From: mcodogno@nyx.cs.du.edu (Maurizio Codogno)
Subject: Rutles vs Beatles
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 07:55:10 GMT

% From: edc@evolution.bchs.uh.edu (edward s. chen)
% 
%         If anyone disagrees, come up with a reason why.
I *love* to disagree with someone! :-) SO, let's start... (Note: my opinions
are guided by musical analogies rather than from the movie).

% 
% This table should probably be expanded a bit, since the liner notes to the
% CD do give "original release" information, all of which correspond to actual 
% Beatle releases.
I have the CD, but I don't think the "original release" notes could be very
useful. Think at _Number One_, for example: the label was that of _Love Me Do_
(sensitive, as it was Rutles' first "number one" hit, and many could have 
missed _Please Please ME_, but the song is blatantly modelled on _Twist and 
Shout_.

% >	Hold My Hand			Please Please Me? I Want To
% >					Hold Your Hand?
%         From the Parlourphone LP "Meet the Rutles" PCS#3045
%         Again, not really a parody of a single song.   The three elements
%         most recognizable are from "Please Please Me", "I Want to Hold Your 
%         Hand", and "She Loves You".   None of which are found on the
%         "With the Beatles" LP.  (Although IWTHYH  is on the American "Meet
%         the Beatles")
The refrain is sung in the outro exactly like in _All My Loving_ (notice the
"woo-hoo", so that one should be added.

% >	Blue Suede Schubert		Roll Over Beethoven?
%         From the Palourphone LP "Meet the Rutles".  PCS#3045
%         "Roll Over Beethoven" is probably the best guess.
Undoubtely. The very start, and the name itself it's a joke between _Blue 
Suede Shoes_ and ROB.

% >	Between Us
%         From the Parlourphone LP "A Hard Day's Rut" PCS#3058
%         My best guess is "And I Love Her."
Well, when I hear the line 
	 We were made for each other, girl.  We were made for each other.
I immediately think at George...

% >	Living In Hope			What Goes On? Don't Pass Me By?
% >					Octopus's Garden?
%         From the Parlourphone LP "Rutles For Sale" PCS#3062.
%         Really, a general "Ringo song" more then anything else.
%         However, keeping the album in mind, "Honey Don't" is as
%         good a choice as any.
I always felt this song a bit out of place, it reminds me of later Ringo
compositions like _Don't Pass Me By_.

% >	It's Looking Good		I'm Looking Through You...
% >					I'm Happy Just To Dance With You?
%         From the Parlourphone LP "Rutle Soul"
%         Considering it is used as the clip for the Rutles Che Stadium
%         concert, I'm not real pleased with "I'm Looking Through You".
%         Probably as good a choice as any, although I would tend to choose
%         "If I Needed Someone", which *was* actually played live on the '66
%         tour.
The verse sounds much like  _I Don't Want to Spoil the Party_.

% >	Cheese And Onions		A Day In The Life
%         From the Rutle Soundtrack LP "Yellow Submarine Sandwich" PCS#7070
%         Not really a good choice, other then the "borrowed" chord at the
%         end.   A general "YS" psychidelic Beatles parody, certainly with 
%         touches of "It's All Too Much", or "Only a Northern Song", but 
%         keeping authorship the same, Lennon's only song on the soundtrack
%         "Hey Bulldog" stands as the most likely place Innes' inspiration
%         started from.
Apart from the borrowed final chord, there is also a sort of orchestra 
crescendo (well, it does not grow a lot...), and the piano chords at the start
are in the ADITL feel. 

% >	Let's Be Natural		Dear Prudence? Mother Nature's
% >					Son? Across The Universe?
%         From the Rutle LP "Shabby Road" PCS#7088
%         Keeping with albums, the most likely Lennon composition is
%         "Because".   However, the Rutle album "Let It Rot" is not
%         represented, so "Across the Universe" is probably another valid
%         choice.
The refrain has the same chords which can be found in _Dear Prudence_ (and we
can suppose a succession D D/C Gmaj7/B Gm(+7)/Bb is not *very* common).

--
ciao! .mau.
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