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in: 1967, Peel shows, Available online, Radio London

01 July 1967

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Show[]

Name
  • John Peel Show
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1967-07-01
Comments
  • The earliest substantial Peel show extract available at present, although a couple of shorter recordings from earlier dates have since been found.
  • Not a Perfumed Garden, but the first hour of a three-hour Radio London show, 3-4 pm, Saturday afternoon. Peel is probably sitting in for a Radio London colleague on shore leave. The standard Radio London daytime format - records interspersed with ads, some read by Peel himself (live) and Keith Skues (on tape) - e.g. for Green Shield stamps & stock car race meetings.
  • Four separate shares. File 1 has a slightly warmer sound with a more stable playback. File 2 is a little brighter but lacking in bass, and there are noticeable drop-outs, either tape or atmospherics, plus a couple of edits resulting in a shorter file. It is also running slightly fast. File 3 is a slightly longer version starting with the last 80s of the previous show, but is otherwise the same, including the audio shortcomings described. File 4 begins with the last 90s of the previous show, and has the best audio of all, combining the bass of the first file with the brighter high frequencies of files 2 and 3, and without the drop outs. However the music is mostly edited out
  • There is no sign of the final track on the listing below on Files 1 to 3. File 4 has a few seconds of the track at the end, before it fades.
  • Pinkerton's Colours were previously known as Pinkerton's Assorted Colours, under which name they had their only hit, "Mirror, Mirror". It spent a couple of weeks in Peel's KMEN British Pop Top Ten in March 1966. The group included Peel's future Radio 1 colleague, Stuart Colman[1].
  • The Radio London playlist for the week, including the Fab Forty, Climbers and Album Of The Week, is here
  • Ed Stewart mentions that John, as well as hosting the afternoon show, "loves soul music" and will be playing it on London After Midnight tonight for "2 solid hours", which wasn't quite true. JP wasn't keen on soul at that time, but maybe Ed didn't know that; he didn't seem to know that Peel was now calling his late show the Perfumed Garden. Later, Peel always maintained that none of the other Radio London DJs listened to his show, claiming that they were all either asleep or watching blue movies. Or perhaps Ed was just trying to wind JP up.
  • Peel proudly introduces an ad of his own devising - for the Nautilus Club, Lowestoft. It includes extracts from the Attack's "Any More Than I Do", "Dust My Blues" by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and "See Emily Play" by Pink Floyd. No doubt he had some assistance from an engineer, probably Russ Tollerfield
  • Peel reads the first part of the 3.30 news bulletin because Keith Skues is late in arriving.
  • Release details according to 'The Great Rock Discography' book (Martin C. Strong, 1998). (Didn't JP do a foreword on a later edition of this?)

Tracklisting[]

  • File 1 begins, with the last 4 minutes of Ed Stewart's show, starting with an advert followed by Stevie Wonder's I Was Made To Love Her.
  • File 4 begins with last 90s of the above show, at the end of the Stevie Wonder track.
  • File 3 cuts in around 10s later.
  • File 2 cuts in 8s into track below.
  • Pink Floyd: See Emily Play (single) Columbia DB 8214 start and end only on File 4
  • Starlight Ballroom ad
  • Hollies: Carrie Anne (single) Parlophone R 5602 start and end only on File 4
  • King size cigarette ad
  • Roy Orbison: Cry Softly Lonely One ("'Only The Lonely', part two", comments JP) (single) London HLU 10143 ends 10:15 on 1 9:45 on 2 start and end only on File 4
  • ad
  • Donovan: Sunshine Superman ("I hope you'll all witness his fusion with Christopher Logue" - JP draws his listeners' attention to to a TV programme they made together, due to go out on the following evening [1] Title track of Radio London's album of the week)) (single) Pye 7N 17241 start and end only on File 4
  • Stock car racing ad
  • Association: Windy (single) London HLT 10140 start and end only on File 4
  • 3:19 timecheck
  • Green Shield stamps ad
  • John Walker: Annabella (single) Philips BF 1593 start and end only on File 4
  • Honeybus: Delighted To See You (7"-The Breaking Up Scene) Deram start and end only on File 4
  • Hot Rod ad, which Peel makes noises over
  • Beatles: Within You, Without You ("for the prophet Paul") (LP - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band) Parlophone PMC 7027 (around 3 minutes cut out from File 2) start only on File 4
  • Manfred Mann: My Generation (album - Soul Of Mann (Instrumentals)) His Master's Voice CSD 3594 possibly used as filler music end only on File 4
  • News at 3.30 with Keith Skues
  • Monkees: Alternate Title (single) RCA 1604 33:15-35:30 1  28:36-30:45 2 start and end only on File 4
  • Juicy Fruit chewing gum ad
  • Cream: Strange Brew (and a 10-second "break in transmission") (single) Reaction 591 015 ends 39:32 1 34:35 2 start and end only on File 4
  • ad
  • The Doors: Light My Fire (Edit) (Peel's "Climber of the Week", i.e. new release, tipped to appear in the Radio London chart. He talks about playing the extended, album version on the Perfumed Garden) (single) Elektra EKSN 45014 ends 42:46 1 37:41 2 start and end only on File 4
  • Peel's commercial for the Nautilus Club, Lowestoft
  • File 2 pauses before the above ends
  • Briefly off the air at the end of the above commercial, says Peel
  • Love: Stephanie Knows Who (a "revived 45", says Peel, but only released as a single - and then withdrawn - in the U.S.) (LP - Da Capo) Elektra EKL 7-4005 start and end only on File 4
  • File 2 resumes near end of above track
  • Bauer mini movie camera ad
  • Radio London racing driver experience ad
  • Turtles: She'd Rather Be With Me (No. 1 on Radio London chart) (single) London HLU 10135 start and end only on File 4
  • Stock car racing ad
  • Chris Farlowe: Moanin' (single) Immediate IM 056 start and end only on File 4
  • Keith Skues "reads a chapter from his book"
  • File 1-3 cut out
  • Pinkerton's Colours: Mum'n'Dad (single) Pye 7N 17327 start only on File 4

References[]

  1. ↑ This would appear to be Donovan Meets Logue, described by BBC Genome as follows; "The subjects of pop and poetry are no longer worlds apart. DONOVAN pop singer and CHRISTOPHER LOGUE poet exchange their songs and poems in an informal confrontation ." Genome lists the programme as being shown on 02 July 1967

File[]

Name
  • 1) 1967 07 01 Sat 1456-1556 R London (266m) - Ed Stewart, John Peel.mp3
  • 2) 1967-07-01 Peel_PirateRadio
  • 3) 1967 08 07 mon - 03.00_to_03.49__John_Peel.mp3 (misdated)
  • 4) 1967-07-01 1 Jul 1967.m4a
Length
  • 1) 59:56 (from 4:10)
  • 2) 47:42 (running slightly fast)
  • 3) 49:02 (this appears to be a slightly extended version of File 2, catching the start of the show
  • 4) 24:22 (scoped to remove most of the music)
Other
  • 3) Shared via Radiotrefpunt
Available
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