A podcast thing for you with a vaguely Carry On type of vibe. Part one of two. Anita Harris does jump and click a bit (oo-er missus) but if you've listened to the previous 13 tracks then your brain will probably have turned to mush so it's unlikely you'll notice. Part two as and when I can be bothered.

http://agnes-guano.podomatic.com/entry/2011-05-16T17_04_16-07_00

If I Were a Fairy - Dora Bryan
Natalie - Bob Monkhouse
Hurry Up Gran - Joan Sims
Jabberwocky - Kenneth Williams
Rail Road Rock - Kenneth Connor
Double Bunk - Sid James and Liz Fraser
Cockles and Mussels - Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques
Beyond the Sea - Peter Gilmore
I Know What I Am - Barbara Windsor and Marty Wilde
Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty - Warren Mitchell
The Buxom Country Maid - Jon Pertwee
Like the Big Guys Do - Harry H Corbett
Georgie Girl - Jim Dale
Anniversary Waltz - Anita Harris
It's Alright With Me - Frankie Howerd

You are a very naughty person, Agnes Guano. You're going to start off another anal comedy collection of mine up, and I can barely afford those I already have!

Doh, I thought this thread was going to be about comedy records as in 'The Guiness book of'. (Take a Polaroid of that, Dolly')

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You are a very naughty person, Agnes Guano. You're going to start off another anal comedy collection of mine up, and I can barely afford those I already have!

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Let's see if I can push you over the edge! Here is part 2 of my vaguely Carry On themed party megamix.

http://agnes-guano.podomatic.com/entry/2011-05-19T15_19_18-07_00

Roy Castle - Singing in the Rain
Bernard Bresslaw - You Need Feet
Jim Dale - Start All Over Again
Frankie Howerd - Song and Dance Man
Kenny Lynch - Shake and Scream
Kenneth Connor - Smile
Bill Maynard - Without Someone to Love
Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques - I Love Paris
Jimmy Logan - Roamin' in the Gloamin
Barbara Windsor - Sing a Rude Song
Bernard Bresslaw - Alone Together
Elke Sommer - Be Not Notty
Windsor Davies - A Message from Sgt Major Williams
Kenneth Williams - Mesopotamia Tango
Masterplan - Love Crazy
Bernard Cribbins - I'd Rather Go Fishing

I know you're all eagerly following my ascent to superstar mixer, so you'll be please to learn that I survived a second DJ set! More of the same with a funky bit of Brucie to raise the rafters. Set list below:

Mike Reid - Prisencolinensinaincuisol
Bruce Forsyth - Lucretia Mac Evil - http://soundcloud.com/agnes-guano/lucretia-mac-evil-bruce-forsyth
Kenny Lynch - Harlem Library
The Dudley Moore Trio - Indiana
Jim Dale - Start All Over Again
Tracey Ullman - Breakaway
Anita Harris - I Only Have Eyes for You

Because I love you all, inexplicably completely and absolutely forever, here is a Freddie Starr track from 1982:

http://soundcloud.com/agnes-guano/such-a-night-freddie-starr

Freddie was a frustrated rocker, some of his 60s work is really rocking and wonderful. A great voice and a dodgy comedian.

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Freddie was a frustrated rocker, some of his 60s work is really rocking and wonderful. A great voice and a dodgy comedian.

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That sums up Starr quite well I think. Oddly, the opposite to namesake Ringo, a dodgy singing voice but a bit of a comedian (and fine actor). I did like Freddie's Elvis impersonations in his day.

Now Agnes, just the person, there was a comedy song I liked which must have been made in the 80s, I've only ever heard it since on radio comedy docs, about a vacuum cleaner. It sounds like either Jim Bowen or John Shuttleworth, it's someone like that. It's excellent. Could you give us the name of it please, with a link if at all poss. Ta.

Is it this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRRI4s7CNM

HAVE YOU SEEN MY WIFE?
'Hey, have you seen my wife?'
I said 'Hey hey have you seen her?'
She left me after a row
It was over a vacuum cleaner
I said 'What's wrong with a broom?'
And she said something obscener
'Oh, Mary, please come back
I'll buy you a vacuum cleaner'

It should be on this set of Shuttleworth shows:

See Amazon product listing

That's it. Great isn't it. It's daft because I knew it had to be Shuttleworth but still see Jim Bowen's face when I hear it. I want it to be Bowen, it somehow makes it funnier in my mind. Thanks for the link, I'd heard Pigeons In Flight but not the hilarious Up And Down Like A Bride's Nighty. He isn't on TV enough, class act.

He's on tomorrow, in fact.

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/one_foot_in_the_gravy/

Glad to see that Andy Roddick has been taking inspiration from British comedy records while he's been over here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/13733456.stm

I'm not sure if this counts as a comedy record as such, but this is Rolf Harris, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6trSZroPyAY

I just bought The Rutles Archaeology CD from a charity shop for 99p.

I bought the original album when it first came out plus the Rutland Weekend Songbook but I never even knew this existed.

Brilliant in places just as an album of new songs but also many obvious spoofs.

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I'm not sure if this counts as a comedy record as such, but this is Rolf Harris, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6trSZroPyAY

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Yes, that's Rolf starting at the 1 minute mark. Have you heard his recording with the Beatles?

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If you're a keen Rutles fan you'll also want to get the album Rutles Highway Revisited, which consists of covers of Rutles songs by 'alternative' bands such as King Missile, Bongwater, Shonen Knife and Das Damen.

Hylda Baker and Arthur Mullard's record You're the One That I Want is brought up in the radio doc, but an album is also mentioned, but I can't find a picture of it. Anyone help?