first!
Not to mention the play on words. The Lyrics fit more to "God, free Daniel." Daniel, of course being the protagonist of the eponymous song from "Two Rooms", about a Vietnam Vet trying to quietly return to his hometown and get back to his quiet normal life.
Neil, so missed so underexposed long live all your music and memory👍
Amen!
Great glasses. Thank you.
No they're not.
Brilliant, Elton mixed with Billy Joel.
👍
Neil Innes once again capturing perfectly the essence or style of an artist and genre. His work on Matching Tie And Handkerchief and also Holy Grail is brilliant. I’m sure the EJ costume and piano mobile are Idle.
Neil Innes was a comedy god. I'd never seen this before. THANK YOU!
Weird Al could learn a thing or two from Innes.
Absolutely brilliant!
I've never seen this Rutles or Neil Innes sketch before; spoofing Elton John was pure comic genius. Apart from the Yellow Submarine movie, I wasn't aware of the Rutles even having a TV show; I can see where the Fast Show got their inspiration from.
Thank you for sharing the lost treasure of BBC comedy. 👍
Not the 9 Clock News was pretty much similar to Rutland Show.
@@marguskiis7711 I loved them both, but they were very different things.
Are you sure that's not Elton..???.... Brilliant...😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Brilliant
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS! 😀 very rare gem!
No it isn't.
I love Rutles humor! LMAO @ the lyrics!😂😂😂😂😂
The lyrics in this are genuinely more well thought out than 97% of the songs coming out right now.
That's what I was going to say, a spoof of then is better than the serious songs of today.
Are you saying today's no talent hacks actually put some thought into their songwriting?
There’s a hint of billy joel in here too
I hear it. If it was just audio I probably would think it was a Billy Joel parody actually.
Yeah, definitely 💯
Not really. Billy Joel is derivative, so he's copying Elton John alot of the time. Also, The Four Seasons / Frankie Valle, The Rolling Stones/Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, etc. Everyone but himself.
@@markl1930 I don't even dislike Billy Joel per se, but its wild just how much it sounds like he's trying to replicate Elton John's sorta country influenced sound on albums like Tumbleweed Connection and Honky Chateau on his Piano Man album.
I think it's the piano-oriented chord progression. "Piano songs" sound different from "guitar songs"
The glasses! And the trousers! 😜
say no more! 😉
It took me a few minutes to figure out those were real glasses instead of something just cobbled together. I hope they were plastic otherwise they would have weighed a ton and keeping them on his face would required a star or glued to his head in the back 😂
@@buddyneher9359 Is your wife a goer? Know what I mean? *nudge nudge* 😉
Brilliantly brutal (or brutally brilliant). The floating pianos and pensive nods - sublime!
"Pensive nods"
Lol😅
Rutland Weekend was made on a very low budget. That must be why after splashing out on Elton's gear, they couldn't afford the grand piano! ;)
The early Quantel analogue TV signal generator needed to animate, rotate, and superimpose those tiny pianos cost hundreds of thousands of pounds!
Wait...
@@skierpage Mindwarp!
Absolute work of comedic/satirical genius here. Alas I was just too young to have regularly watched RWT so thanks so much for posting this.
Woah! That clock is definitely on Lsd!
As a young teenager, I lived, breathed, ate, and slept nothing but Elton John and Bernie Taupin. This is hilarious! Long live the ballad!
Elton deserves this and much more
Aw, I do miss Neil Innes. I'm so glad I got to see him play live with the Rutles...The Platform in Morecambe 2018. Brilliant musician. Brilliant wordsmith and raconteur. Brilliant voice. Legend. RIP ♥️
Excellent spoof of Elton John's style and talent.
Wow. Just wow. If you want to make a really REALLY great parody, you have to study every little detail of your subject, and you only do that when you actually love the person you're spoofing. This is clearly done by a fanatic follower of EJ. The glasses-glasses are a brilliant cherry on the sundae.
And, musically, the song is actually pretty good. I've had it going through my head all day.
And Neil was a great composer and musician, too.
@@ElectricBoogaloo007 I know! That chorus is a God Damn ear worm!😣
Haw. Nicely done. A spot-on send up.
That was a spot on Elton John parody, but it was also a pretty good song just based on its own merits.
I met him once and got his autograph. He was a real gentleman. A genius.
Rutland John?
@@splorn😂😂😂! I was wondering the same thing!! 😂😂😂
I honestly wish there was a whole album like this. Its fantastic.
You've never heard of the The Rutles or The Innes Book Of Records?
@@kenchristie9214 No, they never made to the east coast of Canada. We had two TV channels growing up and 3 radio stations most of which was Canadian and US content. Mind you I was and still am a huge Monty Python fan. The Flying Circus luckily did make it to Canada.
