The White Neddie Trade

"The White Neddie Trade"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.	Series: 8 Episode: 19
Written by	Larry Stephens Maurice Wiltshire
Announcer	Wallace Greenslade
Produced by	Charles Chilton
Music	Orchestra: Wally Stott Geldray: Melodie D'Amour Ellington: The Wah Wah Song
Recording Number	TLO 47740
First broadcast	3 February 1958 (1958-02-03)
Running time	31:08

The White Neddie Trade is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the nineteenth show in the eighth series.

A pre-recording (DLO 47740) session took place Sunday 2 February 1958, 5pm. at The Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London. The recording (TLO 47740) for transmission was created later that same Sunday, also at The Camden, at 9pm.

The first Home Service broadcast was the next day, Monday, at 8.30pm 3 February 1958, its ratings were 1.5 million. The show was repeated on the following Thursday at 10pm, 6 February 1958, on the Light Programme to 2.6 million listeners.

BBC Audiobooks Synopsis

Neddie Seagoon is in Paris with no means of support except his National Health braces. From his broken English they know he is a broken Englishman. He's also a Piano Dancer - but without a piano. Moriarty and Grytpype get him a booking at the exotic Enrico Club in South America. Here Enrico Crun and Minnie Bannister perform their famous number: ‘I'm going out with a mountain and I'm only four foot three’. Ned finds he's billed as a nude Piano Dancer. Should he expose his intimate garments to the foul gaze of hot-blooded latins!

Music

• The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
• Max Geldray plays Melodie d'Amour (Henri Salvador / Leo Johns (English lyrics) / Marc Lanjean (original French lyrics))
• The Ray Ellington Quartet plays The Wah Wah Song (Ray Ellington
  Dick Katz)

Technical

Originally recorded on TLO 47740 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).

The TLO 47740 master tape no longer exists, but the programme was preserved in Sound Archives on LP 24017. The version of the show included on The Goon Show Compendium Vol 8 was compiled from the Sound Archives disc and a domestic recording of the original transmission.

Show Notes

• The Goons recorded The White Neddie Trade by Larry and Maurice on Sunday 2 February, although the version that was recorded was extensively changed by the cast with numerous ad-libs during recording and the unscripted insertion of Lalkaka and Banajee.

• For this show, the signature tune reverted to Ding Dong the Witch is Dead written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz which had previously been used on a number of earlier editions from October 1957, since when it had generally been replaced by Alte Kameraden (Old Comrades).

• A song performed by Minnie Bannister was also changed to Spike's I'm Going Out with a Mountain in place of the originally scripted duet Elderberry Wine Caramba performed with Crun; entitled I'm Walking Out with a Mountain, this melody was later recorded by Spike on 11 October 1960 and released in October 1961 (Parlophone R4839).