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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

1. Dance With me
2. Chanson D’Amour
3. This Will Be
4. Something’s Missing
5. Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
6. This Boy (Girl)
7. Make It Easy On Yourself
8. Do That To Me One More Time

Side 2

1. Mahogany
2. If You Leave Me Now
3. If I Ever Lose This Heaven
4. Touch Me In The Morning
5. I Just Fall In Love Again
6. We’re All Alone
7. Torn Between Two Lovers
8. You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling

©MCMLXXX, Hammard TV Productions

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)

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.

…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.

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

1. Lovely Hula Hands
2. Aloha Paradise
3. The Hukilau Song
4. The Moon of Manakoora
5. My Little Grass Shack (in Kealakekua Hawaii)
6. On The Beach at Waikiki

Side 2

1. The Honolulu Honky Tonk
2. My Isle of Golden Dreams
3. Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula
4. Paradise Isle
5. The Cockeyed Mayor of Kaunakakai
6. 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”.

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

Atom Ant Theme

Muscle Magic (Part 1)

Up And Atom

Side 2

Muscle Magic (Part 2)

Fit As A Fiddle

Muscle Magic

What got me was the fact that the star of this record didn’t appear until the final couple of minutes of side 1.

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

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.

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