You need to listen to Bloodnock's Rock n roll call or, Peter Sellers doing either Any Old Iron, Balham Gateway to the South or, A Hard Day's Night in the style of Laurence Olivier.😅
Yhe Goons, consisting of, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and the incomperable Harry Seacombe, he was a ligit singer, opera trained, check ot Boy for sale from Oliver, and his signature song "If I Ruled the World" my fathers favorite singer.
Also, I dont recomend reacting to it, because its radio, not video, but for your own entertainment have a listen to some of the original Goon Shows I would recommend, the 1957 christmas pantomime Robin Hood and his merry mon
@davidclarke7122 I don't think I've heard that one, will have to see if I can find it. Only xmas related thing I remember from them (other than the walking backwards song) is the joke: "are you a spy?" "Yes" "Then why are you covered in mince?" "I'm a mince pie!" (No idea which episode that's from, but I've always remembered it, along with silent dynamite and the 3 of them trying to get out of a very deep hole by standing on eachother's shoulders, the plan was going very well until someone made the mistake of asking who was at the bottom)
The Goons were Spike Milligan (who wrote most of the shows), Peter Sellers (famous actor who also had Hollywood films to his CV and most famous to Americans as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther films) and Welsh comedian and singer Harry Secombe. Early on there was another 'Goon', Michael Bentine but he left because of creative differences. A lot of the voices were done by Sellers who could imitate anything and the other voices were done by the other two. They used very surreal comedy in 30 minute shows. As a example one of the first ones I heard was a prison episode and in the story Secombe (who played Seagoon) is the governor of the prison and the other two (who are playing prisoners) persuade Secombe to take them to France to steal a painting or something. When Secombe says he can't let them out of jail, Sellars character suggests taking the prison with them. When Secombe says people will notice the prison not being there, Sellars suggest leaving a cardboard cut-out.
Definite thanks to Dai, been years since I heard this and never expected it to crop up on a reaction channel, put a giant smile on my face. Don't think we ever owned the songs, but my Dad had a copy of the Last Goon Show of All on CD and sometimes when visiting my Grandad we'd get to listen to tapes he'd made of old Goon Show repeats. It was a time when he could forget us kids were loud and annoying, and we could forget he was a grumpy old man and just laugh together in eachother's company as Spike and the gang engaged in bizarre, chaotic hilarity.
Welp... there's a song I never expected to see TH-camrs react to! 😄The Goon Show was an anarchic UK radio show. Crudely put, it was to the 1950s what Monty Python's Flying Circus was to the 1960s and '70s, especially in its absurdity and its chaotic breaking of the established rules of comedy. In fact, the Pythons (and many other British comedy acts) were inspired by the lunacy of the Goons.
Three great comedians who met during the war. Spike Milligan (left) was chasing a huge heavy artillery gun down through the trees and bushes of a Italian mountain. (It had been at the very top firing on the enemy). He came to a road where he met Harry Secombe. (Centre of picture) Who has just watched the gun come through the scrub and on down the mountain. Spike .....Have you seen a field gun come past here? Harry.....What colour was it? You probably already know Peter Sellers (Inspector Clouseau etc.)
The Goons were three very funny war veterans trying to make each other laugh. The radio series ran for years in the Fifties and was hugely influential on surreal comedy like Monty Python
This was my introduction to the concept of comedy, as a child. We didn’t have a TV, but we had the Goons. I remember singing along to this about five or six years old, too. And doing “Rhubarb, rhubarb rhubard…CUSTARD!” For crowd noises.
This actually got played at our wedding. I have what can charitably called an eclectic taste when it comes to music, and when my sister realised the DJ only had pop music, she borrowed our house keys and zoomed off to raid my CD collection. The first I knew about it was when the sound of Madness' 'One Step Beyond' boomed out of the speakers. For the rest of the night, my sister basically babysat the DJ, making sure that a fair mix was played. When The Ying Tong Song started up there was even a little cheer as people welcomed the silliness.
