by Goon News (all our own work with donations from the former Mark Cousins)
Just a few bits for you this issue. I hope you don’t mind.
We’re always open to receiving finds.
The Alberts
For those who might be interested, here are a few links to information on The Alberts, that eccentric group who appeared in Son of Fred with Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers and also on Spike’s single You Gotta Go Oww! (They also played on The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine!)
Other Alberts info…
https://www.facebook.com/thealbertz/
Peter Sellers
Meanwhile, Sellers fans might like to know of the reissue of the soundtrack album from the original Pink Panther film, released to mark Henry Mancini’s 100th birthday: at Amazon.co.uk
Stone me! It’s Peter Sellers! at www.imago-images.de
Steve Coogan as Dr Strangelove at www.standard.co.uk
One good Spike!
The Last Laugh Before TV AM (Channel 4; 2.12.85)
IMDB entry
The Goons – all of them… or some
BBC SOUND EFFECTS: recommendations: search for whoosh, explosion and stomach at sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk
Goon Show Producer Charles Chilton’s Journey Into Space available in one volume at www.fantompublishing.co.uk
This guy in Australia has some lovely old Goon related photos, some possibly not seen before… at www.ebay.co.uk
The last 2m 19s of the 1958, Harry Secombe This is your Life, featuring Milligan, Sellers and Ray Ellington. Eamonn Andrews keeps calling for Eric
Sykes, but he doesn’t appear. . It’s worth a look
Radio Fun: The Story of Radio Comedy Episode 7 of 12. Russell Davies recalls the early 1950s, with audience-led shows waning and the impending arrival of ‘The Goon Show’.
Michael Bentine:
“Moscow Commercial Radio” (1962)… is good fun
Go here for the next Goon Pods. Soon to arrive (it is live now – it’s from Nov 20, 2024)is one called Sellers Market, with our very own Mark Cousins. Mark says: “Nobody talks about his final record. It certainly wasn’t his best, but it’s good to have it”. Adding that he knows quite a bit about how it was made and that’s what’s in the podcast
The Goon Show Preservation Society 