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Show[]

Name
Station
YYYY-MM-DD
  • 1968-04-24

Comments[]

  • Partial tracklisting thanks to Tim Joseph. [1]
  • Concert promoter and folk club organiser Roy Guest is in the studio. He talks about a Mikis Theodorakis LP and may have organised the concerts Theodorakis's group played in London around this time.
  • Session guests Circus were formed by singer Phillip Goodhand-Tait after he left his previous backing group, the Stormsville Shakers. They didn't last long and received a unanimous fail from the BBC audition panel, according to Ken Garner's The Peel Sessions - but a CD of their work was reissued in 2021[2]

Sessions[]

  • Circus only session, recorded 23rd April 1968.
  • Spike Hawkins is the guest poet - see Night Ride Poets for more on him.

Tracklisting[]

  • Duane Eddy: Peter Gunn
  • Circus: Who Will Love Her (session)
  • Juke Boy Bonner: Yakin' In My Plans
  • Spike Hawkins: poems
  • Korean bowed zither music (BBC Archives)
  • Al Stewart: Samuel Oh How You've Changed (album - Bed Sitter Images) CBS 63087 (this LP's sleevenotes, which mention among other things Al's time as a backing musician for Tony Blackburn, are by studio guest Roy Guest)
  • Spike Hawkins: poems
  • Circus: Gone Are The Songs Of Yesterday (session)
  • Roy Guest talks about Mikis Theodorakis Ensemble LP plus Maina
  • 12:30am tracklisting ends

File[]

Name
Length
Other
Available
  • Tracklisting only.
Footnotes