Had several inpatient trips to mental hospitals, but if anyone when he was out said he was mad he would produce his hospital discharge papers from a pocket and say "Oh no, I'm sane, I've got official paperwork to prove I'm sane, have you?" Incidentally the Raspberry noises in the middle of the track are all spike, he was renouned for making them. When the Two Ronnies did the series in the middle of their shows of "The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town" they got Spike in just to produce the Sound effects. He's also in The Life of Brian, because he was on Holiday just up the coast when they were filming, and so they slipped him in for a Cameo
As I recall, My parent had a few records like this, Charlie Drake "My Boomerang won't come back", Bernard Cribbins "Right said Fred", "Digging a hole", Probably why I enjoyed The Bonzo Dog Do Dah band album, Urban Spaceman. Another group you might enjoy is Amateur Transplant, Warning, They liked to parody songs, But you will never be able to unhear their words to songs like "When you say Nothing at all".
My parents owned this record of the Goons singing this song. As kids we loved it and listening to it in my 60s it's still brilliant radio humour. Spike Milligan wrote it all and was stark raving bonkers.
The Goons and this song was for adults not six year olds. The goons started in 1951, The song Ying Tong 1956, and the Chipmunks 1958. The Goons were Innovators.
The Bee Gee especially Maurice and Robin admitted to being highly inspired by the humour of the Goons as youngsters. Chubby Harry Seacomb was a fine singer.
The Goons were the original 'Alternative Comedians'. They started in the 50's on BBC Radio and were immensely influential upon the next generation of alternative comedians of which Monty Python was the most famous. How they met is also of interest. Spike Milligan met Harry Secombe in Italy during the Second World War. Spike Milligan claims he met Harry Secombe when the artillery piece in his unit was anchored properly. When fired the recoil sent it over a cliff landing at the foot of it. Harry Secombe ad his unit was based at the foot when all of a sudden the artillery piece landed amongst them! Later Spike appeared, having been sent to find it, and asked "has anyone seen my gun?". Later in years Spike was plagued with poor mental health. Upon one occasion Harry Secombe had to collect him from the Mental Institute, to which he had been sent to, in order to take him to do the show. Harry then took him back afterwards. My father worked for the BBC as an Outside Broadcast Sound Engineer. He did a couple of the Goon Shows and told me that one of the ones he did was held in a Convent Hall with half the audience being the nuns!
The Goons - the genius Spike Milligan ,Left, Harry Secombe ,Middle, who started the song was a legitimate singer in his own right & considered going into opera when he was young & Peter Sellars on the right also insanely talented comedian
This was long before Alvin & the Chipmunks. Each of the character voices in the song was known to the audience. To understand… snatches of songs like this were embedded into the whole comedy show as callbacks all the time. And the shows were often performed as live concerts/plays. The initial voice is Harry Seacomb (a.k.a Seagoon) a Welshman who had a good trained voice. I don’t know who the female singer is, though.
The Goon Show was a comedy radio show comprising originally of . . . Michael Bentine . Not in the pic . .. . Harry Secombe .middle Peter Sellers on the right Spike Milligan . . Left . Great comedy . . Take care till next . Bye from NZ👍👋🇳🇿🍻
Written By Spike Milligan. Spike served in WWII as a signalmen in an artillery regiment. One of his close friends was Harry Edgington, the song title is a play on Harry's name... Edge-Ying-Tong.
Ah the days when novelty records were novel. They shared the same music producer as The Beatles too. Spike Milligan (the main writer of the Goons) also did a version of "Yellow Submarine" called "Purple Aeroplane" on one of his comedy recordings.
Ah yes the brilliant Goon show. Phantom Head Shaver. The Phantom won’t harm you- not when he sees that you’re armed with a Jet Morgan cardboard cutout space catapult!
They were all Clever Spike Milligan the Guy on the Left wrote some Fantastic Poetry. One of his Books 📚 " My help in Hitlers Down Fall " is one of Funniest Books I have ever Read .
Jim Spriggs: "Hello Jeeeeeem! Hello Jim! . . jiggajiggajigjig! . . There's something wrong with the line, Jim!" Ned Seagoon: "Seagoon here!" Jim Spriggs: "Then there is something wrong with the line!"
The Goons also coined the phrase "Having the dreaded Lurgie" with the lurgie being an undefined illness that decimated all government agencies in one of the Goon Show sketches.
The first voice you hear in this song is from the member of The Goons called Harry Secombe. As well as being a fine comedian, he also had a long career as a quite operatic singer, with many hits in the 1960s. You can definitely tell the quality of his voice here. Oh, and "Ying tong iddle I po" was a big catchphrase of The Goon Show.
