Slightly belated stocking filler

Here's a snippet of Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone from BBC 6music last week: a version of Good King Wenceslas recorded by a choir of various Top Gear stalwarts in 1970, including Soft Machine, Sonja Kristina (Curved Air) and Marc Bolan.

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(112K MP3, 4.7Mb, 5:50)

Maconie's guest, "Professor Spear", goes on to explain that this rendition originally appeared in the Christmas Top Gear of 27-12-69. However that's clearly incorrect as I posted that particular show a couple of months back, and this song is not in it.

(BTW, does anyone think that Prof. Spear's words about the 27-12-69 show sound remarkably like he's reading from my earlier post?)

Thanks to Colin Ellis for letting me know about this show.

John Peel's Top Gear, Saturday 27th. December 1969, 15:00 - 17:00

There's Christmas crackers, celebrity guests (some of them even genuine), an appearance from Miss Top Gear and, by the sound of it, a jolly time being had by all as Top Gear celebrates the er, bit between Christmas and New Year in truly festive style. Also featured: the pick of the year's session tracks, interviews (most of them hilariously inept) with Dick Heckstall-Smith, Robert Wyatt and Sandy Denny (pictured with JP opposite) and a very, let's say "competitive" chat with Pete Drummond.

Many thanks to Mick Capewell at the ever-excellent Marmalade Skies for supplying the tape of this show. (There's definitely a "Mick's tape" pun to be made there, but for the moment I can't be arsed.) For all you musos, here's the steps I used to rip the tape:

Maxell UR120 tape --> Pioneer DC-X88Z tape deck/amplifier --> headphone socket --> Stereo jack leads --> ADSTech Instant Music --> USB --> Toshiba laptop --> PolderbitS Sound Recorder and Editor --> Audacity --> LAME --> Kat's Karavan --> you

Feel free to pipe up with any suggestions if you think I've gone about capturing and encoding this all wrong, as I'm still relatively new to this. Oh and I did try to use Audacity to get rid of the tape hiss, but the end result was horribly metallic-sounding so I've left it well alone (apart from normalising).

(You may notice that this program does not, as promised in Peelie's intro, feature anything by the Keef Hartley Band. I can only assume that whatever track of theirs Peel was planning to play got bumped, because they're not mentioned in the outro. Certainly the show appears complete, with perhaps a little bit missing from the middle of the news bulletins.)

Total running time: 1hr56m. Files are 192K MP3.


PART 1 (29:20) Listen/Download (divshare). Alternative link (megaupload)

• Johnny Walker handover
• Miss Top Gear ("Pat Campbell of Nottingham") turns on the studio lights(!)
• Top Gear theme
• The Rolling Stones - Live With Me
• The Plastic Ono Band - Dizzy Miss Lizzie
• Richie Havens - High Flying Bird (session)
• Chat with Dick Heckstall-Smith
• Colosseum - Lost Angeles (session)
• The Incredible String Band - This Moment (session)
• News

PART 2 (30:18) Listen/Download (divshare). Alternative link (megaupload)

• News (continued)
• Juicy Lucy - She's Mine/She's Yours (session)
• Michael Chapman - Postcards Of Scarborough (session)
• The Family - Cat And The Rat (session)
• Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Orange Claw Hammer
• Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Wild Life
• Roy Harper - Tom Tiddler's Ground
• Chat with Robert Wyatt

PART 3 (27:33) Listen/Download (divshare). Alternative link (megaupload)

• The Soft Machine - The Moon In June (session)
• Griffin - What A Day It's Been (session)
• Tyrannosaurus Rex - A Day Laye (session)
• Chat with Sandy Denny
• Fairport Convention - Farewell, Farewell
• News

PART 4 (28:49) Listen/Download (divshare). Alternative link (megaupload)

• News (continued)
• Joe Cocker and The Grease Band - Lawdy Miss Clawdy (session)
• Banter with Pete Drummond
• Led Zeppelin - What Is And What Should Never Be (session)
• Blodwyn Pig - It's Only Love (session)
• The Beatles - Mean Mr. Mustard
• Viv Stanshall no-show
• Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Sofa Head (session)
• Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Give Booze A Chance (session)
• "Disinterred 33 1/3": The Firehouse 5 - Running Wild
• The Fairport Convention - Jigs & Reels Medley (The Lark in The Morning/Rakish Paddy/Foxhunters' Jig/Toss The Feathers) (session)
• Top Gear theme
  

Top Gear Shows - Repost

Yay, I'm back! But before commencing with our scheduled programme, allow me to draw your attention to a new book from Ken Garner, author of legendary BBC Session tome In Session Tonight. You may be aware that In Session Tonight goes for silly money on eBay these days, so it's great to see Ken take time out from lecturing on journalism at Glasgow Caledonian University to produce a book that not only completes the Peel session picture but is affordable to us mere mortals. And on first glance it's a thoroughly good read, combining a fan's obsessive enthusiasm with an academic study of the subject. And if you can make Glasgow Waterstone's on Peel Day (this Thursday), Ken will be there signing copies.

