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

[David Lennick]

I got all the issued LPs on EMI and BBC..I got CDs up to volume 20..I got 
dozens of tapes, some of them transferred direct from 16" discs (by mineself) 
and some from the "Pick Of The Goons" series the CBC ran in the sixties and 
archived for themselves..I got FOROG..and yet they want to tempt me with 
unissued material and outtakes and postcards.

Aaaaargh!

dl

Thomas Stern wrote:
> In addition to the 26 2-cd Audiobooks, there is a COMPENDIUM series collating
> the shows by broadcast date - at Amazon UK there are 3 available,
> 14 shows each.  They indicate there are 'extras' and upgraded sound
> and some more complete programmes than previously issued.
>   Anyone have an opinion about these boxes - how much material NOT issued in the 26 volumes, likelihood they will continue the series to include all the show, etc.?
>   Thanks, Thomas.
> 
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> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of Alan Bunting
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> 
> --- On Sun, 26/7/09, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> 
>> The problem for everybody else is that some jackass at Amazon has
>> classified all of the BBC CDs as AudioBOOKS, which quadruples the
>> postage which would otherwise be 99p each plus a package charge.  
>  
> For once I am able to tell Professor Biel that he's wrong!  It wasn't a jackass at Amazon but one at the BBC who decided that they are books. If you look at the CDs you will see that, instead of catalogue numbers, they have ISBN numbers which meant that, when they first appeared, several on-line retailers who sold both books and CDs listed them only in the books section, making them very hard to find.  Why the BBC did this, I have no idea. 
> 
> Re. the shipping - in the UK virtually anything from Amazon costing more than 5 pounds is eligible for free shipping and a quick look at Amazon.com tells me that all the Goon Show CDs I seem to be eligible for free shipping provided the total order comes to more than $25
>  
> I was the one who supplied Mike with the special offer CDs of Volumes 1 to 20 and, provided that there aren't too many other takers and it doesn't get out of hand, I'd be happy to do so again, payment via PayPal. But it seems a bit pointless when the cost of obtaining them in the US is going to be little more (in some cases less)after postage from the UK to the US (which is getting very expensive)is added and PayPal commission is factored in.
> 
>>> For those yet to start collecting Goon Shows on CD it's worth looking at the two boxed sets issued last year which (to my considerable annoyance)contain additional material not on the individual CDs.
> 
>> Please tell us what the extra material is.
>>
> I haven't bought these sets but here's Amazon UK's description of box one:
> 
> "This title features thirteen episodes of the groundbreaking show starring Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers. Immensely popular and hugely influential, legendary series "The Goon Show" changed the face of British comedy. Now, for the first time, this box set collection presents the episodes in chronological order of original broadcast date. This volume includes: "The Whistling Spy Enigma", "The Lost Gold Mine" (of Charlotte), "The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler" (of Bexhill-on-Sea), "The Phantom Head Shaver" (of Brighton), "The Affair of the Lone Banana", "The Canal", "Lurgi Strikes Britain!" (aka Lurgi Strikes Again), "The Mystery of the Marie Celeste" (solved), "The Last Tram" (from Clapham), "The Booted Gorilla" (found?), "The Spanish Suitcase", "Dishonoured or The Fall of Neddie Seagoon and Forog".Also featured are some rare archive bonus items including out-takes and the programme "Me and My Shadows: Peter Sellers". 
> 
> Two illustrated booklets tell the story of the show's development with reference to original archive paperwork, plus the history of the recordings themselves. Remastered using new material and the latest technology to give the best possible sound quality, these recordings are sure to appeal to all collectors of "The Goon Show". The majority of the episodes on this first volume have been previously released on cassette and CD but their sound here will be remastered using new source material and technology. A half hour archive bonus feature will also be featured (t.b.c.). (ISBN: 9781405687744)
> 
> 
> So far as I can tell, "Forog" is the only show which isn't already available on individual CDs and the bonus feature is an April 1954 edition of the Light Programme series Me and My Shadows – the subject being Peter Sellers. There are also out-takes from two of the shows contained in the package. 
> 
> Here's what's in Volume 2 accoring to Waterstones' WEB site:
> 
> This work contains twelve episodes of the groundbreaking series, plus one bonus unbroadcast show. Immensely popular and hugely influential, legendary series "The Goon Show" changed the face of British comedy. Now, for the first time, this box set collection presents the episodes in chronological order of original broadcast date. This second volume includes: "Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest", "Nineteen Eighty-Five", "The Case of the Missing Heir", "Under Two Floorboards", "The Missing Scroll", "Nineteen Eighty-Five" (remake), "The Sinking of Westminster Pier", "The Fireball of Milton Street", "The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street", "Yehti", "The White Box of Great Bardfield" and "The End". Also featured are some rare archive bonus items, including the unbroadcast and previously unreleased version of "The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler" (of "Bexhill-on-Sea"). Two illustrated booklets tell the story of the show's development with reference to original archive
>  paperwork, plus the history of the recordings themselves. In addition, this box set contains four limited edition postcards featuring characters from "The Goon Show" as Spike Milligan imagined them. Remastered using new material and the latest technology to give the best possible sound quality, these recordings are sure to appeal to all collectors of "The Goon Show".  (ISBN: 9781408410448)
> 
> 
> Alan Bunting
>