Leap Into A Dustbin And Dance was another of The Goons novelty songs as well as I Love You by Slim Idiot and I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas. An American equivalent would be Spike Jones and his City Slickers or R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders although The Goons - featuring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan with earlier appearances of Michael Bentine were a comedy team that met up during WW2 and went on to create their own particular brand of humour with a radio comedy show that lasted throughout the 50s - originally, the BBC wanted to call them anything but The Goons and couldn't understand them at all. "Who are these Go-ons? What's it all about?" Spike would have a love-hate relationship with the powers that were and thought of them as idiots and would mock them with as much irreverence as he could every chance he had. "This is the BBC! Hold it up to the light, not a brain in sight!"
And Harry Secombe was a very fine baritone singer, hit son If i Ruled The World, actor, played Mr Bumble in the hit musical film Oliver. Also part of the Goones was Michael Bentine another fine comedy performer. The Goons are a a favourite of King Charles. Please check out Peter Sellers in such films a Dr Strangelove, Pink Panther series and Being There. Great actor.
Hello from Oz. The Goons change comedy for ever. It made being crazy and a bit silly executable. Hence then birth of Monty Python. If you what to hear how nutty The Goons are, listen to their sketch "What Time Is It Eccles". It fall in the league of "Who's on first". Good luck.
I remember that as a child. Stand outs that I particularly remember were the rushing back and forward and the Ying, Tong Tong Tongey bit. Somehow though I thought the whole thing was a bit more coherent (Certainly don't remember the repeated Keep Up prompts). could this have been a live take? FWIW The decent singing at the start would have been Harry Seacombe, a renowned singer in his own right when he wasn't teamed up with the other Goons.
@civilizaserifusa4731 As far as I'm aware, this pretty much matches my memory of the song (keep up prompts and all). I now have the old vinyl single as I have all the old records now from my parents and grandparents (why I've been doing some proper throwback requests), but no way to play it.I'd imagine there were multiple versions out there though considering it was probably done live many times over.
@@_Dei_ Maybe so (after all it is many years since I last heard it) . I vaguely remember the Ying Tong Tongey part wandering off on its own then sort of petering out with everyone returning to the main melody. I was going to say rather like the DoDoDo DoDoDeLe DoDoDo DoDoDeLe DoDo part in the Muppets ManaMana song. Hopefully I'm not mixing the two up. Edit - with a second hearing it did seem more coherent. The Wolf Hunters' reactions were pulling attention. Funnily enough the chipmunk version of Ying Tong Tongey seemed closer to what I had been expecting in the non-chipmunk section. Tong Tongeys and non-chipmunks? The brain is obviously frazzled, think I'll quit while I'm behind!
@civilizaserifusa4731 It's the Ying Tong Song. If you're applying logic, then you've already started behind! You know the best thing about starting behind? You can only go forward! Big up Civ. Have a good break and a good new year.
The guy that sang at the start would have been Harry Secombe. The other two are Spike Milligan on the right and Peter Sellers on the left. Checkout their Wicki Page.
Ying Tong probably has its origins in Spike Milligan's wartime friend (and self-taught pianist) Harry Edgington (Edge-Ying-Tong) who crops up in his best-selling war memoirs. The comedy troupe had a pretty fair share of musical talent, with the voice of Harry Secombe and the percussion skills of Peter Sellers (largely hidden from gaze after his international standing as a movie star). Spike was a talented trumpet player even before the war and also tasted some success during it as part of an eccentric gypsy jazz outfit called The Bill Hall Trio (this time playing guitar).
All three goons were professional musicians for part of their careers. Also fun fact their records were produced by George Martin who went on to produce the Beatles.
Part of the point of the Goons was to beat the Chancellor’s notices as with other radio shows. So the format was often to repeat the final clean line of a dirty joke which everyone knew because they had all served in the Forces in WWII but nothing untoward had been uttered on air!
Us Brits do like a funny song, I guess that's why we've had so many top the charts compared to the States. We've had The Wurzels: Combine Harvester, Benny Hill: The Fastest Milkman in the West, Spitting Image: The Chicken song, Joe Dolce: Shuddap You Face, The Goons: I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas and so many more.
