[78-L] The Goons

[David Lennick]

What happened to the great prices the BBC had on these a few years ago? I got 
someone to order them for himself and for me, up through volume 20, whenever 
they had a half price sale.

dl

On 5/27/2013 10:07 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of Michael Biel
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 2:04 PM
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] The Goons
>
>
> 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
>> To: 78-L Mail List
>> 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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