#Harry Secombe

[yonderghostshistories]

The Fathers (The Goons), The Sons (The Pythons) & The Holy Spirits (The Six Idiots) of British Comedy. A Meme:

[busterkeatonsociety]

#TalkieTuesday The late, great Harry Secombe on his & his Goon Show colleagues’ influences - thanks to Steve Blatchford for sourcing the clip!

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 2002 – Death of Spike Milligan, a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier, and actor.

‘All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.’ –Spike Milligan Spike Milligan’s early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the British government declared him stateless. Spike Milligan, Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan, was born in Ahmadnagar, India. He was…

[believerindaydreams]

in case I ever lose my Swansea notebook, heaven forbid, I wanna have a copy of this pin up photograph I cut out of one of Norma Farnes' Goon Show books

[oldshowbiz]

1974.

George Schlatter was sued by National Lampoon for naming a television pilot Lampoon.

[popsixsquishcicerolipschitz]

The Goons - Unchained Melody

scuzzy983

One of the fourteen singles released by Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan a.k.a. 'The Goons'. From June 1955.

The success of The Goon Show inevitably led to approaches for The Goons to make commercial records, and in June 1955, Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers entered EMIs Abbey Road recording studios to make the first Goons single.

The session featured a hilarious deconstruction of the ballad "Unchained Melody" as sung by Bluebottle and Eccles and a duet by Minnie Bannister and Henry Crun, "Dance with Me Henry". Despite the success of the session, both recordings remained unreleased for many years due to the publishers of the original "Unchained Melody" taking exception to the flippant treatment of the song in this parody. Unreleased for thirty five years, both recordings were finally released by EMI as a single in 1990.

[annoyinglyperfectartisan]

Oliver! 1968

[ulrichgebert]

Soviel Leid und Unheil könnte vermieden werden, wenn nicht alle immer mehr wollten!

[dweemeister]

Good afternoon, is it possible to know the rose seller name in the OLIVER 1968 movie? Have not find it anywhere. Regards.

Hi anon! Thanks for the question.

And holy cow what a question. I tried looking several minutes ago myself, and I've ended up with nothing. The original soundtrack itself just lists "Mark Lester" (who we know didn't do his own singing as Oliver) as well as "ensemble" for "Who Will Buy?". Not much help there.

I'm really sorry anon, but I'm afraid I can't be of much help here. My suggestion would be to ask on other social media sites and perhaps help for a random person to help. I'd also recommend perhaps posting in the Silver Screen Oasis forum (this is a new forum that was created after Turner Classic Movies shut down its message boards) and asking. I don't think you're gonna find much luck, but you just never know about these things.

I'm also afraid that all the relevant people who would know the answer are mostly dead. I guess you could also try figuring out how to contact Mark Lester or Shani Wallis (I don't think that they would know, but they might know/knew someone who did know)? And yes, Shani Wallis is still kicking at 89 years old!

I know this wasn't terribly satisfying, but hopefully this helps?

And for those wondering what the hullabaloo anon's question is about, see "Who Will Buy?" from one of my personal favorite films, Oliver! (1968). The rose seller is the first singer in this wonderful number.

[yonderghostshistories]

Spike, Harry, and Peter from The Goon Show will boop you!!

[mishalogic]

If I Ruled The World

Song for the moment ... Misha

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1918 – Birth of comedian, writer and actor, Spike Milligan, in India.

‘All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.’ –Spike Milligan Spike Milligan’s early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the British government declared him stateless. Spike Milligan, Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan, was born in Ahmadnagar, India. He was…

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

the song "girls were made to love and kiss" having the line "shall I be blamed if God has made me gay" is so funny to me

[annoyinglyperfectartisan]

Oliver! 1968

[marleneoftheopera]

Holiday Audio/Video Gifts!

For the holiday season, here are some audio gifts from various shows and one Phantom video! The link to them is here and the info is below the cut:

Happy holidays and I hope you are all having time for some rest!

Audios

POTO

Jon Robyns, Paige Blankson, Joe Griffiths-Brown, Kelly Glyptis, Matt Harrop, Adam Linstead, Francesca Ellis, David Kristopher Brown, Maiya Hikasa August 22, 2023; London

Tim Howar, Harriet Jones, Nadim Naaman, Lara Martins, Nicholas Garrett, Arvid Larsen, John Ellis, Valerie Cutko, Kelsi Boyden March 19, 2023; Greece

Josh Piterman, Corinne Cowling (u/s), Danny Whitehead, Katy Hanna (u/s), Ross Dawes, Kris Manuel (u/s), Sophie Caton (u/s), Paul Ettore Tabone, Georgia Ware October 17, 2019; London ​Matinee.

Jeremy Stolle (u/s), Samantha Hill, Greg Mills (u/s), Michele McConnell, Richard Poole (u/s), Tim Jerome, Ellen Harvey, Christian Sebek, Kara Klein, Scott Mikita (u/s) March 9, 2013; Broadway Matinee performance.