King Charles loves this and all the Goons stuff .never tires telling people All of the Goons fought in WW2 and all had very successful careers in show biz Spike Milligans books about his time in the army are hilarious .Peter Sellers became an international movie star .Harry Secombe became a singer and played the Beadle in the musical Oliver .Michael Bentine was an officer in British Intelligence and was among the first to enter the Nazi death camps had his own show on TV .
Harry was a comedian who could really sing. The other comedian who could really sing was Ken Dodd singing 'Happiness' in 1964. His other famous song was 'Tears'! Look out for his tickle stick though!
This is completely bizarre Americans reacting to a song that's nearly 70 years old not understanding the time and place it was written, most Brits wouldn't have a clue.
Peter Sellars, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe pre dated Monty Python and Spike Milligan in particular inspired Monty Python. They where crazy and favourites of Prince Charles! in the early 1950’s and 60’s
OK Harry Secombe was a classical singer musician Spike Milligan was a Musician played brass instruments, Peter Sellers voice comedian actor. Micheal Bentine a voice comedian actor inventor.
The Goons where some of the greatest comedians of all time, and for thoughs who know, "SPLASH ! ... he he he, ... he's fallen in the water".
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You swine you deaded me@@diogenesagogo
You need to listen to Bloodnock's Rock n roll call or, Peter Sellers doing either Any Old Iron, Balham Gateway to the South or, A Hard Day's Night in the style of Laurence Olivier.😅
Gadzooks that sun is hot. We'll you shouldn't touch it should you?
Oh the Goons! Comedy that changed comedy forever. "He fall in the water"🤣
Yhe Goons, consisting of, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and the incomperable Harry Seacombe, he was a ligit singer, opera trained, check ot Boy for sale from Oliver, and his signature song "If I Ruled the World" my fathers favorite singer.
Also, I dont recomend reacting to it, because its radio, not video, but for your own entertainment have a listen to some of the original Goon Shows
I would recommend, the 1957 christmas pantomime Robin Hood and his merry mon
@davidclarke7122 I don't think I've heard that one, will have to see if I can find it. Only xmas related thing I remember from them (other than the walking backwards song) is the joke: "are you a spy?"
"Yes"
"Then why are you covered in mince?"
"I'm a mince pie!"
(No idea which episode that's from, but I've always remembered it, along with silent dynamite and the 3 of them trying to get out of a very deep hole by standing on eachother's shoulders, the plan was going very well until someone made the mistake of asking who was at the bottom)
The Goons was a huge radio show in the 1950/60s. Much loved by King Charles. They are acknowledged as being a major influence on Monty Pythons.
you need to do their classic "I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas". Legendary
...on the flip side of The Ying Tong Song single.
That was even released in JUNE of the year!!
Embrace the silliness.... it's Christmas!
The Goons were Spike Milligan (who wrote most of the shows), Peter Sellers (famous actor who also had Hollywood films to his CV and most famous to Americans as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther films) and Welsh comedian and singer Harry Secombe. Early on there was another 'Goon', Michael Bentine but he left because of creative differences. A lot of the voices were done by Sellers who could imitate anything and the other voices were done by the other two. They used very surreal comedy in 30 minute shows. As a example one of the first ones I heard was a prison episode and in the story Secombe (who played Seagoon) is the governor of the prison and the other two (who are playing prisoners) persuade Secombe to take them to France to steal a painting or something. When Secombe says he can't let them out of jail, Sellars character suggests taking the prison with them. When Secombe says people will notice the prison not being there, Sellars suggest leaving a cardboard cut-out.
Tales of Old Dartmoor.
Eric Sykes was also a main writer and Ronnie Barker also wrote in his early years.
To quote the inimitable Bluebottle - " You rotten swines you ! You have deaded me ! " 🤣🤣🤣
Oooh, I’ve fallen in the water!
"Look at my legs, they are not there."
Definite thanks to Dai, been years since I heard this and never expected it to crop up on a reaction channel, put a giant smile on my face. Don't think we ever owned the songs, but my Dad had a copy of the Last Goon Show of All on CD and sometimes when visiting my Grandad we'd get to listen to tapes he'd made of old Goon Show repeats. It was a time when he could forget us kids were loud and annoying, and we could forget he was a grumpy old man and just laugh together in eachother's company as Spike and the gang engaged in bizarre, chaotic hilarity.
