ISIRTA songs

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{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2014}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2014}}
{{Unreferenced|date=May 2014}}
{{Infobox radio show
| show_name = I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again Songs, in alphabetical order
| starring = [[Tim Brooke-Taylor]] [[John Cleese]] [[Graeme Garden]] [[David Hatch]] [[Jo Kendall]] [[Bill Oddie]]
}}

'''''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]]''.

The songs were written by Bill Oddie unless specified otherwise.

==Songs==
===Aardvark, Ferret, Vulture===
* sung by John Cleese (main) cast (Chorus)
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, D-I|A Fairy Tale]]"

===Baby Go To Sleep===
(Lullaby)
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[The Curse of the Flying Wombat]]" – part 9

===Baby Samba===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play:

===Blimpht===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Plays: "[[ISIRTA plays, R-Z|Robin Hood]]" / "[[The Curse of the Flying Wombat]]" (record)

===Bounce===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, A-C|Robinson Prunestone]]"

===Cactus In My Y-Fronts===
* sung by Bill Oddie (with Graeme Garden as the "Yodelling Coyote")
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, J-Q|Jack the Ripper]]"

===Cricket Tranquiliser===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: [[ISIRTA plays, J-Q|"The Lone Stranger"]]

===Denmark Street===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: Professor Prune & The Electric Time Trousers -part 13

===Favourite Melody (Beethoven's Fifth)===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Plays: "[[The Curse of the Flying Wombat]]" – part 4 / "[[ISIRTA plays, R-Z|William the Conqueror]]"

===The Ferret Song===
* 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===
* 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===
(Liverpudlian Love Song)
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, J-Q|Liverpool the City]]"

===Hey There, You With the Tzar in Your Pies===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, D-I|Dr. Zhivago and His Wonderful Lamp]]"

===Hovercraft Ride===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: Professor Prune & The Electric Time Trousers - part 2

===I Love a Show (Footlights)===
* 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===
(Yippee)
* sung by Jean Hart and Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, R-Z|RAF Briefing]]"

===Identikit Gal===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Plays: "[[ISIRTA plays, R-Z|Robin Hood]]" / "[[The Curse of the Flying Wombat]]" (special)

===I'm Gonna Live===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, A-C|All Hands on Venus]]"

===I'm Lenin on a Lamp-post at the Corner of the Street===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, D-I|Dr. Zhivago and His Wonderful Lamp]]"

===In the Moonlight===
(Portuguese Dictionary Song)
* sung by Bill Oddie
* English translations by John Cleese
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, D-I|The Ghost of Objectionable Manor]]"

===In the Old Bazaar in Cairo===
* sung by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie
Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, R-Z|Search for the Nile]]"

===Ironing My Goldfish===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: Tales Of The Circus

===It's Spring===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, A-C|Champion the Wonder Mouse]]"

===I've Got the Hiccups===
* sung by
* Play: "[[The Curse of the Flying Wombat]]" – part 10

===Joke Song===
* sung by Bill Oddie (with the other joke by John Cleese)
* Play: [[ISIRTA plays, J-Q|"Othello"]]

===Julie Andrews===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, J-Q|Operation 'Chocolate']]"

===Just One of Those Things===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, A-C|Ali Baba and the 38 Thieves]]"

===Keep Fit Class===
* sung by
* Plays: [[ISIRTA plays, D-I|History – 10,000 B.C.]] / [[ISIRTA plays, J-Q|Liverpool the City]]

===Knitting===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, A-C|Catermole Sharp and Dr. Gaskit" (Sherlock Holmes)]]

===Let There Be===
* sung by
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, D-I|Dr. Why and the Thing]]"

===Liverpool Girl===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, J-Q|Liverpool the City]]"

===The Masochism Song===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, J-Q|Moll Flanders]]"

===Magical Mystery Four: I Am the Milkman===
(Beatles send-up)
* sung by
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, A-C|Bunny and Claude]]"

===Man's Best Friend – a Dog===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, A-C|Butler Dunnit]]"

