The Goons - My September Love

One of the fourteen singles released by Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan a.k.a. 'The Goons'.
From December 1956.
On the radio, The Goon Show was going from strength to strength, with its plots taking on ever more surreal flights of fancy. This was perhaps reflected in the next single to feature Goon Show characters. In September 1956 Spike Milligan, along with occasional Goon Show script collaborator Eric Sykes recorded the single "You Gotta Go Oww!" (featuring the vocal talent of Count Jim Moriarty) and "My September Love" (featuring The Famous Eccles and Miss Freda Thing) for EMIs Parlophone imprint.
Released in December 1956, the record was perhaps too surreal to have the chart success enjoyed by The Goons recordings for Decca.
With the benefit of hindsight the single stands as a masterpiece of Milligans creativity, aided by the experimental production of George Martin. "You Gotta Go Oww!" was never the less subject to much promotion by Count Jim Moriarty in the episode "The Flea" where, after much "oww-ing", Moriarty comments "Another record sold"!

[@HUMPHRIESification]

"Get off this record at once" ... "I can't, it's going too fast" absolutely classic Milligan line ....

[@davidwright8432]

Ah yes! How greatly true! But how many of today's yoof would really catch it? 'Get off my MP3' just doesn't capture the moment.

[@keithbarron]

Had this on an album called Dark Side of the Goon - Love it!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Bryt25]

Spike and Erik Sykes in fact.

[@marklovescadaques]

Thank you for the answer. So I was right : Freda Thing deserves two medals other than the one which I initially recommended.

[@geoffsmith5452]

"Freda Thing", who featured on a few of the Goon recordings was I believe, Milligans long suffering first wife Patricia Ridgeway, no mean opera singer in her own right!... Died of cancer at a comparitively early age.

[@LenHazell]

Second wife June Marlow was his first

[@alexanderhay-whitton4993]

Poor Eccles!

[@marklovescadaques]

Just who was the long-suffering Miss Freda Thing? If not a medal for valour beyond the call of duty under enemy fire she deserves a name and a page in Wikipedia, poor girl.