The Goon Show music
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The Goon Show used a lot of music...
Series: 1
| Episode # | Show | Artist | Song 1 | Song 2 | Writer(s) Song 1 |
Writer(s) Song 2 |
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| 1 | Show 1 | The Stargazers | Let Yourself Go | Honey, I Love You But | Irving Berlin | Conrad |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Keep off the Grass | Don Raye Gene de Paul |
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| Max Geldray | I Can’t Give You Anything but Love | Jimmy McHugh | ||||
| 2 | Show 2 | The Stargazers | Great Day | Vincent Youmans | ||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Teddy Bear’s Picnic | John W Bratton Jimmy Kennedy |
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| Max Geldray | If I Had You | Jimmy Campbell Reginald Connolly |
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| The Ray Ellington Quartet & The Stargazers | Old Mother Hubbard | Babe Wallis/ Ray Ellington |
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| 3 | Show 3 | The Stargazers | How High the Moon | Morgan Lewis | ||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Barnyard Boogie | Wilhelmina Grey Louis Jordan |
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| Max Geldray | My Melancholy Baby | Ernie Burnett | ||||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Three Bears | Bobby Troup | ||||
| 4 | Show 4 | The Stargazers | Kerry Dance | James Lynam Molloy | ||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Dry Bones | Beware | Will Osborne Dick Rogers |
Morry Lasco Fleecie Moore Richard Adams | ||
| Ray Ellington & The Stargazers | Five Guys Named Moe | Larry Wynn Jerry Bresler |
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| Max Geldray | My Blue Heaven | Walter Donaldson | ||||
| 5 | Show 5 | The Stargazers | This Can’t Be Love | Richard Rodgers Lorenz Hart |
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| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Time Takes Care of Everything | Beans and Cornbread | Al Fields Timmie Rogers Nat King Cole |
Freddie Clark Fleecie Moore | ||
| Max Geldray | After You’ve Gone | Henry Creamer Turner Layton |
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| 6 | Show 6 | The Stargazers | Christopher Columbus (The World Ain’t Big Enough For Me) | Terry Gilkyson | ||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Beware, Sister Beware | Morry Lasco Fleecie Moore Richard Adams |
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| Max Geldray & Ray Ellington | Max’s Blues | Max Geldray | ||||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet & The Stargazers | Row Row Row | Jimmie V Monaco William Jerome |
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| 7 | Show 7 | The Stargazers | Jezebel | Wayne Shanklin | ||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Black Eyes | traditional | ||||
| Max Geldray | Sabre Dance | Aram Khachaturian | ||||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet & The Stargazers | Life is So Peculiar | Jimmy Van Heusen Johnny Burke| |
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| 8 | Show 8 | The Stargazers | Lover | Richard Rodgers [w:Lorenz Hart|Lorenz Hart]] |
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| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Let the Good Times Roll | Louis Jordan | ||||
| Max Geldray | Bubble Bubble Bubble (Pink Champagne) | George Forrest Robert Wright |
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| The Ray Ellington Quartet & The Stargazers | Shine | Cecil Mack Lew Brown Ford Dabney |
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| 9 | Show 9 | The Stargazers | Button Up Your Overcoat | Ray Henderson BG DeSylva Lew Brown |
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| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven | Timmy Rogers Albert Fields Tom Delaney |
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| Max Geldray | Jealousy | Jacob Gade | ||||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet & The Stargazers | Get Out and Get Under | Maurice Abrahams Grant Clarke Edgar Leslie |
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| 10 | Show 10 | The Stargazers | Cherokee | Ray Noble | ||
| Max Geldray | My Resistance is Low | Hoagy Carmichael | ||||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | That’s My Girl | Joe McKiernan | ||||
| 11 | Show 11 | The Stargazers | My Heart Cries For You | Carl Sigman Percy Faith |
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| Max Geldray | Tea for Two | Vincent Youmans | ||||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Smokey Mountain Boogie | Tennessee Ernie Ford Cliffie Stone |
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| 12 | Show 12 | The Stargazers | Hiawatha’s Mittens | Dwight Latham Moe Jaffe |
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| Max Geldray | Old Man River | Jerome Kern | ||||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Little Girl | Madeline Hyde Francis Henry |
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| 13 | Show 13 | The Stargazers | Somebody Loves Me | George Gershwin Ballard MacDonald BG DeSylva |
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| Max Geldray | The Loveliest Night of the Year | Juventino Rosas Adapted by Irving Aaronson |
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| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Don't Burn the Candle at Both Ends | Bob Carter Mack Gordon Louis Jordan |
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| 14 | Show 14 | The Stargazers | The Cry of the Wild Goose | Terry Gilkyson | ||
| Max Geldray | The Syncopated Clock | Leroy Anderson | ||||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Black Note Serenade | Benny Litchfield Harry Bolton |
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| 15 | Show 15 | The Stargazers | Truckin’ | Rube Bloom Ted Koehler |
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| Max Geldray | My Blue Heaven | Walter Donaldson | ||||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Teddy Bears' Picnic | John W. Bratton Jimmy Kennedy |
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| 16 | Show 16 | The Stargazers | Mademoiselle de Paris | Paul Durand Henri Contet Mitchell Parish |
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| Max Geldray | Max’s Blues | Max Geldray | ||||
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Come on-a My House | Ross Bagdasarian William Saroyan |
