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"**Napoleon's Piano**"
"Napoleon's Piano"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.	Series: 6; Episode: 4
Written by	Spike Milligan
Announcer	Wallace Greenslade
Produced by	Peter Eton
Music	Orchestra: Wally Stott; Geldray: Ain't Misbehavin'; Ellington: Bloodshot Eyes;
Recording; Number	TLO 88253
First broadcast	11 October 1955
Running time	29:11
Episode Order
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	The Goon Show series 6
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Revision as of 14:38, 29 October 2022

Napoleon's Piano^{[nb 1]} is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the fourth show in the sixth series. The show was recorded at 9pm on Sunday 9 Octber 1955. The recording took place at the Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London.

The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Tuesday 4 October 1955 at 8.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 3.4m.

Repeats
Day	Date	Time	Ratings	Station	Show
Saturday	15 October 1955	7.30pm	2.3m	Light Programme
Sunday	6 July 1980	12.27pm	0.4m	Radio 4	in Smash of the Day as The Story of Napleon's Piano
Friday	31 May 1991	7.02pm	0.4m	Radio 2	in Spike's Pick of the Goons
Thursday	29 August 1991	12.25pm		Radio 2	in Spike's Pick of the Goons
Thursday	23 December 1993	11.30pm		Radio 2	in Spike's Pick of the Goons replacing Today in Parliament

Transcription Service Synopsis

Answering an advertisement to move a piano from one room to another for the large sum of ₤5, young Neddie Seagoon finds that he has been tricked. It is not, as Neddie at first thinks, 'money for old rope', but a much more cunning job that those arch-criminals Brigadier Grytpype-Thynne and Count Fred Moriarty have in mind. They want him to bring Napoleon's Piano, now in the Paris Louvre, over to England – for a quick resale…

Music

The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
Max Geldray plays Ain't Misbehavin' (Harry Brooks / Fats Waller / Andy Razaf)
The Ray Ellington Quartet plays Bloodshot Eyes (Hank Penny / Ruth Hall)

Technical

Originally recorded on TLO 88253 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).^[2]

Notes

^ The script and the Programme Index entry are wrongly titled The Sale of Manhattan^[1]

References

^ Wilmut, Roger (1976). The Goon Show Companion. Robson Books. p. 125. ISBN 0860518361.
^ Kendall, Ted (2009). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 3 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4084-1044-8.

[2] The script and the Programme Index entry are wrongly titled The Sale of Manhattan^[1]

[1] Wilmut, Roger (1976). The Goon Show Companion. Robson Books. p. 125. ISBN 0860518361.

[3] Kendall, Ted (2009). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 3 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4084-1044-8.

