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18 July 1967

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1967-07-xx
Comments
  • Date does seem to be 18th July - but already a show on that page, suggesting that the shows currently occupying the 18th and 19th slots needed to be shunted forward a day
  • John comments on 12 July 1967 that the Zodiac Cosmic Sounds contest would probably be up by the end of that week.
  • He gives the names of the three winners and fifteen runners-up in the contest - included below in case any of them (or their relatives or descendants) find this page.
  • The winners will receive the Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds LP, says JP, "as soon as I can con a few copies out of Elektra Records". Presumably not a problem for him, as Clive Selwood was running Elektra's London office and would supply Peel with the Incredible String Band's LP The 5000 Spirits..., which he would premiere on the next two evenings of the Perfumed Garden.
  • Several references are made to an event in Hyde Park on Sunday = probably the Legalise Cannabis rally on the 16th July, which Peel had referred to obliquely during the 16 July 1967 show.
  • As John refers to the morning's papers featuring the Hyde Park event, this suggests that, as described in the title of the file, this is indeed from the early hours of the 18th July 1967. However, that would necessarily shunt the shows currently occupying the 18th and 19th of July another day forwards.....
  • He's in a happy mood and obviously enjoying the music - "everything sounds especially marvellous tonight, which is good", he says

Tracklisting[]

