Music from Benny Hill

As promised in another thread, here is the first of some of Benny Hill’s recorded output.

Benny Hill: The Ultimate Collection (1998) Pulse PLS CD 273

1. Gather In The Mushrooms
2. Transistor Radio
3. Harvest Of Love
4. Pepy’s Diary
5. Gypsy Rock
6. The Piccolo Song
7. Lonely Boy
8. Moving On Again
9. The Andalucian Gypsies
10. The Egg Marketing Board Tango
11. Bamba 3688
12. What A World
13. I’ll Never Know
14. My Garden Of Love
15. In The Papers
16. Golden Days
17. Flying South
18. Wild Women
19. Jose’s Cantina
20. Those Day’s(Duet With Maggie Stredder)
21. The Old Fiddler
22. Ernie(The Fastest Milkman In The West)

FLAC:
https://mega.nz/#!J0YRgQZI!4YcAW5XHTZ_FbVsiipW5qzMHbiQjBwJiMx12VQrFhog

The World of Benny Hill (1971, originally released 1965 as ‘Benny at the B.B.C.’) Decca ‎� PA 116

https://img.discogs.com/k3cy3zy21MjAShC5z00oBcYiCX8=/fit-in/600×600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():qualit y(90)/discogs-images/R-3586922-1506291971-5336.jpeg.jpg

A1 Interviews
A2 Layabouts Picnic
A3 Film Director-Producer: J. Arthur Scuttle … "From Moscow With Love"
B1 The Sunday Ben
B2 "Down Your Way" Visits Dalton Abbott
B3 Warlords Of East Grinstead
B4 The Holiday King – Mr. Fred Scuttle
B5 The Jolly Robbers

FLAC:
https://mega.nz/#!10ZhADLL!ZbsvUAWy9EWbffXWL-tJ0tTqSAaEztjyQzJmH0qysxs

Words & Music (also released as ‘Sings Ernie……. The Fastest Milkman In The West’ and ‘This is Benny Hill’)

A1 Ernie
A2 Anna Marie
A3 Broken-Hearted Lovers’ Stew
A4 Colleen
A5 Rachel
A6 The Beach At San Tropez
A7 Suzy
A8 Ting-A-Ling-A-Loo
B1 Ted
B2 Tour Guide
B3 Interview
Featuring � Lesley Goldie
B4 Making A Commercial
B5 The Birds And The Bees
Piano � Sid Lucas

FLAC:
https://mega.nz/#!F4gVSKrJ!FcSF_2F_y4HdJoJZERPnY5mwosy3I_n4XFCW9aObvuQ

I also have the 2009 CD release on Wisecrack Records which contains the extra two tracks that were released in the ‘This is Benny Hill’ and ‘Sings Ernie’ configurations. The tunes were ‘Fad Eyed Fal’ and ‘The Dustbins of Your Mind’.

Benny Hill Sings Ernie, The Fastest Milkman In The West (2009) Wisecrack Records ‎� CRAIC 001

1 Ernie
2 Anna Marie
3 Broken-Hearted Lovers’ Stew
4 Colleen
5 Rachel
6 The Beach At San Tropez
7 Suzy
8 Ting-A-Ling-A-Loo
9 Ted
10 Tour Guide
11 Interview
Voice � Lesley Goldie
12 Making A Commercial
13 The Birds And The Bees
Piano � Sid Lucas
14 The Dustbins Of Your Mind
15 The Birds And The Bees

FLAC:
https://mega.nz/#!Mp5UzAqQ!xu7i3P_Ib55pTJwYxeeHfOQLKXzebJIeAtCPqGs2MOc

Benny Hill with The Coronets and Philip Green and His Orchestra – Memories Are Made Of This // Who Done It? (1956) Columbia D.B. 3731

MP3 320k Mono:
https://mega.nz/#!JwJClaCZ!0CIe9ZUKiU88NrghPJkOunmB2OFKOj6gvIJBG2d_1R8

More to come in the following hours or days, Including editions of his 1964-1966 BBC Radio series ‘Benny Hill Time’ (4 from an official BBC dual cassette release in 1996, and about 7 or 8 from a repeat broadcast last year on BBC Radio 4).

What a great show. Thank you for sharing.

These are great! Thanks for sharing these.

Thank you!

Thank you 😉

Thanks a lot !

Awesome share, thank you so much !
I love these songs but, please, tell me the score exists too !
Not only speaking of "Yakety Sax" of course 😉 … but this ton of other music that never been out, as far as i know…

Awesome share, thank you so much !
I love these songs but, please, tell me the score exists too !
Not only speaking of "Yakety Sax" of course 😉 … but this ton of other music that never been out, as far as i know…

I’ve figured out at least 75% of the musical score (at least as far as stock music is concerned, and around 50% of it’s discussed here (http://runstop.de/music07.html)) but I’d have to speed the material up for it to match how it was used on the actual show (songs were played as if a 33/3rpm LP was played at 78rpm). One of the major ones I haven’t been able to find is one simply titled ‘Classical and Pop’ which was used in Between 1975 and 1986 during and at the beginning of a couple of sketches, it’s unknown what music library it belongs to or the artist.

