Show[]
- Name
- Station
- YYYY-MM-DD
- 1977-12-23
- Comments
- Second of four shows featuring the legendary 1977 Festive Fifty (actually Festive 61, with tracks chosen by Peel rather than listeners).
- Information on the show courtesy of Ken Garner, who first published details of the 1977 Festive Fifty in The Peel Sessions. Many thanks, Ken!
- The available recording features only the Traffic concert, broadcast in the first hour of the show.
Sessions[]
- None: Traffic concert, recorded 1970-04-30. First broadcast 10 May 1970. Appears to be available online at Wolfgang's Vault, except 'No Time To Live'. However, that track is included on this recording.
Tracklisting[]
File begins
- (JP (in 1977): '....but first let me hand you over to this much-loved historic figure.')
- (JP (in 1970): 'There's always stories of groups breaking up in music papers, and it's really nice to have one of the great ones get together again, and it's even nicer to have them on this programme. Traffic!')
- Traffic (live):
- Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring
- Every Mother’s Son
- No Time To Live
- Medicated Goo
- John Barleycorn
- Pearly Queen
- Empty Pages
- Glad
- Freedom Rider
- (JP: 'Traffic recorded in concert on April 30 1970.')
File ends
1977 Festive Fifty Numbers 46-32[]
- 46: Jam, Away From The Numbers (LP – In The City) Polydor
- 45: Dave Edmunds: I Knew The Bride (album - Get It) Swan Song SSK 594042
- 44: Elizabeth Archer And The Equators, Feel Like Making Love (single) Lightning
- 43: Suburban Studs, Questions (single) Pogo
- 42: Ry Cooder, The Dark End Of The Street (LP – Show Time) Warner
- 41: Damned, Neat Neat Neat (single) Stiff
- 40: June Tabor, No Man's Land (LP – Ashes And Diamonds) Topic
- 39: Boomtown Rats, Lookin' After Number 1 (single) Ensign
- 38: X Ray Spex, Oh Bondage Up Yours! (single) Virgin
- 37: Users: Sick Of You (7") Raw RAW 1 2
- 36: David Bowie, Heroes (LP – Heroes) RCA
- 35: Saints: (I'm) Stranded (7") 2
- 34: Five Hand Reel, Cruel Brother (LP – For A’ That) RCA
- 33: Dr Feelgood, Paradise (LP – Sneaking’ Suspicion) United Artists
- 32: Bob Marley & The Wailers, Waiting in Vain (LP – Exodus) Island
File[]
- Name
- 1) John Peel 1977.12.23 Traffic (70)
- 2) J P PM056.mp3
- Length
- 1) 00:54:20
- 2) 1:31:34 (2:14-12:27)
- Other
- 1) Many thanks to Jim. Rather subfusc sound which improves towards the end.
- 2) Created from PM056 of the PM Tapes, digitised by Tim. Many thanks to Peter Mitchell for making the recordings.
- Available