@@ebjeezer Same here in Australia, but I was fortunate enough to spot The Rutles, and like Neil I pronounced it Rootles because I never saw the Rutland Weekend show.
I looked at the cover, and when I saw Neil Innes and Eric Idle's name, just had to buy it. I was already a fan of The Bonzos and Monty Python.
@@kenchristie9214 Thanks for mentioning the The Innes Book Of Records, I immediately looked it up and watched the first episode, and I'll be watching the rest, its awesome. Although I never saw it before there was something so familiar and endearing about it. Likely due to the time period and having Monty Python, Mr Bean, and all the other British TV we did get here seared into my psyche.
By the way, huge fan of Australian music.. Mental as Anything, Flash and The Pan, Men at Work, Little River Band, Australian Crawl, ACDC, EuroGliders, Midnight Oil, INXS, Hoodoo Gurus, IceHouse, and Dragon (Dont You Go out in the Rain - I broke the cassette I played it so much) and right next door Split Enz\Crowded House, and Th' Dudes. - Tell everyone you know Canada loves your music :)
Only the great Neil Innes could capture another songwriter so perfectly and still somehow make it his own and have it be just as good as the original.
That was bloody brilliant lol.
Those glasses….. 😂
Those TROUSERS!!
@@RaBob you can see everything, quite clearly, nothing to the imagination
Brilliant. Perfectly apes the inane lyrics of Bernie Taupin and the melodic gifts of Elton 💪
I remember Rutles. It was scary. I watched it with a roomful of Beatles fans and we all made all kinds of twisty not-quite-pained faces throughout-it was so perfect, so right-on-point, so *almost* Beatles… it made us crazy. Brilliant parody. This one is too.
Love this. Neil Innes was amazing!... And the glasses. 🤣
Neil Innes .. absolutely brilliant
Musically it’s very good, visually it’s a hoot
What an amazing talent !!!!
I've loved Neil Innes since I was kid in the 70's he was brilliant he's sadly missed RIP Neil
There is so much that is so right in this that it almost makes my head spin. Thanks for posting this!
That's a genuinely good song.
Thanks for posting !!
best spent 3 minutes and 1 second of my entire life.
I have no doubt Elton John wishes he had thought of those glasses first.
The algorithm did some real good work bringing me this
Freaking Brilliant
Absolutely brilliant on so many levels. “….anyway it’s not just doorknobs that come off in your hand.” I SO get this parody.
We love you and miss you Neil!❤️👍
This is a lovely blending of "Tiny Dancer" and "Border Song" run through the unmistakable Innes filter.
This is like the "Love Boat" parody cranked to 11.
Too many cooks
Will spoil the broth
Damn it continues
Just fantastic. Neil Innes was a genius.
That is flat magnificent...
"come off in your hand..." -- Hey, you can't fool me, Neil. Naughty naughty-- the Itch is back.
More amusing than funny. I am actually watching this in Ohio, too.
It’s no wonder George Harrison liked Neil innes.
So cool!
First time I've ever heard this wonderful track! Considering his connection with Monty Python, that's gotta be George Harrison playing the beautiful slide guitar at 1:33 of the song. ! ?
I like this chorus, it's very catchy, i think sir Elton's voice would fit perfectly too
At the time I first saw this, the running total at the bottom looked monumentally expensive. Now it just looks like my electricity bill.
How in the phuq did I live this long and never see this??
The tiny floating pianos 🤣
The Rutles were amazing. This is an outstanding Elton john spoof. Thank you for posting it !
Never seen this before, Rob. Thanks for posting it. 😊
I saw The Ruttles at Huttington Hall a long time back, one of the best shows I've ever seen and got to meet Neil after.. A beautiful man he was ❤
Hilarious! His got a darn good voice! He sounds almost exactly like Billy Joel!
He's trying to be Elton John not Billy Joel.
I love the shoes.
Neil Innes was a fucking genius.
The best explanation for the road and a chicken. I have heard.
It was to show the possum it could be done.
The problem with wearing Wine Glasses on a sunny day is that it will start your eyelashes on fire. 🔥
Been looking for this for ages, then it came up on YT recommended!
I want those glasses!
"Its not just doorknobs that come off in your hand."
What an interesting choice to use cocktail glasses on his glasses lol. That's hilarious!
Oh Elton, you’ve made a spectacle of yourself!
Those champagne glass spectacles! Typical Elton John of the era.
@kjamison made a spectacle of yourself groan 😩!!!!!!
Great 👍 find... loved Rutles 1 movie
This is a really good song.