But yes, I have been thinking of maybe putting together a collection of the score, but I’m trying to get it as complete as possible, and one thing that’s impossible is to get clean and complete versions of the near 45 or so different version of Yakety Sax used throughout the years on the show (The Ronnie Aldrich Orchestra re-did it every time a new batch of TV specials were made, except for a long period between March 1983 and April 1986 where just one recording was used, which is availible, in truncated form on one of those Television’s Greatest Hits albums).

And some tracks would simply have to almost be reconstructed from the actual shows (which would still leave sound effects and the studio audience audible in places I wasn’t able to patch out).

Nice photo of Little Jackie Wright as Lynsey De Paul btw!

I’ve figured out at least 75% of the musical score (at least as far as stock music is concerned, and around 50% of it’s discussed here (http://runstop.de/music07.html)) but I’d have to speed the material up for it to match how it was used on the actual show (songs were played as if a 33/3rpm LP was played at 78rpm). One of the major ones I haven’t been able to find is one simply titled ‘Classical and Pop’ which was used in Between 1975 and 1986 during and at the beginning of a couple of sketches, it’s unknown what music library it belongs to or the artist.

But yes, I have been thinking of maybe putting together a collection of the score, but I’m trying to get it as complete as possible, and one thing that’s impossible is to get clean and complete versions of the near 45 or so different version of Yakety Sax used throughout the years on the show (The Ronnie Aldrich Orchestra re-did it every time a new batch of TV specials were made, except for a long period between March 1983 and April 1986 where just one recording was used, which is availible, in truncated form on one of those Television’s Greatest Hits albums).

And some tracks would simply have to almost be reconstructed from the actual shows (which would still leave sound effects and the studio audience audible in places I wasn’t able to patch out).

Nice photo of Little Jackie Wright as Lynsey De Paul btw!

Thanks 😉 and may you succeed in this great quest !

Thank you.

Great to see these up. Thank you.

Superthunderstingcar: Thanks � 3688!!! 🙂

Thanks 😉 and may you succeed in this great quest !

Cheers!

I’ve been able to find a heap load of the material in FLAC thanks to this site, so I’m even further along now. And there’ll probably be new versions of the collection as new material comes to light.

My goal is to try to present as much material from the Show as possible, as clean as possible (without the studio audience reactions), All material will also be at the speed it was played at on the show (and in some cases, it was played at different speeds in various era’s, so multiple versions will be made).

And although some may not like it, I’m also trying to include many of the musical acts performances from the show in the collection (remastered of course, stuff like 50hz hum, crackles and clicks removed), because it varies from MOR material, to Spanish instrumentals, to Disco, Country and Ballads.

18 Tracks are complete as of today (and that’s not even a quarter of the collection done!, although two of those tracks are the ‘Salute to Thames’ Jingle, with it’s two different variations).

And although the collection will mainly focus on the ITV years at Thames Television, I do have the odd track or two that were used in sketches in his early BBC1 years, so the collection might start off with those). I’m getting pretty comprehensive with the tracks, even including things like the ITN News jingle (as that was used in two different News Parody sketches).

Eventually I’ll have a go at making artwork and a digital booklet for the whole thing (although I’ve already played around with a proto-type, my composition skills aren’t the best.

I think I want the cover to look something like this CD Cover (which incidentally has a Benny Hill track on it, as Hatch was his record producer at Pye Records), unless anyone has a better idea:

18 Tracks are complete as of today (and that’s not even a quarter of the collection done!…

can’t wait can’t wait can’t wait !!! 😀
I see you’re a true fan and hard worker.
Many thanks in advance !

This sounds very exciting. Huge Benny Hill fan.

I’ve since discovered the track used to open Benny’s final BBC show from 1968. Hopefully I can do a search here and find a good FLAC copy of it, otherwise I’ll have to use this YT link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8jnXJbItng

Thank you very much 😉

Sample file of where I’m at so far Soundtrack wise!

https://mega.nz/#!spRFCaKb!OhvBsdLSO9SLasbUJFQuQNvh0y8Ru56ufJ3-ZMrhmmE

oh… my… godness !!!!!!!!
Thank you soooooooo much ! Keep going !

Thanks

Hello !
Any news ? 😉

Just an update, I haven’t forgotten about this, and am still working on it. Life just gets in the way sometimes and I’m currently in the process of moving house, but I hope to have something availible (even if it’s just a single disc sampler) in time for Christmas!

Love these songs- many thanks for sharing!

This would be a great Christmas-gift 😉

Just an update, I haven’t forgotten about this, and am still working on it. Life just gets in the way sometimes and I’m currently in the process of moving house, but I hope to have something availible (even if it’s just a single disc sampler) in time for Christmas!

Thanks ! Me too, I hope to listen to your music recordings as a christmas gift.
Best regards by a Benny Hill fan from France.

Happy New Year !!! All the best ;D

Hey there !
Did you notice this song ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKazZZcK6uk&list=OLAK5uy_lQt3yXA-JzScFBg6TXXQzK5Efjol4pBNU&index=11

Cheers 😉

Gracias por compartir….