Right! The rest of this post is a response to the many requests I've had to repost the eight Top Gear shows from 1969/70, as most of them have now expired on sendspace. For convenience it's a bittorrent download this time, so if you're unsure how that works, look it up. And please be sure to keep the torrent seeded once you've downloaded it.

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John Peel - Nameless Show (Night Ride) - 28th. May 1969

(AKA "The one where John created a furore by admitting he'd had VD")

Many thanks to Sam for this one.

You'll have heard Peelie mention his Wednesday night 'nameless shows' if you've listened to very many of the Top Gears below. As explained in this previous post, these programmes were essentially JP's bit of the post-midnight multi-format Night Ride shows, extracted and moved to a bit earlier in the evening. And these Night Rides/nameless shows/whatever, featuring BBC archive tracks from all over the world, studio guests and discussions mixed in with contemporary Peel favourites, are probably the most free-form, eclectic radio Peel ever did. And if you have the slightest idea about the bloke you'll realise that's a hell of a statement. In my opinion, having enjoyed Peel shows from all eras, I'd say these are probably the best he ever made. I really wish there were more out there.

OK, on to this particular show. The session is from John Fahey (above and/or right, depending on your browser and screen res) and the studio guest is the poet Pete Roche. There are also interviews with Theresa Lever, about the Youth Drama Centre in Euston, and Tony Vandenberg about Radio 4's upcoming report on Venereal Disease. This latter interview has acquired some notoriety as it's the one where Peel reveals that he contracted the disease earlier that year. From Wikipedia (which seems slightly wrong, as it suggests Peel is still suffering from the disease at the time of broadcast):

During 1969, after hosting a trailer for a BBC programme on VD on his Night Ride programme, Peel received significant media attention because of admitting on air to be suffering from a sexually transmitted disease. This admission was later used in an attempt to discredit him when he appeared as a defence witness in the 1971 OZ obscenity trial. The judge in that case even instructed that a glass of water he had drunk from be thrown out.

[EDIT: Looks like that entry has been corrected now. One of the editors reading this blog, perchance?]

Whatever controversy the VD comment was to generate, John P, a notoriously inept interviewer, actually handles the chat with Vandenberg very well. But on to the details:

Download (83Mb, 192Kbps MP3)

(Quality's slightly dodgy for the first minute or two, but settles down after that.)

Tracklisting

• Jeff Beck Group - Plinth
• John Fahey - Bucktown Stomp (session)
• Pete Roche - A Thing Apart (live poem)
• Indian classical music - Whistled and played on a bowed string instrument and accompanied on drum and drone (from BBC archives)
• Choir of the Krakow Philharmonic - Apotheosis (from "Dies Irae: The Oratorio in Memoriam for the Victims of Auschwitz" by Krzysztof Penderecki)
• John Fahey - The Death Of The Clayton Peacock (session)
• Peel chats with Tony Vandenberg about Radio 4's upcoming report on Venereal Disease.
• John Hiseman's Colosseum - Plenty Hard Luck (from "Those Who Are About To Die Salute You")
• John Fahey - Sunflower River Blues (session)
• Pete Roche - To See How Far It Is (live poem)
• Radio Ceylon Orchestra - Wind, String Instruments and Percussion (from BBC Archives)
• Peel chats to Theresa Lever about the Youth Drama Centre in Euston
• Phil Ochs - I Kill, Therefore I Am (from "Rehearsals for Retirement")
• John Fahey - In Christ There Is No East or West (session)
• Romanian Radio and Television Folk Orchestra [pipes: Dumitru Zamfira] - The Hora (from BBC archives)
• Peel chats to Jon Curle about his part of Night Ride
• Pete Roche - The Skin Diver (live poem)
• Shirley and Dolly Collins - Nellie The Milkmaid (from "Anthems in Eden")
• John Fahey - Steel Guitar Rag (session)
• Terry Riley - In C (part)
• Intro to Jazz Workshop

John Peel's Top Gear - 27th. July 1969

OK, sorry about the delay. But we pick up the story 3 weeks after the last show I posted, finding Peel in an unusually showbiz mood, with a handover from Alan 'Fluff' Freeman and a bit of banter with his erstwhile Top Gear co-presenter Pete Drummond. Peel also chats about an upcoming holiday to France with his brother Alan and a recent visit to Birmingham, taking in Handsworth market and The Diskery. Sessions tonight come from Roy Harper, Ten Years After and Third Ear Band.

