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You'd better watch these composers, same thing happened before. I wrote Handel's Largo, and when I got it to the publishers, he'd already written it. You know what he called it? Handel's Largo, same as me.

11 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 8, The Space Age classic radio program.

You can hear this line at 00:00:24 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- What beautiful words. Why don't we set it to music?

- It'll be a jolly good idea.

- Of course! Just stand under this tree and listen.

- Just a minute. Just a minute please. Just a minute, Mister Secombe.

- That music was written by Edward Elgar, Sir.

- Edward Elgar, he got in quick, didn't he?

- You'd better watch these composers, same thing happened before. I wrote Handel's Largo, and when I got it to the publishers, he'd already written it. You know what he called it? Handel's Largo, same as me.

- Is your name Handel's Largo?

- What, what, what, what, what? You'll get a belt on that big shiny ear'ole of yours.

- Never mind, there, Hershel, never mind.

- Good heavens, it's Peter Sellers, who has just broken his own record of keeping a car for more than a month.

- Well, you may laugh. The trouble is, nobody's yet invented a Hi-Fi car, that takes films in colour with a built in tape recorder. But the day will comes, markee.

[...]

The Goon Show Sound Clip

The Goon Show RadioQuotes with sound clips from The Goon Show radio comedy programme produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960.

Actors: Peter Sellers (Bloodnok / Bluebottle/ Grytpype-Thynne), Spike Milligan (Eccles / Minnie Bannister), Harry Secombe (Neddie Seagoon)

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