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1''Guitar guitar hum hum''
2
3The Goodies weren't just a comic trio, they had a number of hits in the mid-'70s eventually peaking at #4 with Funky Gibbon. Although credited to The Goodies most of these recordings were Bill's songwriting, vocals and, in the vein of his favorite genre, Funk.
4
5!![[http://www.discogs.com/artist/650959-Goodies-The Discography]]:
6
7!!![[http://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/artist/the-goodies Albums]]:
8[[foldercontrol]]
9[[folder:Sing Songs From The Goodies]]
10||'''''Side 1'''''||
11||'''No.'''||'''Title'''||
12||1||All Things Bright And Beautiful||
13||2||Ride My Pony||
14||3||Stuff That Gibbon||
15||4||Mummy I Don't Like My Meat||
16||5||Show Me The Way||
17||'''''Side 2'''''||
18||6||Goodies Theme||
19||7||Sparrow Song||
20||8||Taking You Back||
21||9||Sunny Morning||
22||N/A||"Butterfly" (Sparrow Song reprise)||
23||10||Winter Sportsman||
24||11||Spacehopper||
25[[/folder]]
26[[folder:The New Goodies LP]]
27||'''''Side 1'''''||
28||'''No.'''||'''Title'''||
29||1||Goodies Theme||
30||2||Please Let Us Play||
31||3||Custard Pie||
32||4||Cricklewood||
33||5||Good Ole Country Music||
34||6||Baby Samba||
35||7||Rock With A Policeman||
36||'''''Side 2'''''||
37||8||The Cricklewood Shakedown||
38||9||Nappy Love||
39||10||I'm A Teapot||
40||11||Working The Line||
41||12||Funky Gibbon||
42||13||Wild Thing||
43[[/folder]]
44[[folder:Nothing To Do With Us]]
45||'''''Side 1'''''||
46||'''No.'''||'''Title'''||
47||1||Policeman's Opera [softreturn] [--(A major Work in four parts-with a couple of bits in between)--]||
48|| ||[-Overture-"Pig's Lament"-]||
49|| ||[-Dreadcop's Comin'-]||
50|| ||[-Third Bit-]||
51|| ||[-Photofit Love-]||
52|| ||[-Aria-"She Does Not Exist"-]||
53|| ||[-Rhapsody In Blue-]||
54|| ||[-Finale-]||
55||2||Cactus In My Y-Fronts||
56||3||Elizabeth Rules-U.K!||
57||'''''Side 2'''''||
58||4||Blowin' Off||
59||5||I Wish I Could Get High||
60||6||Synthesizer Man||
61||7||She Wouldn't Understand||
62||8||I Wish I Had Something To Say||
63[[/folder]]
64[[folder:Beastly Record]]
65||'''''Side 1'''''||
66||'''No.'''||'''Title'''||
67||1||Melody Farm||
68||2||Taking My Oyster For Walkies||
69||3||Spring Spring Spring||
70||4||Terrapins||
71||5||A Man's Best Friend Is His Duck||
72||6||Spank That Hamster||
73||'''''Side 2'''''||
74||7||Rastashanty||
75||8||Ironing My Goldfish||
76||9||Funky Farm||
77||10||There's A Walrus In My Soup||
78||11||Why Doesn't An Elephant Go Tweet Tweet?||
79||12||I Am A Carnivore||
80||13||Elephant Joke Song||
81[[/folder]]
82!!!Non-album [[http://www.45cat.com/artist/the-goodies Singles]]:
83
84* The Inbetweenies
85** Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me
86* The Funky Gibbon (a ''very'' slightly different version to the one found on "The New Goodies LP")
87** Sick-Man Blues
88* Black Pudding Bertha
89** Panic
90* Make A Daft Noise For Christmas
91** The Last Chance Dance
92* Bounce!
93* M*I*C*K*E*Y M*O*U*S*E
94
95!!Bill's Music Tropes
96
97* AlbumIntroTrack: "Goodies Theme" from ''The New Goodies LP''.
98* AlbumTitleDrop: "Baby Samba".
99-->"...while our boring old mothers were buying Jensen Interceptors, caviar ''New Goodies LP'' that sort of thing..."
100* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Bill played percussion on the albums.
101* BehindTheBlack: Any time the incidental music was cut/edited and/or faded in/out for broadcast. Less than half of a 6 minute recording could end up being used, for example.
102* BookEnds. The melody of "All Things Bright And Beautiful", the first song on their first album and début single, is reprised in "I Am A Carnivore" which is the penultimate song on the final album. It was kind of Bill's way of saying goodbye to a ''fantastic'' 5-year discography.