John Owen-Jones, Deborah Dutcher, Matthew Cammelle, Bruce Montague, Charles Shirvell, Margaret Mary Kane (u/s), Janet Murphy, Jeremy Secomb, Lucy Middleton January 5, 2002; London

Love Never Dies

Tam Mutu, Celia Graham, David Thaxton, Daniel Dowling August 25, 2011; London Tam Mutu's last performance.

Les Miserables

Christopher Jacobsen (u/s Jean Valjean), Stewart Clarke (Javert), Katie Hall (Fantine), Will Callan (Marius), Lulu-Mae Pears (Cosette), Amena El-Kindy (Eponine), Luke Kempner (Thenardier), Claire Machin (Madame Thenardier), Dejan Van der Flyert (Enjolras), Alex Shaw (Gavroche), Clohe Sullivan (Little Cosette), Tom Hext (Grantaire/Majordomo), Adam Pearce (Bishop/Claquesous), Ellie Ann Lowe (Factory Girl), Jordan Simon Pollard (u/s Foreman/Bujon), Matt Dempsey (Bamatabopis/Lesgles), Annabelle Aquino, Hazel Baldwin, Emily Olive Boyd, Ben Culleton, Matt Hayden, Sam Kipling, Anouk Van Lake, Harry Lake, Ben Oatley, Jonathan Stevens, Phoebe Williams, Ollie Wray September 28, 2023; London 15,000th show in London and the 5th show for the new company.

Sunset Boulevard

Nicole Scherzinger (Norma), Tom Francis (Joe Gillis), David Thaxton (Max von Mayerling), Grace Hodgett Young (Betty Shaefer), Ahmed Hamaad (Artie), Tyler Davis (Sheldrake), Charlotte Jaconelli (Johanna), Jon Tsouras (Cecil B. de Mille) September 28, 2023; London

Rebecca

Laureen Jones (I), Richard Carson (Maxim de Winter), Kara Lane (Mrs Danvers), Sara Harlington (Beatrice), Neil Moor (Giles), Piers Bate (Frank Crewley), David Breeds (Ben), Alex James Ward (Jack Favell), Shrley Jameson (Mrs Van Hopper), Nicholas Lumley (Colonel Julian) September 27, 2023; Off-West End

POTO Video

Ian Jon Bourg, Olivia Safe (u/s), Kyle Gonyea 2001; Hamburg, Germany VOB files. One of the most legendary Phantom's opposite one of the youngest Christine's!

[scotianostra]

Happy birthday Scottish television writer and producer Steven Moffat.

Born in Paisley on November 18th 1961, Moffat attended Camphill High School before going on to Glasgow University where he was involved with the student television station, GUST (Glasgow University Student Television). He gained an MA in English and became a teacher for over three years at Cowdenknowes High School, Greenock.

During his years teaching Moffat wrote a couple of plays, one of which, War Zones was performed at Glasgow’s Mayfest and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His big break came when his dad, a primary school headmaster, met TV producers filming the Harry Secombe show Highway at his school, he told them about an idea for a show about a school newspaper, the producers asked for a sample script and he insisted his son Steven write it. Producer Sandra Hastie said that it was “the best ever first script” that she had read. The show, Press Gang ran for 43 episodes over 5 series an gave us the likes of Dexter Fletcher and Julia Sawalha. Steven has never looked back.

He is perhaps best known now for his work with Dr Who, his two-part story The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances for series one of BBC One’s revival of Doctor Who (starring Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper) won him much acclaim, including the award for ‘Television Moment of the Year’ and the first of three HUGO Awards. He has since went on to write numerous episodes and has been showrunner, lead writer and executive producer from 2009 right through until this year.

Mofat still finds time for other work, the feature screenplay for the Golden Globe-nominated Tintin, commissioned by Steven Spielberg via Spielberg’s company Dreamworks, Sherlock, a multi-award-winning, contemporary take on the Arthur Conan Doyle classic, was created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, he also wrote and was an Executive Producer of Jekyll, a six-part comedic thriller starring James Nesbitt.

Steven Maffat’’s latest project teamed him up once more with David Tennant, Inside man is a decent, if far fetched show, it’s entertaining enough, but I just think it could have been better. I much preferred The Devil's Hour, which he produced through his production company Hartswood Films, another Doctor, Peter Capaldi, plays a really dark character in this Amazon original, all 6 episodes are on Prime.

Steven teamed up with Karen Gillan once more in the excellent mini series Douglas Is Cancelled, which aired on ITV earlier this years.

Fans of Sherlock will be interested to know that Sue Vertue, who produced the show said recently “we love that show and there is a future for it”. And on Dr Who, by this Christmas, he will have written more episodes of the show than any writer. Recently he made a brilliant comment about the sci-fi series "Doctor Who is the single greatest TV format ever devised," he said. "YOU CAN SACK ANYONE! It is a starring role. And you can switch out the star. What other show can do that?… They all want to come back. Everyone who's ever played Doctor Who thinks they're the real one. That creates a problem in the David Tennant family circle."