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dickthegrouch

(4,654 posts)
Sat May 31, 2014, 04:29 PM May 2014

Does anyone remember which 70's radio show...

There was one of the Sunday 1pm Radio 4 comedy shows which had a calypso song about James Bond

The only words I can remember any longer are

Savile Row suit and shoulder holster gun,
He found many mysteries that did perplex,
And found also plenty of time for Yes, thank you very much

I'd very much like to find a CD of those shows if possible.

It might have been "Im sorry I'll read that again" or "The Goon Show" or another of similar ilk.

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Does anyone remember which 70's radio show... (Original Post) dickthegrouch May 2014 OP
Couldn't find it but here's some links TexasProgresive May 2014 #1
OMG Thanks dickthegrouch Jun 2014 #6
I tried a Google search shenmue May 2014 #2
Since people are so touchy dickthegrouch Jun 2014 #7
A parody of this? muriel_volestrangler May 2014 #3
Goon Show had long since ceased dipsydoodle Jun 2014 #4
Sigh, the Kenneth Williams is blocked in the US on copyright grounds dickthegrouch Jun 2014 #8
"I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" used to do improvised calypsos ... (nt) muriel_volestrangler Jun 2014 #5

dickthegrouch

(4,654 posts)
6. OMG Thanks
Sun Jun 1, 2014, 02:48 PM
Jun 2014

Radioechoes has just chewed up my whole weekend

I had completely forgotten Round the Horn and Men from the Ministry.
I have tapes of the Navy Lark (but not all of them) and I think I'll down load the whole lot new.

Thanks so much.

I haven't found the original calypso I was asking about, but I'll shortly have hundreds of shows to listen to in the car.

dickthegrouch

(4,654 posts)
7. Since people are so touchy
Sun Jun 1, 2014, 02:49 PM
Jun 2014

I tried several variations on my lyrics in several search engines before asking. I got nothing either

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
4. Goon Show had long since ceased
Sun Jun 1, 2014, 05:25 AM
Jun 2014

When I think of our Sunday lunchtime / afternoon radio programs from those days its always "Round the Horn" which comes to mind.

On the subject of The Goons I've got every mp3s of every Goon Show ever broadcast.





Back to Round the Horn......................The collected Ramblings of Syd Rumpo here :

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