Show[]
- Name
- Station
- YYYY-MM-DD
- 1969-03-12
- Comments
- In his sleevenotes to the John Peel's Archive Things LP, Peel wrote that the best of his Night Ride shows, "and those I enjoyed most...boasted a minimum of Peel and a maximum of music, poetry, discussion and laughter". JP and his guests certainly seem to be enjoying themselves here, and even Night Ride's co-presenter Jon Curle joins in the fun, exchanging banter with Peel and getting distracted when reading the 1 a.m. news.
- Session guest is popular folk club performer Derek Brimstone (1932-2017), a regular on the BBC's folk shows. This is a double-length session with the second half being broadcast on Jon Curle's section of Night Ride. John is still to be heard between tracks on Jon's section.
- Guest poet is Dennis Lysons, a former miner who Peel had met when he read his poetry on an episode of the TV show How It Is.
- Fraser White (the graphologist who analysed Peel's handwriting on the previous week's Night Ride) and Radio 1 DJ David Rider listed as studio guests in The Peel Sessions. However, Fraser White is not on any of the available recordings, and unless he made a reprise appearance in the first few missing minutes of the show, this may be incorrect.
- JP plays a track from the debut album by "Neil Young, ex-Buffalo Springfield" - “a very amazing LP it is too”, he thinks.
- Tonight's BBC Archives material comes from Georgia and Azerbaijan. Peel mentions that the archive has also provided him with written introductions to the tracks, which he reads out, not altogether seriously. The hymn "To Our Lady" was later chosen for the John Peel's Archive Things LP.
- Jon Curle 's half of the show begins with Derek Brimstone 's version of Ralph McTell 's "Streets Of London", not yet a well-known song. Brimstone's session also includes "Back In Tobago", an authentic-sonding calypso describing the experiences of first-generation Caribbean immigrants to the UK - yet on the album Fire and Brimstone[1], which Peel plugs, it's credited to Brimstone himself.
- Curle also plays a track by the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band - not the kind of material Peel would play, but suitable for a non-Peel Night Ride. The Clarke-Boland band, featuring many top American and European jazz musicians, had recently been doing sell-out business, breaking attendance records at Ronnie Scott's club in London (the Rolling Stones, Amen Corner, Peter Sellers and even Princess Margaret came to see them[2]) and getting rave reviews in Melody Maker.
Sessions[]
- Derek Brimstone only session, recorded 4th March 1969. No known commercial release.
(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)
Tracklisting[]
- File 2 cuts in near end of next track
- Beatles: Only A Northern Song (soundtrack album - Yellow Submarine) Apple PCS 7070
- Derek Brimstone: Back In Tobago (session)
- Hilda Rudakova: Is Not The Wind Crying (BBC Archives)
- Peel talks about How It Is and introduces Dennis Lysons
- Dennis Lysons: Down t' Mine (poem)
- Keef Hartley Band: Leavin' Trunk (album - Halfbreed) Deram SML 1037
- Brief chat with John's brother Alan Ravenscroft who popped in - he sounds a little “posher” than JP
- Derek Brimstone: Little Tin Men (session) @
- chat with David Rider about the Roadrunner cartoons on which he is an expert – Peel too is a fan, but says he saw lots of real roadrunners when he lived in Texas
- State Choir Of Tiflis Cathedral: To Our Lady (Caucasian Hymn) (BBC Archives)
- JP says Leonard Cohen’s Selected Poems 1956-1968 is due to be published in the UK. He has a review copy and is enthusiastic
- Tod Dockstader & James Reichert: Movement 3 (album - Omniphony 1) Owl ORLP 11
- Derek Brimstone: Mrs Fisher And poem/spoken word intro (session) @
- Dennis Lysons: Cardboard City (poem) (“this is the place where I live”)
- chat with Dennis on a miner's life, low wages and poverty
- Mike Cooper: Death Letter (album - Oh Really!?) Pye NSPL.18281 (JP: this is Son House’s Death Letter)
- Neil Young: The Loner (album - Neil Young) Reprise
- Dennis Lysons: The Rain (poem)
- Derek Brimstone: Sing To Me (session) @
- unknown Azerbaijani Music on a panduri (BBC Archives) "a long-necked flute", says JP, but it sounds like a lute
- 1am news read by Jon Curle
- Jon Curle's section of Night Ride
- Derek Brimstone: Streets Of London (session)
- John is suddenly eloquent after his hour is over
- Mickey And His Friends: Minnie's Yoo Hoo (7") Buena Vista F-472 dedicated to Vivian Stanshall, says JP
- Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band: New Box
- Chat with John, and a singing trail for the next Top Gear - he says he has to drive to Newcastle tomorow but there are problems with his van
- Tracks marked @ also available on File 1
File[]
- Name
- 1a) Derek Brimstone - Peel session - Night Ride 3/3/69
- 1b) 1969-03-12 NR 12.3.69 Derek Brimstone
- 2) NR12-03-69.mp3
- Length
- 1) 10:27
- 2) 1:02:24 (to 52:02)
- Other
- 1) Many thanks to Colin Harper 1b) has centred audio
- 2) Many thanks to Warwick Johns. Very good VHF recording.
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- Available