[Serious] Goon Show songs
JS Newby
cast (I'm not talkin' 'baht Conks or Ellinga, mate, jus' Milligna, Seagoon
an' Sellers and der characters dey played). der ones I can fink of are:
Der Curry & Rice Waltz - Bloodnok
De Indigestion Waltz - Bloodnok
I'm Walking Backwards for Xmas - Spriggs
I'm Going Aht Wiv A Mahntin - Min
I travel a road - Bloodnok
Sewers of der Strand - Moriarty (?)
Yew get de idea, mate. Any more I forgot?
Paul Winalski
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"Sideways through the Sewers of the Strand" was sung by Bluebottle.
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probably thinking of Milligan's version.
Any uvver songs, mate?
MartinS
Der Ying Tong Song? (iddle-I-po)
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David Bromage
> Has anyone compiled a list of all the songs sung on der Goon Show by der
> cast (I'm not talkin' 'baht Conks or Ellinga, mate, jus' Milligna, Seagoon
> an' Sellers and der characters dey played). der ones I can fink of are:
> Der Curry & Rice Waltz - Bloodnok
> De Indigestion Waltz - Bloodnok
The Darjeeling One-Step - Bloodnok
Any Old Iron - Bloodnok and Minnie
Good King Wenceslas - Eccles, Eccles, Eccles and Eccles
The Harry Lime Theme - Bluebottle
Hound Dog - Bluebottle
I Travel The Road - variously by Ned, Bloodnok, Giovanni Saponi
Cheers
David
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> JS Newby <jsn...@nospam.com> writted:
>
>> Has anyone compiled a list of all the songs sung on der Goon Show
>> by der cast (I'm not talkin' 'baht Conks or Ellinga, mate, jus'
>> Milligna, Seagoon an' Sellers and der characters dey played). der
>> ones I can fink of are:
>>
>> Der Curry & Rice Waltz - Bloodnok
>> De Indigestion Waltz - Bloodnok
>> I'm Walking Backwards for Xmas - Spriggs
>> I'm Going Aht Wiv A Mahntin - Min
>> I travel a road - Bloodnok
>> Sewers of der Strand - Moriarty (?)
>>
>> Yew get de idea, mate. Any more I forgot?
>
> i talk to the trees (dat's why they put me away) - various times by
> eccles
That was in "Paint Your Wagoon", sung by Clint Eastgoon
http://www.clinteastwood.net/realmediafiles/records/trees.ram
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Paul Winalski
wrote:
>Has anyone compiled a list of all the songs sung on der Goon Show by der
>cast (I'm not talkin' 'baht Conks or Ellinga, mate, jus' Milligna, Seagoon
>an' Sellers and der characters dey played).
Well, here's the ones I could find:
s1e1: All four (Bentine included) Goons sing a hybrid of "By the Old
Mill Stream" and "Nellie Dean"
s1e3: Peter sings a snatch from "The Song Is Ended"
s1e4: Peter and The Stargazers sing a parody of "Two Sleepy People"
s1e8: Michael Bentine sings a snatch of "Jezebel"
s1e11: Peter, Michael, and Harry sing "John Brown's Body"
s1e14: Spike, as Jock of Dick Barton fame, sings "I Don't Want To Set
the World on Fire"
s1e14: Michael sings "What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor"
s1e15: Eccles sings "Comin' thro' the Rye"
s1e15: Ellington (in character) sings "I Belong to Glasgow"
s1e15: Bloodnok, Ellington, and Abdul sing "There'll Always Be an
England"
s3e15: Dick Emery and Harry sing "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life"
s3e22: Bluebottle and Spike sing the awful parody "Whale Meat Again"
s3e25: Peter sings "My Spaniser Mada" (Spanish Armada, get it? Harf,
harf, harf...)