103* TheCastShowoff: Keyboardist Dave [=MacRae=] who joined series sessions in Season 3 and became MD and arranger himself after the departure of Mike Gibbs. His playing is at its best during Season 5, especially during the more energetic pieces such as “Big Brave Bold Hunka Man”. He was also the only player, other than Brian Odgers, Mike Morgan, and Bill himself, to cross over onto the albums. As if that wasn’t enough, he arranged half of “New LP”, all of “Nothing To Do With Us”, which he also produced, and “Beastly Records”.
104* ChristmasSongs: Two, "Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me" and "Make A Daft Noise For Christmas".
105* ConceptAlbum: Beastly Record contains songs about animals.
106* CoverVersion: Famously "Wild Thing".
107** "Land Of Hope And Glory", "We'll Keep A Welcome In The Hillside", "Waltzing Matilda".
108** "Brother Can You Spare A Dime", "Cotton Fields", "I’m In Love For The Very First Time".
109** "Night Fever", "Staying Alive", "Summer Nights", "You're The One That I Want", "Onward Christian Soldiers", "Tiger Rag", "Bright Eyes".
110** "All Things Bright And Beautiful" really is its own song but the melody and lyrics are, of course, much the same!
111** "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis M*I*C*K*E*Y M*O*U*S*E]]" which is arranged in typical Goodies funk style.
112* DanceSensation: "Funky Gibbon" became one when The Goodies went on ''Top of the Pops''.
113* EpicRiff: At least one per series. "Bad Bad Lot", "I’m Coming To Get You", "Taking You Back", "Bonecrusher".
114* EpicRocking: A large amount of the series incidental music, since Bill and Co. had to record enough material to fill out the filmed segments of the show. These could range from 3 minutes all the way to 7. Specific examples from “The Cricklewood Tapes” are: Away From It All, The Philharmonic Glee Club Rock 'n' Roll Band, Square Dance, Far Away, Superman, Bonecrusher; from the studio albums: Elizabeth Rules – U.K., “The Policeman’s Opera” taken as a whole.
115* FakeBand: Although Bill played percussion and Graeme contributed banjo once or twice, all the musicians were reputable session musicians.
116* FunkMetal: Bonecrusher. It has the strong groove rhythm section for funk and the harsh melodic temperament for metal, what with the piercing guitar work. Also it contains lyrical themes not then heard outside the most extreme genres of music. It is probably the first recording of its kind for those reasons. [[note]] And now there is a rumour going around metal sources that Creator/{{Metallica}} are busily practising it for a new album that's in the pipeline...[[/note]]
117* GenreRoulette: Although their albums mostly contained funk there were strong Country & Western, ballads, rock, Both Beatlesque and standard pop, and, in the case of Beastly Record, trad jazz songs.
118* GenreShift: Goodies albums contained a wide variety of genres concurrent with the contemporary music of the time or recent times gone by. However there are a couple of songs which deserve a mention:
119** ''The Policeman's Opera'' from ''Nothing To Do With Us'':
120*** "Pig's Lament": Rock.
121*** "Dreadcop's Comin'": Reggae.
122*** "Third Bit": Bee Gees-like Disco.
123*** "Photofit Love": Funk.
124*** "She Does Not Exist": by its own admission an Aria.
125*** "Rhapsody In Blue": Rock again.
126*** "Finale": Harder Rock.
127** "I Wish I Had Something To Say" goes from pop ballad on Tim's verses to funk and then reggae on Bill's bridges.
128* HeavyMithril: Taking You Back. Although possibly written to parody the recent fantasy-oriented rock, this song really does stand up on its own.
129-->"''Back to the ages of peasants and pages''"
130* LongestSongGoesLast: Played Straight with “Sings Songs From The Goodies” and “Beastly Record” with “Spacehopper” and “Elephant Joke Song”
131** Inverted – Longest Song Goes First – with “Nothing To Do With Us” and “The Cricklewood Tapes” with “The Policeman’s Opera” and “Away From It All”.
132** Inverted – Shortest Song Goes First – with “The Goodies New LP” with “The Goodies Theme”.
133* LyricSwap: "Please Let Us Play". The 3rd verse echoes the 1st - the singers have become famous.
134-->"Please Let Us Play - '''NO! NO! NO!'''"
135-->"We don't want money - just don't send us away"
136-->becomes in the 3rd chorus
137-->"Please Let Us Play - '''YES! YES! YES!'''"
138-->"We've got money - and they don't send us away"
139* MetalScream: All Things Bright And Beautiful, Custard Pie, etc.
140* MinisculeRocking: Land Of Hope And Glory, Kitten Kong, Sparrow Song, The Goodies Theme, parts of “The Policeman’s Opera”: Third Bit, Photofit Love, Rhapsody In Blue, Finale; On The Road, Rock Goodies, Goodies Split, Meanwhile, A Few Days Later, Punky Business, etc.