Welp... there's a song I never expected to see TH-camrs react to! 😄The Goon Show was an anarchic UK radio show. Crudely put, it was to the 1950s what Monty Python's Flying Circus was to the 1960s and '70s, especially in its absurdity and its chaotic breaking of the established rules of comedy. In fact, the Pythons (and many other British comedy acts) were inspired by the lunacy of the Goons.
So True
Never forget that Michael Bentine was one of the four original goons.
Three great comedians who met during the war. Spike Milligan (left) was chasing a huge heavy artillery gun down through the trees and bushes of a Italian mountain. (It had been at the very top firing on the enemy). He came to a road where he met Harry Secombe. (Centre of picture) Who has just watched the gun come through the scrub and on down the mountain.
Spike .....Have you seen a field gun come past here? Harry.....What colour was it?
You probably already know Peter Sellers (Inspector Clouseau etc.)
The Goons were three very funny war veterans trying to make each other laugh. The radio series ran for years in the Fifties and was hugely influential on surreal comedy like Monty Python
This was my introduction to the concept of comedy, as a child. We didn’t have a TV, but we had the Goons. I remember singing along to this about five or six years old, too.
And doing “Rhubarb, rhubarb rhubard…CUSTARD!” For crowd noises.
This actually got played at our wedding. I have what can charitably called an eclectic taste when it comes to music, and when my sister realised the DJ only had pop music, she borrowed our house keys and zoomed off to raid my CD collection. The first I knew about it was when the sound of Madness' 'One Step Beyond' boomed out of the speakers. For the rest of the night, my sister basically babysat the DJ, making sure that a fair mix was played. When The Ying Tong Song started up there was even a little cheer as people welcomed the silliness.
of all the tunes in the world, this would've been quite near the bottom of the list of songs you'd react to...love it...great stuff guys👍🤣
Goons were legends great memories and sadly missed - funniest radio show ever 👍🇬🇧.
The wonderfully eccentric Spike Milligan😍
Had several inpatient trips to mental hospitals, but if anyone when he was out said he was mad he would produce his hospital discharge papers from a pocket and say "Oh no, I'm sane, I've got official paperwork to prove I'm sane, have you?"
Incidentally the Raspberry noises in the middle of the track are all spike, he was renouned for making them. When the Two Ronnies did the series in the middle of their shows of "The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town" they got Spike in just to produce the Sound effects. He's also in The Life of Brian, because he was on Holiday just up the coast when they were filming, and so they slipped him in for a Cameo
As I recall, My parent had a few records like this, Charlie Drake "My Boomerang won't come back", Bernard Cribbins "Right said Fred", "Digging a hole", Probably why I enjoyed The Bonzo Dog Do Dah band album, Urban Spaceman.
Another group you might enjoy is Amateur Transplant, Warning, They liked to parody songs, But you will never be able to unhear their words to songs like "When you say Nothing at all".
The Goons radio show is possibly the funniest thing you’d ever listen to.
This should be followed by "I'm walking backwards for Christmas"
And ""Unchained Melody", also by the Goons.
I’ve loved hearing this since I was a kid and introduced to it by my grandmother. The Goons were the OG.
My parents owned this record of the Goons singing this song. As kids we loved it and listening to it in my 60s it's still brilliant radio humour. Spike Milligan wrote it all and was stark raving bonkers.
My brother introduced me to The Goons and I’ve loved them ever since, favourite episode The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill on Sea 6:42
Oh, yes - a true classic from three comedy geniuses.
Goon …… But Not Forgotten …. 😂😅😂😅😂😅
'What time is it, Eccles?' 😁😁😁😁 Now you need to listen to some of the shows....
Ive got it on a piece of paper....ha ha
The Goons and this song was for adults not six year olds. The goons started in 1951, The song Ying Tong 1956, and the Chipmunks 1958. The Goons were Innovators.
British comedy/novelty songs, a whole new rabbit hole to delve into.
The Goons inspired Monty Python. My dad wanted this played at his funeral. I made sure of it. Everyone loved it and sang along 😂
Heard this so many times in the early 60s as a kid….silly but fun, the Goons where crazy.
