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The Rutland Weekend Songbook
Studio album by Eric Idle & Neil Innes
Released	1976
Genre	Comedy Music
Length	41:24
Label	BBC Records
Producer	Neil Innes
Eric Idle & Neil Innes chronology
How Sweet to Be an Idiot (1973) The Rutland Weekend Songbook (1976) Taking Off (1977)

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Allmusic	[1]

The Rutland Weekend Songbook, sometimes referred to as Rutland Times, is a 1976 album by Eric Idle and Neil Innes featuring songs from the BBC comedy series Rutland Weekend Television.

It was described by Allmusic's reviewer as "a 21-track masterpiece that really is as funny as it ought to be. An effortless parody of the last decade or so of British television's most treasured conceits".^[1]

Track listing

Side one

1. "L'Amour Perdu" - 0:38
2. "Gibberish" - 1:38
3. "Front Loader" - 2:39
4. "Say Sorry Again" - 2:19
5. "I Must Be in Love"^[1] - 2:36
6. "Twenty-Four Hours in Tunbridge Wells" - 1:48
7. "The Fabulous Bingo Brothers" - 1:09
8. "Concrete Jungle Boy" - 3:21
9. "The Children of Rock and Roll"^[2] - 0:44
10. "Stoop Solo" - 2:36
11. "The Song O' the Insurance Men" - 0:55

Side two

1. "Testing" - 0:37
2. "I Give Myself to You" - 2:19
3. "Communist Cooking" - 1:24
4. "Johnny Cash" - 0:57
5. "Protest Song" - 3:42
6. "Accountancy Shanty" - 0:45
7. "Football" - 1:33
8. "Boring" - 2:39
9. "L'Amour Perdu Cha Cha Cha" - 1:54
10. "The Hard to Get" - 3:03
11. "The Song O' the Continuity Announcers" - 2:14

^ Early version of The Rutles' "I Must Be in Love"
^ Early version of The Rutles' "Good Times Roll"

(BBC REB233). (CD issue MSI MSI 10079 Japan only)

Personnel

• Eric Idle - vocals
• Neil Innes (credited as "Nobby")^[2] - piano
• Roger Rettig - guitar
• Billy Bremner - guitar
• Brian Hodgson - bass
• John Halsey - drums
• Andy Roberts - guitar
• Dave Richards - bass
• Roger Swallow - drums
• Zoot Money - vocal

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