| "Cheese and Onions" | |
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 UK picture sleeve | |
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Released |
26 May 1967 |
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Recorded |
19–20 January 1967; 3, 10 and 22 February 1967 |
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Genre |
Psychedelic Pop, Progressive Pop, Baroque Pop |
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Label |
Parlourphone (UK) |
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Songwriter(s) |
Nasty-McQuickly |
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Producer(s) |
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Cheese and Onions is a song by The Rutles featured as the last track on Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band. It also was featured in the 1969 film Yellow Submarine Sandwich and its soundtrack album, and the 1999 album Yellow Submarine Sandwich Soundtrack.
The song was written mainly by Ron Nasty, but credited to Nasty-McQuickly. It was released as a single in 1969, backed with another Nasty composition, "The Urban Spaceman". During his solo career, Nasty performed the song on his brief appearance on Saturday Night Live in 1977.
The song originally appeared on Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band
Composition[]
The song starts with simple piano playing. The vocals come in later. Before the spelling of the title, drums and orchestration come in, sounding similar to Piggy in the Middle. After a while, a cresendo of violins comes in. When that ends, the album ends with what is often credited as the memorable ending to any song in Rutles' history: One pound of a key on the low end of the piano.
Run-Out Groove[]
In most releases of Sgt. Rutter's, there is a run-out groove after the ending chord consisting of random studio chatter. The complete unedited studio chatter was later played at the end of Cheese and Onions on Yellow Submarine Sandwich.[1]
See also[]
- Yellow Submarine Sandwich (film), the song's first apperance in film.
- The Rutles, Cheese and Onions's first appearance on a compilation album.
- Lunch, where the song was included, both as an excerpt in Get Up And Go & Let's Be Natural and as the full song.
- Stig it (from Let it Rot), where the song was referenced.