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This title features four more classic episodes starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan. It features more surreal clowning from one of the greatest comedy teams on radio. In these episodes, there's a monster on Mount Snowdon and Neddie Seagoon tries to capture the monster for a reward, a mustard and cress shortage causes havoc to British Railways, a statue of King James II is to be removed from Trafalgar Square, and Neddie plunders a sunken Spanish galleon. It contains "The Thing on the Mountain" - Series 8, Episode 15 (6 January 1958), "The Collapse of the British Railway Sandwich System" (Transcription Service version) - (Recorded: 12 January 1958), "The Great Statue Debate" - Series 8, Episode 26 (24 March 1958) & "The Silver Doubloons" - Series 10, Episode 5 (21 January 1960).
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I remember listening to the Goon Show on the radio with my parents with great affection. I got this so that I could listen to it with my children, in the hope that they would love it too. Unfortunately they did not feel the same way about it, and after all this time, neither did I. I think the main difficulty with this recording is that the sound quality seems rather poor and you have to turn it up so loudly to make out what the Goons are saying to each other it is more of a chore than a pleasure. Bits of it were funny. Bits of it had aged very badly and bits of it were totally indecipherable, even when the sound was turned right up. I am sure, if you are a long time fan of the Goons it will be great to have this as a part of an ongoing collection, but as an introduction to their material it really didn't work in our house to stir up fervour to listen to any more of it.
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This CD contains 4 very funny episodes. I you've ever listened to the Goons you are in for a real treat. If you have not come across them before think of a anarchic preqel to Monty Pythons sketches and you won't be far wrong.
Great laughs from start to finish!
Great laughs from start to finish!
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Another manic collection of Goon humour. Good value, with four episodes. The live recording means that references are sometimse a little lost - it is not always clear what has prompted the audience's laughter.
Theses could be written - no doubt have been - about the place of the Goons in the history of British entertainment. They were a very significant post-war development. Britan's population - especially the men who formed its wartime armed forces - had given heriocally during the war years. But post-war Britain was not a shining and sparkling place. Rationing was still in place, housing was scarce, and there was perhaps little overall regard from Authority for the heroism that had been shown. The Goons had been in the forces, and their humour - the product, really, of Spike Milligan as writer, but realised by all of them - was anti-authoritarian, in an age that was still rather authoritarian. They struck a nerve, and audiences appreciated the whole thing.
References to the Rent Act and one or two other things of the time, mark the social context of the period.
To me, this anarchic humour still works, unlike some other comedy writing from that time. It's interesting, perhaps, that I was playing one of the episodes in the car while giving a lift to a young french couple I know, and the humour immediately caught their attention and intrigued them.
It must be said, too, that Milligan's writing kept the Sound Effects department busy in a way that probably no-one else did at the time!
Theses could be written - no doubt have been - about the place of the Goons in the history of British entertainment. They were a very significant post-war development. Britan's population - especially the men who formed its wartime armed forces - had given heriocally during the war years. But post-war Britain was not a shining and sparkling place. Rationing was still in place, housing was scarce, and there was perhaps little overall regard from Authority for the heroism that had been shown. The Goons had been in the forces, and their humour - the product, really, of Spike Milligan as writer, but realised by all of them - was anti-authoritarian, in an age that was still rather authoritarian. They struck a nerve, and audiences appreciated the whole thing.
References to the Rent Act and one or two other things of the time, mark the social context of the period.
To me, this anarchic humour still works, unlike some other comedy writing from that time. It's interesting, perhaps, that I was playing one of the episodes in the car while giving a lift to a young french couple I know, and the humour immediately caught their attention and intrigued them.
It must be said, too, that Milligan's writing kept the Sound Effects department busy in a way that probably no-one else did at the time!
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I laughed a lot, even at the sound effects. I made the mistake of listening to it in the car cd player, so i was driving around in tears. Read more
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