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June 8, 2009
"Stiff Live Stiffs" [Stiff Records Legendary 1977 Package Rail Tour Film (Pts. 1 - 9: Complete Playlist ) via 'haroldturkeypants'
The Last Goon Show Of All [SPIKE MILLIGAN, PETER SELLARS 1972 Pt. 1]
This show was recorded at The Camden Theatre, in North London, the same location as hosted many of the original BBC radio Goon Shows in the 1950s
I love The Goons, but this "Last Goon Show Of All" is one of the least funny ever recorded, IMO.
RABB2 (4 days ago) Show Hide
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this particular recording has got quite a bit missing from it
if you check out the bbc iplayer for the goon show you can listen to the entire show with not bad cuts
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GrandiaKnight (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Can someone explain the Halique Televison joke?
butterz2butterz2 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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my uncles apparntly the last one of them all, he was the lead guitarist for the intro (judd proctor) you learn something new everyday :)
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Then he sent the Prince of Wales a telegram saying "I suppose knighthood is out of the question." Spike ended up getting his knighthood, as the Prince was a big fan.
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The whole thing about the queen...and saying that Harry Secombe will fill in for her is funny enough, but to do it IN FRONT OF THE QUEEN is just brilliant
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I could be wrong but I believe he was dead by the time this was recorded.
Wallace Greenslade (who was the announcer for the majority of the series) was definately dead, hence Andrew Timothy's appearance.
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@jkarani - Bentine died 22 years after this was recorded. At the time he was working on what would be 'Potty Time'. He is mentioned in this show as having "big parts" and "no room for the inside leg".
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Ah ok. Didn't realise that.
THAT'S HOW I GOT SICK! SOMEONE CALLED ME ON THE TELEPHONE! [BILL DURKS]
Brian DePalma
Sisters
1973
William "Bill" Durks was born on April 17, 1913, in Jasper, Alabama to normal parents, and had four normal siblings. As Ward Hall wrote in My Very Unusual Friends (1991), Bill "looked like he had been hit in the face with an axe". He suffered from frontonasal dysplasia, a birth defect that occurs when the two halves of an embryo's face fail to come together completely. He had a deeply cleft lip and palate and a bifid, or double, nose - each half having only one nostril. In addition, he was born with both eyes sealed shut and had them surgically opened when he was a small boy, and most accounts indicate that he was blind in one eye.
Bill didn't join the freak show until he was in his forties. A struggling sharecropper in rural Alabama, Bill was discovered at a local carnival in his hometown and invited to go on tour. He left behind his dismal life for one of fame and fortune, and became the "Man with Three Eyes", using stage makeup to paint a third eye between the bridges of his two noses. Photographs show that Bill's third eye was an obvious fake, but he seems to have fooled a generation of carnival-goers and was a huge success. He worked with Kelly-Sutton Shows, James E. Strates Shows and Hubert's Museum, making up to $100 a week - a modest sum by today's standards, but a far better living than he had made growing cotton. He even experienced Hollywood in 1973, playing a sanitorium inhabitant in Brian DePalma's Sisters
By all accounts, Bill was a shy and introverted man, his unusual appearance having made it difficult for him to interact with people for the first forty years of his life. He usually hid his strange face under a wide-brimmed hat when on tour. He was illiterate and had a hard time talking due to the profound deformity of his lip and palate. Despite all this, however, Bill would find love in the freak show, when the "Anatomical Wonder" Melvin Burkhart introduced him to Mildred "Milly" Durks, the alligator-skinned woman.
Milly was older than Bill, having been born November 22, 1901, in New Jersey. The two were married and enjoyed many years together as the World's Strangest Married Couple, before Milly passed away in June of 1968 in her hometown of Somerset. Bill kept right on performing for several more years before retiring to Gibsonton, where he died on May 7, 1975.
THAT'S HOW I GOT SICK! SOMEONE CALLED ME ON THE TELEPHONE! Bill Durks
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