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Festive Fifty Entries

 * 1977 Festive Fifty: Away From The Numbers #48


 * 1978 Festive Fifty: Down In The Tube Station At Midnight #24
 * 1978 Festive Fifty: In the City #44


 * 1979 Festive Fifty: Down In The Tube Station At Midnight #4
 * 1979 Festive Fifty: Eton Rifles #19
 * 1979 Festive Fifty: Strange Town #27


 * 1980 Festive Fifty: Down in the Tube Station at Midnight #4
 * 1980 Festive Fifty: Going Underground #13


 * 1981 Festive Fifty: Down In The Tube Station At Midnight #13
 * 1981 Festive Fifty: Going Underground #23


 * 1982 Festive Fifty: A Town Called Malice #11
 * 1982 Festive Fifty: The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow) #39
 * 1982 Festive Fifty: Down In The Tube Station At Midnight ATFF#11
 * 1982 Festive Fifty: Going Underground ATFF#17


 * 2000 Festive Fifty: Going Underground ATFF#35

Sessions
Three sessions. All were released on The Jam At The BBC (2xCD, Universal, 2002)

1Recorded: 1977-04-26. Transmitted: 02 May 1977. Repeated: 15 July 1980
 * In The City / Art School / I've Changed My Address / Modern World

2. Recorded: 1977-07-19. Transmitted: 25 July 1977. Repeated:
 * All Around The World / London Girl / Bricks And Mortar / Carnaby Street

3. Recorded: 1979-10-29. Transmitted: 05 November 1979. Repeated: 03 December 1979, 20 December 1979, 07 April 1980, 25 August 1980 Thick As Thieves / The Eton Rifles / Saturday's Kids / When You're Young

Other Shows Played

 * 1977
 * 25 April 1977: In The City (7") Polydor
 * 19 May 1977: Sounds From The Street (LP – In The City) Polydor
 * 29 August 1977: All Around The World (7" – All Around The World) Polydor
 * 23 December 1977: Away From The Numbers (LP – In The City) Polydor FF#48


 * 1978
 * 27 July 1978: David Watts (single) Polydor
 * 08 August 1978: David Watts (single) Polydor
 * 25 August 1978: "A" Bomb In Wardour Street (7"- David Watts) Polydor (Pre-recorded show. JP mentions he will actually be “jumping about drunkenly" to The Jam at Reading at the time of the broadcast.)
 * 28 August 1978: A Bomb On Wardour Street (7" - David Watts / "A" Bomb In Wardour Street) Polydor (JP confesses to being slightly disappointed by the Jam at Reading)
 * 25 September 1978: Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (single) Polydor
 * 26 December 1978: In the City (LP - In The City) Polydor FF#44
 * 28 December 1978: Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (7") Polydor FF#24


 * 1979
 * 22 February 1979: Strange Town (7") Polydor
 * 09 May 1979: News Of The World (7”) Polydor
 * 26 July 1979: Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (single) Polydor
 * 07 August 1979: When You're Young (single) Polydor
 * 09 August 1979: When You’re Young (single) Polydor
 * 13 August 1979: When You’re Young (single) Polydor
 * 15 August 1979: When You’re Young (single) Polydor
 * 20 August 1979: When You’re Young (single) Polydor (JP says Jam singles seem to be getting “better and better,” after a low point about 18 months earlier.)
 * 16 October 1979: Eton Rifles (single) Polydor (JP: “And we start the programme with a request for the debate and library of the Hopgarden at Eton. It’s the new single from the Jam.”)
 * 18 October 1979: Eton Rifles (7 inch) Polydor (JP: “They seem to have an obsession about getting thumped. Why can't they write songs about kissing girls? Or boys, if it comes to that? Although I hope in my case it doesn't.”)
 * 23 October 1979: Eton Rifles (single) Polydor
 * 29 October 1979: (JP: “Right now, unless something quite disastrous has happened, the Jam should be recording a new session for us, their third, their first in a couple of years, which is very timely, because I think this is perhaps the best single they have ever made.”) Eton Rifles (single) Polydor
 * 01 November 1979: Eton Rifles (single) Polydor
 * 06 November 1979: Little Boy Soldiers (LP – Setting Sons) Polydor
 * 06 November 1979: Heatwave (LP – Setting Sons) Polydor
 * 12 November 1979: Heatwave (LP - Setting Sons) Polydor
 * 15 November 1979: Thick As Thieves (LP - Setting Sons) Polydor
 * 19 November 1979: Thick As Thieves (LP - Setting Sons) Polydor
 * 27 November 1979: Saturday's Kids (LP - Settings Sons) Polydor
 * 26 December 1979: Strange Town (7 Inch) Polydor FF#27 (JP: "Almost every track that the Jam have recorded received some votes in the Festive Fifty voting, thus emphasing, I suppose, the fact that in terms of the Festive Fifty a band with only a few popular records is liable to benefit at the expense of a band with a stack of releases.")
 * 27 December 1979: Eton Rifles (7 Inch) (Polydor) FF#19


