Just a quick reminder for everyone, that the Vinyl Vault will be (officially) launched on Wednesday afternoon, although it could be uploaded as early as sometime this weekend (due to unforseen circumstances on Wednesday)
My intention for this website to be an online disography of records manufactured and distributed in Australia (with a few New Zealand titles thrown in (Music World, anyone?) 
The listing is in a very embryonic stage, but will be expanded from time to time. for further details visit the Vinyl Vault here.
Also due to other commitments, I haven’t posted much here this month, but I intend to get back to speed in September, so stay tuned.
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The first volume of songs from the Don Lane Show’s backing singers…
LP Title: Touch Me In The Morning
Perfomed by Patchwork
Category: Easy Listening
Label: Hammard
Catalogue Number HAM 049
Entered the charts: 28/7/80 – Highest position 75, weeks in chart: 4
Engineered by John French
produced by Ross Burton
Cover Design: Michael Findley
Photography: Barry Bell
Cover photo taken at the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
Recorded at TCS Studios, Richmond
Side 1 Tracks 1 and 6 Arranged by Peter Sullivan, Side 1, tracks 2-5, track 8 and Side 2 tracks 3 and 5 Arranged by Ross Burton, Side 2 Track 1 arranged by Peter Hocking, Side 2 track 2 arranged by Charlie Gauld and Side 2, tracks 4 and 6-8 arranged by Allen Deak
The Musicians:
David Hirschfelder: Piano, Don Stevenson: Guitar, Gordon Mattheson: Guitar, Jeremy Alsop: Bass, David Jones: Drums, Adrian Paine: Percussion and Bill Harrower: Saxophone
Side 1
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Dance With me
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Chanson D’Amour
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This Will Be
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Something’s Missing
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Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
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This Boy (Girl)
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Make It Easy On Yourself
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Do That To Me One More Time
Side 2
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Mahogany
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If You Leave Me Now
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If I Ever Lose This Heaven
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Touch Me In The Morning
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I Just Fall In Love Again
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We’re All Alone
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Torn Between Two Lovers
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You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling
©MCMLXXX, Hammard TV Productions
The Don Lane Show’s backing singers in their debut (and sadly only) LP, performing songs originally performed by The Captain and Tennille, Michael Jackson and more.
Here is the final cover art for the Highly Esteemed Goon Show Classics LP’s
we conclude the series with the 11th and final Goon Show LP released by the Beeb until the volumes were later repackaged and restored for CD by Ted Kendall the demon Goon Show restorer.
LP Title: Goon Show Classics Volume 11
Label: BBC (Distributed throughout Australia and New Zealand by Polygram)
Category: Comedy/Radio Shows
PRT/BBC Catalogue Number REB 565 (I don’t know if Polygram ever manufactured this locally. If you know by posting in the comment section or via the normal e-mail address.)
Compilation co-ordinated by William Grierson (from episodes selected by Spike Milligan?)
Cover art by Hunt Emerson
Side 1
1985 (Original performance – first transmitted 4/6/1955 – BBC Home Service)
Starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan with the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray
Orchestra conducted by Bruce Campbell
Script by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Announcer: Wallace (Bill) Greenslade
Producer: Peter Eton
Songs: It Had to be You (Max Geldray) and Shake, Rattle and Roll (Ray Ellington Quartet)
Side 2
Shifting Sands (first transmitted 24/1/57 – BBC Home Service)
Starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan, with guest Jack Train
With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray
Orchestra conducted by Angela Morley
Script by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Produced by Pat Dixon
songs: Isn’t it Lovely To be Caught In The Rain (Max Geldray) and All Of You/All Of Me (Medley: Ray Ellington Quartet)
The Goons give their warped twist on George Orwell’s famous novel (more to the point, the BBC’s TV version of the book), with gullible Neddie taking on the role of BBC (that is Big Brother Corporation) worker number 846 Winston Seagoon.
Side two sees a guest appearance by cast member from the BBC’s earlier radio series starring Tommy Handley (It’s That Man Again – or ITMA) – Jack Train reprising his role of Colonel Chinstrap in a tale of the shifting sands of Woziristan.
1985 can be found in it’s pristine version on The Goon Show Compendium Volume 2, while Shifting Sands can be found on The Goon Show Volume 5
And there will be more where that came from. (no there’s not. This is now the end of the series.) We return to normal very soon.
Whatever you do, don’t accept an offer of Blackpool Rock from Eccles…
…or the results could be explosive.
