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06 March 1968

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1968-03-06
Comments
  • Peel's first-ever Night Ride show: he begins by saying, "This is the first in a new series of programmes in which you might hear just about anything."
  • Info from Alan Grove's Mixcloud page - "Night Ride was a two hour show on Radio 1 and 2 from midnight to 2am - easy listening non-needletime music hosted by voices from Radio 2. In March 1968, John Peel was given the first hour on Wednesday nights. Top Gear was Peel the rock fan, whereas Nightride was acoustic Peel with added poetry and occasional classical music.The Radio 2 listeners and much of management hated this "Perfumed Garden at the Beeb. and when supporter of the show Robin Scott (Controller) left, his hour of the show was axed." (See Night Ride page for more details)
  • More information at Kats Karavan
  • A descriiption of the show can be found in David Cavanagh's Good Night And Good Riddance (pp.49-51); he says guest poet Adrian Mitchell (see Night Ride Poets) "sounds like a man trying to hold his anger in".

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(JP: 'This is a record by a group that I used to manage in California that was released about fifteen months ago, and it shows you, I think, that groups are capable of making records that never get anywhere that people should hear. It's unfortunate the group has subsequently broken up. They're called The Misunderstood.')
(JP: 'Well, you have The Misunderstood and that was called I Can Take You To The Sun as I say I used to manage that group. And we get an awful lot of records in each week, you know, from groups that just making their first record, and it's very sad to have to reject them sometimes, because you know that the hopes of hundreds of people, well, almost hundreds of people are pinned on each record. You know, mums and dads are sitting at home to see if Johnny's record comes on the radio, and it's very sad when you know they're not going to.')
(JP: 'Anyway one group that you're going to hear a great deal of in the next year because they're going to get so important, and people in this country and America and all over Europe who haven't heard them will be hearing them: and they're very good indeed. And They're our guests this evening. The Incredible String Band who have a ridiculous LP that's going to be released in a few weeks time called the Hangman's Beautiful Daughter which to my mind is the best LP that I've heard since Sergeant Pepper and I say about every LP. Anyway, the Incredible String Band now and this is called You Get Brighter Every Day.')
  • Incredible String Band: 'You Get Brighter' (Peel Session)
  • (JP: 'And those are the Incredible String Band and that was called You Get Brighter Every Single Day. And we'll be hearing more from them a little later on. One of the nice things about doing this program is that it gave me an opportunity to go through the BBC archives where they have some incredible folk music things among all kinds of other stuff as well. And we found this which is North Vietnamese and they've got very little calls for rejoicing in North Vietnam at the moment but this is called A Joyful Northern Air.')
  • Prince Buu Luc: 'A Joyful Northern Air (from BBC Archives)'
  • (JP: 'And that strange instrument was a ziver, nothing more romantic from that. And that was called Joyful Northern Air, Vietnamese folk music. As I say we have poet Adrian Mitchell on the program. And the first poem that he's going to read this evening is called Take Stock Between Teeth. Pull Stock from Blossom. Throw Blossom over a arm towards enemy. Lie flat and await explosion. Adrian Mitchell.')
  • Adrian Mitchell: 'Take Stalk Between Teeth, Pull Stalk From Blossom, Throw Blossom Over Arm Towards Enemy, Lie Flat and Await Explosion' (poetry reading)
  • (JP: 'They have a poet Adrian Mitchell and that's from his new book called Out Loud which is just a few minutes ago been published as a matter of fact. The Cream gone to America and influenced an awful lot of groups over there having been influenced originally by American groups and blues groups themselves. This is one of the groups that leans rather heavily on them called the Iron Butterfly from an LP called Heavy which isn't yet released in this country. And the track is called Possession.')
  • Iron Butterfly: Possession (LP: Heavy) Atco 2465 015
  • JP: ('Those are the Iron Butterfly from an LP called Heavy and that was Cool Possession. I'm not exactly sure why.')
  • Chat with Adrian Mitchell
  • End: Shades of Orange (single) Decca F 22750
  • Incredible String Band: 'All Too Much For Me' (Peel Session) &
  • Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in E Minor (K 15, L 374) (JP: 'We'll try and get him in for the programme next week.') Scarlatti died in 1757.
(JP: 'For the benefit of all those lorry drivers who've pulled over to the side of the M1, the M4 and the M6, smashing their transistor radios to pieces beside the road at this very moment, the normal Night Ride things will be back at 1 o'clock.')

(Handover to John Dunn for the rest of Night Ride, who says, "One of the sad things about broadcasting is that it tends to interfere with your listening habits, and that is one programme I wanted to hear right through." There follows the one a.m. news and some easy listening which hopefully pacified John's belligerent lorry drivers: 'something slightly more conventional than John Peel.')

  • Track marked & also on File c Track marked @ also on File d

File[]

Name
  • a) John Peel - Night Ride 1968-03-06 (mono) (remaster)
  • b) John Peel hosts his first Nightride show segment - 6th March 1968 - Radio 1
  • c) 1968-03-06 ISB Night Ride 5.3.69 poss inc one from 6.3.68.mp3
  • d) 1968-03-06 NR mid 68 Simon & Garfunkel 2 songs w Peel intro or outro
Length
  • a) 01:00:07
  • b) 00:56:24
  • c) 2:32
  • d) 2:45
Other
  • a) 167Mb, mono, FLAC. Shared via Kat's Karavan. Many thanks to Colin Ellis, Guy Brown and Duff Paddy
  • b) Many thanks to Alan Groves.
  • c,d) Many thanks to Colin Harper
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