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| 17 | Show 17 | Harry Secombe | Be My Love | Sammy Cahn Nicholas Brodszky |
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| The Stargazers | I Don’t Want a World | Johnny Lange Hy Heath |
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| The Stargazers | My Heart Cries For You | Carl Sigman Percy Faith |
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| Marie Benson and The Stargazers | I Don’t Want a World | Johnny Lange Hy Heath |
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| The Ray Ellington Quartet | That’s My Girl | Joe McKiernan Harry D. Kerr |
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| Sp | Cinderella | 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 & The Ray Ellington Quartet | Lover | Richard Rodgers | ||||
| Harry Secombe | Cinderella, Stay in My Arms | Jimmy Kennedy Michael Carr | ||||
| Harry Secombe, Lizbeth Webb and the Stargazers | Wunderbar | Cole Porter | ||||
Series: 2
Series: 3
Series: 4
Note
- ^ Booklet 2 that comes with Compendium 14 states that the song "It Had to Be You" is written by "John Lindsay". This is incorrect, as the song is written by the team of Isham Jones and Gus Kahn[1]
Series: 5
| Episode # | Show | Artist | Song(s) | Writer(s) |
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| 1 | The Whistling Spy Enigma | Max Geldray | Look at That Girl | Bob Merrill |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Ding Dong Boogie | Charles Singleton Teddy McRae | ||
| 2 | The Lost Gold Mine (of Charlotte) | Max Geldray | Hot Toddy | Ralph Flanagan (music) Herb Hendler (lyrics) |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | 'Any Old Iron | Charles Collins Fred E. Terry E.A. Sheppard | ||
| 3 | The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea) | Max Geldray | You're Driving Me Crazy | Walter Donaldson |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Look at That Girl | Bob Merrill | ||
| 4 | The Phantom Head Shaver (of Brighton) | Max Geldray | Side by Side | Harry Woods |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Bim Bam Baby | Sammy Mysels | ||
| 5 | The Affair of the Lone Banana | Max Geldray | Adios, Muchachos | Julio César Sanders |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Lullaby of Broadway | Harry Warren Al Dubin | ||
| 6 | The Canal | Max Geldray | Somebody Stole My Gal | Leo Wood |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet |
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| 7 | Lurgi Strikes Britain | Max Geldray | Ruby | Heinz Eric Roemheld (music) Mitchell Parish (lyrics) |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Boum! | Charles Trenet | ||
| 8 | The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (solved) | Max Geldray | Oh, Lady Be Good! | George Gershwin Ira Gershwin |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Lover, Come Back to Me | Sigmund Romberg (music) Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) | ||
| 9 | The Last Tram (from Clapham) | Max Geldray | Glow-Worm | Johnny Mercer |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | (I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo | Mack Gordon (lyrics) Harry Warren (music) | ||
| 10 | The Booted Gorilla (found?) | Max Geldray | Saint Louis Blues | WC Handy |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | The Continental | Con Conrad (music) Herb Magidson (lyrics) | ||
| 11 | The Spanish Suitcase | Max Geldray | I Can't Give You Anything But Love | Jimmy McHugh |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Ol' Man River | w:Jerome Kern | ||
| 12 | Dishonoured (or The Fall of Neddie Seagoon) | Max Geldray | Way Down Yonder in New Orleans | John Turner Layton, Jr (music) Henry Creamer (lyrics) |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | The Best Man | Roy Alfred (music) Fred Wise (lyrics) | ||
| 13 | Forog | Max Geldray | Sweet Lorraine | Cliff Burwell (music) Mitchell Parish (lyrics) |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | The Creep | Andy Burton (in reality Ken Mackintosh) Brian Fahey | ||
| 14 | Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest | Max Geldray | After You've Gone | Turner Layton (music) Henry Creamer (lyrics) |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | In a Shady Nook | Harry Pease (music) Ed G Nelson (lyrics) | ||
| 15 | 1985 | Max Geldray | 'Deed I Do | (Walter Hirsch (music) Fred Rose (lyrics) |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet |
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| 16 | The Case of the Missing Heir | Max Geldray | Carioca | Vincent Youmans Edward Eliscu Gus Kahn |
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| 17 | China Story | Max Geldray | My Blue Heaven | Walter Donaldson |
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| 18 | Under Two Floorboards | Max Geldray | Buckets and Spades | John Lindsay |
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| 19 | The Missing Scroll | Max Geldray | It Had to Be You | Isham Jones (music) Gus Kahn (lyrics)[nb 1] |
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| 20 | 1985 | Max Geldray | Orange Coloured Sky | Milton De Lugg William Stein |
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| 21 | The Sinking of Westminster Pier | Max Geldray | Somebody Stole My Gal | Leo Wood |
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| 22 | The Fireball of Milton Street | Max Geldray | April in Paris | Vernon Duke E.Y. Harburg |
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| 23 | The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street | Max Geldray | Carnivalito | Edmundo P Zaldivar |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | I Got a Girl in Kalamazoo]] | Mack Gordon Harry Warren | ||
| 24 | Yehti | Max Geldray | Blue Pacific Blues (Sadie Thompson's Song) | Ned Washington (lyrics) Lester Lee (music) |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Rub-a-Dub-Dub | Hank Thompson | ||
| 25 | The White Box of Great Bardfield | Max Geldray | You're Driving Me Crazy | Walter Donaldson |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet | Lover, Come Back to Me | Sigmund Romberg (music) / Oscar Hammerstein (lyrics) | ||
| 26 | The End (aka Confessions of a Secret Senna Pod Drinker) | Max Geldray | Tenderly | Walter Lloyd Gross Jack Lawrence |
| The Ray Ellington Quartet |
Series: 6
Series: 7
Series: 8
Series: Vintage Goons
Series: 9
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 |
References
- ^ "It Had to Be You (song)". Retrieved 2022-10-09.
- ^ "It Had to Be You (song)". Retrieved 2022-10-09.
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