 * 1980
 * 01 January 1980: Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (7") Polydor FF#4
 * 26 February 1980: Going Underground (7") Polydor (JP: “a new single from the Jam”)
 * 27 February 1980: Going Underground (7") Polydor
 * 03 March 1980: Going Underground (7") Polydor
 * 10 March 1980: The Dreams Of Children (7” – Going Underground) Polydor
 * 12 March 1980: Away From The Numbers/This Is The Modern World (live) (single) Polydor (limited edition bonus single issued with Going Underground)
 * 13 March 1980: Going Underground (single) Polydor
 * 18 March 1980: Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (live) ('Going Underground' 2 x 7" single) Polydor
 * 27 May 1980: (Peel has been away in the Netherlands doing the Pink Pop Festival again. He cites the Specials, the Jam and Joe Jackson at Pink Pop as being very good.)
 * 19 May 1980: Batman Theme (LP - In The City) Polydor
 * 04 August 1980: Start! (7") Polydor (JP: 'Very Jam, very Taxman.')
 * 12 August 1980: Start! (7") Polydor
 * 29 December 1980: Going Underground" (7" single) Polydor FF#13
 * 30 December 1980: Down in the Tube Station At Midnight (7") Polydor #4


 * 1981
 * 12 May 1981: (JP: “Proud to be the last programme to bring you the new Jam single.”) Funeral Pyre (7": Funeral Pyre) Polydor
 * 28 May 1981: Disguises
 * 28 December 1981: Going Underground (7 inch) Polydor FF#23
 * 29 December 1981: Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (7 inch) Polydor FF#13


 * 1982
 * 15 November 1982: Move On Up (2x7" - Beat Surrender EP) Polydor
 * 25 November 1982: Beat Surrender (EP - Beat Surrender) Polydor
 * 30 November 1982: In The City / All Mod Cons / To Be Someone / It's Too Bad (LP - Dig The New Breed) Polydor
 * 30 November 1982: Going Underground / Dreams Of Children / That's Entertainment (LP - Dig The New Breed) Polydor
 * 02 December 1982: Private Hell (LP - Dig The New Breed) Polydor
 * 20 December 1982: The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow) (7 inch) Polydor FF#39
 * 27 December 1982: Going Underground (7 inch) Polydor ATFF#17
 * 28 December 1982: Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (7 inch) Polydor ATFF#11
 * 28 December 1982: A Town Called Malice (7 inch) Polydor FF#11 (JP: “Must say, I admire Paul Weller's courage in breaking the group up at this stage.”)


 * 1993
 * 05 April 1993 (John Peel Is Jakki Brambles): Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (JP: “You keep reading that they're going to get back together again and I think they should, frankly, if you can write stuff as good as that in 1978 you can write it as well in 1993 I think.”)


 * 2000
 * 12 January 2000: Going Underground (7")' (Polydor) ATFF#35


 * Other
 * 01 July 1982 (TOTP): Just Who Is The 5 O’Clock Hero (13) (live clip)
 * 25 December 1982 (TOTP): Town Called Malice (video clip)