Festive Fifty Session Broadcasts

Introduction

 * This page is a list of the session reocrdings broadcast as an adjunct to the Festive Fifty chart. Since John had in most cases two hours of airtime to fill, rather than devoting it entirely to the chart, he repeated what one assumes were his choice of the best or most significant sessions of the year prior to the Fifty, and in 1991, in lieu of the chart altogether, he filled all his festive shows with these repeats.
 * However, changes to his scheduling led to the abandonment of these for the 1993 chart, and 1994 and 1996 featured entirely new sessions, with the last repeat broadcast of any session coming in 1997. The remaining years (1995 and 1998-2003) featured records with no sessions at all in addition to the chart. In many cases, the entire session was presented: instances where this is not the case are marked with a §. Official releases are listed where known.

1976 Festive Fifty

 * 24 December 1976
 * Climax Blues Band #3. Recorded 1976-09-16. §
 * Joan Armatrading, #8. Recorded 1976-07-29. §
 * Lone Star, #1. Recorded 1976-01-29. §


 * 27 December 1976
 * Be Bop Deluxe, #4. Recorded 1976-02-10. Available on Tramcar To Tomorrow (Hux).
 * Jess Roden Band, #3. Recorded 1976-03-18. §
 * Brand X, #2. Recorded 1976-07-15. §
 * Aswad, #1. Recorded 1976-08-10. § Available on The BBC Sessions (Dub Vendor).
 * Maddy Prior & June Tabor, one and only session. Recorded 1975-09-23. §

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