This one is missing the last 22-25 minutes and once again starts a little slowly. It also gets a little crackly towards the end; maybe it was the end of the reel, hence the truncated recording.

Download (225Mb, 320Kbps MP3)

Tracklisting

• Ten Years After - Woke Up This Morning (session)
• Crosby Stills and Nash - Helplessly Hoping
• Fairport Convention - Si Tu Dois Partir
• Roy Harper - (It's Tomorrow And) Today Is Yesterday (session)
• Chicago Transit Authority - Listen
• Third Ear Band - Hyde Park Raga (session)
• McKenna Mendelsohn Mainline - Beltmaker
• News
• Steve Miller Band - My Dark Hour
• David Bowie - Space Oddity
• Ten Years After - Crossroads (session)
• Roy Harper - Hell's Angels (session)
• Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Pachuco Cadaver
• Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Pachuco Cadaver (brief reprise)
• Johnny Winter - Black Cat Bone
• Third Ear Band - Druid (session)
• The Glass Menagerie - Watching The World Pass By
• Roy Harper - She's The One (session)
• Blodwyn Pig - The Change Song
• Tim Hardin - Simple Song of Freedom
• Ten Years After - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
• Roy Harper - Hey Francesca (session)
• Bizarre applause - end of tape
  

John Peel's Top Gear - 6th. July 1969

Just like the previous week, Peel arrives for Top Gear the day after attending an outdoor show, this time the Stones' famous Hyde Park concert. In session tonight: Jon Hiseman's Colosseum, The Pretty Things, Ustad Imrat Khan (left) and the John Dummer Blues Band.

The John Dummer Blues Band session is a repeat of the one broadcast on the 18th. May show, but this time there's an extra track, A Few Short Lines. Again, there's very little info out there about most of these sessions, so I've done the best I can. In particular, Indian readers will probably burst out laughing at my woeful efforts to transcribe Imrat Khan's tracks. If anyone can help me with proper track titles though, please drop a line in the Comments section below. I know next to nothing about Indian classical music, but this session sounds like an absolute stormer to me. So I'd like to get it right.

What else do I have to tell you? Oh yes, it's clear that the Peel/Walters relationship is developing nicely here, as there's several quips from John P about his new mate. And Peel bemoans the fact that David Bowie's new single is obviously not bound for the charts. Something called Space Oddity, apparently; whatever happened to that?

There appear to be a few speed issues here again; it seems a little slow at times. Also, it sounds like Peelie has trouble cueing up some of the recordings, as they often start too slowly.

Download (279Mb, 320Kbps MP3)

Further Browsing

Imrat Khan
The Pretty Things
John Dummer Blues Band
Jon Hiseman

Tracklisting

• Fairport Convention - Si Tu Dois Partir
• Third Ear Band - Druid One
• Colosseum - Elegy (session)
• The Pretty Things - No More Spring (session)
• Crosby, Stills & Nash - Pre-Road Downs
• Imrat Khan (tabla: Mahapurush Misra) - Alap N'gat from Rag Kalabati (session)
• [News edit]
• Colosseum - Grass is Greener (session)
• John Dummer Blues Band - A Few Short Lines (session)
• The Pretty Things - Alexander (session)
• David Bowie - Space Oddity
• Steamhammer - Even The Clock
• Colosseum - Jon Hiseman's Condensed History of Mankind (session)
• Dave Kelly (John Dummer Blues Band) - Hard Times (session)
• McKenna Mendelsohn Mainline - Better Watch Out
• Imrat Khan - Rag Tori (session)
• Mothers of Invention - Mr. Green Genes
• The Pretty Things - Marilyn (session)
• Blossom Toes - Kiss of Confusion
• Colosseum - February's Valentine (session)
• Edgar Broughton Band - Love in The Rain
• John Dummer Blues Band - Jungle Blues (session)
• Johnny Winter - I'm Yours And I'm Hers
• The Pretty Things - Send You With Loving (session)
• Top Gear Theme (snippet)
  

John Peel's Top Gear - 29th. June 1969

Fresh from the previous day's Bath Festival (right), Peelie introduces us to more fab 'n groovy Top Gear sounds. This one features sessions from Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, early Jeff Lynne band The Idle Race and the Savoy Brown Blues Band. The Pentangle session seems to be a repeat of the one in the previous post, but this time "I Got a Feeling", an extra song you won't have heard last time, is included.

