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Name
  • Night Ride
Station
  • BBC Radio One (and Two)
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1968-10-02
Comments
  • Tracklisting complied with the help of Paul Bryant's Night Ride playlists and Ken Garner's The Peel Sessions.
  • Yet another noted folk-blues guitarist, John James, makes his debut with a Night Ride session.
  • The Idle Race track is a cover version of a song by Jesse Lee Kincaid, also recorded by Nilsson and the Dillards, among others[1]

Sessions[]

(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)

Tracklisting[]

  • Bert Jansch - Come sing me a happy song to prove we can all get along the lumpy bumpy long and dusty road (LP - Birthday Blues) Transatlantic TRA 179
  • Idle Race - She sang hymns out of tune (LP - Idle Race) Liberty LBS 83221
  • Libby Houston - The plaint of the folding women -
  • The Electric Flag - unknown track
  • Ravi Shankar - unknown track
  • Libby Houston - The Straight Queen's Oratory
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra - The Princess's Game with the Golden Apples by Stravinsky
  • Alirio Diaz - Sour Ashtray (?) Sonata by Scarlatti [1]
  • Libby Houston - The Rotting Song (to the tune of Lonnie Donegan)
  • John James - Victory Rag (session)
  • John James - If Only I (session)
  • John James - Slow Fast Dog Trot (session)
  • John James - Lampeter (session)
  • John James - Girl From Liverpool (session)

References[]

  1. The Alirio Diaz album Peel enthused over, Four Centuries Of Music For The Classic Spanish Guitar, includes three sonatas by Scarlatti and "Asturias" by Isaac Albeniz so presumably "Sour Ashtray" is a mishearing of Peel's pronunciation of the title of one of these tracks

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