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59 Years Since This Appeared In TV Guide
It's a grainy reproduction of a listing but it was an event that anyone who saw it will never forget - the day the Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan. (Frank Gorshin's rescheduled appearance may well be the answer to a riddle - or perhaps, a Riddler!)
My favourite part of the listing is another bit of rock and roll lore that we would only learn later. One of the cast of "Oliver" was none other than Davy Jones, who would taste teen idol-status himself just two years later as a member of the Monkees.
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If it wasn't for that moment, we would never have had this one. It still makes me laugh, including the atrocious dubbing of Sullivan's voice in the intro. Still brilliant. And the song is great, too. Which is why their legacy will last a lunchtime.
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If it wasn't for that moment, we would never have had this one. It still makes me laugh, including the atrocious dubbing of Sullivan's voice in the intro. Still brilliant. And the song is great, too. Which is why their legacy will last a lunchtime.
Two great musicians in the Rutles. Ricky Fataar, once a full fledged member of the Beach Boys and a long time member of Bonnie's Rait's band, as Stig O' Hara and Neil Innes of the Bonzo Dog Band as Ron Nasty
Bringing it all back to the Beatles. The Bonzo's biggest UK hit "The Urban Spaceman" was written by Innes and produced by Paul McCartney under the name Apollo C. Vermouth:
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"Ouch!" has always been my favourite.
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I wrote a post in December of 2020 about Innes, who I think was a genius. He wrote a lot of the music for Monty Python and his work on the Rutles is outstanding. The songs were good enough to have been chart hits in my humble opinion and I only wished they'd been released as singles just to see what might have happened. But of course, that's not what the comedy troupe was about back then.
And yes, "Ouch" is a wonderful riff on "Help."
Check out this track - it's catchy and terrific. And I think it stands on its own as both a great song - and a satire on the early Beatles. Brilliant.
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I don't know how accurate this is, but I remember reading that The Rutles' recording of "Get Up and Go" was so close to capturing the essence of "Get Back" that John Lennon recommended they leave it off the soundtrack album to avoid a possible copyright infringement lawsuit.
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Wikipedia has an interesting recap of the legal issues the songs led to.
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Looking at that grainy TV Guide listing, I am guessing it was from the Dallas area. 1. Central time zone. 2. KDFW ch 4 was a CBS affilliate at the time. 3. KTVT ch 11 was an independent station in 1964.
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Regarding the Bonzo Dog Band. In addition to Neil Innes, Vivian Stanshall was a substantial talent. They were played regularly in the 1970's on CHUM FM ( up to about 1975) and I became a fan. Loved the title of their second album. "The Donut in Granny's Greenhouse."
Their top airplay tune was perhaps "The Intro and Outro" with a lead by Stanshall reciting all of the musicians who played on the record. The first seven are members of the band but all the others are mostly famous (or fictitious - ie Quasimodo - Bells) people who obviously did not play on the records. All except Eric Clapton who did actually play Ukulele on the track. Sorry a bit off thread but somewhat tangentially related and a chance to relive a very small fragment that was the magic of progressive radio.
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