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in: 1988, Peel shows, British Library, Available online

18 April 1988

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1988-04-18
Comments
  • Peel mentions seeing Art Garfunkel on Thursday night for a review for a Sunday newspaper and wasn't impressed with his performance, but mentioned he did a version of The Flamingos' I Only Have Eyes For You, which he plays the original version.
  • Peel plays a short excerpt of a track from a German teenage all female pop rock band called S.S.T. who sent him a record of theirs.
  • Peel mentioned that the German band FSK gave him a copy of George Britton's Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Songs record to show him how they were influenced by the artist to produce their session in the style of his acoustic guitar mixed with yodeling, that would be broadcast tomorrow. He also mentioned that the band found it difficult to understand George Britton's lyrics in the record, because of its unique German dialect and then goes on to play a track from the record. At the end of the record, Peel thought it sounded like he was singing in a heavy Geordie accent.

Sessions[]

Tracklisting[]

(JP: 'Obviously loony lefties, we don't want this kind of subversive thing on the radio that's for sure. Of course, I rather hoping being called S.S.T., they were someway inspired by the label of that name, but quite clearly nothing of the sort, it's Sandra, Susanne and Tanje, members of the band, but I should listen to the rest of it anyway in the privacy of my own home of course')
  1. The Crackpot At The End Of The Rainbow
  2. Florrie's Waltz
  3. Under The Sea
  4. In The Pipes
  5. Murder Living Next Door
  6. Private Rhythms
  7. In The Pipes (Reprise)
  8. Cackling Gas
  9. Florrie's Waltz
  10. Under The Sea
(JP: 'It cost me £8 in Oxford Street, that's worth every penny of it... ending tonight's programme which you heard from Vivian Stanshall, the first I think in a decade... Coming next the midnight news summary, thanks for listening. Goodnight')
  • Track marked @ available on File 2
  • Track marked $ available on File 3

File[]

Name
  • 1) 020A-B9809XXXXXXX-0100A0.mp3
  • 2) John Peel Sessions Sir Henry Rawlinson [also Great Lives Bio]
  • 3) 1988-04-xx Peel Show LE007
Length
  • 1) 1:57:32
  • 2) 3:57:06 (2:15:39-2:34:06)
  • 3) 1:32:18 (28:56-32:34))
Other
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