The Goon Show music
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The Goon Show used a lot of music...
Series: 1
Series: 2
| Episode # | Show | Artist | Song 1 | Song 2 | Writer(s) Song 1 |
Writer(s) Song 2 |
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| 1 | 'Adventures of Handsome Harry Secombe' | Harry Secombe | Longing for You | Walter Dana Bernard Jansen |
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| The Stargazers | I Never Was Loved by Anyone Else | Cy Coben | ||||
| Max Geldray | Three Little Words | Harry Ruby Bert Kalmar |
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| Ray Ellington Quartet | Boum! | Charles Trenet | ||||
| 2 | 'Story of the Trans Siberian Express' | Harry Secombe | The World is Mine Tonight | George Posford Holt Marvell |
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| The Stargazers | Rollin’ Stone | Irving Gordon | ||||
| Max Geldray | Jealousy | Jacob Gade | ||||
| Ray Ellington Quartet pays tribute to Gracie Fields | Sally | Will E. Haines Harry Leon Leo Towers |
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| 3 | Captain Pureheart Builds the Crystal Palace' | The Stargazers | Belle, Belle, My Liberty Belle | Bob Merrill | ||
| Harry Secombe | Vesti la giubba from Pagliacci | Ruggero Leoncavallo | ||||
| Max Geldray | Undecided | Sid Robin Charlie Shavers |
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| Ray Ellington Quartet pays tribute to Al Jolson | Sonny Boy | Ray Henderson BG DeSylva Lew Brown |
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| 4 | Show 21 | Harry Secombe | Tell Me Tonight | Mischa Spoliansky | ||
| Max Geldray | Allentown Jail | Irving Gordon | ||||
| The Stargazers | There’s Always Room at Our House | Bob Merrill | ||||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet pays tribute to Donald Peers | In a Shady Nook by a Babbling Brook | Harry Pease Ed G Nelson |
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| 5 | Show 22 | Harry Secombe | Ma Belle Marguerite | Vivian Ellis AP Herbert |
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| Max Geldray and the Stargazers | Night and Day | Cole Porter | ||||
| Ray Ellington Quartet | Let’s Try It | John Gaise | ||||
| 6 | Show 23 | The Stargazers | Button Up Your Overcoat | Ray Henderson BG DeSylva Lew Brown |
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| Max Geldray | I Can’t Give You Anything but Love | Jimmy McHugh w:Dorothy Fields |
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| Ray Ellington Quartet pays tribute to Carmen Miranda | I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much) | Harry Warren Mack Gordon |
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| 7 | Show 24 | Harry Secombe | A Beggar in Love | Bob Merrill | ||
| Max Geldray | My Yiddishe Momme | Jack Yellen Lew Pollack |
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| The Ray Ellington Quartet pays tribute to Allan Jones | In a Shady Nook | Rudolf Friml Herbert Stothart Bob Wright Chet Forrest |
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| 8 | Show 25 | Harry Secombe | You Are Love | Jerome Kern [w:Oscar Hammerstein II|]] |
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| Max Geldray | Unforgettable | Irving Gordon | ||||
| Ray Ellington Quartet | Aba Daba Honeymoon | Arthur Fields Walter Donovan |
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| 9 | Show 26 | Harry Secombe | Granada | Agustin Lara | ||
| Max Geldray | Oh, You Beautiful Doll | Nat D Ayer Seymour Brown |
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| The Ray Ellington Quartet pays tribute to Danny Kaye | Minnie the Moocher | Cab Calloway Irving Mills |
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| 10 | Show 27 | Harry Secombe | My Heart and I | Richard Tauber Fred Tysh |
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| Max Geldray | Tea for Two | Vincent Youmans | ||||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet pays tribute to Johnnie Ray | Cry | Churchill Kohlman | ||||
| 11 | Show 28 | Harry Secombe | With a Song in My Heart | Lorenz Hart Richard Rodgers |
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| Max Geldray | Saint Louis Blues | WC Handy | ||||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet pays tribute to Eddie Cantor | If You Knew Susie | BG De Sylva Joseph Meyer |
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| 12 | Show 29 | Max Geldray | Bubble, Bubble, Bubble (Pink Champagne) | Robert Wright George Forrest |
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| The Ray Ellington Quartet pays tribute to Nellie Lutcher | My Mother’s Eyes | Hurry On Down | Abel Baer Wolfe Gilbert |
Nellie Lutcher | ||
| The Goons | Parody Number | |||||
| 13 | Show 30 | Max Geldray | My Melancholy Baby | Ernie Burnett George A. Norton |
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| Ray Ellington Quartet pays tribute to Ray Ellington (!) | Little Red Riding Hood | The Three Bears | Olav Fermelin | Bobby Troup | ||
| The Goons sing Jimmy Grafton’s parodies | The Waiter and the Porter and the Upstairs Maid | Friendship | Johnny Mercer | Cole Porter | ||
| 14 | Show 31 | Max Geldray | Adiós muchachos | Julio Cesar Sanders | ||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet pays tribute to Sophie Tucker | Some of These Days | My Yiddishe Momme | Shelton Brooks | Jack Yellen Lew Pollack | ||
| The Goons sing Jimmy Grafton’s parodies | Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross | I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much) | traditional | Harry Warren Mack Gordon | ||
| 15 | Show 32 | Max Geldray | The Trolley Song | Hugh Martin Ralph Blane |