s4e15: Eccles sings "I Travel the Road"
s4e15: Harry, Peter, Spike sing "Here Comes Muffin, Muffin the Mule"
s4e18: Crun, Secombe, Eccles sing "Soldiers of the Queen"
s4e23: Webster Smogpule sings "Only a Rose" and "One Alone"
s4e24: Bloodnok sings "Chestnuts Roasting by an Open Fire"
s5e1: Webster Smogpule tries to sing "I Shine for You Alone"
s5e5: Cyril Cringinknutt (Peter) sings "Three Goons in a Fountain"
s5e6: Valentine Dyall sings "Come into the Garden, Maude"
s5e6: Eccles sings "Two Coins in the Fountain"
s5e7: Giovanni Saponi (Spike) sings "I Travel the Road"
s5e8: Henry Crun sings "What Do You Do with a Drunken Sailor?",
"Rule Britannia", and "Fifteen Men on Dead Man's Chest"
s5e10: Henry sings "A Cobbler Gay Am I"
s5e10: Bloodnok and Min sing "Any Old Iron" and "By The Old Mill
Stream"
s5e11: Min sings "Say Si Si"
s5e15, s5e20: Henry sings "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts"
s5e16: Seagoon sings "Speak to Me, Thora" and "In the Mood"
s5e17: Seagoon sings "There'll Always Be an England"
s5e17: Spriggs sings "I'm Only a Strolling Vagabond"
s5e18: Eccles sings "I'm Only a Strolling Vagabond"
s5e18: Seagoon sings "Boots"
s5e18: Grytpype sings "I'm Only a Strolling Vagabond"
s5e19: Spike sings "I'm Only a Strolling Vagabond"
s5e21: Grytpype and Moriarty sing "April in Paris"
s5e22: Seagoon sings "Land of Hope and Glory"
s5e23: Moriarty sings "April in Paris"
s5e23: Seagoon sings the "Loving Waltz"
s5e24: Grytpype and Moriarty sing "April in Paris"
s5e25: Moriarty sings "April in Paris"
s5e26: Seagoon sings the "Loving Waltz"
s5e26: Peter, Spike, Harry sing "Riding along on the Crest of a Wave"
s6e1: Bloodnok sings "Deutschland Uber Alles" and "There'll Always Be
an England"
s6e3: Moriarty sings "April in Paris"
s6e3: Eccles sings "Across a Crowded Room"
s6e4: Moriarty and Grytpype sing "April in Paris"
s6e4: Eccles sings "I Talk to the Trees"
s6e5: Bloodnok sings "The Man from Laramie"; so does Eccles
s6e6: Bloodnok sings "I'll Follow My Secret Heart"
s6e6: Eccles sings "I Talk to the Trees"
s6e7: Bluebottle sings "The Harry Lime Theme"
s6e7: Eccles sings "I Talk to the Trees"
s6e7: Grytpype sings "April in Paris", as do Eccles and Bluebottle
s6e7: Eccles sings "I'm Only a Strolling Vagabond"
s6e10: Eccles sings "In the Good Old Summertime"
s6e10: Grytpype and Moriarty sing "April in Paris"
s6e11: Eccles sings "Close the Door (They're Coming through the
Window)"
s6e12: Eccles sings "Twenty Tiny Fingers"
s6e13: Moriarty sings "The Engineer's Song"
s6e13: Eccles sings "The Man from Laramie"
s6e17: Seagoon, Eccles, and Bluebottle sing "We Three Kings of Orient
Are"
s6e20: Omnes sing "The Mounties' Song"
s6e21: Seagoon sings "I Travel the Road"
s6e21: Seagoon sings "They'll Be Wild about Hairy"
s6e23: Adolphus Spriggs sings "I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas"
and "On the Crest of a Wave"
s6e24: Seagoon and Willium sing "Twenty Tiny Fingers"
s6e24: Seagoon sings a parody of "Long Lonely Highway"
s6e24: Adolphus Spriggs sings "I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas"
s6e26: Moriarty sings "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly"
s6e26: Eccles sings "Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Skint"
s6e27: Spriggs sings "I'm Only a Strolling Vagabond"
s7e1: Eccles sings "Walk Foot and Mouth with Me"
s7e1: Eccles sings "By the Dustbins of Rome"
s7e1: Seagoon sings "Maybe It's Because I'm Peruvian"
s7e1: Baron Seagoon (Valentine Dyall) sings "E lucevan le stelle" from
"Tosca"
s7e4: Willium sings "Maybe It's Because I'm a Chinaman"
s7e4: Seagoon sings "Falling in Love with Love"
s7e4: Minnie sings "Forty Hairy Blackbirds Baked in a Pie"
s7e5: Valentine Dyall sings "Only a Rose"
s7e8: Eccles sings "A Life on the Ocean Wave"
s7e9: Seagoon sings "By the Dustbins of Rome"
s7eS1: Robin Hood (Seagoon), Eccles, Bluebottle sing "Robin Hood"
s7e10: Seagoon sings "The Loveliest Night of the Year"
s7e11: Bloodnok sings "On the Road to Mandalay"
s7e11: Minnie and Henry sing "Somedya I'll Find You", as do Minnie and
Bloodnok
s7e15: Seagoon and McChisholm sing "The Ying Tong Song"
s7e16: Bernard Miles, Spriggs, Sellers sing "Where Be Yon Blackbird
To?"