LP Title: Goon Show Classics Volume 10
Category: Comedy/Radio Shows
Label: BBC (distributed throughout Australia and New Zealand by Polygram)
BBC/PRT Catalogue Number REB 481
Record Co-Ordinated and Produced by Mike Harding (from Episodes selected by Spike Milligan)
Cover Art by Hunt Emerson
Side 1
The Whistling Spy Enigma (original transmission: 28/9/54 – BBC Home Service)
Starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan with the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray
Orchestra Conducted by Angela Morley
Script by Spike Milligan
Announcer: Wallace (Bill) Greenslade
Production by Peter Eton
Songs: I Don’t Know Why (Max Geldray) and ABC Boogie (Ray Ellington)
Side 2
I Was Monty’s Treble (original Transmission: 10/11/58 – BBC Home Service)
Starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan with the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray
Orchestra Conducted by Angela Morley
Script by Spike Milligan
Announcer: Wallace (Bill) Greenslade
Production: John Browell (Credited on record as produced by Stella Waters for John Browell)
Songs: There’ll Never Be Another You (Max Geldray) and Sunday (Ray Ellington)
The 10th Volume in the series involves intrigue, outrigue, some exploding boots and a slew of Field Marshall Montgomeries.
A restored and more complete broadcast of “The Whistling Spy Enigma” can be found on The Goon Show Compendium Volume 1, while a restored and more complete version of “I Was Monty’s Treble” can be found on The Goon Show Volume 6.
Stay tuned for the final installment of the Goon Show Classics LPs, later on today.
Hawaiian music with a slight twist…
LP: Honolulu Honky Tonk
Performed by Frankie Carle, his Piano and Orchestra
Label: RCA
Category: International/Popular
Australian Catalogue Number L101372 (U.S. Catalogue Number LPM 2540)
Arranged and Conducted by Billy Liebert (with kind permission of Capitol Records)
Produced by Neely Plumb
Recorded at RCA’s Music Centre of the World, Hollywood Calif.
Recording Engineer/Mastering: John Norman
Side 1
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Lovely Hula Hands
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Aloha Paradise
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The Hukilau Song
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The Moon of Manakoora
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My Little Grass Shack (in Kealakekua Hawaii)
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On The Beach at Waikiki
Side 2
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The Honolulu Honky Tonk
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My Isle of Golden Dreams
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Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula
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Paradise Isle
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The Cockeyed Mayor of Kaunakakai
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Song of the Islands/Aloha Oe (medley)
©MCMLXII, Radio Corporation of America
Of all the LP’s I have of Hawaiian Music, this is the first one (and I believe the only one) done in the honky-tonk style
If I was to pick a few favourites, it would have to be “Lovely Hula Hands” and “The Hukilau Song”.
Back in the 1970′s the family bought for me a number of Hanna-Barbera records that were re-issued on EMI, and back in 2006, I spotted an original Hanna-Barbera relase from Astor, but I ended up missing out on getting that LP, but when I spotted this in Brisbane today, I didn’t make the same mistake twice…
LP Title: Hanna-Barbera Presents Atom Ant in: Muscle Magic
Category: Childrens
Label: Hanna-Barbera Records (distributed by Astor Records)
Catalogue Number: HLP 2041
Starring Howard Morris as Atom Ant with the voice talents of Daws Butler and Don Messick
1965 LP Credits (this is seperate from the history of HB Records, which are based on the 1977 EMI re-issues)
Written and Directed by Charles Shows
Art Direction: Harvard Pennington
Cover Art: Richard Khim
Songs by S. Farber and P. Shows
Songs Arranged by A. Capps and S. Farber
Edited by Dan Finnerty
Recording Engineer: Richard Olsen
Mastering: Joe Leahy and Dave Diller
Hand Lettering: Robert Schaeffer
Side One
Atom Ant Theme
Muscle Magic (Part 1)
Up And Atom
Side 2
Muscle Magic (Part 2)
Fit As A Fiddle
Muscle Magic
The earth is being invaded by ants from outer space, and when everything seems lost, the world turns to the stongest ant in the world to dispatch the invader, and at the same time, giving health tips to the kids on building their muscles (who says that HB cartoons weren’t educational
)
What got me was the fact that the star of this record didn’t appear until the final couple of minutes of side 1. 