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| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Boum! | Charles Trenet | ||||
| The Goons sing Jimmy Grafton’s parodies | String Quartet in E | Vive La Compagnie | Luigi Boccherini | traditional | ||
| 16 | Show 33 | The Goons sing Jimmy Grafton’s parodies | Funiculì, Funiculà Chi mi frena in tal momento Habanera |
Largo al factotum La donna è mobile Libiamo ne’ lieti calici |
Luigi Denza Gaetano Donizetti Georges Bizet |
Gioachino Rossini Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Verdi |
| Max Geldray | Indian Love Call | Rudolf Friml Herbert Stothart |
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| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Louise | Infernal Galop | Jacques Offenbach | |||
| 17 | Show 34 | Max Geldray | Pennies from Heaven | Arthur Johnston Johnny Burke |
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| The Ray Ellington Quartet pays tribute to Ginger Rogers | The Continental | Con Conrad Herb Magidson |
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| The Goons | Goon Welsh Number Operatic Sequence | Jimmy Grafton Wally Stott |
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| 18 | Show 35 | Max Geldray | When I Take My Sugar to Tea | Sammy Fain Irving Kahal Pierre Norman | ||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet pays tribute to Fats Waller | Ain’t Misbehavin’ | It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie | Fats Waller Harry Brooks Andy Razaf |
Billy Mayhew | ||
| The Goons sing the Jimmy Grafton’s parody | We Saw the Sea | Irving Berlin | ||||
| 19 | Show 36 | Max Geldray | Blue Tango | Leroy Anderson | ||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet pays tribute to Bing Crosby | Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day) | Pennies from Heaven | Bing Crosby Roy Turk Fred E Ahlert |
Arthur Johnston (music) Johnny Burke (lyrics) | ||
| The Goons sing Jimmy Grafton’s parodies |
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| 20 | Show 37 | Max Geldray | Dinah | Harry Akst (music) Sam M. Lewis (lyrics) Joe Young (lyrics) | ||
| The Goons sing Jimmy Grafton’s parodies | Widecombe Fair | traditional | ||||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet pays tribute to Lena Horne |
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| 21 | Show 38 | Max Geldray | Trust in Me | Ned Wever Milton Ager Jean Schwartz | ||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet pays tribute to Vera Lynn | I'll Be Seeing You | Irving Kahal Sammy Fain | ||||
| 22 | Show 39 | Lizabeth Webb and the Stargazers | Dream Lover | Victor L Schertzinger Clifford Grey | ||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | The Baron, The Butler and The Bobbajee | Jimmy Grafton | ||||
| Max Geldray & Ray Ellington | Lover | Richard Rodgers | ||||
| Harry Secombe | Cinderella, Stay in My Arms | Jimmy Kennedy Michael Carr | ||||
| Harry Secombe, Lizbeth Webb and the Stargazers | Wunderbar | Cole Porter | ||||
| 23 | Show 40 | Lizabeth Webb and the Stargazers | Dream Lover | Victor L Schertzinger Clifford Grey | ||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | The Baron, The Butler and The Bobbajee | Jimmy Grafton | ||||
| Max Geldray & Ray Ellington | Lover | Richard Rodgers | ||||
| Harry Secombe | Cinderella, Stay in My Arms | Jimmy Kennedy Michael Carr | ||||
| Harry Secombe, Lizbeth Webb and the Stargazers | Wunderbar | Cole Porter | ||||
| 24 | Show 41 | Lizabeth Webb and the Stargazers | Dream Lover | Victor L Schertzinger Clifford Grey | ||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | The Baron, The Butler and The Bobbajee | Jimmy Grafton | ||||
| Max Geldray & Ray Ellington | Lover | Richard Rodgers | ||||
| Harry Secombe | Cinderella, Stay in My Arms | Jimmy Kennedy Michael Carr | ||||
| Harry Secombe, Lizbeth Webb and the Stargazers | Wunderbar | Cole Porter | ||||
| 25 | Story of the Green Eyed Little Yellow God | Lizabeth Webb and the Stargazers | Dream Lover | Victor L Schertzinger Clifford Grey | ||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | The Baron, The Butler and The Bobbajee | Jimmy Grafton | ||||
| Max Geldray & Ray Ellington | Lover | Richard Rodgers | ||||
| Harry Secombe | Cinderella, Stay in My Arms | Jimmy Kennedy Michael Carr | ||||
| Harry Secombe, Lizbeth Webb and the Stargazers | Wunderbar | Cole Porter | ||||
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Series: 8
Series: Vintage Goons
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Series: 10
| Episode # | Show | Artist | Song | Writer(s) |
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| 1 | A Christmas Carol | Max Geldray | Jingle Bells | traditional; arranged by Wally Stott |
| Ray Ellington | The Beast in Me | Robert Gould Dolores Claman | ||
| 2 | The Tale of Men's Shirts | Max Geldray | Night Bird | Max Geldray |
| Ray Ellington | I Want a Little Girl | Murray Mencher Billy Moll | ||
| 3 | The Chinese Legs | Max Geldray | Chinatown | Jean Schwartz William Jerome |
| Ray Ellington | Sunday | Ned Miller Chester Conn Benny Krueger Jule Styne | ||
| 4 | Robin's Post | Max Geldray | Bye Bye Blackbird | Ray Henderson Mort Dixon |
| Ray Ellington | 'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) |
Melvin Oliver James Young | ||
| 5 | The Silver Dubloons | Max Geldray | Love Walked In | George Gershwin Ira Gershwin |
| Ray Ellington | This Can't Be Love | Richard Rodgers Lorenz Hart | ||
| 6 | The Last Smoking Seagoon | Max Geldray | What More Do You Want? | Joan Whitney Alex Kramer Hy Zaret |
| Ray Ellington | Too Marvelous for Words | Richard Whiting Johnny Mercer | ||
