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in: 1975, Available online, Peel Shows (Incomplete)

22 December 1975

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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1975-12-22
Comments
  • In his intro to the show, Peel talks of "an interesting sequence of records" which may reveal something about his state of mind and that of producer John Walters. Playlist includes three tracks from 1966-7 as well as a 1964 hit by the Searchers, a Christmas song by Elvis Presley and a music-hall record originally issued on shellac in 1928.
  • Says his "child bride" (the Pig, presumably) always maintained that the Searchers were the best Merseybeat group, after the Beatles. Also that he doesn't have a copy of his favourite track by them, "When You Walk In The Room" - as he says, dropping a hint to his listeners.

Sessions[]

Tracklisting[]

  • File 1 begins at start of show
  • Rolling Stones: Let's Spend The Night Together
  • Jolly promises to play party favourites this week rather than obscurities purchased from "squalid record shops"
  • Cream: N.S.U.
  • Searchers: Needles And Pins (sounds like the session version rather than the record)
  • Medicine Head: Medicine Pony (album - Heavy On The Drum) Dandelion
  • Charles Coborn: The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo (v/a LP - Stars Who Made The Music Hall) Ace Of Clubs ACL 1170
  • Vivian Stanshall: Christmas at Rawlinson End, Part 1 (session) @
  • Elvis Presley: Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me) (album - Elvis' Christmas Album) RCA Camden
  • Wishbone Ash: Jail Bait (album - Pilgrimage) MCA (JP says this track is "evocatively entitled...to me at any rate")
  • Who: I Can See For Miles (played from the album The Who Sell Out, as it's preceded by the band's brief ad for Rotosound strings, which appears on the LP) Track
  • File 1 cuts out
  • track marked @ also on File 2

File[]

Name
  • 1) John Peel 22 Dec 1975
  • 2) John Peel Sessions Sir Henry Rawlinson [also Great Lives Bio]
Length
  • 1) 36:19
  • 2) 3:57:06 (9:11-19:22)
Other
  • 1) Many thanks to Tim
  • 2) A collation of recordings over the years from YouTube User phunkey kavalier
  • Please address all re-up requests to Peel Mailing List.
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