[78-L] The Goons

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Fri May 10 09:40:54 PDT 2013


Sorry, there were 2 more sides for Decca in the late 70s. They're on the Decca 
CD of course. In stereo!!

Ying tong iddle i po.

dl

On 5/10/2013 12:39 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> Egad..they made 8 sides for Decca, a couple for HMV as a group (not issued till
> decades later) and enough to fill an lp as soloists, Parlophone and then BBC
> Records issued many airchecks, and in recent years the Beeb itself has put out
> dozens of restored and complete programs in 2-CD sets (usually 5 sets at a
> time). Decca 984 162-7 contains all the Decca sides plus a bunch of the EMIs
> and isn't hard to find.
>
> Bluebottle Blues/I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas was also issued by London
> in the US and Canada (possibly the only one to be issued here at the time).
>
> dl
>
> On 5/10/2013 12:32 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>> Hmmm. I have noted the only two records by The Goons that show up
>> regularly on eBay are Co F 10756 "I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas"
>> b/w "The Bluebottle Blues" and Co F 10780 "The Ying Tong Song" b/w
>> "Bloodnok's Rock 'N Roll Call", both of which I have. Did they make any
>> others? How about an album? Airchecks??
>> Malcolm
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