===Man's Best Friend – a Duck===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[The Curse of the Flying Wombat]]" – part 11

===Meet Me in the Churchyard, Nellie===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, R-Z|The Supernatural]]"

===My Baby's Become a Folk Singer===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, R-Z|Robin Hood]]"

===My Mom Has Lost My Dad===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[The Curse of the Flying Wombat]]" – part 2

===Nuclear Submarine===
* sung by Bill Oddie, David Hatch, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, D-I|Dr. Why and the Thing]]"

===On Ilkla' Moor Baht 'At===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: Professor Prune & The Electric Time Trousers - part 3

===Police Constable Herbert Platt, Somerset Constabulary – Greatest Lawman of Them All===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* P. C. Herbert Platt: John Cleese
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, J-Q|Julius Caesar]]"

===Protect My Honey On Her Journey: Send Her by Post===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, D-I|England Our England (Learning to Fly)]]"

===Recorded 'Live in Cabaret===
(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)===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, R-Z|The Vikings]]"

===Repeat After Me===
* sung by
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, R-Z|William Tell]]"

===Rhubarb Tart===
* sung by Bill Oddie (and Gang)
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, A-C|The Supernatural]]"

===Rock With A Policeman===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play:

===She's Gone===
* sung by Bill Oddie (and Gang) – with comment by Jean Hart)
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, R-Z|RAF Briefing]]"

===The Ship Put to Sea in the Month of May===
(Madrigal arrangement for four voices and Tim Brooke-Taylor)
* Songwriters: [[Eric Idle]] and [[John Cameron (musician)|John Cameron]]
Introduction by David Hatch
* sung by David Hatch, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, Jo Kendall and Tim Brooke-Taylor
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, J-Q|Julius Caesar]]"

===Sick Man Blues===
* sung by Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, R-Z|Star Trek]]"

===Something About Restaurant Food===
* sung by
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, D-I|A Fairy Story]]"

===Stop It, I Like It===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, A-C|Angus Prune, Footballer]]"

===Take It Off===
(dieting)
* sung by
* Play: [[ISIRTA plays, R-Z|"Tim Brown's Schooldays"]]

===Taking My Oyster For Walkies===
* Introduction by David Hatch
* sung by Bill Oddie (and Gang)
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, D-I|Dentisti]]"

===Telephone Directory===
* sung by
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, R-Z|Voyages of Ulysses]]"

===The Terrapin Song===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, J-Q|Laurence of the Antarctic – On Ice]]"

===Trio Los Banditos===
* 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: "[[ISIRTA plays, D-I|Incompetence]]"

===Waiter, there's a Walrus in My Soup===
* Introduction by David Hatch
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, A-C|Camelot]]"

===Waiting for the London Bus (spiritual)===
* sung by Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and David Hatch
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, D-I|England Our England (Learning to Fly)]]"

===We're Going to a Football Match===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, A-C|Teddy and Rupert Bear]]"

===What a Wonderful World===
* 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: [[ISIRTA plays, J-Q|"Macbeth"]]

===When You Wish Upon a Star===
* sung by Bill Oddie and Jo Kendall
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, R-Z|Star Trek]]"

===When You Wish Upon a Tzar===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, D-I|Dr. Zhivago and His Wonderful Lamp]]"

===Where Is My Smile===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[The Curse of the Flying Wombat]]" – part 3

===Why Can't the Animals===
* sung by
* Play: "[[ISIRTA plays, D-I|The Inimitable Grimbling]]"

===With a Girl Like You: Wild Things===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* comment by David Hatch
* Play: "[[The Curse of the Flying Wombat]]" – part 6

===Working on the Railroad===
* sung by Bill Oddie
* Play: "[[The Curse of the Flying Wombat]]" – part 7

===Yodelling Goatherd===
* sung by Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and the Cast
* Play: "[[The Curse of the Flying Wombat]]" – part 12

==External links==
Index to programmes: http://www.britishcomedy.org.uk/comedy/isirta.html
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