[78-L] goon show Q. for British listers

[David Lennick]

One 78 by The Goons actually did get issued in Canada, of the 4 they made for 
English Decca..London L1684 (Bluebottle Blues/I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas).

dl

Stephen Davies wrote:
> How did the Goon canon get named?  Spike would often rearrange the name for
> each announcement during the program, sometimes going off in a different
> direction.  It's too bad that writing that show stressed him out to the
> max.
> Repetition can make comedy writing easier, so he also wrote:
> Have a coolie.
> Have a noodle.
> &
> Have a gorilla.
> No, here, try one of my monkeys.  They're milder.
> 
> Some of his catchphrases made it to 78rpm, but I've only got them on 45rpm.
> Milligan wrote some very funny books, and published a lot of
> inconsequential junk.  However, I remember reading a collection of his
> letters in the 1970's in which he writes to a shampoo company complaining
> about the excess packaging used to present their product on the shelf.  (Do
> you remember when every shampoo bottle stood in it's own display box on the
> shelf?)  That very early green concept impressed me a great deal.
> 
> - Stephen D
> Calgary
>