s7e17: Bloodnok sings "On the Road to Mandalay"
s7e18: Seagoon sings "The Moon is Mine Tonight"
s7e19: Minnie sings "The Green Door"
s7e19: Henry sings "In the Mood"
s7e20: Eccles sings "On Ilkley Moor Baht 'At"
s7e25: Eccles sings "I Like To Be Beside the Seaside"
s8e1: Bluebottle sings "Sponnee"
s8e3: Moriarty sings "You Gotta Face Disaster with a Smile"
s8e3: Minnie sings "I Got Onions on my Bunions through Walking
Through the Hotnouse with You"
s8e4: Eccles sings "It's Almost like Being In-sane"
s8e4: Bloodnok sings "The Curry and Rice Waltz"
s8e4: Bluebottle sings "Hound Dog"
s8e6: Seagoon sings "The BBC Home Service, Mother of the Free"
s8e6: Bloodnok sings "The Darjeeling One-step"
s8e7: Seagoons sings "There'll Always Be an England"
s8e7: Seagoon and Bluebottle sing "Rule Britannia"
s8e9: Bloodnok sings "The Indigestion Waltz"
s8e9: Minnie sings "Rock around the Clock"
s8e10: Wal sings "Sea Fever"
s8e12: Bloodnok sings "That Old Bombay Beebee of Mine"
s8e13: Seagoon sings "Rock Salmon and Peas"
s8e14: Bluebottle sings "Good King Wenceslas"
s8e14: Bluebottle sings "Last Train to San Fernando"
s8e15: Eccles sings "Old Man River"
s8e16: A chorus of Eccleses sings "Good King Wenceslas"
s8e17: Grytpype and Moriarty sing "Miss Anabelle Lee"
s8e17: Spike (as a Chinaman) sings "I Belong to Glasgow"
s8e17: Bloodnok sings "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo"
s8e18: Spriggs sings "The Belle of the Ball"
s8e19: Seagoon, Grytpype, and Moriarty sing "Yes We Have No Bananas"
s8e19: Minnie sings "I'm Going Out with a Mountain"
s8e20: Bluebottle sings "The Sewer Song"
s8e20: Eccles sings "A Life on the Ocean Wave"
s8e20: Eccles and Bluebottle sing "Land of Hope and East Finchley"
s8e22: Bluebottle sings "Rock around the Clock"
s8e23: Wal sings "My Old Dutch"
s8e24: Seagoon and the rest of the cast sing "The Tiddlywinks Anthem"
s8e25: Moriarty sings "I Lost My Heart in an English Dustbin"
sVe2: Webster Wretch sings "Only a Rose"
sVe8: Minnie sings "The British Railway Waltz"
sVe11: Bluebottle sings "Around the World in Eighty Days"
sVe12: Spriggs and Henry sing "There'll Always Be an England"
sVe12: Bluebottle sings "Rock around the Clock"
sVe13: Henry sings "Around the World in Eighty-three Days"
s9e1: Peter sings "I Like Claret, and to Hell with Burgundy"
s9e3: Bloodnok sings "It's a Long Way to Tipperary"
s9e3: Bluebottle and Eccles sing "Pop Goes the Weasel"
s9e4: Seagoon sings "We'll Keep a Welcome in the Dustbins"
s9e4: Seagoon, Moriarty, and Grytpype sing "Jam, Jam, Jam"
s9e5: Grytpype and Moriarty sing "O Sole Mio"
s9e6: Bloodnok sings "I Travel the Road"
s9e7: Minnie sings "Splish, Splash"
s9e7: Seagoon sings "On with the Motley"
s9e8: Seagoon sings "OBE, I Love Your Daughter"
s9e8: Greenslade sings "Danny Boy"
s9e9: Minnie and Henry sings "Goodbye, Dolly"
s9e11: Grytpype (Valentine Dyall) and Moriarty sing "Miserere"
s9e11: Eccles sings "Knees Up Mother Brown"
s9e12: Eccles sings "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"
s9e12: Wal, Max, and Ray sing "The Indian Love Call"
s9e12: Moriarty and Grytpype sing "Alopecia"
s9e14: Minnie and Henry sing "This Old Man"
s9e15: Seagoon sings "On the Road to Old Bombay, Where the Cross-eyed
Haggis Play"
s9e15: Moriarty sings "Sur le Pont d'Avignon"
s9e16: Bloodnok sings "I Don't Know Who You Are, Sir, or Where You
Come From, but You've Done Me a Power of Good"
s9e17: Bluebottle sings "Does the Christmas Pudding Lose Its Flavour
up the Chimney Overnight"
s9e17: The Cast and Orchestra sing "We'll Gather Lilacs"