The Bee Gee especially Maurice and Robin admitted to being highly inspired by the humour of the Goons as youngsters. Chubby Harry Seacomb was a fine singer.
The Goons were the original 'Alternative Comedians'. They started in the 50's on BBC Radio and were immensely influential upon the next generation of alternative comedians of which Monty Python was the most famous. How they met is also of interest. Spike Milligan met Harry Secombe in Italy during the Second World War. Spike Milligan claims he met Harry Secombe when the artillery piece in his unit was anchored properly. When fired the recoil sent it over a cliff landing at the foot of it. Harry Secombe ad his unit was based at the foot when all of a sudden the artillery piece landed amongst them! Later Spike appeared, having been sent to find it, and asked "has anyone seen my gun?". Later in years Spike was plagued with poor mental health. Upon one occasion Harry Secombe had to collect him from the Mental Institute, to which he had been sent to, in order to take him to do the show. Harry then took him back afterwards. My father worked for the BBC as an Outside Broadcast Sound Engineer. He did a couple of the Goon Shows and told me that one of the ones he did was held in a Convent Hall with half the audience being the nuns!
The Goons - the genius Spike Milligan ,Left, Harry Secombe ,Middle, who started the song was a legitimate singer in his own right & considered going into opera when he was young & Peter Sellars on the right also insanely talented comedian
Michael Bentine
Two comic geniuses in that picture Milligan and Sellars
Not to forget the great Harry Secombe he was so great😂
I used to listen to the Goons on a sunday afternoon, they all met up in the army during WW2 they used to call the German army Goons.
This was long before Alvin & the Chipmunks. Each of the character voices in the song was known to the audience. To understand… snatches of songs like this were embedded into the whole comedy show as callbacks all the time. And the shows were often performed as live concerts/plays. The initial voice is Harry Seacomb (a.k.a Seagoon) a Welshman who had a good trained voice. I don’t know who the female singer is, though.
The Goon Show was a comedy radio show comprising originally of . . . Michael Bentine . Not in the pic . .. .
Harry Secombe .middle
Peter Sellers on the right
Spike Milligan . . Left .
Great comedy . .
Take care till next . Bye from NZ👍👋🇳🇿🍻
Now is the time for "I'm walking backwards for Christmas " also by The Goons
Well you need to hear the flip side of that original disc… “I’m Walking Backward for Christmas”.
Written By Spike Milligan. Spike served in WWII as a signalmen in an artillery regiment. One of his close friends was Harry Edgington, the song title is a play on Harry's name... Edge-Ying-Tong.
Ah the days when novelty records were novel. They shared the same music producer as The Beatles too. Spike Milligan (the main writer of the Goons) also did a version of "Yellow Submarine" called "Purple Aeroplane" on one of his comedy recordings.
outstanding
I loved this as a kid back in the 60’s when I first heard it.
OMG I haven't heard this for years, I remember being at school and going around singing this
Ah yes the brilliant Goon show. Phantom Head Shaver. The Phantom won’t harm you- not when he sees that you’re armed with a Jet Morgan cardboard cutout space catapult!
They were all Clever Spike Milligan the Guy on the Left wrote some Fantastic Poetry. One of his Books 📚 " My help in Hitlers Down Fall " is one of Funniest Books I have ever Read .
Jim Spriggs: "Hello Jeeeeeem! Hello Jim! . . jiggajiggajigjig! . .
There's something wrong with the line, Jim!"
Ned Seagoon: "Seagoon here!"
Jim Spriggs: "Then there is something wrong with the line!"
The Goons also coined the phrase "Having the dreaded Lurgie" with the lurgie being an undefined illness that decimated all government agencies in one of the Goon Show sketches.
An early BBC radio announcer called it the Go on show.
The Goodies, Funky Gibbon.
Their other hit was £ I'm walking backwards 'til Christmas"
They re-released it in 73, got to no.9!
What's the time Eccles shows the border between genius and madness.
I couldn't agree more. Possibly one of the craziest and funniest dialogues ever written. Pure comic genius.
The perfect ringtone.
It's claimed the words came from Spike Milligan's friends name Harry Edgington which he turned into Edge Ying Tong.
Secombe was a operatic quality tenor, Milligan played the trumpet and Sellers played the ukelele.
