[78-L] American Goon show exposure

[David Lennick]

The Goons were sent out on 16-inch beginning around 1956..no twelve-inchers 
till quite a bit later. The "Vintage Goons" series of 1958 was on ten-inchers! 
AFRS also picked them up..don't know for how long, but I have a half program on 
AFRS with a Hank Snow program on the reverse....!

dl

Dnjchi at aol.com wrote:
>  
> In a message dated 2/5/2009 10:59:27 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> SDavies at mtroyal.ca writes:
> 
> The  Goons aired on NBC in the mid to late 1950's.  I'd love to 
> know what  timeslot they had.  Americans could have listened cross-border 
> to CBC  as well.
> The reverse case was true to, in that  BBC carried several American 
> shows, (or was it just via shortwave?).   The Goons make fun of Bob Hope 
> and Steve Allen in one episode.
> And the CBC carried Jack Benny on its Sunday night  schedule for 
> years.  And also Vic & Sade and others.
> Anyway, depending on the American ratings for the Goons,  there 
> could have been a market for their singles.
> 
> - Stephen  D
> 
> 
> 
> Our college radio station in the early '50s received 12 inch transcriptions  
> of the Goon Show from the BBC.  I, of corse, put them on 7" reels...
>  
> Later that decade WNYC in New York and I beleve WKCR-FM as well.  I  taped 
> many off the air.
>  
> Don Chichester