Ludo (Ivor Cutler album) Ludo (Ivor Cutler album) Ludo is a 1967 album by Ivor Cutler, credited to the 'Ivor Cutler Trio' comprising Cutler with bassist Gill Lyons and percussionist Trevor Tompkins. The album was produced by George Martin, famous for his work with the Beatles, in a collaboration that came about after Cutler had appeared in the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" film earlier that year. The album's title and cover allude to the board game of the same name. The music takes inspiration from trad jazz and boogie-woogie and draws comparisons to "The Goon Show". Four of the album's tracks are spoken stories,
Isac Ludo Isac Ludo Isac Ludo (1894–1973) was a Romanian writer and political figure. Born into a Jewish-Romanian family, Ludo was active in left-wing literary circles prior to World War II. After the Communist take-over in 1947, he rose to important positions in the régime's censorship office. Prior to 1965, he published a series of novels — "Domnul general guvernează" ("The General Rules"), "Starea de asediu" ("State of Siege"), "Regele Palaelibus" ("King Palaelibus"), "Salvatorul" ("The Saver"), "Ultimul batalion" ("The Last Battalion") — which constituted a satirical panorama of political life in Greater Romania. Ludo also published translations into Romanian from the Yiddish