Also features West Bromwich blues, strange things happening in Lewisham, an early 'wrong speed moment' and the Appletree Theatre using the term WWW 22 years before Tim Berners-Lee. Oh, and some nascent Peel/Walters banter, where JP has a go at his new producer for mixing up the Idle Race running order.

This one starts out veeeery sloooow, hence it's a bit longer than normal. Judging by the length of Honky Tonk Women, I'd say it's about 5% too slow at the start, but it settles down after about 15 minutes.

Download (284Mb, 320 Kbps MP3)

Further Browsing

Why No Success For The Idle Race?
Wikipedia - The Misunderstood
Amazon (UK) - Led Zeppelin - The BBC Sessions
Amazon (US) - Led Zeppelin - The BBC Sessions
Led Zep Session Details

Tracklisting

• The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
• Led Zeppelin - What Is And What Should Never Be (session)
• The Appletree Theatre - Sorry State of Staying Awake
• Pentangle - Bruton Town (session)
• Free - I'll Be Creeping
• The Idle Race - Someone Knocking (session)
• Savoy Brown Blues Band - Train To Nowhere (session)
• [News edit]
• Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love (session)
• Billy Preston - That's The Way God Planned It
• Pentangle - I Got a Feeling (session)
• The Misunderstood - Never Had a Girl
• The Idle Race - Please, No More Sad Songs (session)
• Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Neon Meate Dream of A Octofish
• Savoy Brown Blues Band - She's Got a Ring In Her Nose And A Ring On Her Hand (session)
• Chicago Transit Authority - South California Purples
• Pentangle - Hunting Song (session)
• Led Zeppelin - Travelling Riverside Blues '69 (session)
  
• Andromeda - Go Your Way
• The Idle Race - Sea of Dreams (session)
• Savoy Brown Blues Band - Life's One Act Play (session)
• Fairport Convention - Genesis Hall
• BB King - Sweet Thing
• The Idle Race - Reminds Me Of You (session)
• Martha Velez - I'm Gonna Leave You
• Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown (session)
• The Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace a Chance

John Peel's Top Gear, 18th. May 1969

Pentangle, Hunting Song, BBC Special, 1970

OK folks, here we go with show three of the eight recently-discovered Top Gears. Tonight there's sessions from Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer and the John Dummer Blues Band.

Session Details

There's not much I can really say about this one. Unfortunately, the BBC pages don't have details for a single one of these sessions!

Download (265Mb, 320Kbps MP3)

Tracklisting

• The Mooch - Hot Smoke and Sassafras
• The Idle Race - Days of the Broken Arrows
• Pentangle - Once I Had A Sweetheart (session)
• John Dummer Blues Band - The Big Feeling Blues (session)
• Bob Dylan - One More Night
• Blodwyn Pig - Ain'tcha Comin' Home, Babe? (session)
• Mandrake Paddle Steamer - The Ivory Castle Of Solitaire Huske (session)
• Credence Clearwater Revival - Penthouse Pauper
• [News edit]
• Sons of Champlin - 1982A
• Pentangle - Hunting Song (session)
• Van Morrison - Sweet Thing
• Blodwyn Pig - Change Song (session)
• John Dummer Blues Band - Skin Game (session)
• Mandrake Paddle Steamer - Coogar and Dark (session)
• The Famous Jug Band - The Only Friend I Own
• Pentangle - Bruton Town (session)
• Leonard Cohen - The Butcher
• Blodwyn Pig - It's Only Love (session)
• John Dummer Blues Band - Jungle Blues (session)
• Dave Kelly (John Dummer Blues Band) - Hard Times (session)
• John Fahey - Sail Away Ladies
• Mandrake Paddle Steamer - Senlak Lament (session)
• Spooky Tooth - Waitin' For The Wind
• Blodwyn Pig - The Modern Alchemist (session)
• Pentangle - Sally Go Round The Roses (session)
• The Who - We're Not Gonna Take It
• Vilayat Khan & Shanta Prasad - Concert in the Haunted Palace
• Top Gear Theme

John Peel's Top Gear, 11th. May 1969

King Crimson, 1969

I know I said I'd post one of these a week, but as I'm home tonight I thought I'd put up the second one now. I may be a bit quicker with the rest as well. So here's another full 2-hour Top Gear show from 1969. And in a packed programme tonight, Ronnie, there's sessions from Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex and The Bonzo Dog Band.

