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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1988-11-15
Comments
  • Full tracklisting from the PasB of the BBC Written Archives Centre. However, the CUD track listed by PasB was not played on the show, as Peel wanted to hear the full Four Brothers' Vimbayi session track without any interruptions.
  • Ken Garner's The Peel Sessions book has not listed the repeat session of the Four Brothers in this show.
  • Peel mentions the Flying Cream Shots at the start of the programme, as one of the artists he'll play on the show.
  • Peel plays a 1966 pro-Vietnam war song from Jan Berry, taken from a New Musical Express compilation album of songs inspired by the Vietnam war. In late 1965 Berry penned The Universal Coward, an angry response to Buffy Sainte-Marie's anti-war song Universal Soldier, a hit single for Donovan. Berry recorded and released it solo after his singing partner, Dean Torrence, refused to participate. The Universal Coward is a vitriolic attack on those who opposed the Vietnam War, describing them as “scroungers”, “twisted”, “fanatic” and “thick skulled”. It received little radio airplay and did not reach the charts.
  • Peel plays a track from Finnish band Radiopuhelimet, which in Finnish translates as Radio Phones. Their song and album titles translate as South of Vetelät and Rock Explosion respectively.
  • Peel plays traditional Serbian music from southern Hungary by Vujicsics.
  • Peel plays the original Child Of The Moon by the Rolling Stones, followed by Band Of Susans' session version of the same track.

Sessions[]

Tracklisting[]

Tracks marked # are available on File 1.

File[]

Name
  • 1) 1988-11-xx Peel Show LE022
  • 2) 020A-B3528XXXXXXX-0200A0
  • 3) 020A-B3528XXXXXXX-0201A0
Length
  • 1) 1:35:38 (25:46 - 46:30)
  • 2) 0:56:58
  • 3) 1:00:36
Other
Available
Footnotes
  1. The PasB lists the song as 'Some Cunt From Preston', which was the original title of Country Song. Peel may had an early copy of the album, which listed the song as the former.
  2. A Mexican Rock 'n' Roll band from the 1960's.