[78-L] The Goons

[Thomas Stern]

Hello Michael,
  Are there any sources for the GOON Compendia at significantly reduced price?  Amazon has 3 of the 8
sets at 30 pounds or less, the others are in the 40's.
  HMV seems to no longer be doing mail order.  The other stores I know of do not seem to carry them (Harold Moores has 1, MDT &
SENDIT nothing).....
  THANKS!
Best wishes, Thomas.

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[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of Michael Biel
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I used my trip to London a few weeks ago to catch up on my Goon CDs with
Amazon free shipping.  I now have all 30 volumes with 4 programs each.
All are sourced off of BBC originals, but there is one other set outside
the numbered series with four 1954 programs which are from home
recordists.  I understand there are about another half dozen of these
still to come, and maybe those are the ones Julian has heard on BBC 4
Extra. (BBC is now repackaging the Goons into expensive chronological
box sets, and these have some outtakes on a few that are not on the
numbered set versions, and they have expanded booklets.  VERY UNFAIR to
us loyalists. It would be nice to give us a compilation of the extras
but they will never do it.)  There is also The Last Goon Show Of All, in
CD on stereo and on a PAL VHS tape (not yet on DVD???).  I did get that
Decca CD of their singles Unchained Melodies that dl mentioned, and
although I have had the American pressing of How To Win An Election
which Julian mentioned, I found the British pressing for 50p at Record
Exchange on Notting Hill Gate.  There are about a dozen shows which EMI
claim rights to because George Martin had butchered them on Parlophone
LPs.  Six came out on two CDs in 2001 which I had passed up but now got
since it seems that EMI is not going to give them back to the Beeb to
reissue correctly.  There also is a Michael Parkinson interview on LP
that isn't on CD I believe.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com






-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [78-L] The Goons
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, May 10, 2013 1:18 pm
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

I have 78 issues of all but "Ying Tong"/"Bloodnok's Rock and Roll Call",
as far
as I know (haven't gone down the hall to confirm). English Decca, plus
Canadian
London on "Blues"/"Backwards".

dl

On 5/10/2013 1:13 PM, Tim Huskisson wrote:
> Malcolm is quite correct about F 10756 and F 10780 being the only two 78rpm
> issues by 'The Goons' that seem to turn up. I've been collecting 40 years,
> and I don't remember ever seeing copies of Decca F-10885 "Eeh Ah! Oh! Ooh!"
> / "I Love You" or Decca F-10945 "A Russian Love Song" / "Whistle Your Cares
> Away" ; both of which were evidently issued in 78rpm format.
>
> Tim Huskisson.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Julian Vein
> Sent: 10 May 2013 17:51
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] The Goons
>
> On 10/05/13 17:48, RUSSELL BARNES wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Years later a good number of the original broadcasts were repeated via BBC
> Radio 4. People with tape recorders captured them - I guess I must have
> some tucked away.
>>
>> Russ Barnes
>> Dorset, UK
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
> BBC Radio 4 Extra is repeating some of them. Some sound as if they were
> taken off the air by amateur recordists. A few years ago the BBC put out a
> call to listeners for copies of programmes that they no longer had on file.
>
> Julian Vein
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