141* MissingEpisode:
142** Until 2018 there was no way of hearing the original sound cues for “Kitten Kong”. With the release of “The Cricklewood Tapes” the mock advert of “Universe” (so full of cow it almost moos) and “Kitten Kong” itself could be heard for the for the first time in 45+ years. This is because when “Kitten Kong” was remounted for Montreaux ’72, Bill and Co. rerecorded “Kitten Kong” and the “Universe” sketch was dropped. “The One That Got Away (Version 1)” from “Scotland” or “The Loch Ness Monster” and “Changed (Version 2)” from “Pollution” remain unreleased. “50 Men In My Life (aka Dreaded Wheat)” was a major rarity since that advert got cut from reairings of “The Lost Tribe”, but it was recovered from the National Archives Of Australia in the end of 2009/beginning of 2010.
143** Any of the incidental music not released on “The Cricklewood Tapes”. That’s all of Series 1, 3, 4 (except “Taking You Back”) and 1/2 of 5 for Mike Gibbs, and all of 6, 8, and 9 for Dave MacRae. All recordings of "Goodies Theme" except "Version 4" (S 6-8), since this is the version from "New Goodies LP", and the rerecording of "Version 2" (S 3+4) are missing, since they existed on tapes which are not known to exist.
144* NewSoundAlbum: Beastly Record mostly has 1930s-esque songs on it.
145* NewSoundAlbum: The music got harder and harder over the years, with new textures and sounds being explored and innovated. We begin with rather standard fare for the time, but end up with an unmistakably unique sonic signature.
146** Series 1 – psychedelic pop with “Needed”, “Catch Me If You Can”, “Are You Coming Out To Play”.
147** Series 2 – jazz with “Square Dance”, “Fun Palace”, “Dumb Animals”, “Berserk”; R'n'B with “A Woman’s Work”, “Spacehopper”, “Bad Bad Lot”.
148** Series 3/4 – jazz funk with “It’s My Home”, “I’m Coming To Get You”, “Ride My Pony”, “Do The Bunny”; hard rock with “Storm On”, “They’re Taking Over”, “Taking You Back”.
149** Series 5 – funk with “Crazy Man”, “Boomerang Love”; funk rock with “Here Come The Clowns”, “Lay Your Weight”, “Play The Game”, funk ''metal'' with “Bonecrusher”.
150* NonAppearingTitle:
151** "Goodies Theme" obviously.
152** "The Last Chance Dance" by the skin of its enamoured enamel.
153** "The Policeman's Opera" (and several of its parts too!).
154** "Elizabeth Rules-U.K!" unsurprisingly.
155** "Funky Farm" being an instrumental and all.
156** "Square Dance", "Front Page News".
157* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: All of the music recorded for the show. All of the killer funk recorded with Michael Gibbs and Dave Macrae. Most of it is in mono and has a laugh track over it so listening to it is unsatisfactory.
158** Andrew Pixley from [[http://www.goodiesruleok.com/ goodiesruleok.com]] compiled a list of the songs [[http://www.goodiesruleok.com/articles.php?id=76 here]] and [[http://missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/48 various]] [[http://www.goodiesruleok.com/forum.php?forum=3&fpage=3&msg=40077&topic=4232 threads]] have specified that it is extant in SFX and laughter-free format but Oddie won't release it for various reasons.
159** This was remedied somewhat in the September of 2018 when “The Cricklewood Tapes” was released as part of “A Binge Of The Goodies”. It contained 95% of the music for Series 2, around 1/2 of Series 5, and everything from Series 7. Everything is still in mono, but the tapes, some of which are almost 50 years old, sound pristine. Needless to say, the fandom rejoiced and, despite its limited initial run, it was re-pressed later. The best part is that its rerelease retailed for £9.99. That’s right. Less than 10 pounds for 3 discs of killer music.
160* OneHitWonder: in the USA, where the only Goodies song that charted, briefly, was ''Funky Gibbon''. Apparently the US Dance and Disco Chart took it as a straight disco number played for real and a real dance craze. It took them a while to work it out...
161* OopNorth: Black Pudding Bertha (she's the queen of '''''northern''' soul'', y'know)
162* {{Pun}}: Bill uses these with ''abandon''. {{Lampshaded}} in "I Am A Carnivore" where Bill reels off 14 meat-based puns. What a rump-us!
163* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Done on two songs intentionally.
