Radio Sabrina |
27 December 2017 - in 2016 a certain broadcasting corporation created a radio show about the legend of Sabrina - both the river, and our girl. I provided the Sabrina song for the programme. Enjoy. |
To everyone in alt.fan.goons , there
is a magical name. The name is Sabrina . Sabrina was an object of fascination and unbridled lust to the Goon Show - especially author Spike Milligan. Cryptic references to her have puzzled some younger listeners. Now you know why they kept making steaming comments about her. All clips are MP3. Recording dates are courtesy of the Goon Show Depository Goonabase and two sites which have since gone to the great Internet Graveyard.
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Spike Milligna - the script writing man (and renowned typing error) |
Through the snowy wastes of Sabrina - From The History of Communications (29 Jan 54) (70K) Eccles: Three hundred leagues have I run. Over the Ionicus (?),
down the plains of Olympus, through the snowy wastes of Sabrina and over
- Note: this raises quite a mystery-- this is a very early Sabrina reference . It even pre-dates her first appearance on Before Your Very Eyes on 18 Feb 1955! In April 54, when she appeared on the cover of 'Blighty', she was still Norma Sykes. Rather odd... Note: The audience does not laugh at the reference as if she is still unknown... but how did Spike know her name?) The Solution! Discovered 3 March 2007 - and an interesting
extra wrinkle in the story: He does not say "the snowy wastes of Sabrina" - he says
"the snowy wastes of Sabina" - wishful listening on my part. How
did I discover the true words? Listen to this from Kenneth Horne's Beyond Our Ken, 28
May 1959 in the episode "Every Boy's Book of Birds"
(MP3, 127K) |
Sabrina
- with a beard ? (58K) Seagoon: We are forestalled! |
"You crazy
Sabrina and Michael Wilding" (54K) Bloodnok: Dance with me! Note: Michael Wilding: Michael Wilding was an actor contemporary with Sabrina. Is there a connection between Sabrina and Michael? The Oracle of Bacon says there is... Michael Wilding was in The Egyptian (1954) with John Carradine. |
Bloodnok: By the great measurements of Sabrina, who the devil are you? |
John
Snagge . The Male Sabrina? (upgraded 2011 - 700K) Seagoon: You're the famous John Snagge, eh? Known as the male Sabrina
of Portland Place! |
" She's
a fine big girl " (116K) Bluebottle: I have to be photographed with Sabrina. Yes hehe! That's
what I'll say. 'Ere. Thinks: that Sabrina's a fine big g- |
A trifecta from The Mighty Wurlitzer (3 Jan 1956) ... (28K, 9K, 38K) Moriarty : By the great sweaters of Sabrina and Sabrina! Hooray! and Seagoon: Here's a picture of SABRINA ... |
Sabrina outfit! (9K - poor quality) From The Raid of the International Christmas Pudding (10 Jan 1956) Seagoon: Blooknok! Take off that Sabrina outfit! |
She even detained the Prime Minister (59K). From The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI (24 Jan 1956) Greenslade: That afternoon, the Strolling Prime Minister was summoned
urgently from The Windmill to attend, of all things, a vital cabinet meeting. |
Sabrina
cabaret culture (69K) Grytpype: The prisoners are getting restless. |
Is
that Sabrina, or... ? (48K) Moriarty: Sapristi measurements! It's Sabrina! |
Sabrina's
agonised moans (168K)
Valentine Dyall: Didn't you hear the dying screams of a Zulu caught
in the clutches of a Maneating Matabele Iguana plant? |
Keep
him covered (23K) Bloodnok: Quick, Neddie! Tie him to the chandelier while I keep him covered
with these measurements of Sabrina. |
From The Missing Battleship (18 Nov 1957) - (47K, 25K, 39K) Grytpype: Men! Sabrina has fallen overboard . [GRAMS: Running footsteps, splashes] Well, that's got rid of them, Moriarty. Seagoon: What what what what what what what what? Sabrina fallen overboard ? Poor little innocent photographer's model! I must get a lifebelt. Grytpype: Didn't you hear me shout that Sabrina
was overboard ? |
Here's
a health picture of Sabrina (54K) Bloodnok: Here's my brochure and an interesting health picture of Sabrina. |
"A bust
(!) of Sabrina to bring you to the boil" (21K) Scottish voice: I'm just going to add this bust of Sabrina to bring you to the boil. |
Seagoon: Unexploded German skulls? I hadn't thought of that. |
4 Aug 2003 - Well, folks. That seems to be the complete collection. I have scanned 147 Goon Shows and found 19 with breathless references to Sabrina. That means 13% of Goon Shows have SabrinaStuff! |
Alas, some references to Sabrina were removed during various transcriptions, editings and re-broadcasts. One such terrible Sabrina deletio n was from 'The House of Teeth': Bluebottle : (Confidentially) - Here - got any pictures of Sabrina? Thanks to http://www.thegoonshow.co.uk/scripts/teeth.html for telling me that. |
From Series 2, Episode 3, The Racehorse (an episode that was lost, and re-recorded in 2014) Bill buys a racehorse called Sabrina. |
From Series 2, Episode 9 , The Television Set , broadcast 14 June 1955, Tony essays to purchase his first television set. (30K). And this, apparently, is Philip Harben...
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From Series 3, Episode 3, The Bequest , broadcast 2 November 1955, Tony chooses whom he will marry to get his inheritance - listen to his assessment of Sabrina - the bastard!. (153K)
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From Series 3, Episode 5, The Winter Holiday broadcast 16 November 1955, one wonders how anyone can confuse Tony Hancock and Sabrina when it comes to asking for an autograph! (131K) |
From Series 3, Episode 6, The Blackboard Jungle broadcast 23 November 1955, Sid describes how he used Sabrina to teach counting to his hopeless maths class. (62K)
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From Series 3, Episode 9, A Visit to Russia (another episode that was lost, and re-recorded in 2014), Hancock laments the state of the British press...
Hancock - See? No idea. Never reads the papers! |
From series 5 episode 2, Scandal Magazine , Sid proposes that his rag's readers would believe Sabrina was Arthur Askey's mother . From 1958. (Discovered 11 March 2007) |
Miscellaneous Radio Sightings |
A single reference to Sabrina was found by good 'Tim' in Hughie Green's ' Opportunity Knocks ' show broadcast on Radio Luxembourg in the mid-to-late fifties. Hughie relates how, when bumping into Sabrina, opportunity knocks more than once . Thanks, Tim!
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At some undocumented time between 1958 and 1960, the classic long-running " My Word " BBC radio mentioned Sabrina in Transcription Service #27. When Frank Muir was asked the defininition of "Calisthenics" the answer was "'Cali' means beautiful and 'thenics' means strength. These are physical education exercises that tended to develop the figure. So it's sort of Sabrina stuff as you might say."
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27 December 2017 - in 2016 a certain broadcasting corporation created a radio show about the legend of Sabrina - both the river, and our girl. I provided the Sabrina song for the programme. Enjoy. |
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