The good old ‘Wireless’ days!
 

After months of deliberating, should I, shouldn’t I, I finally bit the bullet and ordered the whole collection of the Goon Show in 23 volumes of 2 CD’s per box with 2 programmes per CD from Amazon via http://uk.ask.com/redir?qsrc=2004&q=goon+show+cd&u=http%3a%2f%2fwww. thegoonshow.co.uk%2frecordings%2fgoons_cd.html It cost me £300 but what the heck, I like bread and dripping.

If you recall they were broadcast once a week on the Light Programme on the ‘Wireless’ and had the nation in stitches for half an hour each week.:D

Nest search – Hancock’s Half Hour - The Navy Lark and Round The Horn.

I don’t suppose that ITMA has been put onto CD’s.

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All those programmes are repeated on BBC Radio 7, which you can listen to on line from here:-

Radio 7

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'Im walking backwards for Christmas' ha ha .. looney, eh? What did Spike mean by that one ???

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ying tong, ying tong, ying tong ,ying tong, ying tong yiggle i poo

oh what lyrics...

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Oh what scripts..........

6th March, 1956

Greenslade: This is the BBC. Enter a short idiot.
Secombe: Good evening, folks. I commence by walking backward for Christmas.
Greenslade: Why?
Secombe: It's all the rage! [laughter] Next, an excerpt from East Lynn: "Dead, dead, and never calls me mother".
Eccles: But you were his father.
Secombe: Shut up famous Eccles
Eccles: Shut Up
Secombe: Shut up
Eccles: Shut Up
Secombe: Shut up
Eccles: Shut Up
Secombe: Shut up
Eccles: Shut Up
Greenslade: Mr. Secombe, Mr. Secombe,
Eccles: Mr. Secombe.
Greenslade: Please remove that false bald woman's wig.
Secombe: And leave myself naked in the mating season? Ha-ha! Never!
Greenslade: Very well. I sentence you to the highly esteemed Goon Show
Fx: sick trumpet blare
Secombe: They can go home today--Presenting Wallace Greenslade and his daring announcement entitled:
Greenslade: Les Salaires de Peur
Secombe: Meaning: "The Wages of Fear Are in England."
Sellers: The fear of wages! Ohhhh!
Fx: musical crescendo

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I wonder if any recognises any similarity with some of our more colourful threads and their posters……:p :p :)