s10e1: Peter sings "I've Got To Have Cars"
s10e1: Bluebottle sings "Good King Wenceslas", as does Bloodnok
s10e2: Moriarty sings "A Life on the Ocean Wave"
s10e2: Bluebottle sings "Fifteen Men on Dead Man's Chest"
s10e2: Bluebottle and Seagoon sing "Sherwood Forest Is Nine Miles
Long"
s10e3: Seagoon sings "We'll Keep a Welcome"
s10e3: Bloodnok sings "That Old Stringless Grandma of Mine"
s10e4: Bluebottle sings "Fifteen Men on Dead Man's Chest"
s10e6: Henry and Minnie sing "Serenade" from "The Student Prince"
LGS: Spike sings "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"
LGS: Harry sings "Falling In Love with Love"
LGS: Seagoon sings "If I Ruled the World"
That's the lot.
-Paul W.
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> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:56:20 -0000, "JS Newby" <jsn...@nospam.com>
> wrote:
>>Has anyone compiled a list of all the songs sung on der Goon Show by der
>>cast (I'm not talkin' 'baht Conks or Ellinga, mate, jus' Milligna, Seagoon
>>an' Sellers and der characters dey played).
> Well, here's the ones I could find:
And I thought I had too much spare time.
Cheers
David
JS Newby
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singin' 'Ahnd Dog - what show was dat in?
JS Newby
Thanks Paul - well done, well doneeeeeeee, mate!
Fantastic list. How could I have forgotten those melodies divine "I'm Only A
Strolling Vagabond", "April In Paris", "Three Goons In A Fountain", etc.
It would be interesting to know what the originals of all the songs are,
i.e. which stage show, etc. they were from. I know some of them but not
all - e.g. what is the origins of "The Dustbins Of Rome"?
We mustn't forget also the brilliant song sung by the penguin in (IIRC)
"Insurance, The White Man's Burden". What's it's title and how do you spell
it?
JS Newby
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works (Unchained Melodies, You Gotta Go Owww, etc.).
But I jus' fought of anuvver one:
Fifteen Men On A Dead Man's Chest (Yo Ho Ho And A Bottle Of Rum) -
Bluebottle (what's der proper name for dat song, anyone know?)
Peter Harris
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I Don't Know Who You Are Sir, or Where You Came From but
You've Done me the Power of Good - Bloodnok
Rock Around the Clock - Bluebottle
Now I know you asked for just the main goons' songs but how
can you leave out
See You Later Aliigator - Wallis Greenslade
It was the definitive version dammit!!
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Peter Harris
"Aww, you missed!" (Iggy Pop)
JS Newby
>
> I Don't Know Who You Are Sir, or Where You Came From but
> You've Done me the Power of Good - Bloodnok
singin' "Dat reminds me, I must pay der next instalment on my television
set"
Not sure wevver dese reelly cahnts as proper songs, mate.
JS Newby
Anon.
In the barf? I think our dialects have collided somewhat.
Bob
Paul Winalski
wrote:
>It would be interesting to know what the originals of all the songs are,
>i.e. which stage show, etc. they were from.
I've been researching all that as part of my Annotated Goon Show
project. I've identified most of them, but not all.
>I know some of them but not
>all - e.g. what is the origins of "The Dustbins Of Rome"?
The original is "By the Fountains of Rome", by Matyas Seiber and
Norman Newell. It was a UK chart hit in 1956 by Edmund Hockeridge
and also recorded by Vera Lynn.
>We mustn't forget also the brilliant song sung by the penguin in (IIRC)
>"Insurance, The White Man's Burden". What's it's title and how do you spell
>it?
That's "The Ying Tong Song".