  • Blues Project: You Can't Catch Me (album - Projections) Verve Forecast FT 3008 back announced only
  • File cuts in at 12:06am
  • John welcomes the listeners to the show. He will be announcing the 15 winners and runners up of the Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds contest
  • John Mayall's Bluesbreakers Featuring Peter Green: It Hurts Me Too (7" - Double Trouble) Decca F 12621
  • Keith from Tenterden, Kent is the first winner (or runner-up) on the contest. JP says he “felt lousy” about having to judge all the entries
  • John dedicates the next record for all the journalists who were in Hyde Park on Sunday afternoon who "didn't have time to search for the truth"
  • Country Joe & The Fish: Flying High (album - Electric Music for the Mind and Body) Vanguard VSD 79244
  • Another reference to Hyde Park - John is critical of the journalists’ reports on the event but hopes some of them will improve and stop trying to be so clever. Dedicates next record to everyone who was there
  • Names another contest runner-up – Tizzy Knowles of London SW3
  • Jimi Hendrix Experience: Can You See Me (album - Are You Experienced) Track Record 612 001
  • Another contest runner-up – Sianna Joyce of Lansdowne Crescent, London
  • Urges listeners to tell more people about the show, “not because of me…”....."I'd like to play a record for the residents of Hamster Hall, whose beautiful and angelic faces were shining forth from most of the daily newspapers this morning."
  • Californians: Golden Apple (7") CBS – 2663
  • Another contest runner-up – Kieran O’Connor of Balham, SW12
  • Who: Circles () Reaction
  • Another contest runner-up – A.C. Edwards of Wroxham, Norwich
  • Byrds: The World Turns All Around Her (album - Turn! Turn! Turn!) CBS 62652 JP:"that beautiful choral sound they have"
  • Another contest runner-up – Tom Cairns of Glasgow
  • Rolling Stones: Now I've Got A Witness (album - The Rolling Stones) Decca LK 4605
  • John relates what happened when he had to present the Rolling Stones on stage in San Bernadino - “an extraordinary night"
  • Another contest runner-up – Martin P Joyce of Manchester 13
  • Buffalo Springfield: Mr. Soul (7" - Bluebird) ATCO 45-6499
  • Another contest runner-up –  Paul Nicholas of Tenterden, Kent – JP: “one of my regular correspondents… mad as a hatter…” (Could this be the singer and actor of that name?)
  • He says the next track was “one of the first indications that the Beatles were aware of what was going on…”
  • Beatles: The Word (album - Rubber Soul) Parlophone PMC 1267 John plays "If I Needed Someone" by mistake before flipping the LP
  • JP: “Too much....Preview of radiance there”
  • 12:35am timecheck at 30:35 into the file
  • Velvet Underground: The Black Angel's Death Song (album - The Velvet Underground & Nico) Verve V-5008 JP calls it "a marvellous LP" and hopes it'll be released in Britain
  • Donovan: Guinevere (album - Sunshine Superman) Pye NPL 18181
  • JP wonders if the station is off the air because lights are flashing in the studio and raves about his favourite Donovan song
  • Jimmy Reed: Tell Me What You Want Me To Do (album - The New Jimmy Reed Album) His Master's Voice CSD 3611
  • Another contest runner-up – Michael Courtauld of Palmers Green, London
  • Buffy Sainte-Marie: Little Wheel Spin And Spin (album - Little Wheel Spin And Spin) Fontana STFL 6071 JP: "she looks like an Aztec goddess or something"
  • ad break - Radio London drive a racing car
  • Another contest runner-up – Rodney O’Connor of Caterham, Surrey
  • Mothers Of Invention: Brown Shoes Don't Make It (album - Absolutely Free) Verve VLP 9174
  • Mothers Of Invention: America Drinks & Goes Home (album - Absolutely Free) Verve VLP 9174
  • JP: What on earth can you possibly say….
  • ad break - School Of Broadcasting 7 Norfolk St Strand WC2
  • 1:02am timecheck
  • Weather - cloudy with attendant showers, min 61, cooler tomorrow, upper 60s
  • Another contest runner-up – Tony Burrell of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex
  • Simon And Garfunkel: Bleecker Street (LP - Wednesday Morning 3 A.M.) CBS (JP – “for a change”. Wrong track moment? Track precedes Peel's favourite, "Sparrow", on side one of LP)
  • Roger McGough Mother The Wardrobe Is Full Of Infantrymen (album with Adrian Henri - The Incredible New Liverpool Scene) CBS 63045
  • John didn't read the papers today, just the bit about the thing in Hyde Park “because the rest would have brought me down"
  • B.B. King: Please Love Me (album - Singing The Blues) Crown CLP 5020
  • Jack Moore of International Times and UFO hasn’t let JP know about what’s happening as he’d promised
  • Another contest runner-up – Susan Hale of Holloway, London
  • Blues Magoos: Tobacco Road (7") Mercury 72590 JP: "the singing is a bit of a drag but the rest of it is good"
  • 1:15am timecheck
  • John is set off on a ramble by the news that Dibblers have reappeared after 80 years. Hermione Hawkins (male Australian engineer on Radio London) suggests listeners should contact Australia House for info
  • Jefferson Airplane: She Has Funny Cars (7" - Somebody To Love) RCA Victor 1594
  • Another contest runner-up - Alan Chandler of London NW5
  • Bob Dylan: Love Minus Zero / No Limit “for my own white rabbit this evening"
  • John says he likes going to the Tate Gallery to see Paul Klee’s paintings – has an idea for an exhibition in “a constant state of flux” where visitors could change paintings if they wanted to
  • Jeff Beck: Rock My Plimsoul (7" - Tallyman) Columbia DB 8227
  • Another contest runner-up – Deb Spurge of Loughton, Essex. JP has problems cuing up next track
  • Phil Ochs: Talking Birmingham Jam (album - I Ain't Marching Anymore) Elektra EKL-287 JP: "Recorded two and a half years ago but just as true now as it was then"
  • Geoffrey Prowse is one of the 3 winners of the Zodiac contest
  • Purple Gang: Granny Takes A Trip (7")
  • Another contest winner – Kenneth Hayes of Sidcup, Kent
  • Cream: Sweet Wine (album - Fresh Cream) Reaction 593001
  • 1:38am timecheck - "22 minutes before two o’clock…. the only group in the world who can combine theatre, music, poetry, love and everything…everything good, that is..."
  • Beatles: She's Leaving Home (album - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band) Parlophone PMC 7027
  • File cuts out at end of track

File[]

Name
  • John Peel's Perfumed Garden. July 18th 1967. Radio London.
Length
  • 1:40:35
Other
  • Many thanks to Rob Chapman for making this show available after more than 55 years
Available
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