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Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me / The Inbetweenies
Bradley’s Records - BRAD 7241. Copyright 1974.
Released October 1974.
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This single was released twice.
Initally The Inbetweenies was the A-side and Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me the B-side. A
few months later the two sides were reversed; the Father Christmas A-side is the more commonly found version.
The Funky Gibbon / Sick-Man Blues
Bradley’s Records – BRAD 7504. Copyright
1975. Released February 1975.
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The version of Funky Gibbon on this single is slightly different from the album
version.
Goodies Theme / Stuff That Gibbon
Decca F13578. Copyright
1973. Released April 1975.
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The World of The Goodies
Decca SPA 416. Copyright 1973.
Released May 1975.
A reissue of: The Goodies Sing Songs from The Goodies
Tracks on this album are:
All Things Bright And Beautiful, Ride My Pony, Stuff That Gibbon, Mummy I Don't Like My Meat, Show Me The Way, Goodies
Theme, Sparrow Song, Taking You Back, Sunny Morning, Winter Sportsman, and Spacehopper.
This album contains rerecorded versions of songs which appeared in episodes
of The Goodies with the exception of the first track, All Things Bright and Beautiful. According to Bill Oddie, they’d planned instead to include a version of Land
of Hope and Glory but ran into licensing problems for that song.
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Black Pudding Bertha / Panic
Bradley’s Records – BRAD 7517. Copyright 1975. Released June 1975.
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Nappy Love / Wild Thing
Bradley’s Records – BRAD 7524. Copyright 1975. Released September 1975.
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The New Goodies LP
(released on cassette as “The New Goodies Cassette” and
on 8-track as “The New Goodies Cartridge”)
Bradley's BRADL 1010.
Released October 1975.
Contains the songs: Goodies Theme, Please Let Us Play, Custard Pie,
Cricklewood, Good Ole Country Music, Baby Samba, Rock With A Policeman, The Cricklewood
Shakedown, Nappy Love, I'm A Teapot, Working The Line, The Funky Gibbon, and
Wild Thing.
Many of the songs from this album were used in the episode The Goodies
– Almost Live. A different version of Working the Line appears
in the episode Bunfight at the OK Tearooms.
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Make A Daft Noise For Christmas / The Last Chance Dance
Bradley’s Records – BRAD 7533. Copyright 1975. Released November 1975.
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Bounce! / Good Ole Country Music
Bradley’s Records – BRAD 7612. Copyright 1976.
Released May 1976.
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The Goodies Greatest
Bradley's BRADL 1012.
Released November
1976.
Contains the songs: Goodies Theme, Funky Gibbon, The Inbetweenies, Nappy Love, Last Chance Dance, Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me, Black Pudding Bertha,
Bounce, Panic, Make A Daft Noise For Christmas, Charles Aznovoice, and Wild Thing.
Mostly contains songs from The New Goodies LP along with a few
additions (including Bounce, a version of which was used in the episode The Goodies Rule – OK?).
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Nothing To Do With Us
Island ILPS 9452. Released
November 1976.
Contains the songs: The Policemans Opera, Cactus in My Y-Fronts, Elizabeth Rules – UK!,
Blowing Off, I Wish I Could Get High, Synthesizer Man, She Wouldn't Understand, and I Wish I Had Something To Say.
The Goodies move to Island Records also marks a change of style. The Policemans Opera is a mini rock opera (described on the album’s back
cover as “A major Work in four movements – with a few bits in between”).
Several of the songs also contain more adult themes than in the Goodies’ previous work.
A version of Cactus in my Y- Fronts turns up in the episode The
Goodies – Almost Live.
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Elizabeth Rules UK
/ Blowing Off
Island Records – WIP 6360.
Copyright 1976.
Released December 1976.
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The Goodies Greatest Hits
E.M.I./Note NTS 233.
Released October 1981.
Contains the
songs: Funky Gibbon, Black Pudding Bertha, Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me, Nappy Love, Rock With A Policeman, I'm A Teapot, Spring Spring Spring, Good Ole Country Music, Wild
Thing, The Inbetweenies, M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E, Cricklewood, A Man's Best Friend Is His Duck, Melody Farm, Last Chance Dance,
Charles Aznovoice, Taking My Oyster For Walkies, Baby Samba, Rastashanty, and Make
A Daft Noise For Christmas.
This cover of this greatest
hits album features a publicity photo from the Goodies LWT episode “Bigfoot”.
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Best of The Goodies (Australia)
M7 MLX-150. Released 1976.
Contains the songs The Funky Gibbon, Black Pudding Bertha, Charles Aznavoice, The Inbetweenies,
Sick-man Blues, Good Ole Country Music, Panic, Nappy Love, Father Christmas Do Not Touch, and The Goodies Theme.
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M*I*C*K*E*Y M*O*U*S*E / Funky Farm
EMI 2784. Copyright 1978.
Released May 1978.
The Goodies Beastly Record
Columbia SCX 6596.
Released 1978.
