Show[]
- Name
- Station
- YYYY-MM-DD
- 1968-04-10
- Comments
- tape is distorted at first, as though it has been partially demagnetised.
- Pete Brown in studio; he mentions he's been working with a band, but on this show makes a solo appearance as guest poet.
- Show includes an interview with Percy Parslow who ran a hamster farm and was later the subject of a song by Andy Roberts, who together with JP visited the farm, "yesterday".
- Peel again regrets that he can't play some of the tracks (the Nice and the Indian Gottuvadhyam piece) in full due to lack of time. He also apologises for being about four months behind in replying to listeners’ letters.
- Full show (both Peel's section and what Radio Times calls "the usual Night Ride"[2] with Robin Boyle between 1 and 2 a.m.) produced by Denis O'Keeffe.
Sessions[]
- Tony "Duster" Bennett #1 recorded 10th March 1968.
Tracklisting[]
- File cuts in
- Yardbirds: Louise (album - Five Live Yardbirds) Columbia 33SX 1677
- Tony "Duster" Bennett: Worried Mind (session)
- Chat with Pete Brown
- Pete Brown: Notes Towards A 25 Hour City (poem dedicated to International Times) followed by a second poem, which he doesn't name.
- John Renbourn: Transfusion (advance copy of album - Sir John Alot Of Merrie Englandes Musyk Thyng & Ye Grene Knyghte) Transatlantic TRA 167
- John has been to the house of Percy Parslow, who has 2800 hamsters
- Chat with Tony "Duster" Bennett
- Tony "Duster" Bennett: I've Been A Fool (session)
- BBC Archives - Chinese 15th century piece played on a "cheing" - Winter Bird Sporting Over The Stream
- Percy Parslow (Hamsterman) visit story
- Interview with a hamster
- Interview by JP and Andy Roberts (“the Peel Outside Broadcast Team”) with Percy Parslow, who talks about the various small animals he breeds
- Steppenwolf: Hoochie Coochie Man (album - Steppenwolf) RCA Victor RD 7974
- Chat with Pete Brown, who mentions two books he’s got coming out, including his current collection Few.[3]
- Pete Brown: Look Man We're Going To Make Your Pit Ponies Smile (poem)
- Tony "Duster" Bennett: Everybody Got A Friend But Me (session)
- Chat with Tony "Duster" Bennett
- JP: I got hold of a record last week which has Robert Johnson’s version of Dust My Broom..." – he doesn't give the title, but probably the LP was the anthology Blues Roots, Mississippi (RBF 14) as the track was unavailable elswehere. [1]
- Robert Johnson: I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
- BBC Archives South Indian music played on the Gottuvadhyam - Ermicaragam
- Nice: Rondo (album - The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack) Immediate IMLP 016 ("the last four minutes or so...")
- Pete Brown: Swach (poem) - a “Liverpool sound poem”
- Pete Brown: Dirty (poem) - he says it's "a request from the dreaded Pete Roche who’s lurking in the corner"
- JS Bach: Allegro (from Concerto In G Minor For Two Harpsichords And Orchestra)
- Tony "Duster" Bennett: Blues With A Feeling (session)
- end of show - "over to Robin Boyle with the news and the rest of Night Ride"
- start of news - A new American commander in Vietnam; US Congress approves Civil Rights bill outlawing racial discrimination in the sale or rent of houses.
References[]
- ↑ Peel reviewed this album in issue 30 of International Times[1], saying that "Robert Johnson's "Dust My Broom" is worth the price of the record anyway" although he also comments that "the three Tommy Johnson tracks are superb, especially "Big Road Blues". Tommy Johnson recorded in the late 1920s and his records are prized by blues collectors - but he wasn't a relative of Robert Johnson.
File[]
- Name
- J P Night Ride 10 April 1968.mp3
- Length
- 54:18
- Other
- Many thanks to Warwick Johns and to Tim for digitising
- Available