Session Details

Fleetwood Mac
King Crimson
The Bonzo Dog Band

(The Beeb has no details of this Tyrannosaurus Rex session on its Peel pages. Also, eagle-eyed readers may notice that the Bonzos' "Brain Opera" is not included here, possibly because it's a repeat session.)

Download (267Mb, 320Kbps MP3)

Tracklisting

• Top Gear Theme
• The Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh Happy Day
• Tim Rose - Roanoke
• Fleetwood Mac - Tallahassee Lassie (session)
• Bonzo Dog Band - Mr. Apollo (session)
• Chicken Shack - I'd Rather Go Blind
• Tyrannosaurus Rex - Once Upon the Seas of Abyssinia (session)
• King Crimson - The Court of the Crimson King (session)
• [Edit to cut out news]
• Martha Velez - It Takes a Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry
• Credence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
• Bonzo Dog Band - Look At Me I'm Wonderful (session)
• Tyrannosaurus Rex - Nijinsky Hind (session)
• Fleetwood Mac - Heavenly (session)
• Jefferson Airplane - It's No Secret
• King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (session)
• Mike Cooper - Poor Little Annie
• Tyrannosaurus Rex - The Misty Coast of Albany (session)
• Neil Young - The Loner
• Pentangle - Once I Had A Sweetheart
• Fleetwood Mac - Early Morning Come (session)
• The Glass Menagerie - Have You Forgotten Who You Are?
• Canned Heat - Low Down
• Bonzo Dog Band - Quiet Talks And Summer Walks (session)
• Johnny Shines - Baby Don't You Think I Know
• Fleetwood Mac - You'll Never Know What You're Missing Till You Try (session)
• Tyrannosaurus Rex - Chariots of Silk (session)
• King Crimson - Talk To The Wind (session)
• Kak - Golgotha
• Leviathan - Time
• Fleetwood Mac - Blues With A Feeling (session)
• Bob Dylan - I Threw It All Away
• Colosseum - Walking In The Park
• Top Gear Theme

John Peel's Top Gear - 27th. April 1969

Principal Edwards Magic Theatre

Probably the post of the year on the peel group was from user hills1902, who announced a couple of months back:

I have some old 7 inch reel-to-reel tapes of eight Top Gear
programmes that I recorded in 1969 and 1970, with sessions from the following bands:

26 Apr 69 - Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection, Family
11 May 69? - Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bonzo Dog Band
Date unknown - Pentangle, Blodwyn Pig, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, John Dummer Blues Band
Date unknown - Ten Years After, Roy Harper, Third Ear Band
29 Jun 69 - Led Zeppelin, Pentangle, Idle Race,
6 Jul 69 - John Dummer Blues Band, Colosseum, Pretty Things, Imrat Khan
4 Jul 70 - Country Joe Macdonald, Fotheringay, Cochise
11 Jul 70? - Kevin Ayers, East of Eden, Son House

Well, the tapes have now been encoded and properly dated, and they're absolute gems, giving a real flavour of the Top Gear experience for those of us too young to have been there (well, I was technically 'there', but at 8½, hardly 'hip and happening' enough to set the dial for this). So over the next 8 weeks I'll be uploading these classic shows to the Karavan, starting with this one, which features sessions from, as stated above, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Eclection and (The) Family. There's only a slight glitch in Mr. Apollo, as indicated below, but otherwise this is a full two-hour show in very reasonable nick for its age. Manna for Peeliacs.

Many thanks to hills1902 for supplying these, to John for ripping and encoding them and to Phil for hosting them on his server.

Download (273Mb, 320Kbps MP3)

The file's too big for divshare, so I've switched to sendspace this week. Hope everyone's OK with that.

Session details

The Eclection
Family

(The BBC's Peel pages have no details for this particular PEMT session, but I expect Ken Garner's upcoming book will put that right. Oh, and while we're at it, the BBC lists the group as Principal Edward's Magic Theatre, but I'm reasonably sure that's wrong.)

Further Reading

Dandelion Records
Principal Edwards Magic Theatre
(This site includes an article by Peel about the band published in "Disc and Music Echo" earlier that month.)

