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In October 1972 the Goons reassembled to perform an hour-long show to mark the BBC's 50th anniversary. The show is included on these cassettes, together with the 1991 broadcast which celebrated the 40th anniversary of "The Goon Show", and interviews and other material.
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Little Jim,
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This review is from: The Last Goon Show of All (BBC Radio Collection) (Audio CD)
OK, so this is not the funniest of the Goon Shows, but it is an important event. It really was the last Goons Show, as sadly Peter Sellers died so young, and it celebrated the 50th annivesary of the BBC. It is amazing that something so anarchic as the Goons was used for this important national milestone. The main part of the CD, the typical Goon Show is, however, very funny even if the ending has more similarities to Spike Milligan's 1970's TV series than to the radio Goon Shows. It does, as it should, have all the main characters, all in fine voice. Some of the preliminaries are not so interesting, but some are great like Spike's version of "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". Once the show really starts it is great fun through to the end. This CD is the most complete version of the show available and it is coupled with "At Last it's the Go On Show" which is a fascinating documentary on the Goons. Highlights of this are the description of the birth of Bluebottle's voice and the wonderful exerpt - "What Time is It Eccles" which alone would be worth the price of the CD.
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For completists only,
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As part of the BBC's 50th anniversary celebrations, the Goons got together one last time in 1972. There were some nice moments - Neddie Seagoon standing in for HM Queen in a floral cretonne frock - but the whole was self-indulgent and shapeless, and the easy ensemble playing of the great Goon Shows couldn't be recaptured after so long a gap. At Last the Go On Show is a harmless documentary, but not something to be listened to again and again. This CD is for completists only. If you're new to the Goons, go for something from the fifties, like "I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas" or "Ned's Atomic Dustbin".
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Last Goon Show of All (BBC Radio Collection) (Audio CD)
Both audience and performers are straining here. The audience really WANTS to find this show funny, but often the laughter sounds sycophantic and forced. In 1972 it was 12 years since the last regular Goon Show; Secombe was still appearing on variety TV shows and Christian broadcasts; Sellers' career was in the doldrums and Milligan didn't really want do write or perform this at all. And it shows. The show itself is a mess, no structure - but then so did a lot of the later regular shows in the late 1950s. The frantic pace and enjoyment of those regular broadcasts is missing from this though: so is the world in which the original shows were broadcast. The social revolution between 1960 and 1972, plus the fact that Britain stopped even pretending to be a world power, robbed the Goons of the original context of their appeal. So we're left with crude jokes about trusses and knee-tremblers and inconsequential rubbish like "I have on good authority that my name is Clapham Common." And so called "daring" jokes at the Royal Family, some of whom happened to be in the audience. Go find the originals. At their best, they were some of the most brilliant comedy ever produced.
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