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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1973-11-08
Comments
  • Edited show, but some continuous sections

Sessions[]

  • String Driven Thing #3, recorded 24th September 1973. No known commercial release.
  • Gypsy #3, recorded 8th October 1973, repeat, first broadcast 11 October 1973. No known commercial release.
  • Wild Turkey #3, recorded 29th October 1973. No known commercial release.

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

Tracklisting[]

  • File 1
  • String Driven Thing: Two Timing Rama (session)
  • into
  • JP says that regular listeners will know that he doesn't get a great many gigs and many of them turn out disastrously. But JP has a gig tomorrow night at Stroud Girls' High School, "which you've got to admit, was planning of a particularly high order on my part, and already my nostrils are flaring with unwholesome lust. This is for the ladies at Stroud Girls' High School. Watch out."
  • Free: Mr. Big (album - Fire And Water) Island ILPS 9120
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  • String Driven Thing: Night Club (session) (JP says their album is "'worth getting into', as we say in the music business, but mean practically nothing when we say it")
  • Gypsy: I'll Be There (session)
  • "And if you were listening to Pinky and Perky last night, you'll have heard them play the new John Lennon single, "Mind Games"....". (This may be a reference to Anne Nightingale and Alan Black's Sounds of the Seventies Review show)
  • John Lennon: I Know (I Know) (album - Mind Games) Apple PCS 7165
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  • Wild Turkey: Soldier Boy (session)
  • Some clever guitaring (see Glossary) going on there, but here's a real guitar lord for you
  • Duane Eddy: Renegade (7") Big Tree BT-157
  • JP: "What a hero..." John saw him with Bobby Darin at the Liverpool Empire and it was one of the great musical evenings of his life - probably on either March 28 or 2 April 1960 according to tour dates.[1] [2]
  • In the second half of the programme there will be Rolling Stones, Ronnie Lane, Original Blind Boys Of Alabama, New Riders Of The Purple Sage, Roxy Music
  • 11pm news. Read by James Alexander Gordon, best known for reading the football results on Saturday afternoons. Stories include; Middle East peace proposals (Egypt, Israel, Henry Kissinger}; fears of a fuel crisis increase, miners' leaders call for overtime ban, power workers continue ban on out of hours work; “cod war”[3] between Iceland and Britain "virtually over"; sanctions against Rhodesia continue. House Of Commons vote to approve work on Channel Tunnel
  • Rolling Stones: Who's Driving Your Plane? (album - No Stone Unturned) Decca SKL 5173
  • String Driven Thing: The Machine That Cried (session)
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  • Dennis Coulson: What Went Wrong (album - Dennis Coulson) Elektra K 42148
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  • Original Five Blind Boys Of Alabama: Precious Lord
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  • New Riders Of The Purple Sage: One Too Many Stories (album - One Too Many Stories) CBS S 65687
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  • Roxy Music: Sunset (album - Stranded) Island ILPS 9252
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  • File 2
  • Roxy Music: Amazona (LP - Stranded) Island
  • muffled JP link "and there you go"
  • Hemlock: A Lover's Not A Thief (LP - Hemlock) Deram
  • Steve Miller Band: Sugar Babe (LP - The Joker) Capitol

File[]

Name
  • 1) J P D03
  • 2) J P D14
Length
  • 1) 2:03:40 (6:22-1:03:34)
  • 2) 1:06:54 (to 11:23)
Other
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