NEIL INNES - PROTEST SONG - Rutland Weekend Television

[stlsaxman]

Run time: 03:24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfTlGMCeuDE   Posted on YouTube: June 07, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 17, 2009 By DU Member: stlsaxman Views on DU: 402

 
How about we lighten things with a little olde fashioned humour, eh boys and girls?

and after a laugh why not

[Puzzler]

1. He's the unseen "seventh" member of Monty Python...

... for those unfamiliar with him. Innes wrote most of their music.

[stlsaxman]

2. AND one of the founding members of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

This is from what- late '60's/early '70's British TV?

[Puzzler]

3. I dunno... but it looks like it's from a '70 british TV show.

FYI Innes toured with the Python's live shows back in the late 70's.

[stlsaxman]

4. From Wiki-

Rutland Weekend Television (RWT) was a television sketch show on BBC2, written by Eric Idle with music by Neil Innes. Two series, the first consisting of six episodes, the second of seven, were broadcast, in 1975 and 1976. A Christmas special also aired on Boxing Day 1975.

It was Idle's first television project after Monty Python's Flying Circus run ended the previous year. The show was the catalyst for The Rutles. Rutland Weekend Television or RWT centred on "Britain's smallest television network", situated in England's smallest (and mainly rural) county, Rutland.

The show's title alludes to the real television broadcaster London Weekend Television. (London at the time was covered by two ITV franchises, Thames Television broadcasting Monday to Friday, and LWT at weekends).