ISIRTA songs are the songs, listed in alphabetical order, which were featured in episodes of the British comedy radio series I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again.
| Starring | Tim Brooke-Taylor John Cleese Graeme Garden David Hatch Jo Kendall Bill Oddie |
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The songs were written by Bill Oddie unless specified otherwise.
Songs edit
Aardvark, Ferret, Vulture edit
- sung by John Cleese (main) cast (Chorus)
- Play: "A Fairy Tale"
Baby Go To Sleep edit
(Lullaby)
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 9
Baby Samba edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play:
Blimpht edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Plays: "Robin Hood" / "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" (record)
Bounce edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "Robinson Prunestone"
Cactus In My Y-Fronts edit
- sung by Bill Oddie (with Graeme Garden as the "Yodelling Coyote")
- Play: "Jack the Ripper"
Cricket Tranquiliser edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "The Lone Stranger"
Denmark Street edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: Professor Prune & The Electric Time Trousers -part 13
Favourite Melody (Beethoven's Fifth) edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Plays: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 4 / "William the Conqueror"
The Ferret Song edit
- Songwriters: John Cleese and Graham Chapman
- Introduction by David Hatch
- sung by John Cleese (and Gang – alias: "The Lovin' Pruneful")
- Comment by Tim Brooke-Taylor
- Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 1
The Ferrets of Old England edit
- Introduction by David Hatch
- sung by Bill Oddie (and Gang)
- Comment by Tim Brooke-Taylor
- Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 8
Ferry Across the Mersey edit
(Liverpudlian Love Song)
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "Liverpool the City"
Hey There, You With the Tzar in Your Pies edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "Dr. Zhivago and His Wonderful Lamp"
Hovercraft Ride edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: Professor Prune & The Electric Time Trousers - part 2
I Love a Show (Footlights) edit
- sung by Bill Oddie (and Gang)
- Comments by Tim Brooke-Taylor and John Cleese
- Spoon playing and tap dancing: John Cleese
- Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 13
I Love Youooo edit
(Yippee)
- sung by Jean Hart and Bill Oddie
- Play: "RAF Briefing"
Identikit Gal edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Plays: "Robin Hood" / "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" (special)
I'm Gonna Live edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "All Hands on Venus"
I'm Lenin on a Lamp-post at the Corner of the Street edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "Dr. Zhivago and His Wonderful Lamp"
In the Moonlight edit
(Portuguese Dictionary Song)
- sung by Bill Oddie
- English translations by John Cleese
- Play: "The Ghost of Objectionable Manor"
In the Old Bazaar in Cairo edit
- sung by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie
Play: "Search for the Nile"
Ironing My Goldfish edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: Tales Of The Circus
It's Spring edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "Champion the Wonder Mouse"
I've Got the Hiccups edit
- sung by
- Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 10
Joke Song edit
- sung by Bill Oddie (with the other joke by John Cleese)
- Play: "Othello"
Julie Andrews edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "Operation 'Chocolate'"
Just One of Those Things edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "Ali Baba and the 38 Thieves"
Keep Fit Class edit
- sung by
- Plays: History – 10,000 B.C. / Liverpool the City
Knitting edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "Catermole Sharp and Dr. Gaskit" (Sherlock Holmes)
Let There Be edit
- sung by
- Play: "Dr. Why and the Thing"
Liverpool Girl edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "Liverpool the City"
The Masochism Song edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "Moll Flanders"
Magical Mystery Four: I Am the Milkman edit
(Beatles send-up)
- sung by
- Play: "Bunny and Claude"
Man's Best Friend – a Dog edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "Butler Dunnit"
Man's Best Friend – a Duck edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 11
Meet Me in the Churchyard, Nellie edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "The Supernatural"
My Baby's Become a Folk Singer edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "Robin Hood"
My Mom Has Lost My Dad edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 2
Nuclear Submarine edit
- sung by Bill Oddie, David Hatch, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor
- Play: "Dr. Why and the Thing"
On Ilkla' Moor Baht 'At edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: Professor Prune & The Electric Time Trousers - part 3
Police Constable Herbert Platt, Somerset Constabulary – Greatest Lawman of Them All edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- P. C. Herbert Platt: John Cleese
- Play: "Julius Caesar"
Protect My Honey On Her Journey: Send Her by Post edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "England Our England (Learning to Fly)"
Recorded 'Live in Cabaret edit
(in the Cafe "Ole")
- Introduction by David Hatch
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Night Club Compere: Tim Brooke-Taylor
- Recording Artist: Bill Oddie
- The four Diners: John Cleese, David Hatch, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Jo Kendall
- Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 5
Reminiscences (Nappy Days) edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "The Vikings"
Repeat After Me edit
- sung by
- Play: "William Tell"
Rhubarb Tart edit
- sung by Bill Oddie (and Gang)
- Play: "The Supernatural"
Rock With A Policeman edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play:
She's Gone edit
- sung by Bill Oddie (and Gang) – with comment by Jean Hart)
- Play: "RAF Briefing"
The Ship Put to Sea in the Month of May edit
(Madrigal arrangement for four voices and Tim Brooke-Taylor)
- Songwriters: Eric Idle and John Cameron
Introduction by David Hatch
- sung by David Hatch, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, Jo Kendall and Tim Brooke-Taylor
- Play: "Julius Caesar"
Sick Man Blues edit
- sung by Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor
- Play: "Star Trek"
Something About Restaurant Food edit
- sung by
- Play: "A Fairy Story"
Stop It, I Like It edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "Angus Prune, Footballer"
Take It Off edit
(dieting)
- sung by
- Play: "Tim Brown's Schooldays"
Taking My Oyster For Walkies edit
- Introduction by David Hatch
- sung by Bill Oddie (and Gang)
- Play: "Dentisti"
Telephone Directory edit
- sung by
- Play: "Voyages of Ulysses"
The Terrapin Song edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "Laurence of the Antarctic – On Ice"
Trio Los Banditos edit
- sung by Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden
- Chief Bandito (on guitar) – Graeme Garden
- Jose (on bongo drums) – Tim Brooke-Taylor
- Manuel (on maracas) – Bill Oddie
- Play: "Incompetence"
Waiter, there's a Walrus in My Soup edit
- Introduction by David Hatch
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "Camelot"
Waiting for the London Bus (spiritual) edit
- sung by Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and David Hatch
- Play: "England Our England (Learning to Fly)"
We're Going to a Football Match edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "Teddy and Rupert Bear"
What a Wonderful World edit
- sung by Bill Oddie (a la Louis Armstrong)
(including tonsillectomy)
- Concerned friends – Tim Brooke-Taylor and David Hatch
- Doctor – John Cleese
- Nurse – Jo Kendall
- Play: "Macbeth"
When You Wish Upon a Star edit
- sung by Bill Oddie and Jo Kendall
- Play: "Star Trek"
When You Wish Upon a Tzar edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "Dr. Zhivago and His Wonderful Lamp"
Where Is My Smile edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 3
Why Can't the Animals edit
- sung by
- Play: "The Inimitable Grimbling"
With a Girl Like You: Wild Things edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- comment by David Hatch
- Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 6
Working on the Railroad edit
- sung by Bill Oddie
- Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 7
Yodelling Goatherd edit
- sung by Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and the Cast
- Play: "The Curse of the Flying Wombat" – part 12
External links edit
Index to programmes: http://www.britishcomedy.org.uk/comedy/isirta.html