MartinS
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:56:20 -0000, "JS Newby" <jsn...@nospam.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Has anyone compiled a list of all the songs sung on der Goon Show by
>>der cast (I'm not talkin' 'baht Conks or Ellinga, mate, jus'
>>Milligna, Seagoon an' Sellers and der characters dey played).
>
> Well, here's the ones I could find:
<Snipped in the name of brevity>
> That's the lot.
That's a very exhaustive list - I know I'm exhausted. Ahem!
Looks like JS Newby missed the odd one here and there.. and there.
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MartinS
> s1e8: Michael Bentine sings a snatch of "Jezebel"
Is that one o' them bawdy songs and backroom ballads, like Kafoozalem?
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It's from R L Stevenson's "Treasure Island"!
Arcaton
>
>
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MartinS <m...@my.place> wrote in message
Clint didn't sing it until 1968, in the movie........
Eccles would have heard it on the stage in the early 50's with Bobby Howes
as Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin's role in the film) - ever heard "Wandrin' Star"
in an Eton accent?
Arcaton
>
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MartinS <m...@my.place> wrote in message
> Paul Winalski <pr...@ZAnkh-Morpork.mv.com> wrote on 16 Jan 2003:
>
> > s1e8: Michael Bentine sings a snatch of "Jezebel"
>
> Is that one o' them bawdy songs and backroom ballads, like Kafoozalem?
>
No, it was a hit for Frankie Laine in 1952 I think; Max Bygraves gave it a
namecheck in his first hit "Cowpunchers Cantata"
Arcaton
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MartinS
>
> MartinS <m...@my.place> wrote...
>> "Vombatus Ursinus" <remove.my.kn...@d2.net.au> wrote:
>>
>> > JS Newby <jsn...@nospam.com> writted:
>> >
>> >> Has anyone compiled a list of all the songs sung on der Goon
>> >> Show by der cast (I'm not talkin' 'baht Conks or Ellinga, mate,
>> >> jus' Milligna, Seagoon an' Sellers and der characters dey
>> >> played). der ones I can fink of are:
>> >>
>> >> Der Curry & Rice Waltz - Bloodnok
>> >> De Indigestion Waltz - Bloodnok
>> >> I'm Walking Backwards for Xmas - Spriggs
>> >> I'm Going Aht Wiv A Mahntin - Min
>> >> I travel a road - Bloodnok
>> >> Sewers of der Strand - Moriarty (?)
>> >>
>> >> Yew get de idea, mate. Any more I forgot?
>> >
>> > i talk to the trees (dat's why they put me away) - various times
>> > by eccles
>>
>> That was in "Paint Your Wagoon", sung by Clint Eastgoon
>> http://www.clinteastwood.net/realmediafiles/records/trees.ram
>
> Clint didn't sing it until 1968, in the movie........
> Eccles would have heard it on the stage in the early 50's with Bobby
> Howes as Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin's role in the film) - ever heard
> "Wandrin' Star" in an Eton accent?
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Strange lad
> >>
> > Did dey ever sing dat in a Goon Show, mate? I was not includin' de
recorded
> > works (Unchained Melodies, You Gotta Go Owww, etc.).
>
>
HA! I know dis one my captinn. Its called "Fifteen men on a dead man's
chest" and dey fell off when he rolled over and someone farted in his
trousis, eheu!
Mad Dan BLueBottun
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>
> MartinS <m...@my.place> wrote...
>> Paul Winalski <pr...@ZAnkh-Morpork.mv.com> wrote on 16 Jan 2003:
>>
>> > s1e8: Michael Bentine sings a snatch of "Jezebel"
>>
>> Is that one o' them bawdy songs and backroom ballads, like
>> Kafoozalem?
>
> No, it was a hit for Frankie Laine in 1952 I think; Max Bygraves
> gave it a namecheck in his first hit "Cowpunchers Cantata"
Oh, I thought maybe inclusion of the word "snatch" had some
significance.
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MartinS <m...@my.place> wrote in message
It was interesting, I'll give it that.....I heard it on Hubert Greggs
programme
Arcaton
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Al
> >Has anyone compiled a list of all the songs sung on der Goon Show by der
> >cast (I'm not talkin' 'baht Conks or Ellinga, mate, jus' Milligna,
Seagoon
> >an' Sellers and der characters dey played).
>
> Well, here's the ones I could find:
>
> s1e1: All four (Bentine included) Goons sing a hybrid of "By the Old
> Mill Stream" and "Nellie Dean"
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