Contains the songs Melody Farm, Taking My Oyster For Walkies,
Spring Spring Spring, Terrapins, A Man's Best Friend Is His Duck, Spank That Hamster, Rastashany, Ironing My Goldfish, Funky
Farm, There's A Walrus In My Soup, Why Doesn't An Elephant Go Tweet Tweet?, I Am A Carnivore, and Elephant Joke Song.
The album’s title (and cover artwork) reflect the animal theme
in the song selection. Most of these songs were originally used in the radio
series I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again (which featured all three Goodies).
A Man’s Best Friend Is His Duck / Taking My Oyster For Walkies
/ Rastashanty
Columbia DB 9053.
Copyright 1978. Released October
1978.
Yum Yum! The Very Best of The Goodies (CD)
Music Club MCCD 294. Released
May 1997.
Contains the songs: The Goodies’ Theme, Funky Gibbon,
The Inbetweenies, Please Let Us Play, Custard Pie, Black Pudding Bertha, Cricklewood,
Good Ole Country Music, Nappy Love, Baby Samba, Wild Thing, Rock With A Policeman, The Cricklewood Shakedown, Panic, I’m
A Teapot, Working The Line, Sick Man Blues, The Last Chance Dance, Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me, and Make A Daft
Noise For Christmas.
This greatest hits CD includes a booklet with liner notes written by
Bill Oddie.
Funky Gibbon - The Best of The Goodies (CD)
Castle Pie PIESD 243. Released 23 October 2000.
Contains the songs: The Goodies Theme, Funky Gibbon, The Inbetweenies, Please Let Us Play, Black Pudding Bertha, Cricklewood, Good Ole Country Music, Nappy Love, Wild Thing,
Rock With A Policeman, Panic, I’m A Teapot, Sick Man Blues, The Last Chance Dance, Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me,
and Make A Daft Noise For Christmas.
This is a budget version of the Yum Yum CD, containing 16 of the 20 songs from the earlier release. This collection does not have the liner notes written by Bill Oddie.
It’s A Gas / Put In A Potterton
Galbraith Music. Released
1974.
It appears that this record was given away at by Potterton Boilers at a 1974 sales
presentation.
Side A of the single has The Goodies singing a 20 second jingle for Potterton
(It's a Gas). This jingle can be downloaded from the Goodies Rule - OK! site (http://www.goodiesruleok.com/download.php). Side B is an instrumental version of the Potterton jingle.
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A Poke In The Eye (with a sharp stick)
Transatlantic TRA 331. Released
1976.
A live recording of the highlights from the 1976 special Gala Performances
at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London, in aid of Amnesty International. This
album includes the Goodies performing a live version of Funky Gibbon.
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The Complete A Poke In The Eye (With A Sharp Stick)
(CD)
2 CD Set
Castle Communications Australia
Ltd - ACSCD 020. Released
1991.
2 Cassette
Set
Castle Communications Australia
Ltd - ESDMC 153. Released
1991.
Disk one contains the
contents of A Poke In The Eye LP (including the Goodies performing Funky Gibbon).
The second CD contains additional material from the 1976 Amnesty
International performance including an additional three Goodies songs, Cactus in My ‘Y’ Fronts, Mummy Mummy
Mummy, and Sick Man’s Blues.
An interesting piece of trivia is that Graeme sings the lead vocal on this version
of Cactus in My 'Y' Fronts, making this the only song on which all three Goodies have at some point been the lead
singer. Bill sang it in the radio show I'll Sorry I'll Read That Again; Tim took the lead in the version on
the Goodies Nothing To Do With Us album and in the episode The Goodies - Almost Live.
BBC Comedy Themes
BBC Records REH 387.
Released 1980.
As the title suggests, this album includes themes from various
BBC television shows. It has the version of The Goodies Theme from The
New Goodies LP.
This album is included in this guide thanks to the
drawing of the Goodies on the cover.
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The Adventures of Bananaman (Cassette)
Tempo – T.A.C. 9202
Four stories about cartoon character Bananaman read by Bill
Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Graeme Garden.
The story titles are Jaws of Steel, The Banana Kid, House on Hangman’s
Hill, and Alien Planet.
I don’t know if this title was released on an album as well.
A Walk In The Black Forest / Nola
Artist: Horst Jankowski
Mercury 72425. Copyright
1965.
While not a Goodies song, this single certainly deserves
inclusion in a list of Goodies-related records thanks to the prominent role it plays in one of the most popular episodes,
Radio Goodies. In that episode the Goodies start a pirate radio station
with only one record, A Walk in the Black Forest (though in the episode the flip side is A Walk in the Black Forest, Part 2). Later the song is briefly heard
in the Goodies episodes Lighthouse Keeping Loonies and Chubby Chumps.
This record is a representative example; the song was released on other
singles as well as on at least one Horst Jankowski album and CD.
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This is a work-in-progress. If you'd like to contribute any information,
corrrections, or suggestions please email president@goodiesruleok.com
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