[78-L] The Goons

[Michael Biel]

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> 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

That was a deal one of the newspapers put together as a memorial to
Spike.  First ten and then the second ten. If you look on Amazon U.K.
there are some great prices, but shipping outside U.K. eats up the
savings.  I did some calculations on a volume by volume basis and
ordered some to be shipped to the U.S. when cheaper and some to a friend
in London when cheaper, and I picked them up last month.  Expensive NEW
stuff directly from Amazon can be cheaper to the U.S. because the VAT is
subtracted!!!  My problem now is that I can't get French Amazon to ship
to the U.S. for some reason.  I have two things I want from them.  I
used to get things from them.

As for the original question about the compedia boxes, the woeful HMV
Oxford Street had one of them at full list it seems.  They are 7 discs,
I think, so they won't be cheep except by luck -- and then some of the
U.K. dealer don't ship internationally.  Since I have all 30 of the
original sets plus the extra set from Series Four, I feel pretty foul at
the new boxes. Loyalty be damned.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  

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-----
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> [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
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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
>> 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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