Here is the third and final Goon Show Classics LP cover post today. The final two volumes will appear sometime in the next two weeks)
LP Title: Goon Show Classics Volume 9
Category: Comedy/Radio Shows
Label: BBC Records (Distributed throughout Australia and New Zealand by Polygram)
Catalogue Number: 2964 079 (original PRT/BBC Catalogue Number REB 444)
Compiled and produced for Record by Mike Harding from shows selected by Spike Milligan
Sleve Design by Mario Moscardini
“Cover Notes” by Spike Milligan as Bluebottle
Cover Art by Martin Honeysett
Side 1
The Call of the West (original transmission 20/1/1959 – BBC Home Service)
Starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan, with the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray
Orchestra Conducted by Angela Morley
Script by Spike Milligan
Announcer: Wallace (Bill) Greenslade
Production by John Browell
Songs: A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square (Max Geldray) and You’d Better Know It (Ray Ellington)
Side 2
The Last Smoking Seagoon (A.K.A. The Last of the Smoking Seagoons) – Original Transmission 28/1/1960 – BBC Home Service (not 1959 as incorrectly listed on the cover)
Starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan with the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray
Orchestra conducted by Angela Morley
Announcer: Wallace (Bill) Greenslade
Production by John Browell
Songs: What More Do You Want (Max Geldray) and Too Marvelloua for Words (Ray Ellington Quartet)
The ninth volume in the series (but the last volume in my collection to be manufactured locally. I know volume 10 was locally produced, but I picked up the PRT pressing of both volumes 10 and 11, so when I get around to doing them in the next couple of weeks I’ll only have the PRT catalogue number)
If you have the Australian pressing of either volume 10 or 11, please send me the LP catalogue number (it will be in Polygram’s modified six digit catalogue number and format suffix, E.G. 317-219-1 (I made that number up))
You can send me the info by sending an e-mail (it can be found in the contacts page) or posting in the comments below.
BTW, The Call of the West and The Last Smoking Seagoon appear in expanded editions in The Goon Show 5
Anyone for a 1904 calendar
LP Title: The Goon Show Classics Volume 8
Label: BBC Records (Distributed throughout Australia and New Zealand by Polygram)
Category: Comedy/Radio Shows
Catalogue: 2964 067 (original BBC/PRT catalogue REB 422)
No compilation credits, but shows would have been selected by Spike Milligan
Cover Art: Bill Tidy
Side 1
World War I (original transmission 24/2/58 – BBC Home Service)
Starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan, with the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray
Orchestra conducted by Angela Morley
Script by Spike Milligan
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Production by Charles Chilton
Songs: Sometimes I’m Happy (Max Geldray) and Beep Beep (Ray Ellington Quartet)
Side 2
The Nasty Affair At The Burami Oasis (original transmission 4/10/56 – BBC Home Service)
Starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan, with the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray
Orchestra conducted by Angela Morley
Script by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Announcer: Wallace (Bill) Greenslade
Production by Peter Eton
Songs: When You’re Smiling (Max Geldray) and Stranded in the Jungle (Ray Ellington Quartet)
Volume 8 in the series of Goon Shows. Side two has a bit of signifigance, as this was the first ever episode I had ever heard in it’s entirety (I heard it on a plane going from Sydney to Los Angeles (via Auckland – I flew via Air New Zealand at the time))
A more complete version of “World War One” and “The Nasty Affair of the Burami Oasis” appears on The Goon Show Volume 4.
The third and final Goon Show Classics LP cover post that I’m doing today will appear shortly.
This post claims Diplomatic Immunity
LP Title: Goon Show Classics Volume 7
Label: BBC Records (Distributed throughout Australia and New Zealand by Polygram)
Category: Comedy/Radio Shows
Catalogue Number: 2964 059 (original PRT Catalogue Number REB 392)
No compilation credits for this LP, but shows would have still been selected by Spike Milligan
Cover Art by Martin Honeysett
Side 1
The Man Who Never Was (original transmission: 17/2/58 – BBC Home Service)
Starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan, With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray
Orchestra xonducted by Angela Morley
Script by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Announcer: Wallace (Bill) Greenslade
production by Charles Chilton
Songs: Making Whoopee (Max Geldray) and Will You Still Be Mine (Ray Ellington)
Side 2
The Case of the Missing CD Plates (A Strange Case of Diplomatic Immunity) (Original Transmission: 18/10/1956)
Starring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan, with the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray
Orchestra conducted by Angela Morley
Script by Spike Milligan
Announcer: Wallace (Bill) Greenslade
Production by Pat Dixon
Songs: The Lady Is A Tramp (Max Geldray) and Cloudburst (Ray Ellington)
The seventh volume in the long running Goon Show Classics LP’s released by the BBC. A more complete broadcast of “The Man Who Never Was” can be found on The Goon Show Volume 4, while a more complete version of “The Case of the Missing CD Plates” can be found on The Goon Show Compendium Volume 3.
This LP was released shortly after Peter Sellers passing. the back cover has the following tribute
This album is dedicated to Peter Sellers, with grateful thanks for all the pleasure and laughter which he gave to so many people
BBC Records, September 1980
Volume 8 will appear in the next post shortly
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