Rufus Wainwright
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Oct 26, 2026
Jon RichardsonHOST
Please help me out of a hole by playing her a song and saying, Sarah and Alfie, I love you both very much, from Martin in Bradford.
Jon RichardsonHOST
You can have the next track, which is a session track from Rufus Wainwright.
Jon RichardsonHOST
A good deed for Martin Lancaster.
Jon RichardsonHOST
Yesterday, my wife and I...
Jon RichardsonHOST
So we'll do some more goodies.
Jon RichardsonHOST
We'll do some more of these poems.
Jon RichardsonHOST
But this, as mentioned, is a session track after the short trail by Rufus Wainwright was recorded in 2005 for Gideon.
Jon RichardsonHOST
And it will be the art
Jon RichardsonHOST
I won £3 million in the lottery on New Year's Day and bought a house in Bristol.
Jon RichardsonHOST
I have now left school and I'm touring with Rufus Wainwright.
Jon RichardsonHOST
I've had quite a good week.
Jon RichardsonHOST
um after a showing of the charlie chaplin shorts i heard for the first time in my life the use of the word flibberty gibbet in conversation heady days from martin in belfast and i'm ending on this one we'll get uh we'll get danny buckler in the studio um this is uh exactly what we're looking for in terms of good news stories from your week zoe uh 34 and baby in s 15 months zoe texting to say hello john My good news is that I have just managed to teach my baby to punch the air.
Andrew FordHOST
He's also a famous father.
Andrew FordHOST
His children include Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright.
Andrew FordHOST
And he has often written songs about them, sometimes controversially.
Andrew FordHOST
One of his most famous songs is Rufus is a Titman, which he wrote when Rufus was a little baby breastfeeding.
Andrew FordHOST
Loudon refers to his career as a tapestry.
Andrew FordHOST
Some of his songs are funny, some of them are really quite sad, and he's also been a TV actor on shows including MASH.
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Andrew FordHOST
It's interesting that you mention your life about you getting married and divorced and so on because it's always been grist of the mill for you, hasn't it?
Loudon Wainwright IIIGUEST
Yeah, I make no bones about the fact that a lot of my stuff is very autobiographical and based on real people, some of whom are named in the songs.
BrandoHOST
That's a good show to be dragged to.
Courtney LandrumHOST
I know, but he had to sit through because I wanted to see Ben Folds and I wanted to see Rufus Wainwright.
Courtney LandrumHOST
Oh, yeah.
Courtney LandrumHOST
And Guster.
Gianna VolpeHOST
Fun fact, if your name is Gianna, your name means God's grace.
Gianna VolpeHOST
Our second local featured artist, Rufus Wainwright.
speaker_5UNKNOWN
One day you will come to Montauk.
Gianna VolpeHOST
Queen leading you into the NPR News break
Jon RichardsonHOST
And off the back of this upbeat chat that we're having, this is Get Happy.
Jon RichardsonHOST
Get Happy by Rufus Wainwright.
Jon RichardsonHOST
Now that was to go in with the sort of Ulver bit.
Jon RichardsonHOST
General consensus in the studio is that you don't like that, do you, Adam? Shocking.
Jon RichardsonHOST
And who cares if it's campers' tits, eh? Oh, show hands.
Jon RichardsonHOST
Nice.
Jon RichardsonHOST
Do you like Rufus Wainwright in general?
Will SmithGUEST
I should do.
Dan OrlandoGUEST
Some moments of which were really exposed, which were just so neat.
Dan OrlandoGUEST
I had these memories of he and I doing And So It Goes with Mary Chapin Carpenter and Lullaby with Rufus Wainwright and just on and on and on.
Dan OrlandoGUEST
It was really neat.
Dan OrlandoGUEST
Probably about a week and a half before the dress rehearsal show, He said something to the effect of not every artist is going to be able to do the warm up show at City Winery.
SarahHOST
The longest versions you can find, so they're gonna have to sit through them going, "Oh my God.
SarahHOST
I can't believe she's dead and she's still making me listen to this Rufus Wainwright seven-hour long mega mix of something or other." That idea just entertains me
SueHOST
meAnd having-
SarahHOST
Endlessly.
Allison GillHOST
And she's doing an outstanding job.
Allison GillHOST
But going back to this bizarre music thing, the Sky Dicks, the thing that happened on Monday night, Rufus Wainwright actually has already issued a cease and desist to the Trump campaign for playing his version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, which...
Allison GillHOST
I imagine he thinks is about God, but it's not.
Allison GillHOST
It's about fucking and peace and truth.
Allison GillHOST
And he actually tweeted, he said, the song Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen has become an anthem dedicated to peace, love and acceptance of the truth.
Allison GillHOST
And I've been supremely honored over the years to be connected with this ode to tolerance.
Allison GillHOST
This is Rufus Wainwright, by the way.
Allison GillHOST
Nice.
Sam GeorgeHOST
So we're going to move on into my long pitch today, which I believe is a fascinating one because on paper it looks almost too obvious.
Sam GeorgeHOST
We are looking at Rufus Wainwright's Alleluia, a beautiful stripped-back version of one of the most covered songs in modern music history attached to one of the most beloved animated films ever made.
Sam GeorgeHOST
And that film, of course, is...
Sam GeorgeHOST
Shrek.
Josh CarpenterUNKNOWN
I'm making waffles.
Sam GeorgeHOST
Now, important distinction.
Sam GeorgeHOST
The version actually used in the film is John Cale's version, but the version on the official Shrek soundtrack album, the one a huge number of people grew up with, bought, replayed and associated with that film, is Rufus Wainwright's.
Sam GeorgeHOST
And for this week's brief, that matters, I believe, because this is exactly the kind of moment we are talking about.
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