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Post by David Savage on Jul 25, 2003 21:46:10 GMT
On Bill Oddie's This Is Your Life a clip from The Goodies' opening titles were played, with the jaunty second theme song the series had, the one I think was first used in 1975 - but it seemed to have alternative lyrics:
"Hey, why don't you give us a shout, may- be we can work it out, ahh, come on and don't be shy ..."
I was sure I'd never heard these before. Were they ever used on the show?
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Post by geeef23 on Jul 25, 2003 22:47:19 GMT
I think those lyrics are in the extended version, which appears originally on "The Goodies..Almost Live" LP which was released on Bradleys Records in 1975 (or possibly 1976, havent got the record to hand). The tv version never got that far in to the song, though whether the BBC recording included those words and just got faded out or whether Bill Oddie wrote an extended version specially for the LP I dont know. Come to think of it, there was a BBC episode "Almost Live", where they run through their hits and I think the Goodies theme at the end might be the full length version....but I would need to dig the tape out to confirm this.
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Post by David Savage on Jul 25, 2003 23:07:28 GMT
Thanks for that (I hadn't remembered the extended theme at the end of Almost Live - just them performing Wild Thing ... at a bus stop?)
Wonder why on Bill's This Is Your Life the BBC played footage of the opening titles with the wrong bit of the song from an extended version over the top of it, then. Why not just play the opening titles! I was wondering if they'd run some early prototype of the titles by mistake ...
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Post by Mark Boulton on Aug 3, 2003 14:24:52 GMT
I would imagine they did it so that there weren't any audience noises or SFX on it.
I've often been meaning to ask - so now I will - if any of the clean recordings for the incidental music on The Goodies was kept?
I fully expect to get a resounding "NO" - after all, they would have made great DVD extras.
As Bill says in his commentary, it's a shame all his hard work was very often buried in laughter - not that I'm complaining about THAT, particularly, but his "little secret" did infer that, once stuff was dubbed over the top of it, that was the end of the story and there was no way of getting back to how it was.
BTW - Quick Forum question - why do you have to keep entering a name again when you've already logged in? I almost lost this post (again)
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Post by Mark Brown on Aug 3, 2003 16:54:09 GMT
BTW - Quick Forum question - why do you have to keep entering a name again when you've already logged in? I almost lost this post (again) You shouldn`t have to, i never have.
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Post by Matthew K Sharp on Aug 3, 2003 22:34:00 GMT
I've often been meaning to ask - so now I will - if any of the clean recordings for the incidental music on The Goodies was kept? My impression is that some of (most of?) it does exist clean, but that Oddie's not particularly keen on ever having it relased. At least, that's my understanding of the answer he gave to that exact question at the 2000 Goodies Convention. A clean recording of "They're Taking Over" from Way Outward Bound would be an excellent thing indeed... MKS
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Post by Martin OGorman on Aug 4, 2003 16:07:59 GMT
Well, this was a can of worms. I interviewed Sir William in 2000 for Record Collector mag and he claimed that he had a load of tapes in his attic (needless to say, I didn't get to see them). He said, and has said in other interviews, that they're on some weird 12" audio tape format that nobody in the universe seems to recall. I thought he meant 12" spools, but one account reckons the tape was 12" wide!?!? That *surely* can't be right.
I think he'd be up for releasing them, if someone could sort them out, but I suspect that there'd be a fair bit of licensing jiggery pokery to get over. He was keen to have a CD release for "Nothing To Do With Us".
Me, I'd like "Taking You Back" from Camelot and whatever the tune is in "Clown Virus", a fine guitar solo there. Would that be Chris Spedding?
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Post by BizMark on Aug 5, 2003 11:57:14 GMT
He could have meant one of four things:
That they're 12" wide SPOOLS of 1/4" Grand Master tape containing the mixdowns; or That they're 2" 16-track masters (and confused the '1' from '16' and put it in front of the '2" ') or That they're 12-track tapes (which would be obscure but perhaps some odd BBC-proprietary format in use at the time) or That it's normal 1/4" stereo or 2" multi-track tape but recorded at 12 inches-per-second rather than the standard 15.
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Post by beanisacarrot on Aug 15, 2003 11:43:49 GMT
He could have meant one of four things: That they're 12" wide SPOOLS of 1/4" Grand Master tape containing the mixdowns; or That they're 2" 16-track masters (and confused the '1' from '16' and put it in front of the '2" ') or That they're 12-track tapes (which would be obscure but perhaps some odd BBC-proprietary format in use at the time) or That it's normal 1/4" stereo or 2" multi-track tape but recorded at 12 inches-per-second rather than the standard 15. And presumably either of these formats could be transfered to some digital form so that is on them could be released?
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