Tracklisting

• Top Gear Theme
• The Byrds - Old Blue
• Canned Heat - Time Was
• The Eclection - Both Sides Now (session)
• Chicken Shack - I'd Rather Go Blind
• The Family - A Song For Me (session)
• Bonzo Dog Band - Mr. Apollo [skips back to end of the Family track, then continues and jumps a bit further into Mr. Apollo]
  
• News at 7:30
• The Eclection - Restitution (session)
• Bob Dylan - Country Pie
• Principal Edwards Magic Theatre - Lament For The Earth (session)
• The Family - Bring It On Home (session)
• Pentangle - Once I Had A Sweetheart
• Credence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary
• Principal Edwards Magic Theatre - Ballad of a Big Girl Now (session)
• The Eclection - Charity (session)
• Leonard Cohen - Seems So Long Ago Nancy
• BB King - Sweet Little Angel
• The Family - Love Is A Sleeper (session)
• Coliseum (Colosseum) - Those About To Die
• Principal Edwards Magic Theatre - Third Sonnet To Sundry Notes Of Music (session)
• The Eclection - Earth (session)
• The Moody Blues - Send Me No Wine
• Gordon Smith - Instrumental No. 2 [Interrupted by a motoring flash]
• The Family - I Sung 'Um The Way I Feel (session)
• Principal Edwards Magic Theatre - Pinky: A Mystery Cycle (session)
• Doctor John - The Lonesome Guitar Strangler
• The Eclection - Put On Your Face (session)
• Top Gear Theme

John Peel - "Night Ride" - 7th. May 1969

Ivor Cutler/Bob Cobbing

To all intents and purposes, this is one of Peelie's "Night Ride" shows, featuring the usual mix of BBC archive tracks from around the world, Peel favourites from the time and of course session guests. In this case the session is from Ivor Cutler, in the very first of his many well-loved sessions for Peel over the years. Peel's other studio guest is Bob Cobbing, whose "sound poem" (with François Dufrêne) is by far the most "challenging" piece on the show. Also featured are The Who, with tracks from their recently-released "Tommy" opus, and a couple of wonderful numbers from Leonard Cohen and Louis Armstrong.

However, this is not technically a Night Ride show at all: Night Rides normally went out at midnight and featured other presenters as well as Peel. It seems that Radio 1 had a reshuffle around this time and Peel's bit of Night Ride was taken out and moved to the earlier 8:15 slot, sandwiched between "My Kind of Folk" and "Jazz Workshop". Apparently Peel referred to this short-lived show as "Son of Night Ride" (thanks to Colin Ellis for that info), and the announcer refers to this as one of John Peel's "nameless extravaganzas".

But hey! Enough of my yakkin'. Whaddaya say, let's boogie!

Download (192Kbps MP3, total time 58 mins approx.)

Date
Wednesday, 7th. May, 1969
8:15 till 9:15

Studio Guests
Ivor Cutler, Bob Cobbing

Session
Ivor Cutler
Recorded - 5th. May, 1969
Producer - Pete Ritzema
Engineer - Mike Harding
Studio - Studio S2, Sub-Basement, Broadcasting House

Tracklisting

• Leonard Cohen - A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes (from "Songs from A Room")
• Finnish Kantele Music (BBC archives)
• Ivor Cutler - Trouble Trouble (session)
• The Who - Christmas (from "Tommy")
• Ivor Cutler - An Old Poltroon (live poem)
• Ivor Cutler - Bounce, Bounce, Bounce (session)
• Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - The Leaping Order of Nuns (from "Not Only ... But Also")
• The Who - Go To The Mirror (from "Tommy")
• The Shepherd Song from Sweden (BBC archives)
• Ivor Cutler - There And Back Via Sweden (live poem)
• Ivor Cutler - In My Room There Sits A Box (session)
• Peel, Ivor Cutler and Bob Cobbing - Discussion about the upcoming "poetry marathon"
• Bob Cobbing & François Dufrêne - Spontaneous Appealinair Contemprate Apollinaire
• Mikis Theodorakis & Maria Farandouri - O Andonis (from "The Ballad of Mauthausen")
• Modernised Folk Song from Ceylon (BBC archives)
• Ivor Cutler - Beatrice And Her Dirty Knees (live poem)
• Merrill E. Moore - Rock Rockola
• Ivor Cutler - An Indirect Love Poem (live poem)
• Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five - Struttin' with Some Barbecue
• Tho Who - The Overture [part of] (from "Tommy")