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-'''''Napoleon's Piano'''''{{refn|group=nb|The script and the Programme Index entry are wrongly titled ''The Sale of Manhattan''<ref>{{cite book |last=Wilmut |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Wilmut |date=1976 |title=[[The Goon Show Companion]] |publisher= Robson Books |page=125 |isbn=0860518361}}</ref>}} is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the seventeenth show in the sixth series. The show was recorded at 9pm on Sunday {{date|17 September 1955}}. The recording took place at the [[w:KOKO (music venue)|Camden Theatre]], Camden Town, London.
+'''''Napoleon's Piano'''''{{refn|group=nb|The script and the Programme Index entry are wrongly titled ''The Sale of Manhattan''<ref>{{cite book |last=Wilmut |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Wilmut |date=1976 |title=[[The Goon Show Companion]] |publisher= Robson Books |page=125 |isbn=0860518361}}</ref>}} is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the fourth show in the sixth series. The show was recorded at 9pm on Sunday {{date|9 Octber 1955}}. The recording took place at the [[w:KOKO (music venue)|Camden Theatre]], Camden Town, London.
-The first British public broadcast was on the [[w:BBC Home Service|Home Service]] on Tuesday {{date|20 September 1955}} at 8.30pm (except Northern Ireland). It reached a peak listenership of 2.3m.
+The first British public broadcast was on the [[w:BBC Home Service|Home Service]] on Tuesday {{date|4 October 1955}} at 8.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 3.4m.
-The show's first repeat was the next morning at 8.45am, Saturday {{date|23 January 1955}}, on the Home Service. It was listened to by 1.1 million.
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+ Repeats
+|-
+! Day !! Date !! Time !! Ratings !! Station !! Show
+|-
+| Saturday
+|style=text-align:center;| {{date|15 October 1955}}
+|style=text-align:center;| 7.30pm
+|style=text-align:center;| 2.3m
+|| [[w:BBC Light Programme|Light Programme]]
+||
+|-
+| Sunday
+|style=text-align:center;| {{Date|6 July 1980}}
+|style=text-align:center;| 12.27pm
+|style=text-align:center;| 0.4m
+|| [[w:BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]]
+|| in ''Smash of the Day''<br>as ''The Story of Napleon's Piano''
+|-
+| Friday
+|style=text-align:center;| {{Date|31 May 1991}}
+|style=text-align:center;| 7.02pm
+|style=text-align:center;| 0.4m
+|| [[w:BBC Radio 2|Radio 2]]
+||in ''Spike's Pick of the Goons''
+|-
+| Thursday
+|style=text-align:center;| {{Date|29 August 1991}}
+|style=text-align:center;| 12.25pm
+|style=text-align:center;|
+|| [[w:BBC Radio 2|Radio 2]]
+|| in ''Spike's Pick of the Goons''
+|-
+| Thursday
+|style=text-align:center;| {{Date|23 December 1993}}
+|style=text-align:center;| 11.30pm
+|style=text-align:center;|
+|| [[w:BBC Radio 2|Radio 2]]
+|| in ''Spike's Pick of the Goons''<br>replacing ''Today in Parliament''
+|-
+|}
-No known, publically available recording is known to exist as of {{date}}.
+== Transcription Service Synopsis ==
+Answering an advertisement to move a piano from one room to another for the large sum of ₤5, young Neddie Seagoon finds that he has been tricked. It is not, as Neddie at first thinks, 'money for old rope', but a much more cunning job that those arch-criminals [[Hercules Grytpype-Thynne|Brigadier Grytpype-Thynne]] and [[Count Jim Moriarty|Count Fred Moriarty]] have in mind. They want him to bring [[w:Napoleon|Napoleon]]'s Piano, now in the [[w:Paris|Paris]] [[w:Louvre|Louvre]], over to England – for a quick resale…
-== Transcription Service Remake Synopsis ==
-From [[w:ancient Egypt|ancient Egypt]] , land of [[Wikt:monolithic|monolithic]] {{sic}} [[w:pyramid|pyramid]]s and [[w:Karnak|Karnak]]'s fallen temples, comes this gripping story of the discovery of a long-dead Egyptian priest's toomb. It all started one day in 1889 in the British Museum and it finished… but hear for yourselves the strange unfolding of this tale.
 ==Music==
 *The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by [[Wally Stott]]
-*[[Max Geldray]] plays ''[[w:Ain't Misbehavin' (song)|Ain't Misbehavin']]'' {{small|([[w:Walter Donaldson|Walter Donaldson]])}}
+*[[Max Geldray]] plays ''[[w:Ain't Misbehavin' (song)|Ain't Misbehavin']]'' {{small|([[w:Harry Brooks|Harry Brooks]] / [[w:Fats Waller|Fats Waller]]  / [[w:Andy Razaf|Andy Razaf]])}}
-*[[Ray Ellington|The Ray Ellington Quartet]] plays ''[[w:Bloodshot Eyes (song)|Bloodshot Eyes]]'' {{small|([[w:Walter Donaldson|Walter Donaldson]] (music) / [[w:Gus Khan|Gus Khan]] (lyrics))}} / ''[[w:Nagasaki (song)|Nagasaki]]'' {{small|([[w:Harry Warren|Harry Warren]] (music) / [[w:Mort Dixon|Mort Dixon]] (lyrics))}}
+*[[Ray Ellington|The Ray Ellington Quartet]] plays ''[[w:Bloodshot Eyes (song)|Bloodshot Eyes]]'' {{small|([[w:Hank Penny|Hank Penny]] / [[w:Ruth Hall|Ruth Hall]])}}
 ==Technical==

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