[78-L] A "Goons" 78...?!

[David Lennick]

The EMI box set doesn't include Bridge On The River Wye. Too bad..on the other 
hand, it seems complete on the singles, LPs, a couple of unissued tracks and 
the United Artists lp which wasn't that good (the Formby Championships is the 
only track worth bothering with on that disc). And as noted, the first Angel LP 
has stereo versions of tracks which are mono on the CDs.

Is the Decca CD mono (except for the 1978 tracks), I hope? The LP version was 
horrible fake stereo.

dl

Thomas Stern wrote:
> Don't know how complete these CD's are, but I think the have the early
> recordings:
> 
> Decca(UK) Unchained Melodies: The Complete Singles Recordings 1955-1978
> EMI(UK)   A Celebration of Sellers [Box set]
> 
> Best wishes,  Thomas.
> 
> 
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> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of Royal Pemberton
> Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 11:40 AM
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] A "Goons" 78...?!
> 
> 
> Funny thing (NPI), Capitol's release of THE BEST OF SELLERS on LP was not on
> Capitol but on Angel, and my copy (stereo) has the Parlophone matrix numbers
> for each side (YEX.17 and YEX.18)!  (Perhaps 'I'm so ashamed' was on a 78
> someplace....)
> 
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 10:39 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
> 
>> agp wrote:
>>> At 03:36 03/10/2009, DL wrote:
>>>> Interesting, in that THE GOONS as such were recording for Decca in
>>>> 1956-57 but
>>>> the various members were recording for other labels. I've had these two
>> sides
>>>> on lp (Dark Side Of The Goon) for years but never seen the original
>>>> labels and
>>>> didn't know about the "Goons Disc" designation.
>>> I don't know exactly how or why the Goons migrated from Decca to
>>> Parlophone (and then eventually to BBC Records for programme
>>> compilations), but one can only imagine that the solo efforts of
>>> Peter Sellers and his relationship with George Martin had a lot to do
>>> with it. Perhaps this would be one of the grey-area releases where
>>> negociations where underway to move to the EMI family, and they
>>> couldn't credit the record the 'The Goons' as such. Legally though
>>> the designation GOON DISC (note that GOON is singular) could be used
>>> to sway the audience in as much as only one Goon was credited even
>>> though all were present and uncredited. I could also be speaking
> rubbish!
>>> The Goons last charted in the UK singles chart in September 1956 with
>>> Bloodnock's Rock n Roll Call b/w The Ying Tong Song on Decca F.10780
>>> and made it number 3. Actually, I fib a little there as a 45 rpm
>>> reissue in 1973  charted at #9 in July (Decca F.13414) with The Ying
>>> Tong Song on the top side.
>>>
>>> I put the count at 4 discs (singles) on Decca and 1 on Parlophone.
>>>
>>> T
>>>
>> There's also a much later Decca 45 in 1979, containing Rhymes and The
>> Raspberry
>> Song. Spike Milligan made a few more sides for Parlophone under his own
>> name,
>> Harry Secombe recorded separately for HMV and Philips, and Peter Sellers
>> began
>> recording with George Martin in 1958.
>>
>> dl
>>
>>