Good grief where did rhis cime from? I loved this as a kid.Loved the Goons.
The first voice you hear in this song is from the member of The Goons called Harry Secombe. As well as being a fine comedian, he also had a long career as a quite operatic singer, with many hits in the 1960s. You can definitely tell the quality of his voice here. Oh, and "Ying tong iddle I po" was a big catchphrase of The Goon Show.
Light Operatic
Ying tong,ying tong,ying tong,ying tong,ying tong tiddle eye pooooo😂
My dad loved listening to the Goon show and Monty Python me and my little bro liked it too,funny😂
I still sing it as an adult.
Leap Into A Dustbin And Dance was another of The Goons novelty songs as well as I Love You by Slim Idiot and I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas. An American equivalent would be Spike Jones and his City Slickers or R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders although The Goons - featuring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan with earlier appearances of Michael Bentine were a comedy team that met up during WW2 and went on to create their own particular brand of humour with a radio comedy show that lasted throughout the 50s - originally, the BBC wanted to call them anything but The Goons and couldn't understand them at all. "Who are these Go-ons? What's it all about?" Spike would have a love-hate relationship with the powers that were and thought of them as idiots and would mock them with as much irreverence as he could every chance he had. "This is the BBC! Hold it up to the light, not a brain in sight!"
Spike was also a pretty good guitar and trumpet player. Sellers was a jazz drummer in addition.
And Harry Secombe was a very fine baritone singer, hit son If i Ruled The World, actor, played Mr Bumble in the hit musical film Oliver.
Also part of the Goones was Michael Bentine another fine comedy performer.
The Goons are a a favourite of King Charles.
Please check out Peter Sellers in such films a Dr Strangelove, Pink Panther series and Being There. Great actor.
The truet sounds half way through were played by Spike Milligan who was.a.talented trumpeteer
I reckon you'll love Spike Milligan's 'Dustbin dance'. It's really short, but really funny.
Hello from Oz. The Goons change comedy for ever. It made being crazy and a bit silly executable. Hence then birth of Monty Python. If you what to hear how nutty The Goons are, listen to their sketch "What Time Is It Eccles". It fall in the league of "Who's on first". Good luck.
I remember that as a child. Stand outs that I particularly remember were the rushing back and forward and the Ying, Tong Tong Tongey bit.
Somehow though I thought the whole thing was a bit more coherent (Certainly don't remember the repeated Keep Up prompts). could this have been a live take?
FWIW The decent singing at the start would have been Harry Seacombe, a renowned singer in his own right when he wasn't teamed up with the other Goons.
@civilizaserifusa4731 As far as I'm aware, this pretty much matches my memory of the song (keep up prompts and all). I now have the old vinyl single as I have all the old records now from my parents and grandparents (why I've been doing some proper throwback requests), but no way to play it.I'd imagine there were multiple versions out there though considering it was probably done live many times over.
@@_Dei_ Maybe so (after all it is many years since I last heard it) . I vaguely remember the Ying Tong Tongey part wandering off on its own then sort of petering out with everyone returning to the main melody.
I was going to say rather like the DoDoDo DoDoDeLe DoDoDo DoDoDeLe DoDo part in the Muppets ManaMana song. Hopefully I'm not mixing the two up.
Edit - with a second hearing it did seem more coherent. The Wolf Hunters' reactions were pulling attention. Funnily enough the chipmunk version of Ying Tong Tongey seemed closer to what I had been expecting in the non-chipmunk section.
Tong Tongeys and non-chipmunks? The brain is obviously frazzled, think I'll quit while I'm behind!
@civilizaserifusa4731 It's the Ying Tong Song. If you're applying logic, then you've already started behind! You know the best thing about starting behind? You can only go forward! Big up Civ. Have a good break and a good new year.
This was comedy radio before telly it was more audio than visual old humor that is hard to understand now but was hilarious back in the day
The guy that sang at the start would have been Harry Secombe. The other two are Spike Milligan on the right and Peter Sellers on the left.
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Ying Tong probably has its origins in Spike Milligan's wartime friend (and self-taught pianist) Harry Edgington (Edge-Ying-Tong) who crops up in his best-selling war memoirs. The comedy troupe had a pretty fair share of musical talent, with the voice of Harry Secombe and the percussion skills of Peter Sellers (largely hidden from gaze after his international standing as a movie star). Spike was a talented trumpet player even before the war and also tasted some success during it as part of an eccentric gypsy jazz outfit called The Bill Hall Trio (this time playing guitar).
