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- Name
- Station
- YYYY-MM-DD
- 1967-08-12
- Comments
- From the sharer: This 11-minute clip came to me dated 13th August 1967 and listed as "Last Perfumed Garden". Obviously it's not the last one as that's available as audio and documented on the wiki with tracklist & transcripts and this one is different, but if the date is correct then it's the day before the last one.
- Initially the clip was assigned, as suggested, to "the day before the last one" i.e. the 13th. However information from the Radio London website indicates that Peel took a day's shore leave and left Pete Drummond to stand in as "Head Gardener" before returning on the 13th. (the date for the shore leave was shown to be the 10th, but this is assumed to be a typo, as the page is otherwise in chronological order and the 12th fits in better, returning the following day.) Also, Peel apologised on the final Perfumed Garden for not being there "last night". This all points to there being no Peel Perfumed Garden on the 13th, indeed that page states that there is forthcoming audio with Drummond presenting the penultimate PG.
- While now allocated to the 12th August, it may in fact be from several dates in the run-up to Radio London's closure, but we now know it is neither the final nor the penultimate Perfumed Garden.
- Recording is running a little fast, with speed variations especially noticeable on the Donovan and Big Brother tracks. JP talks about his current interests - dibblers, his Poet Laureate listeners' poll and the "non-contest".
Tracklisting[]
- John Mayall's Bluesbreakers: The Supernatural (LP - A Hard Road) Decca SKL 4853 (fragment, title back-announced by JP)
- JP: The Supernatural, at strange speeds, backwards and forwards. Hello, good evening, welcome to the Perfumed Garden. Pillars and nocturnal fires from Cream
- Cream: Tales Of Brave Ulysses (7" - Strange Brew) Reaction 591 015
- JP: Here's the Jefferson Airplane, for the Inch Cake....listen, it's very beautiful....
- Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit (single) RCA 9248 (US release)
- Beatles: Baby You're A Rich Man (7" - All You Need Is Love) Parlophone R 5620
- Donovan: Turquoise (7") Pye 7N. 15984
- JP: And Big Brother has a voice sounding like ice falling down through fir trees
- Big Brother And The Holding Company: Down On Me (album - Big Brother And The Holding Company) Mainstream 6099
- Peel says he doesn't know much about Big Brother and wonders whether it may be Big Sister as it sounds like a female voice; Donovan is leading in the PG's Poet Laureate competition from Roger McGough and John Lennon; JP reads from letter from listener Jackson McAdam of Liverpool 16.
- John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers: ? cut
- Pink Floyd: Astronomy Domine (album - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn) Columbia 33SX 6157
- Letter from Zoological Society of London to PG listener who'd written to ask about dibblers; apparently they've just received some Zambian mini-mice - "mini-mice are a must".
- Byrds: It Won't Be Wrong (LP - Turn! Turn! Turn!) CBS SBPG 62652 (Only a fragment of the intro; track played in response to listener request, but JP says the Byrds' current LP, Younger than Yesterday, is "no longer on the ship.")
File[]
- Name
- 1967.08.13_Radio_London_-_John_Peel_-_Perfumed_Garden NB Incorrect date
- Length
- 00:11:14
- Other
- Many thanks to Dan.
- Available