164** "Goodies Theme":
165--> '''G''' (''Gee'') you need a helping hand
166--> '''O''' (''Oh'') you know we'll understand
167--> '''O''' we'll give right to the end
168--> '''D''' we'll show you definitely
169--> '''Y''' (''Why'') you should employ us three
170** "Funky Gibbon":
171--> '''G''' (''Gee'') the world would be good
172--> '''I''' (''I'') know how nice it could
173--> '''B''' (''Be'') with just a bit of [[{{Pun}} Gibbon take]]
174--> '''B''' just like that Gibbon
175--> '''O''' (''Oh'') feel the rhythm
176--> '''N''' (''aNd'') you'll groove and dance up to the planet of the apes
177* RecordProducer: For the most part Miki Antony.
178* RearrangeTheSong: Although Bill wrote plenty of new material for The Goodies, sometimes he needed to rework songs he wrote for ''Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain.''
179** "Goodies Theme" got a spring-clean every series or so...
180*** Version 1: Series 1+2 (1970-1972), Version 2: Series 3+4 (1973-1974), Version 3: Series 5 (1975), Version 4: Series 6-8 (1976-1980), Version 5: Series 9 (1981-1982).
181** "The Philharmonic Glee Club Rock 'n' Roll Band" of Nigel Carter-Smith’s Society Band.
182** "Square Dance" of Square Bashing Dance.
183** "Kitten Kong" of the Andy Pandy segment of TV Personalities.
184** Most of the tracks from "Sings Songs From The Goodies" are rerecorded songs from the first three series of the show. "Taking You Back", while appearing in "Camelot" (the first episode of the fourth series), actually came from the episode's original session tape. In track order:
185||'''Song'''||'''Episode'''||'''Ep. No.'''||'''Series'''||
186||Ride My Pony||Hunting Pink||24||3||
187||Stuff That Gibbon||That Old Black Magic||26||3||
188||Mummy I Don't Like My Meat||Superstar||29||3||
189||Show Me the Way||Snooze||2||1||
190||Goodies Theme||(title sequences)||23-36||3+4||
191||Sparrow Song||Superstar||29||3||
192||Winter Sportsman||Winter Olympics||25||3||
193||Spacehopper||Charity Bounce||19||2||
194** In addition, “Sunny Morning” was originally recorded for Series 2, Episode 10, but was unused in production. The full, unedited version – missing bars 5 to 25 of the coda – wasn’t released until “The Cricklewood Tapes”.
195** "Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me" is set to the tune of "Battle Hymn Of The Republic".
196** "The Funky Gibbon" has the same chords as "Goodies Theme".
197** "Cricklewood" of Denmark Street.
198* RecurringRiff: The brass intro to "The Funky Gibbon" may sound familiar as might the guitar intro to "The Inbetweenies". (Goody goody yum yum!)
199* SelfBackingVocalist: Bill used to rerecord Tim and Graeme's backing vocals late into the night. He put his voice through a studio harmonizer so they couldn't tell the difference.
200* SingerSongwriter: Bill really fits this to a tee. Not only was he totally serious about it all he has a voice that really does deserve its own recognition. In fact, he did release a couple of straight pop singles in the middle 1960's; a record company thought he had the looks and the voice to make it work.
201* SingerNamedrop:
202** "Baby Samba".
203** Tim's little almost-theme song "I'm A Teapot".
204-->"''Oo look at Tim'' ... ''You be like him''"
205* SomethingBlues:" Sick-Man Blues".
206* TheSomethingSong:
207** "Sparrow Song".
208** "Elephant Joke Song".
209* SongParody: Oh yes!
210** "50 Men In My Life (aka Dreaded Wheat)" of "2 Men In My Life" by Affinity, recorded for Shredded Wheat adverts in the early 70s.
211** "Stretching" of "Sailin'" by Rod Stewart.
212** "Bless This Horse” of the hymn "Bless This House" by Helen Taylor and May Brahe.
213** "Greased Cycling" of "Greased Lightning" from ''Grease''.
214* SoundToScreenAdaptation: A fair number of the songs, written by Oddie, first aired on the 1960's radio ensemble comedy precursor to The Goodies, ''Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'', others, like ''The Funky Gibbon'', are extened allusions to the themes and concepts of the original radio show.
215* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Bill occasionally passed the mic to his two co-stars...
216** Graeme sang: "Stuff That Gibbon", receives first credit on "Sparrow Song", 3rd verse of "Panic", "Good Ole Country Music", "Dreadcop’s Comin'", "Blowin' Off". Graeme actually '''wrote''' "Sparrow Song" and, therefore, its reprise "Butterfly".
217** Tim sang: "Mummy I Don't Like My Meat", "Winter Sportsman", 2nd verse of "Panic", "Please Let Us Play", "Cricklewood", narrated the intro to "Baby Samba", "Cactus In My Y-Fronts", "I Wish I Had Something To Say"
218** "Beastly Record" features a much more even spread of performances from Bill, Tim and Graeme.

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