Still a favourite song 😊
"Hen ry. Hen ry,"
"Yes Min."
"The cat wants to go out Hen ry"
How do you know min?
"He's got his hat and coat on"
Henry Crumb and Minney Banister
All three goons were professional musicians for part of their careers.
Also fun fact their records were produced by George Martin who went on to produce the Beatles.
You should listen to the goons!!
Part of the point of the Goons was to beat the Chancellor’s notices as with other radio shows. So the format was often to repeat the final clean line of a dirty joke which everyone knew because they had all served in the Forces in WWII but nothing untoward had been uttered on air!
Many people forget that the goons were the precision group that became ?
Monty Python
b side was im going backwards across the irish sea
Ying Tong Song 20 th. Sept 1956 - Alvin and the Chipmunks 1958. Plagiarism I say, call in the Lawyers!
If you can get bbc sounds they are playing the old goon shows.
Nb the kazoo was Peter Sellers
This was a radio show from the 50s to the early 60s. You need a sketch with the different characters.
Us Brits do like a funny song, I guess that's why we've had so many top the charts compared to the States.
We've had The Wurzels: Combine Harvester, Benny Hill: The Fastest Milkman in the West, Spitting Image: The Chicken song, Joe Dolce: Shuddap You Face, The Goons: I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas and so many more.
You forgot my favourite one about the little mouse with clogs on,A Windmill In Old Amsterdam going clip clippity clip on the stairs right there 😂
King Charles loves this and all the Goons stuff .never tires telling people All of the Goons fought in WW2 and all had very successful careers in show biz Spike Milligans books about his time in the army are hilarious .Peter Sellers became an international movie star .Harry Secombe became a singer and played the Beadle in the musical Oliver .Michael Bentine was an officer in British Intelligence and was among the first to enter the Nazi death camps had his own show on TV .
Very cool love ya
Tommy Cooper did an interesting song called, 'Don't Jump Off The Roof Dad', that you might find interesting.
We played that at. my best friend's funeral last year
the goons iam walking backward for christmas
Why are you there, everybody got to be somewhere, I think thats it.
Harry was a comedian who could really sing. The other comedian who could really sing was Ken Dodd singing 'Happiness' in 1964. His other famous song was 'Tears'! Look out for his tickle stick though!
Of course he could, he was Welsh. It's in their DNA.
@@darrylhilbig6459 ... and Ken Dodd is from Liverpool. Another lot that can sing! 😀
This is completely bizarre Americans reacting to a song that's nearly 70 years old not understanding the time and place it was written, most Brits wouldn't have a clue.
I'm a GenZer and do understand it's significance 😊 maybe the younger gen maybe missed out on the fun
@@LindaOvenstone-hg3gl Pray tell I'm all ears.
Peter Sellars, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe pre dated Monty Python and Spike Milligan in particular inspired Monty Python. They where crazy and favourites of Prince Charles! in the early 1950’s and 60’s
"Dai" is a Welsh (of Wales) male name, pronounced 'dye' !
And who porduced all the Goons music... George Martin.... The Beatles producer...!!!
Have a listen to Unchained Melody by The Goons - best version ever produced by a young George Martin.
ALVIN........theres someone at the door...........I cant hear you my love,someones banging on the door.
because it was a radio show it was flights of fancy they could make you believe almost anything
OK Harry Secombe was a classical singer musician Spike Milligan was a Musician played brass instruments, Peter Sellers voice comedian actor. Micheal Bentine a voice comedian actor inventor.
" with Maurice Ponké and His Orchestre Fromage."
I don't know if you can get away with it but for your own enjoyment listen to Derek and Clive (Peter cook and Dudley Moore) absolutely hilarious stuff
Budgie, breadfan or Napoleon bonaparte 1 and 2
Hi Suzie it's Cali 🙂
You miss the point the part you called chipmonks were angles,didnt you hear the bomb fall.The Goons were a group doing adult humour on the radio.
Actually who did the music for this, Wally Stott or Max Geldray ?
What's the time, Eccles?
Try my bruvver,by Terry scott