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03 January 1977

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Show[]

Name
Station
  • BBC Radio One
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1977-01-03
Comments
  • Sixth and final show featuring the legendary, long-lost but now found, 1976 Festive Fifty, the first ever.
  • Tracklisting information below kindly provided by Ken Garner, author of The Peel Sessions, via the Peel Mailing List. Many thanks, Ken!
  • "The 1976 Festive Fifty remains something of a holy grail among collectors of Peel shows, and no recordings from any of the programmes have come to light as yet. If you have such a thing, or any old recordings on tape, you are urged to contact the Peel Mailing List, where your arrival will be greeted with much rejoicing." This para is fortunately now out of date, Ken in association with his taper pal John Cavanagh, has now made this long lost treasure available once again.
  • Only a selection of session tracks were played.

Sessions[]

  • Chieftains # (Recorded 1975-10-09)
  • Thin Lizzy # (Recorded 1976-09-23)
  • Bill Aitken # (Private tape, recorded June 1975 - the PasB of this repeat mistakenly has 8-12-75, which was the original broadcast date)

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

Tracklisting[]

1976 Festive Fifty #10-#1

File[]

Name
  • a) Peel 1977-1-03a F50 #10-1
  • b) Peel 1977-1-03b F50 #10-1
  • c) 1977-01-03 John Peel BBC Radio 1.mp3
Length
  • a) 57:21
  • b) 59:21
  • c) 1:59:40
Other
  • a) and b) Original broadcast: many thanks to John and Ken.
  • c) Remastered version in one file: many thanks to Bill.
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