18 September 1968

Show

Name

• Night Ride

Station

• BBC Radio One (and Two)

YYYY-MM-DD

• 1968-09-18

Comments

• Incomplete tracklisting compiled with the help of Paul Bryant's Night Ride Playlists and Ken Garner's The Peel Sessions.
• The Al Stewart tracks included in Paul's playlist have been omitted here, as they come from a session for the Top Gear of 13 December 1969. Similarly, Leonard Cohen's ""The Partisan", also included, comes from the LP "Songs From A Room" which was released in the UK in spring 1969.
• The Peel Sessions lists Elektra artist David Ackles and Nirvana(2) (the British group) as additional studio guests. A fragment of Peel's interview with Ackles is preserved on File 3.
• The sequence of British country blues sessions continues with this week's guest, Dave Kelly
• Most of the Dave Kelly set has now turned up on the Sugarmegs site, along with John's intros and outros and an interview
• Playlist also includes an extract from a piece of musique concrète, based on the sound of a single drop of water, by Canadian composer Hugh Le Caine). Peel comments "Not good for insomniacs certainly, but quite pleasant anyway".  
• International events of 1968 are referred to on File 3; before playing the piece by Dvořák, Peel remarks that people have forgotten about Czechoslovakia because of the weather and an item on the 1 a.m. news relates to to the civil war in Nigeria; a "British Shopping Week" in Basle, Switzerland was cancelled because of protests about British policy on Biafra. Protesters included the playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
• At the end of the show Peel credits Ann Cullen for her help in finding the BBC archive tracks.

Sessions

• Dave Kelly, only session, recorded 13th September 1968. No known commercial release.
• Frances Horowitz (poet)

Tracklisting

• Taj Mahal - Six Days On The Road (LP - The Natch'l Blues) CBS/Direction 58-63397
• Peel intro
• unknown "To keep Nigeria one is a task that must be done" @ perhaps not from this show
• Country Joe & The Fish - Pat's Song (LP - I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die) Fontana TFL 6086
• Country Joe & The Fish - Cetaceon (LP - Together) Vanguard VSD 79277 (US release)
• Dave Kelly - A Few Short Lines (session) §
• File 3 cuts in with the final bars of the above track and Peel's outro
• Peel looks forward to a new Beefheart album; "I will lock myself in the studio and play the whole thing, you see..."
• Hugh Le Caine: Dripsody @
• Frances Horowitz: For M (poem)
• Peel says somebody wrote and said tast week’s Young Tradition track was the first good record played on Night Ride, so he plays another one
• Young Tradition: The Brisk Young Widow (LP - Galleries) Transatlantic
• Dave Kelly: Arkansas Woman (session) §
• Peel talks about “glottal stop singing”, heard on the Azerbaijani track, one of the most popular archive pieces with listeners, and says he’s been looking for its origins; “Ann grovelled in the archives in her traditional manner” and found the next track
• Persian Music - Shem Shart (BBC Archives)
• JP says he bought the next record from "one of the biggest record shops in the world" - and then found it was damaged. Regrets that people have forgotten about Czechoslovakia.
• Antonín Dvořák: Moderato (LP - Serenáda E Dur Pro Smyčcové Nástroje, Op. 22 / Serenáda D Moll Pro Dechové Nástroje, Op. 44) Supraphon (JP says the LP should be in people’s collections alongside the Incredible String Band, Country Joe & The Fish and Tyrannosaurus Rex)
• Frances Horowitz: Bird / Omen (poem)
• Dave Kelly: When You've Got A Good Friend (session) §
• Peel interviews David Ackles about his LP – he says Julie Driscoll has recorded his song “Road to Cairo” (tape edit)
• Wooden Joe's New Orleans Band: Don't Go 'Way Nobody (LP - 1945 - 1949) Storyville
• Peel interviews Dave Kelly
• Dave Kelly: Hard Times (session) §
• Frances Horowitz: Women / Moon (poem)
• She talks about her book – first in a series of pamphlets – and says where it can be found; a bookshop in London, Better Books in Edinburgh and a few other places. Peel forgets to ask her the title. Husband Mike Horowitz can be heard in the backgound and Peel says he'll be on the show in a few weeks.
• Dave Kelly: Travelling Blues (session) §
• File 3 ends at end of show; "Over to Ray Moore for the news and the rest of Night Ride"
• Tracks marked § available on File 1
• Tracks marked @ available on File 2

File

Name

• 1) DaveKelly1968-09-13MaidaValeStudioLondonUK
• 2) 1968-09-18 NR mid 68 2 LP tracks with Peel intro and outro.mp3
• 3) J P Night Ride 18 Sept 1968.mp3

Length

• 1) 15:59 (to 0:16 unique)
• 2) 2:28
• 3) 40:39

Other

• 1) Full details at Sugarmegs
• 2) Many thanks to Colin Harper. Dripsody was initially tracklisted, and there is no obvious edit in the audio, so it is for now assumed that the audio snippet before that is also from this show
• 3) Many thanks to Tim and Warwick

Available

• 1) Sugarmegs
• 2) Mooo
• 3) Mooo

Footnotes