From alt.fan.goons Sat Feb 26 11:15:00 1994 Xref: a2i alt.fan.goons:1748 Path: a2i!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!odin!sgi!decwrl!waikato!auckland.ac.nz!ccu1.auckland.ac.nz!russells From: russells@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz (Russell Street) Newsgroups: alt.fan.goons Subject: Goon Show Preservation Societies et al... Date: 24 Feb 1994 04:06:18 GMT Organization: University of Auckland Lines: 150 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2kh93q$t15@ccu2.auckland.ac.nz> Reply-To: r.street@auckland.ac.nz (Russell Street) NNTP-Posting-Host: ccu1.auckland.ac.nz X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #4 (NOV) Below are two articles that came across this group sometime ago, that might be of interest. The first is a list of Preservation Societies. The second is some information from Derek Wills about archives and books and needle-nardle-nu, to name but a few. (Hello Derek! Long time, no posts!) Enjoy... ------------------------------------------------------------- Russell Street r.street@auckland.ac.nz Auckland University, New Zealand "I think the phrase rhymes with 'clucking bell'." -- Edmund Blackadder ================================================================================ ~Newsgroups: alt.comedy.british ~Subject: Re: spike milligan ~From: marc@pinet.aip.org (Marc Wiener) ~Date: Thu, 11 Mar 93 14:46:39 GMT In article <1993Mar6.3990.2376@dosgate> "godfrey lue" writes: > >The show was very popular in the British Commonwealth countries. There were Goon >Show Preservation Societies in Autralia, Canada, Australia, and even the US; I don't >know if they are still active. Prince Charles is/was a great fan. > Yes they are. They have an extensive arvhive of shows and related material along with a quarterly newsletter. Membership is 3 pounds Student, 5 pounds Adult and 6 pounds Overseas. Information can be had from the following: U.K. George Brown 83 Babingtrown Road Dagenham, Essex RM82XR U.S. Dick Baker 7004 Westmoreland Road Falls Church, VA 22042 Australia Brian Allanson 34 Denham Way Thornlie, WA 6108 Canada Bill Kempton 1206 East 59 Avenue Vancouver, BC V5X 149 South Africa Aubrey Meier 7 Goodwill Road Pinetown 3610 marc -- Marc Wiener | marc@aip.org American Institute of Physics | 500 Sunnyside Blvd. | Voice: (516)576-2329 Woodbury, NY 11797 | Fax: (516)349-7669 ================================================================================ ~Newsgroups: alt.fan.goons ~Subject: Goon Shows ~From: oo7@ut-emx.uucp (Derek Wills) ~Date: 23 Jun 92 23:11:44 GMT My posting earlier today about getting tapes has already caught a few Charlies with Goon Show leanings and other disabilities. Perhaps it would be easier for me to post my standard message here so that the Afflicted can benefit as appropriate. I think all the information is current. I also have addresses for GSPS groups in Oz, Canada, NZ, South Effrica and California, to name but a few: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OK, Neddie, here's the info you need for injections of things Goonish. Write to Tom Yeates at 27 Kew Drive, Daveyhulme, Urmston, Manchester M31 2WW, England. He is Secretary of the Goon Show Preservation Society, and will gladly take your money - it currently costs 6 leather pounds a year, or equivalent in used bus tickets. At the current rate that's around $10. For this miniscule sum, you receive quarterly newsletters of the society - typically 20-page things that look as if they are put together by a bunch of illiterate junior high schoool students (but then GSPS members are not really normal). This contains Goonish articles, news of recent books of interest to members, details of meetings (if you can imagine a couple of dozen middle-aged loonies all doing Bluebottle impressions; these meetings are in England, but I think there are a few local gangs of Goon types in some areas of the US as well), "idiotorials", news of Milligan and Secombe and so on. There is an excellent book that is recommended reading for all Goon fans: "The Goon Show Companion" by Roger Wilmut and Jimmy Grafton (publ. Robson Books) - it's a thorough history of the Goons and the Goon Show. There's also a less serious "The Book of the Goons" (also publ. Robson Books), which contains inter-Goon correspondence and five scripts. OK, now concerning tapes - and this is where the story really begins. There is a tape library in England, but they don't send tapes overseas, the rotten swines. However, there is an archivist in the U$A, who has an even larger collection than they do. He is Dick Baker, and resides at 7004 Westmoreland Road, Falls Church, VA 22042. Write and ask him what the current arrangements are for getting tapes. When I joined up a few years ago, the deal was that I sent him a couple of blank cassette tapes with a stamped self-addressed "jiffy" bag for their return, and a nominal fee of $2 (50 cents per show). His price may have gone up by now - it's obviously minimal and is to cover the costs of maintaining his recording equipment; he asks nothing for his time and trouble. Depending on demand, he takes 1-3 weeks to get the tapes back to you. Over the years I have got all the available tapes (which is around 150 - although I had quite a few before, from commercial tapes and copies from a local who recorded them off the University of Texas' public radio station). Tell him I told you about this service, if you like - we have been corresponding for a long time now and he can write some hilarious letters. Mail the cassette tapes both ways via "4th class - sound recordings", it's much cheaper than first class and I never had any problems with it. Hope this is useful; don't hesitate to ask more if you want to. There are 3 other Goon fans in this Astronomy Department, but the others are not really hard-bitten, that's to say they don't pound on my door and demand to borrow tapes. They also don't order personalized pencils that have Webster Smogpule or H. Grytpype-Thynne engraved on them. Oh well. Whatever the current heading says, my real name is Derek Wills, and mail address is Dept. of Astronomy, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712. Phone is 512-471-1392 and E-mail address is oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu. Derek Wills Department of Astronomy, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712. (512-471-1392) oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (and Ying-Tong-Iddle-I-Po to all concerned) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoy, lads and lasses - it's all in the mind, after all..... ================================================================================